First Baptist Church of Anderson

Dear Friends and Family: 

In view of my last post on the possibility of midwest earthquakes and the October 19, 2020, huge 7.5 earthquake in Alaska, I want to revisit the whole idea of shaking.  

Maybe some younger people today wonder about the sanity of the baby boom generation, and they may not be aware of the artist Jerry Lee Lewis whose song is the title of this Tiny Letter. They should watch the 1964 clip found on YouTube. This would probably convince them we are brain damaged from severe head shaking. I don’t remember doing this head shaking myself.

Or check out another kind of shaking on a YouTube video called Zaouli de Manfla showing an Ivory Coast dancer with legs like jackhammers. He will probably need both knees replaced after doing the national dance too long. 

We see so many bad things happening in the world, that we have trouble processing and remembering them all. The 9.0 earthquake in 2011 that killed about 20,000 people and destroyed the Fukushima nuclear reactors with a large tsunami was one that continues to affect the world since radioactive contamination continuously pours out Cesium contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean killing a lot of its sea life. How much of that ongoing disaster is discussed on our news media? Granted it is old news, and it doesn’t affect most of our day to day lives because there are other places in the world where we can get seafood.  

The 2004 underwater earthquake that struck Indonesia was recorded as a 9.1 and killed ~228,000 people. Although a few Americans died who were there, one can’t say that this big earthquake had a big impact on the United States.  

The most recent big earthquake was located on the underwater shelf 91 km SE of Sand Point Alaska at depth of 40 km. This small island is just outside the long Alaskan Peninsula pointing out toward the Aleutian Islands in the northern Pacific Ocean.  The October 19, 2020 earthquake at 4.54 PM  EDT was rated by the USGS at 7.5. Up to 5:23PM on October 20, 2020 (25 hours later) there had been 45 large aftershock earthquakes rated moderate between 4.0 and 5.9 and many more under 4.0. These aftershocks are strong enough to tip over furniture and make cracks in your walls. A 7.5 would destroy most houses. 

This part of Alaska is remote from the mainland without roads to access the communities on the peninsula. These communities have airstrips or harbors to reach other areas by air or sea. The land is mountainous. They communicate by radio. Consequently, it is not heavily populated. I have heard no specific damage reports other than one man who said that the earthquake blew out every window in his house and shattered the glass into tiny pieces. A tsunami alert was announced and some buoys in the pacific dropped up and down 30 feet but the largest reaching shore were very minimal. King Cove and Perryville are two towns near Sand Point on the peninsula.

As I began reading more about this particular earthquake, I was shocked to hear that some professional disaster consultants were saying that this particular earthquake was far larger than 7.5, probably a 9.0. It continued shaking for about 4 hours straight. They said that the seismologists of the USGS routinely downgrade the power rating of these earthquakes and even alter the actual seismograph records. Why would they lie?

Dear Friends and Family: 

In view of my last post on the possibility of midwest earthquakes and the October 19, 2020, huge 7.5 earthquake in Alaska, I want to revisit the whole idea of shaking.  

Maybe some younger people today wonder about the sanity of the baby boom generation, and they may not be aware of the artist Jerry Lee Lewis whose song is the title of this Tiny Letter. They should watch the 1964 clip found on YouTube. This would probably convince them we are brain damaged from severe head shaking. I don’t remember doing this head shaking myself.

Or check out another kind of shaking on a YouTube video called Zaouli de Manfla showing an Ivory Coast dancer with legs like jackhammers. He will probably need both knees replaced after doing the national dance too long. 

We see so many bad things happening in the world, that we have trouble processing and remembering them all. The 9.0 earthquake in 2011 that killed about 20,000 people and destroyed the Fukushima nuclear reactors with a large tsunami was one that continues to affect the world since radioactive contamination continuously pours out Cesium contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean killing a lot of its sea life. How much of that ongoing disaster is discussed on our news media? Granted it is old news, and it doesn’t affect most of our day to day lives because there are other places in the world where we can get seafood.  

