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    A Nation's Day of the Lord: Justice and Accountability to a Loving God
    A Nation's Day of the Lord: Justice and Accountability to a Loving God
    A Nation's Day of the Lord: Justice and Accountability to a Loving God
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    A Nation's Day of the Lord: Justice and Accountability to a Loving God

    By James Tarter

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    The Day of the Lord on a nation is its just judgment by God: a nation's full accountability to the just and loving God for the nation's sins throughout its history. The Bible shows many examples of God's just judgment of ancient nations as whole units. National judgments have continued through the centuries after Biblical times, but have become especially common in the last 80 years as nation after nation has come under atheistic communism or another dominating spiritual darkness. As with individuals, a nation that has sinned badly can be justly blessed by joining itself to the Lord Jesus and receiving His sacrifice for sinful mankind. For a nation to receive this blessing, believers in Jesus need to help the people in their land to want Jesus in their hearts and lives. This little book shows all of this and more.
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    Release dateDec 1, 2012
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      A Nation's Day of the Lord - James Tarter

      A Nation's Day of the Lord: Justice and Accountability to a Loving God

      A Nation’s Day of the Lord

      Justice and Accountability

      to a Loving God

      Dr. James M. Tarter

      Copyright Page

      Eighth Edition, 2018

      ISBN: 978-1-300-44974-4

      Copyright c 2012, 2018 by James M. Tarter.  All rights reserved.  Printed in the United States of America.  Permission granted to make copies for purposes consistent with furthering the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God.

      Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE® (1995 Updated Edition): c 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by the Lockman Foundation.  Used by permission.  (www.Lockman.org)

      I call the New American Standard Bible the NAS.  I add boldface or underline to specific words and phrases in Scriptures to add my emphasis for discussion.

      Held Accountable: a Nation’s Day of the Lord

      The New Testament emphasizes a Day of the Lord on all of the earth.  This has kept too many believers from realizing that the Old Testament normally emphasizes a Day of the Lord on a single nation: the time that He makes a nation to be fully accountable to Him for its sins that it had never removed.  This includes its just judgment for them.  As with individuals, a nation cannot remove its sins by better actions in other situations.  For example, abuses in slavery or of an Indian tribe by the U.S. are not removed by helping France and other nations in World War I or II.  But the Lord Jesus paid the full just penalty for all sins that mankind would ever commit, and any individual or nation that joins itself to become a part of His people can receive His gracious gift.

      The Bible provides this picture clearly, but few believers see it now, so that few realize that this Day of the Lord was the source of many whole nations getting devastated after Biblical times.  This book is written to help believers see this practically important Biblical truth.

      What causes the people in a land to want to join their nation to the Lord Jesus Christ?  The preparation by His people there – all who have personally joined themselves to the Lord Jesus!  In this book we also examine what the Bible shows for His people to be doing.  This examination reveals why no Gentile nation has been prepared to join itself to holy God through the Lord Jesus.  We also get to see why we can expect this to change in many nations in the not-so-distant future: many nations will join themselves to the Lord Jesus and will become a part of His people before He visibly returns to earth.

      Chapter 1: The Day of the Lord on a Nation

      For thousands of years whole nations received a judgment that destroyed the nation and enslaved or killed its people.  Other nations survived crises that would have destroyed them, but we might not recognize that these are merciful judgments until we learn more.  This pattern in God’s work with nations as whole units is especially clear in the Bible and in the last century.  God’s judgment of a nation is a prominent Biblical topic that few people notice in the Bible or before our eyes.  His work with whole nations in this way will surely become more evident in the relatively near future.

      This judgment of a whole nation is its time to be fully accountable to God for the sins of the nation that it had never straightened out with Him.  The Bible calls this time of accountability of a nation to God its Day of the Lord.  The Bible shows that this Day is produced when the Lord visits a land in His holy justice.  The New Testament emphasizes a Day of the Lord on the whole earth when Jesus returns, but the Old Testament mostly shows a Day of the Lord on a specific nation: a group of people with a mostly sovereign government and a land.

      Let us first examine God’s work with whole nations in the Bible.  Then we can recognize His work in nations in our day.

      The Day of the Lord on a Nation in the Bible

      Deut. 30:19-20 concludes a section in Deut. 28-30 about blessings or else curses on the nation of Jewish people.  Moses told the nation of ancient Jewish people:

      ¹⁹…I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse.  So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, ²⁰by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.  (Deut. 30:19-20)

      God spoke through Moses to set before the nation of Israel life and death, and the blessing and the curse.  Then He exhorted the nation to choose life by loving, obeying, and holding fast to the Lord.  Many individuals chose life, and many chose death.  But it was the national choice for death that kicked them out of the land three times.

      Ancient Israel, Judah, and Judea all failed to choose life, and one generation in each nation capped this failure and received a national judgment which was the curse, full of spiritual and physical death.  In all three national judgments, Deut. 28-30 and 30:19-20 were fulfilled as sins were built up for centuries until one generation of each nation was justly judged for these sins.  This produced awful devastations.  Assyria permanently destroyed ancient Israel from being a people (Isa. 7:8).  Babylon took the remnant of Judah into exile 70 years.  And Rome took Judea into exile in 70 A.D., which lasted 19 centuries.  The Bible also shows the just judgment of many other nations as whole units, but these three are the most thorough Biblical examples for us.

      Let us consider each Day of the Lord judgment a little further.

      Ancient Israel’s Day of the Lord Near 700 BC

      2Kings 17:1-23 begins with the judgment that destroyed ancient Israel and traces ancient Israel’s unrepented sins from its first king, Jeroboam, for centuries up to the resulting judgment of exiled slavery and national annihilation.  In the highlights of v. 1-23, notice especially because in v. 7 and that v. 21-23 are a summary of v. 1-20:

      ⁶In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried Israel away into exile to Assyria, and settled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.  ⁷Now this came about because the sons of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and they had feared other gods ⁸and walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the sons of Israel, and in the customs of the kings of Israel which they had introduced.  ⁹The sons of Israel did things secretly which were not right against the Lord their God….¹³Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah through all His prophets and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the

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