Utterly destroyed

The last time I visited New Orleans it was the same as I remembered it when I used to live there. The streets were littered with garbage, it was nasty-dirty and the atmosphere was wicked. Drinking in New Orleans is a 24/7 affair and it is not illegal to walk down the street with a drink in your hand on Sunday morning or any other day. In the French Quarter barkers line street after street of filthy dark bars and totally nude, (men and women) strip clubs. They yell at the passing visitors staggering down the streets to come in and have a free drink.
Homosexuals and prostitutes openly solicit their perversion. Engaging in drunken revelry and hedonism is prevalent throughout the city. In the heart of the French Quarter, black magic and Voodoo shops are sprinkled throughout. In Jackson Square, Tarot card readers and witches setup booths to offer “spiritual” advice for their black magic and conduct fortune telling. Drugs can be as easy to obtain as a beer…



I know more about this area than most as I lived in the French Quarter and other places in New Orleans for several years. I was a bartender in one of the worst dives in the French Quarter. I was not a Christian at the time and it seemed like a great place to be. I personally witnessed friends of mine commit suicide, overdose on drugs, divorce, and go to jail. My own brother committed suicide in that city. New Orleans was as corrupt as any city in the United States including the police, politicians (And even the last Governor of the state recently went to prison for corruption). The Mafia controlled most businesses. The fruits of a satanic atmosphere…



As I hear all the commentary about what a great city it is I shake my head. I am very sad about those who lost their lives and the desperate situation that people are in, but I hope the city is not rebuilt, at least as it was. I heard the Deputy Police Commissioner of New Orleans state that the city had been completely “destroyed” by Katrina.
Neighboring Gulfport and Biloxi, home to 24/7 gambling casinos were destroyed too. Could this be God’s retribution for the wickedness that occurred in these places. Would God destroy an entire city because it was wicked?



There are examples in the Bible of great wickedness and how God dealt with it and perhaps we should consider them. More importantly, everyone should understand that God is long-suffering, but eventually His patience will run out and just as those poor souls who chose to stay behind and face Katrina, when time runs out and God deals with the world, hordes of people will regret not taking refuge in Jesus Christ instead of stubbornly holding on to the temporal “pleasures” of this wicked world. We all are tempted in this world but we should remain steadfast in the Lord and pray for Him to deliver us as He has graciously promised…Eventually evil will be completely and utterly destroyed…The only way to obtain refuge is through Jesus Christ and unfortunately many will ignore His plea for them to take refuge now, ahead of the coming storm; a storm like none other before it…



2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the

angels who sinned, but cast them down

to hell and delivered them into

chains of darkness, to be reserved

for judgment;

and did not spare the ancient

world, but saved Noah, one of eight

people, a preacher of righteousness,

bringing in the flood on the world

on the ungodly;

and turning the cities of Sodom

and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned

them to destruction making

them an example to those who

afterward would live ungodly…

Then the Lord knows how

to deliver the godly out of temptations

and to reserve the unjust under

punishment for the day of judgment.









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