A few years ago a man realized a lifelong ambition when he bought a very fine, very expensive barometer. When the instrument was delivered, he found to his great disappointment that it seemed to be defective and the needle was stuck. It pointed to "Hurricane" and couldn't be moved.
After trying again and again to shake the needle loose, the man sat down and wrote a scorching letter to the store from which he had bought it. The next morning on his way to work he mailed the letter.
That evening he struggled homeward through wind and rain and found both the barometer and his home missing. The barometer needle had been right. The hurricane it had tried to warn its owner about had come.
How many people regard the Bible in the same way! When its warning needle points to the sure destruction of the sinner, the unbelieving reader judges the Bible to be wrong and tries to shake the accusing needle into a less condemning position, but sooner or later he will discover to his sorrow that the Bible warnings are reliable and that he must pay the awful penalty for his unbelief.