Are We In the "Days of Chastisement"? | Sandra Miesel and Juanita Coulson

Are We In the "Days of Chastisement"? |  Sandra Miesel and Juanita Coulson | September 22, 2005            

In the tragic wake of Hurricane Katrina, cries of "Chastisement!" were raised by many end times speculators. Oh, look how God smote sinful New Orleans and those wicked Gulf Coast casinos! (Why the French Quarter survived while nursing home patients drowned is a too delicate an issue of theodicy to address.)
      
One website, for example, lamented that bishops and priests have failed to "remind the Catholic faithful that what happened in New Orleans can be the beginning of a chastisement that may come for all of us," and concluded: "It would seem that the time of warnings is over and we are entering the days of chastisement Our Lady predicted at Fatima." Others echoed the same strong sentiment. Continue reading...

Comments

[Sandra Miesel]

Ooops! That should be 2,000,000 killed in the faminines in the British Isles, not 2,000.
For those who want to look into disasters of the past, DARKEST HOURS is an excellent survey although it only tabulates events to the mid-70s.

[Carl Olson]

Sandra: The "2,000" has been corrected to "2,000,000". Thanks!

[Jeff Grace]

Thanks for a great article, Sandra! If anyone gives you grief, just go tell them to read Job... or Ecclesiastes. That should snap them out of it. :>

[Veronica]

Loved this article, very thoughtful and informative... thanks Sandra!

[Suzanne J. Rua]

"From the standpoint of eternity, the End has always been near." Good point. Moreover, it was C.S. Lewis who once made another very good point in terms of how "upside down" our thinking can be. He suggested that the truly "extraordinary" thing about catastrophic events of Biblical proportions is not that they happen - but that they do not happen more often. God prevents more disasters than He permits.

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