Walking the Point

posted by Writer on Sep 16

“Like the nations the Lord destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the Lord your God.” (Deuteronomy 8:20).

Below is a portion of President Abraham Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address delivered on March 4, 1865. I take the position God judges nations based on the stands it leaders take and slavery was an issue that needed to be dealt with. When the country didn’t act, all kinds of evil followed.

Speaking on the issue of slavery, one of our premier founders warned that God would judge “national sins by national calamities.” (1)

Take some time to read the entire speech (go to a search engine) and then consider it in light of abortion as the country approaches the 60 million mark. It’s a short, but very powerful address chock full of refernces to God and the Bible.

I’ve included the scripture references Lincoln used in the speech. Following that are the ten major battles of the Civil War and the resulting casualties. Do the math, and while you’re at it don’t think God won’t spank us again – something we hear very little about today.

“Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. (Matthew 7:1-2)

The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.

The Almighty has His own purposes. ‘Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!’ (Matthew 18:7)

If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences 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 offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him?

Fondly do we hope–fervently do we pray–that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.” (Psalm 19:9)

10 Major Battles of the Civl War:

Gettysburg (PA. July 1-3, 1863) – 51,000 casualties

Chicamonga (GA., September 19-20, 1863) – 35,000 casualties

Spotsylvania Courthouse (VA. May 8-21, 1864) – 30,00 casualties

Battle of the Wilderness (VA. May 5-7, 1864) 26,000 casualties

Chancellorsville (VA. May 1-4, 1863) – 24,000 casualties

Shiloh (TN. April 6-7, 1862) 24,000 casualties

Stones River (TN. Dec 31-Jan 2, 1863) – 24,000 casualties

Antietam (MD. September 16-18, 1862) 23,000 casualties

2nd Battle of Bull Run (VA. August 28-30, 1862) 22,000 casualties

Fort Donelson (TN. February 13-16, 1862) 17,000 casualties (2)

(1) Founder George Mason of Virginia; (2) Mark Levin, The Mark Levin Show, marklevinshow.com, 09/15/14

Portraits: 1 – Lions of the Round Top by Don Troiani; 2 – Lincoln at Antietam Oct 3, 1862, “In the Darkest Hour” from the Nathan Greene Studio; 3 – Gettysburg by Don Troiani