Prosperity of the Ungodly
The Prosperity of the Ungodly by Henry M. Morris, Ph.D. “Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?” ( Jeremiah 12:1 ) One of the perennial theological problems is the apparent prosperity of the ungodly along with the suffering of the righteous. Why would God seem to endorse such a system? It has been this way for ages. Some 2,000 or more years before Christ, Job asked essentially the same question as did the prophet Jeremiah in our text above. “Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? . . . They spend their days in wealth, and . . . say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways” ( Job 21:7 , 13-14 ). Likewise, the psalmist Asaph complained, “I was envious . . . when I saw the prosperity of the wicked” ( Psalm 73:3 ). (Jeremy: What answer would you give? Man...