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, duration and scope.

Earthquake mystery: Western Texas rocked by dramatic spike in past 10 (5+5) years – leaving scientists confused. 1,500 (5+5+5) earthquakes of magnitude one or greater.

By SEAN MARTIN PUBLISHED: 15:41, Thu, Nov 7, 2019 | UPDATED: 15:49, Thu, Nov 7, 2019. Express.co.uk

A new study has revealed there has been a dramatic upturn in the number of tremors to hit western Texas since 2009. By analysing seismic data, researchers from the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) found that in 2009, there were 19 earthquakes of at least magnitude one in West Texas. However, in 2017, there were more over 1,500 earthquakes of magnitude one or greater.

A new earthquake monitoring system called TexNet was implemented in 2017, so experts are unable to determine when exactly the earthquake swarms began.

But the team believe the tremor upturn may have something to do with oil and gas drilling – with production jumping in the region in the 2010s – production in the Permian basin alone has increased by 71 percent since 2018, according to oil company Chevron.

Study lead author Cliff Frohlich said: “Especially for these West Texas earthquakes, we would like to get some information about when they started.

Co-author and Southern Methodist University Associate Professor Heather DeShon added: “West Texas now has the highest seismicity rates in the state.

“What remained uncertain is when the earthquakes actually started.”

Peter Hennings of Center for Integrated Seismicity Research (CISR) concluded: “The obvious next step is exactly what the University of Texas is doing – conducting these careful studies on the relationship between earthquakes and their human and natural causes to build an integrated understanding.”

Many in the UK believed that oil and gas drilling had caused a swarm of tremors in Surrey – until it was proved not to be the case.

Between April 2018 and 2019, 168 small earthquakes hit Surrey.

Oil companies have been searching for fossil fuels beneath the surface of a spate of locations in Surrey, a process which started in 2016.

Researchers from Imperial College London, British Geological Survey (BGS) and the University of Bristol said since because two years had passed since oil extraction began, oil drilling was not to blame.

The study, which focused on seismic readings from the BGS, also stated the earthquake swarm was too far away from the site for it to have caused tremors.

The team found the earthquakes were around 2.5 kilometres deep, while oil is extracted at a depth of just one kilometre. They also said the earthquakes were more than three kilometres from the extraction site.

Lead author Dr Stephen Hicks, of Imperial’s Department of Earth Science and Engineering, said: “The quakes seem to have occurred naturally, and our findings suggest their closeness to oil extraction sites is probably a coincidence.

“It would be unprecedented for this type and scale of oil extraction to affect sites more than a kilometre away.

“The quakes seem to have occurred naturally, and our findings suggest their closeness to oil extraction sites is probably a coincidence.”