Just for women. Listen to Mrs. Waite speak from her heart to your need. Pause a moment and care. Just for Women is an unusual broadcast for women in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. Yvonne Waite deals biblically with the many issues facing women today. The Bible tells the older women to speak the things which become sound doctrine. and teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands. Let the word of God be not blasphemed. Listen now to Mrs. Waite speaking just for women. Hi girls! How's the weather where you are? I have a clipping here that's most moving. Years ago a mighty earthquake rocked the city of Charleston, South Carolina. It is said that an aged preacher was just beginning the delivery of his sermon when the first tremor was felt. All was silence for a moment. Then a second and mightier upheaval was felt. Lifting his eyes from his sermon notes, the aged minister exclaimed, God is now speaking. It is time for us to be silent. In the midst of earth's upheavals, the article goes on to say, blessed indeed are God's children who are sufficiently close to him to shut out earth's confusing and contradictory voices, hearing only the soothing, sustaining voice of God. Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth. There is a controversy about weather, all sorts of weather controversies. The one that I am talking about right now is when there is a big tsunami, a big hurricane, a big tornado like we just had in the Midwest in our country and fires all over in Texas and Oklahoma and towards Arkansas and all that. There are big fires and big upheavals and big rains and mudslides. Is this God speaking to us? Or in a roundabout way is it God teaching us something? Or is it just quote-unquote nature? I want to talk about these things to you. I've been collecting various articles on the weather and on circumstances around us and I think it's time that we talk things over. You know I want to tell you things that are of interest to women. You're a woman, I'm a woman. You're a mother, I'm a mother. I'm a grandmother, I'm a great-grandmother. So I have concerns about the weather. Some people don't have anything to talk about with the weather. and I usually don't talk about it unless it's affecting me. The other day on television when I saw the terrible tornado destructions, I think there was a hundred of them in one area, where they usually only have maybe ten. I looked at that and saw the destruction. It was like Katrina and the hurricane that followed Katrina down there in Florida last year. I mean in New Orleans and all those places and in Mississippi and all those places. You know what I'm talking about. I looked at all that destruction last week and these tornadoes and places. Even Indianapolis had threats, etc. I thought, what if that happened to me? I used to live in a trailer when I was a bride and it was a trailer. Some people call them travel trailers. It was 26 foot long. I know people that call them their travel trailers. That was my home. I have no desire to run around the country in a trailer because I used to live in one. It was a nice one. It was called a Vagabond. We didn't have a bathroom in our trailer. No, we had to walk to the bathhouse to go to the bathroom. We had to walk to the shower house to go to the shower room. We had to walk to the wash house to wash our diapers by hand by the way. I'm not quite as old as a cover wagon, but I may as well be. I'm telling you all this because I used to live in a trailer. So I was thinking last week when these tornadoes came, even the hurricanes down south, but mostly last week. because I'm originally from the Midwest and I thought what if we were in the trailer and we were there maybe wherever these, you're in St. Louis or someplace where these terrible tornadoes came and we're from Ohio by the way originally I couldn't run I don't know I can't run well When I was a young girl, if anybody wanted to come after me, I just would turn around and face them. Because I couldn't run. And that would always surprise them. They didn't expect you to turn around and face them. But I wouldn't be able to run. What would I do? Lie down on the ground? What would I do? I would be just as confused of what to do as you would be. And as those poor souls were. And God has blessed me so far. Where I am, I haven't been in a terrific storm that I have had to run from. We had a big tree. We used to have trees in front of our house. We don't have a big front yard. We have a big side yard. Our yard is on the corner of Park and Dill. That's the corner of Park and Dill. You must come to our church here at 900 Park Avenue. Please come and visit us and get to know us. On this corner one time, Hurricane Gloria did a deed on one of these big trees. A huge tree that you couldn't even put your arm around. It fell on our sun porch area. That is where our BFT office is. It spread all over the house now. It didn't do any damage because we have a very strong house. At least that part was very strong. People that come and work on our house, I put in electrical outlets to do something. They say, my this is a strong house. But that's the closest I've come personally that I can remember of something actually falling on my house. I heard a thump, but we were used to hearing people crashing cars on our corner. So I rushed out thinking it would be a car, instead it was this huge tree from the tree lawn way taking over this whole section of our yard. It just so happened that our daughter and son-in-law were visiting us then and when my son-in-law came he just walked up that tree a little bit. He's a real outdoors man. I just looked at it and the city came and they chopped it all down with their saws and everything. Well, that's the closest I've been to any big destruction that I can remember. I know where my son, one of my sons was born in Zina, Ohio, but was not when we were there. They had a big tornado there that destroyed most of that city, but we had moved. Now I want to get on to what I want to talk about. You know, I just chat around and waste my time. I'm going to start by reading an article by a man named Jerry Bridges. I don't know who he is, but I have this article that I've been saving for quite a while. He's a staff member at the time that he wrote this from Navigators Ministries. His scripture that he begins his article on is found in Jeremiah 14.22. Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Art not Thou, O He, O Lord, our God? Therefore we will wait upon Thee, for Thou hast made all these things. Now Mr. Bridges goes on and begins his article this way. In September 1985, an earthquake struck Mexico City, killing some 6,000 people and leaving more than 100,000 homeless. A friend of mine wanted to use the event to teach his young children a simple science lesson, so he asked them, Do you know what caused the earthquake? My friend, Mr. Bridges said, planned to answer his question with a simple explanation of fault lines and shifting rocks in the Earth's crust. His simultaneous lesson quickly turned into a theological discussion. However, when his eight-year-old daughter replied, I know why. God was judging those people. Though my friend's childhood jumped to an unwarranted conclusion about God's judgment, she was theologically correct in one sense. God was in control of that earthquake. Why he allowed it to happen is a question we cannot answer and should not try to. But we can say on the testimony of scripture that God did indeed allow it to cause it to happen. All of us are affected by the weather and the forces of nature at various times to one degree or another. Most of the time we are merely inconvenienced by weather. A delayed airplane flight, a cancelled 4th of July picnic or something else of that order. Frequently some people somewhere are drastically affected by the weather or the more violent forces of nature. A prolonged drought withers the farmer's crop. Or a hailstorm destroys it within an hour. Or a tornado in Texas leaves hundreds homeless and a typhoon in Bangladesh destroys thousands of acres of crops. Whenever we are affected by the weather, whether it is merely an inconvenience or a major disaster, we tend to regard it as nothing more than the impersonal expression of a certain meteorological or geological loss. A low-pressure system settles over my hometown, bringing a huge snowstorm and closing our airport the day I am to leave for a ministry engagement, Mr. Bridges says. Forces within the earth continually bend its crust until one day it snaps, causing a major earthquake. Whether it is trivial or traumatic, we tend to think of the expressions of nature as just happening, and ourselves as the unlucky victims of whatever nature brings forth. In practice, even Christians tend to live and think like the deist, who conceived of God as the one who created the universe and then walked away to leave it running according to its own laws. Isn't this a good article? But God has not walked away from the day-to-day control of his creation. Certainly he has established physical laws by which he governs the forces of nature, but those laws continuously operate according to his sovereign will. A Christian TV weatherman has determined that there are over 1,400 references to weather terminology in the Bible. Many of these references attribute the outworkings of weather directly to the hand of God. Most of these passages speak of God's control over all weather, not just his divine intervention on specific occasions. I think that's very interesting that most of these passages can show us that God is in control over all weather, not just the weather for specific things, like the flood of Noah. That was a drastic thing for a specific occasion and it was told about and predicted and Noah built his ark because he believed the prediction. Consider the following scriptures. He directed it under the whole heaven, and is lightning unto the ends of the earth. For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth, likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. By the breath of God, frost is given, and the breath of waters is straightened. Also by watering he wearietheth the cloud, he scattereth his bright cloud. and a turn round about by his consuls, that they may do whatsoever he commanded them upon the face of the whole earth. He causes it to come whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy." Those verses were found in Job 37, 3, verse 6, 10 to 13. I think this is very, very interesting, and I just wish I could spend more time with you right now, but I can't. You and I must give our days to the Lord Jesus. First of all, we must give our lives. He died on the cross for your sin and for my sin. You are a sinner. The Bible tells us so, whether you think you are or not. So our days belong to him. My mother, Gertrude Sanborn, has written, this day is thine, Lord. I thought it was mine. So I began to make a plan beside, but you stepped in and by thy plan laid mine aside. I cried at first, for I liked my way the best. But as I yielded to Thy perfect way, I felt a glow, a peace, a calm, sweet, holy rest. This day is Thine, Lord, not mine, and for Thy glory Thou hast made each moment, each hour. And since I've stepped aside, I've seen the wondrous working of Thy power. Psalm 118.24 says, This is the day which the Lord hath made. We will rejoice and be glad in it, even in the storm. Girls, even in the storm. I'm under God's care. Are you? You have been listening to Just for Women with Yvonne Waite, sponsored by the Bible for Today Baptist Church in Collingswood, New Jersey. We invite you to visit our church Sundays, 10 a.m., and 1.30 p.m., and Thursdays at 8 p.m. If you need more information about our church, our broadcast, or our Savior, please call us toll-free, 1-800-JOHN-10-9. The organist and pianist is Mr. Dick Carroll. Your announcer has been Dr. B. A. Waits, pastor of the Bible Today Baptist Church. We invite all you ladies to join us for our next broadcast, heard twice weekly over the same station, and hear Yvonne wait, and just