4/22/11, Fox News:  Heavy rain causes mudslides in a southern island of the Philippines.  Twenty-seven are known dead and dozens are still missing.  There are shanties along the mountainous area where mudslides are known to be common during the rainy seasons.  The mudslides destroyed many shanties in this area and the death toll is unknown at this time.  

My Comments:  Many would say, "How could a loving God allow such disasters, as those described above, as well as many prominent catastrophes in recent months.  God gave man a free will; He did not create robots.  He sent His Son to come and die for the sins of the world, yet many people throughout the nations have rejected their Savior.  The Bible tells us that Jesus will come again and when that happens, it will be too late for those who have rejected Him.  People have been known to cry out to God, and receive Jesus as their Savior during times of great trouble.  The Word of God tells us that tribulation in the way of earthquakes, pestilence, and hunger will afflict men in the last days, before the coming of Christ.  If these disasters are what it takes to bring people to repentance and faith in their Savior, it is better to suffer now and receive our Lord, than to die and end up in hell for eternity.  "The devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night forever and forever" Revelation 20:10.  "The fearful and unbelieving, the abominable and murderers, whoremongers, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death" Revelation 21:8.