OF STORM 'GODS,' HURRICANES: ARE THERE SPIRITUAL ELEMENTS BEHIND THE WEATHER?
Joyce Lang
Sep 25, 2002
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OF STORM 'GODS,' HURRICANES: ARE THERE SPIRITUAL
ELEMENTS BEHIND THE WEATHER?
By Michael H. Brown
Storms are funny things. Take hurricanes. The very term is thought to come
from "Hurukan," the name of the Mayan storm god, and other similar native
Caribbean words translate as "big wind" or "evil spirit." Are these just
metaphors? Or can spiritual forces manifest in the weather? We know that
Satan is described as the "prince of the power of the air" and that he fell
from heaven like a bolt of lightning.
And so we pay attention to these metaphors. We pay attention especially at
this time when there are many threatening weather anomalies. I have written
about all this in Sent To Earth, how the events are heightening around us.
While it has been a quiet year for hurricanes, we must recall that Hurricane
Andrew came in a quiet year and we must know that the signs arrive in a way
our meteorologists cannot predict. We still don't understand the weather.
We still don't fully understand hurricanes -- or for that matter tornadoes.
I found this out after speaking with more than a hundred experts. When it
comes to hurricanes, there is a great sinister mystery and anyone who visited
South Florida in the wake of Hurricane Andrew or has been in the path of
a twister knows the darkness that takes on a spiritual aspect.
As Scripture says, it rains on the good and bad alike. From time to time,
we all suffer from the weather. It's a part of nature, and part of the trials
of life. But I must say there does seem to be a certain proclivity for storms
to attack certain suspect areas. Hopefully Hurricane Isidore will not end
up a great problem for the Gulf Coast; we have been blessed so far this year.
But Louisiana, which is in the path of such storm, has long been a concern
to us, particularly New Orleans. I have written about the voodoo that is
openly practiced and the lust that has consumed the French Quarter and the
simple worldliness that now predominates in this city that also has so many
truly devout and fine Christians. All it would take is a category-3 or category-4
hurricane to put the downtown under 18 to 30 feet of water.
At the same time, we can pray storms away. Did not Christ tell us to emulate
Him, and did He not halt the wind? Many are the accounts of those who have
miraculously survived through prayer (I have spoken to such people who have
been in homes hit by the strongest recorded tornadoes) and in Florida the
approach of Hurricane Floyd -- which could have delivered an absolutely devastating
blow in 1999 -- was turned away, believe many, by the activity of strong
prayer networks in Florida. What could have been a category-5 storm and one
far larger than Andrew, covering the entire state, instead stalled out to
sea and diminished (though it did cause many problems for the Carolinas).
So pray it away, Louisiana! Pray it away, Mississippi! We are in a time of
extremes and strange weather. As the Blessed Mother prophesied at LaSalette
in France, the seasons have been altered. There will be thunder that rattles
whole cities -- whole regions. I don't think and certainly hope that doesn't
happen this year, but I do think that one year soon a storm will come out
of the blue and cause unprecedented effects. I know this is also feared at
the National Hurricane Center, where there are some very active Christians.
The best way to stop it is not only to pray away the storm but more fundamentally
to pray away the evil -- the sin -- that conjures up Hurukan.