“Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.” Proverbs 17:5
God, speaking through the prophet Obadiah warned Edom, Judah's close neighbor and distant cousin through Abraham and Lot, said this:
“Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity... For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen, as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.” – Obadiah: 13-15
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God sometimes uses the sin of unbelievers to mete out his judgement, but we should never rejoice in someone else’s suffering. This is especially true now that “the vaccinated now account for a majority of COVID deaths.”
Yes, we remember their mocking and death-wishes and the so-called “pandemic of the unvaccinated” histrionics. So does the Lord.
"Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful...For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again." -Luke 6:36-38
Amen.
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