James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
Some are saying that these storms are part of God’s wrath, or because of the sin that people do. I have even heard that these storms are caused by Trump becoming president, how ridiculous is that. Nothing is further from the truth. The world fell, as part of Adam’s fall, when he disobeyed God in the Garden of Eden. Because of this fall we see storms, earthquakes, famines, violence, hatred, among other things in the world.
God does not cause these things to happen, but He will take these events and turn the for the good of those who love Him. (Romans 8:28) “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose”. The Bible often compares goodness with light and evil with darkness. Obviously these storms are evil in nature. We can therefore know that all bad things are of this world and evil, and all good things are from God.
If we look into the Bible we will see that all these events are signs of the end times. (Matthew 24:7-8) Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All of these are the beginning of birth pains. Notice that Jesus compared the end times to birth pains. When a woman has birth pains we know that a baby is coming. In the same way as we see these various storms, nations rising against nations (Korea, Russia, The Middle East) we are experiencing these birth pains of His return.
No one knows the exact time that Jesus will return, not even Jesus Himself. Only the Father knows. But I wouldn’t wait on accepting Jesus since it could be tomorrow that He comes back. Or in God’s mercy it could be another day, which is like a thousand years. (2 Peter 3:8) But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. Jesus is coming soon!
I pray that everyone is safe through this latest storm Irma. I am in South Carolina and we have no evacuation warning yet. But we are supposed to get some strong winds and rain tomorrow. And there is always the possibility of losing power. So if I lose power there will be no blackboard on Tuesday. God bless…
