Posted on 02/07/2024 7:17:28 AM PST by knarf
I've been here a long time (thanx for not kicking me out Jim, even when sometimes I SHOULD have been) and I have seen many, many times that statement;
God is gonn'a have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah
Well, here we are in the midst of earthquakes, flooding and pestulence in a diverse place and no one is saying it . . . . . .
Except I just did
bkmk
Perhaps so.
Never said “destroy” but apologize.
nice try.
God'll never judge the earth with water again.
Hellfire and brimstone are still on the table, if I understand correctly.
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
you are correct, it was meant to be a sign that water was off the table. Between fire and water, I think water is the lesser.
Hard headed souls like me sometimes need a bit more of an attitude adjustment than others do before we’ll turn to God for help. Some of us think we are or should be totally self-reliant, but that’s not true. And I know I’m not the only one.
And, it’s even sadder to say, but some knowingly or unknowingly choose to be the examples of why we shouldn’t do those things we’re told not to do. Nonetheless, even then, they can be forgiven.
However, from what I’ve read, their sins are shared by the watchmen on the walls who said nothing and failed to warn them. However you look at it, there sure are lots of attitudes that need adjusting!
To that end, God’s in charge of it all, weather included, and I think we are still in the time of His Grace and Mercy. So, I see weather events as being educational and more like corrections and warnings to remind us, than strictly being punishments.
I think the punishment part of our itinerary comes next when this time of Grace and Mercy is over. These signs and mile markers we’re passing are noteworthy if for nothing else than to tell us we’re on the wrong road, since the pavement ended and turned to gravel some ways back and it’s getting rougher, too.
We reap what we sow and we have been sowing some seriously evil seeds like there won’t be any consequences.
I think He has a hedge of protection around us all, both individuals and this nation. He has marked us as His, His Blood is on our lintel, so to speak, so evil passes us by and we are spared.
But, He also will let things pass through so that our sins find us, like with 9/11 for one example. I think that’s one He let through and that time it was our towers that fell.
Too bad we didn’t learn much from it and, of course, we didn’t pass any that wisdom on to the next generation.
As it is now, we’re still killing them before they’re born. D’oh!!
“That was only a couple of days betwixt the two creations.”
I’m talking about later when He took out the dinosaurs.
d;)>
These rains happened before California went bad too.
The media exaggerates these rainstorms. They’re perfectly normal and not particularly harmful. In fact they’re quite helpful.
Your premise, though, is fine.
Look at the streets of San Francisco and the homeless camps in cities.
Not normal and needed rain.
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. (Genesis 15:13-16)
The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. (Numbers 14:18)
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9)
the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. (1 Peter 3:20)
The Ark should be the church, the body of Christ, which is not prepared.
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? (1 Peter 4:17; cf. Ezekiel 9:6)
I take it a step further in that even
One’s intentions come into play——
‘Consider Lot’s Wife.’
Yeah
(My father was an old time country doctor who delivered scores of babies. He often said that God will surely punish this country for allowing abortion. I think Dad was right and we will see trials and tribulations that will tear this country apart unless we turn back to God.)
Makes me wonder if the overflowing scourge is yet to come.
The next time it’ll be fire.
The water covered the whole world - will FIRE?
https://blog.adw.org/2018/06/fire-next-time-meditation-second-letter-peter/
God works on His own timetable. The one thing we know for a fact is that it’s not wise to provoke His anger and not repent. Eventually, in all things, He will have the last word.
I’m pretty sure God will be consistent.
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