Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. Today is Tuesday, January the 17th, 2023. Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison

and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum. About 8 million people were under flood watches

yesterday in coastal central California, including

the Bay Area. The latest in a series of lethal atmospheric rivers last the state

last night. Storms that begin in late December have killed at least 19 people.

The California Geological Survey reports that the state has endured more than

400 landslides since December the 30th.

Violent winds from the latest storms could topple trees and soil weakened by all the rain,

threatening yet more power outages and misery in the state.

Floods are not the only natural disasters Californians are facing.

There is more than a 99% chance

of a major earthquake in their state in the next 30 years. Wildfires and drought have plagued

their region for years as well. And so the question seems natural. Is California under God's

judgment? Our question is obviously relevant to the nearly 40 million people

who live in the state, but as I hope to show today, it is just as relevant to the rest of us as well.

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, I wrote an article for Christianity today asking whether the

virus is God's judgment on America.

In it, I noted that biblical judgments are against specific sins and sinners.

I cited Pharaoh's obstinacy that led to the plagues of the Exodus,

Miriam's racial prejudice that led to her leprosy,

and Herod's prideful idolatry that led to his death. Then I noted regarding

the pandemic, no specific sins caused this virus, nor are those who are afflicted with it more

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