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Subject: [GCOList] FW: SAVED BY GRACE
From: "Hal Mayer"
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:29:13 -0500
To: "GCO List"


Dear list, Tania Beavers (an Indian) is a Graduate of Hartland College working in Tamil Nadu with her husband Brian (an American) and her parents Timothy and Anita Tharasingh at a self-supporting school and orphanage there in India. The following is their harrowing, almost minute by minute account of their narrow escape from the Tsunami with their 18 children. Think what would have happened to them if they would have been sleeping in the middle of the night. Note that they had 15 minutes to get their things before the second Tsunami hit (I don’t know who Joab and Jonah are – my guess is that they are Indian workers at the school).

Regards, Hal



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Friday 24th December

0600 hrs: Timothy, Anita, Brian and Tania arrive Chennai from Mumbai by train and take a taxi to Mahabalipuram Scripture Union Seaside Camp site.

1230 hrs: Vellore CMC SDA group arrive SU Seaside Camp site taking us by surprise as this was not planned.

2030 hrs: eighteen children from Green Pastures Home School, Kalrayan Hills arrive by van at Mahabalipuram Scripture Union campsite.


Saturday sabbath 25th December

0915 hrs: Brian takes sabbath school on Daniel and Revelation for the combined GPHS and CMC groups. Pastor Kisku takes divine service with cutting message on the fallacies of the 25th of December.

1900 hrs: most of CMC group leave camp site except for two families and pastor.

1930 hrs: Brian, Tania, Anita and children on the sea shore enjoying moon rise. Return to rooms at 2100 hrs.


Sunday 26th December

0700 hrs: Anita and children go to sea shore to pray and view sunrise and enjoy nature.

0830 hrs: Anita and children return to rooms to pack and transfer luggage to first floor dormitories as rooms were required by other guests arriving that morning. Whole group gets ready to leave for breakfast by van to nearby restaurant.

0900 hrs: group leaves camp site by van for breakfast.

0930 hrs: first tsunami hits exact spot where Anita and children had been praying a half hour before. We hear the news while having breakfast and rush by van to the campsite to see water had entered the rooms and most of the three acre campsite up to about three feet high and had receded.

0945: van unable to enter campsite due to sludge. Group rushes to dormitories and retrieve bags and luggage and rush back to van. Meanwhile one small car owned by SDA doctor parked near the rooms which are quite close to the seashore was washed inland about hundred metres. Brethren manage to push car on to the highway.

1000 hrs: second tsunami hits while we make it to the highway. We decide to head for Chennai city about 70 kms away to put Brian, Joab and Jonah on the train to Madurai for a one week camp meeting. We receive warnings from oncoming cars that seawater had crossed onto some parts of the road. Group turns back and heads inland to Chinglepet station hoping to put Brian, Joab and Jonah on the train at Chinglepet station.

1200 hrs: group arrives at Chinglepet station after running gauntlet of thousands of people fleeing the sea side dwellings in fear and panic on foot clutching on to whatever they could carry. Many were mourning and crying for the loss of their loved ones. It seemed as if the Lord had opened a small window for us to see exactly what would happen at the end of time. This was no movie..

1345 hrs: train arrives Chinglepet station with Brian, Joab and Jonah's reserved seats intact. Praise the Lord!! For more than an hour two angels had kept their seats for them in spite of the train being packed. Train leaves for Madurai with three of them safe on board!

1400 hrs: Timothy, Anita, Tania and the rest of the children leave for Kalrayan hills. Arrive safely at 2030 hrs.


Following are the verses from the Bible that Anita had selected for prayer and meditation that very morning:

Job 38: 8 & 11...or who shut up the sea with doors when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?....and said, hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.

We stand in awe at the timing of His providence. Once more He has proved faithful to His word that He will never leave us nor forsake us. We are more than aware now that the time is very short and the work that we must do, we must do quickly!! Matthew 24: 7 to 13 is beginning to be played out. Please continue to pray for us. Our one week of meetings at Bombay on 'the new world order' (Brian) and 'true education' (Timothy) caused a whole group of teachers to decide to pull out their children from the present false system of education and opt for home schooling in the country!! Praise the Lord!!!

Timothy & Anita Tharasingh, Brian & Tania Beavers, and the children of Green Pastures Home School wish each one of you a blessed and happy New Year.

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Originally posted by debbie:


We need not sit in comfort thinking it will not happen here--there will seem to not be a safe place on earth for what is going to happen just before Jesus comes.

It is a wake-up call to all of us!

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Matt 24:6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8All these are the beginning of birth pains.

