While there is no national hope for Israel, there is for individuals. The prosperity of North America fools many into thinking that God is well pleased with us. However, so much religion is hollow and divorced from ethical practices. I am reading at the moment the Autobiography of Martin Luther King and am finding it very interesting. In the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s few white churches did anything to help the Blacks from the savage inhumanity of the Ku Klux Klan and the racial intolerance of cities like Birmingham, Alabama.
Religion can be so other worldly that it is no earthly good.
We may live in our religious ghettos and forget the prophetic ministry entrusted to us. Nevertheless, we must never forget that man s basic need is spiritual and not just social or political. So we have what has been called the Gospel of the Lion s Roar . It s good news that sinners are alerted to their danger. Already God had sent plague and drought on the land, but the Day of the Lord is much more ominous.