Earthquakes And The Book of Revelation

There have been some earthquakes where I live recently.

We don't normally get earthquakes here and people kinda freaked out about it. They got scared and talked about it for days after.

One of my coworkers said that, after she had experienced the (minor) earthquake (resulting in no damage to anyone or anything that I know personally), she got on the phone to her husband, and he told her to read the book of Revelation from The Bible. She said that he was not joking. He was serious that she should read Revelation.

One of my students on Facebook, after the earthquake, posted that we should all read our Bibles.



So let's take all emotion out of these statements and take a look at what's being said:
There is an emergency situation which has happened and some action is required.
If your first response to this emergency situation is to read an instruction manual about how to handle the emergency situation, you're pretty much screwed.
For example, if your submarine gets hit by a torpedo and your first response is to go and get the manual about what to do when your submarine gets hit by a torpedo... you've already drowned.
And the Book of Revelation isn't even an instruction manual! It's supposed to be a telling of the end of the world. So, technically, if you believe that the earthquakes are a sign that the end of the world is here, reading the Book of Revelation will really only tell you about what you're currently experiencing! It's a story about what's happening now! Personally, I'd rather open a window and see what's happening around me. But that's just me. I like to actually experience life until I'm not allowed to anymore. I'm more of a thinker than a reader.