In 1952, two U.S. Air Force meteorologists used the term “Tornado Alley” as a title of a research project in which they investigated the severe weather patterns in the middle of the U.S.A.
The term stuck around and has come to refer to any place where tornados frequently occur. Are you living in an area that might be known as a tornado alley? If you are, you’d better have a plan for what to do if you run into one of these destructive storms.
Do you know that the whole world is a kind of tornado alley? This is so because men choose to live apart from God in a state of sin, and sooner or later, God will punish sin.
Like a whirlwind, or a tornado, God’s judgment will fall on those who never get right with their Creator. When it falls, it will bring desolation, destruction, distress and anguish. Proverbs 1:24-2724Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. (Proverbs 1:24‑27) reads, “Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out My hand, and no man regarded; but ye have set at naught all My counsel, and would none of My reproof: I will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; when your fear cometh as a desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you.”
Those who never repent and turn by faith to the Lord Jesus will come into judgment. God’s judgments will fall on them both in this life and in the life to come. In this life, the judgment may come suddenly, without warning, like a tornado. And in the life to come, the darkness and desolation of hell is real. It is what looms ahead for each one who dies without a saving faith in Christ. “The children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 8:1212But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (Matthew 8:12)). The distress and anguish of souls lost in hell will be forever! It will never cease!
God doesn’t want men and women to remain insensible to the dangers they are in until it is too late to do anything about it. He wants them to stop dead in their tracks, realize their lost condition, and turn to the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.
There is no forgiveness or salvation apart from Christ. On the cross He paid the terrible price for sin. From His pierced side, His blood poured forth, and His blood has the power to wash away sins. If your sins were ten thousand times worse than they actually are, His blood could still wash you clean the moment you genuinely believed. Ephesians 1:77In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; (Ephesians 1:7) reads, “In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.”
If you are living apart from Christ, make no mistake about it. You are not safe. The world is a tornado alley. Where will you hide from His wrath if you reject the Saviour? How will you avoid the darkness and desolation of hell without faith in Jesus Christ?
There is nowhere to turn but to Him who died for sinners on the cross and then arose from the grave. He is the sinner’s only refuge.
Oh be wise, and come to Christ! “Whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:1515That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. (John 3:15)). Will you be one who believes in Him and finds salvation in His name?
God’s goodness and His justice aren’t incompatible. They actually fit together beautifully, as you’ll see in Amnesty for All.