for women. Five, four, three, two, one. Just for Women. Listen to Mrs. Rach speak from her heart to your need. Pause a moment and care. Dressed for Women is an unusual broadcast for women in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. Divine Weight deals biblically with the many issues facing women today. The Bible tells the older women to speak the things which become sound doctrine and teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands. Let the Word of God be not blaspheming. Listen now to Mrs. Waite speaking just for women. Hello girls, we're talking about the weather. How is the weather where you are? I read recently an article on my computer about Oklahoma threatened by Texas grass fires. It's a March 16th news item. It's not today's news item, so don't get upset. It says, wind-driven grass fires in the Texas Panhandle are moving north and northeast Thursday, prompting officials to warn Oklahoma to be prepared. and it talks about how the 50 mile winds caused two giant flare-ups Wednesday and at least 850 acres had been burned. What keeps this fire going? It's the wind. It's the wind. Two air tankers were called out of Ardmore, Oklahoma to drop retardants on the fires near Miami, Texas and Army National Guard bulldozers were helping put the fire protection lines. The news service reported. State Trooper Daniel Hawthorne said Wednesday that with fires destroying miles of fences across the area, there will be livestock roaming the road. livestock roaming the roadways of the affected areas. The fires have killed 11 people so far and have scorched an area the size of Rhode Island. And the governor made a request to all local jurisdictions across Texas to provide equipment and personnel to assist in battling the fires across the Panhandle. How terrible. This is all by the winds, the winds, the winds, the winds. You know Jesus spoke of salvation sort of like the wind. The wind bloweth where it listeth, but you can't see it. When you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior, the Holy Spirit that you can't see comes into your life and helps you and makes you a new creature in Christ Jesus. The winds, the winds, the winds. I have some scriptures on the winds. I have so many scriptures here on storms and winds and rains. I don't know where to begin first. So, let me see, in Jeremiah we read, and I will scatter all winds, them that are in the outermost corners, and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the Lord. And then, in another Jeremiah passage, in Elam, I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven. We read often about the four winds, the four winds. In Ezekiel, Daniel says, I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of the heavens strove upon the great sea. we read in Zechariah about the four winds and Matthew and the rain descended you know this one about the wise man who built his his house upon the rock and the winds the floods came and the winds blew and beat upon that house and it fell not for it was founded upon a rock this is an illustration of how we should find find found our lives we should build our lives upon the rock of Jesus Christ and when the winds of life come upon us then we will stand otherwise we will fall and then we see how the winds blow and the rains descended in the floor floods came and great was the fall of the one that was built upon the sand and then we see about Jesus said, O ye of little faith, and he arose and he rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was great calm. The winds and the sea obeyed Jesus. He was the maker of the winds. He was the maker. Then I want to call our attention to Paul in Acts 27. Let me find that for you right now. I don't want to go into the whole story about Paul but you remember when he was a prisoner and he was being taken on this ship and there was a great tempest and the winds were against them. They sailed places they didn't really want to go. They pushed up against places and parts of lands and waters they didn't want to be. And when we get down to Acts 27, 14, or 13, and when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing fence, they sailed close to Crete. But not long after, there arose again in it tempestuous wind, tempestuous wind, called Uros-like, or something like that. And when the ship was caught and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive. And as they went on and on, they were tossed about, and it was a terrible tempest. And the third day, they cast out with their own hand, attacking the ship. They threw everything out that they could, but they still weren't saved. And it was no small tempest because of the winds. and then Paul got up and he told him to stay with me and stay with the ship and everything and stay with me and be of good cheer if you stay with me everything will be okay I believe God but what I want to mostly talk to you about is this terrible wind and this was a real wind it wasn't imaginary it was something I don't know if you've ever been in a ship or a boat when there's been a wind my husband is a sailor and we used to I used to have a sailboat when he was younger and I loved to sail with him and he was a good sailor and he would catch the wind with the sails and we would go But if it was a bad day, a too windy day, we didn't go out because that was dangerous. You know sometimes in life we have wind storms. Just like here when the ship was caught and could not bear up into the wind we let her drive. Sometimes in our lives we have to let her drive. God do with us what he's going to do with us, the winds of adversity when they come. Where they take us, we have to let them take us. Now I've been reading to you. I have so much to tell you. I have so much literature here, so many scripture verses and everything. I want to talk about the wind to you, but I can see that I can only touch the surface with you. I'm sorry. I'm reading from this Terry Bridges article called God and Natural Disasters. I got it from the Free Grace Broadcaster. So I'm right here. Note how