It's good to see you again.
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Each evening at precisely
this time, we travel together.
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And I think that this evening
you're going to especially
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enjoy our journey
because it's really
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taken right in
your own backyard.
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We're going to go
see Mount St. Helens.
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And en route, we're going
to drive through some of this
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same country to get there.
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Would you just
lean back, relax and
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fasten your seatbelts tightly.
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We begin right now.
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Mount St. Helens
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Peggy and I, at the time
Mount St. Helens erupted,
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were doing evangelistic work
in the city of Denver, Colorado.
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And of course, it made national
news, it made worldwide news
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in just a matter of short hours.
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And so, as soon as we
were able to get back to
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the Pacific Northwest, we
decided we would take a trip
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to go to see some of
the damage, go to the area,
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shoot some pictures.
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We picked up my
mother and our son Troy,
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and made our way up,
first through northern Idaho
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up through Coeur d'Alene.
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And this, by the way,
is Lake Coeur d'Alene.
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And we may have a shot or two
of Lake Pend Oreille as well.
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We crossed into Canada
there above Sandpoint, Idaho.
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And then we turned
toward the west and moved across
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over through
southern Canada, and then over
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about Brewster, Washington.
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Do any of you know
where that might be?
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Yea, I thought so.
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Then we came back down south and
made our way over the mountains.
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When I show pictures
like these, by the way,
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in certain parts of the
world, they just can't believe
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that we live in
this kind of beauty.
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And indeed, we are
very, very privileged.
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Aren't we, you and I?
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These natural lakes, because
generally when you see a lake
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this large elsewhere, the folks
say, "Well, where's the dam?
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How deep is the water
right behind the dam?"
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And these are natural, and
they're the result of snow melt.
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And there's nothing else
quite like them in all the world
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that I'm aware of.
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I remember, we'd just dropped
over the hill down in toward
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Wenatchee when I
shot that picture.
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And there we
picked up another buddy.
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And then go over the
Cascades and come down
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in and around the Toutle River.
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This is Mount St. Helens,
of course, before the blast.
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That's Spirit Lake.
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Some of you have been there.
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How many of you, by
the way, have been there to
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picnic or have a good time?
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My brother celebrated
his wedding, he honeymooned
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on the shores of that lake.
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And he met the old character
that managed the lots there.
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Do you remember his name?
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Not the President, but
Harry Truman, exactly so.
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We'll say more about old
Harry in just a little bit.
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One of the most beautiful
places on the face of the earth.
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By 1979, the
mountain was showing signs
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of coming back to life.
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In fact, the north face was,
early in '79, beginning to grow
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and bulge like a tumor.
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From time to time, the mountain
would give off a puff or two
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of smoke and vapor and steam.
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And then she would quiet down.
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And then she would give
another little bit of a puff,
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and then quiet down again.
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There was the real danger
that the thing might explode
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with an eruption that
was unknown in modern times,
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in the United States at least.
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And so folks with an
interest and a fascination in
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volcanoes and
volcanism, came by the hundreds.
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Chief among them
was David Johnston
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who'd been studying the
volcanoes up in around Alaska
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and the Aleutian Peninsula's.
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And so he came down and made
a camp 5 miles from the summit
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on the north
face of the mountain.
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He had a tent.
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He had a number of cameras that
were automatically triggered
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any time there
was either motion or
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seismic reactions of any kind.
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He would report to a
radio station in Vancouver,
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a little puff of
smoke, a little steam.
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And then he would give the hour
and the time, and document it
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in his own journal.
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And those reports were going
all across the Unites States.
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And they were also
simultaneously going
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by satellite feed
clear around the world.
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Tourists began to
flock to the area.
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Many of them from
the state of Washington.
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Many others from
the Pacific Northwest.
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But lots of them from elsewhere
across the United States.
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And several from far, far away.
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As far away as New Zealand.
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Folks wanted to be there if
something spectacular was...
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When history is made,
you want to be a part of it.
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You want to be nearby where it
happened and when it happened.
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Any of you folks ever
been in a time or place
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where you got to
see the President?
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Any of you ever seen, yea, a
President of the United States?
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You'll always remember that.
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And so, folks teamed
in here, flocked in here,
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and began to set up camps.
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By the middle of May,
the federal government
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had put a cordon
down around the base.
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Yes, before the middle
of May, by the first of it.
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The last of April
and the first of May,
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the federal government had
put a cordon around the base.
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And they were
allowing to go in and out,
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only the folks who
lived inside that perimeter.
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And also, they were
allowing the loggers to go in.
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To cut the trees and trim
them up, load them on the trucks
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and take them
down to the saw mill
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over around
Longview-Kelso, Washington.
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During this period of
time, you'll remember,
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old Harry Truman, that
salty, crusty character
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became something of a folk hero.
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The news people from around the
world were fascinated by him.
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They, evidently,
hadn't met folks from the
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Pacific Northwest in number.
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But he was quite typical, I
think, of a lot of the folks
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who live back in the
mountains and the valleys
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of the Pacific Northwest.
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He had a facade that was
hill country, mountain country.
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And he had a sense
of humor that was wry.
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And he had a vocabulary that
could cause a sailor to blush
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from time to time.
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Well, there's a little
puff and there's a little plume,
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and then she would quite down.
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Folks, when she would
puff like that, would vacate
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and make sure they
were beyond the perimeter.
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But then after she quieted down,
they would come back again.
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This is a bit of the
bulge on the north face.
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But if we back 4 or 5 miles,
surely we're going to be safe.
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Because, traditionally,
when a volcano explodes,
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and throughout history
this has been the case,
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she blows right
out through the top.
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The cone, you know it's
like an inverted ice cream cone,
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it's larger down at the bottom
and then becomes more narrow.
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And without exception, they
blew out right through the top.
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And so folks were
quite sure the same thing
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was going to happen here.
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But of course, we know now,
it would not and it did not.
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There he is, old Harry Truman.
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And the television people
and and the reporters would
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gather around him,
"Aren't you afraid, Harry?"
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"I ain't afraid of nothing. "
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"Why," he said, "I've
hand wrestled mountain lions.
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I have, with my bare
hands, killed bears and
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I'm afraid of nothing. "
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"Well what if
the mountain blows?"
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"If she blows, I've got a
fifth of Jack Daniels whiskey
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in the cave and
I'm going to be fine.
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I'll ride her out. "
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Those who knew him
best said that he did have a
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sense of fear, he did
have some trepidation.
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But there was no
place in the world he would
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rather live or die.
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He'd spent most of his life here
in the shadow of the mountain
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and on the
shores of Spirit Lake.
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And he'd buried family
members in a little plot there.
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And he was not about to leave.
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I want to tell you
another story about old Harry.
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Here's before the mountain blew.
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Another famous
Washingtonian who became the
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Chief Justice of the
United States Supreme Court.
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Can anyone guess
who I'm talking about?
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Who was it now?
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From Yakima,
Washington. Do you know?
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Chief Justice William O. Douglas
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had climbed nearly
every major mountain.
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When he was 11 years of age,
some of you may or may not know.
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And by the way, if you
haven't read a biography or two
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on William O.
Douglas, native of Yakima,
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you need to do it.
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When he was a very small child,
he contracted poliomyelitis.
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And his legs were
withered and twisted.
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And it was thought that he
would never be able to walk
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rightly or correctly,
and certainly not run.
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But his mother
began, as any mother would,
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to work on his
legs, to massage his legs,
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and to go walking with him.
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And he'd go limping
along as just a little boy.
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And his mother, each
week, would take him a little
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further journey and a
little further journey.
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And then she began to
encourage him with his friends
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to go back up into the Cascades,
the east side of the Cascades,
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those that are west
of the city of Yakima.
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And by the time he
was 11 years of age,
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he was going on 3 and 4
day campouts, sometimes alone,
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way back up in the Cascades.
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And he climbed nearly
all of the highest peaks.
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And then he began to climb
and study the Wallowa mountains.
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In fact, he said of all
the places he did climb,
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including great
mountains over in Switzerland,
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the Wallowa's were his favorite.
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And he had purchased a little
property back up a certain
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Wallowa canyon, and
built there a little cabin.
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He had gone fishing
here at Spirit Lake.
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Or he had gone in
with the intention to fish,
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I should better say.
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And he stopped in at
old Harry Truman's lodge
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and purchased some
fishing gear, some tackle.
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And purchased a fishing license.
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He happened to be wearing
on that day, something that was
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customary for
him when he was out
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hiking the
mountains and camping.
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A khaki shirt, and khaki shorts
above the knee, and a straw hat.
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And he strolls into
Harry Truman's establishment.
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And he says, "I'd
like to buy this. "
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And he made his purchases
and Harry said nothing.
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And then he said, "Sir, do
you have any suggestions where
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I might catch a few trout?
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Any certain place
that you would recommend?"
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And old Harry looked
him up and down and said,
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"I can't
imagine a sissy like you
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catching anything anywhere. "
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And Supreme Court Justice
wasn't one to be backed down.
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easily or he wouldn't
become what he'd become.
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And so he kind of
bristled and gave it right back.
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And at that time,
old Harry Truman said,
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"You get the... out
of my joint and don't you
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come back here you... "
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And then he used
some unkind words.
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And so Supreme Court
Justice William O. Douglas
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turned, went out through
the door and started down the
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pathway toward his car.
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And one of Mr.
Truman's friends said to him,
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"Harry, do you have
any idea whom you've just
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kicked out of the joint?"
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He said "No I don't, and
furthermore, I don't care. "
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He said,
"Perhaps you ought care.
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You have just kicked
out Supreme Court Justice
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William O. Douglas. "
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And they said old
Harry's jaw dropped
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"Oh no," he said.
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And he went running out
and hollering after him.