The 2004 underwater earthquake that struck Indonesia was recorded as a 9.1 and killed ~228,000 people. Although a few Americans died who were there, one can’t say that this big earthquake had a big impact on the United States.  

The most recent big earthquake was located on the underwater shelf 91 km SE of Sand Point Alaska at depth of 40 km. This small island is just outside the long Alaskan Peninsula pointing out toward the Aleutian Islands in the northern Pacific Ocean.  The October 19, 2020 earthquake at 4.54 PM  EDT was rated by the USGS at 7.5. Up to 5:23PM on October 20, 2020 (25 hours later) there had been 45 large aftershock earthquakes rated moderate between 4.0 and 5.9 and many more under 4.0. These aftershocks are strong enough to tip over furniture and make cracks in your walls. A 7.5 would destroy most houses. 

This part of Alaska is remote from the mainland without roads to access the communities on the peninsula. These communities have airstrips or harbors to reach other areas by air or sea. The land is mountainous. They communicate by radio. Consequently, it is not heavily populated. I have heard no specific damage reports other than one man who said that the earthquake blew out every window in his house and shattered the glass into tiny pieces. A tsunami alert was announced and some buoys in the pacific dropped up and down 30 feet but the largest reaching shore were very minimal. King Cove and Perryville are two towns near Sand Point on the peninsula.

When you look on Google maps at this area, you will see that this underwater shelf drops off precipitously for many thousand feet and runs all along the peninsula and represents the area where the Pacific plate is being subducted (forced under) the North American Craton which is moving west. All along this shelf is the fault line where earthquakes are often located; at some places are active volcanoes. It is an area of great interest to earthquake watchers because the pressure generated seems to pass many hundreds of mile along the fault which leads into the Juan de Fuca fault line in the eastern Pacific called the Cascadia subduction zone and later into the San Andreas and other connected fault lines. 

As I began reading more about this particular earthquake, I was shocked to hear that some professional disaster consultants were saying that this particular earthquake was far larger than 7.5, probably a 9.0. It continued shaking for about 4 hours straight. They said that the seismologists of the USGS routinely downgrade the power rating of these earthquakes and even alter the actual seismograph records. Why would they lie?

A Psalmist wrote more than 2000 years ago in Psalm 120: 1-2 In my distress I cried to the LORD, and He answered me. Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue. 

I’ve mentioned Dutchsinse many times and in my last letter. I saw his video on the night of Oct. 19. He was concerned about even a 7.5 magnitude earthquake eventually spreading down into the west coast of the USA which has had some strange aberrations of the small tremors on the coast as well as those strange hot spots all along the North American Craton we saw in the New Madrid zone two weeks ago.

Incidentally, in the video two weeks ago during Hurricane Delta we saw two long, hot, infrared streaks which were unexplained along the area where the individual multiple ground hot spots were seen. Direct Energy Weapons were considered but not discussed. A video posted by Florida Marquis on YouTube on October 16 made a 20 minute video making a good case to explain this phenomenon entitled EXPERIMENTAL MILITARY HYPERSONIC AIRCRAFT DEPLOY HIGH POWERED LASERS TO SUPER-HEAT THE ATMOSPHERE. I think if you search YouTube for this title you’ll find it. [Something seems to have changed: If I post a link to any video now, it enters the video itself which I can’t post on Tiny Letter.] Of course, the ground hot spots seemed related to the collision of the plate with another all around the North American Craton. 

The most significant information I found was a video from a group called Emergency Management Associates. They describe themselves as Providing Private Sector Industry Professionals With the Latest Technology in Disaster Preparedness, Loss Prevention and Disaster Recovery; they are based in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Ron Tyler from EMA was on the air live on YouTube in the follow-up assessment of this earthquake and started off with the observation that the needle on the seismographs were going off the graph meaning it was much larger than a 7.5. They estimated a 9+ strength. Their communications were also mysteriously disrupted for some time before going online. 

