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Katrina victim: Gustav tied to division of Jerusalem


By Stan Goodenough
September 01, 2008

"I wasn't astonished when I read WorldNetDaily's breaking story that Jerusalem's division has been drafted," Bridgett Magee said Monday morning, pointing to a news report from the day before.

The newly-Jerusalem-based American Christian Zionist said that when she heard that Hurricane Gustav was threatening her former home area of Louisiana, "it was as if I knew then that when [US Secretary of State] Condelezza Rice was in Jerusalem last week a document had been drafted for the division of Jerusalem."

Because she had been staying on top of news events when the Gaza Disengagement occurred, Magee said, "I knew the date was exact to the day that Hurricane Katrina hit the Louisiana-Mississippi Gulf Coast"

Indeed, three years ago almost to the day Monday, Magee stood momentarily transfixed in the road outside her Slidell, LA home, watching as the storm surge from Hurricane Katrina swept up the road towards her. Clambering into the roof, she prayed that the water, which minutes later was lifting the bed in the room below her, would stop rising. It did and Magee, a woman of deep faith, said she spent an "unsurprisingly" peaceful night sleeping with her pets in the attic.

An hour or so earlier, just before the storm cut the lines, Magee had told Jerusalem Newswire by phone she believed Katrina was God's answer to the just-completed, US-coerced Israeli "disengagement" from the Gaza Strip that had robbed nearly 10,000 Jews of their homes.

While her life was spared, her home was not. Magee lost almost everything and relocated to Jackson, Tennessee. Like a number of other Christian Zionists whose properties were also destroyed in that hurricane, the previously life-long Louisiana resident expressed no bitterness towards heaven for what happened to her. Her anger and disappointment were directed at Washington, where administration after administration has worked over the last four decades to push the Jews out of the God-given land they were restored to in 1967.

A few months ago Magee moved again, this time to Jerusalem, expressing the desire to be able to live for at least some time in the capital of the Jewish state where she looks for opportunities to express her love and support for the Israeli people.

For her and many millions of Bible-believing Christians in America and around the world, God uses natural disasters to convey His displeasure and punish the nations for their frequently negative behavior towards Israel.

"When G-d chooses to be heard in upholding the utter truth of His Word in Scripture He blows loud and strong," says Magee.

"Indeed, He will keep His Word. When He says He will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel: it will be."

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