Mal 1:2 “I have always loved you,” says the LORD. But you retort, “Really? How have You loved us?”
Can you just hear the contempt in the people’s response?
“Go love someone else, doesn’t look like love to us.”
It does sound like clanging bells to most of the world.
But after a while of endless drama, backstabbing, and oneupsmanship, at the end of a long day of “consequences” it is the only thing that makes any sense. Its also the way in which mighty Rome was conquered to become Christian