China Cruise Ship Capsized by Freak Tornado

“Rescuers searched on Tuesday for more than 400 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists [ages 50-80], missing after a cruise boat was hit by a freak tornado and capsized on the Yangtze River in what may become China’s worst shipping disaster in nearly 70 years. Battling bad weather, divers and other rescue workers pulled five people they found trapped in the upturned hull of the four-deck Eastern Star, a small fraction of the 458 people state media said were on board when the ship capsized on Monday night” (Reuters, June 2, 2015).

This devastating catastrophe was caused by a freak tornado with very high winds. Yet, unusual and devastating weather events are becoming more of the norm around the globe—from the murderous heat wave in India, to widespread flooding in Texas and East Africa, to the debilitating drought in California, to the destructive earthquakes in Tibet and other places.

Jesus prophesied that, at the end of the age, weather-related catastrophes would become more frequent (see Matthew 24:7; Mark 13:8; Luke 21:11, 25; Amos 4:7-12), because nations have failed to live by the laws of God. For more information on this vital topic, watch our telecast, “God Controls the Weather.”