Blog note. Jesus indicated that ‘fearful sights’ (various natural disasters) would occur leading up to the time known as the Tribulation and Great Tribulation (a combined seven year period of great destruction on earth). Although these types of things have occurred in the past for centuries and thousands of years, they could be identified as the ‘season of the times’ due to the ferociousness of these events. They would be occurring in greater intensity, severity, frequency, size, duration, scope … just like the pains that a woman experiences in labor the farther along she is in the labor process. We are in the ‘season of the times’ that comes just before the seven (7) year Tribulation/Great Tribulation period

… And great earthquakes shall be in diverse places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. (Luke 21:11).

… And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; (Luke 21:25)

… Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken; (Luke 21:26)

… This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. (2 Timothy 3:1)

Jesus is giving a series of prophecies about what to look for as the age of grace comes to a close. These verses are several of many such prophecies from throughout the Bible. 2017 was the worst year in recorded history for the intensity, frequency, severity, duration and occurrence of a large number of severe natural disasters worldwide. Earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, torrential flooding, unprecedented wildfires in unusual places, devastating droughts, excessive/scorching heat setting records everywhere, record snowfalls in Europe and Russia. Snow in the Arabia. This list can go on. Most studied Eschatologists believe these ‘fearful sights’ and massive natural disasters are all part of the ‘CONVERGENCE’ of signs that this Biblical and prophetic age is closing. Most people who study prophecy are familiar with the routine reference(s) made that these things will be like a woman having labor pains, growing in intensity, frequency, size and duration.

Powerful fall storm slams New England and the Maritimes, leaving nearly 600,000 (6) customers without power. Six (6) states affected including, New England, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire.

Posted by Teo Blašković on October 17, 2019. Watchers.news

A powerful fall storm affecting the United States from Mid-Atlantic to New England and the Canadian Maritimes will continue to deliver strong winds, locally heavy rain, and numerous coastal hazards today. Power cuts have already affected nearly 600 000 customers, mostly in the United States. The storm rapidly intensified Wednesday night into Thursday, October 17 (underwent bombogenesis, why some media are calling it bomb cyclone), bringing heavy rain, high-elevation snow and hurricane-force winds.

“The storm strengthened at a fast enough pace into Thursday to be classified as a bomb cyclone. For a storm to meet bomb cyclone criteria, the barometric pressure has to fall at least 24 millibars, or 0.71 of an inch of Mercury, in 24 hours,” AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski noted.

Several preliminary low pressure records were broken, Sosnowski added.

Providence, Rhode Island, set a new monthly record reaching 976.3 hPa at 03:54 LT. Thursday. Preliminary October records were also set in Boston and Concord, New Hampshire. Boston reached 975.3 hPa, surpassing the previous record of 982.4 hPa, while in Concord, the pressure dipped to 973.1 hPa, breaking the old record of 980.4 hPa. The National Weather Service will ultimately determine the validity of these records.

Since winds on the front side of the storm were from the east or southeast, instead of the northeast for New England, the system is not being considered as a true nor’easter, Sosnowski said.

Trees and powerlines were downed mostly in southeast New England, where wind gusts of 145 km/h (90 mph) were recorded, as well as in 6 other states. 

While wind gusts are now subsiding, nearly 550 000 customers are still without power – 221 000 in Maine, 218 000 in Massachusetts, 38 000 in Connecticut, 35 000 in Rhode Island and 33 000 in New Hampshire. At least 16 000 customers are without power in the Maritimes.

The storm will continue to bring heavy rainfall, gusty winds, and coastal erosion to parts of New England through Thursday before lifting quickly into eastern Canada by Friday, October 18, NWS said. Rain and possible higher elevation snow showers may linger into Friday for portions of interior New England.

Behind this system, temperatures should be rather cool for October standards, with daytime highs as much as 10 to 20 degrees below normal for much of the Appalachians into the Northeast.

Below normal temperatures also extend southward towards the Gulf Coast as well.