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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

A faithful, Bible-believing reader of DDB has written us a rather serious rebuke for hesitating to say that the horrors of Katrina are the direct judgment of God on New Orleans. We have said that the destruction and loss of life and livelihood are what Satan loves to wreak on humanity, and that the judgment of God is seen in that He has given Satan permission to do this awful work (The Great Controversy, page 36, has been our model).

 

Either way, it is evident that God has made a statement. We should pay Him respect and listen. What complicates the picture is that now the entire nation (nearly) is moving toward the moral equivalent of New Orleans. That city’s advertising has gloried in its devotion to “decadence.” For many decades, California tried to eschew the moral degradation that legalized gambling brings; now the state is becoming saturated with Indian gaming casinos where thousands go instead of having to drive up to Nevada. Are we also ripe for judgment? The answer: yes. We are indebted meanwhile to that “restraining power of God.”

 

The Bible tells us to take a good look at history: nations that have had some contact with God’s plan of salvation but have apostatized therefrom have always suffered “national ruin”—whether directly from Him or from His withdrawing His protection (when Satan rushes in to fill the vacuum). “We would have healed Babylon,” the Lord says, “but she is not healed..... Her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up to the skies..... Come and let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God” (Jer. 50:9, 10). We face the solemn truth that God has tried to “heal” this nation that has enjoyed such rich blessings from His hand. A “post-Christian” society is under far greater judgment than a Third World “Iraq” that has never known such blessings of God as a Constitutional history like ours. Katrina is causing much serious thought. Signs of divine judgment are unmistakable.

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

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