VERY GOOD! These days if I turn on the news and see a disaster, I'm not gonna assume God did it like Harold camping and some of these doom and gloom people did.
Unless a credible prophet who is good and righteous warns me otherwise I wont believe it.
Kyle told me about that before he gave me the article. BTW, Sodom and Goomorrah were destroyed by an underground explosion of gas not a volcano.
I’m thinking the warnings are over.
We Have Been Warned.
They are in the Bible and if my memory
serves the final chapters of the
New Testament says as much.
Agree with you completely. There is another New Testament passage that also teaches along these lines. The disciples see a man born blind, and ask Jesus, ‘Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should have been born blind?’
Jesus said, in essence, the blindness was not due to sin by either the man or his parents, but was so that the works of God might be displayed.
The result is the same. Jesus doesn’t want us to look at the misfortunes of others and draw the conclusion that they are worse sinners than we are. God judges people. We are here to obey God, not to pass judgment on every person less fortunate than ourselves.
For just one example, look at George Soros. He’s getting up in age, but he still seems pretty healthy. You and I could name plenty of people who seem far less sinful than Soros, but who have suffered much more. That’s not God’s way of affirming Soros’ lifestyle, or of condemning others. It’s just the non-intuitive way the world works this side of heaven.
Here’s how it was put in Psalm 73:
12 This is what the wicked are like—always free of care, they go on amassing wealth.
13 Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure and have washed my hands in innocence.
14 All day long I have been afflicted, and every morning brings new punishments.
Of course, if you read the rest of the Psalm, you find that the life of the wicked end in sudden calamity. It just doesn’t always happen as quickly as some might think it should.