Today’s Gospel reading (click here) has the prophet (and so much more that that) Jesus the Christ (Anointed One) using current events to warn Jerusalem of a coming judgment.  He did this more than a few times, and, forty years after his warnings Jerusalem was a smoking ruin full of dead bodies.

We viewed such scenes of late in Haiti and Chile.  The Pacific Rim is trembling, and earthquakes seem to be increasing all over the world.

Consider the New Madrid fault. It went off in the early 1800′s and the ground in the midwest rose in three foot waves. 

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