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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

Did God send “Katrina”? Is it a judgment from heaven?

 

New Orleans has built for itself a world reputation as the “Big Easy,” the city filled with gambling, Voodoo, and the wildly loose merriment of Mardi Gras. A Christian looking into shops in the French Quarter feels ill at ease, wants to get out. The humble fear of God, reverence for His holy law, was not known to be welcome. Now, for sure, the Holy Spirit is not in the present looting.

 

The phrase “gambling hell” is one undoubtedly inspired by the Holy Spirit. Gambling is a sinful addiction that has brought untold misery to many families; God hates it because it blights the lives of so many children whose parents waste the family’s support on this useless curse.

 

In the light of the righteousness by faith which the Holy Bible teaches, the answer to our question appears to be an unqualified “yes.” Many are concluding that the unspeakable horrors of Katrina must be a judgment of God. But wait a moment, the same gambling and Mardi Gras spirit has taken over a large segment of life in the United States. Why should the “Big Easy” take all the punishment?

 

The fact is that Katrina is going to affect life all over this country. Thanks to TV, we all share the woe which appears to be terribly close to the horror of what the Bible describes as the “seven last plagues.... in them is filled up the wrath of God” (Rev. 16:1). But it is not yet the “seven plagues,” because “filled up” means that when they begin to fall, the door of mercy will have been forever closed; and that time has not yet come—thank God. Strictly speaking, God Himself did not send this killer hurricane; it’s a satanic spin-off from the Flood of Noah. But where the Holy Spirit is banished, God’s protection that He wants to give must then be withdrawn. That’s dangerous.

Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.

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