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Is God responsible for natural disasters? Some would say that He punishes us by sending storms and floods. In Joel’s time, Judah was suffering the after-effects of a severe plague of locusts. Joel was in no doubt that God had sent the locusts to chastise the people of Judah for their sinful lifestyles, an indication of the coming “great and dreadful day of the Lord.” Speaking of the judgment that...

were self-righteous (Zeph. 1:12). Sometimes a stirring call is suddenly shouted, but, at other times, the plea is gentler. Always the intention is to bring the people back to the ways of God. Throughout his little book, Haggai constantly called the people to ‘give careful thought’ to their ways (Hag. 1:5, 7; 2:15, 18). In Lamentations 3:40, we find a similar challenge with the call, ‘Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD’. To demonstrate the disastrous effect of these
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