10 Plagues That Our World Has Had To Deal With So Far This Summer

Paying Attention Yet? Here Are 10 Plagues That Our World Has Had To Deal With So Far This Summer- by Michael Snyder - http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/paying-attention-yet-here-are-10-plagues-that-our-world-has-had-to-deal-with-so-far-this-summer/ This is a summer that none of us will ever forget. There has been one apocalyptic disaster after another, and we haven’t even reached the halfway point yet. At the sametime that historic flooding has been absolutely devastating parts of Europe and China, unprecedented heat, drought and wildfires have been hitting portions of North and South America extremely hard. On top of all that, countless numbers of birds are suddenlydropping dead, hundreds of millions of sea creatures have been wiped out, the COVID pandemic is experiencing a major resurgence and we are starting to see famine break out in parts of Africa. What’s next? Should we be expecting a plague of grasshoppers to be unleashed soon? Actually, that has already happened, and I’ve included it in this article too. The following are 10 plagues that our world has had to deal with so far this summer… #1 Historic Flooding In Western Europe Just 10 days after record flooding killed 37 people in western Europe, Belgium was hit by a flood that was so powerful that it literally picked up vehicles and carried themalong like little toys… In Dinant, within Belgium’s Walloon region, a two-hour thunderstorm turned streets into torrential rivers. Footage on social media showed cars and pavements being sweptaway by a powerful stream of rainwater. “I have been living in Dinant for 57 years and I’ve never seen anything like this,” Richard Fournaux, the town’s former mayor, told the AP news agency. #2 Once-In-A-Thousand-Year� Flooding In China Last week, more than a million people were forced from their homes by flooding in China that was so extreme that it is only supposed to happen one time in a thousand years… Starting last Tuesday, storms dropped the equivalent of one year’s worth of water on the city in a 72 hour period before moving northward, flooding large swathes of Henanprovince in China. Authorities say the rains have displaced more than a million people and at least 63 people dead in what should have been – in theory – once-in-a-thousand-year floods. #3 Countless Numbers Of Birds Are Dropping Dead This is something that I have written about before. Thousands upon thousands of birds are suddenly dropping dead in the eastern half of the United States, and authoritiesstill don’t understand why this is happening… Thousands of cases of mysteriously ill songbirds have now been reported in at least 10 Eastern and Midwestern states. Scientists from federal and state agencies and wildlifehealth centers are collaborating diligently to determine the cause, and perhaps find a treatment for what has so far proved to be an untreatable malady. Hopefully scientists will be able to figure out what is causing this, because once a bird catches the disease death can come very, very rapidly… Death seems to descend quickly once birds start showing obvious neurological symptoms, says Evans. A neighbor brought him a sick crow and “literally within minutes, it hadgone between being living and standing on the street and looking normal but acting confused, to a dead bird in a box.” Other accounts from wildlife centers tell of birds deteriorating and dying within 48 hours. #4 A Billion Dead Sea Creatures A few weeks ago, we witnessed the worst heatwave that the Northwest has ever experienced. Personally, I know how bad that it was, because I was right in the middle of it. CBS News Meteorologist Jeff Berardelli explained that there was only a “1/10,000+ chance” that a heatwave of this magnitude could happen in the region, and it ended up killingat least a billion sea creatures… More than 1 billion marine animals along Canada’s Pacific coast are likely to have died from last week’s record heatwave, experts warn, highlighting the vulnerability ofecosystems unaccustomed to extreme temperatures. The “heat dome” that settled over western Canada and the north-western US for five days pushed temperatures in communities along the coast to 40C (104F) – shattering longstandingrecords and offering little respite for days. #5 Megadrought The western half of the United States is in the midst of a multi-year “megadrought”, and 2021 has been the worst year of that “megadrought” so far by a very wide margin. As I discussed the other day, about 20 percent of the West was considered to be experiencing “severe drought” at this time in 2020, but today that number is up to 80 percent. In California, conditions have been so dry and water levels have gotten so low that the drinking water is literally starting to taste like dirt… Something is off about Sacramento’s water. It smells and tastes a little “earthy,” residents are saying — an effect of compounding climate change crises: extreme heat, littleto no precipitation and a historic drought that has gripped the region for the better part of a decade. Up and down the state of California, rivers, streams and reservoirs are drying up. In Sacramento, that has led to an increase in the concentration of geosmin in its drinkingwater, one of two organic compounds that give soil its characteristic smell. #6 A Plague Of Grasshoppers? The extremely hot and extremely dry conditions in the western half of the country have created ideal conditions for grasshoppers to multiply. Now millions of these voracious little creatures are gobbling up fields everywhere they go, and the National Weather Service is telling us that some of the grasshopper swarmsare so massive that they are actually showing up on radar… The National Weather Service (NWS) Glasgow says the radar is lighting up, but not with rain. Instead, the radar is picking up “countless” grasshoppers in the area according to a post from the NWS. The grasshoppers are flying as high