Editor’s Note: When we have questions about why certain events occur, where do we turn for advice, direction, or interpretation? The Bible!!
These days the earth is filled with violence, hate, war, nation against nation and soon kingdoms will come against kingdoms in terrible wars in these last days.
But these huge phenomenal mega wildfires in the western US. What about these? What’s up with the unprecedented fire advances, extraordinary wind with businesses and homes destroyed?
SIN! Unconfessed, unrepentant, God-rebelling, and God-rejecting flat out sin!
Wickedness is filling our land and we are being invaded by mindless governors, mayors and city councils with not an ounce of common sense or any God-fearing rationale among them. They are poking Almighty God in the eye with their wicked and lawless decisions, restrictions and persecutions of Christians. God will NOT be mocked – Gal 6:7. The Old Testament prophet Amos cited God’s wrath was sent with fire on several wicked cities around ancient Israel. We are not exempt from God’s judgments on our land for our unfaithfulness and wickedness. And in today’s US, the lawlessness, delusional politicians are against God and therefore and IMO, God is sending terrible fires on the land.
“For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke. 19- Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land is scorched,
and the people are like fuel for the fire; no one spares another.” -Isa 9:18-19 (ESV)
“There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing and adultery. They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed. 3- Therefore the land mourns, And everyone who lives in it languishes long with the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky, And also the fish of the sea disappear.” -Hos 4:2-3 (NASB)
The following article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog. (Used by permission). See his disclaimer below.
11 Facts That Prove That The Apocalyptic Wildfires On The West Coast Are Unlike Anything We Have Ever Seen Before
By Michael Snyder in Sept, 2020
At this hour, a thick blanket of smoke from the horrific wildfires in California, Oregon and Washington is covering much of the western portion of the country. U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon has used the word “apocalyptic” to describe the utter devastation that has been caused by these fires, and that is not an exaggeration whatsoever. There are some small towns that have literally been wiped off the face of the map during the past week, and some of them may never be rebuilt. This has already been a wildfire season like no other along the west coast, and we are just now entering the heart of the 2020 fire season. It is very difficult to imagine another couple months of this, but that is potentially what we are facing.
By the time that it is over, nobody living on the west coast will ever forget the chaos that this wildfire season has caused. Some of the largest fires have been burning for weeks, and all of the smoke is having a dramatic impact on large cities such as San Francisco…
The cityscape resembles the surface of a distant planet, populated by a masked alien culture. The air, choked with blown ash, is difficult to breathe.
There is the Golden Gate Bridge, looming in the distance through a drift-smoke haze, and the Salesforce Tower, which against the blood-orange sky appears as a colossal spaceship in a doomsday film.
San Francisco, and much of California, has never been like this.
Yes, every year there are wildfires, but what we are watching this year is on an entirely different level. The following are 11 facts that prove the apocalyptic wildfires in California, Oregon and Washington and unlike anything we have seen before…
#1 According to the National Interagency Fire Center, more than 30,000 firefighters are currently contending with 94 large fires that have burned more than 4.6 million acres in 12 western states.
#2 40 of those large fires have prompted evacuation orders, and many have been forced to flee “with just the clothes on their backs” because the fires have moved so rapidly.
#3 The August Complex Fire has already officially become the largest wildfire in the history of the state of California, and at this hour it continues to rage out of control.
#4 Five of the ten largest wildfires in California history have happened in 2020.
#5 In Oregon, 40,000 people have already been evacuated, and hundreds of thousands more have been told to prepare to potentially evacuate.
#6 On Saturday, the air quality index reading in Salem, Oregon was 512. That measurement was “off the charts”, because the scale only goes up to 500.
#7 Prior to 2020, we had only witnessed a few “fire tornadoes” in all of U.S. history, but now they are occurring “every week or two”.
#8 According to the Washington Post, some wildfire plumes have risen “up to 10 miles high”, and that is definitely extremely unusual.
#9 About a week after a fire tornado hit the Huntington Lake area, some fires are still burning root systems underground “at more than 1,500 degrees”…
A week later, Donnelly said Saturday that the Creek Fire continues to burn in the area, with some fires occurring underground and attacking the root system of trees at more than 1,500 degrees.
“Fire inspectors from the office of the State Fire Marshall stated that fire behavior in the Kennolyn area is the worst they had witnessed in their career,” Donnelly wrote in a post that was shared on social media, timestamped as 11 a.m. Saturday. “Unfortunately, it will be some time before it is safe to enter the burned areas.”
#10 Even though we still have quite a bit of time to go, this has already been the worst wildfire season in California’s history and the second worst wildfire season in Washington’s history.
#11 Sadly, the fire season still has another four months remaining, and there are at least seven weeks left in “prime fire season”.
Of course the list above simply cannot express the incredible amount of pain and suffering that these fires have caused for so many people.
When a reporter followed Betty Stevens of Phoenix, Oregon back to the spot where her home once stood, what they discovered was too horrible for words…
Betty Stevens stumbled down the street that had until a few hours ago seemed so familiar, her feet crunching through ash and debris as she entered the smoking remains of her neighborhood. There were melted street signs. Trees burned down to stumps. Power lines across the road. And everywhere she turned, choking, acrid smoke.
Sobbing behind the face mask she normally wears for her job as a hospital respiratory therapist helping coronavirus patients, Stevens, 31, video recorded herself earlier this week as she stumbled through the neighborhood, raw emotion in her voice, sometimes unable to form words, moaning in obvious pain.
Could you imagine losing your home and everything inside of it?
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