all these scriptures, Mr. Bridges says, attribute all expressions of whether good or bad to the direct controlling hand of God. And there's such a controversy. When these hurricanes came, is God judging New Orleans? Some people said he's judging New Orleans. Some said, oh no, we can't say that. We don't know. We don't know. You don't know. I don't know. It's true. We don't know. But God is in control of the weather. We have to trust that or else we'll just go amok with our lives. The insurance companies refer to major natural disasters as acts of God. The truth is all expression of nature, all occurrences of weather, whether it be a devastating tornado or a gentle rain on a spring day, are acts of God. The Bible teaches that God controls all the forces of nature, both destructive and productive, on a continuous moment-by-moment basis. So when it's a beautiful day and the weather is balmy and we enjoy it, we don't mind saying this is from God. When it's a bad day, why do we question this can be from God? The weather is in His hands. Whether the weather is nice or bad, we are never the victims or even the beneficiaries of the impersonal powers of God's nature. God, who is the loving Heavenly Father of every true Christian, is sovereign over the weather, and He exercises that sovereignty moment by moment. And I believe that with all my heart. By the way, if you want to see our webpage, And here are some of our streaming, the live streaming and recorded streaming, or click on to my husband's sermons or my radio programs. Our webpage is www.biblefortoday.org. www.biblefortoday.org. If you want to write to us, email is bftbc at biblefortoday.org. bftbc at biblefortoday.org. We'd love to hear from you. Yes, we would. Complaining about the weather seems to be a favorite American pastime, Mr. Bridges goes on to say. Sadly, we Christians often get caught up in this ungodly habit of our society. But when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God. Who sent us our weather? We are in fact sinning against God when we do this. Now that's something to think about. You know, I've been at meals with people, and I'm probably guilty too, although I'm not much of a connoisseur of food, and I usually eat what's set before me, and very little do I not eat. People will thank God. Christians, born-again Christians, will thank God for the food, and then they sit there and complain. I remember a woman who's always talking and quoting the scriptures, but if her soup is not hot, she complains. Now, let's think about this, okay? Now, going on with Mr. Bridges' article, not only do we sin against God when we complain about the weather, we also deprive ourselves of the peace that comes from recognizing our Heavenly Father is in control of it. Alexander Carson said, Scripture represents all physical laws as having their effect from the immediate agency of Almighty Power. Christians themselves, though they recognize the doctrine of divine providence, are prone to overlook it in practice and consequently to be deprived in a great measure of that advantage which a constant and deep impression of this truth is calculated to give." That's the end of that quote. Whether the weather merely disrupts my plan or destroys my home, I need to learn to see God's sovereign and loving hand controlling it. The fact is, for most of us, the weather and the effects of nature are usually favorable. The tornado, the drought, even the snowstorm that delays our flights are the exception, not the rule. We tend to remember the bad weather and take it for granted the good weather. However, when Jesus spoke about the weather, he spoke about the goodness of God. that ye may be the children of your father which is in heaven for he maketh his son to rise on the evil and on the good and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust though God sometimes uses the weather and other expressions of nature as an instrument of judgment he must often use it as an expression of his gracious provision for his creation Both saint and sinners alike benefit from God's gracious provision of weather. And according to Jesus, this provision is not merely the result of certain fixed inexorable physical laws. Exhortable or something like that. God controls those laws. He causes his sun to rise. He sends the rain. We as Christians need to stop complaining about the weather and instead learn to give thanks for it. God our Heavenly Father sends us each day what he deems best for all of his creation. And that certainly is a rebuke to us, isn't it, when we complain about God's control of the weather. My tongues are mixed up, I'm sorry. We must learn to accept God's will in our lives. You know, it's easy to talk about it, but when you're in a storm, a storm of life, I don't mean a real storm or even a real storm, it's sometimes hard to accept his will. That's because we're not yielded. Some of us have illnesses that just don't seem to go away. They come and they go. We have to accept this. Some have pain that comes and goes and sometimes never goes. It's hard to accept this. This is a personal storm within yourself. I have always had a few things that I've always known was the will of God for me. My children, my babies, when I was pregnant, this was God's will for me and I would have to accept this. I love my children. Sometimes it was very hard to be a mother. Sometimes it was hard to be pregnant, but I accepted this as the will of God for me. That's what I do. Then when my husband was a Navy chaplain, we moved a lot. I accepted that as the will of God for us because we moved where he had to be assigned. And then we must accept the weather. We must. We have no control over it. So I want to challenge you to accept the will of God in your life. I don't know your circumstances, but God does. And if you don't know Jesus Christ as your Savior, you're in a worse storm than if you were in the middle of a tornado. I'm under God's care. Are you? We have been listening to Just for Women with Yvonne Waite, sponsored by the Bible for Today