I heard the words “Small World War”.

No human being and none of the nations of the world are ´’righteous’ in or of themselves, only through the blood of Jesus: moreover, the only difference between the sheep and the goat nations is that the sheep nations will ultimately repent.

Plus, the church is held responsible for the sins of its nation because we should be salt and light. (2 Chron 7:14) Nations don’t get converted to Christ and then become righteous.

No, the church repents on behalf of the nation and times of refreshing coming are contingent upon repentance. No repentance, no revival/awakening/renewal of the land. Just as obedient Daniel, and the other prophets repented and led others in repentance for their nation (Daniel 9; Nehemiah 9:1-4)

The bible shows us time and again that leaders don’t necessarily have to be ‘righteous’ or believers for God to use them to accomplish His purposes in the earth. Especially when nations have sinned repeatedly and refused to repent, God uses ruthless, godless pagans to invade and take captives into exile. Read Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, Nehemiah, Ezra or Kings.

Equally, God uses pagan kings like Cyrus to bring His people home and rebuild the temple (Ezera 1, Ezera 4). God came to the rescue of the blood thirsty Ninevites, (Book of Jonah) sending Israelite prophet, Jonah whose people had suffered directly at the hands of the hated Nineveh/Assyrians.

Nor was this an isolated incident. God rescued other godless nations when His judgement/mercy demanded it (Amos 9:7-9):
“Are you Israelites more important to Me that the Ethiopians [insert my nation’s name]? .. “I brought Israel out of Egypt but I also brought the Philistines [who ravaged Israel repeatedly] from Crete and led the Arameans out of Kir.” ”I, the Sovereign Lord am watching the sinful nation of Israel…. For I will give the command and I will shake Israel along with all the nations.” (!)

There are prophesies about God wanting to bring salvation to Russia and Ukraine. If in His wisdom, war is necessary to achieve that, who are we to judge, especially when the blood on our own soil cries out for God’s justice? In Matthew 24, Jesus clearly tells us we can expect wars, famines, persecution and earthquakes, before the Gospel is preached to the whole world and before the end comes (Matt 24:14).

Those of us who belong to the Lord should take care to repent on behalf of our nations before we are also visited by God’s justice – to a greater or lesser extent: God cannot ignore wholesale slaughter and gross idolatry (2 Kings 21:10-16 and 2 Kings 24:3-4) This was also despite the best king, Josiah – either before or since, notwithstanding – (2 Kings 23-25):

”Even so, the Lord was very angry with Judah because of all the wicked things Manasseh did to provoke Him.” (2 Kings 23:26)

That is why the temple was destroyed and war and exile came to Israel ( 2 Kings 24:20, 2 Kings 25:1-21):

“God had decided to banish Judah and Jerusalem from His presence especially because of the many sins of Manasseh who had filled the land with innocent blood (N.B. probably adult and infant), (2 Kings 21:10-16). The Lord would not forgive this.” (2 Kings 24:3-4). Since Jesus’s sacrifice, we can say that God will forgive, but that there are consequences for bloodshed and gross idolatry, though He keep His remnant which He purifies.

Hi Manuel, to clarify I received “Russian bombs falling in EU member states”. This may not be Finland and could be other EU states. I wondered about why it was “EU” and not “NATO” states, and looked up in the area near Ukraine/Russia and there was only Sweden and Finland in the EU but not in NATO, so I was wondering if Finland could be one of the EU states with bombs landing, especially as they border Russia and have history. That is a possible interpretation but not confirmed. God bless. Christopher.