Just a Vapor

It’s been a week and a half since Katrina devastated New Orleans, as well as parts of Mississippi and Alabama. I haven’t said much because there seems to be little point in adding my voice to the cacophony of the crowd. Well, despite the pointlessness, here goes:

I posted a link to an article on World Watch Daily shortly after the hurricane hit. Yesterday, World Net Daily had an article with similar thoughts. I’ve heard it said that we can’t know if the hurricane was sent by God to punish our nation for its sins because He doesn’t send prophets as He did in the times of the Old Testament. I firmly believe that God DID send Hurricane Katrina as a judgment for our President’s encouragement of the Gaza Pullout, as well as the debauchery that goes on in New Orleans every year during “Southern Decadence““. The fact that He hasn’t sent prophets ahead of the judgment is not a factor, in my opinion. He gave us the Bible. We have more scripture to go on than anyone in the Old Testament had. We can know His will and His mind, He laid it out for us pretty clearly.

Now, I’ve heard all the responses. “It’s just a coincidence�. “A lot of good, Christian people lost their lives and their homes in that storm.� Whatever. Whenever our nation takes any kind of stand that is harmful to Israel, bad stuff happens. If this were the first time, the “coincidence� crowd would have no need to prove their assertion, as they’d have logic on their side. However, this is NOT the first time this has happened. John McTernan, in his book “Israel: The Blessing or the Curse?� (co-authored by Bill Koenig of World Watch Daily), lays out many different instances where the United States, in the name of Peace, has taken action that harms Israel and their God-given right to the land. I have never met Mr. McTernan, and have no vested interest in his book. However, I recommend that skeptics get their hands on it.

McTernan also has a portion of his book on his website. If you’d like to read several “coincidences� between our dealings with Israel and disaster here at home, you can read it here.

I think America needs to wake up. Even those in the Church have lulled themselves to complacency. God has given us His word, the Bible, and expects us to keep it. By falling into the trap of the modern day cushy gospel, we have made God out to be all-loving, and none-judgmental. That is not the God of the Bible. If God does not enforce His justice, then He is not omnipotent, but rather impotent. He MUST judge people and nations for their sin.

I believe that Hurricane Katrina was one of many calls to repentance sent by God Himself. The fact that He sent it to the United States, when he seems not to do similar things to other countries (He does, we just don’t notice) shows that we haven’t gotten too far from Him, we can still repent. I have little hope that we will, as a nation, though. His people need to open their eyes though. Sticking your head in the sand doesn’t make bad things go away. Even a child can figure out that when he is spanked for doing bad things a few times, he shouldn’t do bad things. The child doesn’t keep doing bad things thinking that the spanking has nothing to do with his actions.