The Hammer of Justice Crushes

American decline is a spiritual and moral problem not a political one. The political is merely the side effect of depraved and warped thinking of a society devoid of God. There is no fear of God before the nation’s eyes. There is little wisdom as most have turned their back on God. A society without an absolute/objective moral compass is a dying or dead one. Everyone does what is right in their own eyes and all are, at some level...wrong. Yet none can admit that about themselves. The phrase: “Everyone did what was right in their own eyes” is used in what book of the Bible multiple times? Judges. Judges sent to correct evil behavior. The time of Judges…when there was no king. There was no viable or meaningful leadership and the failure to lead was its own punishment. This should be a wake-up call to Americans.

The lack of wisdom is in itself a form of judgment. Ecclesiastes mentions why.

Ecclesiastes 8:11 “Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil” 

Like we see with Antifa and other lawless groups there has been little or no immediate judgment for evil or bad behavior. So, criminals and broken minds are not inhibited from breaking more just laws. God’s or man. The evil operates with impunity. This is what happens when restraints are pulled off of people and they are released to do whatever they want. Anarchy and chaos ensue. The surest sign that that Devil is working either behind the scene or right in our faces. We are literally seeing this played out before us in the nation.

Here’s the thing though. This lawlessness won’t go on forever. It will inevitably be judged and punished. God gives us all plenty of time to make good. God wouldn’t have allowed a hammer to drive nails into His Son if He wasn’t looking for justice down the road in the corridors of time for us today. The irony is that the perpetrated acts of evil themselves often begin to act as a precursory punishment. Especially when they are addictions or harmful behavior.

To any nation or person who has no fear of God, I have a warning for you. God was clear when he spoke through the prophet Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 2:19 “Your evil will chastise you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, declares the Lord God of hosts”

Evil and its negative side effects increase when there is no fear of God. Abraham understood that when there is no fear of God in the land, sin abounds, which is why Abraham said, “Because I thought, surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife” (Gen 20:11). The Bible is clear that fear of God suppresses evil, but what is the fear of God? It’s a holy, reverential, deep, and abiding respect and regard for the Holy God Almighty. A God who is, by His nature, obligated to judge.

Our society not only doesn’t fear God and justice he inevitably will bring…the society doesn’t even know God or those that do, don’t acknowledge Him as God. They see no long-term punishment for evil behavior. So that errant behavior runs amok. This will not happen forever. Either God will directly intervene or the system containing the evil will collapse in on itself. It will implode from its own moral depravity. That is what we’re seeing in Portland, Chicago and other areas. Self-cannibalization. We will eventually see this nationwide if this doesn't abate.

This is why the Bible says, “Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all” (Rom 12:17-18), and “never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord” (Rom 12:19).

God does not sit back and say, “Do was you will.” Do not misunderstand God's silence or inaction. Please understand that God not striking the wrongdoer down immediately does not constitute Him condoning it. God wishes that none perish but God will only be so long-suffering and patient. The hammer/gavel of justice is coming. The day when the hammer of justice crushes us will be quickly upon us. The Lord has dropped this hammer before on many including His own chosen people, the Jews. The gavel plate is stained with the blood of fallen empires. God will not stay His hand forever. The hammer is already in its back-swing…