You will find this question ask by a king. It is found in some of his writings in Psalm 2. Though he ask the question several thousand years ago it is a question that many are asking today. What is wrong with the nations of our world. Everyone seems to be raging at each other. Everyone seems to be angry. One nation fights another. While near to them other nations are fighting for entirely different reasons. It seems to be circling the globe. Why is there so much turmoil? Why are the nations raging?
I find it amusing and at the same time confusing as I listen to the leaders of our world give their various answers as to what is going on in our world. The politicians, the educators, the philosophers and various others who are suppose to know give conflicting reasons. They also have their solutions as to how all of this can be brought to and end. As you listen to them their solutions seem to have some credibility. But the rage continues.
Let me take you back into history to a time when God's chosen people, the Israelites, made a decision that displeased God and brought immediate consequences to them. The decision was so severe and the consequences so great that it is all still with us today. They made a deliberate, thought out decision to reject a form of government that they had been ruled by since their beginning as a nation. From their beginning they had a form of government called a theocracy. That is a form of government that is religious in nature. God was the head of the government. He made the rules and the people followed.
For very selfish reasons the Israelites decided to reject this form of government and decided they wanted an earthly, visible king like all other nations had. And it was so. They changed their form of government and since that time nations of the world have been changing their forms of government from time to time.
Some nations became autocratic. This is an absolute, dictatorial form. Others went to the oligarchic form which is government by a few. Still others chose aristocratic which is government by the nobility. A very forceful type could be found in other nations called imperialistic which is a military, ruthless form of government. Finally, in our world today we have the democratic form which is said by many to be the best though very confusing.
However, though you find all of these various forms in our world today we are still raging against one another. No peace can be found in any of these forms of government. The raging continues.
Is there a solution to all of this fighting? If anyone of these forms of government were to dominant would we have peace? I am afraid the answer is obvious. Not one of these has ever brought any kind of lasting peace. And we do not expect it to happen.
However, if we could go back and take a look at history and the form of government rejected by Israel could it bring into our world the peace that would end the raging? The theocratic form of government would bring God back into our world of government. The form where God makes the laws, man obeys and God supplies every need the man would have. Peace would rule because it would come from the hearts of every person. God would not just be found in the halls of some government structure but in the hearts of every man.
One day this form of government will return. God will return to take back the world He created and He will once again be King. It is definitely in our future. Meanwhile, the nations will continue their raging and great turmoil will be found in each one. But one day every knee shall bow and every tongue will confess that He is Lord. He will be the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings. It is coming.
I find it amusing and at the same time confusing as I listen to the leaders of our world give their various answers as to what is going on in our world. The politicians, the educators, the philosophers and various others who are suppose to know give conflicting reasons. They also have their solutions as to how all of this can be brought to and end. As you listen to them their solutions seem to have some credibility. But the rage continues.
Let me take you back into history to a time when God's chosen people, the Israelites, made a decision that displeased God and brought immediate consequences to them. The decision was so severe and the consequences so great that it is all still with us today. They made a deliberate, thought out decision to reject a form of government that they had been ruled by since their beginning as a nation. From their beginning they had a form of government called a theocracy. That is a form of government that is religious in nature. God was the head of the government. He made the rules and the people followed.
For very selfish reasons the Israelites decided to reject this form of government and decided they wanted an earthly, visible king like all other nations had. And it was so. They changed their form of government and since that time nations of the world have been changing their forms of government from time to time.
Some nations became autocratic. This is an absolute, dictatorial form. Others went to the oligarchic form which is government by a few. Still others chose aristocratic which is government by the nobility. A very forceful type could be found in other nations called imperialistic which is a military, ruthless form of government. Finally, in our world today we have the democratic form which is said by many to be the best though very confusing.
However, though you find all of these various forms in our world today we are still raging against one another. No peace can be found in any of these forms of government. The raging continues.
Is there a solution to all of this fighting? If anyone of these forms of government were to dominant would we have peace? I am afraid the answer is obvious. Not one of these has ever brought any kind of lasting peace. And we do not expect it to happen.
However, if we could go back and take a look at history and the form of government rejected by Israel could it bring into our world the peace that would end the raging? The theocratic form of government would bring God back into our world of government. The form where God makes the laws, man obeys and God supplies every need the man would have. Peace would rule because it would come from the hearts of every person. God would not just be found in the halls of some government structure but in the hearts of every man.
One day this form of government will return. God will return to take back the world He created and He will once again be King. It is definitely in our future. Meanwhile, the nations will continue their raging and great turmoil will be found in each one. But one day every knee shall bow and every tongue will confess that He is Lord. He will be the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings. It is coming.
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