You see it as evil aimed at us. I see it as God allowing the effects of sin in the world. I don’t think God generates these events, they are the result of sin entering His perfect creation. He just warns us what will happen and uses it to point the way to His coming and our Salvation.
The point is we all die. It doesn’t matter if it is in an earthquake today, or a heart attack in a nice suburban hospital tomorrow. Death is a fact. How we respond to the offer of free Salvation is our choice.
Amen and thank you!
Yes there is this “mystery of iniquity” that we don’t fully understand.
But we do know that sin is in the world - and in all human beings - which is why Jesus had to die as our subtitutionary sacrifice on that cruel cross - because only the Shed Blood (of a worthy substitute) can deliver us from the wrath of God that is DUE US because of our sin.
Jesus did that - shed HIS blood for all who come to Him to be saved, delivered from evil and from sin’s shackles. And that leads us to the discussion of satan who is alive and well on planet earth - and we are seeing his efforts to kill as many as he can kill (for all eternity) before the word gets out and before Jesus comes in the rapture to take all who belong to Him UP and OUT before the real disasters start to happen!