Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl in the air. A loud voice came from the throne in the temple, saying, “It is done!” There were flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder, and a terrible earthquake. There has never been such an earthquake since the creation of human beings; this was the worst earthquake of all! The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of all countries were destroyed. God remembered great Babylon and made her drink the wine from his cup—the wine of his furious anger. All the islands disappeared, all the mountains vanished. Huge hailstones, each weighing as much as a hundred pounds, fell from the sky on people, who cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because it was such a terrible plague.
(Revelation 16:17-21) Good News Translation
Using volume calculations of the amount of physical material that makes up the Earth, and seismological data, we estimate that the Earth originally had a radius of about 7,800 Km.
I think we have well established that the earth was created with Eden as a plateau at the top of a system of four mountain chains. These carried four rivers of water over the surface of the whole earth. In this system water welled up at Eden, flowed across the surface of the earth, and then returned to the Great Deep.
From here it circulated through the earth and upwelled again at Eden. We are now learning that the temple in Jerusalem will be established at the top of a mountain that fills the whole earth. Water will issue forth from the temple east and west and water the whole earth. This water is so pure that it will begin to heal the oceans that have been devastated with pollution both from the current time of human society and by the sheer amount of physical material that is going to fall out of the heavens during the tribulation.
Which brings me to today’s thought experiment.
The current radius of the earth is 6,371 Km. This is a large decrease in the diameter, and circumference of the earth. The process by which this change has happened is related to the expansion of hell. In the time of Peleg, hell had expanded so much that it completely melted the foundations of the earth, on which the pillars of the earth were resting. This is what caused the crust and mantle to collapse inward, causing the circumferential shortening necessary to account for tectonic plate formation.
With the earth at its current size the expansion of hell can only make the conditions at the surface hotter. Is it possible that the earthquakes and terrors described to happen during the tribulation could be taking place as the radius of the earth is expanded again, in order to provide a comfortable environment for the Millennial Kingdom? We have just seen that there will be great hail out of heaven, every stone weighing the weight of a talent. This event correlates with the blowing of trumpets in heaven, the pouring out of vials upon the earth, which happen to correlate with the stars falling like rain. If the hail and the stars falling are indeed the same thing, and there are “billions and billions of stars,” we can calculate the amount of additional material that may be added to the earth at this time. Just for sake of having a number let’s use a billion, billion stars. If a talent is approximately 50 Kg, that will give us a weight of added material of 5E+19 Kg.
The mass of the earth is thought to be 5.972E+24 Kg. It should be noted, however, that this number is dependent of the current understanding of the nature of gravity, which, it just so happens, I reject.
We must consider the possibility that the plagues of the tribulation are describing the construction of an entirely new surface for the earth.
Stay posted.
Salvation
- Call upon the name of Jesus Christ,
- believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
- confess your sin.
