FINAL WARNING: The Curtain Falls
voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great
earthquake ... And every island fled away, and the mountains were not
found. And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone
about the weight of a talent (114 pounds)...”It is interesting to note, that when Jesus died on the cross, there was
“darkness over all the land” and “the earth did quake, and the rocks
rent (Matthew 27:45, 51).” The 18th century scientist von Hoff wrote:
“There have been strange colorings of the heavens and unusual fogs
noticed as occurring at the same time of earthquakes; such as the
unusual color of the sky at Lisbon on the first of November, 1755, and
the dry fog (Nebel), which was so thick as to produce total darkness
during the earthquake in Calabria in 1783.”In Revelation 19:11, John writes about this moment: “And I saw
heaven open and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was
called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make
war.” The rider is none other than Jesus, the King of Kings, and Lord
of Lords. He is followed by an army of angels. Verse 19 describes the
reception waiting below: “And I saw the beast, and the kings of the
earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that
sat on the horse, and against his army.”Ezekiel’s description of “the fire of my wrath,” (38:19) “a great
shaking,” (38:19) “an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and
brimstone,” (38:22) “I will send a fire,” (39:6) certainly paints a picture
that will be very similar to the destruction meted out by God at Sodom
and Gomorrah.This event, which occurred about 1897 BC, and is discussed in
Genesis 19:24-29: “Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah
brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; And he overthrew
those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and
that which grew upon the ground ... and, lo, the smoke of the country
went up as the smoke of a furnace.”In 1924, a joint expedition of archaeologists W. F. Albright and Mervyn
G. Kyle, from the American School and Xenia Seminary, discovered
five oases, on a plain, 500 feet above the level of the southeast corner
of the Dead Sea in the Moabite foothills. Evidence of a walled area was