The volcano which appeared in the blockbuster movie the “Lord of the Rings” in a surprise eruption with no warning has killed and horribly burned tourists on the island as they jumped into the sea to try and save themselves.

The disaster happened this week at White Island which is New Zealand’s most active volcano that appeared in the movie the “Lord of the Rings.” But the island is the dangerous apex or tip of a monstrous volcano with over 70 percent of the volcano sitting under the water.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern initially said people were unaccounted for after the eruption and that there were dozens of tourists who were “on or around” the volcano when it erupted prompting fears for the tourists.

As people had been seen walking on the volcano moments before the eruption. When cameras providing a live feed from the volcano showed people walking inside the rim before the cameras suddenly went dark as the surprise eruption occurred.

Reports say there were people there on the island from New Zealand, Australia, the US, Germany, China, the UK, and Malaysia.

The confirmed death toll has climbed to six now, and eight people are still missing, who are believed to also have died in the volcanic eruption.

With the prime minister saying that experts had concluded there was no hope for the eight people still on the island following the explosion.

About another 30 people are also hospitalized with serious burns over their bodies from the catastrophe with many suffering greater than 70 per cent of their body surface burned where some could still yet die.

Witnesses on boats nearby said there was no warning that the volcano was about to erupt when they said suddenly a rolling rumbling mass of ash came up and over the rim, in all directions, and it completely engulfed the island.

Onlookers in boats told how tourists ran into the sea from the island to escape the volcanoes scalding steam and ash, only to emerge covered in burns.

As the injured people were brought onto boats screaming in pain horrifically burned with skin hanging off their faces and bodies.

A paramedic who was flown by helicopter to the island to help rescue the tourists after the volcanic eruption said the scene was like something out of “the Chernobyl mini-series” with everything covered in ash.

There are questions why tourists were even on this island and why was anyone allowed to tour the crater of a big, live active volcano.

Where on the volcanoes rim and crater at the explosion there would have been huge rocks flying at ballistic speeds and blinding heat and ash.

The horrible unfortunate incident does have prophetic implications, in that the seismic activity of earthquakes and volcanoes are foretold in the Biblical prophecies (Revelation 6, Ezekiel 38) as a sign of the Last Days at the end of this age.

And right now old volcanoes are re-awakening and new volcanoes are brewing with them rising up to meet the fulfillment of the Biblical prophecies of the Holy Scripture.

And the people walking on the rim and crater of a dangerous live volcano without regard for the danger rising underneath, with them surprised with no warning by the catastrophe with horrific results is also prophetically  symbolic.

In how that today the world is ignoring the warning signs of the nearing Biblical prophecies fulfillment to where they will be surprised (Luke 21, Matthew 24) by the sudden catastrophes that will happen in the great tribulation of planet earth.

These events and conditions happening now are signs pointing to the nearing fulfillment of the Last Days prophecies at the end of this age revealing it’s time to prepare for the nearing appearance of Jesus Christ for His Church by being born again spiritually into the Kingdom of God as Jesus said we must (John 3) and His Apostles who were authorized (Matthew 16:19) described how (Acts 2).

Preparing those Biblically born again into the Kingdom of God to be ready to escape all the things that will come to pass, in the wrath of the tribulation of Revelation prophecy, that comes upon the world of disobedience. As the born again Church is not appointed unto wrath (1 Thessalonians 1:10) but instead to salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ.

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