“And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah : and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.”

Zechariah 14:4-7

This earthquake, and one experienced by Elijah in the Old Testament; the earthquake in twenty-seventh year of Uzziah king of Judah; and the earthquake experienced by the Apostle Peter when he was delivered from prison; and the earthquake at the time of the crucifixion, and the one the resurrection morning, of the Lord of Glory, the only begotten Son of the Father, Lord Jesus Christ, are the earthquakes recorded in the Bible.

The earthquake at the time of the crucifixion reads on this wise: “Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.”

Matthew 27:50-54

The earth convulsed at the death of the Lord Jesus Christ and darkness was over all the land from the sixth to ninth hours, as He hung on the cross, bearing your sins and mine, and those of the whole world.

“And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.”

Matthew 24:1-8

The “beginning of sorrows” is upon this living generation now, with Jerusalem no longer trodden down of the Gentiles since a few months after the June War of 1967 in Israel , and the Church still on the earth; unraptured. Our day is the only day of its kind in prophetic history, and is filled with historic prophetic significance.

There is now, with the moral decline in the world similar to the time of the Abraham and Sodom and Gomorrah, when he, to find a virgin bride for his son Isaac, had to send back to his people: and, Noah the preacher of righteousness, in the days of the flood found the grace in the allies of the Lord (Genesis 6:8) because of his purity, and that of his wife and daughters-in-law, and sons, when the earth was peopled with the giants: and, Esther, in the days of the Persian dispersion, found favour with king Ahasuerus because of her beauty and purity in that wicked and violent day: and Mary, the mother of James and Joses in her virginal purity brought into the world the Saviour and Redeemer. “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.”

Galatians 4:4

Once again, Almighty God is seeking, on the earth, purity and virgins to serve Him, but this generation, like the generations of the flood, and Sodom and Gomorrah , has yielded up its purity and virginity to the lusts of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride life.

Nowhere is there purity: the earth is corrupted and full of violence as before the flood. Therefore, it will quake in California , northeastern Pennsylvania , Iran , Turkey , and Italy .

The virgins have yielded up their virginity outside of wedlock among the rebellious wayfarers, and with the sorcerers of drugs. There is the mental witchcraft of horoscopes, and, the impurity of promiscuity and disease among the women and young maidens. As they moved in yielding up their virginity outside of marriage, so will the earth’s crust move, as it yields up its safety. The hymen is torn, the hips move, the mouth is open, the breasts are pressed, the legs are open and locked, and this earth will quake as an impure woman in sin. She will disclose her slain. †