BIBLE: God raises up nations

In college I wrote a poem, and it goes like this, “Reality, a pause in space, to fill the gap a human race, now watch it all from start to end, a flickering then space again.” The Bible explains such an event. Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” He spoke everything into existence. The only way to begin to understand such a God is to describe His attributes. First, He is omniscient (All knowing). 2nd, He is omnipotent (All powerful) next He is omnipresent (Present everywhere) and finally He is Immutable (Unchanging). These same scriptures in Daniel 2: 21. Say, “He changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and raises up others.” Also, in Acts 17:26 the scriptures say, “From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.” In lay terms, God raises up one nation and tears down another. Also, He has placed people in the exact place and time He wanted. The Romans, the Greeks, Babylon, the Native American, all nations rise and fall due to God’s divine purposes.

Finally, in 2 Chronicles 7: 14. He says, “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” Today in America a hollow, hurried, people huddle in the afterglow, the ash heap or their own making. A political party, bent on America being socialistic. We cannot call this nation Christian, for it is not, but the atheist should be humbler, a theory is not omniscience. God raises up nations.

BOB HOLLIDAY

Hayden