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"Excuse me sir,
please excuse me. "
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And he apologized all
over himself and he said,
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"If you wouldn't mind, I'd
like to take you fishing. "
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And the Justice said, "Alright
sir, we could be friends. "
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And believe it or
not, they became pen pals.
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And they wrote
together up until the time of
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William O. Douglas' death.
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They were pen pals.
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And so that's just a
little bit of the character of
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old Harry Truman who
lived up here and decided he was
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going to die here as well.
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Now this was one of the
eruptions before the great blow.
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This is a little bit of
a picture of the cone style
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of the original volcano.
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The typical
volcano, I should better say.
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And by the way, we here
in the Pacific Northwest
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are circled around with them.
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You know that, of course.
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And beyond that, what is
known as the Pacific Rim,
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which includes those many
places around the Indian Ocean,
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are just pock marked with
live but inactive volcanoes.
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Some are active, some
become active and then
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go dormant for a while.
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But, we're in the volcano part
of the world, indeed we are.
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And so it was thought
that the volcano would blow
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right out through the top.
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It had some steam vents
off to the side as you can see.
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They had released
a little pressure.
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But it was not to be
that way with this mountain.
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On May 18, 8:32
in the morning, 1980,
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David A. Johnston,
from his camp set up 5 miles
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on the north face,
got on his two-way radio
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and shouted into the microphone,
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"Vancouver, this is
it. Vancouver, this is. "
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And he was
blasted into outer space.
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He was incinerated
from a distance of 5 miles.
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And the mountain began
an eruption that would soon
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blacken the sun.
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This was an eruption
that could easily be seen from
00:14:37.13\00:14:39.56
satellites in outer space.
00:14:39.59\00:14:41.22
Now this is a
little bit of a diagram.
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The dotted line there
is what the mountain was
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before the explosion.
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Right up there, the
summit a little above 9,600.
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False summit over
here, they say 9,677 ft.
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And it was a bit
higher than that over here
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toward the South Rim.
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And this is the hole that
was blown out in that explosion.
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Those who've done the
study say that this mountain
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blew out 1 square mile
of rock, ash, and lava.
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That means, we build a
fence that is a mile this way,
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and a mile that
way, and a mile this way,
00:15:19.80\00:15:21.03
and a mile back this way.
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And then it is one mile high.
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And we fill that
crib, if you please,
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with rocks and ash and lava.
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And that's how much was
blown out of this mountain.
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In terms of the
timber that was blown down,
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more than 1 billion board feet
in that first initial blast.
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It was something awesome.
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It may be that
some of your relatives
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were logging up in the area.
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Or maybe they went
up to do some of the
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logging afterward, I don't know.
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I do know very well, that
when I was working over along
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the Columbia River a few years
ago, I had the privilege to
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baptize a man who was
cutting logs a little bit south
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from Mount St. Helens,
just up above the Columbia River
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And he said, "My ears
are still ringing and I can
00:16:03.10\00:16:05.73
still feel the heat. "
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It was awesome.
It was earth shaking.
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But it wasn't the greatest event
the world would every know.
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Now this, by the way ladies
and gentlemen, is a picture
00:16:12.72\00:16:15.22
from outer space.
00:16:15.25\00:16:16.57
A picture taken from a satellite
at the time of the explosion.
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About 3 minutes
after the initial blow.
00:16:21.00\00:16:24.37
Peggy and I were
living, at the time,
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if you can follow my pointer,
right over here toward the
00:16:26.25\00:16:29.17
right and center of the screen.
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This is the state
of Idaho, of course.
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And we were living
right there, just north from
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Boise and Garden Valley.
00:16:35.91\00:16:37.63
And we were fearful that some
of that ash that was blown out
00:16:37.66\00:16:41.31
might settle on our house.
00:16:41.34\00:16:43.65
It might cause
the decks to cave in.
00:16:43.68\00:16:46.41
You never knew how
much was going to settle
00:16:46.44\00:16:48.09
or really exactly where.
00:16:48.12\00:16:49.79
And we were pretty sure it
was going to kill the lawn.
00:16:49.82\00:16:52.90
There was nothing
we could do about it.
00:16:52.93\00:16:54.70
But we were working,
as I've said a bit ago,
00:16:54.73\00:16:56.55
over in Denver, Colorado.
00:16:56.58\00:16:58.32
By the following
morning, 28 hours after the
00:16:59.34\00:17:03.55
initial explosion, I went
out to our car parked on the
00:17:03.58\00:17:07.45
west side of Denver, and I
scraped off of the windshield
00:17:07.48\00:17:10.84
and the hood, enough of
that ash to fill a matchbox.
00:17:10.87\00:17:15.05
I have it somewhere still.
00:17:15.08\00:17:16.96
When we made our trip up
here, we scooped up more of it.
00:17:17.85\00:17:22.76
And I had the
opportunity to take it between
00:17:22.79\00:17:24.72
my fingers and to rub.
00:17:24.75\00:17:26.64
It looked like talcum powder.
00:17:26.67\00:17:29.02
But when you rubbed it just
a little bit, it quickly took
00:17:29.05\00:17:32.27
the edges off your fingers and
it would trim your fingernails.
00:17:32.30\00:17:35.51
It was a grit that looked very,
very fine and very powdery.
00:17:35.54\00:17:39.25
But in reality was not.
00:17:39.28\00:17:40.82
How many of you had
some of it in your yard,
00:17:40.85\00:17:42.83
you had it on your roof top?
00:17:42.86\00:17:44.10
Yea, you sure...
How much was there here?
00:17:44.13\00:17:46.80
As much as a foot in
places or more or less?
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Yea, about that much.
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That's my recollection of this
part of the state of Washington.
00:17:50.99\00:17:53.77
Around a foot, some places more.
00:17:53.80\00:17:55.97
And there was a great worry
here in the fruit growing areas,
00:17:56.00\00:17:58.89
over around Brewster
and south from there,
00:17:58.92\00:18:00.80
and over in the Yakima Valley
and over in the area around
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Walla Walla, there was a fear
that it would destroy the crops.
00:18:06.35\00:18:10.15
But we discovered
later that there was
00:18:10.18\00:18:12.59
something nutritive about it.
00:18:12.62\00:18:14.34
There was an apple bumper crop
00:18:14.37\00:18:16.91
that next fall
after the explosion.
00:18:16.94\00:18:19.02
And so it's
curious what happens.
00:18:19.05\00:18:20.88
But at any event, not one
drop, not one least bit of ash
00:18:20.91\00:18:25.91
fell on our home over here.
00:18:25.94\00:18:28.24
But the force blew that material
way up into the stratosphere,
00:18:28.27\00:18:32.88
way up into the atmosphere,
and the jet stream caught it and
00:18:32.91\00:18:36.56
took it over the Rocky Mountains
and deposited a lot of it
00:18:36.59\00:18:39.42
on the other side.
00:18:39.45\00:18:40.50
So you didn't get all
of it, not by any means.
00:18:40.53\00:18:43.31
I can remember so very well,
however, watching on television
00:18:43.34\00:18:46.58
what was going on here
and in Spokane and elsewhere.
00:18:46.61\00:18:49.71
How the state troopers were
going into the equipment shops,
00:18:49.74\00:18:54.05
going into the mechanics,
and they were putting those
00:18:54.08\00:18:56.20
great big truck breathers
on the sides of the cars.
00:18:56.23\00:18:59.44
And the trucks and the
trains had to put some kind of
00:18:59.47\00:19:03.12
special breathing apparatus
so that stuff wouldn't be
00:19:03.15\00:19:06.29
sucked inside the engines.
00:19:06.32\00:19:07.72
And it would cut the rings,
they said, out of an engine
00:19:07.75\00:19:10.60
in just a matter
of a few revolutions.
00:19:10.63\00:19:12.77
It was something
else, wasn't it now.
00:19:12.80\00:19:15.01
Well, the
picture from outer space.
00:19:15.04\00:19:17.23
Now, this is the after shot.
00:19:17.26\00:19:21.24
This is from near the camp
of David Johnston, those 5 miles
00:19:21.27\00:19:25.45
to the north where he
thought he was perfectly safe.
00:19:25.48\00:19:28.14
But the mountain blew
out from the north side.
00:19:28.17\00:19:31.02
It didn't go out through
the top as had been expected.
00:19:31.05\00:19:34.40
But rather blew out
from the north face.
00:19:34.43\00:19:36.62
We're going to
see the crater now.
00:19:36.65\00:19:39.56
They tell me, and I know it's
true because not too very long,
00:19:39.59\00:19:42.85
I flew over it, our jet
went right over and so we could
00:19:42.88\00:19:46.46
have a look down inside.
00:19:46.56\00:19:47.85
And I know that
bulge, that cone, is growing.
00:19:47.88\00:19:51.37
It's much larger than
what you see it here again.
00:19:51.40\00:19:53.40
And from time to time, it
puffs out a little bit again.
00:19:53.43\00:19:56.20
It's not gone to sleep
entirely, not by any means.
00:19:56.23\00:19:59.73
This is looking
down into the fire hole
00:20:00.72\00:20:02.63
about 3 days afterward.
00:20:02.66\00:20:04.56
This was taken, by the way, by
a very brave helicopter pilot.
00:20:04.59\00:20:08.24
There's no way in the
world you would have gotten me
00:20:08.27\00:20:10.64
to fly inside there just a few
hours after the thing had blown.
00:20:10.67\00:20:14.23
But you can see the fire down
in the fire hole there still.
00:20:14.26\00:20:17.72
Now this, ladies and
gentlemen, is the timber.
00:20:17.75\00:20:21.02
It reminded me of being in
the pet shop after they had
00:20:21.05\00:20:24.02
clipped a half a
dozen dogs and 14 cats.
