More tornadoes hit the heartland last night, and one even struck Moore OK again. As usual, the non-ordained self-appointed prophet Thiel is back telling the citizens of the Midwest that they are being punished by God for their dirty sins. For some reason Bob takes delight in promoting such an angry pissed off god.
The Bible shows that whirlwinds are one of the forms of weather that God controls:
3 The Lord is slow to anger and great in power,
And will not at all acquit the wicked.
The Lord has His way
In the whirlwind and in the storm,
And the clouds are the dust of His feet. (Nahum 1:3)
God teaches that because of disobedience He will scatter people and use a whirlwind:
8 Then the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying, 9 “Thus says the Lord of hosts:
‘Execute true justice,
Show mercy and compassion
Everyone to his brother.
10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless,
The alien or the poor.
Let none of you plan evil in his heart
Against his brother.’
11 But they refused to heed, shrugged their shoulders, and stopped
their ears so that they could not hear. 12 Yes, they made their hearts
like flint, refusing to hear the law and the words which the Lord of
hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. Thus great
wrath came from the Lord of hosts. 13 Therefore it happened, that just
as He proclaimed and they would not hear, so they called out and I would
not listen,” says the Lord of hosts. 14 “But I scattered them with a
whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land
became desolate after them, so that no one passed through or returned;
for they made the pleasant land desolate.” (Zechariah 7:8-14)
21 A cyclone sweeps them up — gone!
Not a trace of them left, not even a footprint.
22 Catastrophes relentlessly pursue them;
they run this way and that, but there’s no place to hide —
23 Pummeled by the weather,
blown to kingdom come by the storm.’
(Job 27:21-23, THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language © 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson.)
Then to reinforcehis tornado metpahores he resorts to Jeremiah:
The following, presuming it is intended literally, indicates that there will be a very major tornado in the time of the end:
9 Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord has gone forth in fury —
A violent whirlwind!
It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.
20 The anger of the Lord will not turn back
Until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart.
In the latter days you will understand it perfectly. (Jeremiah 23:19-20)
23 Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord
Goes forth with fury,
A continuing whirlwind;
It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.
24 The fierce anger of the Lord will not return until He has done it,
And until He has performed the intents of His heart.
In the latter days you will consider it. (Jeremiah 30:23-24)
Bob never quotes from the Gospel messages but slobbers all over Hebrew scriptures meant for a certain people at a certain point in time.
God uses weather and other events to try to get people’s attention.
God does not want people to suffer, but to turn to Him:
10 “Therefore you, O son of man, say to the house of
Israel: ‘Thus you say, “If our transgressions and our sins lie upon us,
and we pine away in them, how can we then live?”‘ 11 Say to them: ‘As I
live,’ says the Lord God, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the
wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from
your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’ (Ezekiel
33:10-11)
God wants people everywhere to repent (Acts 17:30). He uses weather for correction and for His mercy (Job 37:13).
