Reuters (excerpts):  Oklahoma City, OK - After one of the strangest local weather days in memory, an Oklahoma woman with a sense of humor asked on Twitter earlier this week: "Wanna experience the apocalypse before it happens?  Visit Oklahoma!"  She posted that on Monday night shortly after a 4.7 magnitude aftershock earthquake shook the state.  The temblor occurred not long after six tornadoes ripped through southwest Oklahoma, which was preceded by flash-flooding in an area that's been plagued by a historic drought.  "Even for Oklahoma, this is crazy," said Rick Smith, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Norman.  "Since January, we've been setting records.  People are just kind of amazed and shocked."  State records set this year have ranged from the lowest temperature (31 degrees below zero in Nowata in northeast Oklahoma) to snowfall in a 24 hour period (27 inches, also in Nowata) to the largest hail stone (a spiky 6-inch piece recovered in Gotebo, in southwest Oklahoma).  This year also produced the states highest ever recorded surface wind speed (151 miles per hour near El Reno, outside of Oklahoma City) and biggest known earthquake (5.6 magnitude, breaking the 1956 record).  On Wednesday, Governor Mary Fallin declared a state of emergency for 20 counties because of earthquakes, tornadoes and severe storms.  The state's record-breaking earthquake got everyone's attention.  In the past week, counting both foreshock and aftershock earthquakes that sandwiched the state record-breaking rumbler, 32 earthquakes have been recorded in central Oklahoma.  "I'm beginning to think God's a little mad at us," Jim Howard said.  Howard was joking, but questions of the Almighty are coming into play in Oklahoma, where Christian beliefs underpin much of the culture.  An Oklahoma City TV station interviewed a preacher who proclaimed, "I think it's pointing to the end of time."  Nancy Dailey, a school teacher in Oklahoma City, whose father was a Baptist preacher, dismisses doomsday talk from the pulpit, saying it just scares people.  

Commentary:  While everyone, secular and within the Christian community, feel the affects of the record-breaking weather, storms, volume and magnitude of earthquakes, death of marine life, bird deaths, etc...; most people figure things will continue as they always have.  Humm, that's a familiar saying.  Where have we heard that before?  "...In the last days, there will be scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of His (the Lord's) coming?  Since our fathers died, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation" 2 Peter 3:3-4.  The apostle Paul wrote, "You know perfectly that the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night" 1 Thessalonians 5:2.  Jesus also said, "Of that day and hour (the return of Jesus) no man knows, not the angels of heaven, but only My Father" Matthew 24:36.  It is amazing, because just as people are complacent and figure things will always continue in the manner they always have, suddenly and instantly the Lord will catch away the saints of God and it will be too late for everyone else to consider receiving Jesus as their Lord and Savior.  The whole world will be astonished, but it will be too late.  Just as most of the Old Testament prophecies have been fulfilled concerning the gathering of the Jews back to the land of Israel, the recapturing of Jerusalem as their capital, the desert land blossoming as a rose and bearing fruit, as described in the Books of Isaiah and Ezekiel, and as sure as we live and breathe, Jesus will return for His people, as He promised, and it will suddenly be too late for the rest.  Jesus also said, "As in the days of Noah, it will also be at the coming of the Son of man (Jesus).  They didn't know, until the flood came and took them all away" Matthew 24:37-39.  Won't that be a shock?  The saddest part is, it will be too late.  Now is the day of salvation; tomorrow could be too late.  If you haven't received the Lord as your Savior, I would like to invite you to visit the How Can I Be Saved page of this site.  God bless you.       

"There will be great earthquakes in various places, famines and pestilences and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven" Luke 21:11  The Lord is demonstrating the warning signs right now to prepare for His return.  Please heed the warnings of the perils to fall on the wicked and unGodly, after God's people have been redeemed from the earth.  "For then there will be great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, nor ever will be" Matthew 24:21.