00:20:24.05\00:20:26.98
This is big timber.
00:20:27.78\00:20:30.64
Douglas Fir and other
varieties of evergreens.
00:20:30.67\00:20:33.74
It was thought surely
that it would be a waste.
00:20:34.45\00:20:37.41
But the loggers moved in.
00:20:37.44\00:20:39.40
And they had to pay big money
to get anyone to go in there
00:20:39.43\00:20:42.18
to cut the logs initially.
00:20:42.21\00:20:43.73
If any of you have
ever cut logs, and I have,
00:20:43.76\00:20:45.94
you know the danger
when one is bent a little bit
00:20:45.97\00:20:48.82
and in a spring like affect,
and nearly all of these were.
00:20:48.85\00:20:51.94
And lots of the
loggers gave their lives.
00:20:51.97\00:20:54.29
And more than that, they
had to change their chains.
00:20:54.32\00:20:57.39
There was a crew, by the
way, of folk who were paid
00:20:57.42\00:21:00.20
a little less money to
go in and to chop a ring
00:21:00.23\00:21:03.79
around the base of the trees.
00:21:03.82\00:21:05.75
They had to cut, not only
those that were blown down,
00:21:05.78\00:21:08.69
but those that were
still standing if they had been
00:21:08.72\00:21:11.83
ringed and encircled by the ash.
00:21:11.86\00:21:14.22
And we're going to see some that
were affected in just that way.
00:21:14.25\00:21:16.99
They had to chop that away
down to the core of the tree
00:21:17.02\00:21:22.11
to get the bark off and away.
00:21:22.14\00:21:24.03
And still yet, that
grit would dull a chain saw
00:21:24.06\00:21:27.81
after 3 or 4 cuts.
00:21:27.84\00:21:29.51
And they'd either have to
sharpen or completely change
00:21:29.54\00:21:32.72
the chain on the chain saw.
00:21:32.75\00:21:35.21
Now this is a
logging camp 7 miles away,
00:21:35.61\00:21:38.20
ladies and gentlemen.
00:21:38.23\00:21:39.20
And it looks like a little
kids play box, doesn't it?
00:21:39.21\00:21:41.77
It looks like
the sand box, maybe.
00:21:41.80\00:21:43.70
But these are huge,
huge off road log trucks.
00:21:43.73\00:21:49.20
And you see them here.
00:21:49.23\00:21:50.54
They've been blown away.
00:21:50.57\00:21:51.55
There are the
trailers over there.
00:21:51.58\00:21:53.07
And the trucks blown and
rolled, there's the gravel truck
00:21:53.10\00:21:56.16
where they've been putting
gravel on the roads here.
00:21:56.19\00:21:58.49
And this will help you to
get a little bit of a feeling
00:21:58.52\00:22:00.65
for the size of the timber,
the logs in this log yard.
00:22:00.68\00:22:04.28
Amazing.
00:22:06.09\00:22:08.04
There's an airplane
flying over the north side
00:22:08.68\00:22:11.85
a few days after the blow.
00:22:12.05\00:22:14.37
There were fascinating stories.
00:22:16.93\00:22:19.43
There were also tragic stories.
00:22:19.47\00:22:22.01
And during the
lecture, we may say
00:22:22.04\00:22:23.81
more about that as time allows.
00:22:23.84\00:22:25.65
But some of you folks
may remember the story
00:22:25.68\00:22:28.93
that was involved
around this pickup.
00:22:28.96\00:22:30.98
There was a man who'd taken his
two little boys for the weekend
00:22:31.01\00:22:34.71
to go camping up
near the mountain.
00:22:34.74\00:22:36.82
They wanted to go up to
be close to where she was
00:22:37.07\00:22:39.27
puffing and steaming.
00:22:39.30\00:22:41.06
And they paid
the ultimate price.
00:22:41.09\00:22:42.95
They said when they got inside
to where their remains were,
00:22:42.98\00:22:48.37
it was as if they had been baked
00:22:48.40\00:22:51.42
inside a microwave
oven for about an hour.
00:22:51.45\00:22:54.50
Sixty folks lost their lives.
00:22:59.22\00:23:01.74
The fortunate thing, I think not
just fortunate but miraculous,
00:23:03.38\00:23:07.17
in which we can
again see the hand of God,
00:23:07.20\00:23:09.94
the miraculous
thing was that it happened
00:23:09.97\00:23:12.62
early on a Sunday morning.
00:23:12.65\00:23:14.44
Had it happened on
any other week day,
00:23:14.47\00:23:16.76
there would have been
many more loggers and woodsmen
00:23:16.79\00:23:19.80
and forest service folks
out in and around the area.
00:23:19.83\00:23:22.76
And the loss of life would have
surely been far, far greater.
00:23:22.79\00:23:26.41
There is a machine like
Lyle operated for about 6 years.
00:23:26.44\00:23:30.60
That's a big
Link-Belt Log Loader.
00:23:30.63\00:23:32.64
We called them "the jammer".
00:23:32.74\00:23:34.12
And you can see
it's over on its side.
00:23:34.15\00:23:35.99
Well it's not only over on
it's side, it was blown about
00:23:36.09\00:23:38.88
175 feet from where it
had been sitting before.
00:23:38.91\00:23:42.98
They talk about
the power of tornadoes.
00:23:43.01\00:23:44.89
Nothing compared to this.
00:23:44.92\00:23:46.26
This, ladies and
gentlemen, is the Toutle River.
00:23:46.29\00:23:48.61
The Toutle River was filled
with logs because when the
00:23:49.86\00:23:54.84
explosion happened, it melted
the eternal snows on the sides.
00:23:54.87\00:23:59.56
Mostly the north but also on the
west side of Mount St. Helens.
00:23:59.59\00:24:04.04
Instantly it melted
and the water ran down,
00:24:04.07\00:24:06.88
and there came a flood down the
Toutle, and the Cowlitz as well.
00:24:06.91\00:24:10.46
And it picked up from
the log camps these logs,
00:24:10.49\00:24:13.33
and they went down
through the river and began to
00:24:13.36\00:24:16.22
hit those bridges
like battering rams.
00:24:16.25\00:24:18.17
And I can still, in my minds
eye, see the television pictures
00:24:18.20\00:24:22.28
of the people who were standing
on the bridge looking over.
00:24:22.31\00:24:25.81
You know, they wanted to be
there close up and personal.
00:24:26.01\00:24:29.75
And any moment,
you know the bridge is
00:24:29.78\00:24:32.23
going to be smashed to bits.
00:24:32.26\00:24:33.78
And they're going to
be washed out into the...
00:24:33.81\00:24:36.71
Amazing.
00:24:37.39\00:24:39.35
Nothing like seeing
it first hand, is there?
00:24:39.70\00:24:41.80
Yea, I'll have a guess some
of those folks were from Idaho.
00:24:42.20\00:24:44.67
I'm not real sure.
00:24:44.70\00:24:46.54
Now this is what it was
like, when a few days after
00:24:46.57\00:24:49.40
the explosion Peggy
and I and our friends and
00:24:49.43\00:24:52.07
our boy went up there.
00:24:52.10\00:24:53.57
Look at those trees.
00:24:53.60\00:24:54.97
Now we're looking
up about 12 feet here.
00:24:55.00\00:24:58.30
And by the way, we're about
14 miles downstream the Toutle.
00:24:58.33\00:25:03.47
We're a long ways from
where the explosion happened.
00:25:03.50\00:25:05.67
And there you
see that white line.
00:25:05.70\00:25:08.03
That was the high mark
of the ash and the lava
00:25:08.06\00:25:11.15
and the snow melt and the water.
00:25:11.18\00:25:12.65
There's ol' Troy,
that's our baby boy.
00:25:12.68\00:25:15.18
And this is
even further on down.
00:25:15.21\00:25:16.80
And there, by the way, is one
of those rings that they chopped
00:25:16.83\00:25:19.43
around the bottom so
they can put the power saws in
00:25:19.46\00:25:22.97
and be able to fall those trees.
00:25:23.00\00:25:24.50
They had to cut them if
they had been encircled around
00:25:24.53\00:25:27.61
with that ash because
they we're going to die.
00:25:27.64\00:25:30.04
The nutrients were sealed
off, the air was sealed off
00:25:30.07\00:25:32.92
to the base roots, and
they we're going to die.
00:25:32.95\00:25:35.44
There's Troy
picking up some of that ash
00:25:35.47\00:25:37.76
that I mentioned
to you a bit ago,
00:25:37.79\00:25:39.53
and rubbing it
between his fingers.
00:25:39.56\00:25:42.26
Well, our then President
Jimmy Carter came out and
00:25:42.29\00:25:47.66
flew over the place.
00:25:47.69\00:25:48.87
And then he said,
and I shall never forget,
00:25:48.90\00:25:50.93
"It reminded me of the
pictures that I had seen
00:25:50.96\00:25:54.73
of the soft
landings on the moon.
00:25:54.76\00:25:57.52
It reminded me of moonscapes. "
00:25:57.55\00:25:59.66
By the way, would any
of you folks recognize
00:26:00.24\00:26:03.36
this little lady here?
00:26:03.39\00:26:04.85
Who is that?
00:26:05.80\00:26:06.87
That's Dixie Lee Ray, your
Governor at the time, of course.
00:26:07.98\00:26:11.09
And a good one she was.
00:26:11.12\00:26:13.18
I heard a couple of you laugh.
00:26:15.88\00:26:17.63
I heard you.
00:26:17.66\00:26:19.47
Well, this is downstream.
00:26:19.50\00:26:22.52
Downstream many, many miles.
00:26:22.55\00:26:24.82
And this is when the mountain
first began to explode, to vent.
00:26:24.85\00:26:29.24
And then she darkened the sky.
