Overcast and cloudy the past few
days, today, however, we welcome the sun shining down and brightening the sky
AND our hearts.
Still – we need that snow in the
mountains, and pray it will fall and provide the necessary water this
spring.
Daniel 4:44-47 The same hour was
the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat
grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were
grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds'
claws.
34 And at the end of the
days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding
returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him
that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom
is from generation to generation:
35 And all the inhabitants
of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the
army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his
hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
36 At the same time my
reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and
brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and
I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto
me.
37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar
praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and
his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to
abase.
A year before this,
Nebuchadnezzar had been warned in a dream interpreted by Daniel, that if he did
not change his ways, this would happen to him.
Verses 29-31 At the end of twelve
months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of
Babylon.
30 The king spake, and
said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom
by the might of my power, and for the honour of my
majesty?
31 While the word was in
the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar,
to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from
thee.
We look about this country of
ourselves and clap ourselves on the back for all we have accomplished.
But we did not do this
alone. Many of those in government
proclaim they are responsible for the accomplishments of the nation. They are wrong.
People in business proclaim they
are the reason for the accomplishments of this nation. They are wrong.
Ingenuity and hard work is also
proclaimed as the reason for the accomplishments. They are wrong.
This nation was founded upon the
principles of the Bible. For years the
majority of the people recognized that without God this country was doomed to
failure. That without God we would find
ourselves as the Romans, in disarray and destroyed from the decadence
within.
That is happening, now in
America. We are seeing people grab
power, and using it to pounce upon those who profess to be Christians and
deprive them of their right of belief and speech.
We were warned, early on that
this could happen:
“However
[political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the
course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning,
ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the
people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying
afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.” – George Washington
But God warned mankind much
earlier. Nebuchadnezzar was warned and
instead of taking heed in what God said, he chose to look about his kingdom and
say, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the
house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my
majesty?
Americans who have gone before
us have indeed created a great country that could be looked upon as a beacon of
light and a hope to all that came here and worked hard to achieve their personal
goals – and in the past half century Americans have been destroying the very
foundation of the nation, by denying the rightful place God has in this
formation and doing all they can to undermine and destroy those that proclaim
Him and His Word.
It would appear they success is
coming their way. That they can say,
look at what we have done – we have made anyone who claims to be a Christian and
says anything we do not like are pariahs, we are abolishing them – and in doing
so terminating the so-called existence of a God who is in control.
But, God has been sending us
warnings and if we do not listen a similar fate that Nebuchadnezzar was given
(or worse) will be forced up us. Let us
hope that we will not have to continue being disciplined by God and turn back to
Him as a nation and once again effectively help those that are oppressed become
whole again.
Later, Art :-)
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