06 October 2024
It's not that the people in the path of Helene were so much worse than anyone else, it's that there is no one good enough to escape some sorrow.
We know from the record of Scripture that God brings natural disasters wherever His wrath abides. When people cling to the Covenants, it reduces His wrath and reduces natural disasters. It does not end them. There is also the issue of His testing even His own people. The Book of Job clarifies that.
This is why it's so important to grasp the concept of the Unseen Realm, with the elohim council and all the drama that we cannot see nor even comprehend. Humanity is the object of a dispute to which we are not a party. We are rather like minor children in a custody battle, and our wishes don't count for much for the simple reason that we cannot grasp the nature of the conflict.
Our day will come, but it's only after this world has run its course. For now, we take the role of hapless victims, and that's simply how it is. The danger is accepting the lie of the Devil that we somehow deserve better -- not when we keep choosing his path for us.
Again, it's not as if the people in the path of that storm are evil, but that they live in an evil country. The US has never been any part of a covenant nation.
The forces of nature are not entirely random. We can generally tell when hurricanes are generating and where. They take rather predictable paths and bring estimable forces into play wherever they go. People may not have been fully informed when they chose to live there, but they could have known if they had bothered to study the situation.
No matter where you choose to live, you are choosing to tolerate one natural threat or another. There is no perfect place of residence, free of major natural disasters. Last week, it was a hurricane ripping through some states. This week, it's another hurricane targeting Florida alone. It's a heat dome over some states, and earthquakes somewhere else. This is also tornado season for many states.
Now let's look at it on a different level. We've said all along that you should target the Covenant community for your charity efforts. That is hindered by the lack of a network of covenant recognition. It's nearly impossible right now. All the more so in cases of natural disasters -- if you are called to assist in any way, you'll simply have to choose the means that best matches your convictions.
What really matters is that we not trust government agencies, and prepare to resist their intrusion in some cases. In the broad balance of things, our government will hurt more than it helps. You may be forced to dodge government officials as much as possible, but it's for sure they don't give a damn about real human need. People trying to bring bundles of bottled water into one area were forced to turn around by FEMA folks because those water bottles didn't have FEMA's label.
I'm not kidding and I didn't make that up. FEMA leadership denies this, but FEMA folks on the ground are the ones causing all the misery. I'm going to recommend two different private agencies that I believe we can trust, because both of them pass 100% of donations to relief:
828 Strong (a church in that area)
Wings of Compassion (a veterans' assistance agency)
I'm sure there are others, but I offer these two for folks who have no idea. No, this is not some endorsement of their ministries or anything like that, but they appear to be faithful in not scraping off a single dollar designated for the disaster for any other use.
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