Baptist Church in Collingswood, New Jersey. to invite you to visit our church Sundays, 10 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. and Thursdays at 8 p.m. If you need more information about our church, our broadcast, or our Savior, please call us toll-free 1-800-JOHN-10-9. The organist and pianist is Mr. Dick Carroll. The announcer is Ben Backer, B.A. Waits, pastor of the Bible for Today Baptist Church. We invite all you ladies to join us for our next broadcast, heard twice weekly over this same station. And here Yvonne waits, and just for women. Five, four, three, two, one. Just for Women. Listen to Mrs. Waite speak from her heart to your need. Pause a moment and care. Dressed for Women is an unusual broadcast for women in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. Yvonne Waite deals biblically with the many issues facing women today. The Bible tells the older women to speak the things which become sound doctrine and teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands. Let the Word of God be not blasphemed. Listen now to Mrs. Wade speaking just for women. Hi girls, let's get right started on this. More things about storms. Rumble, rumble, the roaring grows. This is by Jen Schaefer. Suddenly a wall of boulders, trees, rocks, and mud appears around a bend in a narrow canyon. It rushes downhill, picking up speed, clanking and grinding and destroying everything in its path. The mass of stuff finds a stream channel at the bottom of the canyon and continues its destructive journey to the bottom of the mountain. In its wake, the earth is stripped bare to the bedrock, wiped clean, left to begin a new cycle of soil rebuilding and revegetation. We all saw in the Philippines the terrible mudslides and hundreds and hundreds of people were caught in this mud and died. A school went under the mud. It was a terrible thing to behold and just recently a couple days ago Hawaii had a big dam broken. Seven people I think were swept away and another one was missing when I heard the news the other week. We just don't know. We just don't know what's going to happen. It was the Island of QI or something like that. There's the rock slides and the mud. You see this on television. I just thank the Lord that I'm not in that. We don't know when this is going to happen to us, do we? We really don't. I have scriptures here about all sorts of things. I just wish I had more time to talk to you. the Lord is slow to anger and of great in power and will not at all acquit the wicked the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm and the clouds are the dust of his feet yes that's the storm all the time the storm the storm the storms just terrible Behold, Isaiah 28, 2 says, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one. He's a mighty and strong one, which is a tempest of hail and a destroying storm as a flood. A mighty waters overflowing shall cast down to the earth with the hands. Thou shalt, the sixth verse, be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder and with earthquakes and a great noise with storm and tempest and flame of devouring fire. There's all sorts of storm verses in the scriptures. We read about the hail, the terrible hail. Behold tomorrow in Exodus 9.18. About this time I will cause it to be rain, a very grievous hail. It will rain hail. I was reading up for you about hail and how it was very different. With rainstorms you can't see from what I read. You can't see like out your windshield or out your window or something. You can't see. But in a hailstorm somehow or other you can see through it all. I don't understand it. Hail sizes are all shapes and forms. The University of Oklahoma Storm Chaser holds a handful of stones in this picture here of hails that fell from a supercell thunderstorm near Enid, Oklahoma during the spring of 1990. This storm went on to produce a tornado that struck Stillwater, Oklahoma at dusk that evening. The many chase crews, the storm chasers that followed the storm, broke off for new activity further south, missing the late-day tornado. We just heard about the tornadoes just the other week, the tornadoes and the hailstorms that came along with it, as big as eggs, as big as golf balls. We know in Revelation about hail that it is going to hail in the last days. It really is. Remember part of the plagues and everything was hail. The Lord said hail and thunder and hail mixed with fire. And it's just the thunderings and hail we read about in the scriptures. And this all comes from God. Psalm 105, He gave them hail for rain and flaming fire in their land. I thought of that when I was hearing about the hailstorms. These big huge hailstorms breaking windows and breaking windshields and damaging cars. The tempest of hails. Hail. You know, there's I just don't, I don't have enough words to be able to explain all this to you. It's interesting to think about God in the rain. You know, I read here in Psalm 147, 8, a good verse, who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. You see, God, he prepares the rain for our benefit as well as for punishment. And it's a thing how God does send a plentiful rain. There's good and there's bad. Hath the rain a father who hath begotten the drops of dew? Is the question in Job. Isaiah and there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat and for a place of refuge and for a cover from storm and from rain. God provides the rain for the good and the bad, for the evil and the unjust. Jesus said in Matthew 5 that we should love our enemies and we should pray for him and then he goes on to the 45th verse that ye may be the children of your father which is in heaven for he maketh his reign to rise on the evil and on the good and sendeth reign on the just and on the unjust Nevertheless, in Acts 14, 17, even though the people that Paul was talking to were sinners and did many bad things, Paul wrote, he left not himself without a witness, that God left not without a witness, in that he did good and gave us rain from heaven in fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness. He provides rain for the good and the bad. Yes, that's something that we have to understand. Now I want to get to this reading unless I don't have time to finish it for you. I'm reading from God and Natural Disasters by Jerry Bridges. He asked this question, what about the natural disasters that occur frequently in various parts of the world? Many sensitive Christians struggle over the multitude of large-scale natural disasters around the world. An earthquake in one place and a famine in another. Typhoons and floods somewhere else. Thousands of people are killed. Others slowly starve to death. Entire regions are devastated. Crops are ruined. Homes destroyed. Why does God allow all this, we may ask? Why does God permit all those innocent children to starve? It is not wrong to wrestle with these issues as long as we do it in a reverent and submissive attitude toward God. Indeed, to fail to wrestle with the issues of large-scale tragedies may indicate a lack of compassion towards others on our part. However, we must be careful, Mr. Bridges warns, not to, in our minds, take God off His throne of absolute sovereignty or put Him in the dock and bring Him to the bar of our judgment. While working on this chapter, the writer says, I watched the evening news on television one night. One of the top stories was about several powerful tornadoes that swept across central Mississippi, killing seven people, injuring at least 145 more. and leaving nearly 500 families homeless. As I watched the scene of people shifting through the rubble of what had been their homes, my heart went out to them. I thought to myself, some of those people are undoubtedly believers. What would I say to them about God's sovereignty over nature? Do I really believe it myself at a time like this? Why bring God into chaos and suffering such as this? He questions. But God brings himself into these events. He said in Isaiah 45 7, I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create evil. I the Lord do all these things. God himself accepts the responsibility so to speak of disasters. He actually does more than accept the responsibility. He actually claims it. In fact, God says, I, and I alone have the power and authority to bring about both prosperity and disaster, both real and woe, both good and bad. This is a difficult truth to accept as you watch people sifting through the rubble of their homes, or more to the point, if you are the one sifting through the rubble of your home. But as the late Dr. Edward J. Young commented on Isaiah 45, 7, he said, we gain nothing but seek to minimize the force of the present verse. We must allow the Bible to say what it says, not what we think it ought to say. Isn't that something? Let me read Isaiah 45 again to you. I form the light and create darkness. I make peace to create evil. I the Lord do all these things. We honestly do not understand why God creates disaster or why he brings it to one town and not to another. We recognize too that just as God sends his sun and rain on both the righteous and the unrighteous, so he also sends the tornadoes or the hurricanes or the earthquakes on both. God's sovereignty over nature does not mean that Christians never encounter the tragedies of natural disasters. Experience and observations clearly teach otherwise. God's sovereignty over nature does mean that whatever we experience at the hand of weather or other forces of nature such as plants, diseases, or insects infestation of a crop, All circumstances are under the watchful eye and sovereign control of our God. That's the end of that article. I was rather interested in scripture when it speaks of earthquakes. It says two years before the earthquake in Amos 1.1 and Zechariah it says he fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah the king. So we even say, remember when the earthquake of so-and-so happened, or when the tsunami happened that year, or when New Orleans was hurt so many years from then? We do the same things today. The people of the Old Testament were people like we were at 1626, as in suddenly there was a great earthquake. So that the foundation of the prison was shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bands were loosed. And Peter escaped. Remember when Peter escaped because of the earthquake? So we read in Revelation that the 10th part of the city will fall from the earthquake. We know how earthquakes affect everything. Everything that happens around where it shakes. I talked to you about the hail. That was so interesting. I'm going through my pages to see if I've talked to you about the things that I wanted to say to you. I hope I have. I hope you realize that there is a difference of opinion in case I haven't said it in this series. Some people feel that God is not behind any of these. He has no control one way or the other of anything. I don't believe that. I believe that no matter what happens to us in the realm of nature, anything really, we are talking about storms and earthquakes, that God knows about it and he has his reasons. We are not God. We do not know his reasons. We do not know why good people are killed along with bad people. We don't know why children die in mudslides like the terrible mudslide that we heard about recently, but God knows that we must trust Him. These are great tragedies, but I want to say to you, the greatest tragedy is if someone would die without the Savior. If you should die today, if you would be a mocker like the sons-in-law of Lot were, if you would be that way and you would die today, Would you go to heaven? Would you go to be with Jesus? That's far greater than any earthly loss of life. It's the loss of your eternal life. To hell. Serious business. And God's in charge of all that too. I'm under God's care. Are you? You have been listening to Just for Women with Yvonne Wake, sponsored by the Bible for today Baptist Church in Collingswood, New Jersey. We invite you to visit our church Sundays, 10 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. and