More Talk About EMP's

We have blogged numerous times on Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) and how the USA could be instantly sent back to the 1850's and all of our technology rendered worthless in that same blink of an eye.

We know they are caused by massive solar storms. We had one in the USA in the 1850's known as the Carrington Event. Back then it didn't cause much problem because electricity was in its infancy.

We also know they are caused by exploding a nuclear warhead some miles in the sky over a country and all electrical functions are destroyed.  No cars, no laptops, no cell phones, no electricity to pump wells, no refrigeration at home or in stores, etc., etc....

I can't help but think of the mood in America right now.  A lot of folks seem to be pretty upbeat!  New car sales are having their biggest boom in years, the stock market is up over 100% from its March 2009 low, real estate prices are on the rebound (so we are told), some of my neighbors who are in construction are reporting they are so busy they are turning down work!!

It would seem that happy days are here again.

Images of Christians being beheaded and dismembered, gassed and crucified in Syria, Egypt, Iraq and other Muslim lands seem to be a long way off.  Why should we worry about that??  After all, we had a good church service yesterday and were still home in time to have leftover Chinese food and watch the NFL kickoff!

I can't help but hear the words of Apostle Paul as he describes the coming of the Day of the Lord in 1 Thessalonians 5;

5 Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, ² for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. ³ While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

I realize that this passage could have NUMEROUS times of fulfilment...including a time in the future when the Antichrist signs an agreement with Israel....but it makes me ponder how exactly things might be in America if this afternoon all the lights went out...and stayed out for months?

Now today, Rapture Ready wrote about EMP's again and I will post their comments below.


EMP and Gog
It’s a frightening thing to consider. For the most technologically endowed nation to ever exist on planet Earth, it would be a nightmare of almost unimaginable proportion. I’m referring to an attack on the U.S. by EMP –electromagnetic pulse—about which there continues to be much chatter in the cybersphere. Most feared is a nuclear blast that could interact with the ionosphere, the shell of electrons and electrically charged particles surrounding Earth, to create a series of electromagnetic pulses that could reach across the North American continent, according to the scientists who study such matters. In such an apocalyptic scenario, an American enemy would explode a nuclear weapon a certain number of miles above a central point above the continent. This would cause everything that is controlled by electronic circuitry to fail, bringing society and culture as we have known them to an instantaneous conclusion. All modern transportation would be stopped, with planes falling from the air. Car engines and circuitry would cease to function. From the sophisticated technologies of the hospitals, banks, and electric power-generating plants to the electronically powered, smallest conveniences such as coffeemakers, all would be instantly fried, and we would be sent back to the 1850s in a millisecond, according to the experts. There would be no more TV watching, electronic devices to play music, no cell phone talk, or texting! Now, I know that last bit got your attention. The only positive might be that car accidents caused by texting would cease to occur. For sure, the insurance industry would be out of business. Their electronic files on the texting-caused accidents would be no more… The stores would be out of food within a day because the vehicles to resupply would no longer be operating. Whoever could get to the shelves first on foot or bicycle would get the quickly disappearing grocery items. Water and sewer systems would begin to undergo contamination and disease would begin to spread.Those who warn of such things worry that America’s military capabilities would be degraded to the point the U.S. would have no course of action that would protect the nation from invasion. The military machinery and personnel would be as adversely affected as would we civilians. It is indeed a nightmare to consider. This is all predicated upon the postulation that it would be an enemy nation or possibly terrorist group that would attack with EMP. However, America has nuclear submarines and many other assets that--like in the case of the cold war and MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)—would devastate any enemy who dared to knock out the American power grid. Even if the enemy could not be determined–such as if al Qaida launched an EMP off a freighter on the Atlantic coast—there are automatic responses programmed that make any enemy think twice before attempting such an untried assault on the most awesome war-making entity ever to exist. Well, maybe that doesn’t exactly apply any longer. Remember Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Those nineteen terrorists did not seem to regard the awesomeness of America’s military. It’s true they have paid the price for the attack. But the price we’ve paid since is far greater. Not just in the trillions of dollars spent and still being spent, but in lives lost and continuing to be lost. Disregarding such an enemy for the moment, the experts tell us we face the possibility of an EMP attack from the cosmos. Now, there’s something to truly be concerned about! Solar flares are the real danger, according to the scientists involved in study of this sort of EMP assault. These coronal mass ejections are enormous sun eruptions of super-hot plasma that spews charged particles across the solar system. They do the same sort of damage that the nuclear weapon EMPs might do, as I understand it. The Earth is in a period of high likelihood for these types of coronal mass ejections for the rest of 2013 and all of 2014, according to the scientists—authorities on such things. Although Congress has been given ways to help prepare for damage such EMP events can do, there has apparently been little interest from that quarter in making preemptive preparation. We remember the same sorts of fears and warnings about the year 2000--Y2K--event. In that instance billions of dollars were thrown into fixing the feared problems. This time around, unlike in the case of the Y2K scare, the mainstream media seems to have all but ignored the EMP concerns. Even peripheral media cable networks and other such media have remained silence. Only the blogosphere is alive with details of the possibility of impending doom. My own thought is that the Lord is and has always been in complete control of the fate of individuals, nations, and the entire Earth–which He created. That’s why there hasn’t been all-out warfare–nuclear war. That’s why there hasn’t been an EMP event that sets us back to the 1850s or so… However, there is a prophetic thought that has nagged for a long time. That’s all it is–a thought. Salem Kirban wrote the novel 666 in the 1960s. He portrayed the Ezekiel 38-39 Gog-Magog attack as being waged totally like the Scripture depicts. There were only horses, bucklers, shields, etc., as they stormed like a cloud to cover the land as the Gog forces raged toward Jerusalem. All modern weaponry had been rendered useless–I can’t remember why or how. An EMP event from Earth’s sun could apparently make Mr. Kirban’s novel truly prophetic, if all we’ve been told about EMP is correct. The way things are shaping in that region of the world should alert us that maybe we don’t have too long to wait to find out about how Bible prophecy plays out.

Are we folks in America now saying "peace and safety"?  Are we in the calm before an unimaginable storm?  We are done in Iraq, pulling out of Afghanistan and now it looks like we might stay out of Syria....peace and safety??

Now remember, Paul goes on in the same chapter to give us our blessed hope;

⁴ But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. ⁵ You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. ⁶ So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. ⁷ For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. ⁸ But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. ⁹ For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁰ He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. ¹¹ Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.

Amen!!  God did not appoint us to suffer wrath....BUT....even though we are promised not to receive the wrath of God, CERTAINLY we could receive the wrath of our fellow man and the hardships of a fallen world. 

Certainly if your Christian-head was on the chopping block in Syria after watching your family raped and dismembered you would believe you were suffering wrath...no?

While I hope and pray that we in America don't have to endure any hardships like an EMP...and that the trumpet will blow today calling us all home to Jesus....what if we knew that 100,000,000 of our lost family and friends would turn to Jesus Christ due to the impossible conditions created during an American meltdown??  Would we welcome the opportunity to suffer??...OR...would we prefer to keep our posh, comfortable lives...where food, housing and fully stocked Walmarts are taken for granted?