God Is a just god

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​What, we the people, have failed to accept is that God is a just God. He blesses His people as well as disciplines those He loves. (Compare to Hebrews 12:6). Hebrews 12:6 reads this way,
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​For the Lord corrects and disciplines everyone whom He loves, and He punishes, even scourges, every son whom He accepts and welcomes to His heart and cherishes.
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Let me say that part again. He disciplines, punishes, and scourges those He loves. Let’s go back to verse 5 in Hebrews chapter 12. Verse 5 reads.

… My son, do not think lightly or scorn to submit to the correction and discipline of the LORD, nor lose courage and give up and faint when you are reproved or corrected by Him. 

We do not want to make this mistake. In most cases, when God corrects us, He uses other servants, that is people, often time His prophets to discipline, punish, warn, counsel, or scourge us. (Compare to 2 Samuel chapter 12). And when He acts out His judgment to punish us, He often time will use tyrant leaders and dictators and ruthless nations and warfare, to administrate His justice. (Compare to Exodus chapters 1 and 2; First and Second Chronicles). 

​As we read verses 7 and 8 of Hebrews chapter 12, God explains why discipline, punishment, or correction is important. It reads.

You must submit to and endure [correction] for discipline; God is dealing with you as with sons. For what son is there whom his father does not [thus] train and correct and discipline?

Now if you are exempt from correction and left without discipline in which all [of God’s children] share, then you are illegitimate offspring and not true sons [at all]. 
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For if the LORD is not disciplining, correcting, chastising our bad choices, behaviors, and attitudes; when we stray from His counsel and warnings; or whenever we completely abandon His requirements, then the Scriptures make it clear here. WE ARE NOT HIS TRUE SONS AND DAUGHTERS – WE ARE ILLEGITIMATE HEIRS CLAIMING TO BE HIS WHEN WE ARE NOT.

The word of caution here is to do not reject correction, the counsel, and warnings of the LORD when given.

But God does not stop there when it is necessary. He goes as far as eliminating the wicked - those who violate His statutes, laws, precepts, commandments, standards. (Compare to 2 Chronicles 34:22-25).

There is NOTHING unjust or unfair about how God chooses to deal with mankind as a whole and individually. (Compare to Job 36:6; Luke 18:7; Acts 17:31; 1 John 1:9). We get what we deserve, each and every time (Proverbs 1:31). 
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god is a just god

God is so fair that He lays out His actions clearly to us today by having the entire Bible written for Himself? No, for us, as a warning, an example, so we are clear how God responds to every single thing we do and speak.

Now these things befall them by way of a figure [as an example and warning to us]; they were written to admonish and fit us for right action by good instruction, we in whose days the ages have reached their climax (their consummation and concluding period) (1 Corinthians 10:11).

Take God's people, for example, the nation of Israel, during the era of the kings. From one generation to the next, His people kept flip-flopping, limping between two opinions concerning who is God and who God is not. (Compare to 1 Kings chapter 18). As a result, they consistently got involved with false worship, celebrations, idolatry, and all forms of abominations that God hated. (Compare to Proverbs 6:16-19). Time and time again, God sent His prophets, His servants to warn His people. But the people choose to believe the many false teachers and prophets that exist because these ones tickle their ears with words and actions that yield to the pleasures of man instead of the desire and standards of God. (2 Timothy 4:2-4). Men do not want to be restricted by the rules and regulations of God that places boundaries on their activities – that is, how they act, talk, and live. They preferred to use their free will to engage in practices that stroke their ego and satisfy every sexual sensation that is known to man; then to honor God by means of acting and living holy. Unholy acts are what they prefer and therefore they sided with unholy leaders.
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Despite this, God still is a God of justice. (Compare to Isaiah 61:8; Psalm 33:5; Deuteronomy 32:4). And therefore, He will always act justifiably. Here is one example of a Holy God acting justifiably concerning His people.

Huldah, the Prophetess, Speaks

So Hilkiah and those whom the king had told went to Huldah the prophetess… and they spoke to her regarding this.
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She said to them, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Tell the man who sent you to Me, thus says the Lord, “Behold, I am bringing evil on this place and on its inhabitants, even all the curses written in the book which they have read in the presence of the king of Judah. “Because they have forsaken Me and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore My wrath will be poured out on this place and it shall not be quenched.”’ “But to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of the Lord, thus you will say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel regarding the words which you have heard, “Because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and because you humbled yourself before Me, tore your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you,” declares the Lord. “Behold, I will gather you to your fathers and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, so your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.”’ ”And they brought back word to the king. Then the king sent and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. The king went up to the house of the Lord and all the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests, the Levites and all the people, from the greatest to the least; and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord. Then the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord to walk after the Lord, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant written in this book. Moreover, he made all who were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand with him. So the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers. Josiah removed all the abominations from all the lands belonging to the sons of Israel, and made all who were present in Israel to serve the Lord their God. Throughout his lifetime they did not turn from following the Lord God of their fathers. 

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​With that being said, here is the word of the LORD. 
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You men and women who call yourself Mine. Then prove to yourself and those that walk with you that you are Mine. REPENT from the course you have taken against Me and abandon your ways. For if you are with Me then this will not be a difficult thing. But if your heart is divided on this matter, then you don't love Me with your whole soul, your whole heart, and your whole mind as I have commanded you (Deuteronomy 6:4-5; Mark 12:29-31). For My people do not limp upon two opinions, questioning whether I AM THAT I AM. That is, I Am who I say I Am.

For my servants who are in covenant with Me walk after me and they keep My commandments, My testimonies, My statutes with all their heart, and soul. They do perform My words as it is written in My word, and not as it is taught by the sons of man (2 chronicles 34:31-32).
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My true servants believe in My word and therefore act on that word. And when they see and understand that their course of action is in contrary of My word, like My son Josiah, they will act quickly, and remove all abominations from their homes and their places of worship, and from their land. They will seek their LORD THY GOD and plead for forgiveness with a contrite heart (Psalm 51:1-17). They will pledge their allegiance to God and not to man, vowing never to turn away from the LORD THY GOD ever again. And then, the God of all will repent and subside His anger toward man. He will forgive mankind's unrighteous acts and heal His people and their land. (Compare to Hosea 4:1-4; 2 Chronicles 7:14).