40 days towards a more godly nation - Jesus Is Involved In Politics

Day Three
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
Psalms 9:17 KJV (emphasis added)
This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Listen! I am going
to bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears
of it tingle. 4 For they have forsaken me and made this a place of foreign
gods;… they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. … 9 I will
make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one
another's flesh during the stress of the siege imposed on them by the enemies
who seek their lives.'
Jeremiah 19:3
What Happens When God Judges A
Nation?
W
ith a final bloody push, the kings of Assyria brought their
charioteers and men to the heart of Israel and camped right
outside her walls. They’d already laid waste to every town in their path. God
had allowed an evil king to come right to Jerusalem’s door.
After spending 40 years in the wilderness building up a ragtag group
of cousins into a fighting force, some 800 years building up the nation of Israel
and 40 years building Solomon’s kingdom into this immensely rich and
influential empire; within a few generations, God sends the Assyrians to crush
Israel. A few years later, He sends the Babylonians into the lone surviving
nation of Judah to destroy it and burn it to the ground. The Babylonians do this
so completely that the Ark of the Covenant disappears forever, Solomon’s
great Temple is razed to the ground, and the gold in the Holy of Holies melts
and runs into the dirt.
The horrors of these sieges are seen in events that fulfilled the horrific
prophesy of Jeremiah quoted above:
2 Kings 6: 26 [During the siege] as the king of Israel was passing by on the
wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, my lord the king!” 27 The king
replied, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I get help for you? …” 28
Then he asked her, “What's the matter?” She answered, “This woman said to
me, 'Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we'll eat my
son.' 29 So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, 'Give up
your son so we may eat him,' but she had hidden him.”
This woman was not complaining that she had to eat her own son; she
was complaining that she did not get to eat her neighbor’s son as well.
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