If you’ve been paying attention to the weather news lately, there has been severe flooding in many parts of the world, including here in the U.S. In some areas, rainfall records are being broken. From Texas to the UK, Sudan, Nepal, and China, these floods are destroying property, infrastructure, and lives. China has been the hardest hit with almost half of its regions being flooded and the loss of 500 lives with more rainfall expected soon. Fifty-nine people have lost their lives to flooding in Sudan and in Great Britain so far, 8 people have died and their previous record for summertime rainfall has now been broken.
So why are all of these crazy weather patterns taking place? Could it be because of the much-publicized global warming? Is the flooding because of people cutting down too many trees and creating too many roads for the expansion of civilization? Or is it that all of this is God’s way of sending a message to us?
Personally, I’m not one who holds to the global warming doctrine. People can be as hysterical as they want to try to get everyone believing that we’re destroying the Earth with too much carbon dioxide or whatever, but the Bible clearly says in Revelation that God himself will be responsible for Earth’s destruction after the Antichrist’s rise to power. I can understand that in some instances people may lay too much concrete and not plant enough trees to absorb the water, thereby opening themselves up to the possibility of destruction. However, I think the idea that God is punishing people for their sins may not be out of line.
With all the atrocities China has committed in recent years selling their unsafe products, forcing abortions on women, and persecuting Christians, it’s no surprise that they are the hardest hit of all the areas that have flooded. When it comes to Sudan and their murders of hundreds of thousands of Darfurians, their flooding is understandable as well. Nepal is given over to the false gods of Hinduism and they persecute Christians regularly, so I believe they’re being punished. I haven’t quite figured out why Great Britain or Texas are suffering, so I’ll have to keep investigating to find out, I guess. The sad part about these judgments is that I don’t think these people will learn anything from their punishments.
“Behold, he [God] withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.” Job 15:25
“And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.” Revelation 9:20-21
–posted by Harry A. Gaylord–
