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I have been seeing this commercial, yes-I am still watching television-about Jesus and the saying "He gets us" (with us being highlighted). Now if I remember correctly wasn't Jesus also someone who punished evil? I am mainly thinking of Sodom and Gomorrah where he dealt with the evil going on in the way it should be dealt with. The commercial seems to be in favor of the evil today, saying that Jesus would understand, this is my take. Can anyone, if they have seen the commercial, advise me differently? I am also thinking Jesus would not care too much for today's Democrats/Commies who want to destroy America.
I don't think that Sodom and Gomorrah are comparable to our current state. Genesis 18:20-21 and 19:13 make it clear that not only was the sin there so great, but the outcry to the Lord against essentially all the inhabitants so great to justify razing both the cities. Recall God making the deal with Abraham that if he could find even 10 just souls that he would not raze the cities.
God was even as merciful to let Lot's sons-in-laws to flee the city too, despite the likelyhood that they were longtime inhabitants of Sodom, and likely shared in the debachery of the city. Jesus shared in that mercy towards sinners of the sexual nature with the prostitute in Luke 7.
This isn't to say that Jesus didn't have any red lines to be crossed, or was never wrathful, but that was saved for those who were disrespectful of God or blasphemers, like the money changers in the temple, or the followers of the Beast in Revelations. This also isn't to say that Jesus would approve of sinning overall, just that even our sins right now really are no where near the point of the wrathful cleansing that God determined that Sodom and Gomorrah needed.
I will say that child trafficking and sexual abuse of children, like that is supposedly going on today, would not be approved or over-looked by God. But otherwise I agree with you.
Sodom and Gomorrah, imagine the United States but 99 percent were degenerate leftists.