Interesting!
I don't remember Jesus listing weather tragedys in the list in Matthew. However, it's interesting how much better off we are now, than we were when you look at history. Take Pestilence, which Matthew DOES mention, we don't have the widespread death that plagued mankind because of pestilence like earlier times had to experience.
I wonder what they would think if the world was staring in the face of the Small Pox, Syphilis, Malaria, Yellow Fever, Cholera, Scarlet Fever, Typhus, Tuberculosis, Inluenza, The Spanish Flu, or the Bubonic Plague to name just a few. No one seems to remember how bad things USED to be!
Carl Olof Johnson wrote a great book entitled, "Signs of the Last Days". I highly recommend it for any who hasn't heard of it. He makes a statement in the preface, " Yet history shows that generation after generation has fixed high hopes on certain dates or predictions, only to suffer disappointment, many becoming seriously, even bitterly, disillusioned when their expectations failed to materialize."
Then he quotes Eccl. 1:9-11 - Todays English Version (later half of verse 11)"....No one remembers what has happened in the past, and no one in days to come will remember what happens between now and then."
It really is a eye opening book, easy to read too.
