I believe there are forces in nature, built in from creation, that seek to preserve righteousness, reverence for God, and enact justice in creation. I would not use the word karma, but I think this built-in force of nature is recognized by many and given this label. Since the world has fallen in sin, these forces, while still in operation, are sometimes out of wack. I also think when a person, family, community, nation, etc, sins, it is rewarded with some "just recompense of reward." I think we are seeing this in our country (USA). I believe that nature has been wanting to smash down the nation since the late 80s, but God's hand, far from striking us down with judgment, has held back the just punishment that was due. I believe God is lifting His protective hand. We have sinned against God and nature to such an extent that to allow it to continue would result in horror and affliction worse than the judgment. In many ways, this "naturally occurring justice" acts much like a steam release valve. If not for the release... indeed, the whole place would explode.
Some excepts from one of my books:
Nations Defile the Land
The land spews out nations and people:
Levi 18: KJS
24. Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
25. And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
26. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit [any] of these abominations; [neither] any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
27. (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which [were] before you, and the land is defiled
28. That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that [were] before you.
Understand this:
When a nation, a city, a region, people, or any group or individual commits abomination, that entity is subject to naturally occurring justice.
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Justice on the Individuals
We know from our studies that a man's fleshly temporal sin reaps corruption in the temporal flesh:
Galatians 6
7. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
8. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
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Leviticus 26:43 GNB
43. First, however, the land must be rid of its people, so that it can enjoy its complete rest, and they must pay the full penalty for having rejected my laws and my commands.
Isaiah 5:4 LITV
4 What more could have been done to My vineyard that I have not done in it? Who knows? I waited for it to yield grapes, but it yielded rotten grapes.
Eventually, God will judge:
Isaiah 5:5-6 LITV
5 And now I will make known to you what I will do then to My vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be burned. I will breach its wall, and it will become a trampling ground.
6 And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but briers and thorns shall come up. And I will command the clouds from raining rain on it.
