New Zealand’s Economy Contracts

While New Zealand has been doing relatively well during the great recession, its economy seems to be have run into problems:

New Zealand Economy Contracts as Quake Hurts Growth

Bloomberg – Dec 23, 2010

Gross domestic product fell 0.2 percent in the three months ended Sept. 30 from the previous quarter, when it rose a revised 0.1 percent, a Statistics New Zealand report showed in Wellington today. Photographer: Mark Coote/Bloomberg

New Zealand’s economy unexpectedly contracted in the third quarter and moved closer to a recession as the worst earthquake in eight decades slowed housing and manufacturing. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-22/new-zealand-economy-unexpectedly-contracts-as-earthquake-undermines-growth.html

The earthquake was reported here back in early September (see New Zealand Hit By Powerful Earthquake).

As an Anglo-descended nation, New Zealand is subject to the same blessings and cursings that the others are also subject to.

Additionally, Jesus, of course, warned about a time with such issues that New Zealand is facing:

8 … And there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be…troubles. These are the beginnings of sorrows. (Mark 13:8)

We may be at this prophetic point as all the earthquakes and other problems that have happened in the past year could be considered as “troubles”. With having one of the highest sexual promiscuity rates in the world, the sins of New Zealand are affecting it.

Without national repentance, New Zealand is doomed. Having been to that multi-island nation, this seems to be a concept that few in New Zealand grasp.

Some articles of possibly related interest may include:

Islands and Bible Prophecy What’s ahead for islands? What does the Bible prophesy about them?
Can the Great Tribulation Begin in 2010, 2011, or 2012? Can the Great Tribulation begin today? When is the earliest that the Great Tribulation can begin? What is the Day of the Lord? What is “the beginning of sorrows”? Have we begun or are we about ready for “the beginning of sorrows” to begin.
Will the Anglo-Nations be Divided? Will the lands of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand be divided? What does Bible prophecy teach? Are there non-biblical prophecies that support this idea? Who will divide those lands? Who will end up with the lands and the people?
Anglo – America in Prophecy & the Lost Tribes of Israel Are the Americans, Canadians, British, Scottish, Welsh, Australians, Anglo-Southern Africans, and New Zealanders descendants of Joseph? Where are the lost ten-tribes of Israel? Who are the lost tribes of Israel? Will God punish the U.S.A., Canada, United Kingdom, and other Anglo nations? Why might God allow them to be punished first?