The former Growing Pains star and evangelical Christian has taken to Facebook to post a finger-wagging message that declares God sent the incredibly destructive and devastating Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma as divine punishment for our collective sins and to teach us “humility.”
“This is a spectacular display of God’s immense power,” Cameron said in a video, which has more than 250,000 views. “When he puts his power on display, it’s never without reason. There’s a purpose. And we may not always understand what that purpose is, but we know it’s not random, and we know that weather is sent to cause us to respond to God in humility, awe and repentance… Maybe share that with your kids when they ask why this is happening.”
Cameron said God “causes [storms] to happen for punishment, or to water his land to demonstrate his faithful love. How should we look at two giant hurricanes coming back to back like this? Do we write them off as coincidence? Do we write it off as a statistical anomaly? Wow! Who would’ve thought? Is it just Mother Nature in a bad mood?”
Actually, many scientists would agree with Cameron’s sarcasm and note there is indeed something that increases the likelihood of anomalous and extreme weather events such as hurricanes — even say that Harvey and Irma are probably stronger because of it — and have been pointing it out with increasing concern for decades now.
Natural disasters are part of the end-time mix. But they will be used to promote Sunday sacredness.
“Men in responsible positions will not only ignore and despise the Sabbath themselves, but from the sacred desk, will urge upon the people the observance of the first day of the week, pleading tradition and custom in behalf of this man-made institution. They will point to calamities on land and sea—to the storms of wind, the floods, the earthquakes, the destruction by fire—as judgments indicating God’s displeasure because Sunday is not sacredly observed. These calamities will increase more and more, one disaster will follow close upon the heels of another; and those who make void the law of God will point to the few who are keeping the Sabbath of the fourth commandment as the ones who are bringing wrath upon the world. This falsehood is Satan’s device that he may ensnare the unwary.” Signs of the Times, January 17, 1884.
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D. A Bobb
Friday October 6th, 2017 at 03:14 PMYou have said it all, he who has ear to hear let him hear, understand. and accept.
Dennis Hollingsead
Tuesday October 10th, 2017 at 08:35 AMIt’s all about the character of God! Does He cause this destruction, or does He allow it as in Job 1 & 2? Throughout the Old Testament God is pictured as “giving up” his people to the natural consequences of their rebellion. This is exactly what God the Father did to Jesus; He gave up His Son–who had become sin–to the inevitable consequences of having become the most reprobate sinner; even represented as the one who had started the rebellion in heaven! “Even as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.”
The message of the Third Angel is about fire & brimstone. If God is supernaturally keeping sinners alive long enough for them to receive the punishment they deserve, He is essentially saying, “Love me or I’ll burn you.” Love and trust are not obtained with threats! God wants us to live in a free universe and had paid the ultimate price so that we may freely make up our minds to love, trust, and adore Him.
admin
Tuesday October 10th, 2017 at 08:11 PMGod mostly let’s the enemy do the destroying, but there are ultimately times when God intervenes in the course of human sin, to check the progress of apostasy, especially though not exclusively through miraculous means i.e. the Flood and Sodom, Korah, Dathan and Abirum, etc. –Admin
wendi
Wednesday October 11th, 2017 at 01:40 PMMy God I worship is a God of love he does not have to kill us to prove a point. Jesus was God in the flesh he preached love love love and not condemnation.