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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

Many thoughtful Muslims are asking, “Why does Allah permit such terrible disasters as this horrendous earthquake in Pakistan/Kashmir?” The media tell of people pinned under concrete wreckage crying out piteously, “Allah, hear us!” until the cries cease.

 

At the same time many thoughtful Christians ask, “Why does God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the Bible says ‘God is love’ (1 John 4:8), why does He permit these awful things like tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes?” To say nothing of our wars that we humans create ourselves.

 

All such questions inevitably revert to the great one: why did the loving Creator of the world permit the Flood of Noah? It upset the earth’s equilibrium! In that history we see the portrayal of the government of Heaven in relation to fallen, sinful humanity. God did not permit the Flood to come until for 120 years, through Noah He had proclaimed a message of “the righteousness which is according to faith” (1 Peter 3:18-20; Heb. 11:7). But unbelieving, rebellious humanity had become a curse to themselves. “The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence” (Gen. 6:11). Now only a small portion of the earth’s surface is inhabitable, for again “the earth also is defiled under its inhabitants, because they have.... broken the everlasting covenant” (Isa. 24:5). That’s a guilt we all share.

 

God purposes that that same message of “righteousness by faith” again be proclaimed worldwide (Rev. 14:6-12). “The prince of this world” who wreaks this havoc is not Christ—he is the Enemy of Christ, “the prince of the power of the air” (cf John 14:30; Eph. 2:2).

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