Hurricane Melissa could be the most powerful storm ever
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🗓️ 28 October 2025
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Hurricane Melissa is now the strongest storm on the planet this year. The Category 5 storm is expected to devastate Jamaica, an island of more than 2.7 million people, before continuing across eastern Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the Bahamas. How can an all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful God allow innocent suffering to exist? Even though I have done so often in books and articles, the question persists because the issue persists. And the closer to home it strikes, the deeper the doubts it raises. Today, let’s take a different tack. As I noted yesterday, Halloween week seems an appropriate time to discuss Satan and his strategies. And causing innocent suffering is one of his most nefarious activities.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings on this Tuesday, October the 28th, 2025. Thanks for joining us for Denison |
| 0:08.0 | Forum's Daily Article podcast. Today's daily article is written by our co-founder, Dr. Jim |
| 0:13.9 | Denison, and narrated by yours truly, Chris Elkins. Some records are fun to watch, such as the Dodgers' 18-inning win last night, actually early this morning, that tied for the longest game in World Series history. |
| 0:30.0 | Others are horrific, such as the hurricane striking Jamaica today and could be the most powerful storm ever to make landfall anywhere. |
| 0:38.3 | Hurricane Melissa is now the strongest storm on the planet this year. |
| 0:43.3 | The Category 5 storm is expected to devastate Jamaica, an island of more than 2.7 million people |
| 0:50.3 | before continuing across eastern Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and the Bahamas. |
| 0:56.4 | However, a strong cold front tracking into the eastern part of the U.S. will act as an atmospheric |
| 1:02.6 | brick wall along our coastline, forcing the hurricane out into the Atlantic and away from us. |
| 1:08.5 | The fact that America will be spared the wrath of the storm may cause you to be |
| 1:12.8 | less concerned about it. That would only make you human. Our fight or flight instinct innately |
| 1:19.1 | prioritizes direct threats over those more incidental to us. However, if you had been with me on my |
| 1:25.7 | 10 trips to Cuba and met the incredible Christians |
| 1:28.6 | I know there, you would feel differently about this story. |
| 1:32.0 | One of their pastors is one of my dearest friends. |
| 1:35.3 | I pray for him by name every day. |
| 1:38.1 | He does the same for me. |
| 1:39.6 | I love him as my brother because he truly is. |
| 1:42.8 | I am already grieving what he and his family are facing |
| 1:47.0 | and urge you to join me in intercession for all those being devastated by this unfolding tragedy. |
| 1:53.0 | Whenever storms of innocent suffering make headlines, I wonder if I should, once again, |
| 1:59.0 | write on the perennial issue that they raise. |
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