You seem to have some difficulty reading words on a page. I am not a Pentacostal and disagree with some of Wilkerson's thoughts, but your knee-jerk liberalism misses by a mile.
One cannot read the Old Testament without seeing that God doesn't need to 'cause' the effects of evil. He only needs stay His hand of protection and we will feel the full effect of evil.
It is clear to me that God has protected America from the evil of the Mohammedan terrorism all these years and on September 11, for reasons known only to Him, He lifted that protection to allow the full force of true evil to come to America.
Now this article asks "why?" And that is a good question.
Throughout the OT, God repeatedly tells us that He allowed the force of evil to come against Israel and Judah to teach them a lesson -- to teach them the evil of worshipping idols or living licentiously. Now, I am NOT a prophet, so I have no idea why God did not protect us from the Mohammedan evil -- as He did all those years from communism. But it is not out of line to ask the question.
And asking the question does not imply that the writer thinks that God "... smash[es] ... innocent children against the side of a skyscraper." He self-evidently does not. But God could have protected our innocent children that day and He did not. Why?
So every tragedy, every death, every bad thing that befalls us is a message from God? What an ugly, brutish God you believe in.
Sorry, but it appears to me as if you struggle to create a distinction without a difference.
The killing of innocents is evil. If God was standing next to the World Trade Center, with a gigantic cosmic catcher's mitt, and yet did not lift an indifferent finger to spare the victims.... Or worse yet, he actually WANTED it to happen in order to "Teach America a Lesson", then he would be one evil creature indeed.
For the life of me, I cannot understand the tendency among those of faith, to attribute the evil acts of men, to their God.
Does this protection only apply to America and maybe Israel that is if we ignore the Holocaust.
Was it gods will I was blown up in North Ireland, or did he stop protecting me, or was it because I moved to close to the booby trap.
This is the same blame the victim, and why us stuff that other people have put forward mainly by those who know nothing of the real world and what is really happening outside there shores.
Tony