Someone of late corrected me for applying the hope of 2 Chronicles 7:14 to America. They were right. I was wrong.
"If my people who are called past times my advert volition humble themselves as well as pray as well as try my confront as well as plow from their wicked ways, I volition necessitate heed from sky as well as volition forgive their sins as well as restore their land."(1)
The Old Testament is God's Word, but non all of its commands as well as promises apply today. God promised to heal State of Israel at a specific betoken inward history, non all countries throughout history.(2)
We can't brand God's promises everlasting when God makes them specific. Other examples of specific as well as temporary promises: God's hope to ship manna (Exodus 16:4), His hope to give the widow unending flour as well as petroleum during famine (1 Kings 17:14), God's hope to defeat enemies past times marching as well as blowing trumpets (Joshua 6:1-5).
The hope inward two Chronicles 7:14 couldn't live perpetual for some other reason: God ever keeps His promises. Yet many evil countries throughout history get got had faithful Christian communities.(3)
The principles inward two Chronicles 7:14 are timeless: humble prayer for our province and repentance. The hope is not.
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(1) The universal principles inward two Chronicles 7:14 are constitute inward 1 Timothy 2:1-3. But God did non give every Christian the hope that He would heal their terra firma if they pray, try Him, as well as plow from wickedness.
(2) For a New Testament instance of a Scripture that applied to a specific grouping at a specific fourth dimension read Matthew 10:5.
(3) The Apostles were martyred inward countries that had evil governments, as well as they sure humbled themselves as well as prayed for those countries. Democratic People's South Korea is a modern instance where Christianity thrives amidst evil governmental rule. North Korean Christians set most of us to shame for their purity as well as fervor, nonetheless they get got lived nether intense persecution for over threescore years.
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