It seems in this world of ours many times we see signs of distress, and evil which proceed a great work the Lord is planning for us. Remeber the evil before the flood to save eight souls? The humbling of the people at the tower of babel to establish the Brother of Jared in a Promised Land? What about the slavery of the Hebrew people just before their deliverance. What about the destruction just before the visit of the Savior to North America? With the evils of today, what will be our salvation? Perhaps the second coming of the Lord and maybe something before that?
Second Harvest?
I believe we may be in the middle of a “Second Harvest” as I call it. Meaning today in 2023 signs of evil are all around us and the Lord just may allow us a “Second Harvest” of flooding the earth with the Book of Mormon. Just think, if many of the corruptions at the heads of government are changed, including ours in the USA, this may allow a surge of missionary work all over the world including places we have never been such as Israel, China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia and more. That would be an incredible wake up event for the world today, just like the New Madrid Earthquake was for those people.
The state and rewards of the righteous and the wicked are contrasted
Proverbs 11:
18 The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
19 As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
20 They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the Lord: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
22 As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
26 He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.
27 He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
28 He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch. Proverbs 11:18-28
Earthquake in the Heartland Introduction
What may have caused the destruction witnessed by the ancient prophets of the Book of Mormon near the time of Christ’s death in Israel? Some have speculated it to be volcanic, yet nowhere does the Book of Mormon mention volcanoes, lava, ash, or even clouds associated with the event. Could the destruction described by ancient prophets in the Book of Mormon near the time of Christ be explained by an event similar to that which occurred in 1811 and 1812 near New Madrid, Missouri which was the largest earthquake series in recorded history in North America? The astounding correlations indicate… yes. Stretching more than 160 miles, a system of earthquake faults lurks beneath the Mississippi River basin, ready to erupt. And it’s happened before. Over 2,000 earthquakes, three over 8.0 magnitude, rocked the eastern half of the US over 5 months. It caused the Mississippi to flow backwards, covered entire regions under 20 feet of sand, and formed 10 new lakes in just a few hours. The physical descriptions of the 1811-1812 sequence are incredibly similar to those of the Book of Mormon.” Rod Meldrum
Mother of All Earthquakes In North America
The largest sequence of earthquakes in North America occurred 200 years ago in its ‘Heartland.’ This is directly beneath the proposed Heartland model geography and may explain the eye-witness accounts made by the ancient prophets of the Book of Mormon. They wrote of the “exceedingly great quaking of the whole earth” that shook the “whole earth as if it was about to divide asunder.” Buildings were “shaken” until they had “fallen to the earth.” These descriptions in 3 Nephi 8 match remarkably those who experienced firsthand the 1811-1812 earthquakes.” Rod Meldrum
Seismic mapping of New Madrid Fault
The Heartland of North America is not the stable geography one would expect in the middle of a tectonic plate. This area is underlain by one of the most destructive faults in North America, the New Madrid seismic zone. Even today earthquakes are recorded very often. Should a similar event have occurred near the time of Christ, the 1811-1812 could help us to understand the destructive forces that occurred for those living in North America at the time, and could help to verify the possibility of the recording of such an event in the Book of Mormon. The corroborative descriptions are astonishing. Rod Meldrum .This documentary is very informative.
In Plain Sight
We see a world of turmoil, chaos, and evil. Can we see the signs? I believe the Lord has overwhelmed us with signs. Just open our eyes fully and He has revealed. For example this new movie called “Sound of Freedom” starring Jim Caviezel is about the evil of the sex trafficking business and the abuse and torture of our children. It’s a true movie on the life of our LDS friend, Tim Ballard and his Operation Underground Railroad business. It is in theaters world wide on July 4th 2023. I encourage all to watch. It is an evil that is far worse than an earthquake.
Don’t look for things in plain sight for Satan works in the dark. I don’t think we should seek for signs as we have plenty already given if we will but look. Stop worrying about an earthquake in the earth and think of the earthquake happening in homes. Where are the fathers? What’s going on in school? Why are our children not being allowed to learn about the Constitution and are being taught about the 1619 project? Why are they being forced to wear a mask with a flu that has a 99.7% chance of survival in children?