00:26:29.27\00:26:31.49
And a lot of the folks thought,
"This is it, this is the end. "
00:26:31.52\00:26:35.89
And it was for some.
00:26:36.30\00:26:38.26
I remember reading
about folks who were camped
00:26:39.18\00:26:41.90
just upstream a
little ways from here
00:26:41.93\00:26:44.57
who jumped in their campers,
left their picnic supplies
00:26:44.60\00:26:48.70
left their water
hoses, jumped in their campers
00:26:48.80\00:26:52.32
to make an escape.
00:26:52.35\00:26:53.94
And I remember very
well one man saying,
00:26:53.97\00:26:56.59
"I took those 45 and 50
mph curves at 65 and 70,
00:26:56.62\00:27:01.77
and perhaps
sometimes as fast as 80 mph. "
00:27:01.80\00:27:05.59
And he said, "I barely out ran
our friends who were behind us.
00:27:05.62\00:27:09.69
They didn't make
it. We made it. "
00:27:09.72\00:27:11.81
Amazing.
00:27:12.89\00:27:14.17
Amazing.
00:27:14.61\00:27:15.82
The awesome power.
00:27:21.73\00:27:23.55
They said it was akin they
believed to the explosion of
00:27:24.08\00:27:29.22
50 Hiroshima bombs.
00:27:29.25\00:27:32.28
Remarkable.
00:27:32.31\00:27:33.46
I want to thank you
for traveling with me.
00:27:33.49\00:27:35.86
En route here from Arizona
where we were doing evangelism,
00:27:38.46\00:27:41.33
Peggy and I came up
Highway 93 through Nevada.
00:27:41.36\00:27:46.25
We spent the night
near Wells, Nevada.
00:27:47.28\00:27:51.25
A cold night.
00:27:51.28\00:27:52.75
Next morning, we got up early
and drove on into Boise, Idaho.
00:27:53.47\00:27:57.32
We were home just a
couple of days, and there came
00:27:57.35\00:28:01.00
the announcement, that you
folks probably remember hearing,
00:28:01.03\00:28:03.37
that at Wells, Nevada
there had been an earthquake.
00:28:03.40\00:28:06.97
And they'd had to shut down
the schools and certain other
00:28:07.00\00:28:09.88
civil buildings and auditoriums
because of broken pipe lines
00:28:09.91\00:28:13.18
and some downed electricity.
00:28:13.21\00:28:14.90
Places we've
never imagined before.
00:28:14.93\00:28:17.65
Earthquakes, tsunamis.
00:28:17.68\00:28:19.43
And so we've entitled
our remarks for this evening,
00:28:19.46\00:28:21.83
"Earthquakes, tsunamis:
Shake, rattle, and roll. "
00:28:21.86\00:28:25.55
Back in the Rock 'n Roll
era, that was a fun expression.
00:28:25.58\00:28:28.24
But it's not so much
anymore, as we're going to see.
00:28:28.27\00:28:31.37
I want you, if you will please
now, to open your Bibles with me
00:28:31.40\00:28:34.00
to Revelation chapter 6.
00:28:34.03\00:28:35.65
We're going to, from
the book of Revelation,
00:28:35.68\00:28:37.47
begin with several scriptures,
so leave a bookmark here.
00:28:37.50\00:28:40.69
And we're going to
notice many, many scriptures
00:28:40.72\00:28:43.48
as we begin our study.
00:28:43.51\00:28:45.54
Remember now that we have
said, every evening I believe,
00:28:45.57\00:28:49.58
that the book of Revelation
is not the last book of the
00:28:49.61\00:28:52.39
Bible by accident, but it's for
those who live in the last days,
00:28:52.42\00:28:55.45
in the end times.
00:28:55.48\00:28:56.72
And so we begin at
chapter 6, you and I,
00:28:56.75\00:28:59.17
and with the 12th verse.
00:28:59.20\00:29:01.26
And then we
shall move from there.
00:29:01.29\00:29:02.96
Revelation 6:12
00:29:02.99\00:29:06.03
"I looked, and then
He opened the sixth seal
00:29:06.06\00:29:09.64
and there was a great... "
00:29:09.67\00:29:11.44
Now you tell me what it says.
00:29:11.47\00:29:12.90
Alright, I'm glad
that you have your Bibles
00:29:13.20\00:29:15.06
and you're following along.
00:29:15.09\00:29:16.34
If you don't have a Bible,
we'll be glad to give you one.
00:29:16.37\00:29:19.48
It's very important that
we see this with our own eyes
00:29:19.51\00:29:22.89
and read it from our
Bibles, and to even memorize
00:29:22.92\00:29:25.48
some of these verses.
00:29:25.51\00:29:26.58
"I looked when He
opened the sixth seal and there
00:29:26.61\00:29:28.17
was a terrible,
a great earthquake.
00:29:28.20\00:29:30.17
The sun became black
as sackcloth of hair,
00:29:30.20\00:29:32.97
and the moon was
turned to blood. "
00:29:33.00\00:29:35.32
Now we're going to go
over just a couple of chapters.
00:29:35.35\00:29:38.19
Revelation chapter 8, and
we're going to read verse 5
00:29:38.22\00:29:40.93
And we're going to
see a similarity here.
00:29:40.96\00:29:42.64
And these are all last day
prophesies, end time events.
00:29:42.67\00:29:46.34
Revelation 8:5
00:29:46.37\00:29:48.99
"Then that angel took the
censor and filled it with fire
00:29:49.66\00:29:53.70
from off the altar and
cast it into the earth.
00:29:53.73\00:29:56.08
And there were voices,
and there were thunderings,
00:29:56.11\00:29:57.79
and lightenings, and
there was a great earthquake. "
00:29:57.82\00:30:02.52
There it is again.
00:30:02.72\00:30:03.69
Let's go to
chapter 11, shall we.
00:30:03.71\00:30:05.75
Just a page or two away now.
00:30:05.78\00:30:07.43
Over to chapter
11, and we're going to
00:30:07.46\00:30:09.75
notice verses 13 and 19.
00:30:09.78\00:30:12.83
Revelation 11:13, 19
00:30:12.86\00:30:16.67
"At about the same
hour, there was a great... "
00:30:16.70\00:30:19.89
There it is, "...
there was a great earthquake
00:30:20.09\00:30:22.38
and a fourth
part of the city fell
00:30:22.41\00:30:24.84
as a result of
that great earthquake.
00:30:24.87\00:30:27.26
And there were men who were
slain, many by the thousands,
00:30:27.29\00:30:31.11
and many were frightened.
00:30:31.14\00:30:33.62
And they looked at the
glory of the God of heaven. "
00:30:33.65\00:30:36.62
And then we drop down
now, you and I, to verse 18
00:30:36.65\00:30:40.00
and we read these
words, verses 18 and 19.
00:30:40.03\00:30:43.77
"The nations were
angry, God's wrath had come,
00:30:43.80\00:30:47.85
and the time of the dead,
that they ought to be judged,
00:30:47.88\00:30:49.83
and that You should reward
Your servants the prophets
00:30:50.23\00:30:54.02
and the saints, and all
those that fear Your name,
00:30:54.22\00:30:57.04
small and great, and
that You would destroy those
00:30:57.07\00:31:00.17
who destroyed the earth. "
00:31:00.20\00:31:01.46
And then verse 19.
00:31:01.49\00:31:03.12
"The temple of God was
suddenly opened in heaven,
00:31:03.15\00:31:05.44
and there was
seen in His temple,
00:31:05.47\00:31:06.55
the ark of His testament.
00:31:06.58\00:31:07.78
And there were lightenings,
and there were voices,
00:31:07.81\00:31:09.47
and thunderings, and
there was an earthquake,
00:31:09.50\00:31:12.08
and there was great hail. "
00:31:12.11\00:31:14.02
Now, chapter 16, as we
move on toward the end and
00:31:14.05\00:31:17.74
near to the last days.
00:31:17.77\00:31:19.41
Revelation 16, and we're going
to notice together verse 18.
00:31:19.44\00:31:24.61
Revelation 16, and beginning
to read now at verse 18.
00:31:24.64\00:31:30.17
"There were voices, there
were thunderings, and there were
00:31:32.93\00:31:35.64
lightenings, and there
was a great earthquake,
00:31:35.67\00:31:38.58
like there had never been
since men were upon the earth,
00:31:38.61\00:31:41.39
an earthquake so
mighty or so great.
00:31:41.42\00:31:44.13
I'm going to share with
you briefly, my own experience
00:31:47.12\00:31:49.40
in and with and
around earthquakes.
00:31:49.43\00:31:51.80
It was only just a few weeks
before Peggy and I were married.
00:31:53.15\00:31:55.72
And by the way, for those
of you who may be wondering,
00:31:55.75\00:31:57.85
this is not the history
of civilization, alright.
00:31:57.88\00:32:00.75
This isn't ancient
history of the world.
00:32:00.78\00:32:04.01
Not so long ago.
00:32:05.35\00:32:07.44
I was standing on a certain
street corner in Payette, Idaho.
00:32:09.44\00:32:14.28
It was a wonderful
summer evening, early July.
00:32:15.46\00:32:18.12
Some friends of mine had driven
up, rolled down their window,
00:32:19.10\00:32:22.75
and I was leaning in and
talking through when suddenly
00:32:22.78\00:32:27.50
I began to feel as if I'd
become drunken, and I knew
00:32:27.53\00:32:30.79
there was no reason for that.
00:32:30.82\00:32:32.27
I looked up and
there was a street light.
00:32:32.30\00:32:34.67
And the street
light was swinging.
00:32:34.70\00:32:36.39
And I looked over and the
telephone poles were swinging.
