| Sabbath afternoon one of our number was sick, and requested prayers that he might be healed. We all united in applying to the Physician who never lost a case, and while healing power came down, and the sick was healed, the Spirit fell upon me, and I was taken off in vision. I saw four angels who had a work to do on the earth, and were on their way to accomplish it. Jesus was clothed with Priestly garments. He gazed in pity on the remnant, then raised his hands upward, and with a voice of deep pity cried–“My Blood, Father, My Blood, My Blood, My Blood“. Then I saw an exceeding bright light come from God, who sat upon the great white throne, and was shed all about Jesus. Then I saw an angel with a commission from Jesus, swiftly flying to the four angels who had a work to do on the earth, and waving something up and down in his hand, and crying with a loud voice–“Hold! Hold! Hold! Hold! until the servants of God are sealed in their foreheads.” I asked my accompanying angel the meaning of what I heard, and what the four angels were about to do. He shewed me that it was God that restrained the powers, and that he gave his angels charge over things on the earth, and that the four angels had power from God to hold the four winds, and that they were about to let the four winds go, and while they had started on their mission to let them go, the merciful eye of Jesus gazed on the remnant that were not all sealed, then he raised his hands to the Father and plead with him that he had spilled his blood for them.–Then another angel was commissioned to fly swiftly to the four angels, and bid them hold until the servants of God were sealed with the seal of the living God in their foreheads. [Review & Herald, August 1, 1849 paragraph 15] |
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| Revelation 7:2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of THE LIVING GOD: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, |
| Revelation 7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. |
| Revelation 7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: [and there were] sealed an hundred [and] forty [and] four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel. |
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| After this general report, we follow the events of just one typhoon – Typhoon Kalmaegi – as it transverses across the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos and into Thailand. |
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| https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4dgp1p3p1o |
| How climate change worsens heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and floods |
| Reported on 9 August 2021 and Updated 5 November 2025 |
| Many extreme weather events are becoming more common and more intense around the world, fuelled by human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels. |
| Here are four ways that rising temperatures are affecting weather extremes. |
| 1. Hotter, longer heatwaves |
| Even a small increase in average temperatures makes a big difference to heat extremes. |
| As the range of daily temperatures shifts to warmer levels, hotter days become more likely and more intense. |
| Scientists use computer models to simulate how individual extreme weather events unfold in two scenarios: |
| > 1. today’s world with about 1.3C or more of human-caused warming |
| > 2. a hypothetical world without human influence on the climate. |
| That way, they can estimate, how much a particular heatwave, storm or drought was affected by climate change. |
| In the UK, temperatures topped 40C for the first time on record in July 2022, causing extensive disruption. |
| This would have been extremely unlikely without climate change, according to scientists at the World Weather Attribution group (WWA). |
| In June 2025, the Met Office said the chance of seeing temperatures above 40C was now more than 20 times greater than during than 1960s. And the likelihood of reaching such temperatures will continue to rise as the world warms, it said. |
| Around the world, climate change has made countless heatwaves much more likely and more intense, the WWA says. |
| Examples include 48C temperatures in Mali in April 2024 and prolonged, widespread heat in Scandinavia in July 2025, with temperatures regularly passing 30C in Norway. |
| Heatwaves can happen as a result of heat domes, which are created when an area of high pressure stays over the same area for days or weeks, trapping hot air underneath. |
| One theory suggests that higher temperatures in the Arctic – which has warmed nearly four times faster than the global average – are affecting the fast band of winds high in the atmosphere known as the jet stream. |
| That could be making heat domes more likely, although this is not clear cut. |
| 2. More extreme rain |
| For every 1C rise in air temperature, the atmosphere can hold about 7% more moisture. |
| With more moisture available, rainfall can become heavier. |
| Between October 2023 and March 2024, the UK experienced the second-wettest such period on record. |
| This level of rainfall was made at least four times as likely by human-caused warming, according to the WWA. |
| In September 2024, deadly floods hit much of central Europe, including Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Austria and Italy. |
| The intensity of the rainfall over four days in mid-September was made twice as likely by climate change, the WWA says. |
| Globally, heavy rainfall events have become more frequent and intense over most land regions due to human activity, according to the UN’s climate body, the IPCC. |
| It says this pattern will continue with further warming. |
| Various factors affect whether such heavy rainfall leads to flooding, including the quality of flood defences and drainage systems. |
| 3. Longer droughts |
| Linking climate change with specific individual droughts can be difficult, because there are lots of different factors that affect the availability of water. |
