Subject: God Punished New Orleans with Katrina |
Bible Note: In an interview given by Pastor John McArthur he addresses this topic . The entire interview can be read at his website Grace to You under the title “Hurricane Katrina Interview”. He uses selected scriptures. It is a most interesting read. Here is one portion: JOHN: Yeah, I think in the things that we've seen, there is mercy mixed with judgment. But that's characteristic of God because, and I go back to this, Phil, if God wanted to destroy all sinners, He can destroy all sinners. I mean, He can do that and He will. There will come a day when this...this world burns up and everybody on it goes. Until that time, God is by nature, the Bible says, a Savior. He is by nature compassionate. He is by nature merciful so that these disasters are the exception and not the rule. With the single sort of exception of the great Flood of Genesis chapter 6, all these other judgments are partial, limited judgments. But they illustrate what all men deserve immediately. But God in His judgment and His justice always demonstrates His mercy because this is the time when God is manifesting Himself as a Savior. And so these things come as warnings. – (John McArthur) |