2020 has been an intense year. From the coronavirus pandemic and all that came with it, to the raging start to the fire season we’re seeing in places like California and Oregon, as well as the very busy hurricane season.
There has been no stones left unturned in this busy year, but despite that things seem to continue to escalate in intensity and frequency.
For the second time in history, the Greek alphabet will be used to name new storms because the previously designated storm names have all been used! If this doesn’t show you that something’s up with the strange weather and natural disasters, I’m not sure what will.
Hurricane names to be all Greek after busy season exhausts list
From the Jerusalem Post: This year’s Atlantic hurricane season has been so busy that meteorologists will soon have exhausted all the designated storm names. So for just the second time in history, the Greek alphabet will be used, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said.
Arthur was the first storm on the 21-name list prepared for the 2020 season, which ends on Nov. 30. Hurricanes Paulette and Sally and Tropical Storms Teddy and Vicky are still active, and a low pressure system off West Africa could develop into a cyclone and would be christened Wilfred.
“Once we exhaust the last name on the list, which is Wilfred, we then have to switch to the Greek alphabet and you will start to see names such as Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Zeta etc,” the WMO’s Clare Nullis told reporters. This year’s season is set to be the busiest ever with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasting a record 25 storms which it attributes to warm sea temperatures and low wind-shear. Climate change is thought to be increasing their intensity.
As of Monday, there were advisories for five cyclones swirling in the Atlantic for only the second time in history. However one of them, Rene, has since dissipated but it still means the ‘R’ name choice had gone. No names have been prepared X, Y or Z this year because there are few appropriate names that begin with them, WMO said. Since, 1953, tropical storms have been named for ease of communication with mariners and the public and were initially only female. Historical storms were identified by their coordinates or the things they destroyed. Read More
Prophetic Implications
As believers who are familiar with bible prophecy, we understand that as we progress in these last days, world events such as natural disasters will continue to increase in intensity and frequency. The Jerusalem Post article even makes note of this fact stating, “This year’s season is set to be the busiest ever with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasting a record 25 storms which it attributes to warm sea temperatures and low wind-shear. Climate change is thought to be increasing their intensity.”
In my article, West Coast up in Flames, I also note this phenomenon as I also reference a NBC News article that echoes this same sentiment, but in more dire terms.
Freak natural disasters — most with what scientists say likely have a climate change connection — seem to be everywhere in the crazy year 2020. But experts say we’ll probably look back and say those were the good old days, when disasters weren’t so wild. “It’s going to get A LOT worse,” Georgia Tech climate scientist Kim Cobb said Wednesday. “I say that with emphasis because it does challenge the imagination. And that’s the scary thing to know as a climate scientist in 2020.”…“I strongly believe we’re going to look back in 10 years, certainly 20 and definitely 50 and say, ‘Wow, 2020 was a crazy year, but I miss it,’” Abdalati said.
Although believers have been saying this for years, the secular world is increasingly sounding the alarm on this very same trend the bible says will occur. In Matthew 24:3-8, Jesus gives a list of things to watch out for that will indicate the end of the age, all things that will have their ultimate fulfillment during the tribulation. After giving a list of signs he says these are the “beginning of sorrows”, other translations rendering it as “birth pangs”. In essence, Jesus is likening the signs as birth pangs, or contractions.
When a woman’s in labor the contractions get closer and closer in frequency and increase in intensity the closer the time is for the baby’s arrival. Likewise, this is how Jesus likens is coming along with these signs. So if this has its ultimate fulfillment during the tribulation, it should show us that the time period is indeed drawing near.
Sources
- Hurricane names to be all Greek after busy season exhausts list (September 15th, 2020) – The Jerusalem Post