| Natural weather systems, for example, can play a key role, as was the case with drought in southern Africa in early 2024. |
| But climate change is shifting global rainfall patterns. While some of the world is getting wetter, other parts are becoming drier, which can make them more prone to drought. |
| And heatwaves fuelled by climate change can worsen dry conditions when they do occur, by increasing evaporation from the soil. |
| This makes the air above warm up more quickly, leading to more intense heat. |
| During periods of hot weather, increased demand for water, especially from farmers, puts even more stress on the water supply. |
| In parts of East Africa, there were five failed rainy seasons in a row, between 2020 and 2022, as the region suffered its worst drought for 40 years. This displaced 1.2 million people in Somalia alone. |
| Climate change has made droughts like this at least 100 times more likely, according to the WWA. |
| Human-caused warming was also the main driver of drought in the Amazon rainforest in the second half of 2023, the WWA found. This was the region’s worst drought since modern records began. |
| 4. More fuel for wildfires |
| Fires happen naturally in many parts of the world. |
| It is difficult to know if climate change has caused or worsened a specific wildfire because other factors are also relevant, such as changes to the way land is used. |
| But climate change is making the weather conditions needed for wildfires to spread more likely, the IPCC says. |
| Extreme, long-lasting heat draws more moisture out of soils and vegetation. |
| These tinder-dry conditions provide fuel for fires, which can spread at an incredible speed, particularly if winds are strong. |
| The north-east Amazon experienced an extreme fire season in early 2024. Climate change made the weather conditions that helped the fires to spread between 30 and 70 times more likely, according to a report on the state of global wildfires. |
| That meant the burned area was about four times greater than if humans hadn’t heated up the planet, the scientists found. |
| Meanwhile, the burned area in the Southern California fires of January 2025 was about 25 times larger due to climate change, they estimated, although there are large uncertainties in the precise figures. |
| Many fires are started deliberately or accidentally by humans. But rising temperatures may also increase the likelihood of lightning in the world’s northernmost forests, which can in turn trigger more fires. |
| The combined effects of shifting land use and climate change mean extreme wildfires are projected to become more frequent and intense globally, according to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). |
| The number of the most extreme fires may rise by up to 50% by 2100, UNEP suggests. |
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| Philippines declares state of calamity as typhoon death toll rises to 114 |
| 6 November 2025, 02:28 GMT |
| Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has declared a state of calamity after Typhoon Kalmaegi, one of the strongest typhoons this year, caused severe flooding in central Philippines, leaving at least 114 dead. |
| The storm has flooded entire towns on Cebu, the region’s most populous island, where 71 deaths were reported. Another 127 are missing and 82 injured, according to officials. |
| Cebu provincial authorities reported a further 28 deaths which were not included in the tally released by the national civil defence office, according to AFP. |
| Kalmaegi left the Philippines on Thursday morning and is moving toward central Vietnam, where residents are still reeling from floods that killed dozens. |
| President Marcos Jr told reporters on Thursday that he made the decision because of the damage already caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi, and in anticipation of another storm Uwan, which is expected to hit the country over the weekend. |
| The national disaster agency said more than 400,000 people had been displaced by the disaster in Cebu, home to 2.5 million people. |
| Typhoon Kalmaegi, locally called Tino, is the 20th tropical cyclone this year to hit the Philippines, a country prone to powerful storms. |
| It comes barely a month after back-to-back typhoons killed over a dozen people and wrought damage to infrastructure and crops. |
| Super Typhoon Ragasa, known locally as Nando, struck in late September, followed swiftly by Typhoon Bualoi, known locally as Opong. |
| In the months before, an extraordinarily wet monsoon season caused widespread flooding, sparking anger and protests [*see report below] over unfinished and sub-standard flood control systems that have been blamed on corruption. |
| Typhoon Kalmaegi left the Philippines at 00:30 local time (16:30pm GMT) on Thursday morning. |
| It has since strengthened, with maximum sustained winds increasing from 150 km/h to 155 km/h. |
| It is expected to make landfall in central Vietnam later on Thursday, according to forecasts. |
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| https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czrp7xkd2gpo |
| *Reported on 17 September 2025 |
| Crissa Tolentino has long been resigned to floods as a way of life. |
| The 36-year-old public school teacher takes a paddle boat through the inundated streets nearly every day. It’s the only way to travel from her home in the suburbs to the heart of Apalit, a low-lying town near the Philippine capital Manila. |
| The boat takes her to work, and to the clinic where she is being treated for cancer. She says she only sees dry streets for about two months in the year. |
| But this year she is very angry. |
| An unusually fierce monsoon has derailed daily life more than ever in the South East Asian nation, and sparked anger and allegations about corruption in flood control projects. |
| The rains have stranded millions mid-commute, left cars floating in streets that have turned into rivers and caused outbreaks of leptospirosis, a liver ailment that spreads through the excrement of sewer rats. |
