Brimstone is in the air...

In this post, The Language of God: fire and brimstone, I made the connection between brimstone (sulfur) and the increase in volcanic eruptions, and the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Biblically, God has used fire and brimstone to warn and punish. He has threatened to use fire and brimstone to punish. He has threatened to use fire and brimstone to punish (Revelation). It is part of God's vocabulary to us humans. In that post, I'd said that one of the vocabulary words that God uses is His promise of judgment through fire and brimstone, and one of the byproducts of the spill in the Gulf is hydrogen sulfide, which is Sulfur, which is Brimstone!

When the people of the Gulf smell that distinctive "rotten egg" smell, it is sulfur, or brimstone, and they have been smelling it. People have been getting sick. Now the Louisiana Environmental Action Network has released its analysis of air monitoring test results by the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA's air testing data comes from Venice, a coastal community 75 miles south of New Orleans in Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish. Hydrogen sulfide has been detected at concentrations more than 100 times greater than the level known to cause physical reactions in people. Among the health effects of hydrogen sulfide exposure are eye and respiratory irritation as well as nausea, dizziness, confusion and headache.

The concentration threshold for people to experience physical symptoms from hydrogen sulfide is about 5 to 10 parts per billion. But as recently as last Thursday, the EPA measured levels at 1,000 ppb. Hydrogen sulfide levels are normally 5-10 pts per billion allowed. Tests in the Gulf now show readings are 1000-2000 pts per billion.

By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. (Revelation 9:18)

 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. (Luke 17:29)

Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup. (Psalm 11:6)

And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; (2 Peter 2:6)

It could not be any clearer...a sudden explosion in the Gulf, a perplexing problem too big for man to solve, and wafting brimstone in the air over the wicked and ungodly, and surely that is what America has become, wicked and ungodly.

However, His promises to take His children away to be with Him where He is, is as good as gold. The entire issue of brimstone exists on the ungodly because they refuse to repent. That means turn from sin and be broken and sorry for the bad things we do, which in reality are against God. All a person needs to do is ask Him to forgive the sins they have committed and make Him the Lord of your life, believing in Him as risen Savior. He loves you! He loves all of us! He wants no one to perish! You can rest secure in the promises of Jesus and know that at the moment at which only God knows, we will be raptured away from the tanking economy, the chemicals, the violence, the perversity of this world to dwell with Him in glory! I hope you pray that prayer, seeking repentance. The time draws nigh...