“The Day of the Lord”

 

BIBLE READING: 11 Peter


"But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare." - 2 Peter 3:10

                At the 1960 UN General Assembly, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev promised the world that they would see "something that has not been seen before”.  On October 30, 1961, the Soviets detonated the largest nuclear bomb in the history of the world on the Novaya Zemlya Island in the Arctic Sea. Nicknamed the “Tsar Bomba”, the area of destruction was 22 miles in radius. The Tsar Bomba’s mushroom cloud was 37 miles tall and it could be seen from a distance of 100 miles away. The Tsar Bomba had a yield of 50 megatons. That is the equivalent to 1,400 times the combined power of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  Initially, the bomb should have had a yield of 100 megatons, but this was changed in a later stage since a bomb that big would have posed serious safety issues and it would have affected inhabited parts of northern Soviet Union. 

 

After the explosion, the surface of the island was leveled, and the rocks had melted. Some reports indicate that windows were broken in northern Finland and Norway too.  Amid fears about radioactive fallout, in 1963 the US, Great Britain and Soviet Union signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty forcing all nuclear tests to be underground.

                The Day of the Lord will be “something that has not been seen before.” It will be larger than any nuclear explosion and it will usher in a new Heaven. Today in prayer, pray for those who do not know Jesus Christ and Christ Lord to prepare their hearts to receive Him as Lord.                                                                                                                                         Peter Kennedy

 

 

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