00:32:36.42\00:32:39.01
And then I knew
that I was experiencing
00:32:39.04\00:32:41.83
my very first earthquake.
00:32:41.86\00:32:43.55
This, by the way, in
1960 was the earthquake
00:32:43.58\00:32:46.53
that killed a lot of folks who
were camped over in Yellowstone
00:32:46.56\00:32:49.51
and changed the face of
that park in many, many ways.
00:32:49.54\00:32:52.79
Much more recently and
closer in place as well as time,
00:32:53.94\00:32:57.33
Peggy and I were
doing evangelism over in
00:32:57.36\00:33:00.98
the greater Seattle area.
00:33:01.09\00:33:02.69
And we decided one afternoon
that we were going to go down
00:33:02.72\00:33:05.01
to Olympia, to an RV
store, and look at awnings
00:33:05.04\00:33:07.87
for a motor home.
00:33:07.90\00:33:09.13
We did just that.
00:33:09.16\00:33:10.32
We had parked our car and
left Peggy's little dog inside,
00:33:10.82\00:33:14.64
up in the back window.
00:33:14.67\00:33:15.81
And parked next to us were
3 or 4 of those motor homes
00:33:15.84\00:33:19.35
that are about a half a block
long and cost a million bucks.
00:33:19.38\00:33:22.72
Do you know what I'm
talking about, alright?
00:33:22.75\00:33:25.16
So we were inside now
and up against the wall
00:33:25.56\00:33:27.93
were the awnings, and
we were looking at them
00:33:27.96\00:33:29.80
and looking at colors.
00:33:29.83\00:33:31.12
And a man came up and said, "Are
these within your price range?"
00:33:31.15\00:33:36.00
And I said, "No. "
00:33:36.03\00:33:37.66
And then he said, "Do you
hear that, do you hear that?"
00:33:37.96\00:33:41.35
And you've heard folks
describe the hurricanes and the
00:33:41.38\00:33:43.62
tornadoes before, haven't you.
00:33:43.65\00:33:45.19
"Like a freight
train was coming. "
00:33:45.22\00:33:46.69
And some others have
said, "Like a jet engine
00:33:46.72\00:33:48.89
that was taking off. "
00:33:48.92\00:33:49.89
We began to hear this roar.
00:33:49.90\00:33:51.89
And I knew
instantly what it was.
00:33:51.92\00:33:54.34
And the man that
was there with us said,
00:33:54.37\00:33:56.15
"Maybe we ought to go run stand
00:33:56.18\00:33:57.87
in the doorway
of the bathroom. "
00:33:57.90\00:33:59.26
I said, "Maybe we ought to run
outside into the parking lot. "
00:33:59.33\00:34:03.06
And that's exactly what we did.
00:34:03.09\00:34:04.96
And we went out to where our
car was, and I have a problem
00:34:04.99\00:34:08.60
with motion sickness in
any event, and here I am
00:34:08.63\00:34:11.01
leaning up against the
trunk, hanging on for dear life.
00:34:11.04\00:34:13.67
Reminded myself of old
Fred G. Sanford, you know.
00:34:13.70\00:34:16.51
"Here I come
Elizabeth, you hear that honey?"
00:34:16.54\00:34:18.86
And our dog was on the
other side of the window,
00:34:18.89\00:34:21.36
and his eyes were
this big and he was asking,
00:34:21.39\00:34:23.36
"What are you doing?"
00:34:23.39\00:34:24.36
And those huge motor homes
that were parked next to us
00:34:24.37\00:34:26.90
were rolling
backward and forward,
00:34:26.93\00:34:28.86
about 12 feet they said.
00:34:28.89\00:34:31.42
When we got back to our motor
home, we discovered cans on the
00:34:32.00\00:34:36.02
floor, and one of our sliding
doors was off its hinges.
00:34:36.05\00:34:39.99
But no serious damage.
00:34:40.02\00:34:42.25
When that one happened,
and how many of you were in it?
00:34:42.94\00:34:45.73
Were any of you, yeah?
00:34:45.76\00:34:46.73
Here are folks that you were in
it, you were there, of course.
00:34:46.82\00:34:49.42
And so this is very
clear in your minds.
00:34:49.45\00:34:52.20
When this one happened, my
sister's youngest son, Todd,
00:34:52.23\00:34:56.80
was in the top of Seattle's
second highest building where
00:34:56.83\00:35:00.58
he had a corner office.
00:35:00.61\00:35:02.06
He is a computer genius.
00:35:02.09\00:35:04.21
And he'd help
build a company there.
00:35:04.24\00:35:06.45
He was at his desk in
the corner and up about
00:35:06.48\00:35:10.09
30 some stories, I believe.
00:35:10.12\00:35:12.44
And he said his building, in
comparison to those around it,
00:35:12.47\00:35:16.21
was swaying, it
seemed like, 30 feet.
00:35:16.24\00:35:18.90
And then he said, "I looked
at the building directly across
00:35:18.93\00:35:22.34
from me, and there were two poor
guys who were on one of those
00:35:22.37\00:35:27.22
frames washing the windows. "
00:35:27.25\00:35:29.24
"You hear that Elizabeth?"
00:35:32.00\00:35:33.33
I'm afraid to get on
a ladder now for fear
00:35:36.46\00:35:38.50
an earthquake will come.
00:35:38.53\00:35:39.79
And so, that has been
my personal experience,
00:35:40.19\00:35:44.35
with one little exception
that I'll get to after a bit.
00:35:44.38\00:35:47.16
I want you now to
open your Bibles please,
00:35:47.19\00:35:48.66
to Matthew chapter 24.
00:35:48.69\00:35:50.27
We've said on prior evenings
that Luke chapters 17 and 21,
00:35:50.31\00:35:54.96
together with Matthew
24, are Jesus' sermons
00:35:54.99\00:35:58.81
on the last day events.
00:35:58.84\00:35:59.90
The disciples have asked Him,
"Lord, what's it going to be
00:35:59.93\00:36:01.82
like just before
You come back, tell us?"
00:36:01.85\00:36:04.11
And Jesus said it's going
to be like this, and like this,
00:36:04.81\00:36:07.04
and this and this and this.
00:36:07.07\00:36:08.46
Matthew chapter 24 and verse 7.
00:36:09.21\00:36:11.98
Here, Jesus speaking of
the very last days said,
00:36:13.63\00:36:15.81
"Nation will
rise against nation,
00:36:15.84\00:36:17.80
kingdom against kingdom.
00:36:17.83\00:36:20.11
And there stall be
famines, and pestilences,
00:36:20.14\00:36:23.25
and earthquakes in
many different places. "
00:36:23.28\00:36:26.97
Now the original language,
the New Testament languages here
00:36:27.00\00:36:29.88
is saying that in the last
days, there are going to be
00:36:29.91\00:36:32.74
earthquakes where folks
have never known them before.
00:36:32.77\00:36:35.22
Never heard of them before.
00:36:35.25\00:36:36.45
They've just not
been use to them before.
00:36:36.48\00:36:38.58
It is an unusual, a
very strange phenomenon.
00:36:38.61\00:36:41.53
Earthquakes in different places.
00:36:41.56\00:36:44.57
Now we're going to go
over to Luke chapter 21.
00:36:44.60\00:36:46.69
This is Jesus' continuation
on that very same subject.
00:36:46.72\00:36:49.73
"Lord, what's it
going to be like?"
00:36:49.76\00:36:51.31
And Jesus said it's going to
be like this and this and this.
00:36:51.34\00:36:53.85
"And when you see
these things," He said,
00:36:53.88\00:36:55.46
"then know the
end is very near. "
00:36:55.49\00:36:57.93
I'm going to take up
the reading at verse 11.
00:36:57.96\00:37:00.40
Luke 21:11
00:37:00.43\00:37:03.88
The same theme.
00:37:04.22\00:37:05.71
"Great earthquakes
shall be in different places,
00:37:06.33\00:37:08.48
famines and
pestilences, and fearful sights
00:37:08.51\00:37:12.68
and great signs there shall
be from the heavens as well. "
00:37:12.71\00:37:17.20
Nearly every week, I
meet someone who says,
00:37:19.42\00:37:21.36
"Well, I think you're
putting too much emphasis here.
00:37:21.39\00:37:23.84
I think you're going overboard.
00:37:23.87\00:37:25.53
I think you're kind
of a calamity howler. "
00:37:25.57\00:37:26.96
And not so very
long ago, by the way,
00:37:26.99\00:37:28.91
and to my own hearts sorrow,
I read a Christian magazine
00:37:28.94\00:37:32.80
that suggested we really ought
not to place any undue concern
00:37:32.83\00:37:37.56
on these signs, whether
they're wars or rumors of wars,
00:37:37.59\00:37:40.38
or earthquakes, or signs in the
heaven, for the end is not yet.
00:37:40.41\00:37:43.85
And what we ought to do is
just to have peace and faith
00:37:43.88\00:37:46.69
in the coming of Jesus.
00:37:46.72\00:37:48.49
But Jesus said when
you see these things begin,
00:37:48.52\00:37:51.81
then you know
it's time to get ready.
00:37:51.84\00:37:53.96
And so I think it's more than of
casual importance that we look
00:37:54.36\00:37:58.06
and that we study.
00:37:58.09\00:37:59.31
It's very vitally important, my
dears, that we know this Book.
00:37:59.34\00:38:02.86
It's more important, however,
that we know its author.
00:38:02.89\00:38:05.81
And when we
conclude each evening,
00:38:07.35\00:38:08.79
we turn our eyes upon Jesus.
00:38:08.82\00:38:10.65
We must always
conclude in that way.
00:38:11.06\00:38:14.84
But there are those who say,
00:38:14.87\00:38:15.90
"Well it's
always been like this.
00:38:15.93\00:38:17.44
I mean, my great,
great, great grandfather's.