Thursdays at 8 p.m. If you need more information about our church, our broadcast, or our Savior, please call us toll-free 1-800-JOHN-10-9. The organist and pianist is Mr. Dick Carroll. The announcer has been Dr. D. A. Waits, pastor of the Bible Today Baptist Church. We invite all you ladies to join us for our next broadcast, heard twice weekly over the same station, and hear Yvonne wait, and just for women. Five, four, three, two, one. Just for Women. Listen to Mrs. Waite speak from her heart to your need. Pause a moment and care. Dressed for Women is an unusual broadcast for women in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. Yvonne Wake deals biblically with the many issues facing women today. The Bible tells the older women to speak the things which become sound doctrine and teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. Listen now to Mrs. Wake speaking just for women. Hello girls. When my friend asked me the other day what are you going to talk about Mrs. Waite? I said I'm going to talk about the weather. So if you've been hearing the last three programs I've been talking about the weather. She said are you going to bring in the theories of this man or perhaps more than theories a man called Tesla and his work on this extreme low frequency things and I said oh I had forgotten all about that. My husband had given me literature and I hadn't paid too much attention and when I was thinking about talking about hurricanes and earthquakes and floods I forgot about that that some people believe that men Scientists are interfering with the weather and causing weather commotion that really wouldn't happen if they had interfered. So my husband looked this up again for me in the computer on the internet and I'm going to read as much as I can to you. Now you can ask me for this whole article and I'll send it to you. 1-800-JOHN-10-9 or you can email us at BFTBC at BibleForToday.org or call 1-800-JOHN-10-9. I'm going to start it. It's a review of this book, Angels Don't Play This Harp, Advances in Tesla Technology. It's by Nick Bedgenich, B-E-G-I-C-H, and Gene Manning. This article was prepared to provide a summary of the contents of a book written in 1995, which describes an entirely new class of weapons. The weapons and their effects are described in the following pages. The United States Navy and Air Force have joined with the University of Alaska Fairbanks to build a prototype for a ground-based Star Wars weapon system located in the remote bush country of Alaska. Now I won't be able to finish this article, that's why you have to ask for it, if you want it, the rest of it. Individuals who are demanding answers about H-A-A-R-P, HAARP, are scattered around the planet, as well as bush dwellers in Alaska. They include a physician in Finland, a scientist in Holland, an inter-nuclear protester in Australia, independent physicist, excuse me, in the United States, a grandmother in Canada, and countless others. Unlike the protests of the 1960s, the objections of HAARP, H-A-A-R-P, have been registered using the tools of the 1990s. From the internet, fax machines, syndicated talk radio, and a number of alternative print mediums, the word is getting out and people are waking up to this new intrusion by overzealous United States government. The research team today put together the material which eventually found their way into this book, never held a formal meeting, never formed a formal organization. Each person acted like a node on a planetary info spirit net with one goal held by all, to keep this controversial new science in the public eye. The result of the team effort was a book which describes the science and political ramifications of this technology. That book is Angels Don't Play This Hard, colon, Advances in Tesla Technology. Has 230 pages. This article will only give highlights despite the amount of research. 350 footnoted sources. At its heart, it is a story about ordinary people who took on an extraordinary challenge in bringing their research forward. HAARP, H-A-A-R-P, will zap the upper atmosphere with a focused, inspirable electromagnet beam. It is an advanced model of an ionosphere heater. The ionosphere is the electrically charged sphere surrounding Earth's upper atmosphere. It ranges between 40 to 60 miles above the surface of the Earth. Put simply, the apparatus for HAARP is a reversal of a radio telescope. Antenna sends out signals instead of receiving. HAARP is a test run for super powerful radio wave beaming technology that lifts areas of the ionosphere by focusing a beam and heating those areas. Electromagnet waves then bounce back onto the earth and penetrate everything, living and dead. HAARP, H-A-A-R-P, publicly gives the impression that the High Frequency Active Aural Research Program, and that's the HAARP, High Frequency Active Aura, A-U-R-O-A, No, A-U-R-O-R-A-L research program is mainly an academic project with the goal of changing the ionosphere to improve communications for our own good. However, other U.S. military documents put it more clearly. Dash, HAARP aims to learn how to exploit the ionosphere for Department of Defense purposes. End of quote. Communicating with submarines is only one of those purposes. HAARP releases and other information from the military on HAARP continually downplay what it could do. Publicly, documents insist that the HAARP project is no different than other ionosphere heaters operating safely throughout the world in places such as Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Tromso, Norway, and the former Soviet Union. However, a 1990 government document indicates that the radio frequency RF powers that will drive the ion sphere to unnatural activities. If the military, in cooperation with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, can show that this new ground-based Star Wars technology is sound, they both win. The military has a relatively inexpensive defense shield, and the university can brag about the most dramatic geophysical manipulation since atmospheric explosions of