tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370511552390871439.post5311282850652601942..comments2024-03-23T16:59:42.092-06:00Comments on The Goates Notes: Sunshine Always Follows the StormsDavid B. Goateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978666830682045128noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370511552390871439.post-63166015475650952802012-05-28T09:08:36.654-06:002012-05-28T09:08:36.654-06:00I supose these could be the same thoughts that ran...I supose these could be the same thoughts that ran through the mind of King Ahab as he figured there had to be an end to the droubt and light at the end of the tunnel.<br /><br />It's all a matter of our perspective, right ?<br /><br />I would only say that applies to someone who saw it the way Elijah saw it and not from Ahab's point of view.<br /><br />Elijah's perspective was God's reality. Ahab's perspective was his own.<br /><br />We live in a time much worse than that of the days of Ahab when the droubt fell on Israel.<br /><br />Excessive snowfall and rain on Israel are NOT a sign of God's favor. Nature in BALANCE is a sign of God's favor.<br /><br />A tornado crossing the heart of down town Zion is NOT a sign of favor from God and it is NOT merely a random act of nature. There is no such thing.<br /><br />A Damn that breaks and floods the homes of Saints is NOT a sign of favor to God's People. Nor is the rise of worldly absorbtion into Babylon by the Lord's People a good sign of expecting to recieve the favors of God upon an obiedient people.<br /><br />Yes..The sun DOES arrise the next day, which always seems to be the focus of these events, as opposed to recieving them as WARNINGS & readjust our attitudes accordingly.<br /><br />An in tune humble yet wayward people would see these things as such. An out of touch people with God see only the Up Side to disaster as being something to overcome with human effort, as opposed to Spiritual Reflection of what might bring these things on.<br /><br />We live in times more wicked than Noah's Day. Have the Lord's People been INSULATED from disasters and the effects of Babylon creeping into our lives ? If the answer to that in our minds is Yes...Then we may become suprised one day to find we wake up one morning & the Sun no longer shines upon us, because like Ahab, we didn't view these things as Warnings from God, but rather as random acts of nature that simply need to be overcome.<br /><br />Sort of the way Pharaoh must have felt toward those Ten Plauges God sent. He just became MORE determined to place his will above that of God's. And look where that got HIM ?...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com