Katrina Why?

By now most people across the United States and the world have witnessed the horrific images of the complete devastation and destruction that the hurricane left behind in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.  Many people are asking; “Why are these things happening to us?” The answer to this question can be found in the Bible.  The entire world observed how the US government reacted slowly  in assisting the citizens of these states and are asking questions like, “Why did the government take so long to help?” or “Why can’t they get more help?”  The real question that should be asked is:  

Why did the Heavenly Father allow this to happen?

New Orleans is a city that is well known as a place where “anything goes.”  Fornication, adultery, homosexuality, sexual acts for beads, drugs, witchcraft, idolatry, revelry, unclean foods, and all sorts of abominations and wicked acts are the things that people go to this city to enjoy.  Their annual Mardi Gras parade is a celebration that promotes these evil deeds, worshipping of idols, and more.  Sodom and Gomorrah, Babylon, Egypt and the entire World were committing the same types of iniquity when the Lord destroyed them.

Genesis 6:5-13 “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ⁶ And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. ⁷ And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. ⁸ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. ⁹ These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. ¹⁰ And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. ¹¹ The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. ¹² And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. ¹³ And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.”

II Peter 2:5-9  “And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; ⁶ And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; ⁷ And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: ⁸ (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) ⁹ The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:” 

Amos 3:6-7 “Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?”

 The evil that is referred to in this scripture is destruction.

 I Samuel 2:6 “The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. 7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up. 8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the world upon them. 9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail. 10 The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”  

The Lord’s king is Jesus Christ and his anointed are those that repent in the name of his son and follow the commandments of the Bible.

 Nahum 1:2-3 “God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. 3 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.”

Wisdom of Solomon 5:17-23  “He shall take to him his jealousy for complete armour, and make the creature his weapon for the revenge of his enemies. 18: He shall put on righteousness as a breastplate, and true judgment instead of an helmet. 19: He shall take holiness for an invincible shield. 20: His severe wrath shall he sharpen for a sword, and the world shall fight with him against the unwise. 21: Then shall the right aiming thunderbolts go abroad; and from the clouds, as from a well drawn bow, shall they fly to the mark.  22: And hailstones full of wrath shall be cast as out of a stone bow, and the water of the sea shall rage against them, and the floods shall cruelly drown them. 23: Yea, a mighty wind shall stand up against them, and like a storm shall blow them away: thus iniquity shall lay waste the whole earth, and ill dealing shall overthrow the thrones of the mighty.”

Ecclesiasticus 39:28-29 “There be spirits that are created for vengeance, which in their fury lay on sore strokes; in the time of destruction they pour out their force, and appease the wrath of him that made them. 29: Fire, and hail, and famine, and death, all these were created for vengeance”

Jeremiah 23:19-20 “Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. 20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.”

We are living in the “latter days” now.  When we see the destruction and mighty works of the Lord (storms, earthquakes, famine, death, etc.) we are supposed to consider our ways, repent, and actually keep the commandments of the Bible as Christ taught us to do.
 

Psalms 83:15 “So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.”

Luke 13:1-5 “There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things? 3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. 4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish”

Even though these things happened to the people of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi, keep in mind that they were no different than any other sinners.  When things like this take place, they are a warning to the survivors and to all that witness it that if people do not repent and start to live as the scriptures instructs them to worse things will happen unto them.  When you look at the examples in the Bible, the Lord ALWAYS delivered the just and righteous from the destruction but the wicked and the sinners perished in their iniquity.

 Ecclesiasticus 5:7 “Make no tarrying to turn to the Lord, and put not off from day to day: for suddenly shall the wrath of the Lord come forth, and in thy security thou shalt be destroyed, and perish in the day of vengeance.”

 Acts 17:30 “And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:”