re portland earthquake in article may athos rutgers edu cctr cantua canterbury ac nz bill rea writes in history seems to imply some pretty serious sin the one of the pastors in the church i attend christchurch city elim considers that a prophesy of a natural disaster as a judgement from the lord is a clear sign that the prophesy is not from the lord i would like to see his reasoning behind this you may have gotten burned by natural disaster prophecies down there but that does not mean that every natural disaster judgement prophecy is false take a quick look at the book of jeremiah and it is obvious that judgement prophecies can be valid here in the us it seems like we might have more of a problem with positive prophecies though i am sure there may be a few people who are too into judgement sometimes god does give words that are difficult to swallow the relative positiveness of a prophecy is not necesarily grounds to dismiss it much of the ot is not happy stuff link hudson
