Climate Change or Divine Judgment?

Of course, there are those who will blame the recent spate of violent weather that struck the United States on "Global Warming" or "Climate Change." Severe thunderstorms, triggered by an intense heatwave that has boiled much of the U.S. in recent days, resulted in widespread destruction that killed at least 13 people, knocked out electrical power to millions of residents and caused extensive damage to roads, bridges, homes and businesses that could total billions of dollars in losses.

A significant portion of the Washington D.C. area still remains powerless after the deadly storms and that spells big trouble for that area's residents because that means no air-conditioning in the dangerous, boiling heat. No electricity also means no running water in many places; no telephone, emergency 911 or internet service, no lights and no cellphone service for tens of thousands of people. And according to some electrical engineers, the damage is so extensive to various parts of the electrical grid in the hardest hit areas such as Washington D.C. and Virginia that it could take weeks for the utility companies to repair the damage and restore all the power.

It seems that over the past several years, the U.S. has been hit increasingly hard with these types of weather patterns, from monstrous hurricanes to searing droughts to damaging floods to killer F-4 tornadoes to crippling ice-storms and blizzards. And of course, Colorado has been hit hard recently with out-of-control wildfires that have destroyed thousands of homes and burned thousands of acres of vegetation. The question that begs to be asked is this: Is this extreme weather just part of a cyclical pattern that occurs periodically in time or is it indeed caused by "Global Warming" or "Climate Change"?

Or, could it be divine judgment handed down from God upon a rebellious and wicked nation? Few people want to believe that because (1) it sounds incredulous, unscientific and the sort of stuff that comes from religious nuts and (2) it places the blame for natural destruction squarely upon the behavior of the people. But stop and think: If God brought judgment upon ancient cities, (Sodom and Gomorrah) nations (Babylon) and even the world (the flood of Noah's time) for rebellious and aberrant behavior, then why wouldn't he do that today? Remember Hurricane Katrina that struck the city of New Orleans in 2005? That came just days after the Bush Administration coerced Israel into giving away some of its land (Gaza) to the Palestinians in a futile land for peace swap. That land was given to Israel by God (Genesis 17:8) and it was taken away by the Bush Administration which brought a curse upon America. Was Katrina divine judgment? You can decide.

If the current violent weather is divine judgment upon the U.S., then what has caused it? There are a myriad of reasons but we could start with the Obama Administration's recent betrayal of Israel by leaking the Jewish nation's top-secret mission to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. Not only did that alert the hostile Islamic nation to Israel's military intentions, but it inflamed the entire Islamic world. Since that classified mission was leaked, Israel has been bombarded with a series of rocket attacks.

And not surprisingly, since that leak the storms have begun hitting the U.S. and hard. Is it any coincidence that Washington D.C. got hit the hardest? Just wait--this is only the beginning.