Abraham Lincoln, in his second inaugural address, said:
The Almighty has His own purposes. “Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.” If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
It makes me wonder. If the Civil War was God’s punishment for our institutionalization of slavery, what do you suppose would happen for the near 50 million victims of abortion?
Not that I think there’s going to be a 1:1 correlation. In fact, I would argue there won’t be. America will either be judged, though, or else America must come to repentance. God is longsuffering, but He only waits so long (for the sake of His elect).
