THE POWER OF JUDGMENT

Psalm 9:8
He rules the world in righteousness and judges the peoples with equity.

Every Christian has an understanding of what God’s judgment is. God’s judgment forced Adam and Eve out of His presence in the Garden of Eden. It was God’s judgment of sin which was the catalyst for Christ birth, life, death, burial, resurrection and ultimately, our salvation. God is love, but God is also a judge. He must judge sin with no exceptions. God must judge as a righteous and just God. If He did not, He would be defying a part of His character. He cannot look upon evil and allow it to go unpunished, for that in itself would be evil. Habakkuk 1:13 says that His “eyes are too pure to look on evil.”

Throughout the Bible, God’s judgment is executed time after time upon those who refuse to obey and sin against God. Man has a propensity to sin, so God’s discipline is ongoing. God is desperately trying to drive us sinners into the arms of His salvation. Mankind sins and a sinful mankind builds nations. When these nations forget God and sin against Him, they too are judged wholesale as a people. One need not look any further than to Israel; God’s chosen people and nation.

Because of Abraham’s faithfulness, God promised to bring forth a great nation and make them His chosen people. (Genesis 12:7, 17:7-21) The Israelites were to be a beacon of light and hope to the world. Their mission would be to draw the people and nations of the world to God Almighty and His salvation. Israel failed repeatedly in this mission, and time and time again, were judged.

And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, or lose heart when He rebukes you. For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises everyone He receives as a son.” (Hebrews 12:5,6)

God judges, not so much to punish, but to turn those who do not know Him or who have strayed back to Himself. When a nation sins against God, God will bring judgment against that nation. Israel, throughout the Bible was destroyed and taken captive by conquerors of other nations, over and over. The final expulsion came 40 years after Christ was crucified, when the Romans marched in, destroyed the temple and drove the Jews from Israel, dispersing them into many nations across the earth..

Since then, it would seem the judgment of God followed the Jews. In 66 AD, 50,000 were killed in the massacre of Alexandria Egypt. In 624-628 AD, many tribes were persecuted and destroyed by Muhammad. In 1012, they were expelled from Germany. Massacred by the Crusaders in 1096-99. The Jews have been expelled from France, Spain, Austria, Germany, Sicily, Lithuania, and Portugal throughout the 1300s and 1400s. In the 1600s, they were Massacred during the wars of Poland against Sweden and Russia. The persecutions, massacres and expulsions continued up until the climax of the Holocaust where 6 million Jews were murdered by Hitler and the Nazis. [1}

God’s judgment is serious and relentless. The experiences of the Jews shows what happens when one enters into a covenant with God and then turns their back on it. I believe the United States of America has also made such a covenant with God and like the Jews for breaking theirs, is also under God’s judgment for breaking ours. Judgment is coming and time is running out to prepare. Just like Israel of old, America too, will continue to suffer at the hands of God’s wrath.

The United States of America, just as Israel before them, entered into a covenant relationship with God upon it's founding. Psalm 9:17 states: "The wicked shall be turned into hell, And all the nations that forget God." A large segment of American has continually forgotten God....and judgment is coming to America.