A voice! A cry from Babylon!
The noise of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
For the LORD is laying Babylon waste
and stilling her mighty voice.
Jeremiah 51:54-55a
No one can stand against God and withstand His justice. God used the Babylonian empire to judge His idolatrous people, Israel. But eventually even cruel Babylon was judged by God. They were obliterated from earth... now just a failed empire in history, while God’s people still live on in His care. No amount of human empire-building or military might will be stronger than the arm of the Lord!
Today Babylon is a ruin. It is ancient history. The once mighty power, the terror she struck in her enemies has vanished into the sands of millennia. God has prevailed. Babylon has no voice. Yet God’s Word still speaks in triumph.
O God,
Destroyer of proud empires... Leveler of pride, You bury the strongest human empires in sand to be forgotten, like toys in a sandbox! Your voice rings loudly across the dust of fallen human empires. You have sent Your Son to be King of Kings and Lord of Lords and His kingdom has no end! I bow before You, Jesus, as the Ruler of my life. You are the Victor!
Amen
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