What Next?

Woe to him who dishonestly makes wealth for his house; to place his nest on high, to escape from the reach of disaster!

You have planned shame for your house by wiping out many many peoples and sinning against your own self.

For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will answer from the woodwork. Habakkuk 2:9-11

The Pharoah's were able to abuse the children of Israel for 400 years, but then God heard their cries. When God decided to act, not amount of stubborn rulership would save the Pharoah.

Why did it take the Lord 400 years to act? Perhaps he was amassing a large group of people; perhaps Egypt's corrupt leaders had to reach a certain level of unreachableness. We may never know, but God knows.

Just  as in building a house, there are certain rules that need to be adhered to for its construction, even sin has to reach a certain level. Look at the early people. They went on for hundreds of years and wickedness increased all the while, then God acted by calling Noah.

Everything goes in cycles. Civilisations rise and fall in cycles. Only God does not change.

What is coming? We are beginning to behave much like Rome before its fall. Laziness is increasing, gluttony is increasing, occupation wih the trivial is centre stage. Only God can save us. Amen!