Earth has Shifted on its Axis

by Mike Evans

In my prayer room this morning, God placed a mighty burden on my heart. Yesterday I watched the national news reports from Japan. First it was an earthquake, then a tsunami, and now the island nation is faced with the possibility of a nuclear catastrophe. This is a biblical scene of disaster: the earth has shifted on its axis, and the coastline of Japan shifted eight feet. The quake shifted the position of Earth’s axis about 6.5 inches, Richard Gross, a geophysicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge, reported in an e-mail.

The temblor also should have caused Earth to rotate somewhat faster, shortening the length of the day by about 1.8 microseconds, he said. Down the road, data from the quake will provide an unusually precise view of how Earth is deformed during massive earthquakes at sites where one plate is sliding under another, including the U.S. Pacific Northwest, scientists said.

What the reporters were describing without even knowing it was that which is to come as prophesied by John the Revelator while exiled on the Isle of Patmos.

Over and over the words are ringing in my spirit: When you see these things, look up, look up, look up, for your redemption draws nigh. Yes, the winds of Armageddon are beginning to blow. Jesus described our day when saying that “as the days of Noah were, so shall the coming of the Son of Man be … And they knew not until the flood came and took them all away.” (Matthew 24:37, 39)

No, we’re not in the Great Tribulation, beloved, but you can be sure of one thing: This old planet is groaning with birth pangs. As I watched the news reports, I was reminded of when the Mexico City earthquake and aftershocks happened on September 19, 1985. I immediately flew from Dallas to comfort the suffering. There were few on the plane. When I arrived, the roads were buckled. I asked the cab driver to take me to the city center; he refused and said he would die. I offered extra pesos. He said, “Senor, the pesos will not do me any good if I’m dead.” Finally, I persuaded another cab driver to take me.

For more than a week, I comforted suffering people. It resembled a scene from the book of Revelation. There was no life; glass had been blown out of buildings; people were under tons of concrete. I had to put gauze over my mouth because the stench of death was so strong. I dug with my hands to try to free precious people buried under the concrete.

Warning after warning is coming to God’s people from heaven with the declaration, “Jesus is coming soon, and this whole planet has an appointment with eternity that will not be averted.” Every promise in God’s Word will come to pass. One precious man, a college professor, was studying chapters 1 through 14 in the book of Ezekiel. He felt led to write a commentary on it.

The professor was a Hebrew scholar; he wrote the book in 1844. As he went verse by verse through the prophecy, he declared that the Valley of Dry Bones is a prophecy about the return and resettlement of the Jewish people from exile “back into the desolate waste and forsaken cities of the Holy Land—a return to Palestine.” He said that Ezekiel spoke this prophecy more than 2,000 years before it was to be fulfilled. In his commentary, he pointed out that we must do “everything possible to be part of this prophecy.” That professor’s name was George Bush. Yes, a distant relative of George W. Bush.

I am working on a major book entitled Jesus is Coming Soon. This commentary is in my book. If you would like to be one of the first to be notified when the book is released later this year, please drop me a line.

Beloved, when you see these things LOOK UP! “Lift up your head for your redemption draws nigh.” (Luke 21:28) The prophecies of the Bible declare that “in the twinkling of an eye, we shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed.”

Soon, and very soon, you will look into the eastern sky and witness the greatest event in the history of mankind. You will be blinded with a light brighter than the light that struck the Apostle Paul on the road to Damascus. You will hear the shout of an archangel and a heavenly choir will offer praise to the returning King. The trumpet will sound, and the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the Eternal Prince of Peace, will suddenly appear. Marble mausoleums will rip like tissue paper, and every grave on earth that holds the remains of the righteous will split open. Decaying bodies will be changed in the twinkling of an eye, and gravity will lose its hold as the resurrection saints will soar into the heavens to meet the Savior in the air. You, in your glorified body, will enter the Pearly Gates of Heaven to be welcomed by the cheers of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

You will see Moses who stretched forth his hand to divide the sea. You’ll see John the Revelator who declared on Patmos that he saw the Lord in the midst of seven golden candlesticks. You will see your departed loved ones and friends who knew the Lord. Most importantly, you will see Jesus.

I feel prompted by the Spirit of God to encourage you today. An unbelieving world is like Nero playing his fiddle as Rome burned. He was totally oblivious to what was happening around him, as are many people today; but not you, precious saint. When you go to bed tonight ask, “Jesus, is this the night you’re going to come?” And when you awaken in the morning ask, “Lord, is this the day that I’ll see your face?”