Their YouTube video was entitled Emergency Management Associates Cascadia CMTE Earthquake In Alaska Monday October 19, 2020. Copy\Paste those words on YouTube search and you will find it.  It runs 1 hour and 22 minutes. They show how the seismographs from all over the Pacific showed the “off the graph” recordings of the earthquake. They also showed the evidence of  how the USGS seismologists changed the seismographs to hide the magma filling activity in northwestern US volcanoes and downplayed the strength of the big earthquake. In this case, I think that seeing is believing. Ron Tyler and his expert guest were very credible. 

I took some notes as the video ran along. EMA doesn’t trust USGS and European sites…Canadian data is more trustworthy. Mt. Rainier magma infiltration is rising. Seismographs are turned down to about 35-40% of what is really there. Pictures are showing the top of Rainier bulging. “This is serious!” 

Mt. Adams, south of Seattle, has been filling up with magma for the last 5 days 

Mt. Baker is north of Seattle is filling up

Mt. Hood, just inland from Portland, Oregon, has been very active as well and their seismographs have been turned down. At 48:35 it shows unaltered (not turned down) activity during the Alaska earthquake. You read it from left to right and it is at ~14:35 PDT which is 5:35 PM EDT. Crater Lake, Oregon is active. 

Mt. Shasta infilling magma down in northern California. Tyler’s report is moving down the west coast from north to south. Most of these mountains are venting steam at the present time. 

Mt. Lassan, same. 

Mammoth  Mountain farther south in east central California is not part of the Cascadia but shows signs of increased magma

All the crusts worldwide are moving. 

At 1 hour 13 minutes on the counter, the seismograph of Eastern Washington is amazing. Magma is moving near Yakima south and east of Mt. Rainier. Magma movement underground started here October 3.

Synopsis of video: The Alaska earthquake was huge and underreported by our official governmental agency, The United States Geological Survey. They falsified the seismographs from all areas they controlled. Volcanic activity in the western Cascadia Mountain chain is increasing at every point. Many large cities are close to these mountains. 

 Perhaps I shouldn’t close without encouraging anyone reading this letter who has not believed on Jesus as his Lord and Savior to respond to His offer of eternal life with Him in Heaven. God’s Word says all humans have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory, and are going to be separated from Him forever if they don’t call on Jesus to save them. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. But what does else does God’s Word say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,”that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.” Don’t wait any longer. God created you and loves you. He wants you to be with Him forever. 

Believers, keep looking up. Our redemption is drawing near. Those who die in Jesus will be with Him immediately. Soon He will call up His children still alive on the earth to come up to Him. That is the “rapture” we refer to. “By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise. After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.” 

And all God’s people said, “Amen!”

Serving Jesus with you,

Paul, for the Jarretts

I just received an e-mail from a man who is dear to me and to our church. He has gone through serious surgery and treatment for cancer and now they have found more cancer. But God who brought him through the first time is using all of this to lift him up, fill him with faith, joy and confidence. Here is his e-mail to me with his name removed:

Received promising news regarding treatment options for the cancer that has returned on my neck. Turns out that the results from the biopsy show high levels of the PD-L1 protein which makes me a good candidate for Immunotherapy. It was explained to me that the high levels of protein present in neck cancer are very rare and the doctors seemed genuinely surprised and encouraged by these results. One doctor even said “for some reason your PD-L1 came back at a surprisingly high number”.
I have an explanation. I’d like to thank everyone who has been praying for me these past several months. God has performed a miracle by providing a treatment option that will be less stressful to my body (no hair loss, less nausea and fatigue, less frequent trips for treatment) while also providing the potential for a better outcome.
Thank you to all those who have been praying for me. I wanted each of you to know that your prayers have been heard and answered. My reverence and dedication to prayer has been strengthened; another blessing received.
Thank you, and your continued prayers appreciated,

Last week we shared that the virus was not the last thing to happen in 2020. Beginning late last year we have been observing that 2020 will be a horrible year for the world. (But a great year if you are in Christ). Not to let us down, the murder and following riots have been on everyone’s mind this week.

