Blessing or Curse?

U.S. Slavery = The Civil War

6 million Jews = Germany's Destruction

8 million abortions = ????

"The blood of your brother Abel cries to me from the ground," God tells Cain.  The very ground (the source of our food) is cursed by shed blood:

They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.  They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was desecrated by their blood (Ps. 106:37-38).

Can America's "fruited plains" survive the desecration of millions of aborted babies?  Our honey bees are disappearing from pesticides; our cities are flooding with 100-year waters.  Is Jesus even now weeping over America as He once wept over Jerusalem?

It is hard to see how God can grant us what He promised the Israelites who continued to acknowledge Him as God and hold fast to Him:

Blessings on the right; blessings on the left;

Blessings in the city and in the country;

Blessings on the fields and on the crops;

Blessings in the going in and coming out.

Instead, at least in our major cities, we often see the reverse, as told by Jeremiah:

Death has climbed in through our windows

and has entered our fortresses;

it has cut off children from the streets

and the young men from the public squares (Jer. 9:21).

Our hope is that God will preserve our cities for the sake of "ten just men," as He promised to Abraham in the case of Sodom and Gomorrah.