
Twin earthquakes struck Venezuela's Caribbean coast, devastating the port city of La Guaira, killing at least 920 people and destroying 250 buildings in the country's worst seismic event since 1900. Jesus explicitly warned that earthquakes in various places would be among the signs marking the approach of the end of the age, and the increasing frequency and intensity of such events forms part of a broader pattern Scripture describes as 'birth pains.' As Jesus declared in Matthew 24:7, 'There will be famines and earthquakes in various places — all these are the beginning of birth pains.'