Sharing is Caring

‘Before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord’     [Acts 2:14-21]     How should we interpret the frequent large-scale natural disasters that have occurred in the 21st century?   Environmentalists attribute them to human exploitation and devastation of nature.   In contrast, Christian fundamentalists say that this world is drawing near to the end prophesied in the Bible.   Regarding this, we, as Gospel believers standing in the Reformed tradition, should understand that these two perspectives are not contradictory but should rather hear God's voice, which He intends to show to humanity through natural disasters, within the providence of God's nature and history, connecting them with each other.   God's warning through natural disasters can be categorized into three points:   (1)     It is a warning regarding personal sin.   God, through natural disasters, warns us that we should live rig...