Eight centuries ago, the Magna Carta declared no man—no king—stands above the law. That powerful declaration wasn’t just a political breakthrough. I perceive it as The Lord’s Grace and Mercy, firmly planted into our 3rd age history, possibly in response to the fast-paced march to total tyranny during the 2nd and early 3rd ages. Since its adoption, The Lord has preserved the document, and expanded its concepts, through war, weather, and time.
Centuries later, the U.S. Constitution gracefully echoed that sacred restraint—declaring that government exists, not to rule, but to serve, bound by written limits and moral law. It drew deeply from the Magna Carta’s well, fusing earthly justice, with heavenly accountability. It has become a model for other nations across the world. Like the Magna Carta, The Lord has preserved our constitution and its priceless concepts through wars, weather and time.
But today…
For the first time in its ~250 history, the USA, to the shock of many across the country and the world, at large, is betraying both of these erstwhile, long-respected documents, and the core principles they represent. I don’t recognize my country anymore~
Our constitutional clauses—’covenants of freedoms’, have suddenly become relics in paths of power consolidation. Leaders at various levels manipulate their intentions, and reformulate their limits. Courts twist their meanings. Executives at various levels of governance challenge and/or ignore them outright. And the oaths sworn to uphold our constitutional covenant, now serve as platforms for controvertible curtailments!
I perceive the recent discovery of the 7th original Magna Carta at Harvard University, may not be coincidental. In concert with many relevant, Biblical patterns and shocking reversals, I perceive this discovery is Heaven’s rebuke to the so-called leading nation in the world! Moreover, in context of numerous predicted, age-ending precursors, I intuit this rebuke may well be a stark precursor to America’s fall as ‘the’ global hegemon—Heaven’s judgment of her tenure in that Grace-given role.
The post, The Decline and Fall of Global Hegemons, links to an AI-aided review of the of core factors that led to the collapses of historical global hegemon nations, with a view to understanding:
1. Discernible patterns across the ages of human history,
2. If any, whether and how the U.S. might fit in, and
3. Whether there might be some key lessons to be derived for, and hopefully learned by the U.S. and future hegemon nations.
This review traces the steady East-to-West progression of global hegemons from ancient Babylon, to the USA. This progression is exactly what The Lord pictured in a dream given to Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, some years after his conquest of ancient Judah and Jerusalem in 586 BC. (See: Daniel 2) What’s noteworthy in this dream and its interpretation by the prophet, Daniel, is the lack of any indication of further westward progression of global hegemon nations after the remnant nations of the Roman Empire, represented in the dream by the legs of iron. Interestingly, each global hegemon (Babylon, Medo-Persia/Persia, Greece, Rome, and the UK) fell after betraying core principles that once anchored its legitimacy.
What should these insights above, and Scriptures below
signify about, and suggest to America???
1. Betraying Covenants
The Earth is also defiled under its inhabitants; because they have [wilfully] transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. (Isaiah 24: 5)
2. Mocking God's Constraints
The kings of the Earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against The Lord, and against His Anointed, saying, ‘Let us break Their bands asunder, and cast away Their cords from us.’ He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision. (Psalm 2:2–4)
3. Abandoning True Judgment
I will go unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of The Lord, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. (Jeremiah 5:5)
Stay tuned for Part 2
Listen to Letters from an American,
American Historian
On The Magna Carta