as 10,000 feet above the ground and are being picked up by the radar the NWS said. #7 Crop Losses Severe drought in hitting agricultural production really hard in many parts of the globe right now. I discussed what we are witnessing in the U.S. in this article, and down in Brazil authorities are openly warning that the crop losses this year are going to be “historic”… “It is going to be a historic crop loss,” Daniele Siqueira from local consultancy Agrural told Agricensus. The second Brazilian corn crop safrinha has been severely affected by dry and warm weather during key development stages, and crop conditions worsened further in some regionsthat were hit by frosts for three days in the end of June. As a result, Agrural has lowered its estimates of Brazil’s safrinha output to 59.1 million mt in early-July, 22 million mt below the initial crop potential and the new frostscould mean these estimates are dampened even further. #8 Gigantic Wildfires Dozens of major wildfires are raging all across the West, and they just keep making headlines day after day this summer. In the last 24 hours, two major wildfires that were totally out of control in northern California ended up merging, and this has created an absolutely giant inferno thatis threatening thousands upon thousands of homes… Thousands of homes in Northern California are under threat from two wildfires that recently merged, as dozens of other fires continue to burn across the western United States. Officials say more than 10,000 homes are under threat, and evacuations have been ordered around Lake Almanor, a popular resort area, after California’s largest blaze, theDixie Fire, merged over the weekend with the Fly Fire. #9 Mammoth Dust Storms For years, I have been warning that Dust Bowl conditions would return to the western half of the country, and now it has happened. Some of the dust storms that are being created are so large they can actually be seen from space, and they can be extremely dangerous for those that are driving on our roads. For example, eight people were just killed during a series of accidents that were caused by a colossal dust storm in Utah… Eight people — four adults and four children under 15 — were killed in a multiple-vehicle crash near Kanosh on Sunday, as drivers were blinded by a sandstorm. The Utah Highway Patrol reported Monday that 10 people were taken to local hospitals Sunday after the series of crashes, which involved 22 vehicles. The dust storms in China can be even worse. In fact, the city of Dunhuang was just hit by a dust storm that was more than 300 feet tall… A Chinese city is engulfed by a gigantic wall of sand hundreds of feet high in footage straight out of a disaster movie. A video shows the city of Dunhuang vanishing between the more than 300 feet wall of sand that blew in from the Gobi Desert on Sunday. The apocalyptic scene was filmed by a resident who shared the scary clip on Twitter. #10 The Delta Variant We were dealing with COVID at this time last year too, but now the pandemic is making a major resurgence thanks to the Delta variant. Many people don’t realize this, but scientists are telling us that those that catch the Delta variant can have viral loads that are more than 1,000 times higher than thosethat had the original strain… In a preprint posted 12 July, the researchers report that virus was first detectable in people with the Delta variant four days after exposure, compared with an averageof six days among people with the original strain, suggesting that Delta replicates much faster. Individuals infected with Delta also had viral loads up to 1,260 times higher than those in people infected with the original strain. The COVID pandemic and everything associated with it has already killed millions, and now authorities are threatening us with more lockdowns and more mandates. And on top of everything else, studies continue to show that any “immunity” is very temporary. Here is another example that I came across just a little while ago… Antibodies triggered by Sinovac Biotech’s COVID-19 vaccine decline below a key threshold from around six months after a second dose for most recipients, although a thirdshot could have a strong boosting effect, according to a lab study. Chinese researchers reported the findings from a study of blood samples from healthy adults aged between 18-59 in a paper published on Sunday, which has not been peer reviewed. This is quite a list, and we still have more than half of the summer still to go. Before I end this article, there is one more thing that I wanted to mention. Famine is now erupting in parts of Africa, and things are particularly bad on the island ofMadagascar… The southern part of the island nation of Madagascar, off the east coast of Africa, is experiencing its worst drought in four decades, with the World Food Program (WFP)warning recently that 1.14 million people are food-insecure and 400,000 people are headed for famine. Hunger is already driving people to eat raw cactus, wild leaves and locusts, a food source of last resort. The WFP, which is on the ground helping with fooddistribution, describes scenes of unimaginable suffering, with families bartering everything they have—even cooking pots and spoons—for the paltry tomatoes, scrawny chickens and few bags of rice still available in the markets. So why are so many apocalyptic events suddenly happening all over the globe? Is it just a coincidence? That is what some people think. But I would suggest that it is time for all of us to start paying attention, because our world is being shaken like never before, and what we have experienced so far isjust the tip of the iceberg. For decades, we have grown accustomed to living our lives in an environment of great stability, but now everything is changing. Everything that can be shaken will be shaken, and nothing will ever be the same again. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- God's Weather Warnings � Terry James - https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/ There is, at first glance, perhaps a paradox in our take on the matter of climate change. When I say �our,� I mean those of us in Bible prophecy circles who examine theclimate-change matter, which is considered by the Biden administration people to be the greatest crisis faced by mankind today. The seeming incongruity in our thought process comes by considering the following. While we believe that there is no climate change in terms of the definition given by thoseon the ideological left, we acknowledge that climate change indeed does exist. And it is becoming exponentially more manifest. Those who are in the man is destroying the planet camp proclaim all who disagree with that premise to be climate-change deniers. They vehemently declare the same about anyonewho disagrees with their dire assessments on any crisis as they delve, in full rage, into whatever problem they believe they must strive to control in their insatiable quest for ever-increasing power. For example, anyone who opposes their claims that COVID-19is the deadliest virus in modern times is a pandemic denier, and, no doubt, an anti-vaxxer. Not too many months ago, I have to admit, I was somewhat of a climate-change skeptic, to say the least. And I yet hold that, regarding those earlier times, I still can�tpoint back to them and see changes in the planet�s weather patterns as being extreme to the point of representing changes of the profound sort. The evidence is now compounding, however. Reports from around the world of drastic weather events, especially involving flooding and at the same time droughts, continueto erase the skepticism. Some of the reports just in recent days blazed across our Rapture Ready News headlines. I�ve put a few of these here to display the compiling evidence. •Europe floods: Rescuers race to find survivors as hundreds remain missing Rescue crews have been racing to find survivors of floods that have wreaked havoc across western Europe, killing more than 150 people. Hundreds are still missing after recordrainfall triggered severe floods in Germany and Belgium. Heavy rains also hit Switzerland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands � where PM Mark Rutte has declared a national disaster in one southern province. •Flagstaff declares state of emergency as Arizona hit by devastating floods Parts of Arizona have been hit with devastating flooding, with the city of Flagstaff declaring a state of emergency after being inundated with torrents of water that turnedstreets into murky, fast-running streams. •Amid a mega drought, federal water shortage limits loom for the Colorado River The Colorado River is tapped out. Another dry year has left the watershed that supplies 40 million people in the Southwest parched. A prolonged 21-year warming and dryingtrend is pushing the nation�s two largest reservoirs to record lows. •�Wither away and die�: U.S. Pacific Northwest heat wave bakes wheat, fruit crops An unprecedented heat wave and ongoing drought in the U.S. Pacific Northwest is damaging white wheat coveted by Asian buyers and forcing fruit farm workers to harvest inthe middle of the night to salvage crops and avoid deadly heat. •Extreme flooding hits multiple provinces of China, capital Beijing brought to standstill Prolonged heavy rainfall affecting parts of China over the past couple of days caused extreme flooding in several provinces, including Sichuan, Hebei, Shaanxi, Henan, andShandong. Severe thunderstorms also affected the capital Beijing, bringing the entire city to a standstill. On July 12, authorities have issued an orange alert, the 2nd highest in the country�s 4-tier weather warning system. •Flash floods cause travel chaos in parts of London Heavy rain has caused flash floods in various parts of London. Cars have been submerged as roads filled with water while train services have also been cancelled. Photoson social media showed parts of south-west London including Barnes, Raynes Park and Richmond had been affected, as had areas of north London including Golders Green and Highgate. •Shandong hit by largest tornado outbreak in more than a decade, China Eastern China�s Shandong Province was hit by its largest tornado outbreak in more than 10 years on July 11, 2021. At least 10 tornadoes were reported, with at least 3 ofthem [reported as] violent. The reports are still coming in and the number of reported tornadoes is rising. •Extremely heavy rains hit Kyushu, JMA issues year�s first Level 5 torrential rain alert, Japan The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has issued its highest level rain alert for parts of Kyushu, southwestern Japan on Saturday, July 10, 2021, leading local authoritiesto instruct hundreds of thousands to take immediate safety measures. Reports of river flooding and landslides are coming in. The floods and droughts are not merely seasonal occurrences. They are indeed phenomenal weather events, and they are in unprecedented, multiple numbers�occurring almostsimultaneously in most every part of the planet. So this prophecy watcher, at least, fully recognizes that something of last-days significance is taking place almost daily. The way I and others who are likewise watchersdiffer from the leftists who claim there is climate change is they see it as man-made, while we see it as God-induced. It is a foreboding weather warning from on high. The storm that�s coming is the Tribulation. The Lord, we sense, is warning of things to come by way of His judgment andwrath. He wants all to come to repentance. He wants no one to be caught in that final great, destructive storm. The rebellious, progressive mindset declares that man alone can fix the climate. They are making a globalists-elite-engendered, Mother Earth worship system to do exactlythat, they think. We know, on the other hand, that only God can either break or fix the planet He, alone, controls. The earth is the Lord�s, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. Whoshall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? (Psalms 24: 1�3) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Are Disasters and Pandemics the Judgment of God?