New Orleans: Cleansed by God

Many may not agree, but I see the hand of God in what Katrina has done to New Orleans, to America and to the Church in America.

New Orleans

If I had any doubts about why God needed to judge New Orleans, it was soon drowned by the testimony of people who lived there that I talked to in the hotel we stayed in recently in Houston.

Fierce violence, widespread corruption, intense occult activity and gross immorality--New Orelans had feew rivals in the modeern world. One resident told me that the entire economy was built around Mardi Gras-one of the vilest public events in America each year that tens of thousands flock to from all over the world.

"New Orleans City Council President Oliver Thomas after witnessing the horrors first hand and hearing talk of Sodom and Gomorrah commented, "Maybe God's going to cleanse us."

"The Sept. 4 New York Daily News reported "Louisiana and New Orleans have a long, well-known reputation for corruption... Adjusted for population size, the state ranks third in the number of elected officials convicted of crimes (Mississippi is No. 1). Recent scandals include the conviction of 14 state judges and an FBI raid on the business and personal files of a Louisiana congressman." One former governor from the 1990's recently completed a prison term for tax fraud and the one that followed him, reports the Daily New, "is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence for taking bribes from casino owners".

The Daily News goes on to note that in the 1990s the New Orleans Police Department "had the dubious distinction of being the nation's most corrupt police force and the least effective: the city had the highest murder rate in America. More than 50 officers were eventually convicted of crimes including murder, rape and robbery; two are currently on Death Row." (http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/sep/05090111.html)

God Warned New Orleans

Michael Brown, a Catholic ezine reporter, predicted this diaster in startling detail in 2001 on his website http://www.spiritdaily.org/New-world-order/neworleans.htm

Chuck Pierce prophesied on Aug 29th, 2004--one year to the day before Katrina

"How the Saul structure collapses will bring Baton Rouge again to national attention. That alignment within it will collapse. A new demonstration with a new blueprint will be seen. This will be known as a meeting house. This will be known as a place where the Ark of the Covenant has dwelt. This will be known as a refuge place. The WIND and WATER will rise in the midst of New Orleans. Many from the south will come north for refuge. Prepare. Prepare now for winds and water that will surprise you. I will renew the pattern not fully seen before. Worship will be here, and birthed in a new way from here. Prepare! Prepare! Prepare! Shift! Saul will be no more. David will arise from this day forward. The wind from the south will begin to blow. Watch for the effects. This will purify the land and bring great change."

Then in Alexandria that night Chuck shared from Song of Solomon 4:16 (Awake the north wind; come, o south wind. Blow upon the garden of this nation). He led the people to pray for the south wind to come. This south wind would be a purifying wind, cause corruption to be blown on and cause corruption to shake and initiate a righteous move starting with the children, then moving to the youth. We were to watch the government and the Catholic Church shake, and watch New Orleans change." http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word.html?ID=2459