nuclear bombs. After successful testing, they would have the military NAGO projects of the future in huge markets for Alaska North sloped natural gas. Looking at the other patents which built on the work of a Texas physicist named Bernard Eastlund, it became clear how the military intends to use the HAARP transmitter. It also makes government denials less believable. The military knows how it intends to use this technology and has made it clear in their documents. The military has deliberately misled the public through sophisticated word games, deceit and outright disinformation. The military says the HAARP system could Give the military a tool to replace the electromagnet pulses effect of the atmospheric thermonuclear devices. Still considered a viable option for the military through at least 1986. Next one. Replace the huge extremely low frequency ELF submarine communication system operating in Michigan and Wisconsin with a new and more combat technology. Next one. used to replace the over-the-horizon radar system that was once planned for the current location of HAARP with a more flexible and accurate system. The next one. Provide a way to wipe out communications over an extremely large area while keeping the military's own communication systems working. The next one. Provide a wide area earth penetrating tomography, I guess that is, which if combined with the computing abilities of EMASS and CRAY, C-R-A-Y, computers, would make it possible to verify many parts of nuclear non-proliferation and peace agreements. You have to excuse me, you know I can't pronounce words that you're used to me. Next, be a tool to geophysical proteins to find oil, gas, and mineral deposits over a large area. The next one, be used to detect incoming low-level planes and cruise missiles, making other technologies obsolete. Now that was a list of things that the military says the HAARP system could do, and I suppose it could. I'll continue reading. The above abilities seem like a good idea to all who believe in sound national defense and to those concerned about cost cutting. However, the possible uses which the HAARP records do not explain and which can only be found in Air Force, Army, Navy, and other federal agencies' records are alarming. Moreover, effects from the reckless use of these power levels in our natural shield, the ionosphere, could be terrible according to some scientists. Two Alaskans put it bluntly, a founder of the No Heart Movement, Claire Zicker says, quote, the military is going to give the ionosphere a big kick and see what happens, end of quote. The military failed to tell the public. that they do not know what exactly will happen, but a Penn State science article brags about that uncertainty. Macho science? The HAARP project uses the largest energy levels yet played with by the, what Bedgic and Manning call, the big boys with their new toys. HAARP is an experiment in the sky, and experiments are done to find out something not already known. Independent Science told Ben Jicks and Manning that a HAARP-type Skybuster with its unforeseen effects could be an act of global vandalism. Now, I'm reading from this article called the Military Pandora's Box. HAARP history. The patents described below were the packages of ideas which were originally controlled by ARCO, Power Technologies Incorporated, APTI, a subsidiary of Atlantic Richfield Company, one of the biggest oil companies in the world. APTI was contracted that built the HAARP facility ARCO sold this subsidiary, the patents, and the second phase construction contract to eSystems in June of 1994. eSystems is one of the biggest intelligence contractors in the world doing work for the CIA, defense intelligence organizations, and others. 1.8 billion of their annual sales are these organizations with 800 million for black projects. The project is so secret that even the United States Congress isn't told how the money is being spent. E-System was bought out by Raytheon, which is one of the largest defense contractors in the world. Now, I don't have time to read all this to you. I really wish that I could. Let me read this. Weather control. Avalanches of energy dislodged by such radio waves could hit us hard. Their work suggests that technicians could control global weather by sending relatively small signals into the Van Allen belts, radiation belts around the Earth. Thus, Tesla's renaissance effects can control enormous energies by tiny triggering signals. The Baywich-Manning book asks whether that knowledge will be used by war-oriented or biosphere-oriented scientists. The military has about 20 years to work on weather-reform methods, which euphemistically calls weather modifications. For example, rain-making techniques was taken for a few tests right in Vietnam. The U.S. Department of Defense sampled lightning and hurricane manipulation studies in Project Skyfire. and projects storm fury and they looked at some complicated technology that could give big effects and I'm this is a review of this book angels don't play this harp which when you read all this it can affect our weather and that's why I am talking to you about this and I wish you'd send for this paper write me or call me 1-800-JOHN109 or write me at 900 Park Avenue, Collingswood, New Jersey or at bftbc at biblefortoday.org and ask for this. It's quite a few pages. I've got to run. I'm under God's care. Are you? You have been listening to Just for Women with Yvonne Waits, sponsored by the Bible for Today Baptist Church in Collingsworth, New Jersey. We invite you to visit our church Sundays, 10 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. and Thursdays at 8 p.m. If you need more information about our church, our broadcast, or our Savior, please call us toll-free 1-800-JOHN-10-9. The organist and pianist is Mr. Dick Terrell. The announcer has been Dr. B. A. Waite, pastor of the Bible for Today Baptist Church. We invite all you ladies to join us for our next broadcast, heard twice weekly over the same station, and hear Yvonne wait, and just for women.