Bible Question: How can a just God use wicked Babylon to punish a people more righteous than themselves? |
Bible Answer: Who do you suggest that He use? The angels? That Israel was more righteous than the Babylonians is not borne out in scripture. Indeed they were more guilty before God than Babylon, because they had His laws, the prophets, the priests, everything needed to put them in a right relationship with Him. All of which they ignored. All of which they used to rationalize their disobedience. After all God would surely not destroy His own temple, he surely would not allow the heathen to capture the Ark of the Covenant. That He would use nations that were ungodly was a further rebuke to the Israelites who considered themselves above the other nations and holding such an exalted position in God's eyes that God wouldn't bring them to account for their sins. They didn't really believe that He is no respecter of persons, or nations. |