New Zealand Hit with Polar Blast

While the south island of New Zealand has been hit with almost 8,000 earthquakes since September 2010, the south island, as well as the normally warm north island, have been hit by a polar blast:

Snow in winterless north as weather causes chaos

Aug 16, 2011

Snow has reached the winterless north as a major winter storm sweeping up the country causes major disruption – closing schools, roads, airports and crippling public transport.

Mount Tutamoe, just north of Dargaville, was dusted with snow this morning. Beef farmer Terry McDermott, who lives close to the mountain, says it’s a first for him. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5450195/Snow-in-winterless-north-as-weather-causes-chaos

Polar blast ‘one in 50 year event’

Aug 15, 2011

The bitterly cold southerly blast bringing snow to much of New Zealand, closing roads, some airports and cutting power to thousands, is close to a one in 50 year event, says MetService. Snow has made roads impassable in many areas of both islands. http://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/173602/polar-blast-one-50-year-event

So New Zealand has had a lot of troubles in the past year. The polar blast is now another. My wife and I have visited New Zealand in 1987 and I have had concerns about it since.

Jesus, of course, warned about a time with troubles:

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

The Bible repeatedly indicates that “natural disasters” are intended to get people (and nations) to repent. The sorrows that Jesus referred to may have begun.

There will be other problems in New Zealand and elsewhere. The beginning of sorrows is not yet over, and the time of Jacob’s trouble (Jeremiah 30:7), AKA the Great Tribulation, will follow it.

Whether or not your nation repents, you can personally. There is a Place of Safety for the Philadelphians and it may Be Petra.

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