All are perplexed⁴, and every survior of the tsunami said, "It came so unexpectedly... in a second! One moment blue sky  and laughter, then, suddenly  - pandemonium! The waves just kept coming and swept everything away with them!"

Does this not sound like the warnings our Lord gave about His Return?

"As were the days of Noah, so will be the Coming of the Son of man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they did not know until the flood came and swept them all away, so will the Coming of the Son of man... if the householder had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have let his house be broken into... Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming!"⁵

In the same chapter, Yeshua declares to the disciples that His Coming is imminent when they see signs of His Coming. They should not ignore but recognize them as the signal of His Return.

For us to realize that His Coming will indeed be very sudden and totally unexpected, the Lord has allowed tragedies which, by their very nature, are loud and clear trumpet signs announcing our Lord’s imminent Return.

The sky was clear and sunny with people going about their daily business. Suddenly, without warning, a plane hit the tower. People saw it --- but could not believe it! Dumbstruck with disbelief,  people slowly awoke to the realization that something terrible was happening when again out of the blue a second plane crashed into the other tower. Why had no one warned them? What was happening?

But --- would they have believed the warning? Would they not have scorned the messenger and spurned his warning as preposterous? 

People trusted in those towers. Surely they were indestructible! Until the impossible happened --- those towers collapsed! Man’s pride and glory - now bits and pieces of dust and rubble - became the graveyard for thousands of unsuspecting victims⁶.

September 11th, 2001⁷ was the FIRST trumpet call!

Judgement descended upon the temples of the Goddess “Economy”, and upon America’s symbol of military might – the Pentagon!

Two years later, people were back to eating and drinking and sinning. But now, not only were they breaking every taboo and defying G-d’s laws, but they were also courting G-d’s enemy that would destroy His Jewish people and the nation Israel. They were [and still are] courting the entity of Esau and Islam that would bring the Jewish state to another Holocaust.

Plan after plan  was developed - with the United States of America in the lead - how to divide up G-d’s own Land⁸, such as:
Camp David Accords⁹; Madrid Peace Conference ¹⁰; Oslo I + II Accords ¹¹; 
The Why River Memorandum ¹²; The Tenet Plan ¹³; Mitchell Report ¹⁴; The Road Map (an 8-Step plan forwarded by Saudi Prince Abdullah, which is the same as suggested by Saudi King Fahd in 1981) ¹⁵; and U.N. Resolution 1397 ¹⁶: although not a peace plan as such, the Security Council resolution calls for both an immediate ceasefire and the development of two states in the area. The resolution is the first such two-state plan to be sponsored by the United States.

A SECOND trumpet call was heard on Feb. 1, 2003. This was the disintegration of the NASA shuttle COLUMBIA. Its crew was composed of male/female, black/white, Jew/Gentile and multiple nationalities such as an Indian native and an Israeli.

Once again on a clear, sunny day, people were utterly unprepared for what would occur before their very eyes. Excited at the Columbia Shuttle’s re-entry, people watched in anticipation as they suddenly and unexpectedly, witnessed the shuttle and its crew burn up in space!¹⁷

This SECOND trumpet blast was another divine warning against the division of G-d’s OWN Land, Israel! Yet there is STILL TIME to avert disaster IF the warnings are heeded !

For the Scriptures declare, “Surely the Lord G-D does nothing, without revealing His secret to His servants, the prophets. The lion has ROARED: who will not fear? The Lord G-D has spoken: who can but prophesy?”¹⁸

No nation, regardless of her status and power, has the right to divide up the Land G-d calls His OWN.

Tampering with G-d’s Covenant, defying His oath and challenging the Holy One of Israel results in fearsome, very bitter and grievous consequences! 

Still, the tragedies of Sept. 11, 2001 and Feb. 2, 2003 brought neither our leaders nor the nations to their senses, much less to their knees. 

What will it take to grab our attention, and have us heed G-d’s warnings? ¹⁹