Will another firestorm of controversy ensue?

I did hear the comments by Pat Robertson. They are entitled something like Pat calls the death of 500,000 people a blessing in disguise. That is a misleading title. He said that out of the destruction of this already horrible infrastructure perhaps the rebuilding process will be a blessing in disguise. The timing might have been insensitive to the families of those who lost their lives, but that was not what he was addressing in his statement.

SOOOO...... this morning I am listening to a few minutes of FOX News and hear Geraldo Rivera saying that we should use this crisis to take over this horrible government in Haiti so that some long term good may come out of this situation. He quoted Rahm Emmanuel about not wasting a crisis. This is my summary in my words, but he alluded to the possibility that something good may come out of this crisis if we can change the inept and corrupt government that has failed the people of that country for 200 years.

Almost sounds like he is saying this tragedy could be a blessing in disguise. I wonder if there will be a white house statement about his insensitivity or a public mainline media blitz regarding his stupidity. He had pretty much all the elements of Pat Robertson's statement, even the observable travesty of this horrible government for the last 200 years. A curse perhaps? Let's not go that far!! That's not very PC!! However there are some Biblical parallels. It took about 200 years and a consistent series of bad kings for Assyria to capture Israel after Jeroboam's waywardness from God.

A couple of you commented that you had read an article by Albert Mohler called Does God Hate Haiti? It's a good article we need to reach out to help those in need during this tragedy. God wants to save Haitians. There are a couple of adjustments at least in my thinking to his article. He says we cannot know the correlation between events on the earth and God's judgments. I agree we commonly jump to presumptuous conclusions. However, God told people in the Bible the reason for certain calamities and I believe the same God is alive today. He has already told us the reason for certain worldwide calamities in the Book of Revelation. He told me one word once for the people in Mt. Carmel. epicenter. About 6 weeks after I spoke that to a Church in Mt. Carmel the epicenter of our biggest earthquake in this area for years, rumbled about 7 miles from that church. So, I believe if He can communicate a little info like that to someone like me He can still reveal purposes for disasters and in fact will do that more and more in the near future.

I remember when Bob Jones said that a revival would start when the Mississippi river flowed backwards. Then in the midst of the 1990's when the major floods hit the midwest the Mississippi did flow backwards because of the volume of water joining it from the Missouri river. Not long after that a boy from St. Louis went to Toronto and something began that continues to this day. A move out of which hundreds of churches have been planted and multitudes of miracles have been recorded.

Mohler also posed the question, that if these disasters are judgments why wasn't there an earthquake in Nazi Germany, or why did Katrina destroy more churches than casinos, etc.? Germany suffered a major consequence in that their nation was devastated and actually divided in two, but let's look at the Bible. In II Samuel 24 David numbers Israel without the appropriate sacrifices. A judgment comes that kills 70,000 innocent men. Was it the judgment of God? The Bible says it was. So 70,000 died because of a bad governmental decision. That's one reason to pray for those in authority!

Mohler quotes John 3:16 to verify that God loves Haitians, and thus somewhat implying that this was not likely a judgment on Haiti. When does John 3:16 stop being true? Because the Bible foretells of a time when God will send calamities on the earth that kill billions. Does that mean that God no longer loved the world enough to give His Son? I am not certain about why things happen in various places, but I do believe that if Haiti would have made a covenant with God 200 years ago to follow in His ways that things would have been better in that nation and they would have had a better infrastructure to cope with disasters that do come their way.

It would be important in these days not to figure out what God can and can't do according to our definitions of love, mercy, etc. The cause of all judgment on this earth ultimately goes back to sin. The fact that we have to die goes back to the corruption of the law of sin that dwells in our members, so that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. So we must be changed through passing through the door of death or passing through the great change at the last trump. Sin has its effects and to us that can look pretty arbitrary.

Anyway, keep your eyes open to see if Geraldo gets battered for implying that something good might come from this tragedy. Let's pray that it does.

Pray and fast for revival now!!!