Quakes and the state of Nairobi City

The Sunday Times had an article on Dr. Owuor sometime back. His CV is noteworthy at the very least:

• A former professor of medicine at the University of Oklahoma
• A post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the College of Pharmacy at the University of Illinois
• Department of Pharmaceutics and Drug metabolism at the Earnest Mario School of Pharmacy at the State University of New Jersey-Rutgers
• Environmental and Occupational Health Science Institute (EOHSI),
• Professor of medicine at the University of Oklahoma, USA
• The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) in the Division of Surgical Oncology and Department of Surgery of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, teaching as a research specialist
• Appointed as a specialist consultant in forensic toxicology and aircraft medicine
• Has published articles in the Journal for Biological Chemistry, Molecular Pharmacology (JBC)
• Has worked with the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. (medicine)
• The list goes on...
  

It is perhaps a sad reflection on my character that it takes that list of qualifications, to get me (and other folk like me) to sit up and pay attention to what this man has to say. Nevertheless, pay attention I have.

So the question arises - what prompts a man who should on the face of it be more comfortable saying things like:

“I have been involved in running research, cancer chemotherapy and drug metabolism in the human body. We also introduced drug-induced signal transduction in drug design and discovery”

To start making statements of the kind we have heard the last couple of years:

“I warned them of severe earthquake if they did not repent, and the following day, there was an earthquake. The same was the case in Monterrey also in Mexico, which experienced an earthquake within 24 hours of my preaching,”

Kenyan Analyst conducted an interview with Dr. Owuor in which he catalogues his life and spiritual evolution and call. Perhaps it should come as no surprise to Bible believing Christians that God still can and does call people in such spectacular fashion.

Fast forward to February 2007 and the doctor has again reiterated a prophecy he first proclaimed awhile back. Earthquakes are to hit Nairobi!! Now that is a scary thought after all, my office is on the tenth floor (with a brilliant view of the city I might add)!!!
What's even scarier is that the reasons he gives as to why a Holy God would seek to punish the church, can hardly be faulted. Kenyan Analyst gives an overview of the doctor's recent press conference.

So perhaps more important then the how or why is "what am I going to do about it"! And for the life of me I can't think of anything better than to get down on my knees.

Because quite frankly from where I sit on the 10th floor looking out my window as the sun sets on this beautiful city, an intellectual discussion on the minutiae regarding the correctness of the good doctor's every word will do me little good if, ten minutes from now, this building should fall.

Repentance is a Biblical imperative! Earthquake or no earthquake, we need to pray!