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Revelation 6:12 Great Earthquake - 08/28/22 11:32 PM
Revelation 6:12 I looked when He opened the sixth seal and behold there was a great earthquake and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.
EGW in Great Controversy page 30305-306 wrote:
"These signs were witnessed before the opening of the present century. In fulfillment of this prophecy there occurred, in the year 1755, the most terrible earthquake that has ever been recorded...(a graphic description included)...Twenty-five years later appeared the next sign mentioned in the prophecy,?the darkening of the sun and moon. What rendered this more striking was the fact that the time of its fulfillment had been definitely pointed out. In the Saviour's conversation with his disciples upon Olivet, after describing the long period of trial for the church?the 1260 years of papal persecution, concerning which he had promised that the tribulation should be shortened?he thus mentioned certain events to precede his coming, and fixed the time when the first of these should be witnessed: ?In those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light.? [Mark 13:24.]
Was this just another earthquake -- or did it mark a BIG CHANGE in the course of history as it began to enter into the time of the end?
The time Daniel also predicted as the "the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Dan 12:4
A film may present an answer:
"The earthquake that changed the course of history
"he 1755 earthquake of Lisbon had such a profound effect on the world that we are still feeling its impact today. As well as devastating one of the most important cities of the 18th century, it shook the thinking of the time.
"Many believed the earthquake was a punishment from God. Others wondered if science was a better way to the understand the universe and how it works. We now associate these thinkers with the Age of Enlightenment, a period of history that led to the French Revolution and the American War of Independence.
Video by Izabela Cardoso & Fernando Teixeira The earth quake that changed the course of history
EGW in Great Controversy page 30305-306 wrote:
"These signs were witnessed before the opening of the present century. In fulfillment of this prophecy there occurred, in the year 1755, the most terrible earthquake that has ever been recorded...(a graphic description included)...Twenty-five years later appeared the next sign mentioned in the prophecy,?the darkening of the sun and moon. What rendered this more striking was the fact that the time of its fulfillment had been definitely pointed out. In the Saviour's conversation with his disciples upon Olivet, after describing the long period of trial for the church?the 1260 years of papal persecution, concerning which he had promised that the tribulation should be shortened?he thus mentioned certain events to precede his coming, and fixed the time when the first of these should be witnessed: ?In those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light.? [Mark 13:24.]
Was this just another earthquake -- or did it mark a BIG CHANGE in the course of history as it began to enter into the time of the end?
The time Daniel also predicted as the "the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. Dan 12:4
A film may present an answer:
"The earthquake that changed the course of history
"he 1755 earthquake of Lisbon had such a profound effect on the world that we are still feeling its impact today. As well as devastating one of the most important cities of the 18th century, it shook the thinking of the time.
"Many believed the earthquake was a punishment from God. Others wondered if science was a better way to the understand the universe and how it works. We now associate these thinkers with the Age of Enlightenment, a period of history that led to the French Revolution and the American War of Independence.
Video by Izabela Cardoso & Fernando Teixeira The earth quake that changed the course of history