Mass Bird and Fish Death

So yeah, I'm a little slow on the update, 7 days after the happening has probably caused a loss of weirdness to the mass of the birds and fish dying all around the world. But what has been quoted several times on the internet has been Zephaniah 1:2-3 and Hosea 4:1-3.

""I will utterly sweep away everything

from the face of the earth," declares the LORD.

"I will sweep away man and beast;

I will sweep away the birds of the heavens

and the fish of the sea,

and the rubble with the wicked.

I will cut off mankind

from the face of the earth," declares the LORD."

Zepheniah 1:2-3.

"Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel,

for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.

There is no faithfulness or steadfast love,

and no knowledge of God in the land;

there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;

they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Therefore the land mourns,

and all who dwell in it languish,

and also the beasts of the field

and the birds of the heavens,

and even the fish of the sea are taken away."

Hosea 4:1-3.

Now, don't get me wrong, this is strange and I bet there are some 2012 cults going crazy right, but what does this really mean for us? Should we automatically assume the apocalypse?

The pretty crazy part of this whole event is that it's not just in one place, but all around the world, and the events seem to not be connected. Even if every one of these events can be explained and are shown to not be divine, we know that God is sovereign over all things and is the one who causes all things to happen. Who says that just because something can be explained that it cannot be divine? This is an act of God, EVERYTHING is an act of God, but what does it mean for us?

1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 talks about how the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night (v. 2). It goes on to say how we should not be surprised because we are not in darkness (v. 4), but should rather be awake and sober (v. 6) in faith, hope and love (v. 8), and to continue encouraging and building one another up (v. 11). We, as Christians, should ALWAYS be aware of the coming doom that every man will see. The very purpose of Revelations is to scare us, for us to understand that we do not have forever. John, in 1 John 2:18 calls it "the last hour", and I think he knew that the earth may not have been in the last hour, but is telling us to live like Jesus could come back at any second. I mean, even if Jesus doesn't come back, it doesn't take much for us to meet our last hour!

How do we look at an event like this? It should be a reminder of what is coming so that we get off of our lazy buts and get to work to save as many as possible right now!