Lesson 22: A Memorial of Blowing of Trumpets 092619

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Lesson 22: A Memorial of Blowing of Trumpets
09/26/2019
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01.) Leviticus 23:24-25 (a memorial of blowing of trumpets).
02.) Revelation 8:1-2 (seven angels give seven trumpets).
03.) Revelation 15:1, 6-7 (seven angels with seven plagues in seven vials).
04.) Revelation 8:6-7 (first trumpet - hail with blood, trees & grass burnt).
05.) III.org (Insurance Information Institute)
https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-hail

Facts and Statistics on Hail
Hail causes billions of dollars in damage to crops and property each year. Events involving wind, hail, or flood accounted for $29.7 billion in insured catastrophe losses in 2016 dollars from 1996 to 2016 (not including payouts from the National Flood Insurance Program), according to Property Claim Services (PCS®), a Verisk Analytics® business.
There were 4,610 major hail storms in 2018, according to the NOAA’s Severe Storms database.

https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-wildfires

Wildfires by Year
2019: From January 1 to September 12, 2019 there were 36,286 wildfires compared with 47,623 wildfires in the same period in 2018, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. About 4.3 million acres were burned in the 2019 period, compared with 7.2 million acres in 2018.

2018: In 2018 there were 58,083 wildfires, compared with 71,499 wildfires in the same period in 2017, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. About 8.8 million acres were burned in the 2018 period, compared with 10 million in 2017.

2017: In 2017, there were 71,499 wildfires, compared to 65,575 wildfires in the same period in 2016, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. About 10 million acres were burned in the 2017 period, compared with 5.4 million in 2016. 2017 acres burned were higher than the 10-year average.

Space.com
NASA Satellites Confirm Amazon Rainforest Is Burning at a Record Rate (Aug 28, 2019)
https://www.space.com/amazon-rainforest-fires-2019-nasa-satellite-views.html

The Amazon rainforest has been ablaze for weeks now. The fires have sparked public outcry as environmentalists blame loggers and ranchers for setting the flames in order to open more land to agriculture — serving a massive blow to the ongoing fight against the effects of climate change.

06.) Revelation 16:1-2 (first vial - men with mark of beast get a grievous sore).

07.) BCM.edu
https://www.bcm.edu/departments/molecular-virology-and-microbiology/emerging-infections-and-biodefense/emerging-infectious-diseases

Emerging Infectious Diseases
The World Health Organization warned in its 2007 report that infectious diseases are emerging at a rate that has not been seen before. Since the 1970s, about 40 infectious diseases have been discovered, including SARS, MERS, Ebola, chikungunya, avian flu, swine flu and, most recently, Zika.

With people traveling much more frequently and far greater distances than in the past, living in more densely populated areas, and coming into closer contact with wild animals, the potential for emerging infectious diseases to spread rapidly and cause global epidemics is a major concern.

Additionally, there is the potential for diseases to emerge as a result of deliberate introduction into human, animal, or plant populations for terrorist purposes, as discussed in the section on Bioterrorism Agents. These diseases include anthrax, smallpox, and tularemia.

07.) Revelation 8:8-9 (second trumpet - third part of sea becomes blood).
08.) Revelation 16:3 (second vial - sea becomes blood).
09.) OceanService.NOAA.gov
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/redtide.html

What is a Red Tide?
A "red tide" is a common term used for a harmful algal bloom.
Harmful algal blooms, or HABs, occur when colonies of algae—simple plants that live in the sea and freshwater—grow out of control while producing toxic or harmful effects on people, fish, shellfish, marine mammals, and birds. The human illnesses caused by HABs, though rare, can be debilitating or even fatal.

While many people call these blooms 'red tides,' scientists prefer the term harmful algal bloom.
HABs have been reported in every U.S. coastal state, and their occurrence may be on the rise. HABs are a national concern because they affect not only the health of people and marine ecosystems, but also the 'health' of local and regional economies.

WHOI.edu (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
https://www.whoi.edu/website/redtide/regions/world-distribution/

Distribution of HABs (harmful algal blooms) throughout the World
Several decades ago relatively few countries appeared to be affected by HABs, but now most coastal countries are threatened, in many cases over large geographic areas and by more than one harmful or toxic species. Many countries are faced with a bewildering array of toxic or harmful species and impacts, as well as disturbing trends of increasing bloom incidence, larger areas affected, more fisheries resources impacted, and higher economic losses. The causes behind this expansion are debated, with possible explanations ranging from natural mechanisms of species dispersal to a host of human-related phenomena such as pollution, climatic shifts, increased numbers of observers, and transport of algal species via ship ballast water.

