Isaiah 24: 3 The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word. 4 The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
Thus, the perversion, and inversion of God’s law are the keys that ultimately unlock the doors of disaster for the most part. On a national level it is something which can only be accomplished in legal framework by the judicial branch of government. And according to prophecy, and the characteristics of history, we’re just about there. On an individual level persons can pervert their own judgement, by banishing the right in favor of wrong.
But they cannot make their perversions the law of the land. Only the legislature can do this, hence the reason why it has become necessary for us to study closely what the legislative branch of Babylon does. We’ll give several examples of what is being spoken of, and then we will transition to the here and now, so that everyone could see plainly why there’s cause for concern. We begin in the land of Babylon, where Daniel has just been promoted as chief over princes and presidents.
His promotion sparked feelings of envy and jealousy in the hearts of those under his jurisdiction, and as is so often the case, their feelings of bitterness give rise to commensurate thoughts and actions, as they huddle together to brainstorm a diabolic strategy to bring Daniel down. It is worthy of note that in this episode, they do not complain to the King about Daniel’s prayer life. They instead seek to employ the legislative framework of government in an effort to make praying to The God of heaven wrong, and thus, the way would be paved for the prosecution of Daniel to the fullest extent of the law.
Isaiah 24:5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!