RIPENING IN INIQUITY

So, Father loves all of His children.  That includes to the point that He will pull the plug on those who refuse to get it together through the mode of repentance and deep personal change.

We can either choose to get with it, or we can deal with the consequences.  It is really quite simple.  It really is....  Every single archaeological layer attests to this.  The bible clearly tells of Prophets who come among a group of people warning them that they are at the threshold, the usual ignoring of the warning and the recording of the aftermath.  It usually is not pretty.  The words of Isaiah, Josephus, etc are sobering.  The people seem never to learn, but there is a line in the sand.

Here are some great quotes on where that line is:

When Does the Lord Justify the Destruction of a People?

Bruce R. McConkie (Quorum of the Twelve)

When men are "ripened in iniquity," then the fulness of the Lord's wrath comes upon them, and they are destroyed in the flesh. (Ether 2:8-9; 14:25.) Such was the case with the Jaredites, the Nephites, and the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, for instance; such will be the case with the wicked at the Second Coming. The "fiery indignation of the wrath of God" will continue to be poured out upon the wicked in hell until the day of their resurrection. (Alma 40:14; Rev. 14:10; D. & C. 19:15; 76:106-107.) Then, to all eternity, those subject to the second death shall be "vessels of wrath, doomed to suffer the wrath of God, with the devil and his angels in eternity." (D. & C. 76:33, 38.) (Mormon Doctrine, 2nd ed., p. 851)

John Taylor (President)

And hence the inhabitants of the old world and of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, because it was better for them to die, and thus be deprived of their agency, which they abused, then entail so much misery on their posterity, and bring ruin upon millions of unborn persons…. It is upon this principle that the world will be punished in the last days for their transgressions, because they have abused their agency, and broken the covenant that God made with them. They have yielded to the influence of Satan, perverted the designs of Jehovah, and brought upon themselves and posterity a curse, misery, and ruin. (The Government of God, p. 53)

We are all the children of God. He is our Father and has a right to direct us, not only us, but has a perfect right to direct and control the affairs of all the human family that exist upon the face of the earth for they are all his offspring. Now, he feels kindly towards them and knows what kind of people they are, and also what we are, and he would do everything he could for them even if in his almighty wisdom he has to kill them off in order to save them. He destroyed the antediluvian world on that account, because they were not filling the measure of their creation. They had corrupted themselves to such an extent that it would have been an injustice to the spirits in the eternal worlds if they had to come through such a corrupt lineage to be subject to all the trouble incident thereunto. And therefore God destroyed them. He cut off the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in consequence of their corruptions, and by and by he will shake all the inhabitants of the earth, he will shake thrones and will overturn empires and desolate the land and lay millions of the human family in the dust. Plagues and pestilence will stalk through the earth because of the iniquities of men, because of some of these corruptions . . . . namely, the perversion of the laws of nature between the sexes, and the damnable murders that exist among men. (JD, 21:113-116, November 28, 1879)