Actions have consequences, I think that is one of the lessons the Church is teaching us in this season of Ordinary Time. In the Gospel, Jesus continues his words of ordination to the 72 who were sent in Jesus' name to preach that the Reign of God was upon them. Those who have received much are accountable for the gifts they have received and rejected. Ruins visited by tourists and pilgrims. For the umpteenth time, I will remind us of the many requirements of justice of the Law which were broken by the people of Jerusalem thus bringing upon themselves the destruction of their civilization.
Actions have consequences.
For we did not heed the voice of the Lord, our God in all the words of the prophets whom he sent us, but each one of us went off after the devices of our own wicked hearts, served other gods, and did evil in the sight of the Lord, our God. Throughout the Word of God are calls to justice, mercy, solidarity, and powerful indictments of the oppression of the poor and the murder of the innocent. Our culture of death rejoices in the blood of Abel, the cries of the people oppressed in Egypt, the foreigner, the widow, and the orphan. But nothing bad can happen to us. We are the Americans, the Americans, the ones who are God's Special Friends, when the overwhelming scourge comes upon us, we will slide through unscathed and unpunished and make money on the deal.