My response to Hurricane Michael's devastation
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 11 October 2018
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Natural disasters call into question the omnipotence and benevolence of God. Today's podcast offers a biblical response that calls us from speculation to personal engagement. For more news discerned differently, or to receive the Daily Article via email, please visit denisonforum.org.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Dennis in Forum, and this is the Daily Article for Thursday, October 11, 2018. |
| 0:07.8 | I had planned to lead today's daily article with good news in the news. There's been so much unrest and chaos in |
| 0:13.1 | recent headlines that it seemed appropriate to find something uplifting to report. Then Hurricane Michael |
| 0:18.2 | strengthened into the strongest hurricane ever to strike the Florida panhandle. |
| 0:21.6 | It was nearly a Category 5 storm when it slammed into the coastline with hurricane impacts as it continued into Georgia. |
| 0:28.6 | As measured by barometric pressure, it's the third strongest storm ever to strike the United States. |
| 0:33.6 | The National Weather Service has called it a catastrophic and unprecedented event. |
| 0:39.3 | And so once again, we find ourselves struggling to find God at work in our fallen world. |
| 0:44.2 | We know the facts. This world is broken because of sin, according to Romans 822. Not because of any |
| 0:49.4 | failure on God's part. There were no hurricanes in the Garden of Eden. One day, our Lord will |
| 0:54.1 | make a new heaven |
| 0:54.9 | and a new earth, according to Revelation 21-1. But why does he allow such devastation in our |
| 1:00.8 | present world? It would be different if Jesus had not calmed the stormy sea of Galilee or performed other |
| 1:06.3 | physical miracles. Then we'd be forced to live with the fact that our planet is simply broken and will not |
| 1:11.4 | be fixed until its creator returns. However, our Lord retains sovereign control over his creation |
| 1:18.1 | so that not even a sparrow will fall to the ground apart from your father, Matthew 1029. |
| 1:23.6 | All he could ever do, he can still do. Why then are the people in Florida and the southeast |
| 1:29.1 | facing this disaster? Why are you facing your storms and suffering today? Max Lekito makes this |
| 1:35.9 | surprising observation, quote, Jesus healed hundreds, fed thousands, but so far as we know, |
| 1:41.4 | he only raised three, the daughter of Gyrus, the boy near name, and Lazarus. |
| 1:46.3 | Why so few? Locato offers these possibilities, quote, could it be because he knew he'd be doing |
| 1:52.3 | them no favors? Could it be because he couldn't get any volunteers? Could it be that once someone is there, |
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