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.

300 (6×5) new blazes across New South Wales on Tuesday. Australia. 36 (6×6) are out of control.  60 (6) fires active in Queensland today. Videos.

The Guardian. November 12, 2019

There have been over 300 new fires across New South Wales on Tuesday. Currently there are over 70 fires and 50% are out of control. There are nine fires at emergency alert level. They are:

Liberation Trail fire in Clarence Valley

Myall Creek Rd, Bora Ridge

Stockyard East, near Port Macquarie

Washpool State Forest

Gospers Mountain, in the Lithgow LGA

Hillville Rd, Hillville on the mid-north coast

Reserve Rd, Mares Run on the mid-north coast

Rumba Dump, mid-coast

Thunderbolts Way, Bretti, mid-coast.

Eight fires are at watch and act level.

A southerly change has led to a drop in the temperature in Sydney, but the Rural Fire Service fears that as the southerly travels north to more fire-affected areas, it could cause more headaches for firefighters trying to get the fires there under control. The cooler temperature hasn’t made it any less dry.

At least a dozen homes have been damaged or destroyed, and some firefighters have been injured, but none of the injuries have been life-threatening.

In Queensland, there are over 60 active fires, and conditions are expected to worsen on Wednesday with strong winds and temperatures in the mid-30s. The focus for fire fighters in the state has been on preparing for tomorrow.

Thank you for following the updates during the day, and please stay safe if you are in the affected areas.

You can find up-to-date information on the NSW fires here, and the Queensland fires here.

If you wish to donate to support those affected, you can find information on that here.

The auditorium of the Tuncurry Bowling Club is filling up with air mattresses.

“Kmart sent them down, we just got a whole other load of them,” Lauren Whitty told me earlier.

“I think we’ve got plenty, but they’ve told us to expect more people later. I don’t know, to be honest I don’t know what most of these people have been through. We’re just trying to make them comfortable.

At the moment, there’s about 80 people from around the southern end of the mid-north coast who have found their way here tonight.

John and Lucy Van Hoof live in a caravan park on the outskirts of Tuncurry. They were told to leave at about 4pm this afternoon.

“There was smoke everywhere, we could see it all coming up over the hill,” Lucy told me.

“We’ve been here 23 years and I’ve never seen anything like it, when they told us to leave I thought ‘I’d rather leave now than wait’.”

Whitty, together with a group of friends, helped organise the evacuation centre at the club through a Facebook page.

“We just put out a call for help and we’ve had people from Sydney, Newcastle and some of the locals wanting to donate things. For a while we were like, ‘oh, we don’t know where to send everything’,” she said.

As we sit here more people are filing in, most of them elderly. An RFS organiser told us they’re expecting more to come after 10pm, once the wind picks up