Is it Time for God to Act?

“It is time for You to act, O Lord, for they have regarded Your law as void (cast off, dissolved, caused to cease, made of none effect)” (Psalm 119:126). Today, Western nations have been taking actions that are casting off or trying to make void the laws of God as never before. Is it time for God to act?

As we watch the news, Western nations and states are not just straying from God’s laws, they are fleeing from the Biblical principles and Christian doctrines on which they were founded. At the core of the laws of many nations are principles found in the Ten Commandments. But for several decades, governments have separated themselves from these Biblical principles by legislative actions and judicial decrees. They have removed any vestiges of God’s laws from the public arena.

In public schools, Christian beliefs cannot be uttered. Prayer is forbidden. Teaching Creation is out but evolution is mandated. Morality based on the Ten Commandments is out. Situational ethics is in. Sexual purity and abstinence are out. Fornication with birth control is in. Long held principles of marriage and family are out. Having two daddies or two mommies is in.

Some government authorities try to enact laws limiting the size of soft drinks that may be purchased, while others make laws ensuring citizens may legally smoke marijuana and requiring churches to provide birth control against their beliefs. Judges rule that minors must be allowed to purchase morning after pills.

Throughout mankind’s history, God has acted many times to punish nations straying too far from at least a semblance of morality. The level of corruption in Noah’s day was too great, so God acted. The level of perversion was great in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, so God acted. The nations of Israel and Judah were punished on occasions when their iniquity grew too great.

Some statements in Deuteronomy 31 and 32 should be considered. Leadership of Israel was passing from Moses to Joshua. Moses commanded that every seven years the law of God was to be read to every man, woman and child. But God told Moses that the people would still forsake God and break His covenant and His laws. He would have to punish them. God gave a song to Moses to witness against them. Moses warned all of the leaders. “...And evil will befall you in the latter days, because you will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger through the work of your hands” (Deuteronomy 31:29).

The song of Moses in Deuteronomy 32 includes these statements: “They have corrupted themselves… a perverse and crooked generation… you are unmindful, and have forgotten the God who fathered you... when the Lord saw it, He spurned them, because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters… ‘I will heap disasters on them; I will spend My arrows on them. They shall be wasted with hunger, devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction; I will also send against them the teeth of beasts, with the poison of serpents of the dust. The sword shall destroy outside; there shall be terror within for the young man and virgin, the nursing child with the man of gray hairs… For they are a nation void of counsel, nor is there any understanding in them” (vv. 5–28).

When does God decide to act and to mete out punishment? Only He knows in His great wisdom. But one can read both historical and Biblical accounts and see where God has determined that nations have strayed too far from Him, and He must act. Is it time for God to act again?

To learn more, order our free booklets, The United States and Great Britain in Prophecy and Prophecy Fulfilled: God’s Hand in World Affairs, and read the articles, “Modern Warnings from an Ancient Prophet” and “National Amnesia” in the Tomorrow’s World magazine.