2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV) if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
God judges nations!
Pro 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to
any people. (not just Israel)
Why was Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed? Eze 16:49 Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it. God will judge a nation that gives itself over to sodomy. (not just Israel)
Leviticus 18:3 talks about the sins of Egypt and Canaan which is almost as depraved as America has become. Nations that practiced the abominations described in Leviticus faced God’s judgment. (not just Israel)
Jonah 1:1-2 God told Jonah to cry out against Ninevah.
Jonah 1:2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.” God was going to judge the Ninevites because of their wicked behavior but withheld it when they repented. I pray God spares America.
The apostle Paul made it clear that the judgments in the Old Testament were
examples for us today (1 Corinthians 10:6-11).
Gentile nations that God judged. This should bring all Christians to their knees.
Ammon (Amos 1:13-15)
Babylon (Isaiah 13:1 – 14:23)
Damascus (Amos 1:3-5)
Edom (Amos 1:11-12)
Egypt (Jeremiah 46:1-26)
Moab (Amos 2:1-3)
Philistia (Amos 1:6-8)
Tyre (Amos 1:9-10)
Billy Graham – “God does nations as well as individuals – and we ignore his judgment at our peril. The Bible warns that someday ‘He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead and crushing rulers of the whole earth’ (Psalm 1:10). In that day Christ will return in all his glory, and all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the goats (Matthew 25:32). We can barely imagine that dramatic scene – but it is a warning that God’s hand of judgment won’t be held forever. At the same time, God’s judgment isn’t only for the future."
Abraham Lincoln We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
All this being done in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the divine teachings that the united cry of the nation will be heard on high and answered with blessings no less than the pardon of our national sins and the restoration of our now divided and suffering country to its former happy condition of unity and peace. Done at the city of Washington, this 30th day of March, A. D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-seventh.