For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast? Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it. And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.
(Ezekiel 14:21-23 KJV)
Did you catch that? You know, when a natural disaster happens and a lot of people lose their lives, mans response is to feel bad for all those that lost their lives, for those few left behind that lost loved ones. Our natural tendency is to believe that those that survived are blessed because they were not killed. But, sometimes, God spares a few so that others can see just how evil those people were. He doesn't spare them because they are good, or He has a purpose for them. He spares them for us, to comfort us so that we won't feel bad that so many lost their lives. So we won't waste time mourning the evil people.
Now, I'm not making any reference to any disaster anywhere from any time past. I'm just saying, sometimes people survive so that we won't feel bad about what happened. Sometimes people are divinely blessed and have a calling on their lives. But some people are just left behind to show us why God allowed that to happen.
