Natural Disasters Are Not Targets of God for Certain Groups of People
In the mist of any disaster, the Lord shines His light unto man’s inadequacies and his lack of compassion for others. And we can all see who is at sin and who is not and who actually cares for others.
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Time to dispel secular myths and conspiracy theories that God punishes certain groups of people with natural disasters, such as the LA fires on Hollywood, the NC floods on Sundown Towns, and Hurricanes in racists parts of the US. This is more superstition than biblical fact or God’s will.
The Bible, and Jesus Himself says, "for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." Matthew 5:45. All things, good and bad happen to us all at different times and seasons. “For there is no respect of persons with God.” Romans 2:11.
Meaning, God is not purposely targeting a group of people to punish because of their sins and transgressions; retribution for personal sins comes from the consequences of each individual sin. He is not targeting liberals, homosexuals, racist, or the rich because of their sins, their consequences come as a result of their sins in its own season; God only exposes them.
Natural disasters hit us all and become tragic when men are not prepared, lack resources, or miscalculate the responses needed to recover. It does not matter who lives where or what they have done. People suffer many tragedies and many times recover with help from each other with human compassion. No one and their sins were the cause; yet their sins are uncovered to the public.
When God decides to punish, he allows based on nations and their systems, not individual sins. The sins of a nation bring the retribution of God either by famine, plague, death by war, and it does not matter how many are righteous and how many are wicked in that nation. If the nation itself is evil, all people of that nation will all suffer the consequences. The consequences of sin are a natural reaction to whatever sins are being practiced.
For instance, if a nation is deeply involved in homosexuality, that nation will suffer whatever consequences homosexuality brings, such as disease and sickness. A nation that practices murder on a constant level will suffer many deaths, killings, and a breakdown of humanity, and a nation that is overindulged with sexual immorality will likewise suffer those consequences.
Most times disasters expose sins that are in the dark, such as COVID 19, when people discovered that the healthcare system was broken, science was underestimated and ignored, and corporations exploited the public through price gouging. Other natural disasters expose human incompetence, unpreparedness, and apathy toward their fellow citizens. It is not to punish a specific people, but to call out sins that were in the dark.
“If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.” John 15:22. Meaning, in the mist of any disaster, the Lord shines His light unto man’s inadequacies and his lack of compassion for others. And we can all see who is at sin and who is not and who actually cares for others.