God
smacked down man’s first attempted world power.
Think
for a second, do you know who was its head?
C’mon,
think again, try a little harder.
T’was
Nimrod. Across Shinar’s plain his kingdom spread.
‘Kingdom’
is first used in reference to this guy.1
Genesis
suggests he may’ve been quite a lodestar!
Building
a tower to Heaven, really high,
Led
God to confound speech, and spread people afar.
Though
many kingdoms followed, none were ‘worldwide’,
Until
a guy showed up named Nebuchadnezzar.
God
chose to allow him, long before he died,
To
see well into the future, so very far!
God
allowed him to conquer the then known world.
Then,
before the great god of pride, he bowed,
And
into a hellish fall, his world was hurled.
God
must have a thing against us when we’re proud!
Sadly...
This
same scenario has been
iterated,
Across
the pages of human history.
Civilizations
once great, became berated,
As
they stumbled and fell from heights... so
lofty!
Though
all were likely warned, which ones would turnabout? 2
By
now you might think, ‘This is not any
mystery!’
By
now for sure you’d think we’ve all figured this out:
That we’re
likely next in this ‘great nations panoply’!!
Unless,
that is, we’re smart and wise enough,
And
can get our national act together,
To
connect the dots that lay before us,
And
completely remove our prideful blinder.
Pride
is the prime reason people will not repent.
Tap
root of all sins -- that makes even pride
proud!
Thanks
to pride, sinful lifestyles stubbornly refuse to relent.
With
God, quite simply, Friend, pride is not allowed.
God
once said He would not punish the severe vileness,
Of
twin evil cities whose righteous numbered ten. 3
America
has much more than ten -- that’s obvious!
But…
Have
we enough to escape... history’s
trash bin?!
‘Who failed America?!’,
we
may whine some day,
if
we don’t repent.
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1 The Bible’s first
reference to ‘kingdom’ is in Genesis 10:10.
2
Ancient Nineveh did...for a while.
3 There were not even ten righteous people in Sodom and Gomorrah, thus God destroyed these exceedingly wicked cities via fire and brimstone from heaven.
3 There were not even ten righteous people in Sodom and Gomorrah, thus God destroyed these exceedingly wicked cities via fire and brimstone from heaven.
