Proverbs 11:31
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
The original Hebrew reads: If the righteous of the earth offer restitution for their sins, how much more the wicked and sinner. This proverb defines the same idea as, and works in cooperation with the statement from the apostle Peter: And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? Expounding on the same idea, Paul also reminds us that judgment always starts with the house of God.
In this arrogant generation that ridicules the righteous and godly; in this time of humanism that denies the elements of God’s role in the world; in this wicked world that persecutes the righteous and godly while the wicked seems to flourish like a green bay tree, it is easy to wonder about the retribution of the wicked, or if God is even righteous in His assessments. Those who think that way do so because they miss the overall picture.
In His great love, God chose to redeem humanity. To do so, He first chose His Son who suffered all things for us even before the foundations of the world. This One whom we call Jesus, came and made a covenant with one man Abram whose obedience, worthiness and trust was tested to the limits. From this man came the twelve tribes of a nation who would also be tested (and still is) and constitute the trunk of the tree where the rest of the world would be grafted un to God (Romans 11). Jesus, Abraham and the nation of Israel all suffered first because they are the firstfruits. They suffer first , before the rest because they blaze the trail, they lead the way.
In the same way the world of today is getting ready for the judgment of the Almighty. The shadows of God’s retributive hands are seen in this present day's physical, mental, moral and emotional persecution of His children and of His people. Rather than be arrogant, the world should look at God’s Children being purified and say uh-oh, my turn is coming next.
Waiting for the the day of the Lord, God's Children sometimes get impatient, and rightfully so, but here is the reason for what seems to be God’s lingering:
The original Hebrew reads: If the righteous of the earth offer restitution for their sins, how much more the wicked and sinner. This proverb defines the same idea as, and works in cooperation with the statement from the apostle Peter: And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? Expounding on the same idea, Paul also reminds us that judgment always starts with the house of God.
In this arrogant generation that ridicules the righteous and godly; in this time of humanism that denies the elements of God’s role in the world; in this wicked world that persecutes the righteous and godly while the wicked seems to flourish like a green bay tree, it is easy to wonder about the retribution of the wicked, or if God is even righteous in His assessments. Those who think that way do so because they miss the overall picture.
In His great love, God chose to redeem humanity. To do so, He first chose His Son who suffered all things for us even before the foundations of the world. This One whom we call Jesus, came and made a covenant with one man Abram whose obedience, worthiness and trust was tested to the limits. From this man came the twelve tribes of a nation who would also be tested (and still is) and constitute the trunk of the tree where the rest of the world would be grafted un to God (Romans 11). Jesus, Abraham and the nation of Israel all suffered first because they are the firstfruits. They suffer first , before the rest because they blaze the trail, they lead the way.
In the same way the world of today is getting ready for the judgment of the Almighty. The shadows of God’s retributive hands are seen in this present day's physical, mental, moral and emotional persecution of His children and of His people. Rather than be arrogant, the world should look at God’s Children being purified and say uh-oh, my turn is coming next.
Waiting for the the day of the Lord, God's Children sometimes get impatient, and rightfully so, but here is the reason for what seems to be God’s lingering:
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:9
2 Peter 3:9
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