Storm Kills More than 50 in Europe· March 22, 2010

      “At least 50 people have been killed in storms that have lashed parts of Spain, Portugal and France,” wrote the BBC. “Forty-five of the victims died in France, where many drowned or were hit by parts of buildings or falling trees.
      Winds of up to 140km/h (87mph) accompanied by huge waves blasted coastal towns spreading flooding and destroying buildings. The storm caused chaos as it moved from Portugal up through the Bay of Biscay.” Worst affected have been on the western coast of France.

      In addition to the dead, “at least a dozen people are said to be missing in France and 59 others injured. Agency French Press reported that in Germany, a man was killed and his wife injured when a tree fell on their car in the Black Forest region.
      “A female jogger in the western town of Bergheim, and a man in Belgium, were also killed by falling trees. Earlier on Sunday two Spanish men died when a tree crushed their car near Burgos. A Spanish woman was killed by a falling wall in Galicia, and a Portuguese boy was killed by a tree in Paredes.

      “There will soon be a sudden change in God’s dealings. The world in its perversity is being visited by casualties,—by floods, storms, fires, earthquakes, famines, wars, and bloodshed.” Fundamentals of Education, page 356.

      “But now the signs are fulfilling,—nation rising against nation, startling calamities by land and by sea, famine, pestilence, fearful storms, sweeping floods, and great conflagrations. All these testify that we are approaching the grand consummation. The cry going up to God from the waiting ones, will not be in vain. The response will come, ‘It is done.’ ‘He which is filthy, let him be filthy still; . . . he that is holy, let him be holy still.’ Can the church contemplate this hour with calm indifference? Review and Herald, January 1, 1889.

      “If Christ shines in us, he will shine out of us to those who need the light. We have no time to lose. We can read the signs of the times in casualties, in disasters, by sea and by land. The floods, the storms, the fires, the unsettled condition of affairs throughout our world,—all testify that the day of God is at hand. Review and Herald, February 27, 1894.

      “The great I AM is vindicating his law. He is speaking to those who make it void in storms, in floods, in tempests, in earthquakes, in perils by land and by sea. Now is the time for his people to show themselves true to principle.” Southern Worker, December 25, 1906.

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