00:38:17.47\00:38:20.07
I mean, the native Americans
wrote about the earthquakes.
00:38:20.11\00:38:22.86
And in story form, they
passed it down generationally.
00:38:22.89\00:38:26.99
It's always been, it's just
the same as its always been. "
00:38:27.02\00:38:30.34
No, no.
00:38:30.37\00:38:31.34
Well, we're going to read a
warning from God in 2 Peter.
00:38:31.35\00:38:34.95
It's time for us to
turn together now to 2 Peter.
00:38:34.98\00:38:37.75
And we're going to read
from chapter 3, verses 3 and 4.
00:38:37.78\00:38:40.97
2 Peter 3:3-4
00:38:41.51\00:38:44.86
God, in His omniscience,
in His all knowing mind,
00:38:44.89\00:38:49.47
knew that this very
thing was going to happen.
00:38:49.50\00:38:52.17
That folks are
going around saying,
00:38:52.20\00:38:53.72
"Don't worry about it.
It's always been like this.
00:38:53.75\00:38:56.05
Never any different from this.
00:38:56.08\00:38:57.83
Why, ever since the
forebearers, since our...
00:38:57.86\00:39:00.10
Alright, let's read it.
00:39:00.20\00:39:01.59
"Knowing this
first," 2 Peter 3:3-4.
00:39:02.17\00:39:06.30
"Knowing this first,
there shall come in the... "
00:39:06.33\00:39:08.86
Which times, huh?
00:39:08.89\00:39:11.24
Yeah, not the
days of the pioneers.
00:39:11.84\00:39:13.64
"... in the last days,
there shall come scoffers
00:39:13.67\00:39:16.36
who are following
after their own lusts.
00:39:16.39\00:39:18.67
And they're saying, 'Where
is the promise of His coming?
00:39:18.70\00:39:22.16
For since the fathers fell
asleep, things have continued
00:39:22.19\00:39:25.40
since they were from the
very beginning of creation. '"
00:39:25.43\00:39:29.86
No worse than it's ever been.
00:39:29.89\00:39:31.31
Ah, but wait a minute.
00:39:31.34\00:39:33.13
We read last night from Isaiah,
and you "A" students will want
00:39:33.16\00:39:35.73
to now put it in
your notes again,
00:39:35.76\00:39:37.22
Isaiah chapter 51 and verse 6.
00:39:37.25\00:39:40.90
There, God describing the world
in its end time condition said,
00:39:40.93\00:39:45.01
"The earth will wear
out like an old garment. "
00:39:45.04\00:39:49.92
It'll wear out like an
old coat that you've worn
00:39:49.95\00:39:53.09
winter after winter
until it's become threadbare.
00:39:53.12\00:39:56.07
Now, with that in mind, here are
the facts regarding earthquakes.
00:39:56.10\00:40:01.50
From 1970 to the year
2000, disasters, natural,
00:40:02.74\00:40:11.65
affected more people than in
the prior thousands of years.
00:40:12.82\00:40:18.97
But we don't go back thousands
in our view of the Bible.
00:40:19.00\00:40:21.61
But hundreds and
hundreds and hundreds of years,
00:40:21.64\00:40:24.04
we certainly do.
00:40:24.07\00:40:25.34
Natural disasters
from 1970 until 2000
00:40:27.70\00:40:31.62
moved from 70 million,
1970 around 70 million,
00:40:31.65\00:40:40.85
to over 200 million.
00:40:40.88\00:40:43.62
In just 30 years, a little over.
00:40:44.22\00:40:46.49
Since 1900, ladies and
gentlemen, there have been
00:40:46.96\00:40:49.97
578 earthquakes that
measured 6 point or more
00:40:50.00\00:40:54.65
on the Richter scale.
00:40:54.68\00:40:55.88
And they say somewhere around
5.5 is a major earthquake.
00:40:55.91\00:40:59.30
That is
something to take note of.
00:40:59.33\00:41:00.72
That's something that's
going to rattle your cupboards
00:41:00.75\00:41:04.24
and spill your coffee.
00:41:04.27\00:41:05.93
In California alone,
there were 475 earthquakes
00:41:05.96\00:41:11.28
along the San Andreas Fault.
00:41:11.31\00:41:13.19
I believe, ladies and gentlemen,
and we'll study this further
00:41:14.25\00:41:16.66
on another evening, that
God sent a great earthquake
00:41:16.69\00:41:19.68
to announce the end
times and the last days.
00:41:19.71\00:41:22.06
And we're going to go
back to Revelation chapter 6,
00:41:22.09\00:41:24.31
and reread a verse that we
used just a little bit ago.
00:41:24.34\00:41:27.63
And we're going to see it
in its true end time context.
00:41:27.66\00:41:31.45
Revelation
chapter 6 and verse 12.
00:41:31.48\00:41:33.45
This happens to be, by
the way, the context of
00:41:33.48\00:41:36.70
the seven last events.
00:41:36.73\00:41:37.93
The 4 horsemen and the 7 seals.
00:41:37.96\00:41:40.39
Chapter 6 and reading verse 12.
00:41:41.35\00:41:44.78
"I looked when He opened
the sixth seal, and look,
00:41:44.81\00:41:46.75
there was a great earthquake,
and the sun became as black
00:41:46.78\00:41:49.56
as sackcloth of hair, and
the moon became as blood. "
00:41:49.59\00:41:53.79
Back about 1780,
this thing happened.
00:41:53.82\00:41:57.04
And a short time thereafter,
there was the dark day
00:41:57.07\00:42:00.44
and the bloody moon.
00:42:00.47\00:42:01.48
And God used this earthquake
to announce the end time.
00:42:01.51\00:42:04.93
Now, by the way, in the
Bible, there's a vast difference
00:42:04.96\00:42:07.08
between the last days, plural,
and the last day, singular.
00:42:07.11\00:42:14.58
There is a vast difference.
00:42:14.61\00:42:15.83
And I'll say once
more, I believe and have for
00:42:15.86\00:42:18.16
a long while, that we moved
into the end times, plural,
00:42:18.19\00:42:21.21
the last days,
plural, back about 1780.
00:42:21.24\00:42:25.36
And as we study further,
we shall enlarge upon that
00:42:25.39\00:42:28.48
on subsequent evenings
as we've already mentioned.
00:42:28.51\00:42:31.01
The epicenter of this terrible
earthquake was Lisbon, Portugal.
00:42:31.04\00:42:34.89
Now there have been earthquakes
that killed more people.
00:42:34.92\00:42:37.17
There was one over in China
in modern times that we believe
00:42:37.20\00:42:40.26
killed as many
as a million folks.
00:42:40.29\00:42:42.42
But the difference between the
Lisbon earthquake and others,
00:42:42.45\00:42:46.65
the Lisbon
earthquake, we believe, killed
00:42:46.68\00:42:48.75
somewhere around
90,000 people only.
00:42:48.78\00:42:50.86
But that's a lot,
that's enough isn't it?
00:42:50.89\00:42:52.81
Alright, that's enough.
00:42:52.84\00:42:54.39
The vast difference between
the Lisbon, Portugal earthquake
00:42:54.42\00:42:57.65
and others, perhaps in
China that killed more folks,
00:42:57.68\00:43:00.26
was that the Lisbon earthquake
shook fully one fourth
00:43:00.29\00:43:03.87
of the surface of planet earth.
00:43:03.91\00:43:05.73
All of the
British Isles were shaken.
00:43:05.76\00:43:07.94
All of the western half
of Europe, from the far side
00:43:07.97\00:43:11.89
of the Mediterranean Sea.
00:43:11.92\00:43:13.12
The north of the
continent of Africa.
00:43:13.15\00:43:15.23
One fourth of the surface of
planet earth was terribly shaken
00:43:15.26\00:43:19.51
by this earthquake.
00:43:19.54\00:43:20.87
And then soon thereafter,
there was the dark day
00:43:20.90\00:43:23.04
and the bloody moon,
and a meteoric shower
00:43:23.07\00:43:25.17
like there had
never been before.
00:43:25.20\00:43:26.99
Between 1890 and
1900, ladies and gentlemen,
00:43:27.02\00:43:31.17
there was only just
one major earthquake.
00:43:32.88\00:43:35.87
And by that I mean, somewhere
around 6.0 on the scale.
00:43:35.90\00:43:39.63
But now, there are
thousands of them every week
00:43:40.09\00:43:44.34
on a worldwide base.
00:43:44.37\00:43:45.76
Yea, times have changes.
00:43:45.79\00:43:47.80
Things have not
continued as they were
00:43:47.83\00:43:50.25
at the time of our fathers.
00:43:50.28\00:43:51.70
There's a metaphor that I
have used for the last 35 years.
00:43:51.73\00:43:55.19
And I think it's best
understood by mothers.
00:43:55.22\00:43:57.68
It's first described
in Isaiah chapter 13.
00:43:57.71\00:44:00.91
Well, we ought to
read it. We have the time.
00:44:00.94\00:44:02.72
Let's go there together.
00:44:02.75\00:44:04.01
It's important, I think, that
we see some of these scriptures
00:44:04.04\00:44:06.40
for ourselves and that I
don't only just allude to them.
00:44:06.43\00:44:09.14
Isaiah chapter 13.
00:44:09.17\00:44:11.05
Isaiah was a major
prophet, of course.
00:44:11.45\00:44:13.85
And God spoke to him
about end time events.
00:44:13.88\00:44:16.53
Isaiah, just before Jeremiah.
00:44:16.56\00:44:20.13
And we're going to notice
at chapter 13, verses 6-8.
00:44:20.16\00:44:26.33
Isaiah chapter 13.
00:44:27.69\00:44:29.30
"Howl ye, for the day
of the Lord is at hand.
