Special Program: Hurricane Harvey-Why Does God Allow Hurricanes?

"Rain clouds filled with lightning appear at God's command, traveling across the sky to release their cargo-- sometimes as punishment for sin, sometimes as kindness. (Job 37:11-13 - CEV)

"Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, The thundering of His pavilion?  Behold, He spreads His lightning about Him, And He covers the depths of the sea. For by these He judges peoples; He gives food in abundance.  He covers His hands with the lightning, And commands it to strike the mark. (Job 36:29-32 - NASB)

"But in all your towns I have kept food from your teeth, and in all your places there has been need of bread: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.  And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.  So two or three towns went wandering to one town looking for water, and did not get enough: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.  I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.  I have sent disease among you, as it was in Egypt: I have put your young men to the sword, and have taken away your horses; I have made the evil smell from your tents come up to your noses: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord. And I have sent destruction among you, as when God sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick pulled out of the fire: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord." (Amos 4:6-11 KJV)