15 The nations have sunk in the pit that they made;
in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.
16 The Lord has made himself known; he has executed judgment;
the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands.
7 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Today is December 7, the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, killing 2,500 U.S. military personnel. Roosevelt said it was, "a date that shall live in infamy."
But now the infamy is more upon the attackers than the attacked. December 7 is now remembered as a day for which reckoning would come. As Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto said, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with terrible resolve."
"The nations sink in their own pits," the psalm says today, and "the wicked are ensnared in the work of their own hands." There is a providence to this -- a promise that in Dr. King's words, "the moral arc of the universe may be long, but it bends towards Justice."
There is a Judge of history. He was pierced and slain. But He rose again. And He is the Alpha and the Omega -- the one who is and was and is to come. As we sing this time of year, He is "King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. And the government shall be upon His shoulders."
And days of infamy and war shall be replaced by days of Justice and Peace.
This is the Advent promise.
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