“With my soul I have desired You in the night; yes, with my spirit within me I will seek You early: for when Your judgements are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn righteousness.” (Isaiah 26:9)
The context of this verse shows that many of the people in Isaiah’s time would not listen and as a result perished from calamities and invasions, which they may have attributed to natural disruptions. Isaiah’s prayer was that his people would see these things as God’s judicial sentences (which is the meaning of “judgements” in the Hebrew language). His prayer was partly answered in the fact that some did.
So, what are we to make of the volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, typhoons, extensive floods, cyclones (hurricanes), tsunamis, and excessively violent storms — many of which are currently taking place around the globe? I was born in 1940 and have lived through 340 seasons, few of which could have matched those of today.
What if God is speaking to us through some of the disruptions that we attribute to seasonal weather changes? Living just above or just below the Equator accounts for much loss of life, yet some of the recent and increasingly violent disruptions cannot be explained by inexplicable global climate change.
What if God is speaking to us through these disruptions? What if He is “shaking all nations” so that we will trust in His Kingdom rather than our own worldly ways? Most importantly, what if God is speaking but we are not listening?