10.) Revelation 8:10-11 (third trumpet - wormwood in the rivers).
11.) Merriam Webster Dictionary: Wormwood - something bitter or grievous.
12.) Strong Bible Concordance: Wormwood (G894) - as a type of bitterness that is figuratively "calamity".
13.) Merriam Webster Dictionary: Calamity - a state of deep distress or misery caused by major misfortune or loss; a disatrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering.
14.) Revelation 16:4 (third vial - rivers become blood).

15.) Lenntech.com
https://www.lenntech.com/rivers-pollution-quality.htm
River water quality and pollution
A river is defined as a large natural stream of water emptying into an ocean, lake, or other body of water and usually fed along its course by converging tributaries.
Rivers and streams drain water that falls in upland areas. Moving water dilutes and decomposes pollutants more rapidly than standing water, but many rivers and streams are significantly polluted all around the world.
A primary reason for this is that all three major sources of pollution (industry, agriculture and domestic) are concentrated along the rivers. Industries and cities have historically been located along rivers because the rivers provide transportation and have traditionally been a convenient place to discharge waste. Agricultural activities have tended to be concentrated near rivers, because river floodplains are exceptionally fertile due to the many nutrients that are deposited in the soil when the river overflows.

16.) Revelation 8:12-13 (fourth trumpet - third part of sun, moon, & stars smitten).
17.) Revelation 16:8-9 (men scorched with great heat).

18.) EarthObservatory.NASA.gov
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/DecadalTemp
The world is getting warmer. Whether the cause is human activity or natural variability—and the preponderance of evidence says it’s humans—thermometer readings all around the world have risen steadily since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
According to an ongoing temperature analysis conducted by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), the average global temperature on Earth has increased by about 0.8° Celsius (1.4° Fahrenheit) since 1880. Two-thirds of the warming has occurred since 1975, at a rate of roughly 0.15-0.20°C per decade.

The global temperature record represents an average over the entire surface of the planet. The temperatures we experience locally and in short periods can fluctuate significantly due to predictable cyclical events (night and day, summer and winter) and hard-to-predict wind and precipitation patterns. But the global temperature mainly depends on how much energy the planet receives from the Sun and how much it radiates back into space—quantities that change very little. The amount of energy radiated by the Earth depends significantly on the chemical composition of the atmosphere, particularly the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.

A one-degree global change is significant because it takes a vast amount of heat to warm all the oceans, atmosphere, and land by that much. In the past, a one- to two-degree drop was all it took to plunge the Earth into the Little Ice Age. A five-degree drop was enough to bury a large part of North America under a towering mass of ice 20,000 years ago.

Climate.NASA.gov
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2458/why-a-half-degree-temperature-rise-is-a-big-deal/
Why a half-degree temperature rise is a big deal

Fast facts

The Paris Agreement calls for limiting the increase in global temperature by the end of this century to no more than 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius. A recent study projects the following impact of a 2-degree rise compared to a rise of 1.5 degrees:

Heat-wave duration, rainstorm intensity and sea-level rise would increase by roughly a third (and sea level is likely to continue rising long after air temperature is stabilized).
There would be a disproportionately greater impact on certain basic crops.
Tropical coral reefs would be wiped out.
The Mediterranean area’s reduction in fresh water would double.

19.) Revelation 9:1-12 (fifth trumpet, first woe).
20.) Revelation 16:10-11 (fifth vial - darkness, sores, & pains).
21.) Revelation 9:13-21 (sixth trumpet - four angels loosed from Euphrates river).
22.) Revelation 16:12-16 (sixth vial - Euphrates river dried up).
23.)SmithsonianMag.com
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-does-future-euphrates-spell-middle-east-180967224/
A recent NASA-German government satellite study found that the Tigris-Euphrates basin is losing groundwater faster than any other place on earth except India. The World Resources Institute, the U.S.-based environmental group, has ranked Iraq as among the nations predicted to undergo “extremely high” water stress by 2040, meaning more than 80 percent of the water available for agricultural, domestic and industrial use will be taken out each year. “By the 2020s,” Moutaz Al-Dabbas, a professor of water resources and the environment at the University of Baghdad, said, “there will be no water at all during the summer in the Euphrates. It will be an environmental catastrophe.”

24.) Revelation 11:14-19 (second woe is past; great hail).
25.) Revelation 11:15 (seventh trumpet - world becomes Jesus's).
26.) Revelation 16:17 (seventh vial - hail the weigh of a talent).
27.) ConvertUnits.com
https://www.convertunits.com/from/talents/to/pound
1 talent = 66.138678655463 pounds

27.) Joel 2:1-11 (the day of the Lord).
28.) Zephaniah 1:7-10, 14-18 (day of the Lord).