I.
There are a few thoughts that might help give some clarity to what is going on. First, the murder is a function of hate. Hatred will always find an excuse to inflict itself on others. It might be the color of a person’s skin, sitting in the wrong section in hockey game can get you beat up, it might be a person’s gender, political or religious persuasion, or even where they are born. But the excuses are not the problem. The problem is hatred. Don’t fall into the trap of using the excuse to label the hatred. It muddies the waters.

Just for instance, three of the four officers who lost their jobs because of the murder in Minneapolis are not white. The white cop who is charged with murder has a history of using his badge to express his hatred of people in the past.

The folks who are making this about race and who are rioting are also expressing hatred. Innocent people have been injured. Minority owned properties have been destroyed. The cities around the country are on fire. Some African Americans have just as much hatred as some Anglo Americans do. Racism at this point is a two way street. The problem is the unredeemed nature of all humanity. Without Jesus there is hatred.

II.
Another area of thing to observe with this tragedy is the nature of crime in the United States. There are half again as many whites killed by police as there are African Americans. Proportionately one might think the number should be higher, but even if it were, there is a problem with how we perceive the police. The idea that race is the dividing line in police departments is just simply false. Increasingly police departments represent the community they serve. Recently in Indianapolis we had a funeral for an African American officer killed in the line of duty. No riots for her. She was a focus of love and appreciation (as it should be).

Police have a difficult job in that they deal with the worst of us. And since they are fallen individuals as well, that job guarantees there will be less than ideal results. Pray for police. Do some departments desperately need reform? Absolutely. In Anderson we are blessed with a Sherriff who loves the Lord. The protests here are peaceful. But even here not every thing runs smoothly all the time. I am so grateful for our Sherriff department and our city police. Pray for police.

III.

Thirdly, there are several cultures of hatred in our land. You will find them where ever people think like slaves. One of the markers is corruption of language. Anything that subverts the good is celebrated. Language is not just crude but is also used to veil the intentions of those who use it. Slaves don’t want the main street to understand them. Language becomes the identifying feature of belonging. This is true of Antifa, White supremacists, and urban gang cultures.

Another feature of slave culture is do as little as possible, as little as is required to avoid punishment. Don’t make other slaves look bad by doing more than is called for. This promotes poverty and unproductivity as well as resentment toward any who actually accomplish something with their lives. For people born into this culture, one can hardly blame them for doing what they are taught by their parents example.

A third way to identify the slave culture is personal responsibility. A slave is not responsible for themselves. Some one else must be responsible to employ, feed, educate and care for them. This is a seed bed for hatred.

The solution to the slave culture is Jesus. He alone breaks the chains and sets the prisoner free. When you see the slave culture share Jesus.

IV.
Finally, in the United States, there is a threat far more dangerous to African Americans than rogue cops or departments that allow rogue cops to continue on the force. African Americans and Anglo Americans for that matter, are far more likely to be killed by an African American than any other group. This still is not a matter of race. But it is time for the African American community to take responsibility to clean things up. In Indianapolis there are several efforts to do just that. And they are doing a great job. This is not a matter of judgementalism. We need to recognize these efforts, support them and encourage them no matter what our skin color is. In Anderson there have been several efforts to do that. My good friend Rev. Early Dixon started the Impact center to do just that. Some of what he started still is active. The Crossing, Man 4 Man, the Christian Center, and Operation Love are just a few of these efforts that deserve our unconditional support.

Christians, today is the day of salvation. It is more urgent than ever that we reach out in Jesus name. Lives submitted to Him are our only hope.

love,
Pastor Art