New Madrid Could Shake America's Foundation

We first started blogging about the New Madrid earthquake fault line 7-8 years ago.  I actually wrote a paper on the devastating quakes of 1811-1812 back when I was in junior high so was somewhat familiar with the story line.

Jesus told us that we would see quakes in various places and that large quakes would increase as the nearness of His return drew close...like birth pains.

If a magnitude 8.0 hit the mid section of America, FEMA warns that it would be the most costly, devastating disaster to ever befall this nation.

Scientists KNOW that this will happen....they just don't know when,   But the fault line has been rumbling recently and we are overdue for a large quake again.

Most Americans expect the next great earthquake in the United States to come on the West Coast.  But what if it strikes right down the middle of the country instead? 

Thousands of Americans will die, tens of thousands of structures will be completely destroyed, and millions of people will find themselves homeless.

Unlike on the west coast, buildings within the New Madrid fault zone are typically not constructed to withstand major earthquakes.  If we were to see the type of earthquake that we saw a little over two centuries ago, it would be a disaster unlike anything that any of us have ever known.  The following comes from WKRN, and it describes what those earthquakes back in 1811 and 1812 were like...

Can you believe that in the winter of 1811-1812 a series of earthquakes in northwest Tennessee shook the ground so hard that church bells rang on the East Coast and sidewalks cracked in Washington D.C?

The sitting president, James Madison, was even awakened in the middle of the night by the shaking of the White House.

In Tennessee, and surrounding states, the early settlers and Native American Indians were terrified by the shaking. Large fissures opened up in the ground, and some witnessed the Mississippi River appearing to flow backwards.

It is believed that those quakes shook an area ten times larger than that impacted by the 7.8 San Francisco earthquake of 1906.  Some of the giant cracks that opened up in the ground were up to five miles long, and the stench of fire and brimstone hung in the air for months afterwards.

In a report filed in November 2008, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency warned that a serious earthquake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone could result in "the highest economic losses due to a natural disaster in the United States," further predicting widespread and catastrophic damage across Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and particularly Tennessee, where a 7.7 magnitude quake or greater would cause damage to tens of thousands of structures affecting water distribution, transportation systems, and other vital infrastructure.

Here;  http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=87

This would be reason enough to make sure that we all have a few weeks of food laying around the house...because if that quake struck today the nation's grocery stores may be disrupted for weeks....or months.

We have always wondered if a New Madrid quake could be used to break America in two...just as our leaders are calling for Israel to be broken in two?

Of course we hope this never happens, but as Bible readers we shouldn't be surprised if it does.

Certainly, the New Madrid fault line has rumbled back into the prophetic headlines as of late.