I have lived in California twice. Once From December of 1970 to July of 1971 in Sacramento when I served in the USAF at McClellan AFB. It was at a church in Sacramento where I got saved in January 1971. From February 1979 to August that year, I lived first in Monterey and then in Salinas when I worked at Ft. Ord as a civilian doing odd jobs such as driving a laundry truck. From the end of August, I moved back to Sacramento and worked at McClellan AFB at the logistics center up to January 1980. I loved the California climate. I thought California was a great place to live. Crime then was low and the Californians were friendly. Plus I met many Christians with whom I fellowshipped.

I am now very concerned for my friends living in the Los Angeles area. I visited them in December of 2014 and was in West Hollywood for a week. My prayer is not only for their safety, but that any loss they may experience doesn’t harden their hearts toward God. Unfortunate circumstances can make us either bitter or better. When we perceive something bad happening, we should call out to God for His help!

And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Psalms 50:15

One lady I know who was raised in a missionary family in Japan and who has been taught the Bible most of her life now lives in a suburb just to the west of Los Angeles. She wrote a post on Instagram saying, “Let’s invite the rain.” Is that something we should say? I wrote a comment to her post, “How about prayer?” Sad to say she renounced her faith in the Word of God. I pray this experience will cause her to cry out to the Lord for deliverance from her doubts and the fires.

The Lord allows things to happen for a reason. Many American Christians are asleep spiritually due to the infiltration of Jesuit doctrines in churches, doctrines such as Futurism that puts the Antichrist in the unknown future in order to blind their eyes so they don’t see him in the present. If you are a true Protestant, you absolutely know who the Antichrist is! The Pope!

Is the Lord allowing bad things to happen to California to cause God’s people to draw closer to Him? Have churches in California stood up to Gavin Newsom’s liberal woke policies and unbiblical ideologies? John MacArthur is the only pastor in California I know of who stood up to Newsom and kept his church open during the pandemic. I don’t agree with Pastor MacArthur’s dispensationalism and futurism, but what he says about governments being the primary enemies of God’s people is certainly true. The Scriptures and history verify it. May all God’s people in California seek the Lord through all the suffering they may be experiencing.

Below is an email I received on January 9th. from my very good friend Steve who lives in Huntington Beach, about a 40-minute drive from downtown Los Angeles. My comments are in parentheses.

Links to news sources about the fires that Steve sent me

• Day 4: LA fires now span 35,000 acres, projected to be the costliest in California’s history
• Stunning drone footage shows thousands of LA homes in ashes, 293,000 evacuated as fires rage
• Distraught LA mother confronts Gov. Newsom in neighborhood leveled by fire: ‘Why was there no water?’
• LA Mayor’s Stone-Faced Response When Asked to Apologize to Residents Triggers Outrage

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