Floods in the Philippines

Floods and landslides from heavy rainfall over the weekend killed 25 people in the Philippines. Rescue teams are still searching for another 26 missing individuals.

• Over 300 areas are flooded and 20 landslides have been reported.
• It is estimated that 1,196 houses were damaged and 400,000 people affected; 81,000 people had to stay in evacuation shelters.
• Certain areas have no power or water supply.

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Flash floods are common in the Philippines due to typhoons and other tropical storms; however, the floods this weekend were caused simply by heavy rain.

Why “natural” disasters? Environmental catastrophes claim the lives of thousands of people or more every year, and weather patterns are becoming even harder to predict. The Bible says that God controls the climate and sends storms, as well as other weather phenomenon (Job 37:5-6). Verse 13 explains that God uses the weather “for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.”

God wants to give us every blessing imaginable, but first we must turn to Him in humble obedience. This is the major lesson that God wants to teach us in these weather disasters. That is why it is such a dangerous deception to remove God from the equation and blame all these problems on carbon emissions causing climate change.
—Gerald Flurry, Trumpet editor in chief

Learn more: Read “The Deadly Climate Change Deception.”