Frogs and such

What about all of the natural and manmade disasters lately? Volcanic ash spewing ash 50,000 feet in the air disrupting air travel over Europe, earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, China, Iran and elsewhere, 500 year floods, the collapse of the Greek economy, tornadoes, devastating hurricanes, and the oil spill of a century?

Could these disasters be birth pangs associated with the Last Days? Is God trying to get the attention of a world gone mad, or is it all just natural and manmade phenomenon? Was Hurricane Katrina merely a low pressure system, or was it the wrath of God leveled at a wicked city? If it had been the wrath of God on licentious New Orleans, would God have left Bourbon Street standing and destroyed the poor?

Hmmm I wonder what the Egyptians thought when the first plague turned all of the water in the land to blood. Exodus 7-11 tells us that in all they endured 10 plagues, (that fell on the licentious and the poor), before finally the most horrific of them all, the death of their Firstborn, got their attention and Pharaoh finally acquiesced God’s will and the demand of Moses to: “Let my people go”..

Plague 1 – Blood
Plague 2 – Frogs
Plague 3 – Gnat
Plague 4 – Flies
Plague 5 – Disease in Livestock
Plague 6 – Boils
Plague 7 – Hail
Plague 8 – Locusts
Plague 9 – Darkness
Plague 10 – Death of Firstborn

Two thousand years have passed and things have not changed much. People still ignore and disregard as fables the warnings in the Bible against disobedience to God and the detailed explanation in the Bible of what will become of those who will endure God’s ultimate retribution exacted in the Last Days.

As with the Egyptians we have been warned and the many “signs of the times”, (wars and rumors of wars, armies encircling Israel, pestilence, great famine, increased earthquakes, dire natural disasters, wickedness akin to the days of Noah when the hearts of men will grow cold, unnatural affections of men and women causing them to burn with lust for their own, a time of great learning, enhanced travel) have been enumerated in the Bible as to what will transpire and how times will be prior to that dreadful day that God when God’s patience will expire and will finally say, ENOUGH! And proceed to unleash the horrors of hell on earth and thus begin the Great Tribulation.


When the Last Days begin to unfold people will look to world leaders for deliverance, but will find that all world leaders, (including Obama), are merely men and to the angst of the media pundits can do nothing to stop the flow of oil, or quell the spewing of ash from a volcano, or prevent the splitting of the earth from swallowing entire civilizations.

Those events remind us that some things are bigger than we are and puny man is no match for the wrath of God.

Imagine all of the mountains being flattened and the earth burning with intensity akin to a nuclear explosion It kind of makes a car bomb in Times Square seem small in comparison does it not?

I don’t want to face the wrath of God…

Fortunately I won’t have to. In spite of all we must remember that God is not just about wrath, He is love and His desire is that no one should perish. That is why He sent His Son to die on a cross. He is a just God however, and those who reject His Son will face His wrath.

I read a quote and some commentary that seems appropriate to this discussion. Abraham Lincoln said: “God is angry with all of the people some of the time, God is angry with some of the people all of the time, but God is not angry with all of the people all of the time.”

So while God is angry at how humans fail to love each other and harm one another, his love and forgiveness through Christ is for eternity. Just make sure that you have the blood of Christ covering you in these last perilous times


Matthew 24:36-39

No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.