There is a great big, giant, evil, satanic, cabal, and deep state at our doorsteps. The Lord is aware. What are we doing to help? It seems this same evil is in our midst today and was know about over 150 years ago by the Prophets.
Amazing Quote of 1876 about “We the People” today!
“On the 11th of October Elder Woodruff assisted in setting apart seventy-five missionaries. At that time eleven Lamanites were ordained to the priesthood. Closing his journal for that year, he said : “The future is before us and great events await us in this generation. The redemption and establishment of Zion, the fall of Babylon, the gathering of Judea and all the tribes of Israel, and the second coming of Christ, are all near at hand.
This is the commencement of the Centennial year of the American Independence. One hundred years ago the nation was composed of an honest, industrious, Christian people, and the chief men of the nation were poor, honest statesmen, who lived to promote the welfare of the whole people. They established a constitution and laws, which were a glorious legacy to their descendants. By January 1st, 1876, a great change has come over the American government. To a great extent, virtue has departed from the land, and honesty has been driven from the various departments of government. Men seek office to aggrandize themselves rather than to serve the interests of the people. Death and destruction are sown in the land which is ripening for the harvest.” Wilford Woodruff: History of His Life and Labors by Matthias F. Cowley page 489
Are We Listening?
Can we hear Elder Woodruff today? Are we listening to the right people? Sometimes that means listening to those who have wisdom of the Lord not wisdom in the world. In other words many truths are disguised as conspiracies. Turn off the TV, do a deep dive into the Book of Mormon for it is true. It REALLY was written for you and I. Rely on the Lord not on my words. Allow me to just be a means of support. Please I admonish you to be aware, there are worse things than this earthquake, such as spiritual death, but this 1811 earthquake was a huge wakeup call for the people just 9 years before the Father and the Son appeared to Joseph. What signs are we seeing just before His second coming?
Looking with Great Earnestness
“And the people began to look with great earnestness for the sign which had been given by the prophet Samuel, the Lamanite, yea, for the time that there should be darkness for the space of three days over the face of the land. And there began to be great doubtings and disputations among the people, notwithstanding so many signs had been given. And it came to pass in the thirty and fourth year, in the first month, on the fourth day of the month, there arose a great storm, such an one as never had been known in all the land. And there was also a great and terrible tempest; and there was terrible thunder, insomuch that it did shake the whole earth as if it was about to divide asunder. And there were exceedingly sharp lightnings, such as never had been known in all the land. And the city of Zarahemla did take fire.” 3 Nephi 8:3-8
Think about this. What great city in Israel was the capital and it was destroyed? (Jerusalem). What great city in North America was the capital and was destroyed? (Zarahemla). What is the great city of the last days? (New Jerusalem). An interesting statement that should be familiar to you. “Consistent with this word usage, it is reported that Brigham Young often said that when the Saints returned to Jackson County, Missouri, there would not be as much as a “yellow dog [a persecuting gentile settler] to wag his tail” (see J. Golden Kimball address in Conference Report, [October 1930]: 59). This quote may refer to past or present events however.
In the year 1811 did people in Missouri and the United States “look with great earnestness for the sign”? Yes! Today as I sit here in Bountiful, Utah have I ever “looked with great earnestness for the sign?” Yes! The Nephites of old had many signs that Christ was coming and they did not properly prepare.
I feel it was a witness to us all that just after the (1811 earthquake) a Prophet of God was born (Joseph Smith), A huge sign was given in the Promised Land just before the Lord Jesus Christ visited the earth to Joseph in 1820.
What other signs are there today that tell us that the Son of God is soon to return? Are we excited for the day or are we afraid of the day? I have heard it said that “fear and faith are not compatible” I think we can learn much from the 1811 earthquake and many other signs to prepare us.
Could the very place called New Madrid, Missouri, be close to the same place that the Savior will appear to us when He comes? No one knows, but we should prepare.
The Earthquakes of 1811-12
400 terrified residents in the town of New Madrid, Missouri were abruptly awakened by violent shaking and a tremendous roar. It was December 16, 1811, and it was the first of at least three very large (M7 or greater) earthquakes and thousands of aftershocks to rock the region that winter, with the last occurring on February 7, 1812.
