Prosperity as Trial: Israel's Moral Collapse Under Jeroboam II
Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will send a famine in the land. Joseph S. Exell (1887) observed that adversity, though bitter...
This is historical examples on moral consequences of prosperity and divine judgment through deprivation, drawing on Ezekiel 7:11.
Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will send a famine in the land. Joseph S. Exell (1887) observed that adversity, though bitter medicine, purifies nations—but prosperity proves far more perilous. Where adversity slew its thousands, prosperity slew its tens of thousands. Under King Jeroboam II, Israel had recovered its former greatness. Armies were victorious, frontiers extended, wealth abundant.…
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