Trump & Nebuchadnezzar

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@classylady,

You're living up to your moniker. Sometimes we're so indoctrinated to the pride-prosperity cycle that we don't readily admit that temporal prosperity is common enough even when the people are not necessarily righteous.  But my greatest concern is not that we all get rich under this President, but that the Church will prosper under this President.

We'll see how America does under Trump.

[Blackmarch]

On December 17, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Carborendum said:

Many of the Never Trumpers on this site (myself included) have made a big deal about the fact that he is morally bankrupt.  We admit he has some level of business acumen.  We admit he has managerial skills.  And we even admit that for many of the important issues like protecting America, we believe he's on the same side as we are.  But we find his morality to be offensive even repulsive.

But here we are with President-elect Donald Trump. And I'm pondering two statements put together.

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First of all, to the Trump supporters:  I'm not calling Trump a despot.  I don't know what to think of him (yet) on the liberty scale.  I'll give him a chance.

What I've been pondering is the idea that perhaps, this was what the Lord wanted.  The nation has been so corrupt that Barack Obama was President for 8 years and the media refused to say anything negative about him.  We've been so corrupt that Hillary Clinton had the pay-to-play thing going for years and the liberals defend her.  Planned Parenthood, Gay Marriage, Transgender, eliminating God/Christ out of public life, lawsuits because of a manger display... I could go on.  Bottom line -- the country has become corrupt.

What did the Lord do to the Jews when they got too corrupt?  They were taken and ruled over by a heathen king.  The Babylonian captivity under Nebuchadnezzar is a perfect example.  The ways of Babylon were certainly corrupt -- as was the king that led them.  But they had become so corrupt that they were incapable of following the Lord, and as such, they were incapable of being governed by anything other than a despot.

Do we find ourselves in a similar situation?  Have we become so corrupt that we are incapable of being governed by a liberty-minded/Consitutionally-minded leader?  Perhaps if such a leader were elected then we'd find ourselves in a worse situation than being governed by a corrupt person.

Interesting question

For his faults nebuchadnezzar was just within his laws, and second he did give an ear to the servant of the lord. However after having witnessed the works of god and then going back to his old ways he fell pretty hard from power.