Survivors reported that the earthquakes caused cracks to open in the earth’s surface, the ground to roll in visible waves, and large areas of land to sink or rise. The crew of the New Orleans (the first steamboat on the Mississippi, which was on her maiden voyage) reported mooring to an island only to awake in the morning and find that the island had disappeared below the waters of the Mississippi River. Damage was reported as far away as Charleston, South Carolina, and Washington, D.C.” Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium Memphis, Tennessee Read the entire article here
The New Madrid Seismic Zone
These dramatic accounts clearly show that destructive earthquakes do not happen only in the western United States. In the past 25 years, scientists have learned that strong earthquakes in the central Mississippi Valley are not freak events but have occurred repeatedly in the geologic past. The area of major earthquake activity also has frequent minor shocks and is known as the New Madrid Seismic Zone. The NMSZ is made up of several thrust faults that stretch from Marked Tree, Arkansas to Cairo, Illinois.
Earthquakes in the central or eastern United States effect much larger areas than earthquakes of similar magnitude in the western United States. For example, the San Francisco, California, earthquake of 1906 (M7.8) was felt 350 miles away in the middle of Nevada, whereas the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12 were felt as far away as Connecticut – more than 1,000 miles away. Differences in geology east and west of the Rocky Mountains cause this strong contrast.
THE EARTHQUAKE AMERICA FORGOT
The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-12
“The New Madrid earthquakes were the largest in American history. They occurred in the central Mississippi Valley, but were felt as far away as New York City, Montreal, and in Washington D.C. President James Madison and his wife Dolly felt them in the White House, and in Boston, church bells rang. From December 16, 1811 through March of 1812 there were over 2,000 earthquakes in the central Midwest, and at the Bootheel of Missouri where the city of New Madrid is located, near the junction (or head)
of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, large lakes, such as Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee and Big Lake at the Arkansas-Missouri border, were formed by the earthquake as river water poured into new depressions created by immense fissures of the earth. To date, no other earthquakes have lasted so long or produced so much evidence of damage as these earthquakes. In Dr. David Stewart and Dr. Ray Knox’s book, “The Earthquake America Forgot,” Gutenberg-Richter Publications, Marble Hill, MO [1995], eyewitnesses describe many of the earthquake phenomena (right column: New Madrid Earthquake Events) that parallel the events recorded in 3 Nephi 8 as listed below” Annotated Book of Mormon by David Hocking and Rod Meldrum 2018 page 395
List above is from the Annotated Book of Mormon by David Hocking and Rod Meldrum 2018 page 395
Three Days of Darkness: The term “earthquake smog” was coined by Dr. David Stewart and Dr. Ray Knox in their book, The Earthquake America Forgot, Gutenberg-Richter Publications, Marble Hill, MO [1995], 238. The New Madrid earthquake in North America in 1811-1812 produced a large quantity of water vapors and dust causing darkness for three days (see p. 395). Annotated Book of Mormon by David Hocking and Rod Meldrum 2018 page 40
NEW MADRID EARTHQUAKE
Overlay of Suggested Book of Mormon Geography
Research recently conducted within the New Madrid region has shown that the 1811-1812 earthquakes were not the first to occur in the region They were preceded by other similar events, the last such event around 300 (+/- 200 yrs) A.D. Shown on the right are artifacts recovered in this region, some having been dated to the Hopewell cultural period. (https://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/nmsz/1811-1812.php)
The research indicates that the events described in 3 Nephi 8 may have taken place in this area of North America. The map shown above overlays the New Madrid earthquake areas of intensity and major property damage within the proposed North American geography. The yellow-shaded areas are where shaking of the earth was felt. The severest intensity where “the whole face of the land” (3 Nephi 8:12) was damaged, is indicated by the red-shaded region, roughly follows the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys and occupies the proposed land regions of Zarahemla, Manti, Shilom, Jershon, Bountiful and some of the land of Nephi—areas populated mainly by the Nephites who broke their covenants. It might have been upon the face of this proposed land region that the Lord said: “many great destructions have I caused to come upon this land, and upon this people, because of their wickedness and their abominations” (3 Nephi 9:12). Annotated Book of Mormon by David Hocking and Rod Meldrum 2018 page 396
Overview from USGS
“When people think of earthquakes in the United States, they tend to think of the west coast. But earthquakes also happen in the eastern and central U.S. Until 2014, when the dramatic increase in earthquake rates gave Oklahoma the number one ranking in the conterminous U.S., the most seismically active area east of the Rocky Mountains was in the Mississippi Valley area known as the New Madrid seismic zone. Since 1974, seismometers, instruments that measure ground shaking, have recorded thousands of small to moderate earthquakes. The faults that produce earthquakes are not easy to see at the surface in the New Madrid region because they are eroded by river processes and deeply buried by river sediment. A map of earthquakes epicenters, however, reflects faulting at depth and shows that the earthquakes define several branches of the New Madrid seismic zone in northeastern Arkansas, southwestern Kentucky, southeastern Missouri, and northwestern Tennessee. Other relatively young faults, which are not necessarily associated with recent earthquakes, or the main seismicity trend in the New Madrid region, are shown in this map. It shows 20 localities where geologists have found and published their findings on faults or evidence of large earthquakes (from sand blows; see image to the right).
