Posted by Elana Janson on March 04, 2010 at 04:31:20:
If those days had not been shortened
It seems that the earthquakes in the end time will be the phenomenon that will make the inhabitants of the earth aware that they are living the end time. Not because of the scale of the devastation but because the great earthquakes are actually shortening the length of the days on earth. This is of course a sign of the end time in the words of Jesus Christ. Matt 24:22 “And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.” In other words the shortening of the days, the realization that the words of Jesus Christ are coming into fulfillment will save some at the very end. These words bring home exactly to what degree we have been misled by the power of Satan, the beasts of Revelation.
NASA
The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday.
The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in recorded history, hit Chile Saturday and should have shortened the length of an Earth day by 1.26 milliseconds, according to research scientist Richard Gross at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
While other experts charted the shift of tectonic plates and the swell of ocean waters wrought by the quake, geophysicist Richard Gross mathematically calculated the temblor's disruption of the length of the day.
The thrust-fault quake -- in which plates under the Earth's surface moved vertically -- caused mass to be redistributed, said Gross, who works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge.
"On average, the mass of the Earth got a bit closer to the rotation axis," he said. As a result, Gross said, the planet rotates faster -- "just like a spinning skater brings her arms in closer to her body to rotate faster." When the planet rotates faster, the day shortens, he said.
Gross studies the Earth's rotation and how it is affected by cataclysmic forces of nature. "Anything that moves mass around on the Earth I take a look at," he said.
And it takes a mega-earthquake to attract Gross' attention.
"It takes something like the Chilean or Indonesian earthquake before I look at it."
This earthquake also shifted the axis around which the Earth rotates, Gross said.
Although the Chilean quake shortened the day by 1.26 microseconds -- the unit of time for millionths of a second -- the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake that triggered the catastrophic Asian tsunami shaved 7 microseconds off the day, according to Gross' calculations.
Mankind will ultimately only finally believe, link science to Revelation and the words of Jesus Christ through the signs of the end.
The knowledge that we are in the end time; the knowledge that the days are actually being shortened and this was predicted by Jesus Christ; seems will be of the greatest significance in the time to come.