What is the vengeance of the Lord?

Vengeance is mine and I will repay, saith the Lord of hosts.

The true meaning of that saying is this—

The Lord of hosts is the principle, which governs them. 

If they are governed by the principles of war, hate and slaughter, those principles will turn again and rend them, for they are the principles of vengeance—or revenge, and nothing that is revengeful can be Christlike—or truly spiritual, and when the war spirit governs a nation by war—or the same principle, it will be laid low, and those nations that have warred the most vengefully will be warred upon with more vengeance than any others, and will be conquered and laid waste, for a great natural law—or principle can never work otherwise.

—Madam in Spirit