On the 13th day of Christmas my true love gave to me a vision of destroyed kingdoms (Daniel 2:34-35).
“We’re on the brink of war,” a South Korean official said after North Korea fired shells at its bordering neighbor yesterday and the south retaliated. Many are shocked, appalled even, at North Korea’s “inhumane” and “barbaric” acts that killed two marines and two civilians on Yeonpyeong Island. I’m not shocked. North Korea is the nation that recently unveiled its new nuclear arms plant to an American scientist. Showing this plant to an American doesn’t seem incidental nor do I think the shelling within the same month on an American ally nation is coincidental. Perhaps both these actions go beyond baiting its 60-year-old rival and suggest a provocation toward World War III. The mini war and rumor of a bigger one is part of Scriptural prophecy toward the end of this world (Matthew 24:6-7). So whatever North Korea’s motive and whatever damage they do will not go unpunished.
And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, [but] it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. (Daniel 2:44).
I saw in the night visions, and, behold, [one] like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion [is] an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom [that] which shall not be destroyed (Daniel 7:13-14).
Daniel prophesies that God the Father will “set up a kingdom” that will destroy the nations spoken of in Daniel, and this kingdom belongs to Jesus Christ (Luke 1:32-33). Though North Korea is not one of the nations in Daniel, I am thankful that “all…nations” will serve Jesus, and His kingdom will not be destroyed (Daniel 7:14; Romans 14:11; Philippians 2:9-11). All nations include North Korea and no nukes or shells can destroy Jesus’ kingdom.
Copyright 2010 by Rhonda J. Smith