Wow that makes me tremble!
Luke 13
4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?
5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish
Psalm 130:3
If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Malachi 3:2
But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
Well, with all respect (and I mean that sincerely) it was a volcano.
I don’t think it had a ‘head’ for scripture.
I sometimes wonder if negative emotions in large swathes of a population can cause or contribute to natural disasters - but then I realize that lots of ‘good’ people die in those, too.
I think that God set the Universe up to run according to Law; people may interfere, but that doesn’t mean that every disaster indicates that a population ‘had it coming’
Sometimes they’re just in the way.