1811-1812 Earthquakes
In the winter of 1811 and 1812, the New Madrid seismic zone generated a sequence of earthquakes that lasted for several months and included three very large earthquakes estimated to be between magnitude 7 and 8. The three largest 1811-1812 earthquakes destroyed several settlements along the Mississippi River, caused minor structural damage as far away as Cincinnati, Ohio, and St. Louis, Missouri, and were felt as far away as Hartford, Connecticut, Charleston, South Carolina, and New Orleans, Louisiana. In the New Madrid region, the earthquakes dramatically affected the landscape. They caused bank failures along the Mississippi River, landslides along Chickasaw Bluffs in Kentucky and Tennessee, and uplift and subsidence of large tracts of land in the Mississippi River floodplain. One such uplift related to faulting near New Madrid, Missouri, temporarily forced the Mississippi River to flow backwards. In addition, the earthquakes liquefied subsurface sediment over a large area and at great distances resulting in ground fissuring and violent venting of water and sediment. One account of this phenomena stated that the Pemiscot Bayou “blew up for a distance of nearly fifty miles.” Complete Article Here
After the earthquake [of 1811-1812] moderated in violence, the country exhibited a melancholy aspect of chasms, of sand covering the earth, of trees thrown down, or lying at an angle of forty-five degrees, or split in the middle. The Little Prairie settlement was broken up. The Great Prairie settlement, one of the most flourishing before on the west bank of the Mississippi, was much diminished. New Madrid dwindled to insignificance and decay; the people trembling in their miserable hovels at the distant and melancholy rumbling of the approaching shocks.” Science of the New Madrid Seismic Zone by USGS Complete Article Here
Below is a video from news reporters in Memphis, Tennessee talking about the New Madrid Earthquake of 1811.
Below is an interesting video that shows the largest earthquakes in the world in the past 100 years. There has not been an earthquake in the lower 48 states in that time period. Are we due in Utah, California, or Missouri?
The Earthquake America Forgot; 2,000 Temblors in Five Months by Dr. David Stewart & Dr. Ray Knox
– The Mississippi River Ran Backwards
– Five Whole Towns Disappeared
– People Were Swallowed Alive
And It Will Happen Again! This book tells of the observed destruction that occurred in 1811 and 1812 along the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) roughly between St. Louis, MO and Memphis, TN. Some of the most mind-blowing accounts of destruction are described in detail within the pages of this book. One of the most profound observations by those who witnessed these events have to do with a strange darkness that ensued after each earthquake shock. They wrote of three days of this darkness wherein the “sun, moon and stars were concealed” by a “dense black cloud of vapor” that “overshadowed the land.” Did a similar event happen near the time of Christ? Wait until you see the results of the research of paleoseismologist Martitia Tuttle from the History Channel documentary Earthquake in the Heartland! Purchase Here
If you love Native Americans, Earthquakes, American History, and the Book of Mormon, you will love this blog below. It is a story that is amazing especially as we know for a fact that an earthquake the size and breadth of the one that happened during 3 Nephi happened right here in the United States of America.
