The Coming Tsunami

Are You Ready for the Coming Tsunami?

By Jonathan C. Brentner

On September 28, 2018, many residents of Palu, Indonesia gathered on the beach to celebrate the town’s anniversary. Despite the rumblings of earthquakes, which occurred often in their part of the world, it seemed like a normal day to the people joining in the happy festivities.

Due to a failure in the tsunami warning system, the people on the beach were unaware that a tidal wave at least ten feet high was headed their direction at a speed of 500 miles per hour (according to one disaster official in the area). Videos of what happened next can be found everywhere on social media.

The current death toll in the city of Palu is well over 1,000 and expected to climb higher.

As T.W. Tramm points out on his website, this tsunami provides a graphic picture of what is coming to this world in the not too distant future. Those on the beach that day typify many today who go about their lives ignorant of the many warnings contained in Scripture.

Jesus compared His appearing to the days of Noah and issued this warning along with that, “and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man” (Matt. 24:39). Do you see why the tsunami is an apt picture of this, of what Christ said about what would happen in the last days?

The signs of the approaching tribulation flash like gigantic neon signs all around us, yet most people ignore the signs and go on with life like those on the beach in Palu unaware of the approaching tsunami.

Sadly, most Christians are also unaware of what is approaching the world at breakneck speed.

Here are just a few indicators of this:

• Israel is back in the land and preparing to build the third temple, which the antichrist will defile at the midpoint of the tribulation.
• The nations in the Middle East are lining up precisely as Ezekiel said they would before the battle of Gog and Magog (Ez. 38-39)
• Israel now has the wealth and resources that the Lord says will lead to the invasion of Gog and Magog (38:13).
• All three nations that lead the Gog and Magog invasion currently have significant forces in Syria right on the border of Israel.
• We now have the technology thought artificial intelligence (AI) for the antichrist to control buying and selling worldwide (Rev. 13).
• The prophet Zechariah said that in the last days the city of Jerusalem would occupy the attention of the world (Zech. 12:1-3), just as it does at this time.
• Peace and security will be the theme of the world before the sudden destruction of the “day of the Lord” (1 Thess. 5:3). Is this not also indicative of the time in which we live? We hear it each September as the UN meets and leaders from all over the world speak.

While we cannot know the day or the hour of Jesus’ return for His church, we can and should recognize its season. And, all the biblical signs point to this current time as that season.