On February 22, 2011, at 12:51pm, the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, was struck by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake. According to the latest news reports, 103 have been confirmed dead and approximately 228 are listed as still missing. Asscherick, a Seventh-day Adventist evangelist, was in Christchurch presenting a Bible prophecy seminar and shares his first-hand account of the earthquake and its devastation in an article. He wrote: “It looked and felt like a scene straight out of the Second Coming.”

The Sabbath of May 1, 2010, was such a wonderfully relaxing day filled with simple blessings. For the first time in a long time, I was able to sit down with a good book. I choose I Will Come Again, the 1966 edition of Carlyle B. Haynes’ 1926 book, The Return of Jesus, which includes the sections that were censored and removed from the original publication by the U.S. Government. I did a brief Internet [...]