God always preserves a remnant. He always takes care of His own. Even when Israel went into captivity as divine punishment,God still provided comfort. Read the prophets:God pronounces judgment on the wicked,and offers hope to those that love and obey God.
Jer 46:27-28 But fear not thou,O my servant Jacob,and be not dismayed,O Israel:for,behold,I will save thee from afar off,and thy seed from the land of their captivity;and Jacob shall return,and be in rest and at ease,and none shall make him afraid. (28) Fear thou not,O Jacob my servant,saith the LORD:for I am with thee;for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee:but I will not make a full end of thee,but correct thee in measure;yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
Note that in verse 28 that punishment still happened,but God also is with His servant. We all need correction and chastisement from God to guide back onto the correct path,but punishment and judgment comes when people become stiff-necked and hard-hearted. Leonard Ravenhill wrote:
It has been well said that there are only three classes of people in the world today:Those who are afraid,those who do not know enough to be afraid,and those who know their Bibles. Sodom,which had no Bible,no preachers,no tracts,no prayer meetings,no churches,perished. How then will America be spared from the wrath of the Almighty,think you? We have millions of Bibles,scores of thousands of churches,endless preachers – and yet what sin!
This country keeps pushing God farther and farther away and at some point,He is going to push back. What a fearsome day that will be when God turns away from the United States. Everyone of us needs to pray:pray for our President,pray for our government,pray for our states,our counties,our towns,and our neighbors. I will close with this quote by Leonard Ravenhill:
For this sin-hungry age we need a prayer-hungry Church. We need to explore again the “exceeding great and precious promises of God.” In “that great day,” the fire of judgment is going to test the sort,not the size of work we have done. That which is born in prayer will survive the test. Prayer does business with God. Prayer creates hunger for souls;hunger for souls creates prayer. The understanding soul prays;the praying soul gets understanding. To the soul who prays in self-owned weakness,the Lord gives His strength. Oh that we were men of like prayer as Elijah – a man subject to like passions as we are! Lord,let us pray!