Interesting.
Certainly was sobering and interesting to me.
The quake and death is horrid.
And God takes NO pleasure in it.
But rebellion; idolatry of other pseudo gods; missing the mark of God's Perfection . . .
As Scripture says, the wages of sin = death. It's the way Creation is set up.
It's not
the wages of sin ought to result in death.
It is: the wages of sin are death.
The only thing intersecting that universal law is The Blood of Jesus. And often, even confession and forgiveness will still not prevent serious consequences of our choices.
I have noted that Sri Lanka has evidently refused Israel's aid team. God notes such things regarding the apple of His eye.
When I noted that to my 82 year old dad, his remark was: 'Kind of indicates an attitude that may have been a cause, too.'
We live in an era when our attitude toward God and toward His values, priorities and laws . . . will carry greater weight than ever and result in quicker 'pay-out' than ever before in history.