Here they come again, just like they did in Hurricane Katrina. I am reminded of the Jimmy Durante line, Everyone wants to get in on the Act.
Although God did punish Israel for its rebellion and disobedience I believe that the natural disasters are in Gods Providencial Plan and are just a sample of what is in store for this world as pointed out by John in his Revelation. I don't Believe that God uses a daily planner in implementing his plan.
SANDY: United States punishment.
Discussion in 'General Baptist Discussions' started by Berean, Nov 2, 2012.
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Then what was the hurricane of '38 punishment for? How about the hurricane that devastated Galveston??
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John Piper's not attempting to divine the weather again, is he?
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Thats just the start--just wait in the upcomming months whats gonna happen to make that look like a tea party IF what some are saying is on the way is true or not.
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Why do Christians act like this is an impossibility?
God is righteous and He is just. He does not strive with man forever. Judgment does come. He proved it with the flood. He proved it with Sodom and Gomorrah. He sent Jonah to warn Nineveh and had they not repented God's wrath would have been just. One day this earth will be destroyed and a new heaven and new earth will come. So, it stands to reason that the God who does not change can, does, and will use natural forces to exact judgment. He does command the wind and the waves. -
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I know the Lord sent Hurricane Camille to destroy our home in 1969 because I made an F+ in Art Appreciation.
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God expects us to consider our ways.....
1._____ God hath decreed in himself, from all eternity, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably, all things, whatsoever comes to pass; yet so as thereby is God neither the author of sin nor hath fellowship with any therein; nor is violence offered to the will of the creature, nor yet is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established; in which appears his wisdom in disposing all things, and power and faithfulness in accomplishing his decree.
( Isaiah 46:10; Ephesians 1:11; Hebrews 6:17; Romans 9:15, 18; James 1:13; 1 John 1:5; Acts 4:27, 28; John 19:11; Numbers 23:19; Ephesians 1:3-5 )
6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. -
God deals differently with Israel then he does with The Church.
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All of the things that are happening now, from the earthquake in Haiti, and other regions of the world, to the tornadoes and hurricanes that are going on here in the USA are signs that the bible is in the final stages of time. Wars, rumors of wars, earthquakes in divers places, pestilences, seems like I read this somewhere before.........
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