All Empires Rise and Fall... But One
Christ's Kingdom alone is forever, therefore, take joy in Him daily.
Psalm 146:3-5 (New Living Translation)
3 Don’t put your confidence in powerful people;
there is no help for you there.
4 When they breathe their last, they return to the earth,
and all their plans die with them.
5 But joyful are those who have the God of Israel as their helper,
whose hope is in the YHWH their God.
People ask me, “Are you anxious about who will be elected President?”
My answer is, “No, not in the least.”
For the last eight decades, the “empire” of the United States, through our mighty military, has exerted its influence around the world.
An empire is a country or kingdom that imposes its will on other countries via military, financial, and political conquest.
Since World War II, the U.S. has been the leading empire of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Throughout the 3,000 year history of nations rising to empires, the LORD has been in charge of the rise and fall of each empire.
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