Disasters, Blessings or The Purge Pt. 2
Romans 8:18
For the others, the lesson is over and school is out and they've graduated to another realm to learn, possibly because they couldn't learn here. But the ones left behind are the ones to feel sorry for who are still suffering sorrow, grief, pain and deprivation. As someone has said, "the living dead," those who still must suffer in this World to learn their lessons before they're ready to go.
When God takes people it must be their time for some reason. Of course with some, as Jesus said of the Scribes and Pharisees, the most wicked of all, the self-righteous, the hypocrites, He said their time was always ready! (Jn.7:6.) And when they asked Him about the people upon whom the tower of Siloam fell, were they more wicked than others, the Lord gave a rather indirect answer. He said, "I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish!" (Lk.13:4,5.)
He said of the self-righteous, hypocritical, cruel, selfish, demon-possessed Scribes and Pharisees, "Ye are of your father the Devil" and "the synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews but are not" (Jn.8:44; Rev.2:9), "Your time is always ready!" (Jn.7:6.) In other words, "You could go anytime because your cup of iniquity is full and you could be cut off any time and it would be due to you!"
Only God knows in his wisdom just exactly why he takes so many in a natural disaster, like I think 20,000 in Algeria recently (in 1980) and 2,000 in Italy, and hundreds other places, but it's apparently their time. It's a big subject and a big question that the World has wondered over for ages, even Christians and theologians and church leaders: Why does God destroy so many people?
Why did He destroy the whole world in a flood? Because they were so wicked He just couldn't let them continue! They were destroying souls, they were destroying the souls and the spirits and the lives and even the bodies of their own babies, so before they could destroy any more and destroy themselves and their children, God destroyed them all! He didn't even want them bringing any more wicked children into the World.
He deals more with the good people and the best people, the truly good people; He deals with them more strictly and chastises them as His children than He does with the totally Godless anti-God wicked.
The thing that people wonder about is why it so often seems to strike the poor and the needy and the helpless and children and the innocent. Well, when you realise there's a better World Hereafter and the afterlife is one to be anticipated and looked forward to, who else but those who are the most suffering and the most innocent need to be relieved of this life and will appreciate the next life more than ever? Who else deserves to go sooner?
As someone has said, "The good die young!" Well, this isn't always true, but it seems often true. Who better deserves to go on to a better World than the good? Yet most people say "they don't deserve to die"; well, that depends on where they're going! "To deserve to die" for us (believing born again Christians) means a promise and something far better than we have now.
To deserve to die means we have finished our job! "We have fought the good fight, we have kept the faith, and from henceforth is laid up for us a crown of righteousness!" (2Tim.4:7,8.) So we deserve now to die having finished our job. To us, death is literally a blessing and a relief and an exit from the horrors of this World!
So for the poor and the suffering and the starving and sick little children, for them to die is a blessing! It's the ones who are left behind that are to be pitied, the ones who don't die. But those, no doubt, God is trying to teach lessons to and prepare for the afterlife to get them ready to die--which they frequently do soon after their suffering and their sorrow.
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