NATURAL DISASTERS AND THE DIVINE PURPOSE

Our hearts go out with deepest anguish to the victims of the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria, and to their suffering families and loved ones.  Whatever we can do to relieve their pain and assist them in their need, let us do.  But let us also keep our eyes on the multiplying signs that Jesus is getting ready to come, and by which He seeks to arouse inquiring and searching hearts of the ultimate, eternally-consequential choices that lie before them in these fleeting moments of lingering time.

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WAS DAVID IN A JUSTIFIED STATE DURING HIS SIN WITH BATHSHEBA?

“I was shown that it was when David was pure, and walking in the counsel of God, that God called him a man after His own heart.  When David departed from God, and stained his virtuous character by his crimes, he was no longer a man after God’s own heart.  God did not in the least degree justify him in his sins, but sent Nathan, His prophet, with dreadful denunciations to David because he had transgressed the commandment of the Lord.”

Ellen G. White, Spirit of Prophecy, vol. 1, p. 379

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