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You said — “Romans 3:10-18 sound a lot like this country today.”

Oh yes indeed, it does. In fact, what this part of Romans is indicating is that the *result* of homosexuality *is* a judgement from God for rejecting God. God “gives them over to their vile passions” — as it says.

So, it not only sounds like a lot of this country — it’s also *the judgement of God* that is going on right now, in this country.

Some people are *so evil* that God sees *no redeeming value* any longer in them — and He “gives them over” to their evil ways and says “have at it” and they suffer the judgement of God upon themselves, as a result.

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And then you ask — “God didn’t do anything to the Romans, did he?”

There are judgements that God deals out to the peoples in the nations, as they go along, according to their many sins. But, the ultimate destruction is, many times, delayed because of the few righteous and/or to give time for those who are persistent in their evil ways to heed the warnings of God and “turn from their evil ways and repent” — thereby being spared from the ultimate judgement of God.

There is going to be — one particular time — that all the “righteous” will be removed from this situation (just like it was at Sodom and Gomorrah, when the angel took Lot and his family and told him that the judgement could not be executed until they got him out of there). That time — is called the Rapture. At that time, all the righteous will be removed from the situation — and it’s at that time — that the Bible describes it as the time of Jacob’s trouble and it’s at that time that the ultimate judgement of God comes down upon all of humanity — just like He did at the time of the world-wide flood and destroyed all of evil humanity except for 8 people.

At that time about 4 billion people will be killed and the judgement of God, that He says He’s been “saving up from the time of the beginning” (in the Garden of Eden and the fall of mankind) — it’s all that “saved up judgement” that God dispenses (that He *reserved* and did not dispense, before in the past). God dispenses all the judgement that He’s “saved up” from the beginning of sin coming into the world and *completely* releases it *all* in this time period — and *after* the righteous are removed from this world.

That’s going to be a horrible time for those remaining.

And in answer to the question of God judging the Romans, well..., they are no longer the Kingdom that ruled the world, as they were at the time. They were invaded and defeated in many places over a long period of time and went into a long decline of their own making — which is a judgement of God, in that God does let the sins of the people do themselves in, besides *dispensing* judgement directly himself (or by means of Satan, too, who also does God’s bidding...).

We don’t see the Roman Empire any longer, so that’s pretty clear that they didn’t survive as a Kingdom that they were at one time.