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Home Sweet Babylon
Babylon changed the names of the young men, with their new names pointing deliberately and directly to false gods of the Babylonian system. They also very possibly made them eunuchs to deny them their manhood. Then they gave them the best food and wine and took the time to educate them. Only a few men – Daniel and his three friends – managed to continue holding onto the God of Israel in spite of their forced name changes and other things. They never forgot who they were and kept themselves from being identified with Babylon’s system of degradation.
We Fail to Realize the Depth of Corruption
Let’s face it. I think that most people – Christians included – fail at truly understanding just how perverse, pervasive, and corrupt this world system is, something the Bible refers to as Babylon. We fail because we cannot see beneath the surface and we rarely even try to look there. What we generally see is on the surface and we see them as symptoms though I believe many of us see them as the actual problem. There is a huge difference and at one time, I also believed that by simply changing administrations, we would solve the “problem.” Of course, I now realize that this is not true and had Mr. Romney won, it likely would have given everyone a false sense that things were going to be “okay.”
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