Luke 21:11a There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. -Jesus
September 18, 2022: A 7.2 earthquake has occurred on the southeast coast of Taiwan. There have been down grades to the intensity of the quake to 6.9. There is wide spread damage of buildings, roads, and bridges throughout the country. Power outages are indicated throughout the island nation. Landslides are being reported. The tsunami warning has been cancelled.
As of this post, one fatality has been reported with limited injuries.
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Luke 21:25 And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves… -Jesus
Typhoon Merbok has hit Alaska’s west coast. This storm is MASSIVE! If the storm were to hit the lower 48 states, the following states would be impacted: Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri.
Merbok has a history of winds about 50 to 75 miles per hour. Peak wind speeds may close in on 100 mph. Waves have reached heights of 35 feet. Storm surge has reached upwards of 18 feet. Homes and property have been literally sucked into the ocean. People have been evacuated and have lost their homes.
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Hurricane Fiona is making land fall in Puerto Rico. Fiona was recently a named storm with sustained winds of around 80 mph. President Joe Biden has declared a state of emergency for Puerto Rico. This is a developing and breaking story…
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Typhoon Nanmadol is making landfall in southwest Japan. This is one of the strongest storms on record to hit Japan. Winds are sustained at 150 mph.
More than 8 million people in southern and western Japan have been ordered to evacuate due to Typhoon Nanmadol. Local government officials across Japan sent NHK and others information about the orders that they had issued by 7 p.m. on Sunday. A level 5 alert, the highest on Japan’s disaster warning scale, was issued to more than 330,000 people in about 160,000 households in Kagoshima, Miyazaki and Oita prefectures. A total of nearly 8 million people in about 3.7 million households affected by a level 4 alert were ordered to evacuate in parts of the Kyushu, Shikoku and Chugoku regions.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220918_38/
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James 2:14-17 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Pray for the people of Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. The entire island is without power and facing many months of hardship. Pray for a break in the storms. Pray for communities and the island to come together and help their neighbor.
Pray for the people of Mexico following a devastating 7.1 magnitude earthquake and volcano eruption. Loss of life and injuries are reported as significant. Damage to buildings and infrastructure has been crushing. Mexico continues to recover from Hurricane Katia. Pray for a break in the storms and natural disasters. Pray for the Mexican communities in their time of need and hope.
