A choice was made in the garden that has been the source of pain and suffering ever since, the separation from God. Because of our abilities to be creative, many times we lose sight of where that comes from. Within the Bible itself, we have the example of the Tower of Babel... man was building an edification that negated the relationship with the Creator... Jesus among His teachings said have faith in God and you can cast mountains into the sea... so the issue becomes when we remain separated from God or choose separation, what is the outcome. There is a negative force that exists around us, it's intent is to undermine God, because the goal of the negative is to attempt to obtain the power and benefits of something greater than we might even know. When something bad happens, it's part of a movement between two forces, like a chess game, a continual one that has been played for the last maybe 6,000 years or more. The Tower was destroyed because it's intent was to undermine God. If you look at history, we see it time and time again within the cultures, ancient history is full of the examples, Babylonian empire, Roman, Greece, Egypt, Aztecs, Mayan, Chinese and other Asian Dynasties... all leaving some monument, structures, or evidence of their prosperity and the almost sudden holt to it, because it did not want to acknowledge the Creator. Some cultures have messianic figures which parallel similarities to basic christian understanding... a message that was written in the hearts of men, are the distortions that later took place in the message, an attempt to lead astray those cultures by the very force that comes against Our Creator...? Even Israel flourished and was taken later into captivity several times for disbelief. Some will refer to it as a natural cycle of mankind, however, is that natural cycle a representation of an ongoing struggle for mankind... us, children of the Creator. This struggle however has an end, and there is a new beginning, Jesus referred to it by saying (paraphrased) no one knows the day and the hour only the Father. Our Creator has laid the foundation of His Own Tower, and there will be one fold and One Shepard... the nation of God. The Nation of all nations, with the Lord of all lords, and the King of all kings. Prophesy is another layer within the Book we know as the Bible.The Lord bless and protect you all!