"And in that hour a great earthquake occurred, and a tenth of the city fell; and seven thousand persons were killed by the earthquake, and the rest became frightened and gave glory to the God of heaven."
(Rev 11:13 NWT).
And I will show portents in the sky above, and signs on the earth below -- blood and fire and drifting smoke. The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before that great, resplendent day, the day of the Lord, shall come. And then, everyone who invokes the name of the Lord shall be saved." (Acts 2:19-21 NEB).
"The second angel blew his trumpet; and what looked like a great blazing mountain was hurled into the sea. A third of the sea was turned to blood, a third of the living creatures in it died, and a third of the ships on it foundered."
(Rev 8:8,9 NEB).
Death by daring, 1986: the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger killed seven people -- and reminded the world that space travel remains perilous.
Bikini Atoll.
Bikini Atoll, one of the American Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean, was almost unknown until the Americans decided to use it for testing their nuclear weapons. They removed the entire population to another island and conducted their first test, shown here, on July 25th. As targets, they used some of their own obsolete warships, such as the old battleship Arkansas and some warships captured from enemy navies such as the German cruiser Prinz Eugen. None of the ships survived the bomb and Bikini continued to be used as a testing site for many years. Its original inhabitants still want to return some day.
"And I saw another wild beast ascending out of the earth, and it had two horns like a lamb, but it began speaking as a dragon. And it exercises all the authority of the first wild beast in its sight. And it makes the earth and those who dwell in it worship the first wild beast, whose death-stroke got healed. And it performs great signs, so that it should even make fire come down out of heaven to the earth in the sight of mankind."
(Rev 13:11-13 NWT).