With typical wisdom and lucidity, Lutzer addresses a fundamental question – a question begging for an answer after a frenetic election – Is God really on America’s side?  To answer, the reader is carefully led through seven vital principles of a biblical understanding of judgment.

•  God can both bless and curse a nation.

•  God judges nations based on the amount of light and opportunity they are given.

•  God sometimes uses exceedingly evil nations to judge those that are less evil.

•  When God judges a nation, the righteous suffer with the wicked.

•  God’s judgments take various forms.

•  In judgment, God’s target is often His people, not just the general population.

•  God sometimes reverses intended judgments.

Throughout, Lutzer's insights into how Christians should view government equips them ‘to think with the Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other.”