Posted by Elana Janson on February 22, 2016 at 10:32:32:
Cyclone Winston most powerful in the South Pacific
Last week Cyclone Winston strengthened to the most powerful storm recorded in the South Pacific - its strength partly due to the effects of El Nino. El Nino causes above average Pacific sea temperatures. Sea temperature said to be 31 C and 1.5 degrees above average.
Winston’s 184 mph (296kph) broke the old South Pacific records of Cyclone Zoe in 2002 and Cyclone Monica in 2006 according to Colorado State University.
Had the storm happened in the Atlantic it would have been a Category 5 Hurricane.
A Fiji resident said that neither he nor his father had ever experienced anything like it before. At least 17 people were killed in Fiji when the massive storm hit Saturday.
Revelation
At this point in time increased severity of windstorms have to be noted as Revelation indicates that specifically trees and the earth destroyed by strong wind as a sign of the end time.
Rev 7:1-3 and Rev 9:14.
Revelation 7:1-3King James Version (KJV)
7 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
Euphrates River
Revelation 9:14King James Version (KJV)
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
In the total understanding of Revelation through the repetition of the word “Euphrates”: At the time that the water of the Euphrates dries up the winds in the four corners of the earth will be let loose.
Revelation 16:12-14King James Version (KJV)
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
Does the word “water” have symbolic meaning?
Christianity out of the Middle East
The international media has recently focussed attention on the rapid decline of Christian population in the Middle East. In that area the percentage has dropped from 14% in 1910 to 4 % today.
What is particularly interesting is that in the area of Mosul there are virtually no Christians left. Mosul situated on the Tigris River that later joins the River Euphrates. Christians are at present but .8% of the Iraq population. This is a fall from 1.4 million or 8% in 1987
Does Revelation also reveal the symbolic ‘living’ water of the area of the great river Euphrates drying up as a sign of the gathering to Armageddon?