Wednesday, June 19th, 2019
The natural world is cursed and fallen because Adam and Eve listened to Satan instead of God. It is this world that is claimed by Satan, and evil and bad things happen as a result – murder, adultry, drugs, stealing … cancer, depression, and other terrible diseases … hurricanes, floods, drought, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.
With The Fall, we now live in a fallen world where bad things happen to good people; and death, disease, and destruction are our lot in life. Why is an eight-year-old girl raped and murdered? Why is a godly man like David Wilkerson, the founder of Teen Challenge, killed in a car accident? Why did some 2,000 people die when a hurricane slammed into New Orleans in the summer of 2005? Why were six million Jews murdered during World War II? The answer to these is that we live in a fallen world, brought about by the worst choice ever made.
What a dreary assessment of our lot in life. But, wait, wait, there is hope after all, and it’s in the Spiritual Realm here on earth. That will be the subject of my next blog.