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. 

The Mississippi River dropped for three days as a thirty miles tear in the Earth — Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee — filled up.  The New Madrid fault created that lake.  The quake ran church bells in Boston.  It was a monster quake, in part due to the soils of the Midwest.

Were it to hit tomorrow Evansville and Indianapolis (pictured) would be smoking ruins.  Imagine life in a twenty  story building with the ground heaving in three foot waves.  It would probably be a frighten one or two minutes until the entire building fell over sideways and exploded into a billion pieces of glass, bricks and steel.  Or perhaps it would merely telescope in on itself like the Twin Towers on September 11. 

Those under marble domes and in modern cement buildings would fare no better.  Would one have time to repent of lies, injustices and other evils when the walls came a tumblin’ down?  Maybe, especially if trapped in an pocket for a few nights hoping that the aftershocks did not bring all of the rest down on you.  But one should probably not count on the time to “get right with God.”  One should do that now, and not presume upon Divine Grace.  Today is the day of salvation – it may be your only day, in fact.

Here are some links on the subject of acting on Jesus’ warnings in today’s Gospels.  Many believe that America is overdue for judgment.   If God did not spare Haiti, did not spare Chile, will he spare the Midwest if the New Madrid fault is scheduled as the next big eruption?

Something to think about when entering modern structures made of heavy rock, steel and glass.   Are you ready to meet your Maker and explain your life to him? 

Here are some posts that might help you think it all through.  What really matters when all the world quakes?

http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles-2009/Reardon-Now-Is-The-Day-Of-Salvation.php

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/real-pain-real-victims-real-sad/

http://www.rachelsvineyard.org/a-message-from-our-founder-Dr-Theresa-Burke.htm

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/like-a-key-in-a-lock/

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/he-is-risen-indeed/

http://www.archangelinstitute.org/the-institute-trusts-in-the-risen-lord-of-history/

p.s  Tomorrow at 4 pm is the beginning of the postings of the transcript from my June 1 hearing before the Board of Bar Inquisitors.

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