By the late 18th century the Age of Reason was taking over European thinking, and many people stopped taking the Bible’s tales of ancient catastrophes seriously. As geologists concentrated on the slow effects of erosion and sedimentation over thousands of years, even churchgoing Christians paid less and less attention to Noah’s Flood or the fiery destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. In 2005, analysis of the newly discovered Burckle Crater at the bottom of the Indian Ocean showed that 660 foot tsunamis made landfall around 3100 BC after an approximately mile wide asteroid hit the ocean. It hard enough to make a 22 mile crater at the bottom after going through two miles of seawater first, and may well have destroyed all coastal areas from south of Egypt and Ethiopia to east of Persia and India. Now in 2021, there is evidence that a smaller impact killed everyone in a part of southwestern Jordan around 1600 BC.
“As the inhabitants of an ancient Middle Eastern city now called Tall el-Hammam went about their daily business one day about 3,600 years ago, they had no idea an unseen icy space rock was speeding toward them at about 38,000 mph (61,000 kph). Flashing through the atmosphere, the rock exploded in a massive fireball about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) above the ground. The blast was around 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. The shocked city dwellers who stared at it were blinded instantly. Air temperatures rapidly rose above 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit (2,000 degrees Celsius). Clothing and wood immediately burst into flames. Swords, spears, mudbricks and pottery began to melt. Almost immediately, the entire city was on fire.
Some seconds later, a massive shockwave smashed into the city. Moving at about 740 mph (1,200 kph), it was more powerful than the worst tornado ever recorded. The deadly winds ripped through the city, demolishing every building. They sheared off the top 40 feet (12 m) of the 4-story palace and blew the jumbled debris into the next valley. None of the 8,000 people or any animals within the city survived – their bodies were torn apart and their bones blasted into small fragments. About a minute later, 14 miles (22 km) to the west of Tall el-Hammam, winds from the blast hit the biblical city of Jericho. Jericho’s walls came tumbling down and the city burned to the ground.” Full Original Story Here
More and more evidence backs up ancient stories of great natural disasters. So when the Bible (and many other ancient books) tell us about past destructions of previous worlds in Genesis, and an upcoming destruction creating “a new heaven and a new earth” in the future – I see references to a periodic series of catastrophic pole shifts:
Isaiah 24:1 “Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants.”
Job 9:5-6 “It is God who removes the mountains, they know not how, When He overturns them in His anger; Who shakes the earth out of its place, And its pillars tremble.”
Psalms 46:2 “though the earth should change and though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea.”
Revelation 16:18-20 “there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty… And the cities of the nations fell… and every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.”
Revelation 21:1 “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away.”
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God removes mountains and makes mountains. The ancient site of Puma Punku in Bolivia, famous for the massive H blocks, sits at over 12,000 feet above sea level. Scientist studying the ruins have come to the conclusion that it’s destruction was caused by massive waves of water that undermined the gigantic structure and tossed the building blocks around like toys. Was this ancient site close to sea level when destroyed and was elevated 12,000 feet to it’s present site? Seems likely. And the timeline fits with the last pole shift.
I agree it used to be at sea level, but it’s 2.5 miles high now.
The last time I read, Sodoma and Gomorrha were destroyed by nuclear weapons, which flattened area around and made the “Dead Sea”. Allegedly there is still slightly elevated radiation around.
That at least means that those ancient civilizations we hear about were not so peaceful as we like to imagine them sometimes.And since I personally known someone with a surname “Sodoma”, it follows that even today not everyone is Sodoma’s opponent.
But I must yet find a catastrophic movie which ends with the peaceful cooperation of rebuilding.
There is evidence for an atomic war and high background radiation even today in NW India, but I’m not aware of the same in Jordan. Deep Impact seemed to show peaceful cooperation and rebuilding.
I meant Negev (where Israeli nuclear reactors are supposed to be) and Sinai.
Jordan (biblical Edom) is high ground (Amman is twice as high as Jerusalem), so maybe it was partly spared.
As a curiosity: there is already some residual radiation everywhere in the world. For this reason, steel from the sunk WWI German Hochseeflotte is used when you need “clean” steel. Obviously WWI-era steel is radiation-free.
The interesting question is: will we get again a radiation-free world after a pole shift?
only if crews keep all reactors safe and there are no meltdowns after civilization crumbles
Is the underline of this story the idea that meteors fall only over sinful cities..?
If that was meant as a cover-up for something in future, maybe it wasn’t the best choice…
Yes there will be a radiation free world after the pole shift. This is when Jesus Christ the King of Kings will rule earth for 1000 years with a rod of iron. God can make radiation and He can remove it. Nothing is impossible for Him since he created all things both in the physical realm and the spiritual unseen realm.