00:44:36.28\00:44:38.84
It'll come as a great
destruction from the Almighty.
00:44:41.26\00:44:43.86
Therefore shall
all hands be faint,
00:44:45.79\00:44:48.83
and men's heart's melt,
and they're going to be afraid.
00:44:50.65\00:44:54.00
Pangs of sorrow
shall take hold of them.
00:44:54.03\00:44:56.35
And they shall be in
pain as a woman that travails.
00:44:56.38\00:44:59.82
They shall be amazed
at one another and their
00:44:59.85\00:45:01.90
faces shall be as flames. "
00:45:01.93\00:45:05.10
Now by the way, you
read that same illustration
00:45:05.13\00:45:08.66
in Jeremiah 6:24
and in Jeremiah 22:23.
00:45:08.69\00:45:15.67
Jeremiah 22:23, the
same illustration of the
00:45:15.70\00:45:19.37
end time events
being likened to a woman
00:45:19.40\00:45:21.95
who's about to give birth.
00:45:21.98\00:45:23.45
And then you find the apostle
Paul taking up that theme
00:45:23.48\00:45:26.88
and quoting from Isaiah
in 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3.
00:45:26.91\00:45:32.40
As a woman about to give birth.
00:45:32.43\00:45:34.59
Now, this then is the point.
00:45:34.62\00:45:35.84
You mothers know,
and some of you men know
00:45:36.24\00:45:39.66
because you've had
the privilege to go in.
00:45:39.69\00:45:41.39
How many of you
men were able to go in
00:45:41.42\00:45:42.72
and watch your baby be born?
00:45:42.75\00:45:43.95
That means that you
live in the modern world.
00:45:44.35\00:45:46.57
And our old doctor wouldn't let
me go to see our babies be born.
00:45:48.09\00:45:52.69
And I was cleaned up.
00:45:53.88\00:45:55.71
The labor pains come
nearer and nearer together.
00:46:01.27\00:46:06.35
The contractions, in terms
of intensity, grow stronger
00:46:06.38\00:46:11.23
and stronger and stronger, and
the pain is greater and greater.
00:46:11.26\00:46:16.85
And I must say that I
certainly admire the lady
00:46:17.32\00:46:20.70
who still insists on having
the baby without any kind of
00:46:20.73\00:46:25.49
anesthesia or spinal block.
00:46:25.52\00:46:27.82
I've been
underneath a log truck.
00:46:27.85\00:46:30.94
I've had nothing
like the birth of a baby,
00:46:31.34\00:46:34.35
I've been told at least,
by a girl that probably knows.
00:46:34.38\00:46:38.27
Earthquakes to signal the last
great events on planet earth.
00:46:38.97\00:46:43.01
I want to just take your
minds to the way and time that
00:46:43.04\00:46:47.10
God has used earthquakes
to announce great events.
00:46:47.13\00:46:50.85
Matthew 27:50 and
following says that when Jesus
00:46:50.88\00:46:54.88
died on the cross,
there was a great earthquake.
00:46:54.91\00:46:58.08
He shouted with a loud voice and
there was a great earthquake.
00:46:58.11\00:47:00.95
And then it says in Matthew 28:2
that when Jesus, 3 days later
00:47:00.98\00:47:06.51
came out of the grave,
there was a great earthquake.
00:47:06.54\00:47:10.36
And this great earthquake
was so intense that it
00:47:10.39\00:47:13.49
wakened some of the dead
that were in the graveyard,
00:47:13.52\00:47:16.09
in the cemetery around
about Him, and they came back.
00:47:16.12\00:47:18.37
Some people believe that
those folks who came alive
00:47:18.40\00:47:21.83
in that earthquake were
taken to heaven with Jesus
00:47:21.86\00:47:24.66
when 40 days later He ascended.
00:47:24.69\00:47:26.46
We're going to have to wait a
while, I suppose, to find out.
00:47:26.49\00:47:29.73
When it was time for the
gospel to go to the Gentiles,
00:47:30.33\00:47:33.11
God sent a great earthquake.
00:47:33.14\00:47:34.92
And you read
about it in Acts 16:26.
00:47:34.95\00:47:38.50
And the context, of course,
finds the apostle Paul and Silas
00:47:38.53\00:47:42.17
in jail over in a little
town by the name of Philippi.
00:47:42.20\00:47:46.61
And Gordon, you'll
be interested in this.
00:47:47.42\00:47:49.96
That means the town
where they love horses.
00:47:49.99\00:47:52.29
Philippi
00:47:52.32\00:47:54.21
Yea, the word Philip,
the name Philip means,
00:47:54.24\00:47:57.11
one who loves horses.
00:47:57.14\00:47:59.31
When the time came to send
the gospel to the Gentiles,
00:48:02.24\00:48:04.98
God sent an earthquake.
00:48:05.01\00:48:06.71
And God, He says
in The Revelation,
00:48:06.74\00:48:09.03
chapter 6 verse 12, especially,
He would send a great earthquake
00:48:09.06\00:48:13.29
to announce the
last days, the final end.
00:48:13.32\00:48:17.19
Now, I want to talk to
you for just a short while
00:48:17.22\00:48:20.66
about some of the
major earthquake faults
00:48:20.69\00:48:23.57
here in the United States.
00:48:23.60\00:48:25.03
And we'll start over
on the other side and then
00:48:25.06\00:48:27.13
we'll work our
way toward the west.
00:48:27.16\00:48:29.32
Manhattan Island, they
say, is on an earthquake fault.
00:48:29.35\00:48:32.08
I'd not want to be
up in the Trump Towers.
00:48:32.66\00:48:35.49
I'd not want to be up on the
top of the Empire State Building
00:48:35.53\00:48:39.16
as I once was, if
that should happen.
00:48:39.19\00:48:41.97
Manhattan is on
an earthquake fault.
00:48:42.54\00:48:44.51
One of the largest
faults, second largest they say,
00:48:45.58\00:48:48.15
is the New Madrid
Fault of Missouri.
00:48:48.18\00:48:50.43
And if you look for
it on a map, by the way,
00:48:50.46\00:48:52.17
you're going to find
it right down in what
00:48:52.20\00:48:53.56
they call the Four Corners.
00:48:53.59\00:48:54.73
That's where Missouri, Arkansas,
Kentucky, and Tennessee
00:48:54.77\00:48:57.16
come together.
00:48:57.19\00:48:58.44
And the thing erupted,
it shook, this earthquake,
00:48:58.47\00:49:02.31
several years ago.
00:49:02.34\00:49:03.79
And there was a guy back there
that was in the middle of it.
00:49:03.82\00:49:06.55
He was lost, and took him 3
or 4 days to find his way out.
00:49:06.58\00:49:10.05
And when he came
out, they found him still
00:49:10.08\00:49:12.31
with his coon skin cap.
00:49:12.34\00:49:13.58
Can you imagine who that was?
00:49:13.61\00:49:15.06
Davey, Davey Crockett.
00:49:15.46\00:49:17.91
Exactly, he was in
the New Madrid earthquake.
00:49:17.94\00:49:20.82
And they say, one day she's
going to spring loose again.
00:49:20.85\00:49:24.15
And then there's the San
Andreas Fault in California.
00:49:24.18\00:49:26.78
And most of us, out
here in the west at least,
00:49:26.81\00:49:28.33
hear quite a lot about that.
00:49:28.36\00:49:30.23
She goes off many, many
times now every single day.
00:49:30.26\00:49:34.06
The largest earthquake on
the North American Continent,
00:49:34.09\00:49:37.70
ladies and gentlemen,
is the Cascadia earthquake
00:49:37.73\00:49:40.54
which runs from
Northern California up through
00:49:40.57\00:49:43.54
to British Columbia, Canada.
00:49:43.57\00:49:45.26
It runs from about 14 miles to
50 miles off the Pacific coast.
00:49:45.29\00:49:50.18
That means,
it's in our backyard.
00:49:50.21\00:49:52.46
The Cascadia Fault.
00:49:52.49\00:49:54.79
Volcanoes, you probably know,
are the result of earthquakes
00:49:55.51\00:50:01.32
and those faults,
and those tectonic plates
00:50:01.35\00:50:04.64
that push together.
00:50:04.67\00:50:05.90
And the Pacific Rim is
lined with the volcanoes,
00:50:05.93\00:50:10.01
as we've mentioned a bit ago.
00:50:10.04\00:50:11.57
Therefore, also in this
part of the world we have
00:50:11.60\00:50:14.85
more earthquakes than elsewhere.
00:50:14.88\00:50:16.83
Certainly out in the Hawaiian
Islands and the Philippines,
00:50:16.86\00:50:19.65
and all around the Indian Ocean.
00:50:19.68\00:50:21.28
I want to mention to you briefly
now, some of the earthquakes
00:50:22.12\00:50:25.05
here in the Pacific Northwest.
00:50:25.08\00:50:26.53
There is Glacier Peak.
00:50:26.56\00:50:28.05
Some of these, by the
way, are inactive and have
00:50:28.08\00:50:30.21
been for a long while.
00:50:30.24\00:50:31.29
Others of them are active, and
some what they call semi-active.
00:50:31.32\00:50:35.10
Glacier Peak
here in the Northwest.
00:50:35.13\00:50:37.20
And then Mount
Baker up in the Washington
00:50:37.23\00:50:39.72
and British Columbia border.
00:50:39.75\00:50:41.56
And then Mount
Rainier, and then Mount Adams,
00:50:41.59\00:50:43.41
and then Mount St. Helens, and
the Three Sisters of Oregano,
00:50:43.44\00:50:45.79
and Mount Hood,
and Mount Newberry,
00:50:45.82\00:50:47.64
and Crater Lake,
and Jefferson Mountain,
00:50:47.67\00:50:49.76
and Shasta
Mountain in California,
00:50:49.79\00:50:51.33
and Lassen Mountain,
and Garibaldi Mountain.
