There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

imagine a God who would permit such suffering. The internal struggle led to theological minds debating the goodness of God. Just how in charge was God in the affairs of men? There was also a strong animosity birthed in the hearts of many survivors who placed blame on some people in Europe, who called themselves Christians, for not standing up and defending the Jewish people in the greatest crisis of their history. Many secular or nonreligious Jews were and are unaware that in the first five books of the Bible written by Moses (called the Torah), the Hebrew prophet Moses foresaw a time eerily parallel to the Holocaust in which he warned the Jewish people what would come in the future. But he also gave them hope that God would deliver them and restore them to their land and position as a nation among the nations. All of what Moses wrote concerning the death, destruction, and the restoration has come to pass. (See Deuteronomy 28.) The anger toward the Almighty is also found in the Gentile nations. Several years ago, when the tsunami struck Indonesia, there were hundreds of thousands of deaths, including the deaths of thousands of children. Since the Book of Genesis indicates that God created the heavens and the earth, including the sea and all living things therein (Gen. 1), the assumption is that God is controlling all natural disasters, including earthquakes, storms, and tsunamis. Those believing this immediately announced that the judgment of God had fallen upon certain nations since these natural disasters are often labeled by insurance companies as “acts of God.” Thus God is to blame for the event and the resulting deaths and destruction.