Is GOD TRYING to GET our ATTENTION??
Posted by: prophetic <prophetic@...>
attention of nations (particularly Israel) as to the sin that is
defiling the land? -Often through drought or famine. As Scripture says:
"When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they
have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and
confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest
them: Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy
servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good
way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land...."
(1 Ki 8:35-36. See also 2 Chron 7:13-14).
"THE WRATH of 2007: AMERICA's GREAT DROUGHT"
-from The Independent newspaper, UK.
America is facing its worst summer drought since the Dust Bowl
years of the Great Depression. Or perhaps worse still.
>From the mountains and desert of the West, now into an eighth
consecutive dry year, to the wheat farms of Alabama, where
crops are failing because of rainfall levels 12 inches lower than
usual, to the vast soupy expanse of Lake Okeechobee in southern
Florida, which has become so dry it actually caught fire a couple
of weeks ago, a continent is crying out for water.
In the south-east, usually a lush, humid region, it is the driest
few months since records began in 1895. California and Nevada,
where burgeoning population centres co-exist with an often harsh,
barren landscape, have seen less rain over the past year than
at any time since 1924. The Sierra Nevada range, which straddles
the two states, received only 27 per cent of its usual snowfall in
winter, with immediate knock-on effects on water supplies for the
populations of Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
The human impact, for the moment, has been limited, certainly
nothing compared to the great westward migration of Okies in
the 1930s - the desperate march described by John Steinbeck in
The Grapes of Wrath.
Big farmers are now well protected by government subsidies and
emergency funds, and small farmers, some of whom are indeed
struggling, have been slowly moving off the land for decades
anyway. The most common inconvenience, for the moment, are
restrictions on hosepipes and garden sprinklers in eastern cities.
But the long-term implications are escaping nobody. Climatologists
see a growing volatility in the south-east's weather - today's drought
coming close on the heels of devastating hurricanes two to three
years ago. In the West, meanwhile, a growing body of scientific
evidence suggests a movement towards a state of perpetual
drought by the middle of this century. "The 1930s drought lasted
less than a decade. This is something that could remain for 100
years," said Richard Seager a climatologist at Columbia University
and lead researcher of a report published recently by the
government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
~For FULL ARTICLE-
news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2643033.ece
[~Author: Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles.. 11 June 2007]