B Strong or B Holy?

"For the hope of the wicked is as dust, which is blown away with the wind, and as a thin froth which is dispersed by the storm: and a smoke that is scattered abroad by the wind: and as the remembrance of a guest of one day that passeth by." (Wisdom 5:15).

By now you've all seen the horrible images of the terrorist attack upon the Boston Marathon which took place on Patriot's Day. Innocent people were injured and even killed. But while there is universal agreement as to the heinous nature of this terrible crime, few have reflected on the fact that God, in His permitting will, often allows such events to take place for a greater good. For some forty years we have been fashioning a chastisement with our own hands. Our sin-sick nation has permitted innocent children to be murdered in the womb - and even as they are being born (so-called "partial-birth abortion"). Our president supports such killing, even as he speaks of the heinous crime which was committed in Boston

Depressions, financial collapses, hunger marches, strikes, panics and riots, all will come as also more Ethiopias of famine and deprivation.

What did Ethiopia ever do to you? African has had larger crisis with bigger death tolls many times since "We are the World."

Such things as California fires and Florida freezes will increase. Hail, rain and river floods, tornados, typhoons, todal waves and the hurricane will continue increasingly to be God's cleansing tools. volcanos will spout red lava and hot ash, mud slides and avalanches will roar down mountain sides.

It always makes me leery when people try to tie natural disasters to punishment for sins. Yes, it happened in the Bible. But unless you can prove you are speaking with authority of God I suggest keeping such definitive statement to yourself.

P.S. I can't tell in that paragraph if you are quoting someone or it's your opinion because you wander in an out of italics and have an open quote that never closes. I won't pick on your spelling.

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This will be the beginning of the same-old same-old, 'Protestants don't have the complete Bible', 'Luther threw out books', 'the Bible isn't the only source, Tradition is co-equal'.

where can I find Wisdom 5:15 ?

Check the Apochrypha.

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