There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

base elements have been and will be used in the future to initiate judgments against the ungodly, including the future Great Tribulation. 2. There are times when the disasters have nothing to do with God Himself initiating them, but are rather a reaction to the fact that the earth is old and has fault lines, cracks, and volcanic openings throughout its surface and underneath the seas. Blaming God for a normal natural disaster would be like a woman blaming her husband for the wrinkles appearing on her face. Some things are just a process of life. Since the whole of Creation is in travail, similar to a women who travails in labor prior to giving birth (Isa. 13:8; 21:3; Rom. 8:22), there will be seasons in which the cosmic heavens, the ground, and the seas will shake and heave in travail, waiting for the day of the Messiah to bring deliverance to the planet (v. 22). 3. The evil in and around the earth, with the shedding of blood, causes the earth itself to disclose the blood of the slain, as the blood of the innocents cries out to God. The death of innocent children is heartbreaking, tragic, and at times unexplainable. However, consider the nations in which the tsunami struck years ago. The fact is that in many of these nations the children do not enjoy the type of life and family relations that we in the West encounter. In many of these third world nations both girls and boys are sold as sexslaves to sex addicted adults who abuse and use them for their own perverted pleasure. God in His mercy may have allowed these