Giant Spiders in Australia

Giant Tarantula

In today’s announcements, LCG reported a spider problem in Australia:

End-Time Invasion by Beasts. Giant poisonous spiders are invading a coastal town in northeast Australia. These palm-sized spiders carry enough venom to kill a dog and make a human very sick. Usually residents of the wilderness, these spiders live under logs and rocks but are being driven into town by recent torrential rains. Residents are being warned to take precautions when gardening, lest they suffer a bite (The Times, May 6, 2009). Although this is not a “plague of biblical proportions,” the spider situation in Queensland may shed light on how God will fulfill one of His end-time prophecies. Leviticus 26:22 warns of how God will “send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number…” because of disobedience. Ezekiel 14:15 reiterates this warning. How and why various animals will become a pestilence in the last days (Luke 21:11) is not clearly known. However, it is possible that God will use changes in weather patterns to bring about some of these prophesied end-time events.

It remains to be seen precisely how the biblically-prophesied pestilences will ultimately be manifest. However, in the U.S.A. brown recluse spiders have been able to infect people with a sometimes deadly form of MRSA (a type of staph bacteria).

Ticks from deer also transmit Lyme disease, which while normally not fatal, most often causes long-term misery for those so infected.

Without national repentance, those of the Anglo-descended nations are doomed to experience a variety of horrendous events.

Two articles of possibly related interest may include:

Anglo – America in Prophecy & the Lost Tribes of Israel Are the Americans, Canadians, British, Scottish, Welsh, Australians, Anglo-Southern Africans, and New Zealanders descendants of Joseph? Where are the lost ten-tribes of Israel? Who are the lost tribes of Israel? Will God punish the U.S.A., Canada, United Kingdom, and other Anglo nations? Why might God allow them to be punished first?
Can the Great Tribulation Begin in 2009, 2010, or 2011? Can the Great Tribulation begin today? What happens before in the “beginning of sorrows”? When is the earliest that the Great Tribulation can begin? What is the Day of the Lord?