We have a lot to thank God for

I read the headlines of The Nation page of The Philippine Star yesterday screaming, “12 Armed Groups in Southern Mindanao under Police Watch.” This report only tells you that despite the signing of a Memorandum Agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the Aquino Regime has not yet disarmed those armed groups. Why? I can only offer one reason… because the Philippine National Police (PNP) is merely “watching” these armed groups instead of searching them out and arresting them for possession of high-powered firearms and explosives. What a country!

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As of presstime, it seems that our prayers to the Señor Sto. Niño, our Mother of Perpetual Help and San Pedro Calungsod have been answered as Super Typhoon “Pablo” (international code name “Bopha”)  has changed course and veered further south, following the path of Typhoon “Sendong” that struck Northern Mindanao last Dec. 13, 2011 and devastated Cagayan de Oro City, Iligan City and Dumaguete    City. Apparently, for the Year 2012, this typhoon is 9-days early. 

By this time, it is already signal no. 2 in many parts of the Visayas and in Mindanao. Depending on how fast Super Typhoon “Pablo” is moving, it could very well be signal no. 3 by the time you are reading this column. Call it a miracle if you wish… or our answered prayer that this super typhoon no longer a threat to Cebu. But just in case, let us prepare ourselves to help in giving aid to the evacuation centers that the National Disaster, Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) has prepared for those Provinces that would be affected by this storm. Let us all hope and pray that many lives will be spared from this natural calamity.

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Some people may think otherwise, but we in the Pro-Life groups apparently attach a “divine” meaning to the natural disasters that has struck our country in the past year especially that we are in the midst of a spiritual warfare against the passage of the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill. We wrote a column last Aug. 10 pointing out that on Aug. 8, there were no storms in the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) yet, suddenly on the evening of Aug. 7, right after the meeting with Pres. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino, III and the pro-RH congressmen in Malacañang (they planned to railroad the vote for the Reproductive Health (RH) bill in Congress that evening), somehow Congress could not muster a quorum to force a vote on the RH Bill.

This vote was originally agreed upon by those who support and those who are against the RH Bill, but then pro-RH advocates tried to force a premature vote that evening… when they thought that they had a quorum. But fortunately, they did not. The following morning, no Congressman could even go to the Batasan Complex because by early dawn on Aug. 8, 90 percent of Metro Manila was flooded.

I got that report when I turned on my TV set on Tuesday evening, with ABS-CBN reporters saying that 90 percent of Metro Manila was inundated. Reporters were saying that what is happening in Manila is even worse than what happened to them during Typhoon “Ondoy”. But like what we said, there was no storm. It was just monsoon rains that flooded Metro Manila. 

So why did Metro Manila suffer from that unexpected flood of Biblical proportions even if there was no typhoon? We in the Pro-Life groups could only reckon that this was God’s way of showing his displeasure to our political leaders who insist on offending God with their sinister plan to push for the RH bill, which we already pointed out was a population reduction plan copied from the United Nations (UN).

Call it a chilling coincidence that the scripture passage on Aug.7, 2012 came from (August is 8th in the calendar and the date was Aug.7th) Genesis 8:7-12 which was pointed to Noah releasing a dove to check whether the flood waters had receded. But the dove returned to the Ark, which proved that the flood waters have not receded. Also the scripture reading that Tuesday was about our Lord Jesus Christ walking on water. Call it a coincidence if you wish, but if you cannot find any other explanation, allow me to refer to you to Exodus when God was angered by Pharaoh and gave him the plagues.

Again, we are seeing some kind of divine intervention happening today. If you didn’t know natural calamities are often called “An Act of God.” I suggest that you read your Bibles, so you will read a multitude of stories about how God intervenes in the lives of his people. Despite sending his servant Moses to free the Israelites, Pharaoh was unmoved, just like Pres. PNoy has not changed his mind in pushing for the RH Bill. No doubt, his intransigence has angered God and it is us the people who suffer from their actions.

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