“Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you that they might know what the LORD of hosts has purposed against Egypt.” Isaiah 19:12
October 4, 2024
This hyper-politicized season of electioneering is overflowing with campaign speeches, grandiose promises of how to fix our border problems, the economy, rising food prices, dock workers on strike, and on we could go. At about 720 B.C. the proud and prosperous nation of Egypt received a tongue lashing from God. Her ability to govern herself was lost. Her population and leaders had been the recipient of ample revelational light by being close to Israel and her God. Egypt, though not a theocracy, should have acted on that light. What happened? Rather, she continued in her idolatry and fell further into the pit of destruction. America, pay attention. The plague of the human race is that it will not see what they really are. Our nation insists on bigger government to solve its problems. The moral categories needed for clear thinking are no where to be found. The morally and spiritually blind preen themselves on thinking they are on the right side of history. Pray that God will have mercy on us and raise up wise men and women with courage to speak the truth.
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There is no solution to national problems apart from the wisdom of God.