Ezekiel 14:13¬14 "'Son of man, if a country sins against Me by committing unfaithfulness, and I stretch out My hand against it, destroy its supply of bread send famine against it and cut off from it both man and beast, even though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job were in its midst, by their own righteousness they could only deliver themselves,' declares the LORD GOD."
Jeremiah 12:4 “How long is the land to mourn and the vegetation of the countryside to wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell in it, Animals and birds have been snatched away, because men have said, "He will not see our latter ending."
Back one month ago I wrote about the number of natural disasters that had occurred up to July 2017. In the month of September alone there have been 27 natural disasters that have covered fire, hurricanes, earthquakes, and flooding. All over the world people are seeing an increase in natural disasters. It is time, we as humanity, focus on what the LORD is saying to us.
Again, for the past decade, it has been obvious that the LORD has been trying to get the attention of the American Christian. There is within the church, in general, this attitude that in the future the End Time scriptures will be fulfilled. The problem with this type of thinking is the future is now. While the country is fighting over whose statue to take down, and what a terrible president we have, our nation is faced with serious issues that will bring this country to its knees. It is not China, Iran, North Korea or Russia that should be our concern; it is America that we should be concerned about. The evil that has invaded out nation is destroying us.
The natural disasters should be an eye opener to the need of returning to the LORD. These are not normal disasters. Hurricane Harvey just broke the record for rainfall in the continental United States, Hurricane Irma is so immensely powerful that it has been called “a lawnmower from the sky”, vast stretches of our country out west are literally being consumed by fire, and the magnitude-8.2 earthquake that just hit Mexico was completely unexpected.
America is burning and we don’t see the seriousness of what is happening. California is on fire. Oregon is on fire. Washington is on fire. Montana is on fire. All around the world fires are destroying large areas. British Columbia is on fire. Alberta is on fire. Nova Scotia is on fire. Greece is on fire. Brazil is on fire. Portugal is on fire. Algeria is on fire. Tunisia is on fire. Greenland is on fire. The Sakha Republic of Russia is on fire. Siberia is on fire.
Texas and Florida are under water from the hurricanes. India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, experience record monsoons and massive death toll. Sierra Leone and Niger experience massive floods, mudslides, and deaths in the thousands. Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia are crushed in the death grip of a triple digit heat wave, dubbed Lucifer. Southern California continues to swelter under triple digit heat that shows no sign of letting up. Northern California continues to bake in the triple digits.
Yellowstone volcano is hit with earthquake swarm of over 2,300 tremors since June, recording a 4.4 quake on June 15, 20017 and 3.3 shaker on August 21, 2017. 5.3 earthquake rumbles through Idaho. Japan earthquake 6.1 possible tsunami. Mexico's earthquake of 8.2 created tsunami warning.
Hurricanes Harvey, Irma (biggest ever recorded), Jose and Katia are barreling around the Atlantic with 8 more potentials forming. Harvey and Irma could be a breaking point. At $556 billion, the Houston metropolitan area’s economy is bigger than Sweden’s. New Jersey could easily fit inside the region’s sprawling footprint, where Harvey dumped 34 trillion gallons of water, as much as the three costliest floods in Texas history combined. The Harvey response alone eventually could double the $136 billion in government aid spent after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans. An estimated $1.73 trillion worth of real estate was in the path of Irma’s hurricane-force winds, according to the University of Wisconsin’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies.
We won’t know the true extent of the damage that has been caused down in Florida for many days, but we do know that much of the state is already without power. The widespread outages stretch from the Florida Keys all the way into central Florida. Florida Power & Light, the state’s largest electric utility, said there were nearly 1 million customers without power in Miami-Dade County alone. Nursing Homes are feeling the impact of the loss of power. There are now reports of deaths occurring in nursing homes from the lack of air conditioning.
In the end, the federal government will likely step in and spend a lot of money that it does not have to rebuild and restore the communities that Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma have destroyed. But we are already 20 trillion dollars in debt, and it is being projected that we will continue to add another trillion dollars to that total every year for the foreseeable future. At some point, this debt will simply become completely unsustainable.
I am not an economist nor do I have a vast knowledge of the stock market but given history of booms and bust we are rapidly approaching a bust. In 2008, many people lost a large portion of their retirement, I was included in that group. As there is more and more demand on the government to pay for these disasters there will be a breaking point where there will no longer be funds to rebuild what has been destroyed. The major disasters will keep on coming.
The major natural disasters seem to just keep on getting bigger, and they seem to be hitting all over the world more frequently than in the past. The disasters are arriving with greater frequency. Counting Harvey, the U.S. this year has experienced 10 weather-related events each costing $1 billion or more. But it is imperative that we all begin to understand that something has fundamentally changed. Our world has become much less stable, and “apocalyptic events” are starting to hit us one after another.
There are many ministers today that will tell you that the natural disasters are not the judgment of God. What is happening is the normal course of nature. In the 37th chapter of the book of Job, we are given a description of how God controls the “course of nature.” Job explains how the LORD controls all of nature and how he uses the wind, rain, and snow. “He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.” If Job could see how the LORD used nature for correction and mercy, maybe we should pay more attention to what is happening.
Nature is controlled by the LORD. “From the Lord of hosts you will be punished with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, with whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a consuming fire.” (Is. 29:6)
Scripture shows us that God uses natural disasters, such as tornadoes and earthquakes and floods and forest fires and famines and volcanoes, to judge mankind for his sinful ways. As lawlessness increases in a nation, so do the natural disasters. When we have record evil we will have record disasters.
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