An Absentee Landlord

A number of years ago I happened to come across an individual who referred to God as an absentee landlord. An absentee landlord I thought? Not likely, not when you have something like this occurring over a major city...

“Last year, the business leaders of Singapore got a vision from the Holy Spirit. They were to sponsor a national crusade to reach all of Singapore. They rented the local soccer stadium, which seats 70,000 people. One business leader alone, Mr. Wy Wy Wong, paid for the total advertising in every newspaper in the country. The committee was composed of pastors, professional people and businessmen. These men and women had one thing in common. They had a burning desire for revival in Singapore, which had a small Christian population. Night after night, for five straight nights, the rain came in torrents. But by six o’clock every evening, the sky would clear and we were able to have large crowds gather to hear the gospel. The total count of people that came forward to accept Christ amazed me. I repeated nightly. ‘Please only those who want to accept Christ as their personal Savior for the first time in your life, only you come forward.’ Yet, we counted more than 50,000 people making decisions for Christ.” {pg. 130 Cho}

It appears there is more to the story of Noah than what we have all been led to believe. In fact, a simple scan of the bible and what one will find is that God has always employed the weather as a means of governing this world of His. Noah was not the end of God's ways with mankind and some of the best scriptures explaining this would certainly be these...

“Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you and with every living creature that was with you-the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you-every living creature on earth. Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the Earth.” And God said, This is the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth. So God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.” {Genesis 9: 8-17}



“God’s voice thunders in marvelous ways, he does great things beyond our understanding. He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth, and to the rain shower, be a mighty downpour.’ So that all men may know his work, he stops everyman from his labor. The animals take cover; they remain in their dens. The tempest comes out from its chamber, the cold from the driving winds. The breath of God produces ice and the broad waters become frozen. He loads the clouds with moisture he scatters his lightning through them. At his direction they swirl around over the face of the whole earth to do whatever he commands them. He brings the clouds to punish men or to water his earth and show his love.” {Job 37:5-13}

Somewhere in the history of mankind however, a terrible mistake was made of replacing such words with the scientific approach. In fact, I would imagine that because they could duplicate a cloud and rainbow in a controlled laboratory setting they took that as a prime example that it was some person who said the above rather than the Creator. Rainbows and clouds therefore are just a natural phenomenon. That however, was and is a mistake. Clearly the Singapore event teaches us something altogether different and given what we find again written in the bible this is set to become even more evident...

“See the storm of the Lord will burst out in wrath, a whirlwind swirling down on the heads of the wicked. The anger of the Lord will not turn back until He fully accomplishes the purposes of his heart. In days to come you will fully understand this.” {Jeremiah 23:19-20}