“Half of Christchurch wants to leave.”

“Half of Christchurch wants to leave,” reads one Australian headline.  In the wake of three powerful and devastating earthquakes in the last nine months, an unofficial poll of more than 40,000 Christchurch, New Zealand residents revealed that over 3,000 have emigrated to Australia so far.  Twenty-one percent of residents plan to leave Christchurch at some point in the future, another 26% say they would leave if it were not for their jobs and their property, and 13% said they do not know what to do.

Some residents who are remaining in Christchurch have condemned those leaving for “giving up on the city.”  These are certainly stressful times (www.news.com.au, July 5, 2011).

Bible prophecy reveals that at the time of the end, one phenomenon that will affect different Israelite-descended nations is that their highways will become desolate and their cities will become waste (Leviticus 26:22, 31-33).  How might these prophecies be fulfilled?  Could it be that major natural disasters, like earthquakes, may be one tool God will use to fulfill His prophecy?  This could be the case.