Coming Out to Seek Greener Pastures
Would you agree that patterns repeat in this life? A glance at political rhetoric and historical significances a hundred years ago in Amerika could easily be equated with today's rhetoric and entertainment of hired hands misleading and lying to the masses.
Would you also agree that, for the historian, a research of the past can offer a glimpse into the future? I'm sure you can think of one thing you've seen foretold by simply recognizing it to have happened somewhere in the past.
If one were to read and gain a particular perspective from reading the book of Jeremiah, specifically when the people of Israel were warned about their waywardness or else they would be physically removed from the land and taken to a place of dread for a time ( 70 years it was prophesied to be and so it was ). Upon finishing that reading, one would understand that God kept His Word / promise of what would happen to them.. and also continue to live, albeit in a foreign land, 'if' they were submit to the new boss on the scene ( the king of Babylon ).
So what if today we are seeing yet another empire rising up to take the helm of world domination?
What if there indeed is a new order ( same as the old, just different names and faces, but the same boasting of owning this or that and controlling such and such, but surely nothing new under the sun of one man subduing another ) and although modern technology allows the ways in which people are enslaved to 'seem' more and sometimes less horrendous, it is still men full of pride, using worldly possessions as their security, greedily attempting to lay a foundation that would grant honor to themselves and a legacy for others to admire ( worship )?
Consider:
Folks who can be said to be endowed with certain gifts and talents in a modern / western society ( such as the places called USA, England, Australia, etc.. ) can offer their experience and perspective to those who reside in what is called "3rd world" countries... but not to bring capitalism or empire or 'democracy' or other such 'modernizations' to places void of such concepts.
What if folks such as the above were to migrate to live near people where their talents, gifts and know-how in communication, problem solving and civics could be utilized in order to establish prosperous communities based on moral and honorable stances and focus on teaching renewable energy, natural food production and other forms of independence?
What if this is can be considered a plan of heavenly proportions with heavenly results, whereby people can start creating a world in which the meek inherit the land ( those who are wise enough to humble themselves and consider others better than themselves by setting their hearts to serve mankind as opposed to filling themselves with Babylon's trappings )?
What if some places on earth were destined to be 'great' only to fail miserably after the majority of the population was corrupted, demoralized and centralized with tyrannical government 'according to design?' A read of Jewish history tells such tales a few times over for them.
What if some places were to be 'set on fire' ( using an expression ) so folks would flee elsewhere, but not to also exploit, corrupt and demoralize new people and the land occupied by those people, but to start anew and learn from their or their forefather's mistakes ( and quite possible learn from those new people whom they will be guests of )?
What if those who are able to... are to 'run' to the opportunity to do good, if not at home, but abroad?
"I will punish Bel in Babylon and make him spew out what he has swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him. And the wall of Babylon will fall. “Come out of her, my people! Run for your lives! Run from the fierce anger of the Lord."
- Jeremiah 51:45
"Then I heard another voice from heaven say:
“‘Come out of her, my people,’ so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues; for her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes."
- Revelations 18:4-5
Would you also agree that, for the historian, a research of the past can offer a glimpse into the future? I'm sure you can think of one thing you've seen foretold by simply recognizing it to have happened somewhere in the past.
If one were to read and gain a particular perspective from reading the book of Jeremiah, specifically when the people of Israel were warned about their waywardness or else they would be physically removed from the land and taken to a place of dread for a time ( 70 years it was prophesied to be and so it was ). Upon finishing that reading, one would understand that God kept His Word / promise of what would happen to them.. and also continue to live, albeit in a foreign land, 'if' they were submit to the new boss on the scene ( the king of Babylon ).
So what if today we are seeing yet another empire rising up to take the helm of world domination?
What if there indeed is a new order ( same as the old, just different names and faces, but the same boasting of owning this or that and controlling such and such, but surely nothing new under the sun of one man subduing another ) and although modern technology allows the ways in which people are enslaved to 'seem' more and sometimes less horrendous, it is still men full of pride, using worldly possessions as their security, greedily attempting to lay a foundation that would grant honor to themselves and a legacy for others to admire ( worship )?
Consider:
Folks who can be said to be endowed with certain gifts and talents in a modern / western society ( such as the places called USA, England, Australia, etc.. ) can offer their experience and perspective to those who reside in what is called "3rd world" countries... but not to bring capitalism or empire or 'democracy' or other such 'modernizations' to places void of such concepts.
What if folks such as the above were to migrate to live near people where their talents, gifts and know-how in communication, problem solving and civics could be utilized in order to establish prosperous communities based on moral and honorable stances and focus on teaching renewable energy, natural food production and other forms of independence?
What if this is can be considered a plan of heavenly proportions with heavenly results, whereby people can start creating a world in which the meek inherit the land ( those who are wise enough to humble themselves and consider others better than themselves by setting their hearts to serve mankind as opposed to filling themselves with Babylon's trappings )?
What if some places on earth were destined to be 'great' only to fail miserably after the majority of the population was corrupted, demoralized and centralized with tyrannical government 'according to design?' A read of Jewish history tells such tales a few times over for them.
What if some places were to be 'set on fire' ( using an expression ) so folks would flee elsewhere, but not to also exploit, corrupt and demoralize new people and the land occupied by those people, but to start anew and learn from their or their forefather's mistakes ( and quite possible learn from those new people whom they will be guests of )?
What if those who are able to... are to 'run' to the opportunity to do good, if not at home, but abroad?
"I will punish Bel in Babylon and make him spew out what he has swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him. And the wall of Babylon will fall. “Come out of her, my people! Run for your lives! Run from the fierce anger of the Lord."
- Jeremiah 51:45
"Then I heard another voice from heaven say:
“‘Come out of her, my people,’ so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues; for her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes."
- Revelations 18:4-5
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