Marion Berry would be disappointed..... Barney Frank too!
God doesn’t always start out with the BIG wake-up call.
If He always came down as hard as He could the first time, there’d be a lot less people to potentially change their ways. They’d be dead, and more people would probably harden their hearts and say “Why are you so mean and vengeful?”
AS with everything, there are reasons as to why things happen, they do not happen randomly or on their own. God is in control of the entire universe. He keeps Satan in check and Satan cannot do anything outside of God’s permission.
And maybe, sometimes not. 23 Aug 2001 2 1/2 weeks prior to 9/11: