Do all natural catastrophes represent remedial judgments of God? No - most are just the products of the natural processes of our weather systems in a fallen world. How then can we determine when a natural calamity is a remedial judgment?
One important factor is the timing of the event as it relates to the sins of the nation. Another factor is the magnitude of the event. Remedial judgments are designed to have great shock value in order to capture people’s attention and force them to think with an eternal perspective.
A casual reading of any of the media’s news reports over the past several months should raise some eyebrows.
Mother Nature goes to extremes in the summer, spoiling the gift of good weather with hurricanes, heat waves, fires and floods. This year she started early. On May 2, Cyclone Nargis laid waste to large parts of Myanmar. According to the latest counts, the disaster left 2.4 million people destitute, more than 50,000 missing and at least 84,000 dead.
On May 12, China’s Sichuan Province suffered an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale. China’s state media reported that more than 5 million people lost their homes; an estimated 80,000 people, many of them children, were killed.
Consider the U.S. in June: Iowa experienced a deluge of historic proportions, with large-scale crop destruction spiking the cost of food and raising fears of an inflationary spiral.
California, where the driest two months of spring on record turned grass and brush into kindling, endured more than 1,000 wildfires and braced for more to come.
On the East Coast in June, more than 30 people perished during the kind of heat wave that usually comes in July or August.
Earlier this month, Natural News reported that natural disasters are up more than 400% in the last 20 years! Natural disasters are increasing in frequency, ravaging the world, our country, and even our own homes.
These events follow a pattern of more frequent, more erratic, more unpredictable, and more extreme weather events that are affecting more people.
That's the key to understanding all of this.
RECOMMENDED READING:
Bible Prophecy And Environmentalism by Todd Strandberg at Rapture Ready
Global Warning by Jeffrey K. Radt published by Raiders News Network (RNN)
The Stage Is Set: Will It Be Judgment Or Destruction? by Jeffrey K. Radt published by Raiders News Network (RNN)
The Stage Is Set: Will We Ask For Destruction Or Plead For Mercy? by Jeffrey K. Radt published by Raiders News Network (RNN)
1 Comments:
Speaking of warming, after many Christians go to Google and read certain articles, they may really make it "hot" for Strandberg, Ice, Jeffrey, Lindsey, LaHaye and others who have enriched themselves with a 178-year-old, British-invented theory that was never a part of any pre-1830 Christian creed or theology and never a part of any pre-1830 organized church! The Google articles include "Open Letter to Todd Strandberg," "The Rapture Index (Mad Theology)," "Thomas Ice (Hired Gun)," "Thomas Ice (Bloopers)," "Wily Jeffrey," "Hal Lindsey's Many Divorces," "LaHaye's Temperament," "Walvoord's Posttrib Varieties - Plus," "The Unoriginal John Darby," Pretrib Rapture Diehards" (the most accurate short outline of pretrib history), "X-Raying Margaret," "Famous Rapture Watchers," "Pretrib Hypocrisy," "Revisers of Pretrib Rapture History," "Pretrib Rapture Desperados," "Deceiving and Being Deceived," and "Scholars Weigh My Research" --- all written by the same evangelical historian! Are you shocked? Well, didn't Jesus warn that MANY would come in His name and deceive MANY? Deception involves something that is enjoyable but untrue - deception to get OUT of something bad and never to get INTO something bad. Folks do anything to get out of hurricanes, floods, prisons, Communist countries etc.; they never use deception to get into them! Who ever heard of MISfortunetellers! Lord bless, check out the above articles.
Michael
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