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And our friends of more limited vision, biblical insensitivity and scientific ignorance have this week cranked up their Rapture Index- the “prophetic speedometer of end-times activity.” They have thus attributed the incredible death toll to a literal, intentional “act of God” instead of a simple, natural geological “self-correction.” If God was anywhere this week, it was sustaining the victims of this natural disaster. God is present now in the continuing efforts of relief workers, and in the compassion of the rest of the world speeding whatever we can to those devastated places. That’s where God is- where it counts.
God is also with the magi of this age who will continue to respond to such natural phenomena through scientific inquiry and through the conceptualizing of new gadgets and gizmos that will give people more of a chance the next time- no matter where they live. These magi are not magicians, but technicians. Not astrologers but astronomers. Not alchemists but chemists. These magi are the philosophical descendents of those more famous ones who were inspired to show up in Bethlehem to offer what they could in the service of a savior and to God’s future.

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