The laws of God are eternal, and there is no force that could change them; all human disasters are born of one cause and have one nature - stubborn resistance to the laws of the Creator. Goodness and holiness attract the protection of God, but wickedness brings defeat. The clearest illustration of this is the wars of God's chosen people described in the Old Testament, as well as the fate of ancient Jerusalem, the destruction of which, in essence, closes the last page of the history of Old Testament Israel.