THE COMING STORM

I for one, wouldn't minimize it. Storms less severe have taken lives. I'm just amazed at how a storm can set everyone a buzzing. Media has learned to feed our fascination with storms with a barrage of sensationalized drama. I heard one reporter from a helicopter describing the shape and size of some pieces of tin he saw blown off a roof. A past storm was quite a storm. Everywhere I went the next day people were talking about it. I heard several tell of how frightened they were. An interesting comment I heard from several was that, although they live in the Dayton area, they didn't experience any of the storm's rampage. The storm had a path, and they weren't in it. Even the newspaper reported storms that hit the "area." In other words, as bad as the storm was, it was really quite limited. It was local. Relatively very few were effected by it. It made me think of a message an evangelist preached here several years ago. He titled it, "The Coming Storm." That storm won't just cut a narrow, howbeit destructive, swath. It will be a storm that "shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." As the prophet described what he saw of that coming storm, "...there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places." (Rev. 3:10; 6:12-14). Some are heralding coming calamities of economic, ecological, and political nature. They even have begun to describe such catastrophes as having "Biblical" proportions. That's interesting. Truth is the worse possible storm headed our way is of truly Biblical proportions. It will be the storm the Bible says coming. This is truly a storm to talk about-before it hits.