There has been catastrophic damage by Hurricane Helene in Georgia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina. Some areas received over 2 feet of rain in eight hours. Some are calling this a 1000-year flood.
There is massive flooding, where whole towns have been swept away in rivers of raging muddy water. It appears that many hundreds of people have been swept away in the floods and have drowned.
Sometimes, floods are used by God as judgment against gross societal wickedness. The best example is the worldwide flood in Noah's day, which God directly brought to pass, that He might destroy the earth, and every creature that breathed, including all mankind. This was, God revealed, to purge away the great evil wrought by mankind.
Only Noah and his family found grace in God's sight, and were spared by means of the ark.
We know that ark was a picture of our Savior, the Lord Jesus. Just like Noah, all those saved by the blood of Jesus have been shut up in that Ark. The wrath of God against sin, like an overwhelming flood that destroys all breathing life, was borne by that Ark, God's Lamb, while His people were safe inside. He sheltered us from God's wrath for our crimes, by being subject to that wrath in our place!
God Himself speaks to Job, and confirms that He made all things to begin with, laying the foundations of the earth. He shut up the sea with doors when it broke loose, and carved out a place for it to stay put. He set bars and doors upon the oceans! He directly commands the sea, this far and no farther!
He controls the snow and the hail and the wind. He creates the watercourse for overflowing floods.
God's control of all nature, including the floods, is all-pervasive. |
