Voodoo, Haiti and Earthquakes: Is There a Connection?

If you think the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that devastated Haiti was a consequence of its national allegiance to Voodoo (it is after all, the official religion of the nation), consider the words of Christ found in Luke 13:1-5


"At that time, some people came and reported to Him [Jesus] about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
And He responded to them, "Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all Galileans because they suffered these things?
No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well!
Or those 18 that the tower in Siloam fell on and killed—do you think they were more sinful than all the people who live in Jerusalem?
No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well!"


Sin is sin in the eyes of God. Whether its voodoo, murder, lieing or adultery, the wages of our sin is death (Romans 6:23).

Are the Haitian people greater sinners than the rest of humanity?


Albert Mohler writes:

"The arrogance of human presumption is a real and present danger. We can trace the effects of a drunk driver to a car accident, but we cannot trace the effects of voodoo to an earthquake -- at least not so directly.

Why did no earthquake shake Nazi Germany? Why did no tsunami swallow up the killing fields of Cambodia? Why did Hurricane Katrina destroy far more evangelical churches than casinos? Why do so many murderous dictators live to old age while many missionaries die young?”

(You can read his entire article here)


And to paraphrase the words of Christ: unless all of us repent, turn from our sins and put our faith in him, we will suffer the fate of eternal death and separation from our only source of eternal life, joy and happiness - God.

"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Roman 6:23

Because of sin, the entire world is suffering under the weight of calamity and death.

The judgment to come is going to be infinitely worse for unrepentant sinners than the greatest of natural tragedies and earthly calamities.


But God does offer lost humanity a way of escape.


Will you admit you are a sinner? Will you admit you desperately need God?
I implore you to place your faith in Christ Jesus.

Unlike us, Jesus Christ lived a sinless life. He was the perfect and eternal Son of God.

In John chapter 1 verses 1-5 we read this of Christ:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men."

Since he was perfect - without sin - he was able to die in our place and thus pay the wages we owed God for our sin.

He died horrifically by crucifiction.

He was punished so we could be set free from the judgement and wrath of God against us.

"For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring you to God, after being put to death in the fleshly realm but made alive in the spiritual realm."

1 Peter 3:18

And after God accepted his sacrifice for us on the cross, God raised him from the dead.

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead..."

1 Peter 1:3

Christ not only made the way possible for you and I to be forgiven of every sin we have ever committed, but he made the way possible for you and I to be adopted as sons and daughters of God.

"But to all who did receive Him, He gave them the right to be children of God, to those who believe in His name..."

John 1:12

And if we receive him (by putting our faith in him), not only are we adopted into God's own family and all of our sins are forgiven, but Christ said he would grant us God's gift of eternal life:

"For this is the will of My Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."

John 6:40

Will you believe in Him today?

If you are now seeing Jesus as you've never seen him before - as the eternal Son of God who died to pay the price for your sin and who rose again to give you the hope of eternal life - then you are being born again right now in the spirit by God.

If that's the case, then you are now free to confess Jesus as Lord of your life.

"if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
With the heart one believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses, resulting in salvation."

Romans 8:9-10

Will you believe?

"The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who refuses to believe in the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him."

John 3:36

Pastor Ellery

originally posted on www.lifecenterofbrandon.org

Doctrine of Demons

From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/uganda/6944292/Human-sacrifices-on-the-rise-in-Uganda-as-witch-doctors-admit-to-rituals.html

Human sacrifices 'on the rise in Uganda' as witch
doctors admit to rituals

Witch doctors in Uganda have admitted their part in human sacrifice amid concerns that the practice is spreading in the African country.

Published: 6:00AM GMT 07 Jan 2010

One man said he had clients who had captured children and taken their blood and body parts to his shrine, while another confessed to killing at least 70 people including his own son.

The latter has now given up the ritual and is campaigning to stamp it out, according to BBC News.

The African country's government claimed human sacrifice was on the increase.

According to officials trying to tackle it, the crime is directly linked to rising levels of development and prosperity - and an increasing belief that witchcraft can help people get rich quickly.

During its investigation, to be broadcast on Thursday on Radio 4 and Newsnight, the BBC team witnessed antisacrifice campaigners torching the shrine of a witch-doctor in northern Uganda, who agreed to give up the practice.

He said clients came to him in search of wealth.

"They go and capture other people's children. They bring the heart and the blood directly here to take to the spirits," he said.

"They bring them in small tins and they place these objects under the tree from which the voices of the spirits are coming."

The witch doctor, who said he was paid 500,000 Ugandan shillings (around £160) for a consultation, denied any direct involvement in murder or incitement to murder, saying his spirits spoke directly to clients.

Moses Binoga, the assistant police commissioner who is head of the Ugandan anti-human sacrifice and trafficking task force, said there were 26 murders thought to be part of ritual sacrifice last year compared with three cases in 2007.

"We also have about 120 children and adults reported missing whose fate we have not traced," he added. "From the experience of those whom we recovered, we cannot rule out that they may be victims of human sacrifice."


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