Lachish is an ancient fortified city that protected the southern flank of Jerusalem. The Assyrian army besieged the city in 722 BC and in standards of warfare (we would call barbaric) brutalized the people. I Kings 17.
The real story is why would such an event take place? The people of God began worshipping other gods, slaughtering innocent children in child sacrificial rituals and had begun to embrace all sorts of sexual deviant lifestyles. God said enough is enough.
As columnist Peggy Noonan said...Message to society: What you applaud, you encourage. And: Watch out what you celebrate.
The message applies to the individual as well as to the society. Given the current cultural and individual moral shifts, we better be looking over our shoulders the enemy may be coming to plunder and brutalize. Oh, and just a reminder....it rains on the Godly and ungodly! Our life and culture may become the next Lachish.
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