An Alabama state senator says the reason why the Gulf Coast is suffering from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is because God is judging Americans in that region for sinful behavior.

"New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast have always been known for gambling, sin and wickedness," wrote Sen. Hank Erwin, R-Montevallo, in a column, according to the Birmingham News. "It is the kind of behavior that ultimately brings the judgment of God."

Erwin said he was awed, but not surprised after surveying the damage to hard-hit regions including Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss., and the fishing town of Bayou La Batre on the Alabama coast.

"Warnings year after year by godly evangelists and preachers went unheeded. So why were we surprised when finally the hand of judgment fell?" he wrote. "Sadly, innocents suffered along with the guilty. Sin always brings suffering to good people as well as the bad."

"America has been moving away from God," continued the former talk-radio host and now a media consultant and senator. "We all need to embrace godliness and churchgoing and good, godly living, and we can get divine protection for that point.

"The Lord is sending appeals to us," he said. "As harsh as it may sound, those hurricanes do say that God is real, and we have to realize sin has consequences."

Erwin said the catastrophic storms are part of a pattern evident in the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, claiming God has removed an umbrella of protection from America due to an increase in abortion, pornography and prostitution.

"If you are believer and read the Bible, you know sin has judgment," Erwin said. "New Orleans has always been know for sin. ... The wages of sin is death."

The amazing Bayside Prophecies...  https://www.tldm.org/Bayside/default.htm  
These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995.

Homes saved form Hurricane Gloria...
    Jesus - "My child, We specifically brought you here this evening after the last trial of the past week.  This was allowed to come upon you with no destruction to your home.  However, you knew the fear of fleeing to the mountains.  We directed you, My child, and you did well.  And you escaped having to suffer the hours of darkness, and the sound of the howling of the winds, and the rise of the waters.  But, My child and My children, it will happen again, but this time it will claim lives.
    "Do not be affrighted, My child; I did not say that this will happen to your home on Long Island again.  You suffered not the moments of terror.   We did not wish for you to succumb from sorrow at that time, My child, so We sent you to the mountains; and you returned once the winds had died down to find a home still intact.
    "I must reveal, My children, to the world again, that you are to keep a crucifix on your front door and your back door. All entrances to your home must be guarded by the crucifix.  There has not been one home on Long Island that had a crucifix on its door that did fall to any evil.  I do not speak of the trees, My child; I speak of mankind.  You did not know a major disaster as has happened, My children, in Mexico.  You see, My child, I set you down in that area to bring the word to mankind, and it was through these words that many listened and the passed through the horrible experience of a hurricane." (10-5-85)

Satan has control of the elements . . .
    Our Lady - "In My counsels of the past, My children, I have told you many times that satan has control of the elements. There will be accidents that are not accidents, disturbances of nature claiming many lives: floods, tornadoes.  My children, are you ready to face this crisis?" (2-10-78)

Hurricanes, whirlwinds, floods, great heat and plagues upon mankind . . .
    Our Lady - "My child and My children, I have wandered with great speed to and fro across your earth gathering My children who will listen to Me in the last stages of My pleadings to mankind.  Yes, My children, I say the last stages, because you are fast approaching the close of your era.
    "O My children, if you only realized and acted upon My counsel!   If you only realized what is coming fast upon you!  Be it known to you in the past that there will be many eruptions of nature resulting in hurricanes, whirlwinds, floods, great heat and plagues upon mankind." (4-1-78)

    Jesus - "I want everyone upon earth to know that the great Chastisement and the punishments of droughts, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, are but minor compared to the number of lives that will be lost with the great Chastisement." (7-1-85)

   Our Lady - "The Father shall chastise those He loves.  Your country and many countries of your world will suffer trials of famine, earthquakes, tornadoes and the plague." (12-31-74)

Storms, rotting crops and famine . . .
    Our Lady - "Storms shall ravage the shores; crops will rot in the ground - famine.  Insanity, from sin, in the minds of the young. Murders.  Who shall govern your fine country, My children, in the future, as the pollution is bending the stalks.  Repent now of your sin, for the hand of just punishment is being lowered upon you." (7-25-78)

Your Country shall be caught up in a whirlwind!
    Our Lady - "As you sow, My children, so shall you reap.  And now you have yourselves to reap a whirlwind!  Your city, your country shall be caught up in a whirlwind!  Who shall pray for you but the few.   My children, I say unto you now but for the prayers of the few, your country, the United States, would have received a chastisement of blood!" (2-10-78)

You are preparing to reap the whirlwind!
    Jesus - "I ask parents to restore discipline to their homes.  I demand My pastors to restore discipline to My Church upon earth.  You will not convert the masses, but you will set yourselves to be destroyed by the enemies of God, because you do not pray, because you do not seek means of mortification.  I say unto you, as your God, in the name of your Creator, that as you sow, so shall you reap - and many of you are preparing to reap the whirlwind!

