Global Weather Extremes

Due to an unusually hot and dry summer, Portugal has requested help from Europe to combat forest fires on a scale not seen in recent memory. Thousands of firefighters are battling hundreds of blazes around the nation (Reuters, August 13, 2017). Across the Middle East, unusually hot temperatures have soared to over 120ºF (50ºC) (IB Times, August 11, 2017). However, in West Africa’s Sierra Leone, thousands have lost their homes and hundreds are feared dead as a result of mudslides triggered by flooding rains (The Guardian, August 14, 2017). In the Southeast Asian nations of India, Nepal and Bangladesh, nearly 200 people are dead and over 50,000 homes in Nepal alone have been destroyed by rains and floods. In one province in India, over 200,000 people are now homeless (Deutsche Welle, August 14, 2017). The human suffering brought about by these weather extremes should concern us all.

While some always blame such weather extremes on natural or human causes, Bible prophecies offer an additional perspective. To learn more about the unrecognized divine element in some weather extremes, be sure to listen to or read our informative booklet, Who Controls the Weather?