flood disaster?

Originally posted on April 26, 2008 – by Andre Piet

Johan Th. Bos wrote a fine column in Manna about a flood disaster announced by a ‘prophet’ (literally a foreteller…). I do not want to withhold it from you.

FLOOD DISASTER

On Queen’s Day perhaps? That would be just in the nick of time. The last day of the month in which our dikes were supposed to break through, resulting in a total flooding of the country. Also the last chance for fulfillment of that disaster for the Netherlands prophesied last year by the British seer Roger Teale. The flood was supposed to present itself at the end of April. Yet precisely in that period (April 24–26) a conference with him is scheduled by Ambassadors Ministries in the building of the Levend Evangelie Gemeente (LEG) in Schiphol-Rijk. Is he courageous, curious about the foretold devastation, or does he not believe in it himself? There are no other options, I thought.

In the meantime, he certainly knows how to choose his locations. Suppose he arrives by airplane to behold the horror with his own eyes—and, I assume, anointed delight in calamity. Then he will presumably land at Schiphol, which lies below sea level. And at the same level in the Haarlemmermeer lies the LEG building. Not the most convenient place in the event of an approaching flood. Would he have an inflatable rubber boat with him? Apparently at Ambassadors Ministries they also remember the predicted watery calamity, but that organization does not assume that God in this case will do what He says. For that would of course put the conference plans rather under water.

Chairman Matthijs Piet, always optimally attached to everything he can in any way construe as prophetic, let it be known that he hopes that Teale’s prophecies—note well, flown to Holland to give ‘prophetic instruction’—will not come true. According to the Bible the Brit would thereby be exposed as a false prophet. A bit awkward. We have found the following solution to that. If the dike breach does not occur, then that is God’s grace not foreseen by the prophet. Moreover, according to Piet, charismatic believers have by now ‘anointed’ the entire coast, apparently also an effective means to make Him retract His statements. I could think of a few more like that.

But indeed: this is the era of grace, in which the Lord gathers a people for His name. Judgments—not limited to the nether-lands!—come afterward. For now we may still preach the Evangel of grace. Let us do so. Despite disaster prophets acting as sources of interference.

PS: I am at sea for a week, but that was already planned before I heard of Teale’s message.

For the sake of clarity: the above-mentioned Piet (although distantly related) is not the administrator of this weblog.

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