The
Gatlinburg Fire 2016 in the Great Smokey Mountains - Sound
the Alarm - The Day of the Lord is Near.
A fire started in
Tennessee in a remote area of the Smokey Mountain National
Park into the city of
Gatlinburg, Tennessee. It started November
28, 2016 on a remote mountain called Chimney Tops. Before it
was put out, about seventeen thousand acres had burned (out
of half a million). Most people have forgotten about that
fire by now. But there are some interesting things about it.
First, the remote
mountain where it started (Chimney Tops), is listed as being
144,000 centimeters tall - That is 1440 meters -
And of course
144,000 is a number that students of the Book of Revelation
will recognize immediately. It is a number mentioned first
in Revelation chapter 7 where 12,000 Jews were sealed from
12 tribes making the total number sealed being 144,000. They
were sealed at a time the angels were getting ready to hurt
the earth (the tribulation), and the seal was to protect
them from the pain that would come upon others.
At the time of the
cleanup, the day after the fire, Isaac McCord made the news
by a most shocking discovery. The story of his discovery
made USA Today as well as many other news outlets. He found
one burnt and wet page of the Bible. It was under a park
bench, and it was Joel chapter 1 with one verse from chapter
2. He posted the page on his facebook account and it is
available on the internet. His story had multiple
verifications.
Quoting Isaac
McCord,
”As soon as I got
down on the ground, I noticed it was a Bible verse, and I
was like holy crap," McCord said in a phone interview on
Tuesday night. "It was in a puddle of water. I said, 'I want
to take care of this the best way I can,' so I gently
scooped it up and carried it out the best I could…parts of
the right side of the page were preserved enough to get the
message across:
"O Lord, to thee
will I cry: For the fire hath devoured the pastures of the
wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the
field," the page reads, according to a picture of the
page posted on McCord's Facebook.
"We were like this
is unreal, this is unbelievable," McCord said. "When we had
both fully read it, we looked at each other — and I will
never forget this moment — we both burst into tears. I was
ghost white, and we just prayed. There was nothing else to
do.
Angela Davis,
reached by phone on Tuesday night, corroborated McCord's
story, saying when she returned from the restroom, she saw
him with the Bible page. It was burned, brittle, wet and in
two pieces, she said…
The very last thing
visible on the bottom of the burnt page of the Bible was
part of Joel 2:1.
Blow ye
the trumpet…, and sound an alarm…
Joel 1:15 was
visible in KJV. It says:
“Alas
for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a
destruction from the Almighty shall it come.”
And that happened
one year after the four blood moons.
And the fire started
on Chimney Tops mountain, which listed as being 144,000
centimeters tall (1440 Meters).
Amos 5:17-18