Jeremiah 49-50
The prophet decries judgment upon Babylon as a nation at ease, arrogant in what they have accomplished and what they are. Although I am extremely patriotic, I can’t help but draw some analogies between the United States and Babylon. I often hear people say that there is no better place to live than the US. I have made the statement myself. Have we become so arrogant that we don’t believe God can or will take us down? As I witness our society moving further away from the Lord, I am somewhat fearful of His judgment coming upon us as it did on Babylon and other empires that rebelled against God. Have we become so complacent and arrogant that we refuse to repent and turn back to the One who made our nation great? We would do well to remember that it was the Lord who made Babylon a great empire, just as it was the Lord who also took her down.
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