EARTH SHAKING: WARNING

W A R N I N G!!!   E A R T H Q U A K E S!!!

10-22-25; 9:57 pm; Quepos, Puntarenas, Costa Rica; earthquake 6.3

     Last night as I was trying to relax to get to sleep, I stretched out on the couch in our Airbnb with a book. It was working. I was getting sleepy since it had been a full two days with travel from San Antonio to San Jose, then once through customs, we hailed our friend, Kike, and headed for our rental in Grecia.Then grocery runs, and other errands to prepare for our stay.

     All of a sudden, at first I felt the shaking, then when I looked up, the windows were moving eerily and then the building was moving back and forth and up and down. I was frozen in place in unbelief. My next reaction was to wonder if I needed to escape the building with my husband, leaving all that we had behind. I contacted my friend, Francini who also lives in Grecia, and she confirmed that they were all okay but that it had been a very strong quake.

     The next thing I knew, my husband came bounding out of the room and demanded,”What is going on here?”

     I explained, “That was an earthquake. I looked it up and it happened off the coast near Quepos, and it is recorded by the Costa Rican meteorologists at 6.3!”

     “I felt like I was in a washing machine. The bed was bouncing up and down off of the floor!”

     “Wow! That was creepy! I’ve been through many earthquakes, but never any as bad as this one,” I responded.

     Back into the room Jerry went and soon he was fast asleep. Not me. I was looking for more information because the earthquake sites warned of subsequent aftershocks following one this strong. A huge earthquake had been predicted for this year and Quepos is located right where the Cocos and Caribbean plates meet.

     The next day, talking to my friend, Celia, who was up in Heredia, she reported that it was terrible up where she was staying with her daughter. She had them all go downstairs and they started praying.

     Then she said something that really hit me. “You know, just like that earthquake came out of nowhere, here we were having a great time as a family and boom! everything changed just like that! It could have come with fatalities. People gone. Buildings destroyed. This is what it will be like when Jesus comes to take up all of the believers who have been faithful to him.”

     You know, the way I felt at that moment, I knew she was speaking the truth. When I considered that there was no warning. I thought of all of the talk of earthquakes that would bring destruction talked about in Luke and Revelation in the end times.

     Jesus, speaking of the last days before he returned to take up the faithful,  said in Luke 21:11 NIV, “There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.”

     Then Jesus in Matthew 24:40-42 NIV talks about two men working in a field, one is taken up and the other is left. Two women grinding with hand mills, one is taken and the other is left behind. In verse 42 NIV Jesus warns us, “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.”

     As I considered how I was taken by surprise by the sudden movement and thought of all of the possible outcomes that thankfully did not happen this time, I know that if I  realized that the return of Jesus is imminent then why would I not want to be prepared and to be found faithfully living out a life full of God’s purpose for my life?

     The alternative would be to be found acting out in ways not pleasing to God and according to Jesus, Matthew 24:51 NIV, an unfaithful person will be assigned to a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

     That’s a no-brainer. Go to heaven with rewards, mansions, a loving God, and a life of fantastic possibilities forever or go to a horrible place with terrible people who are all in torture and are totally separated from anything good, kind, or lovely. Holy terror that was only ever intended for the fallen angels who rebelled and be stuck there also forever.

     Earthquakes. SIgns like blood moons in the heavens. Plagues. Pestilence. Wars. These are all signals to warn us because God in his mercy does not desire that any should perish. He loves us all too much. He loves you all too much.

     

John 14:6 NIV  Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

 

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