It is a furious battle, much blood is shed, and everywhere the ground is covered with corpses.
That which has happened is shocking and chilling. Does it have to be this way? Is it really necessary that God’s judgments are so harsh, that so many people are crushed by the Lord?
Let us never forget that God’s judgment is fitting for the sinful deeds of men. This harsh verdict does not just come falling from the sky.
The Lord judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with uprightness
(Psalm 9:7–8; compare with Psalm 96:10).
Those who really do not want to listen to the Lord, who callously mock Jesus, will at some point perish. Against such mockers his wrath is kindled
and they perish in the way
(as we read in Psalm 2:12). But it says in the same verse as well, Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
Precisely the coming reality of God’s anger and wrath over sin serves to bring people to repentance in time.
6 He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth.