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

and only one stone wall was left of Jerusalem, as a warning sign to all who
dared to defy the Roman army. An event predicted by Jesus 37 years earlier.
What about the good people?
During these sieges and attacks, God obviously saved a few people
like the widow who helped Elisha. 32 But here’s the real question: Did all the
“innocent” people – that is, all who still loved God – get spared? Oh sure, we’d
like to think so. However, the Bible never says they were saved. In fact, we
know that the good were taken into exile along with the bad. For instance,
Daniel, Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednigo, 33 good men taken from their
families and most likely castrated into eunuchs. Women raped, babies smashed
and, as we have seen, cooked and eaten. Are you telling me those babies
disobeyed God?
No, of course they didn’t. The good suffered along with the bad. The
good experienced the terrible judgment of God just as the bad did. The good
were raped, beaten, kidnapped, and orphaned, and they had their heads
smashed just as did the wicked.
What’s my point? My point is that when God judges a nation for the
behavior of certain people in that nation or because of its leaders; you and I, the
followers of Christ and our children will also suffer the physical
consequences!
Let me repeat that. When God judges our nation because of others, or
because of our leaders, you and I, the followers of Christ, and our one- and
two-year-old children will also suffer the physical consequences! True, we
personally will never suffer the spiritual consequences, but as you will see
later, I will make the case that our grandchildren may not only suffer the
physical consequences but they may also suffer the spiritual consequences. Do
we want their blood on our hands?
Remember too, Exodus shows us that not only do our kids suffer
because of our evil choices but succeeding generations will also suffer for what
we do, or allow to happen.
Exodus 34:7 Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the
children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth
generation. 34
When did we stop believing that this passage was true? Or that it
didn’t apply to us? I believe this means our kids will suffer the physical
consequences of our folly and not the spiritual consequences. As far as the
physical consequences for the sins of the fathers, such as divorce, there are
natural physical, emotional, and psychological consequences of abandoning
the moral laws of God, and these will affect children to the third and fourth
generations. Divorce has measurable effects.
Are you confused at this point? “What does divorce have to do with
32 2 Kings 4:1-7
33 Sadly we never remember their real names: Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah
34 It is of value to note that the Jewish Rabbi “Rashi” (AD 1040-1105) indicates that the punishments
were only to the children who hated God themselves. Of course, parents can influence children to hate
God.
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