Heaven Humbles Hegemons

Since the creation and rapid growth of sovereign city sates and nations during the 2nd age of human history, Heaven has been regularly humbling them, especially hegemons—the biggest, ‘badest’ and MOST PROUD ONES that ‘out-grew their britches!’, so to speak. ¹

 

To recognize this doesn’t require any faith in The Bible, though it accurately records and promises a continuation of its ‘humbling practice’. It only takes a basic understanding of history, especially of hegemon history, plus humility to discern and learn from what is palpably apparent. Sadly, those are traits that most of us lack, and that governments shun because of their myopic focus on short-term objectives, plain ole greed and corruption.

 

It is insightful that every AI model recognizes this humbling pattern across history. Yet, even as we increasingly rely on enhanced technologies, no government will likely ever consult them about this pattern, in order to devise strategies to prevent its harsh judgment, and significantly delay its eventual collapse. Governments are not oriented to long-term preservation. Neither do societies today typically correlate the rise and fall of governments and nations, with so-called ‘acts of God!’

 

In the Biblical storyline, every government eventually faces accountability to Heaven, because  all governments are administered by imperfect people who tend to drift over time, toward injustice, pride, and corruption. The Bible clearly portrays Heaven’s judgments, less as rare interruptions, and more as recurring corrections that are built into human history. Its judgments are administered as warnings to, and declines, collapses, and replacements of city-states and nations, many of which act as hegemons to various degrees. To be clear, no polity is exempt from Heaven’s oversight.

 

When governments exert broader influences well beyond their borders, however, Heaven’s scrutiny will eventually intensify. Their powers to influence expand the reach of both their beneficial and harmful actions. With their increasing, external dominance over other nations, Heaven keeps an eye on their ‘expanding moral blast radius’. The Bible reveals the decline and   and eventual collapse of such governments and their nations, are more clearly linked to their arrogant pride, exploitation, and their proliferation of injustices beyond their borders. 

 

In that sense, their expanding, external influences MAGNIFY both their responsibility and the consequences of their external influences on other nations. In the fullness of time, Heaven’s Grace to them expires. Not long afterward, those governments and their nations are judged, and held accountable, relative to the depth and breadth of their abuse of Heaven’s derived power. Let’s never forget this:

The Bible iteratively declares and demonstrates 

that ALL powers derive from Heaven!

 

Across the 2nd (BC) and 3rd (AD) ages, many city-states and nations have had various levels of influence beyond their borders. Looking back, it is safe to presume Heaven never revoked its policy of scrutinizing and judging governments and their city-states and nations. This seems to be reconfirmed in the list of nations/regimes that have collapsed and/or were replaced since 1900:

Here is a concise list of notable nation-state collapses, regime or state failures and significant fragmentations since 1900 (political dissolution or total governmental replacement — not merely leadership change):

• Ottoman Empire — collapsed 1922 
• Austro-Hungarian Empire — dissolved 1918 
• German Empire (Kaiserreich) — collapsed 1918 
• Russian Empire — collapsed 1917 
• Qing Dynasty / Imperial China — collapsed 1912 
• Weimar Germany/Nazi Germany (Third Reich) — collapsed 1945 
• Imperial Japan — collapsed 1945 (regime transformation under occupation) 
• British Raj (colonial state in India) — ended 1947 
• Kingdom of Yugoslavia/Socialist Yugoslavia — dissolved 1991–1992 
• Czechoslovakia — peacefully dissolved 1993 
• South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) — collapsed 1975 
• East Germany (GDR) — dissolved 1990 
• USSR (Soviet Union) — dissolved 1991 
• Somalia central government — state collapse 1991 
• Afghanistan (multiple regime collapses) — 1979, 1992, 2001, 2021 
• Libya central state — effective collapse 2011 

As noted, societies in this modern age generally shun correlating such events as ‘acts of God!’ Thus, they deny the declared Creator of ALL things, ANY AGENCY in the administration of what The Bible declares He created! Imagine that!  

 

Considering the incredibly HIGH levels of both positive and negative hegemony being exercised across our world today, nations seem oblivious to lessons from history, and especially to Heaven’s on-going scrutiny and promised judgments when its Grace to them will expire. As such, it behooves nations today to heed both the patterned echoes of history, and the yet-fulfilled Biblical prophecies about their pending judgment, arrogant pride, and injustices. Without such awareness, and behavioral changes, the question is not whether, but when some of them will join the unenviable parade of collapsed governments and nations. 

Bottom line: The Bible iteratively predicts:

 

(a) All nations will eventually be judged, but all will not collapse (until the end of the 6th age when this current Earth, itself, will be destroyed) ², and 

 

(b) All hegemons that extend their untoward influences across other nations, will eventually tread the same or similar worn path od Heaven’s humbling. This is especially true the predicted, global anti-Christ regime that will dominate the pending 4th age of our history, preceding the reign of Jesus Christ, The Lord God, as Earth’s global king throughout the predicted 5th age of our history—The Millennial Reign age.

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¹ A hegemon was/is a city-state or nation that exerts significant influences, positive and/or negative, over other nations.

² See: Isaiah 65:17, 66:22, 2 Peter 3:10-12, Revelation 20:11, and 21:1.

How NEVER to Die!

Got your attention?!

 

There are incalculable benefits from not reading and studying The Bible as merely a collection of 66 books and 1,189 chapters! Perceiving it like a lengthy itinerary for a very long journey, broadens my mind to the multi-millennial arc of its story line, chock full of valuable insights. Reading and studying it with a narrow chapter/verse mentality, guarantees we will miss its unwritten inferences and nuances that communicates far more than just what’s written in print. For that reason, The Lord, Who inspired and preserved it over the ages of our history, makes the Spirit of His Mind—the Mind of Christ, available to his bona fide saints. His mysteries remain unavailable to, and unperceived by all others. 

 

A key set of inferences and nuances relate to death, namely:

 

There are 2, uniquely different types of death, 

and 2 ways some humans will avoid both types of death!

Imagine that!

anti-Christ Missed Insights (Part 3)

See the anti-Christ Missed Insights series here 

Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’, do not believe it.

For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders

to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you beforehand.’

(Jesus, Matthew 24:23-24)

 

Part 1 introduces the concepts of ‘people warnings’ from The Lord, tailored to get our attention when we persistently ‘miss His mark’ for our lifestyles. Such warnings may or may not have specific messages, but their presence ‘on the stages of our lives’, speaks volumes, directly or indirectly. 

 

Part 2 introduces and discusses a truly unique type of people warning that I call the ‘parade of anti-Christs’. Marching across the world’s stage since the first AD decade, this exceptionally long parade can best be understood when dissected into its 3 sections. Part 2 discusses the first 2 sections. Let’s consider the 3rd and predicted final section. 

 

3. The Parade’s Tail-enders

 

Typically, the last sections of parades feature the welcomed, but least acclaimed participants. Parades that include animals, typically place them at the tail end, and ensure cleaners/scoopers are positioned to scoop up the animals’ smelly messes. That’s how we humans think. But The Lord warns of other plans for the tail end of this parade!

Heaven’s Key Sheltering Strategies (Part 1)

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A casual reading of Bible stories will reveal what might appear to us to be inconsistencies in whether, when and how The Lord shelters His saints from judgments upon others. Sometimes, He allows us to be exposed to, and even to become collateral damage of those judgments. Other times, in unlimited creative ways, He totally shelters from His judgments on others. Because of His boundless creativity, His ‘sheltering repertoire’ is limitless! So when I perceive repetitive uses of some strategies, my strategic mind perks up and ponders, ‘What’s going on?’ Two seemingly repetitive strategies are the ‘Goshen-effect’ (my term) protective sheltering, and raptures.

The ‘Goshen-Effect’

As expressions of The Lord’s Grace and Mercy, He sometimes extends protections to certain individuals and groups in order to shield them/us from His pending judgments on others. The Goshen Effect (Series) examines how He tailors special protections for those He intends to shelter from judgments on others. The most popular one is how He sheltered the Hebrews slaves from the impacts of the last 7 (of 10) plagues He rained down on ancient Egypt, before the exodus. Part 2 of that series explains why He likely did not shelter them during the initial 3 plagues: They were largely scattered across Egypt searching for hay to make bricks, after Pharaoh (in response to Moses’ initial ‘Let My people go!’ command) refused to let the Egyptians deliver hay to them in Goshen. (See: Exodus 5) They might have returned home, to the land of Goshen, after the national impacts of the first 3 plagues. The series also notes several subsequent ‘Goshen-effect’-type protections across The Bible, including some pending ones. 

The Reliance-Vengeance Trap

How nations walk themselves into Judgment

Alliance→Reliance→Defiance→Vengeance→Compliance! or Extinction!

 

My spirit cringes when I hear national leaders, including my own, boast about their economies, their militaries, and especially their alliances. That kind of boasting consistently reveals a dangerous ignorance of history, and of Heaven. Scripture and history testify to a pattern that has repeated across centuries, cultures, and empires. Nations are allowed to rise, prosper, arm themselves, and form alliances, but never for the reasons they assume.

The 6th Seal, Civilization’s Reset? (Part 1)

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NB: This series lays out an integrated conceptual framework: the context and implications of The Lord opening the 6th seal on His scroll, triggering a series of global judgments that may end this current 3rd age of our history—the post-cross age of free Grace to all peoples—and may also create conditions that lead to a one world government. This series is best read as a whole, pausing as needed to digest and reflect. I seek no agreement with my perceptions and intuitions. I encourage you to your own in-depth study of Scripture, and allow The Holy Spirit to shape your understanding of these predicted events.

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I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, ‘Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?’ (Revelation 6:12-17)

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Background

 

During Apostle John’s Revelation vision on Patmos Island, circa AD 95, The Lord twice promised to show him ‘things which must shortly take place’ on Earth, so John could inform The Lord’s servants—presumably the early Christians. History reveals how, shortly after John’s vision, some of the early predictions in Revelation 6, began to unfold across the Earth. Notably, Chapter 6 is the first chapter in Revelation that describes judgments with direct, observable impacts on the Earth; earlier chapters are largely contextual. Chapter 6 lists 6 unique sets of increasingly severe judgments against humanity—each released as The Lord opens a seal on His scroll. These six seals, however, do not exhaust Heaven’s judgments. They precede a final, 7th seal that will later unleash Heaven’s full set of apocalyptic judgments (Revelation 8–16), culminating in Christ’s return to rule the Earth, as depicted in Revelation 19:11–21.

The 6th Seal, Civilization’s Reset? (Part 2)

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Part 2 examines the context and implications of opening the 6th seal on The Lord’s scroll, as Heaven’s possible, pre-written verdict against this 3rd age. Let’s proceed to consider some relevant factors, namely:

 

1.     Genesis 6 ‘Age Verdict’ Sample

2.     Age-ending Earthquakes

3.     ‘Cover’ for the Next Resurrection/Rapture Event?

 

1. Genesis 6 ‘Age Verdict’ Sample

 

Genesis 6 summarizes Heaven’s review of, and verdict against the 1st age of our history. The Lord gave that summary to Moses early in the 2nd age, a few centuries after the global flood. It is a biting verdict that substantiates Heaven’s decision to send a global flood to kill ALL BUT 8 humans, and re-start the human population through Noah’s family. Today, we are the population that family sired.

The 6th Seal, Civilization’s Reset? (Part 3)

 

See the series here 

Let’s conclude our examination of the context and implications of The Lord opening the 6th seal on His scroll—possibly as Heaven’s pre-written verdict against this 3rd age—in the ‘same spirit’ as Genesis 6, His biting verdict against the 1st age of human history. What follows is not a comparison between Genesis 6 and the 6th seal. Rather, I perceive certain aspects of Genesis 6, and the subsequent impacts described in Genesis 7, serve as an indicative template for several of Heaven’s later age-transition patterns.

 

3. ‘Cover’ for the Next Resurrection/Rapture Event?

 

The U.S. military gave the world two extraordinary examples of how it extracts international fugitives from their safe houses—namely Osama bin Laden and Nicolas Maduro! Irrespective of what we may think of these men, or the U.S. military operations against them, the detailed level of planning, practice, stealth, and cross-agency coordination required to accomplish their lightning extraction strikes, was extremely impressive!

The 6th Seal, Civilization’s Reset? (Part 4)

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Ponder this…

 

I trust this review of the context and implications of The Lord opening the 6th seal on His scroll is insightful to you. The judgments released on Earth will be like nothing experienced since the global flood that ended the 1st age of our history. Following are some points to ponder as you continue to digest this review, and progress in your preparations for this inevitable event..

 

1. In just 6 short verses, Revelation 6:12-17 summarize how Heaven will shockingly close this 3rd age of human history! While people at that time might think, ‘apocalyptic!’, these judgments won’t be the apocalypse! BUT, it might be good for people to think such! Why? By the time the world finds its footing after this attack, it will be struck by the REAL apocalypse that will last 42 months—much longer than the Revelation 6:12-17 impacts!

I find it curious how people (possibly saints and sinners alike) are quick to think and shout, ‘APOCALYPTIC!!’ and ‘Biblical proportions!’, when shocking events occur. It seems that such would only be good, IF they actually lived lives that demonstrate belief in the …apocalypse of Biblical proportions’. 

What Kind of Europe?

 

Traditional Christian thought is that the final anti-Christ man will hail from Europe. This is likely based on interpretations of prophecies of the rise of the remnants of a 4th kingdom, possibly a derivative from the fallen Roman Empire. While I don’t have a solid opinion on this point, it’s worth examining this interpretation in light of clear Bible prophecies and current global events.

 

In several 2025 posts, including Demonstration Effects, I shared what The Lord inspired me to perceive re. the return of Donald Trump to the American presidency, and to global influence and power. Since his return, the world has witnessed a steady stream of chaos on just about every front of life, both nationally and internationally. The Lord presented this to me as glimpse of what His strategic plan calls for the final anti-Christ regime to be and do during the 4th age of our history—the short (7-year) tribulation age. If Trump’s regime is a forerunner of that predicted, global regime, here are some factors we might keep in mind.