"Wrath Or...

...Respite?

When natural disasters such as hurricanes and tsunamis take their
toll in death and destruction, many preachers insist these calamities
are the result of The Wrath of God on sin, pointing to such verses as
Ephesians 5:6, where speaking of the sins of Verses 3-5, Paul says:

While the Greek word for “cometh” here is in the present tense, we
believe Paul is saying that while God’s Wrath is coming, It hasn’t yet
arrived. Consider: after The LORD announced that His betrayer was “at
hand,” we read that “immediately...cometh Judas” (Mark 14:42,43).

However, we know that Judas had not yet arrived, for Verse 45 tells us
what happened “as soon as he was come.” You see, the word “cometh”
means that something is presently on its way, but the word must be
in the past tense for us to understand that whatever is coming has
arrived.

While many preachers declared that Hurricane Katrina was God’s Wrath
on New Orleans for the debauchery of Mardi Gras, others surmised the
catastrophe was rather An Example of God’s Mercy, for thousands more
would have died had the levies broken during the storm rather than after.

Herein lies the problem in determining what God is doing or not doing by
trying to interpret circumstances, which are always subjective and open to
speculation. The only sure way of knowing what God is doing is from The
Word of God, and God’s Word tells us that the presence of even ten believers
in New Orleans would have prevented God from destroying it (Gen. 18:23-33).

And so while even insurance companies call tornadoes and earthquakes
“acts of God,” the Bible asserts that we are living in The Dispensation of
Grace (Eph. 3:2), An Age in which God Is Dispensing Grace, not Wrath, An
Age in which mankind is experiencing a Respite from His Judgment.

But if the reader of this page is not saved, please don’t think you will get
away with sin forever. Romans 2:5 describes you as one who “treasurest up
unto thyself Wrath against The Day of Wrath.” You may not have an account
with any bank, but you have a sin account with God. His Wrath on your sin
is not being revealed today, but The Day of the “Revelation of The Righteous
Judgment of God” Is Coming. Why not

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(R Kurth)

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Grace, Peace, And JOY In Christ, And In His Word Of Truth, Rightly
Divided(+ I and II)!

Global warming is a real story, people use a lot of oil, it's much more serious than the result of industry, but people only care about the industrial stuff, it's lying in a sense.

Walking, biking, public transportation is the solution, not the solution of ten righteous people who believe in God.

Genesis 1
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

People don't really subdue nature, just enjoy the convenience which nature brings to people.

Despite the word of the Bible, science is in some ways the word of God. People don't really understand these things, so we can't control and subdue the Earth.

You can understand that God has never changed, that the words in Genesis have never changed.

Psalms 105
19 Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.

Just as the seed was made before man,

Luke 8:11
"This is the parable: The seed is the word of God."

Some say hurricanes are the wrath of God. I say it's the word of God. Rise to the challenge, Great America

God uses adversity in many ways. It certainly can be a form of chastisement, but often it is not. It often is the rich soil in which our faith grows best. I have seen people who have been relatively pampered and protected from adversity. They have shallow roots.

i believe at times the adversity we undergo is not primarily for our own benefit, though God is always doing more than we see.
sometimes we go through trial for the sake of someone looking on... to benefit them in some way.

hello, oyster