New York, New Jersey Earthquake, and Eclipse: End Times?

As you could have skilled or heard on Twitter, an earthquake in New Jersey rattled New York Metropolis and the encircling space. My cats had been very upset, as was I, as a result of I’ve a crushing nervousness dysfunction and thought I used to be about to die in a nuclear explosion. However we’ve got survived, and now I and the aforementioned dysfunction should question this: Is that this the Finish Occasions? As Intelligencer’s official Rapture correspondent, I’ve to confess I’m involved. We had floods earlier this week. A photo voltaic eclipse is imminent, as is a plague of locusts. Eric Adams is the mayor. It’s all very troubling!

And so I return to the Scriptures for steerage, as if the earth shook the atheism proper out of me. The Guide of Revelation mentions earthquakes rather a lot. For instance, in chapter eight: “And the angel took the censer, and stuffed it with fireplace of the altar, and solid it into the earth: and there have been voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.” And later, in chapter 16: “And there have been voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was an incredible earthquake, comparable to was not since males had been upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so nice.”

A few of us is likely to be tempted to name this an incredible quake, relying on what we had been doing when it occurred.

The mixture of earthquake and eclipse actually is one thing, I’ve to confess. Fascinating reality: The eclipse shall be seen in Rochester, New York, the center of the outdated burned-over district — named as such for the spiritual actions that when originated there with nice frequency. My in-laws dwell close by … maybe it’s time for me to begin a brand new spiritual motion, as I’ve threatened to do since my commencement from a glorified Bible faculty. The Buffalo Payments will undoubtedly play a central function. In fact, I’m certified for little else. Author or cult chief: These had been my choices.

I selected the far much less profitable occupation, although, and so I have to be trustworthy with you. I’m undecided our 4.8-magnitude tremor meets the requirements set by Revelation. To not downplay everybody’s emotions, after all. All of us want one thing to speak about. We’re all determined for a distraction from work. However I didn’t hear any voices, and all of us appear to be alive, so I feel that divine judgment won’t be upon us. But. Look, if you happen to grew up the way in which I did (remoted and Evangelical within the American South), then you already know from numerous pastors that the Finish Occasions has been on the way in which since Christ returned to heaven. Perhaps Friday’s earthquake modifications little. Perhaps it’s just a bit nudge from God — to learn your dang Bible, or textual content your ex, or no matter. God! He’s such a diva.

Not that I consider any of that, after all. The earthquake is over, and I’m an atheist once more. For now. Let’s see how these locusts form up.