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By chie tal-layo
08/29/07
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For Filipinos, if miracle happened or happens, it will become a very big issue. There was one film shown in the Philippines entitled “Himala” (miracle in English) in 1982 that became a popular hit and won as the Best Picture in Berlin Film Festival in the same year. The protagonist who was just a simple urban girl claimed to have seen “Mary” as an apparition and she had started healing people. Lots of people had believed to what for them is miracle. But something happened to the girl. She was raped. She had begun not seeing and healing people. Her town had experienced plagues. Some of the people got angry with her and they even went to her doorsteps and banged their house.

She had decided to stop and told her relatives that what she was doing was just a part of an illusion she even decided to tell millions of her followers that her apparition was all but lies. She told them that miracles were done by people alone. By those who only believed miracles happened. She had not finished talking when gunshot was heard. Someone killed her in front of the crowd.

Before she died she was troubled, confused, and hurt of what had happened to her and of what she was doing. She knew that she had to suffer the consequences and that she had to stop it. But because of some who were not convinced with her ‘excuse’ decided to punish her with own hands.

If we could still remember those ancient times when God was appearing in different forms to His servants, there are lots of times that He was not saying only the good things to His people. God is always vocal for the wrath that He is going to give. Israelites, Egyptians, early Gentiles, Pharisees, and even God’s servants faced different kinds of wrath, punishment, and consequences.

Some Christians, either writers or church goers, admit that God does feel anger when He will see the wickedness of men (Genesis 5:6-7) especially when people are acting like they knew everything that the wisest men could inquire. They are called foolish! Hypocrites. Those are the people who never consider God as highly as He is ought to be. Even though they have heard the truth about God, they kept their ears closed and deaf, and their eyes closed. The sad thing with that, some were punished and maybe some had said HELLO to Satan already.

Today, we are very lucky to be the generation wherein the grace and love of God is overflowing. We still experience trials and consequences of our sin but we haven’t experienced a fire coming out from heaven to fry those who do not fear Him. There are still people who are called false prophets, criminals, thieves, so-called anti-Christ, etc. But God is giving and still giving chances to them, to all of us. Let’s not waste it. Let’s not be called foolish.

Jeremiah 5:21-23 & 31 (KJV)
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, …But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

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