Humpty Dumpty Nation!

If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. Like the nations the LORD destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 8:19-20

Does God destroy nations? According to Deuteronomy He does! So why would God choose to destroy one nation and not another? And when God destroys a nation is it obvious that the Hand of God is the enemy of that sovereign state?

When our children were little and being homeschooled we bought a time-line of history which folds out to span the wall of a normal room. It is notable that most of the countries depicted on the chart of history have a very short existence. The Roman Empire was not the only government that had a rise and fall. There is one exception. China can be traced on this chart all the way back to the tower of Babel. But China has had many governments or rulers over the years. Even Israel stopped existing as a nation for many years until it was restored in 1948.

So I would ask a serious and sobering question. Did the United States of America become the great superpower of the world because we, above all other people are the most industrious, intelligent and capable people on the face of the earth? Did we rise to greatness because we are the most loving, caring, and compassionate people? Are we simply better than everyone else in the world? Or could it be that somehow we incurred the blessing of Almighty God as the little band of settlers struggled to craft a nation in the wilderness?

Here is an even more sobering thought. God uses evil men to accomplish His purposes. Somehow we think we are going to save our nation from destruction by fighting the evil that threatens it. But unless we repent and call upon the mercy of God as did the men who first constructed this country, the evil will overcome our land.

Does that mean we must not fight evil? Of course not! It simply means that unless we turn back to God, Humpty Dumpty will never be put back together again! You know the story. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall and all the king’s horses and all the king’s men could not put him back together again.

We are back to the Titanic mentality. Our leaders are convinced that we can sail the Ship of State without any lifeboats! GOD HELP US!