9“Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. 10At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, 11and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. 12Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, 13but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. 14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

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When Jesus Himself said earthquakes would be a sign, who are we to say earthquakes are unimportant?
1 Thessalonians 5:3
While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
The price of ignoring what God says is not small

/Thomas

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Originally posted by Mike Lowe:
There is a purpose behind it all. God is trying to get our attention, to wake us up. Time is running out. How we respond to death and disaster either tells for or against the kingdom and character of God. Tragic times calls for triumphant action. Let's get busy being Christlike and help these poor people out.

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"In the last scenes of this earth's history, war will rage. There will be pestilence, plague, and famine. The waters of the great deep will overflow their boundaries. Property and life will be destroyed by fire and flood. Disasters will come unexpectedly upon the world. This should show us that the souls for whom Christ has died should be fitting up for the mansions that He has gone to prepare for them. There is rest from earth's conflict. Where is it? -- 'That where I am, there ye may be also' (John 14:3). Heaven is where Christ is. Heaven would not be heaven to those who love Jesus, if He were not there."
{Manuscript 41, 1896, p. 4}

"Those who seek to make it appear that there is no special meaning attached to the judgments that the Lord is now sending upon the earth will soon be forced to understand that which now they do not choose to understand."
{RH 08-20-03 para. 17}

"Calamities are becoming more and more common, but every report of calamity by sea or by land is a testimony of the fact that the end of all things is near. The world is filled with iniquity, and the Lord is punishing [the world] for its wickedness. As crime and iniquity increase, these judgments will become more frequent and more marked, until the time shall come when the 'earth shall no more cover her slain' (Isaiah 26:21)."
{APOC 214.8}

"Already the restraining Spirit of God is being withdrawn from the earth. Hurricanes, storms, tempests, fire and flood, disasters by sea and land, follow each other in quick succession. Science seeks to explain all these. The signs thickening around us, telling of the near approach of the Son of God, are attributed to any other than the true cause. Men cannot discern the sentinel angels restraining the four winds that they may not blow until the servants of God are sealed; but when God shall bid His angels loose the winds, there will be such a scene of His avenging wrath as no pen can picture."
{RH 01-11-87 para. 14}

"At this time, when awful calamities are sweeping away the most costly structures as if by a breath of fire from heaven, many sinners are afraid, and stand trembling before God. Now is our opportunity to make known the truth to them."
{RH 05-24-06 para. 13}

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"Frequently we hear of earthquakes, of tempests and tornadoes, accompanied with thunder and lightning. Apparently these are capricious outbreaks of seemingly disorganized, unregulated forces. But God has a purpose in permitting these calamities to occur. They are one of His means of calling men and women to their senses. By unusual workings through nature God will express to doubting human agencies that which He clearly reveals in His Word. He will answer the question, 'Who hath gathered the wind in His fists?' He will reveal Himself as the One who 'maketh the clouds His chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind.' 'He bringeth the wind out of His treasuries.' 'The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever.' 'He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not pass His commandment: when He appointed the foundations of the earth.' 'He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: He toucheth the hills, and they smoke.'"
{19MR 279.3}

"Local disturbances in nature are permitted to take place as symbols of that which may be expected all over the world when the angels loose the four winds of the earth. The forces of nature are under the direction of an Eternal Agency. Science, in her pride, may seek to explain strange happenings on land and on sea; but science fails of tracing in these things the workings of Providence."
{19MR 280.1}

"God keeps a reckoning with nations as well as with individuals. He allows the nations a certain period of probation, and gives them evidences of His requirements, of His supremacy, and makes known to them His laws, which are to be the rule of His kingdom in the government of nations. All this He does that heathen nations may not be given up to destruction unwarned, and without light. But, after He has given light and evidence, and they still persist in insolence toward Him, then, when their iniquity is full, God takes the matter in hand, and His judgments are no longer withheld."
{Letter 13, 1893, p. 12.}

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Wildlife officials in Sri Lanka expressed surprise Wednesday that they found no evidence of large-scale animal deaths from the weekend's massive tsunami — indicating that animals may have sensed the wave coming and fled to higher ground.

An Associated Press photographer who flew over Sri Lanka's Yala National Park in an air force helicopter saw abundant wildlife, including elephants, buffalo, deer, and not a single animal corpse.

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Neither God or Satan controls weather, storms, disasters...

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Originally posted by Ikan:
Here is proof positive that the "religious leaders" of the world have no clue as to what happened and why:

Notice, that Satan is not mentioned, and that God (or usually spelled in the article "god") is the One to blame. The only Bible answer came from an very distant Adventist offshoot, a Jehovah's Witness.

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