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‘7’ Paul Rolland, Night Watchman, Night Watchman Ministries:

Revelation 11:13 In the same hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city (Jerusalem) fell. In the earthquake seven thousand people were killed, and the rest were afraid and gave glory to the God of heaven.

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Senior geologist says Israel needs to prepare for major quake ‘in our lifetime’

Amir Sagy of Geological Survey of Israel warns country is overdue for a ‘medium or major’ earthquake, adds events in Turkey and Syria need to be a warning

By TOI STAFF8 February 2023, 5:13 pm 

A top scientist with the Geological Survey of Israel said Wednesday that the deadly earthquake in Turkey and Syria should serve as a wake-up call for Israel, which he predicted will experience a major quake “in our lifetime.”

Speaking to the Ynet news site, Dr. Amir Sagy said Israel needs to step up its preparedness for an earthquake.

His comments come after two devastating temblors rocked Turkey and Syria to Israel’s north, killing more than 11,000 people.

Israel experienced a minor quake on Tuesday. The 3.5-magnitude tremor occurred at 11:14 p.m. local time and was centered around 15 kilometers (9 miles) southeast of the settlement city of Ariel in the West Bank, the Energy Ministry’s Seismology Division said.

Sagy said it was not clear if the events were related, noting that these minor earthquakes were regular occurrences, but said it was a possibility that it was a result of the disturbances in Turkey and Syria.

“It could be that because there was a big earthquake in the northern region, the whole area is now more or less ringing with small tremors,” he said.

“I suggest that we not be specifically concerned by this earthquake in Israel, but one should always remember that we are an area that’s prone to medium and large earthquakes that will affect the State of Israel, and we should constantly prepare for earthquakes and take into account that they will happen,” said Sagy.

Sagy said that the Turkey quake needed to be “a general warning sign for us.”

He noted that without connection to recent events, Israel sits on the Syrian-African Rift, which is prone to quakes every 100 years, and is currently overdue for a “medium to major seismic event.”

“We have to take into account this will happen in our lifetime and prepare for it on a wide range of levels,” he said.

In the wake of the Turkey-Syria earthquake, several Israeli government offices have convened emergency meetings to reassess the country’s preparedness for a major quake.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office on Monday said the premier had directed National Security Council chairman Tzachi Hanegbi to conduct a situational assessment regarding the government’s preparedness for earthquakes. Hanegbi will soon hold a meeting on the matter with representatives from all of the relevant ministries, the PMO said.

Also on Monday, State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman urged authorities to fortify the country against a potentially devastating earthquake and pointed to the disaster in Turkey and Syria as indications of the urgency of doing so.

Englman pointed to a 2018 report from his predecessor that estimated a major earthquake could kill 7,000 people and leave 170,000 homeless. Last year, a comptroller report found there were 600,000 buildings in the country that do not meet the standard for earthquake resistance.

National Security Council said preparing $14 billion earthquake readiness plan

If approved by gov’t, it would see strengthening of 600,000 residential buildings, 80,000 commercial properties — with focus on high-risk cities such as Beit She’an, Tiberias

By ASH OBEL9 February 2023, 11:26 pm 

The National Security Council is readying a NIS 50 billion ($14 billion) plan to prepare Israeli towns and cities for a potential major earthquake similar to that witnessed in Turkey and Syria this week, according to a Thursday report.

Channel 12 said the council met in the aftermath of the deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake, which also saw multiple aftershocks felt across Israel.

The plan, if approved by the ministerial committee responsible for earthquake preparedness in the coming week, will then be forwarded to the government for approval.

It is said to call for a major financial investment in preparedness, with the National Security Council asking for NIS 3 billion ($858 million) to immediately reinforce 40,000 apartments located in at-risk areas such as Afula, Beit She’an and Tiberias, which sit along the Great Rift Valley, prone to major temblors.

Over a five-year period, the government will be asked to invest a massive NIS 50 billion in order to strengthen 600,000 residential buildings and 80,000 non-residential structures such as office buildings and hospitals, the report said.

Last year, a comptroller report found there were 600,000 buildings in the country that do not meet the standard for earthquake resistance. The Education Ministry told The Times of Israel on Monday that there are 1,600 such buildings used as schools or as other educational institutions, with upgrade processes being initiated in around 1,100 of them.

While similar earthquake readiness plans have been floated in the past without coming to fruition, Channel 12 said that there was genuine intent in the National Security Cabinet to actualize this current proposal, triggered by the incredible scenes of destruction witnessed in both Turkey and Syria.

The report quoted an unnamed security official involved in the plan who said, “We can feel [the potential Israeli earthquake] right around the corner. Now is the time to act.”

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman warned this week that the TAMA 38 project, launched in 2005 and aimed at encouraging renovation work to prepare buildings for earthquakes, has not been sufficiently implemented and that other action is required instead. Speaking Monday with high school students, he noted that according to previous estimations, a major earthquake could kill 7,000 people and leave 170,000 homeless.

Michael Bachner contributed to this report.

But how can they call on him (Jesus Christ) to save them unless they believe in him (Jesus Christ)? And how can they believe in him (Jesus Christ) if they have never heard about him (Jesus Christ)? And how can they hear about him (Jesus Christ) unless someone tells them?” —Romans 10:14

In His Service,

Night Watchman

Paul Rolland

Night Watchman Ministries

Make Your Decision for Christ NOW!!!!!!! Time is Up!!!!!!!

Jesus Christ’s Offer of Salvation:

The ABCs of Salvation through Jesus Christ (the Lamb)

A. Admit/Acknowledge/Accept that you are sinner. Ask God’s forgiveness and repent of your sins.

. . . “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23).

. . . “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.” (Romans 3:10).

. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:8).

B. Believe Jesus is Lord. Believe that Jesus Christ is who He claimed to be; that He was both fully God and fully man and that we are saved through His death, burial, and resurrection. Put your trust in Him as your only hope of salvation. Become a son or daughter of God by receiving Christ.

. . . “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:15-17). For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13).

C. Call upon His name, Confess with your heart and with your lips that Jesus is your Lord and Savior.

. . . “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” (Romans 10:9-10).

. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” (John 1:8-10).

. . . “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. (John 2:2).

. . . “In this was manifested the love of god toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.” (1 John 4:9, 14-15).

. . . “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” (Romans 5:8-10).

. . . “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23).

. . . “Jesus saith unto them, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6).

. . . “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth.” (Romans 1:16).

. . . “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts: 4:12).

. . . “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth for there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:4-6).

. . . “For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Thessalonians 5:9).

. . . “But as many as received him, to them gave the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.” (John 1:12).

True Church / Bride of Christ Spared from God’s Wrath:

 Romans 5:8-10. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.”

Romans 12:19. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 1:10. And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

1 Thessalonians 5:9. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

Romans 8:35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Jeremiah 30:7. Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.

Revelation 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.