Responding to God’s Judgments
This article interprets natural disasters and calamities of 2012 (typhoons, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes) as God's sovereign judgments against sin, grounded in Reformed confessions of God's absolute sovereignty and holiness. Dykstra calls believers to recognize these events as harbingers of the end times while maintaining sympathy for victims and trust in God's care for His people.
The Reformed believer confesses the sovereignty of God in all things. He acknowledges the kingship of Jesus Christ, to whom God has given "all power in heaven and in earth" (Matt. 28:19). Accordingly, the believer knows that nothing happens by chance. Jehovah reigns supreme. The Reformed believer worships the Holy One, the God too holy to dwell with iniquity. That God hates all sin, and visits the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate...
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