Originally Posted by stevelyn
Originally Posted by wabigoon
This nation has sinned enough to deserve it.
Yes that's true, but fortunately for us that's not the way God works.
Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
Originally Posted by antlers
Where in the New Testament is judgement threatened as a consequence for national sins...?

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate." Matthew 23:37-38
That's the foretelling of the coming 70 AD Roman conquest of Judea and the destruction of Jerusalem for their rejection of Christ and their part in the Crucifixion.
Correct.