- Jim Denison - https://www.christianheadlines.com/columnists/denison-forum/are-disasters-and-pandemics-the-judgment-of-god.html More than twenty-two thousand firefighters fought �extreme fire behavior� across the West yesterday as homes burned and thousands of residents fled fast-spreading flames.The largest fire in the US is continuing to grow this morning, one of eighty-eight large wildfires crews are battling throughout the country. Six new large fires were reported Saturday. California has seen a 257 percent increase in acres burned so far compared to 2020. A fire behavior analyst blames �the critically dry weather� for good reason: scientistssay the current drought is setting a 122-year record. Almost 90 percent of the western US is now considered to be in drought. The drought currently extends from the West Coast eastward into Minnesota and Wisconsin. Is this the judgment of God? "HEAVEN IS SHUT UP AND THERE IS NO RAIN" There is no question that God sometimes uses drought as judgment on sin. He sent a drought against Israel in the days of Elijah (1 Kings 17:1) and �called for a drought on the land and the hills� in the days of Haggai (Haggai 1:11). Solomon foresawa day when �heaven is shut up and there is no rain� because of the people�s sin (1 Kings 8:35). Jeremiah 14 depicts such judgment in stark terms: �The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought: �Judah mourns, and her gates languish; her people lamenton the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up'� (vv. 1�2). The drought affected rich as well as poor (v. 3) and was so severe that �the farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads� (v. 4) and wildlife were suffering as well (vv. 5�6). Jeremiah responded by confessing the sins of his people and praying for divine mercy: �Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name�s sake; for ourbackslidings are many; we have sinned against you� (v. 7). He acknowledged that the Lord is the one true God and thus the only one who could save them: �Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or canthe heavens give showers? Are you not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things� (v. 23). DEFEATING THE GODS OF EGYPT The Bible clearly teaches that God sometimes uses natural disasters to judge sin and call sinners to repentance. In such cases, however, he warns the people first throughhis prophets and other representatives, as with Moses before Pharaoh (Exodus 5-12). If they will not repent, he responds directly to their sins. For example, each of the plagues against Egypt was a direct defeat of one of Egypt�s pagan gods (cf. Exodus 12:12). It would be easy for me as a conservative Christian to blame the West Coast drought on the sins of some who live there. The immorality championed by some in Hollywood andthe irreligiosity of many in Washington and Oregon are well known, for example. But the drought includes Idaho, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin�states not known for immorality or irreligiosity. Unlike the plagues of Egypt, the current drought is not the consequence of specific sins. Nor am I aware of prophetic warnings issued by the Lord before the drought began. As a result, I do not view the current drought as God�s active judgment against the western US but as a consequence of living in a fallen and broken world (Romans 8:22).We see such tragedies daily, as with the sandstorm yesterday in Utah that caused a series of car crashes, killing at least seven people, and the heavy rains that flooded subways in New York early this month. However, I am convinced that God wants to use the drought and wildfires to teach us a vitally important lesson. "NIGHT IS COMING, WHEN NO MAN CAN WORK" Early Christians lived with urgency born out of reality. Life expectancy in the Roman world was half of rates today. Christians were especially in peril�more than a milliondied for Jesus in the first three centuries of the Christian era. But their urgency was not just a product of their circumstances. They knew that �salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed� (Romans 13:11), remembering Jesus� admonition, �Night is coming, when no man can work� (John 9:4). Their Master warned them, �Stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming� (Matthew 24:42). The disasters we have discussed today should remind us that our lives are no more certain than theirs. With all our scientific advances, we cannot stop droughts or preventwildfires. With all our medical expertise, we cannot yet end the present pandemic or forecast the next one. We may live longer on average, but none of us are guaranteed another day. However, I do not sense true urgency among many Christians in America. We may believe theologically that Jesus could return tomorrow or we could die today, but we need totranslate this belief into practice. The more urgent our faith, the more earnestly we will share the gospel, stand courageously for our Lord, and live ready to stand before him one day. SHARING JESUS IN ICU We�ll close today with a crucial example. Please join me in praying today for Jonathan Lotz, the son of Anne Graham Lotz and grandson of Billy Graham. Jonathan is in ICU with COVID-19; Anne asks us to pray thathe will not have to go on a ventilator and that he will be fully healed. �Fifty years ago, I could hold my son in my arms,� she said in a post Saturday. �Now I have placed him in the arms of Jesus.� Last night, she updated her Facebook page with her son�s condition, noting that he sent this text earlier Sunday: �I am physically exhausted yet spiritually overflowing!� He added, �I have had the privilege of sharing Jesus with the ER & ICU staff! What a Savior! God is so good.� With whom will you share Jesus today? VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM