October 1, 2013 – Jeremiah 50

The oracle about the demise of Babylon just made me think about the rise and fall of empires throughout history.  http://www.timemaps.com/history .  This site lays out the different empires over the centuries.  Egypt, Israel, Babylon, Greece, Rome, Islamic Turks, British Empire, leading to the US World Power title.  Some of them stuck around for a long time, but they seem to get shorter and shorter the “smaller” the world gets.  There is just so much more world to control that a “world power” isn’t really practical anymore.  I think that might be one reason that we should focus more on ourselves and look less towards trying to control the rest of the world.  That, and that our morality is questionable and we should not be giving financial advice to anyone.  WE might be seeing the end of US as a world power, but it was inevitable according to history and, like I said, a world power might be a thing of the past in this day in age.