Is any nation especially blessed by God and empowered to enforce His will on earth? Are the armies of any nation the armies of the LORD? If armies murder the innocent by policy and routinely maim those who are not enemies in pursuit of an enemy, what is in store for that nation? Can righteousness employ evil to accomplish good? When a nation forgets God's precepts as it pursues the illusion of safety, will God bless that nation?
No! The people of the unrighteous nation will suffer along with their elders. Those who attempt safety through murder and theft will suffer loss and great sorrow, and their children will pay the debts of their unrightous fathers through generations. They will curse their heritage.
Thus says the LORD:
How the faithful city has become a whore, she who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. Your silver has become dross, your best wine mixed with water. Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them. Therefore the Lord declares, the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "Ah, I will get relief from my enemies and avenge myself on my foes."
~Isaiah 1
For the lost of humanity, God's wrath comes in the form of eternal death. For the lost nation, it comes in the form of destruction and disgust throughout history.
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