A Storm Is Coming

I was up late Friday night into Saturday morning watching news reports of a tornado that ripped through downtown Atlanta Friday night about 10 PM damaging parts of the Georgia Dome where the SEC Basketball tourney was taking place and injuring 27 people, 2 seriously. This was the first time EVER that a tornado touched down in downtown Atlanta, my hometown and my favorite city in the entire world. To put it plainly, it’s home and always will be.

Preliminary reports are still unclear as to whether the storm was an actual tornado or straight line winds. Either way, the damage made Atlanta “look like a war zone,” according to Atlanta news media outlets. Downtown skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta had glass blown out by winds that some weather observers say could have reached close to hurricane force.

One bystander who was involved in the storm commented, “most did not get any warning this type storm was brewing,” making this writer pause and think a second of coming events upon Planet Earth in the very near future.  

I’ve been a weather enthusiast since I’ve been a child studying severe storms and warning mechanisms through the years forecasters have used to do just what this bystander said they did not get in Atlanta moments before this storm struck. I know people and for the most part even if there had been a warning that conditions were ripe for this type weather those warnings would have for the most part been ignored and thousands would have still gathered into the Georgia Dome to watch the SEC Basketball tourney which was going on at the time when these winds ripped through Georgia’s capital city and my hometown.

Watching the scenes of this storm reminded me of the 1975 Governor’s Mansion tornado, a storm this writer and his family actually went through. I remember as a 10 year old child listening to the sounds of tin from an industrial park ten miles away from my dad’s church falling onto the church’s parking lot. Those memories never leave you even 33 years later. 

I know even when bad weather threatens Knoxville where we live and I tell my own family now that bad weather is brewing I’m usually laughed off or ignored for the most part. I have a feeling that my kids probably even laugh inwardly at their old man making such a big deal about the possibility that serious weather is coming and we need to be alert and ready to move to a safe place in our home if need be at a moment’s notice. Many times my concerns about the weather seem unnecessary when storm systems may weaken while other times they come sweeping through with damage and confirm my concerns.

Because I follow the weather I’m very seldom caught unaware of coming storms. It’s just my nature and hobby to study such and keep abreast of what is taking place weather wise. I have been doing this since I was a child. I guess the 1975 event did something to me but I love the weather and storms and learning more about their power and paths.  My family’s lethargy and even amusement at my hobby and keeping abreast at such bothers me at times for sure. But one fact remains. Whether one is keeping abreast of what is going on or, as my family, lethargic and unconcerned about the brewing storm – the storm still comes. And friend – no matter whether one has not received and grasped the warnings, or heard the warnings and just ignored them or blown them off – a STORM IS COMING!  This storm is called the Great Tribulation and it is coming upon Planet Earth. The United States government will not stop it; no president will stop it; no UN measures will stop it; no unbelieving preacher will stop it; no godless denomination will stop it; no apostate church will stop it; it is coming because the Word of God says it will come! (Matthew 24:10-13, 21)  Jesus declared this time of history that is yet future but very soon on the world’s prophetic horizon, will be worse than any time of Earth’s prior history, as well as being worse than any time in Earth’s future history.

Let me state it again. Distant rumblings of thunder and the warnings from God’s Word SCREAM to us that conditions in the world right now are signaling that a storm of unprecedented proportion is brewing on the prophetic horizon and will sweep over this earth just as this tornado went through Atlanta.  It may be true that most in Atlanta Friday night did not have any warning a storm like this was brewing but that only speaks to the sudden nature of how weather-related destruction can hit. I state again that had people received a warning that such conditions were brewing it would not have changed their plans.

Most would have STILL gone to the basketball tourney and screamed and hollered for their favorite team despite the danger of death brewed outside. Such is the nature of a fallen race and especially a nation which has lost its way with God here in America. No matter whether warning was given or not – the storm still HIT! And no matter whether people hear the warning or not – the STORM that is coming upon Planet Earth WILL and IS COMING and will TAKE PLACE! The Apostle Paul said that when the world cries “peace and safety” then SUDDEN destruction shall come upon this earth as birth pangs come upon a woman. No matter how much godless politicians promise “change” to the nation and the world should they get elected let this writer assure the reader that the change that is coming is not the change being promised.

The change that is ahead will be an increase of earthquakes, violent tornadoes, hurricanes, pestilences, wars and rumor of wars, famines, drought, fires and a continued upheaval and shaking of Planet Earth in general (Romans 8). The Bible has given warning and though the voices of preachers who have spoken those warnings have gotten fewer and fewer there are still SOME giving warning to this very hour that a STORM IS COMING.  I pray friend that you know the only anchor that will be sure during this time of terrible calamity that is coming upon the Earth and that is the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s getting late neighbor and the warnings are being screamed that the church age is coming to an end, the rapture is about to take place and the curtain about to rise upon Earth’s darkest hour. The rise of the Antichrist looms as does the stage being set for the Great Tribulation period where nearly 3 billion people may very well die.

Friend, take heed to the warning and if you don’t know the Lord today, hear the Holy Spirit through this writer to make things right with God, be born again, repent, believe the gospel and be saved before it is eternally too late.  

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