98 People Found Dead In Surfside, Florida Condo Collapse

Luke 13:5, “I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” Proverbs 27:1, “Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.”

I was saddened to hear about the tragic collapse of the East Tower Condominium in Surfside, Florida last month. As of July 20th, 98 bodies have been uncovered from the rubble. I pondered the horrific death that those people suffered. They were all sound asleep in the wee hours of the morning, when the building suddenly collapsed. But is was not without warning. A Surfside official told residents that their building was safe, despite an engineer's warnings to the contrary that the building was structurally unsafe in 2018.

There are some spiritual truths that we can learn from all this:

1. You cannot always trust the words of men. That city official should be held legally accountable for those 99 lost lives, which he essentially murdered by assuring them that the building they lived in was safe. I cannot help but make an application of this tragedy to the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation, and the Devil's lie of Misunderstood Repentance. Lordship Salvation is the lie that faith alone is not enough to get to Heaven, but in addition, it is said that a person must surrender the entire personality to Jesus as “Lord” of one's life to be saved. Misunderstood Repentance is the lie that a person must turn away from a lifestyle of sinning to be saved. This is Wrong Repentance, and it is deadly. Many pastors and Bible college professors today are lying to people, assuring them that these heresies are safe, but such an unsound foundation of sand will assuredly cause one's house to crumble in the future.
2. Those 98 victims didn't know what hit them. They were sound asleep one minute, and the next they were buried beneath tons of concrete and rebar, trapped beneath the crushing weight of hundreds of thousands of pounds of broken slabs of concrete. Dear friend, are you ready to meet your Maker? Sadly, many of the victims were Roman Catholic. Catholicism is a satanic cult! According to Catholic dogma, you cannot get to Heaven unless you keep the Seven Sacraments of their organization. That is totally unbiblical. Jesus warned in Mark 7:6-13 about following the commandments of men instead of God. Catholicism is a manmade religion that goes totally contrary to the inspired Word of God, in hundreds of ways. My point being, Catholics don't go to Heaven! I know that will offend a lot of people, but it is sadly true nonetheless. Jesus said in John 3:7 that YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN!!!
3. Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish. Jesus made this statement in Luke 13:5. What did He mean? What the Lord DIDN'T mean is that you must turn away from your sinning to get to Heaven. That would be works for salvation, which God does not accept nor allow (Romans 3:20). What Jesus DID mean is that we are all sinners (Romans 3:23), and the penalty for our sin is death (Romans 6:23), so unless we change our thinking (repent) to believe the Gospel (the Good News that Christ died on the cross to pay for our sins, was buried, and bodily resurrected three days later) we will go to Hell (1st Corinthians 15:1-4). Pastor Curtis Hutson explains Luke 13:5...

In Luke 13:5 Jesus said, “I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” The context of this verse shows that they needed to repent or change their mind regarding punishment and sin. In this passage, Christ was talking to good people who believed that people suffered only because of their sins, and they concluded that those in Galilee whose blood Pilate mingled with sacrifices and those on whom the tower of Siloam fell were greater sinners because they died such horrible deaths. Jesus contradicts the thinking of these self-righteous people and tells them that they need to repent or change their mind and see themselves as sinners, too, or they will perish in their own self-righteousness.

That is beautiful! Again, I am saddened by the tragic premature death of 98 people (and the death toll is still rising) in Surfside, Florida. It is rare that a building of such magnitude just collapses. Water had been rotting away the foundation for decades. As early as the year 2,000 there were warning signs of structural deficiencies in the tower. Nobody cared, except one engineer that warned everyone, but no one listened, just like no one listened to Noah's preaching for 120 years! Dear reader, are you ready to die? Do you know for sure that if you died today that you'd go to Heaven? You can know, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that your name is written in Heaven. Simply come to God by faith as a guilty sinner, receiving Christ's sacrifice on the cross as payment for your sins, believing that He was buried, but then raised up miraculously from the dead three days later (1st Corinthians 15:1-4; John 19-20; 1st Thessalonians 4:14).

It is disturbing that 98 innocent people died because some city official didn't take the warning of a trained engineer seriously. Don't you listen to these corrupt pastors today who require more than childlike faith to get to Heaven! Thank you for reading my blog.

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