Lysimachus writes:
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
I don't know, but according to my Bible it wasn't Satan who was doing this. If you go up to the beginning of the chapter, you will find the following:
"Behold, the Lord maketh the earth, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof." and verse 3, "for the Lord hath spoken this word." (King James version)
So apparently God is doing this if you want to equate the situation in Isaiah with today.
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