Please accept this as a logical and biblical explanation.
While it may sound old fashioned, all the issues we’re facing today is due to God’s wrath being poured out on us. This wrath is meant to draw us closer-or it will push us (as a nation) away from Him. It’s simply because He is a holy God and cannot stand our sinning and contempt for Him.
How we respond is the question.
And Saint Vincent Ferrer relays the story of an archdeacon in Lyons who died the same day and hour as Saint Bernard. After his death, he appeared to his bishop and said to him,
Know, Monsignor, that at the very hour I passed away, thirty-three thousand people also died. Out of this number, Bernard and myself went up to heaven without delay, three went to purgatory, and all the others fell into Hell. —From a sermon by St. Leonard of Port Maurice
Before I come as a just judge, I am coming first as “King of Mercy”! Let all men now approach the throne of my mercy with absolute confidence! Some time before the last days of final justice arrive, there will be given to mankind a great sign in the heavens of this sort: all the light of the heavens will be totally extinguished. There will be a great darkness over the whole earth. Then a great sign of the cross will appear in the sky. From the openings from where the hands and feet of the savior were nailed will come forth great lights—which will light up the earth for a period of time. This will happen before the very final days. It is the sign for the end of the world. After it will come the days of justice! Let souls have recourse to the fount of my mercy while there is still time! Woe to him who does not recognize the time of my visitation. —Diary of St. Faustina, 83
Many are invited, but few are chosen. (Matt 22:14)
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.” (Matt 7:21)
There is no excuse. God has poured out every spiritual blessing upon us, and yet, we refuse to give Him our hearts! All of Heaven mourns for the days which are coming upon this humanity. Most grievous to the heart of God are the many who have walked with Him before, who are now beginning to harden their hearts.
The sifting is sweeping many souls from the pews.
The churches may be full, but hearts are not. Many have stopped going to church altogether and ceased thinking of God and the things of God, and have fallen into step with the march of the world.
It is easy, it comfortable. And it is deadly. It is a march which leads to eternal perdition! It leads to hell.
Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many. How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few. (Matt 7:14)
Those who find it are few! How can this word fail to stir into flame that gift of the Holy Spirit sealed in our Confirmation called “Fear of the Lord”?
“A large part of Christianity does not understand the holiness of God and because they fail to understand His majesty, they have a very difficult time with God’s judgment against sinners.”
I believe the Psalms truly capture the interplay of God’s wrath and his immense compassion (always there to save the day!). 106 and 107 really “go there”. The last line of 107 opened my heart and mind one day.
I do not believe that the creator and sustainer of the Universe displays anger at certain animals on a small speck of material in His Universe..
According to Genesis, Elohim saw that our creation was “very good”.