Does God Cause Hurricanes?

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In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, which devastated Southeast Texas, and with Hurricane Irma bearing down on the state of Florida, Kirk Cameron came under fire when he said that hurricanes are sent by God.

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Weather is sent to cause us to respond to God in humility, awe, and repentance.

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So how about it? Is Cameron correct? Yes. And Cameron wasn't merely sharing his opinion.

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He taught from the Bible, reading from Job 37, which says, He loads the thick cloud with moisture.

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The clouds scatter His lightning. They turn around and around by His guidance, to accomplish all that He commands them on the face of the habitable world, whether for correction, or for His land, or for love.

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He causes it to happen. Psalm 107 says that God commanded and raised the stormy wind on the sea, and men's courage melted away in their evil plight.

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They reeled and staggered like drunken men. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress.

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He made the storm be still. Through the prophet Isaiah, God says, I am the Lord, and there is no other.

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I equip you, though you do not know Me, that people may know, from the rising of the sun to its setting, that there is none besides Me.

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I form light and create darkness. I make well -being and create calamity. I am the

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Lord who does these things. This is but a glimpse of the power of God, who will destroy the wicked.

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But if you cry out to Jesus, who calms the waves in the sea, you will be saved, when we understand the text.