   St. Michael - "I, Michael, guardian of the Faith, give fair warning to mankind that the Eternal Father, Creator and Master of all, has looked upon you and found you wanting. Measure for measure shall man be brought to his knees by trial. There shall be set upon mankind a great tribulation such as has been never seen since the beginning of man's creation, and those that pass through this great tribulation shall come forward cleansed in the Blood of the Lamb." (5-14-77)

Droughts, famine, rotting crops, hurricanes, floods . . .
    St. Michael - "Hasten, harken, and listen to the words of warning to a generation that has become perverse, degraded - and abominations committed to offend your God.  In justice and for penance, there will be visited upon your earth great trials - droughts, famine, rotting crops, hurricanes, floods, all manner of earth tremors and disturbances of nature, increasing in volume, spreading throughout your world.  There will be eruptions and manifestations that shall bring terror to the hearts of many, in places that have never seen nor heard of such volume of sound and fierce eruptions of the earth.
    "Be ye warned that houses will blow in the wind, and skin will dry up and blow off the bones as if it had never been. Eyes will see and still not believe, so hardened are the hearts of mankind.
    "The warnings, the numerous warnings that have been given to mankind have gone by unnoticed, and man continues upon his road to his own destruction.   Sins of the flesh have multiplied, and many souls are falling fast into the abyss, their eternal reward being damnation in hell." (8-21-76)

Warnings gone by unnoticed . . .
    Our Lady - "My child, many exhortations and warnings have been given to mankind.  You must go forward and refresh their memories.   Many have forgotten the warnings from Heaven, for they go about saying, 'Where is the promise of His coming, and where are the warnings that you speak of and write of?"
   "O My children, you are truly blind!  These warnings have been given for time, and an extension of time to mankind before the major catastrophe shall be sent upon you, the baptism of fire.  You have received these warnings that have gone by unnoticed: floods, hurricanes, fires, disasters, accidents that are not accidents, earthquakes in places that have never experienced such terror before.  How many warnings must the Eternal Father send upon mankind before they will awaken and do penance?
    "Prayer, atonement, and sacrifice, My children - is this too much to ask of you, in the realization of what you are going to pass through?" (9-28-76)

Tragedies and disasters shall increase . . .
    Jesus - "Great elemental tragedies, disasters, manmade and God - sent upon mankind, shall increase in volume, shall increase in intensity and numbers.  Remember, My children, you do not understand that supernatural, for there will be accidents that are not accidents." (5-26-79)

The Father plans a gradual cleansing of earth . . .
    Our Lady - "Intellectual pride, My children, has been the downfall of many.  You will not enter the Kingdom unless you strip yourselves of this pride and return to Us as little children.
    "Sin and abominations have been accepted in your country and in the world as a way of life.  Whatever shall We do with the souls who are coming fast over the veil unprepared?  Whatever shall the Father do with them?"
    "When the Chastisement is given to man, it will not annihilate the world as in the time of the floods, My children.  No, the Father plans a gradual cleansing of earth.  With the return of My Son, there will remain only the sheep." (5-30-73)

Crucifix has Great Power...
   Jesus - "We demand a crucifix, because demons - many of the highest ones in the realms of hell cannot stand the sight of a crucifix.   They will not approach your door.  I give you this knowledge, My children, though it is not common knowledge, My children, though it is not common knowledge upon earth, that the crucifix has great power against satan." (6-18-87)

    Can you afford to be without crucifixes on the outside of your outside doors?  The safety of our families and homes are threatened by crime, riots, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, and other natural disasters.   

Crucifix on front and back door... 
Jesus - "Pray and wear your sacramentals. And, also, My children, I ask you again to place a crucifix upon your door. Both front and back doors must have a crucifix. I say this to you because there will be carnage within your areas, and this will pass you by if you keep your crucifix upon your doors." (6-30-84) ( More Testimonies of lives and homes saved by the crucifixes.)  https://www.tldm.org/news/crucifix.htm 

Directives from Heaven...  https://www.tldm.org/directives/directives.htm