Here's what's left of the U.S. 90 bridge leading into Biloxi.
God and those who know me best including a fair number of FREEPERS know my compassion and empathy is, according to many who've volunteered an opinion--in the top 3% or so. By God's Grace.
I'm not into blaming the victim.
However, the fact remains, as a group, a neighborhood, a nation, a people and as individuals . . .
while the rain falls on the just AND the unjust
in general . . . and sometimes with fierce specificity
Those who earnestly endeavor to seek God first; Love Him and others and follow His Priorities and rules
are blessed.
Those who don't aren't.
Those who are the worst rebels against Him get the most judgment.
That's simple historic fact throughout Scripture as well as plain old history.
Study it out.
Ranting at Quix won't change the facts.
And a lot of people have turned a blind eye to those facts and to God.
God eventually lets THE REAPING FROM THE SOWING be manifested.
Here's what's left of the U.S. 90 bridge leading into Biloxi.
"Those who earnestly endeavor to seek God first; Love Him and others and follow His Priorities and rules are blessed."
After the Tsunami I saw a report. One man lost his whole family and was angry and said something to the effect that "there is no God". Another man had also lost his whole family (both men Muslims). He was saying that his family was in a better place and he was praying that God would help him through it, etc.
So yes - to all it's a tragedy. And some will turn their hearts to something beyond the house and car and boat and job that are now gone.
Prayers with those who have lost everything - especially those that have lost loved ones.
Total devestation is the only way to describe. Biloxi.
The city is just pretty much gone.
You're quite right.
No matter how much you're ranted at, you're still an apocalypse-fantasizing loon.
Tell it to Jesus
Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. Jesus answered, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish."
Tell it to Paul ...
We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.
There is none righteous, not one ... not even you.
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast
Your works stink, as do mine. I count mine loss ... do you? Somehow, Caiaphas, I don't think you do.