Bill de Blasio                             Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio






Or, have we?




And a haughty spirit before a fall.”




















  1. Thanks for the clarity! I listen to CNN and i end up talking to the TV . I get so frustrated about their broadcast. More often then not I have to turn it off. Thanks for your insight.

  2. Excellent article as always Mr Rhodes.
    In this current political cycle I have heard many voices expressing the desire for someone who will be a good, righteous leader who will reverse many of the recent cultural shifts that seem to be heading us towards a modern version of Sodom. This caused me to go back and study up on the latter kings of Israel and their impact upon the population. It’s a pretty remarkable thing to read up on, the bad kings had a very negative impact on the morality of the nation but the good kings barely made a dent in bringing about any kind of true repentance. The best example was Josiah. Previous “good” kings stopped certain pagan practices or tore down a few altars but it was only Josiah who literally purged the nation of Judah of all the pagan institutions….he destroyed all the high places, groves, etc. But even with all this “cleansing”, the hearts of the people were unchanged. They destroyed the things Josiah said to destroy NOT because they wanted to out of true repentance but because they were ordered to. As soon as Josiah took his last breath the people went right back to the moral gutter they loved so much.
    After rediscovering this forgotten lesson, my mind immediately remembered the mission of the Elijah mentioned in Malachi. He was to turn the hearts of the children to their fathers and the hearts of the fathers to their children. In other words, without true national repentance, you could have the most righteous leader this world has ever seen come to power and he could destroy all the pagan practices and outlaw all the perverted lifestyles we see but it wouldn’t change a single thing and it wouldn’t delay the coming destruction by a day…….because the people hadn’t changed, they were just restrained.
    There is something else I’d like to mention. With the recent happenings of the past 2 weeks I have heard and read several opinions that we could be entering the beginning stages of WWIII. I have also heard some religious folk express the opinion that any world war would lead to Armageddon. This isn’t so. We very well could see a limited world war in the near future. I say “limited” in that the use of nuclear weapons would be limited. I read an article this very morning in which a Russian defense expert talked very casually about how a war with Turkey would almost have to include the limited use of nuclear weapons to keep certain sea lanes open. I was struck by how casually he talked about using nukes…it was like he was talking about doing nothing more than taking a pawn with a knight.

  3. Mr. Rhodes’s blog continues to enlighten my knowledge of history. He continues to bring Biblical knowledge and its past to the present in that “nothing new under the sun” includes man’s piety and pompous attempt to solve his own problems without God! At the same time, man continues to give God, The Almighty, the proverbial finger. Like an immature, self-centerred teenager, man continues to tout his “immense” years of experience in the face of the wiser Parent. I can’t help but think that the Parent MUST have a great deal of mercy on the child’s foolish thinking and behavior, and He must continually squelch the desire to slap the crap out of the rebellious kid. Thank You Mr. Rhodes for sharing your insight and REALITY in a world of misguided, hubristic foolery!

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