Christians have held to the belief that as we near the end toward Christ's second coming, the natural disasters around the world will increase according to numerous verses throughout scripture. Yet atheists and geologists continue to hold to the idea that all of this is to be expected and natural phenomena. The idea may stand with the earth's crust and earthquakes and volcanoes. But what about the multiple storms hitting simultaneously around the globe? Is this natural?
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Also, a quote from Review and Herald and the Great Controversy:
The signs in the sun, moon, and stars have been fulfilled. Since that time earthquakes, tempests, tidal waves, pestilence, and famine have multiplied. The most awful destructions, by fire and flood, are following one another in quick succession. The terrible disasters that are taking place from week to week speak to us in earnest tones of warning, declaring that the end is near, that something great and decisive will soon of necessity take place. {RH, November 22, 1906 par. 4}
And believe me, it is a lot worse today then it was in 1906. The warnings from scripture and inspiration are to be a wakeup call, both for sleeping believers as well as nonbelievers.
Even now he [Satan] is at work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pestilence. These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous. Destruction will be upon both man and beast. "The earth mourneth and fadeth away," "the haughty people . . . do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant." Isaiah 24:4, 5. GC 589, 590
Slowly but surely things are coming to a close. That standing reminder of the recent Tsunami that hit Southern Asia strikes home to the hearts of many. But even
without the tsunami, disasters by storm are bad enough, and their increase is giving less and less natural explanation.
Let these be a warning call to us so that we may not continue to kick against the pricks.
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