Post by Johnny Gotham on Nov 13, 2005 0:45:49 GMT -5
If there's anything to be learned from the recent, tragic hurricanes that have struck the southern United States, it's that God is angry with America.
Now before you dismiss me as "brutish" or "bloodthirsty," please hear me out and let me explain why this idea makes sense.
It is important to recognize that God controls the weather. He created the atmosphere, the water, and the earth, so it makes sense that he controls them all. Psalm 148:8 declares that storms "do his bidding." Job 37:3,6,10-13, Psalm 147:8,16-18, Jeremiah 10:13, and Amos 4:7 attribute all natural expressions of weather to God.
I am not eliminating the possibility that sinister men are controlling some weather in a limited way through HAARP-like technologies, but even this is only because God allows them to do so.
So why does God send or allow these calamities? The answer, like most answers, lies in the Bible.
Job 37:13 states that God does indeed punish people with storms. "He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy".
As North America moves towards decadence and secularism, it certainly makes sense that the Almighty would give us a wake-up call to remind us that he's still the judge.
These disasters should be a Call to Arms for Christians to stop idolizing worldliness, and live the great commission. Win souls to the Lord, pressure politicians to get back to the Godly principles that the great nations of Canada and North America were built upon, speak out against societies ills, and live by THE BOOK! Yes, I think we should purify the culture, but don't worry, I'm not out for blood.
God still puts believers through trials and punishes the wicked, wither we like it or not. And I for one find it shameful that the good believers who proclaim this simple truth are scorned and brushed off as "extremists". You say I'm being too negative? You say that we should just help the people and not bother to tell them why these things are happening?
I say to you if we Christians are ever going to start a revival fire, we need to light the fuse! Telling people of God's judgment goes above and beyond treating the symptoms by just lending a hand, it attacks the problem head on by telling people to repent.
We could just toss them a life preserver, but it would be better if we taught them how to swim as well!
Modern churches seem to have forgotten that God, in addition to being a God of love, is also a God of judgement. I know it's not nice to think about, but turning THE LORD into a self-help icon is not only dishonest but denies his true nature as a righteous judge.
The hurricanes should have been a wake-up call, too bad North America’s churches are still asleep.
Now before you dismiss me as "brutish" or "bloodthirsty," please hear me out and let me explain why this idea makes sense.
It is important to recognize that God controls the weather. He created the atmosphere, the water, and the earth, so it makes sense that he controls them all. Psalm 148:8 declares that storms "do his bidding." Job 37:3,6,10-13, Psalm 147:8,16-18, Jeremiah 10:13, and Amos 4:7 attribute all natural expressions of weather to God.
I am not eliminating the possibility that sinister men are controlling some weather in a limited way through HAARP-like technologies, but even this is only because God allows them to do so.
So why does God send or allow these calamities? The answer, like most answers, lies in the Bible.
Job 37:13 states that God does indeed punish people with storms. "He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy".
As North America moves towards decadence and secularism, it certainly makes sense that the Almighty would give us a wake-up call to remind us that he's still the judge.
These disasters should be a Call to Arms for Christians to stop idolizing worldliness, and live the great commission. Win souls to the Lord, pressure politicians to get back to the Godly principles that the great nations of Canada and North America were built upon, speak out against societies ills, and live by THE BOOK! Yes, I think we should purify the culture, but don't worry, I'm not out for blood.
God still puts believers through trials and punishes the wicked, wither we like it or not. And I for one find it shameful that the good believers who proclaim this simple truth are scorned and brushed off as "extremists". You say I'm being too negative? You say that we should just help the people and not bother to tell them why these things are happening?
I say to you if we Christians are ever going to start a revival fire, we need to light the fuse! Telling people of God's judgment goes above and beyond treating the symptoms by just lending a hand, it attacks the problem head on by telling people to repent.
We could just toss them a life preserver, but it would be better if we taught them how to swim as well!
Modern churches seem to have forgotten that God, in addition to being a God of love, is also a God of judgement. I know it's not nice to think about, but turning THE LORD into a self-help icon is not only dishonest but denies his true nature as a righteous judge.
The hurricanes should have been a wake-up call, too bad North America’s churches are still asleep.