This, the slaughter of innocents, and more, is the world's normal.
Speak out for those who cannot speak, for the rights of all the destitute. Speak out, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy. Proverbs 31:8-9
But the Bible goes to the root of the matter and gives us the cause of man's inhumanity. He is not as God made him. He has broken away from God's rule, and proclaimed his independence of God, as a star might break away from its orbit. And this determination to be master of his own destiny is the cause of every sorrow and calamity.
"By one man sin entered into the world and death by sin," [Rom 5; Gen 3]
and the terrible consequences of that primal disobedience, which the whole race by nature has willingly endorsed, is that,
"THEIR MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING AND BITTERNESS:
THEIR FEET ARE SWIFT TO SHED BLOOD."
DESTRUCTION AND MISERY ARE IN THEIR WAYS:
AND THE WAY OF PEACE HAVE THEY NOT KNOWN:
THERE IS NO FEAR OF GOD BEFORE THEIR EYES."
And that indictment was not penned by a sour pessimist in the twentieth century but is part of God's own summing up of man's condition in Romans 3. [Romans Chapters 1 through 8]
Men delight in the thought that they are independent of God, but it is a delusion, they are not, for in Him we live and move and have our being [see also Acts 26]. He is the faithful Creator, giving to all life and breath, and all things. His mercies preserve us. Every breath of our nostrils and every throb of our feeble hearts is by God's power and ordering. He is above His creation, dwelling in light which no man can approach to, whom no man has seen nor can see (1 Tim. 6:16); yet He is not indifferent to the travail of His creatures, even though that travail is the result of their rebellion against Himself. He has His part in events of today and His part is that of THE LIVING GOD, THE PRESERVER OF ALL MEN (1 Tim. 4:10). And this He has been towards men from the beginning. There have been times when His sore judgments have fallen upon men, as at the flood, and on the cities of the plain, and on the seven nations of Canaan, but this was because their revolt against Him was so open and determined and their moral degradation so horrible that the race could only be preserved by the extermination of those upon whom those judgments fell. As the surgeon's knife cuts deeply into the flesh to remove the foul cancer, so cut God's judgments into these scenes of violence for the good of His creatures. Yet judgment is His strange work. He delights in mercy. We count His long-suffering salvation. He is the preserver of all men.
"Self-preservation is the first law of nature," is an old proverb; but those who are without God know not how to preserve themselves, they can only destroy themselves and their fellows by their ambitious schemes. Were God not the preserver of all men, and did He not intervene continually in preserving mercy, the race would have destroyed itself long ago.
We have a solemn indication of this in Revelation 6. The seer in that remarkable chapter records his divinely-given vision of what shall follow the taking out of this world of those that are Christ's at His coming for them. The day of God's long-suffering will close and His mercy give place to His wrath. Men will be left for a brief space to their own devices before God's direct judgment falls upon them, and the Lord Jesus appears to judge the world in righteousness."
J T Mawson, excerpt from God's Mercy and Man's Inhumanity
“The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God” (Ps. 9:17).
