There is always a danger when an author like me delves into even a hint of prophetic analysis. Nonetheless, let the chips fall where they might. Meteorologists are saying Hurricane Helene is the 2nd worst storm in U.S. history.

The damages to North Carolina communities are akin to biblical proportions. I’m wondering, as one who does some significant wondering wrapped in a dose of investigative analysis, what is the message to Americans? The damages are horrendous and the loss of life is simply beyond the pale in proportion to other disasters.

Focusing on the Real Issues

What citizens ought to be focused on is the imbalanced and inordinate attention and compensation lavished on illegals versus the feeble response given to the citizens in North Carolina. In fact, it’s worse than this. It was Secretary Mayorkas who told North Carolinians “We can’t help you because we don’t have any money…” There’s no money to help because somehow, and no one seems to know how or who, FEMA, with no connection to border enforcement, was ordered to allocate billions of dollars in support to the invading hordes.

As the mud is cleared and the body count continues to rise, Americans are becoming furious with DC’s mismanagement of our money. The tragedy reads like something out of Exodus, and absent Moses, who can argue that it is NOT similar to one of the plagues of Egypt? I say the storm is of Biblical proportion.

Prophetic Lessons to be Learned

But what lessons are we learning? There are at least three lessons that come to mind. The first lesson is simply that with each level of mounting debt, the federal bureaucracy becomes weaker, less nimble, and less able to respond to the nation’s needs. The reckless spending has finally incapacitated DC’s ability to protect America. After all, that’s the nucleus of the government’s constitutional role in our lives.

Secondly, policy matters. While the left prides itself in compassion and constantly tries to shame us for our “America First” insistence, the policy of global care expressed in the Biden-Harris open border debacle has now depleted our capacity to care for our citizens. People are dead, some because we squandered our economic resources and could not muster a plan for action before the storm hit with what was essentially a wall of water.

Finally, if this is “A Storm of Biblical Proportions” perhaps God is telling America something. Maybe the lesson of Helene is about how a foolish policy of global care has damaged the nation. I suggest it has. I suggest our leaders have betrayed us by not only making us believe we can carry the world on our backs but also by shaming us into submission to the grotesque growth and spending of an out-of-control centralized government.

Yes, Helene was A Storm of Biblical Proportions and at the same time, a prophetic voice telling us, we can no longer do what we have been doing.