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Yes, God still judges nations for their sins—just as He still judges individuals. The Bible is clear: “You may be sure that your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:23).
Yes, God still judges nations for their sins—just as He still judges individuals. The Bible is clear: “You may be sure that your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:23). After all, God hasn’t changed over the centuries; He is holy and pure, and whenever we scorn Him, we run the risk of incurring His judgment.
Jan 4, 2022 · Many nations of antiquity are nonexistent now, having brought God’s judgment upon themselves for their sin. Edom (Jeremiah 49:17–22), Assyria (Zephaniah 2:13–15), Sodom (Genesis 18:20), and Babylon (Jeremiah 51) were all wiped out, according to the biblical prophets, for their evil before the Lord.
- Could God Judge Nations Today?
- Does God Judge Nations Today?
- The Disturbing Assumption
- End Notes
Maybe the place to begin is with a premise: if we believe the Christian teaching that God is just, all-wise, and the creator of all things, then it is His prerogative to judge human beings. The bracing claim that Christianity brings to us is that we are all sinners, that none of us have lived a life that merits escaping judgment. No one can say tha...
Having established this, the question then become this: If God has the right to judge a nation-state and if He has done so in the past, will God do the same today? And if not, why not? Initially, we must remember that there is not an exact parallel between modern nation-states and the nations in the Bible. Modern readers of the scriptures are somet...
Most important theologically, though, we need to challenge the underlying assumption behind the interpretation. Too often the common thinking is, “God judged Israel, so now he is judging America.” The implicit logic in that thinking is “America = the New Israel.” Here we must be theologically clear: No. America is closer to biblical Babylon than it...
Scripture quotations are from The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. [i]We should add that this observation pushes back against the idea that God is on the side of one racial group. When Israel and Judah adopted...
Jan 12, 2021 · There are nine oracles of judgment against the nations—Egypt, Philistia, Moab, Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar and Hazor, Elam, and Babylon—followed by Jerusalem’s destruction. The judgments are...
Feb 25, 2014 · Will God judge America for its increasing corruption? John Piper considers America’s celebration of sin in the context of biblical judgment.
Jun 22, 2003 · God doesn’t ignore national sins—we see Him judging nations throughout the Bible because of their sins. And He isn’t ignoring the sins of today’s nations. In this message, Pastor Lutzer shows us some of the sins that God will hold a country accountable for.
