Last Updated : July 25, 2006
"But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her
mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto
them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall
understand that these men have provoked the LORD. And it
came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these
words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and
their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah,
and all their goods."
Numbers 16:30-32, KJV
"And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and
among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they
also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great
trembling."
1 Samuel 14:15, KJV
"And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the
LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and
strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the
rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and
after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the
earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD
was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small
voice."
1 Kings 19:11-12, KJV
"Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of
the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty. The lofty looks
of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be
bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one
that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted
up; and he shall be brought low: And upon all the cedars of
Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks
of Bashan, And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the
hills that are lifted up, And upon every high tower, and
upon every fenced wall, And upon all the ships of Tarshish,
and upon all pleasant pictures. And the loftiness of man
shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be
made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
And the idols he shall utterly abolish. And they shall go
into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the
earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his
majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. In
that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols
of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to
the moles and to the bats; To go into the clefts of the
rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of
the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth
to shake terribly the earth."
Isaiah 2:10-21, KJV
"Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath
and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall
destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For the stars of
heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their
light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the
moon shall not cause her light to shine. And I will punish
the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity;
and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and
will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. I will make a
man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden
wedge of Ophir. Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the
earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the
LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger."
Isaiah 13:9-13, KJV
"Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O
inhabitant of the earth. And it shall come to pass, that he
who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the
pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall
be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are
open, and the foundations of the earth do shake. The earth
is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the
earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro
like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and
the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it
shall fall, and not rise again. And it shall come to pass in
that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high
ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the
earth. And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are
gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and
after many days shall they be visited. Then the moon shall
be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts
shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his
ancients gloriously."
Isaiah 24:17-23, KJV
"Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye
year to year; let them kill sacrifices. Yet I will distress
Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall
be unto me as Ariel. And I will camp against thee round
about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I
will raise forts against thee. And thou shalt be brought
down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech
shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of
one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy
speech shall whisper out of the dust. Moreover the multitude
of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude
of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away:
yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. Thou shalt be
visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with
earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the
flame of devouring fire. And the multitude of all the
nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight
against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall
be as a dream of a night vision. It shall even be as when an
hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh,
and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth,
and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is
faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of
all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion."
Isaiah 29:1-8, KJV
"And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall
come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my
fury shall come up in my face. For in my jealousy and in the
fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there
shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; So that the
fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the
beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon
the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the
earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall
be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every
wall shall fall to the ground. And I will call for a sword
against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD:
every man's sword shall be against his brother. And I will
plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will
rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people
that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great
hailstones, fire, and brimstone. Thus will I magnify myself,
and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many
nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD."
Ezekiel 38:18-23, KJV
"Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up
the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them
come up: Beat your plowshares into swords, and your
pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather
yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty
ones to come down, O LORD. Let the heathen be wakened, and
come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit
to judge all the heathen round about. Put ye in the sickle,
for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press
is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the
day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. The sun
and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw
their shining. The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and
utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the
earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his
people, and the strength of the children of Israel. So shall
ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my
holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall
no strangers pass through her any more."
Joel 3:9-17, KJV
"For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little
while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the
sea, and the dry land; And I will shake all nations, and the
desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house
with glory, saith the LORD of hosts."
Haggai 2:6-7, KJV
While some of the previous verses from the Old Testament may
referring to future events at the time of Christ's Return,
there is also Scriptural proof that some of the Prophets
were writing of an actual physical event which occurred in
the days of King Uzziah. We find clear proof of this in the
following verses, where both Amos and Zechariah, two of the
minor Prophets who lives at the time of the Babylonian
captivity, speak of a great earthquake which occurred in
Jerusalem:
"The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa,
which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of
Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of
Israel, two years before the earthquake."
Amos 1:1, KJV
"Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be
divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations
against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken,
and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of
the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of
the people shall not be cut off from the city. Then shall
the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when
he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in
that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem
on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the
midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there
shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall
remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the
valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall
flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days
of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and
all the saints with thee. And it shall come to pass in that
day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: But it
shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day,
nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time
it shall be light."
Zechariah 14:1-7, KJV
"And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from
the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the
rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of
the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves
after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and
appeared unto many. Now when the centurion, and they that
were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those
things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly
this was the Son of God."
Matthew 27:51-54, KJV
"And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of
the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the
stone from the door, and sat upon it."
Matthew 28:2, KJV
"And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the
foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all
the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed."
Acts 16:26, KJV
"See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they
escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more
shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh
from heaven: Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he
hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth
only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more,
signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as
of things that are made, that those things which cannot be
shaken may remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which
cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God
acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a
consuming fire."
Hebrews 12:25-29, KJV
"And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo,
there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as
sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the
stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree
casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty
wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled
together; and every mountain and island were moved out of
their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men,
and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty
men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves
in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to
the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the
face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath
of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who
shall be able to stand?"
Revelation 6:12-17, KJV
"And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the
tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were
slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were
affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven...And the
temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in
his temple the ark of his testament: and there were
lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake,
and great hail."
Revelation 11:13, 19, KJV
"And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great
river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that
the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. And I
saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth
of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of
the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of
devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of
the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the
battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as
a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his
garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he
gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew
tongue Armageddon. And the seventh angel poured out his vial
into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple
of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. And there
were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a
great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the
earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great
city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the
nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before
God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness
of his wrath. And every island fled away, and the mountains
were not found."
Revelation 16:12-20, KJV