We survived another earthquake 5.0!!!

Thank you Jesus that this earthquake happened once again when families were together and it was daylight!! 9:20 a.m. we were sitting with everyone having the most amazing American Thanksgiving breakfast when we heard "the rumbling noise" and than the shaking happened. We took one look at each other and than ran from underneath the wooden canopy out to open air. There's been little aftershocks since then. The experts on earthquakes told us after the last quake there wouldn't be another one for ten years. So much for that theory. The whole island felt this one. It's the strangest feeling because it's not the typical shaking you would think happens. It feels like the pressure is from under the ground coming up. This week all the summer classes came back here for debriefing from their outreaches. Now they can say they were here for a earthquake. We had been telling them what it was like. On Tuesday night they shared about their trips. Teams went to Brazil, Fiji, Solomon Islands, France, Japan, and Guatemala. They had amazing stories to tell including miracles. God certainly is moving in all the nations trying to populate heaven. Yesterday we had the most amazing teaching on the last book in the bible named Revelations. It's a revelation that God gave to the disciple John in regard to the return of Jesus and what the Holy City will look like. Our teacher had spent a week by herself to be with Jesus and he led her to this book in the bible. Near the end of her week with him she saw a vision of a magnificent white horse with steam pouring out from it's nostrils, pacing back and forth. She inquired of God what this horse was doing. He answered her back saying the horse was waiting for the command from God to go. This will be the last battle between good (Jesus) and evil (Satan). But the horse can't go yet because God is waiting for everyone on planet earth to have the opportunity to respond to his love for them. It's like a father looking for all his lost children. He won't leave until he finds each one. So, the horse waits. John tells us of his vision; "Then I saw heaven opened, and a white horse was standing there. Its rider was named Faithful and True, for he judges fairly and wages a righteous war. His eyes were like flames of fire, and on his head were many crowns. A name was written on him that no one understood except himself. He wore a robe dipped in blood and his title was the Word of God. The armies of heaven, dressed in the finest of pure white linen, followed him on white horses." Revelation 19:11-14 I don't know if you realize this but this is the second time God had me quote this scripture to you on my blogsite. Don't take this lightly. Out of his love for you, he is trying to get your attention.
We are closer to this event than ever before in history. We all feel it here. The church is in a time of intimacy with Jesus like never before. All the Christian songs being written now speak of being intimate with Jesus. This is God's heart right now for us. He wants us to know him as intimately as he knows each one of us. The time for playing church is over. The bridegroom is looking for his bride. Today was another indicator God is shaking whatever will be shaken. He is trying to shake us out of our complacency. This teacher was telling us the night before the last earthquake she couldn't sleep so she started reading her bible and God led her to this verse; "See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven? At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, "Be careful that you do not refuse to listen to the One who is speaking. For if the people of Israel did not escape when they refused to listen to Moses, the earthly messenger, we will certainly not escape if we reject the One who speaks to us from heaven! When God spoke from Mount Sinai his voice shook the earth, but now he makes another promise:"Once again I will not shake only the earth, but the heavens also. This means that all of creation will be shaken and removed, so that only unshakable things will remain. Since we are receiving a Kingdom that is unshakable, let us be thankful and please God by worshiping him with holy fear and awe." Hebrews 12:25-28

In conclusion, if you are a believer stop living for your own pleasures and prepare to meet your bridegroom. If you are a non-believer, say I do to the one who wants to know you intimately and will give you life for evermore.