When you think about this passage, you can’t help but look back throughout history and see nations with ambitious leaders reaching pinnacles of power through conquest of other nations, then ultimately fading into the pages of history. Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome quickly come to mind, and in modern times, there was France under Napaleon, Germany, first under Kaiser William, then Hitler, Austria-Hungary under the Hapsburg Dynasty, Italy under Mussolini and the Japanese under its military rulers.

At one time our Israel nations had laws on the books to prevent business from being contracted on the Sabbath, including sports and other events designed with a profit motive. You couldn’t even impose unnecessary labour on Israelites on the Sabbath. I read somewhere that at the World Exhibition in Paris in the year 1900, neither the British nor the United States would participate on Sundays.

Let’s get away from the idea that the Food Laws represents some religious significance. They were given us by the Lord God Almighty to keep us healthy.

From: A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it…

On December 31, 1999 night when government had people gathered from key departments in the Emergency Measures offices monitoring the roll out of Y2K around the world! People across the world were glued to their TVs: we were supposed to see power failures, major computer system failures, payroll system failures.

Will the plaque record our regret for the politics of power and money adopted by our governments in both domestic and foreign affairs? Will there be any sign of lament over the cost of war, in human, image and financial terms?

Years ago, I penned articles entitled “Monarchs of Destiny” and from my studies, I suggested there were six of great significance in God’s Great Plan. The first, with Edward I, we witnessed the third overturn of the Throne of David as prophesied by the prophet Ezekiel (Ezekiel 21: 26,27).

From James 5 of the Amplified version of the Bible, we read beginning at verse one the following warning from God Almighty. “Come now, you rich [people], weep aloud and lament over the miseries – the woes – that are surely coming upon you. Your abundant wealth has rotted and is ruined and your [many]…