Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked are for Examples to Others

But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded. …

“I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant.

I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me and accept correction.’ Then her dwelling place would not be cut off despite all for which I punished her. But they rose early to corrupt all their deeds.

Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.

Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

…if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;