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| https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62e0764e6qo |
| Reported 6 November 2025 |
| Typhoon Kalmaegi, which killed at least 114 people in the Philippines, is barrelling towards central Vietnam with increasing wind speeds. |
| Thousands of people who live in coastal communities have been asked to evacuate ahead of its arrival, which is expected to bring waves of up to 8m (26 ft), according to Vietnam’s weather bureau. |
| Kalmaegi, one of the strongest typhoons this year, is likely to cause further devastation in a country which has already been battling record rains and deadly floods over the past week. |
| More than 50 flights have been cancelled or rescheduled, while six airports in the region have suspended operations. |
| Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha called Kalmaegi a “very abnormal” storm and urged local officials to treat it with urgency. |
| Earlier on Thursday, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr declared a state of calamity after the typhoon left a trail of deaths and devastation in his country. |
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| https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70jnx9e414o |
| Reported 6 November 2025 |
| Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed at least 188 people in the Philippines and five in Vietnam, according to the latest figures from the two countries. |
| The storm is now headed west to Cambodia and Laos after it barrelled through central Vietnam on Thursday with winds of up to 149km/h (92mph). |
| Towns along Vietnam’s central coast were littered with debris this morning after taking the full brunt of the storm overnight. |
| The strong winds uprooted trees, tore off roofs, and smashed large windows. Thousands of people sought shelter in schools and other public buildings as the army was deployed to help deal with the damage. |
| Vietnamese authorities have warned of possible flooding in low-lying areas. Central Vietnam has already seen record rainfall in the past week which has killed 50 people. |
| Earlier this week the same storm devastated parts of the Philippines when heavy rainfall sent torrents of mud down hillsides and into residential areas. Some poorer neighbourhoods were obliterated by the fast-moving flash floods. |
| The death toll reported on Friday was a jump from the 114 reported the previous day. Another 135 people are listed as missing. |
| Ahead of Typhoon Kalmaegi, Vietnam’s military on Thursday deployed more than 260,000 soldiers and personnel for relief efforts, along with more than 6,700 vehicles and six aircraft. |
| Shortly after the typhoon made landfall at 19:29 local time (12:29 GMT), hundreds of residents in Dak Lak province called for help, local media reported. |
| Dak Lak province is approximately 350km (215 miles) north-east of Ho Chi Minh City. |
| Many people said their homes had collapsed or been flooded, while strong winds and heavy rain continued to batter the area. |
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| https://youtu.be/zyPspQug5YE |
| Video of the above. |
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| No rest before the next one comes: |
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| https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq509yj82y8o |
| Storm declared ‘super typhoon’ as it hits Philippines |
| Reported 8 November 2025 |
| A storm bearing down on the Philippines’s largest island has been upgraded to super typhoon status, with one region already experiencing “life-threatening conditions”. |
| Typhoon Fung Wong will bring sustained winds of 185 km/h (155mph) and torrential rain to several areas on Sunday, according to the country’s meteorological service, Pagasa. |
| The eastern Bicol region was the first part of the Philippines to be directly hit by the storm on Sunday morning, with Luzon – the country’s main population centre – expected to be impacted by Sunday night. |
| Typhoon Fung Wong – known locally as Uwan – comes days after an earlier storm, Kalmaegi, left a trail of destruction and nearly 200 people dead. |
| While much of the country is expected to be impacted, there are particular concerns about those areas that could take a direct hit, including Catanduanes, an island in the east of the Bicol region, where extreme condition were reported on Sunday morning. |
| At least 204 people are now known to have died in the Philippines as a result of the earlier storm, while more than 100 are still missing. |
| Five people also died in Vietnam, where strong winds uprooted trees, tore off roofs, and smashed large windows. |
| The Philippines is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to tropical cyclones due to its location on the Pacific Ocean where such weather systems form. |
| About 20 tropical cyclones form in that region every year, half of which impact the country directly. |
| Climate change is not thought to increase the number of hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones worldwide. |
| However, warmer oceans coupled with a warmer atmosphere – fuelled by climate change – have the potential to make those that do form even more intense. That can potentially lead to higher wind speeds, heavier rainfall, and a greater risk of coastal flooding. |
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| https://news.sky.com/story/nearly-a-million-people-evacuate-as-super-typhoon-fung-wong-hits-philippines-13467085 |
| Reported November 9, 2025 |
| Nearly a million people evacuate as Super Typhoon Fung-wong hits Philippines |
| Nearly a million people have been evacuated after a storm bearing down on the Philippines intensified into a super typhoon. |
| Fung-wong started battering the country’s eastern coast ahead of landfall on Sunday, causing power outages, and forcing the evacuation of more than 916,860 people. |
| More than 30 million people could be exposed to hazards posed by Fung-wong, the Office of Civil Defence said. |
