But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his
servants the prophets.
And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.
Overpopulation,
natural disasters,
Famine,
pestilence,
new strains of flu,
global warming,
war,
terrorism,
rising sea levels,
glassier melting,
deforestation,
pollution,
the ability for mankind to destroy himself with nuclear weapons,
The ability of mankind to destroy himself with chemical weapons,
Perhaps none of this is new, but on a global scale,is it unprecedented?
Natural disasters have almost wiped out humanity in the past, but when in the history of mankind, did mankind himself cause most of the problems we
face today?
The comet might get us first, never know, the great dragon could be a comet.
Number one.
Rev 8:7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees
was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Rev 8:8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became
blood;
Rev 8:9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
Rev 8:10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the
rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
Rev 8:11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they
were made bitter.
Rev 8:12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so
as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
Rev 8:13 And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth
by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound
9:1 The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.
9:13 The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,
9:14 saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!"
9:15 The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind.
Lets look at this first scripture, has it come to pass?
Rev 8:7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees
was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
How many of our forests are now gone could it be close to a third?
Being burned all over the world.
6,000 sq miles lost a year as valuable trees removed. Selective logging causing 25% greenhouse gas boost
The Amazonian rainforest is being destroyed at double the rate of all previous estimates, according to research published today in the journal
Science. The destruction is leaving the forest more prone to fires and allowing more carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere, according to
scientists.
A new analysis of satellite images of the Brazilian part of the Amazon basin, which forms part of the largest contiguous rainforest on Earth, shows
that on average 15,500 sq km (6,000 square miles) of forest is being cut down by selective logging each year. This is besides a similar amount
clear-cut annually for cattle grazing or farming.
Rev 8:11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they
were made bitter.
States urged to prepare for victims of climate change. Natural disasters displace more people than wars
Rising sea levels, desertification and shrinking freshwater supplies will create up to 50 million environmental refugees by the end of the decade,
experts warn today. Janos Bogardi, director of the Institute for Environment and Human Security at the United Nations University in Bonn, said
creeping environmental deterioration already displaced up to 10 million people a year, and the situation would get worse.
Rev 8:9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.
The oceans are dying
03-05-04 The preliminary report of the US Commission on Ocean Policy is a sobering read -- or perhaps we should say another sobering read. It is the
second major report in the past year to detail the dire state of America's coastal waters.
Last summer, the Pew Oceans Commission starkly warned that the oceans as we know them will not survive without dramatic policy changes making a
commitment to preserve oceanic biodiversity. The more recent report, required by Congress in 2000, strongly reinforces the main themes of the earlier
one.
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9:14 saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!"
Reflooding bodes well for Iraqi marshes
UN-funded scheme could restore the Marsh Arabs' homelands.
by Michael Hopkin
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Iraq's marshlands, ravaged during Saddam Hussein's regime, show signs of bouncing back, say scientists who have surveyed the region's ecosystems.
They are hopeful that some 30% of the former marshland, which was reduced to desert during the 1980s and 1990s, can be restored.
The marshlands, thought by some to be the scene of the biblical Garden of Eden, once covered some 15,000 square kilometres. But they were drained by
the Iraqi government, partly to punish local Marsh Arab communities for political uprisings.
At the time of Saddam's overthrow in 2003, roughly 10% of the original marshes remained, says Curtis Richardson of Duke University in Durham, North
Carolina, who carried out the recent survey along with US and Iraqi colleagues. The significance of the destruction has been likened to that of
deforestation in the Amazon basin.
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And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings
Then drainage canals were built. The canals cut off water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the lifeblood of the wetlands. The wetlands began to
dry and die. Today they're a shocking 90 percent smaller, slashed to less than 600 square miles, less than the size of Rhode Island. The animals that
live there have been devastated. So have the Ma'dan, who saw their land and homes destroyed. (Imagine how they felt.) Many fled. Only about 20,000
Ma'dan still live there.
Now, with the war in Iraq over, scientists hope to stop the loss. They're planning ways to restore the marshes.
The region is known as the Fertile Crescent. It's thought to be the site of the Biblical Garden of Eden.
Beginning to be restored, and we will go back to the garden
Arctic Vault to Store Seeds in Case of Disaster
By Lisa Pickoff-White
June 23 - More than 100 countries are chipping in to build a vault to store the seeds from thousands of crop varieties around the world in order to
safeguard crop diversity in the event of catastrophe. The vault is being built into a frozen mountainside in Norway where the seeds will be packaged
in foil and stored at sub-zero temperatures.
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