[aruanan]

OK. Scripture?

Read Matthew 24 and Mark 13. Nowhere in either passage does Jesus identify God as being the cause of the tribulation or that its purpose was for the punishment of the ungodly. He's telling his listeners to beware of this time and the events leading up to it, how people will be looking to kill them because of their faith, the actions to take when seeing the abomination that causes desolation, the necessity of their enduring to the end in order to be saved, and God's help in mitigating the horror lest "all flesh" should perish.

[metmom]

In reading Revelation there is continual reference to those left on the earth not repenting of their sin, and wehn God destroys Babylon, it’s for the evil in it.

What other reason do you propose for God poring out judgment on the earth? The fun of it? He has nothing better to do?