Blood-Red Sea Off Tonga

“An underwater volcano off Tonga was spewing ash high into the air on Tuesday, causing several carriers to suspend air travel to the South Pacific island nation and turning the surrounding ocean blood red, residents and officials said” (The Guardian, January 12, 2015). “The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai underwater volcano… was sending volcanic ash up to 4,500m into the air... Tonga residents described a spectacular sight, with the enormous plume from the volcano shooting high into the sky and a muddy discharge underwater turning areas of the sea off the island blood red” (ibid.). 

End-time Bible prophecy describes one of the events that will occur just prior to Christ’s return will be one-third of the sea turning to blood (or “like” blood) that will kill a third of all sea life (Revelation 8:8-9). Events like the volcanic eruption off Tonga turning the sea “blood red” give us a glimpse of something that will happen on a far larger scale at the end of the age.

For more information on Revelation’s prophecies and their meaning, read Revelation: The Mystery Unveiled!