Sword and famine and wild
beasts and plague!
How much worse will it be when I send against
Jerusalem My four dreadful judgments:
sword and famine and wild beasts and plague--
to kill its men and their animals!" Ezekiel 14:21
(Edward Payson)
National judgments are always the consequence
of national sins. It is indispensably necessary
to the perfection of GOD'S moral government,
that it should extend to nations and communities,
as well as to individuals. This, I conceive, is too
evident to require proof; for how could GOD be
considered as the moral Governor of the world--
if nations and communities were exempt from
HIS government?
(Matthew Henry)
GOD has a variety of sore judgments
with which to punish sinful nations--
and HE has them all at HIS command
and inflicts which nations HE pleases.
GOD often chastises sinful nations by
bringing the sword of war upon them--
and HE gives it its commission and
orders what execution it shall do.
(John Calvin)
War is one of GOD'S judgments.
(William Greenhill)
It is GOD who calls out the sword,
and causes it to come:
Ezekiel 33:2.
HE is the LORD of Hosts, and commissions
armies to make invasions where HE please.
Eminent wickedness brings eminent judgments.
Wars do not come upon any nation by accident--
but by the righteous providence of GOD.
(Martyn Lloyd-Jones)
I regard the two World Wars which we have
experienced in the 20th century, as GOD'S
punishment of the apostasy of the last century.
I see no other adequate explanation.
(Augustine)
Nothing happens, unless the
OMNIPOTENT wills it to happen.
(Thomas Watson)
Sinners may oppose GOD'S ways--
but not HIS wrath.
(James Durham)
Let us stay our faith here--
that our LORD is still working
in all these confusions. And when
matters are turned upside down
as to human appearance--
our blessed LORD knows well
what HE is doing, and will make
all things most certainly, infallibly,
and unalterably to work for HIS own
glory, and for the good of HIS people.
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