(Israel 356 News) – A 5.2 magnitude earthquake hit the eastern Mediterranean off the coast of Antalya, Turkey on Saturday at 2:44 pm local time at a moderately shallow depth of 43 miles. Though the epicenter was over 270 miles from the coast of Israel, the tremors were felt in northern and central Israel.
Turkey sits on top of two major faultlines and earthquakes are frequent. Two strong earthquakes struck northwest Turkey in 1999, killing around 18,000 people. In January, Two weeks after Turkey’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement condemning Jews living in Judea and Samaria, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey killing at least 31 people and injuring more than 1,600.
Earthquakes are prophesied to accompany the end-of-days however earthquakes inside Israel will manifest in a vastly different manner as compared to those outside the Holy Land. Earthquakes and volcanoes are explicitly mentioned by the prophets as playing a role at the end of days, preparing the world by burning away impurities as a crucible is used in metallurgy to purify the metal.
But Hashem God is the true God, He is the living God, and the everlasting King; at His wrath, the earth trembleth, and the nations are not able to abide His indignation. Jeremiah 10:10 This multifaceted natural catastrophe scenario facing that region of the country conforms to the prophet’s description of the period preceding Messiah, which will serve as a process to purify the inhabitants of the earth for the Messianic period to follow. READ MORE
