This sort of stuff really does my logical head in!
HOW can they honestly say things like "supplicate Jehovah for his spirit" and the like, when most would have been doing that as the disaster struck!
Jehovah gets a free pass in all these things!
If something appears to go well for a believer, then that is "evidence of God's blessing". If it doesn't, then that is "evidence that it wasn't according to God's will"
Either way, God gets to be the winner!