Consider King David and God’s ways and purposes in 2 Samuel 24:1…
And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
I see God’s sovereignty at work. (I also believe He acted in complete justice and righteousness.)
I read that verse and thought of this one:
The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. -Proverbs 21:1
I also see God using a national leader’s foolishness as the “mechanism” by which He launches judgment on an entire nation.
And I wonder, not whether God does that today yet, but how and when.
I’m quite sure we are witnessing this today at various places around the world.
Amen~!