Matthew 24:7 Then he said to them: “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.”
An earthquake measured at 6.3 on the Richter Scale rocked southern Iran today. The quake was centered not far from the nation’s only working nuclear power station. Thirty people have already been confirmed as having died in the quake.
Officials claim that there was no damage to the Bushehr nuclear plant and that everything is under normal operation. However, local officials are reporting that villages in the area have been as much as 80% destroyed.
Scientists report the quake was just 6 miles deep near the town of Kaki on the Gulf coast. The USGS stated the quake as 6.3 while Iranian officials said it was a 6.1 quake. At least five aftershocks struck within an hour including one measured at 5.4.
Phone and power lines are down throughout the region because of the quake and aftershocks. Iran’s Red Crescent organization told the BBC that they have sent rescue teams to villages throughout the region to look for those trapped in collapsed buildings and to offer help to anyone wounded by the quake.
The quake was felt throughout the region. Buildings in Abu Dhabi, across the Persian Gulf from the quake’s epicenter, reportedly shook for up to 30 seconds when the main quake struck just after 4 p.m. local time. A man working on the 10th floor of an office tower in Abu Dhabi said the rocking was so powerful there was an evacuation of the building.
In spite of Iran being a current “enemy” of Israel and the U.S.; that NEVERTHELESS; let us still pray for the well-being of the Iranian government and its people; that the Lord would “BLESS” them out of this tragic geological mess; and simultaneously “OPEN” the eyes of the spiritually-blind leaders of her people; to renounce anti-Semitism, and rather receive Israel AND the Jewish People as God’s “own”; since the Lord wants to “bless” – and not curse – all of the nations of the Earth; NOT just America and Israel themselves – but ALL of the nations that currently exist upon Planet Earth. Christians need to PRAY for America’s ENEMIES as well – not just her so-called “FRIENDS”, such as the state of Israel itself. Even Jesus Christ himself commanded his disciples to “pray for” your enemies!! And that includes praying for the anti-Semitic Iranian Government, the anti-Semitic Arabs in the Middle East, and whoever else is an “enemy” of America and the Jewish People. To deliberately NOT obey Christ’s command to “PRAY” for our enemies, makes us just as “GUILTY” of harboring vengeance – as the Iranians already do themselves. If Christians displayed the LOVE and JUSTICE that the Torah itself so much preaches on; and what Jesus himself taught; then I’m sure that the Third-World nations – especially those of the Middle East – would not be as HOSTILE towards America and Israel, as they justifiably ARE today!! If hard-hearted Christians in America would STOP being “bigoted” against people of other races and/or religions; and would bear the LOVE of Jesus for these same anti-American nations; and humbly pray for the Lord’s intervention for TRUTH and RIGHTEOUSNESS to be practiced by their own “U.S. Government” itself; THEN, maybe we’d see a CHANGE of attitude on the part of Iran, and PEACE actually being made between these two hostile countries. And thus, the Lord would NOT “see fit” to judge ANY nation on Earth, regarless whether it be Iran itself; or the United States, Russia, China, England, or any other country for that matter.
Jesus died for both Jews and Gentiles……..
He LOVES them all!
But conversely, the Most High God will “judge” both Jews and Gentiles for their for ceaseless REBELLION against Him!
Ezekiel 18:23
Have I any PLEASURE at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and NOT that he should return from his ways, and live? [KJV].
Ezekiel 18:32
“For I have NO PLEASURE in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye” [KJV].
Ezekiel 33:11
“Say unto them, ‘As I live’, saith the Lord God, ‘I have NO PLEASURE in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?’ ” [KJV].
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, NOT WILLING that any should PERISH, but that all should come to repentance [KJV].
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Luke 9:51-56
And it came to pass, when the time was come that [Jesus] should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,
And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.
And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.
And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command FIRE to come DOWN from HEAVEN, and CONSUME them, even as Elias did?
But he turned, and REBUKED them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.
For the Son of man IS NOT come to DESTROY men’s lives, but to SAVE them. And they went to another village [KJV].
Whoa! I am sorry for the innocent people who have died in this tragedy who did not find the truth of Jesus in time. God is sending His harbingers to Iran, and near the nuclear reactor! He will protect Israel. I fear that the powers that be in the Iran Gov. will not listenhowever, their hatred for Israel and the U.S. runs too deep. Praise God! He is still on the throne and His will will be done.