God is the Judge: he puts down one, and sets up another in His hand is a cup(Ps 75:7) The wildfires that struck suburban California killed 20 people, destroyed 2,600 homes, burned 660,000 acres and did over $2 billion in property damage. This disaster will be measured, "not by the number of acres burned," but by "lives turned upside-down"families fleeing for their livesbefore their homes were swallowed in flames ... (World Magazine, Nov. 8, 2003). Our forefathers would have instantly understood these things to be judgments from God:
17th Century Puritan, Matthew Henry, writes of Psalm 75 and God's rule over kings and nations: God is the Judge, ... Magistrates should rule for God as those that must give account to Him... In the hand of the Lord there is a cup mixed of many ingredients, a cup of affliction ...the judgments of God upon sinners ... The wine is red as fire, red as bloodit burns, ... it kills ... vials are poured out upon all Some drops of this wrath may light on good people.they have their share in common calamities; but, the dregs of the cup are reserved for the wicked. The calamity itself is but the vehicle into which the wrath and curse is infused... Please Join us in Repentant Prayer:
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