The Dragon Storm

The dragon storm....Any natural disaster believed to have been evoked by forces in the Spiritual world. Dragon Storms can be caused by 1.Spiritual free-agents who rebel against the natural will of creation. or 2. Massive battles between Angels and Demons on a large enough scale to disrupt the natural world, thus bleeding over from the spiritual world into the form of a hurricane or tsunami.

As I went through college I wrestled with many difficult and often confusing theological ideas, but none were as frustrating as the lame rebuttal's for theodicy. Theodicy as defined on Wikipedia is: is a specific branch of theology and philosophy that attempts to reconcile the existence of evil or suffering in the world with the belief in an omniscient, omnipotent, and benevolent God, i.e., the problem of evil. Where as most of theodicy can be explained away with the idea of free will resulting in most apparent evils that possess our society, the idea of a natural disaster was one concept I had no answer for. How could this loving God, creator of all the known universe allow for such horrible disasters on his home turf? It wasn't until I started researching spiritual warfare that I came across a new idea that was fresh, brilliant and orthodox.

This Idea concludes from scripture that their are many spiritual "free agents" that have the ability to control the natural world. Like humans God has granted his "Heavenly Council ie. Angels" free will....and just like humans the Angels have chosen to use the free will for other uses than what was intended, thus leading to plagues, disease, and natural disaster. This was a common view held by many of the early church fathers that preceded St. Augustine. The Idea that God is completely in control of this world and ultimately knows the plans of Satan goes back to St. Augustine in the 5th century A.D. It's comfortable to read through the Bible in this light. However I have found it quite apparent that this isn't really what's going on.

In actuality it seems that God is in a constant struggle with another force, namely, Satan. Greg Boyd summarizes it like so: Jesus never attributed genetic mutations, deformities, blindness, deafness, leprosy, blood diseases, fevers, falling towers, barren trees, life-threatening storms or death itself to God's providence or to "natural" features of his Father's creation. He contently identifies them as evidence of the reign of the kingdom of darkness here on earth, a kingdom that his whole ministry was intended to destroy. (Satan and the problem of Evil pg. 292)

I came up with the term Dragon Storm as a way to reference a natural disaster to it's origin and creator- Satan. There is no real way of telling if a Dragon Storm is created specifically for human harm or if it is part of something much larger such as a cosmic battle occurring amongst the spiritual world. I will suppose, for now, that it is both.