Mountains being thrown into the sea in the Bible

[doulos33]

There seems to be a lot of passages in the Bible which describes mountains being thrown into the sea. This website has a list of them here:

unveilingtheapocalypse.blogspot.com/2011/10/casting-down-of-mountains.html

I’ll quote a few of them below:

Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
(Mark 11:23)

Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. (Psalm 46:2-3)

The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. (Rev 8:8)

Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, ― So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found no more… (Rev 18:21)

The above passages are based on the Book of Jeremiah:

“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, declares the Lord, which destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burnt mountain. No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, declares the Lord." (Jer 51:25-26)

“How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations! The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.” (Jer 51:41-42)

“When you finish reading this book, tie a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates, and say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her…” (Jer 51:63-64)

The author of the blog on the link above argues that these passages describe the future collapse of the volcano Cumbre Vieja in the Canary Islands, which scientists say will cause a mega-tsunami which will hit the east coast of the U.S, destroying all the major cities.

Does anyone know of any other passages in the Bible which describes mountains being thrown into the sea?

 

[Pfaffenhoffen]

There seems to be a lot of passages in the Bible which describes mountains being thrown into the sea. This website has a list of them here:

unveilingtheapocalypse.blogspot.com/2011/10/casting-down-of-mountains.html

I’ll quote a few of them below:

Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
(Mark 11:23)

Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. (Psalm 46:2-3)

The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood. (Rev 8:8)

Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, ― So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found no more… (Rev 18:21)

The above passages are based on the Book of Jeremiah:

“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, declares the Lord, which destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burnt mountain. No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, declares the Lord." (Jer 51:25-26)

“How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations! The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.” (Jer 51:41-42)

“When you finish reading this book, tie a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates, and say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her…” (Jer 51:63-64)

The author of the blog on the link above argues that these passages describe the future collapse of the volcano Cumbre Vieja in the Canary Islands, which scientists say will cause a mega-tsunami which will hit the east coast of the U.S, destroying all the major cities.

Does anyone know of any other passages in the Bible which describes mountains being thrown into the sea?

That’s an hyperbole.
I hope the tsunami does not catch the author of the blog…

 

[COPLAND_3]

If taken literally, a volcano does sound possible. As for Rev 8, the Aquinas Study Bible says this

8:8-9 The burning mountain means the anger of God on them. But that here one of three parts become blood is because both on islands and on ships much slaughter is seen. All this is the beginning of the end. Just as the severity of winter gradually becomes stronger, so too the end of all things. (Nerses of Lambron) Thus Haimo says, it signifies the devil extolling himself in the height of pride. Similar is the interpretation of Viegas and Aquinas. Bede says that it signifies the devil swelling with pride and burning with the fire of rage; Richard of St. Victor, that the mountain signifies outswelling, and that it is called a great mountain by reason of the greatness of the outswelling; Nicholas of Lyra, that the mountain is called great by reason of elatedness, and burning by reason of ambition;

**8:10-11 **It seems to me to refer in sequence to the extinction of creatures. For just as the mountain destroyed the sea and the fire the earth, likewise too this star, which is God’s punishment, altered rivers and springs from their habitual nature. (Nerses of Lambron) Or by water turned into blood is understood carnal wisdom, which is converted into blood when it openly persuades to evil, not those only which are without the Church, but also heretics and false Christians, who, desiring to follow their own wills, endeavor to defend themselves by their ‘wisdom’ and empty philosophy. (Haimo of Auxerre) Or by water turned into blood is the wisdom of the flesh which is wont to kill the souls of those who are lost. (St. Ambrosius Autpertus) Wormwood: By wormwood, which is a most bitter herb, is understood the perverted teaching of heretics; who, by their falsity, have converted the sweetness of faith into the bitterness of faithlessness, error, and evil works; because all their works and teaching are turned into bitterness. (Haimo of Auxere)

 

[GlobalWolf]

A more recent interpretation is that the flaming mountain could be a large meteorite or asteroid. Definitely an interesting possibility, although the language allows for a volcanic eruption or the flaming mountain being symbolical of something less physical (as the Aquinas study Bible suggests).