00:50:51.36\00:50:54.15
Quite a few of them around, huh?
00:50:54.18\00:50:56.35
We talked during the travel
log about Mount St. Helens
00:50:57.16\00:50:59.44
and its eruption on May 18
at 8:32 in the morning in 1980,
00:50:59.47\00:51:04.04
and about David Johnston
shouting into the microphone,
00:51:04.07\00:51:06.60
"Vancouver, this
is it, this is it. "
00:51:06.63\00:51:09.13
I'm going to read to you, and
you'll forgive me for reading,
00:51:09.53\00:51:12.22
but it's far better
said than I could say it.
00:51:12.25\00:51:14.29
And I think it's
important that we read it.
00:51:14.32\00:51:16.12
And so, I'm going to read
to you now about Cascadia.
00:51:16.15\00:51:18.68
"This fault is 680
miles long and it runs from
00:51:18.88\00:51:24.33
Central California clear up
the Pacific coast and down onto
00:51:24.36\00:51:28.09
Vancouver
Island, British Columbia.
00:51:28.12\00:51:31.02
Plates move at a
relative rate of about
00:51:31.05\00:51:33.18
10 millimeters per year.
00:51:33.21\00:51:35.18
At a somewhat oblique
angle to the subduction zone.
00:51:35.21\00:51:40.98
Because of a
very large fault area,
00:51:41.01\00:51:43.04
the Cascadia subduction
zone can produce very large
00:51:43.07\00:51:46.97
earthquakes with a magnitude
of 9.0 or even greater.
00:51:47.00\00:51:50.49
If a rupture occurred over this
whole area, when the lock zone
00:51:50.52\00:51:55.53
stores up energy
for an earthquake,
00:51:55.56\00:51:57.37
the transition zone then,
although somewhat plastic,
00:51:57.40\00:52:01.00
can suddenly and
without warning rupture.
00:52:01.03\00:52:04.11
Unlike most
subduction zones worldwide,
00:52:04.14\00:52:08.78
there is, along the
Cascadia, no real oceanic trench
00:52:08.81\00:52:12.70
that's present along
the continental margin.
00:52:12.73\00:52:15.20
Of Cascadia,
instead, there are terraces.
00:52:15.23\00:52:18.51
There's an accretionary wedge
that has been uplifted to form
00:52:19.82\00:52:24.22
a series of coasts and exotic
mountains out in the Pacific.
00:52:24.25\00:52:28.13
A high rate of sedimentation
from the outflow of
00:52:28.16\00:52:30.93
three major rivers; the Fraser,
the Columbia, and the Klamath,
00:52:31.03\00:52:34.42
which cross the Cascade Range
contributes to further obscuring
00:52:34.45\00:52:38.06
the presence of this trench.
00:52:38.09\00:52:39.63
However, in common with
most other subduction zones,
00:52:39.66\00:52:42.68
the outer margin is slowly
but surely being compressed
00:52:42.71\00:52:46.05
similar to that of the
tightening of a giant spring.
00:52:46.08\00:52:49.35
When this stored energy
is suddenly released by a
00:52:49.38\00:52:51.49
slippage across the
fault at irregular intervals,
00:52:51.52\00:52:54.10
the Cascadia
subduction zone could create
00:52:54.13\00:52:57.03
a very large earthquake with
a magnitude of 9.0 or more. "
00:52:57.06\00:53:01.54
There have been 11
eruptions of the Cascadia zone
00:53:02.40\00:53:06.42
in the past 4000 years.
00:53:06.45\00:53:08.24
Seven in just
the last 200 years.
00:53:08.27\00:53:11.96
But the big one
is still out there.
00:53:11.99\00:53:14.66
"Even as death and destruction
toll, from the tsunami
00:53:14.69\00:53:20.72
that struck the
Southeast Asia a few weeks ago,
00:53:20.75\00:53:23.22
continues to mount... "
00:53:23.25\00:53:24.49
And, by the way, it killed
around 300,000 we now know.
00:53:24.52\00:53:27.50
"... the potentiality of the
Cascadia Fault is that of taking
00:53:27.53\00:53:31.90
far, far greater life. "
00:53:31.93\00:53:33.67
And then they go on to
tell how along the Oregon coast,
00:53:33.70\00:53:36.23
they're now putting up
signs of danger over in Seaside
00:53:36.26\00:53:39.49
and on down the coast.
00:53:39.52\00:53:40.76
Because there are places on the
101 Highway where there is not
00:53:40.79\00:53:44.48
a high enough area to get out.
00:53:44.51\00:53:46.28
And they further say that
if this one ever releases,
00:53:46.31\00:53:49.70
when the spring goes,
we're going to have a warning
00:53:49.73\00:53:52.81
of only 15 seconds.
00:53:52.84\00:53:54.88
Fifteen seconds, and
the wave that is going to...
00:53:55.08\00:53:57.73
The wave, by the way, of
the tsunami that was out in
00:53:57.76\00:54:00.77
the Southeast Asia,
that wave was 30 feet high.
00:54:00.80\00:54:03.92
They say this one is going
to be from 50 to 200 feet high.
00:54:03.95\00:54:08.32
And San Francisco, and you go on
up to British Columbia, Canada,
00:54:09.79\00:54:13.69
and you can see what
could and what will happen.
00:54:13.72\00:54:18.68
Isaiah 2:19-21, God
says in the last day,
00:54:18.71\00:54:23.28
"I will arise and
shake terribly, the earth. "
00:54:23.31\00:54:25.76
The only question tonight
is, are our priorities in order?
00:54:27.34\00:54:30.33
Are you studying and praying?
00:54:33.08\00:54:35.14
Are you witnessing?
00:54:36.10\00:54:37.08
Are you talking to your kids and
your spouses, your neighbors?
00:54:37.11\00:54:40.39
Are you attending
church and prayer meeting?
00:54:42.09\00:54:44.21
Now I'm going to get
very practical with you here.
00:54:45.77\00:54:47.92
Hebrews 10:24-25, speaking
about the last days says
00:54:51.13\00:54:55.20
that we ought not
forsake the assembling
00:54:55.23\00:54:57.77
of ourselves together,
especially as you see the
00:54:57.80\00:55:00.89
end time approaching.
00:55:00.92\00:55:02.10
We're going to need to
draw strength from one another.
00:55:02.13\00:55:04.80
It's time to come to church,
not only on worship morning,
00:55:05.92\00:55:08.89
but on Wednesday night as well.
00:55:08.92\00:55:10.55
God is giving us the warning,
"It's time to get ready. "
00:55:10.58\00:55:13.94
Psalm 46:1-3, there we,
though, have God's promise.
00:55:14.55\00:55:19.45
"I will be your
refuge and strength,
00:55:19.48\00:55:21.42
I'll be a present
help in the time of need.
00:55:21.45\00:55:23.77
You need not fear,
though the earth moves
00:55:24.57\00:55:27.50
and the mountains
are cast into the sea,
00:55:27.53\00:55:29.61
though the waters roar
and the mountains shake. "
00:55:29.64\00:55:32.81
And so we Christians
need to come together,
00:55:32.84\00:55:34.67
to worship together and
be here for prayer meeting.
00:55:34.70\00:55:36.98
And sing lustily
and loudly together,
00:55:37.01\00:55:39.14
"On Christ the
solid rock I stand,
00:55:39.17\00:55:42.21
all other ground
is sinking sand. "
00:55:43.17\00:55:46.89
"Rock of ages, cleft for me.
Let me hide myself in Thee. "
00:55:47.64\00:55:54.69
When Jesus comes,
00:55:57.22\00:55:59.36
there shall be an earthquake
00:56:04.28\00:56:06.39
that will waken
the dead in Christ.
00:56:08.11\00:56:10.00
And those who've died
with their faith in Jesus
00:56:12.27\00:56:15.34
are going to come out
00:56:16.38\00:56:18.22
and breathe the
breath of eternal life.
00:56:18.25\00:56:23.83
Instead of fearing this one,
00:56:25.77\00:56:28.70
I've come to long for it.
00:56:30.33\00:56:32.46
A few weeks ago,
Peggy and I put our boy
00:56:35.85\00:56:38.70
in a cemetery in eastern Oregon.
00:56:41.98\00:56:44.40
And soon,
there'll come the quake,
00:56:48.37\00:56:53.52
a voice that says,
"Awake, time to get up. "
00:56:57.42\00:57:01.46
And we who are alive and remain
00:57:03.25\00:57:07.79
shall be caught up together
with them to meet our Lord
00:57:10.70\00:57:13.44
in the air.
00:57:13.47\00:57:15.35
And so shall we always be
00:57:16.61\00:57:19.70
with our Lord.
00:57:21.22\00:57:22.97
Let's pray.
00:57:23.00\00:57:24.75
"Let not your hearts be
troubled," You promised.
00:57:31.60\00:57:34.27
"You believe in
God, believe also in Me.
00:57:35.25\00:57:38.80
I'm coming.
00:57:43.94\00:57:45.30
I'm coming with a shout,
00:57:48.65\00:57:50.73
with a trumpet blast. "
00:57:54.98\00:57:56.61
With the greatest
natural collision, calamity,
00:57:59.32\00:58:03.81
that the world has ever known.
00:58:03.84\00:58:05.57
The saints will
gather around the ruins.
00:58:06.93\00:58:09.77
Open graves where
their loved ones have
00:58:11.81\00:58:16.06
come back to eternal
life, and shout, "Hallelujah. "
00:58:16.09\00:58:19.96
Even so, come Lord Jesus. Amen.
00:58:23.42\00:58:29.65