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Dec. 14, 2024

Day 347 Dictators | Proverbs 30:21-23

Day 347 Dictators | Proverbs 30:21-23

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Dictators

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There are three things that make the earth tremble—
     no, four it cannot endure:

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a slave who becomes a king,
     an overbearing fool who prospers,

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    a bitter woman who finally gets a husband,
     a servant girl who supplants her mistress.


Hitler is perhaps the most infamous example of a servant-turned-ruler who became unbearable for the world. Another was Idi Amin, who rose from being a simple foot soldier to the brutal dictator of Uganda. Like Hitler, Amin’s rule was marked by cruelty and brutality, a history we must never forget, much like the Holocaust and the Killing Fields of Cambodia.

It’s also tragic when a person, whether a man or a woman, is unloved in marriage, and a servant becoming heir to her mistress would have been a great upheaval in the social order of the time.

Think about this: Why is a fool who is full of food so unbearable? Remember, Proverbs equates a fool with someone who mocks God, disregards Scripture, and rebels against the natural laws of creation. Such a person, full of resources but lacking wisdom and humility, becomes arrogant and even more difficult to bear.


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