Floods

Many commentators are claiming that the Hawkes Bay storms are the consequence of man-made global warming. Others are saying it is the result of a triple-dip La Nina. I don’t know which is true, but I am more interested in the spiritual causes of events.

A friend asked, “Was the storm that wreaked damage and death on Hawkes Bay a judgment from God?” My answer was emphatically, “No!” God does not whack people who do not know what they are doing, because they have been led by lost leaders and swayed by cultural influencers who don’t know where they are going.

God is sad that his church has failed to reach the nation with the good news of Jesus, but he is not going to beat up those it has failed to reach.

However, the ferocity of the storms made me realise how vulnerable we are in this land to attacks by the spiritual powers of evil. By pushing God out of the nation, we have destroyed our spiritual protection, inadequate although it was. So we can now expect to see more disasters as the spiritual powers of evil utilise their increased influence here.

The spiritual powers of evil are not strong enough to control the weather and create a storm. But when a storm has developed, they can tweak its direction of travel towards places people and homes are vulnerable. This is polssibly what has happened in the last few weeks (See Praying for the Weather).

The current disaster seems too hard for the nation to manage, but given our spiritual state, this type of event could be more common in the future.