Are we to repent for our ancestors past sins?

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by Apostolic1ness

Im not sure you will find a people outside of Gods covenant praying for their nation or ancestors I have not looked so you may be able to identify people within covenant asking forgiveness for non covenant nations. Isn't sin on an individual level? I dont see forgiveness/remission of sin outside of covenant.
If we were to confess the sin of our nation does God forgive our nation? Is God in covenant with the USA? Can I also ask God to Forgive my state, or county, or city, or neighborhood, or those that live on the same block or street as me, or even in my own family? Does God forgive sin when the individuals that make up the family, block etc. dont repent for their own sin?

Please read my second post in this thread up above. It specifically addresses your questions.

People outside God's Covenant? They are lost and heathen, so what they do is irrelevant. What's God's people do is what's being discussed.

Part of our problem today is our manufactured and contrived individualism. We don't see our connections to others, to those who came before us, our fellows, or those coming after us. We're all islands in the stream, etc. It's part of how our enemies have essentially destroyed our culture. Divorce people from their past and the larger community to which they belong, convince them they are rugged individuals and that personal issues are of prime importance... and you have an easily manipulated populace with no bearings and no compass and no map, riddled with an inexplicable angst that bubbles up in nihilistic outbursts, suicides, depression, and other self destructive things.

You also get a church preoccupied with getting itself to heaven and becoming of no practical, relevant, use. Salt that loses its savour, etc.