AMEN!! Good is Bad....Bad is Good....Up is Down....Black is white. NOT GOING TO END WELL!!
I am reading the Bible from front to back for the first time, and am into the Prophets right now, specifically Ezekiel.
There is a LOT in there about rejection of God, embrace of sin, and punishments by God who uses their enemies as tools.
And what happens to a “stiff-necked” people as a result.
I was discussing it with my brother, and he mentioned how he had a difficult time framing what happened to the Jews at the hands of the Nazis in a biblical perspective, and I said that given what I am reading in the Old Testament, complete sacking, enslavement, and destruction of people who rejected God by their enemies, all put to the sword, the women defiled, children butchered, whole populations destroyed...I had no problem seeing the things that happened to the Jews as an event comparable in scale to a biblical punishment by God.
But seeing what happened to them as something of “biblical scale” is not at all the same as saying the Jews in the mid-20th Century were punished by God. That I don’t believe at all...just that it was comparable in scale ands style to a biblical-level punishment. (No doubt some people might read that post and assume I was thinking they “deserved” it...and that isn’t the case)