I would love to see the church apply this to herself as it was originally applied to Israel. If our land is in need of healing it's the responsibility of the church to turn from her wicked ways.
2 Chronicles 7:14 - if my people who are called by my name 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.
Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to
any people. (not just Israel)
Why was Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed? Ezekiel 16:49-50 - 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 chapter 18 talks about the sins of Egypt and Canaan which was 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 Nineveh.
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.
The apostle Paul made it clear that the judgments in the Old Testaments were
examples for us today (1 Cor 10:6-11).
Gentiles 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 1:11-12);
Egypt (Jeremiah 46:1-26);
Moab (Amos 2:1-3);
Philistia (Amos 1:6-8);
Tyre Amos 1:9-10).
Billy Graham - God does judge 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 the rulers of the whole earth” (Psalm 110:6). In that day, Christ will return in all His glory, and “All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from 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 back forever.
At the same time,
God’s judgment isn’t only in the future. Even now God works behind the scenes, bringing judgment on both men and nations that defy Him and commit evil. And yes, it could happen to us. When we break His moral law, we eventually have to face the consequences, both in this life and the next. The Bible warns, “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows” (Galatians 6:7).”
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.”
