by Steve Chapman

Created on: October 13, 2010

I believe not only is the increase in natural disasters NOT the result of God's judgement, but is the result of God's tolerance and his inability to break a promise.

What promise, you ask?

The promise to allow us, as individuals and nations, to choose courses of action through free will. It must be deeply painful to a loving God as he watches our continued damage and destruction of ourselves, relationships, other living creatures, and of course the earth itself. And therein lies the  explanation for the ever-increasing natural disasters.

A human body neglected and abused breaks down. The is true of our earth and enviroment, as well as fellow creatures. The effects of our choices, technology and so called "progress" are very often toxic. As a christian, I am fully convinced we are entering the last days, as evidenced by the alarming increase of turmoil, struggles, and the onslaught o naturalf disasters

Mother nature is screaming, fighting back, and flexing her muscle in response to being abused. You and I would, appropriately, as well.

I believe this will continue, not as God's judgement, but as the "stage setter" for the end, the time when "WE" bring ourselves to the brink of ruin and need saving by the creator of all.

As Paul stated in the book of Romans, "the creation itself waits to be delivered from it's bondage to death and decay....." (Romans 8:28), and goes on to say this bondage was the result not of it's own choice, but the will of the one who subjected it.

God, in my belief, does not "cause", but "allows", just as he promised.

It is also important to note, in recent years, we have been rapidly finding evidence which scientifically affirms many natural occurences   as told in The Biblical Narrative. More often than not, nasayers have called these natural, unexplainable events and disasters everything from unlikely to ridiculous. Not so, as we see now how these events became tools as God directed them to achieve mighty and amazingly uplifting  outcomes.

 Following the flood, our God made a covenant, not only with man, but every living creature, never again to destroy the earth through those means, and as such, it is reasonable and appropriate to conclude his commitment would leave us the freedom to choose, whether good or bad for us as individuals, nations of people, other creatures, or our earth and environment. He  has watched us destroy our "home", yet in his kindness, when the ruin is complete, he will mercifully save us, not from his judgement, but from ourselves, and make "all things new".

We can look forward to a redeemed and resurrected creation, perfect as intended, and absent the opportunity to destroy it again

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