First, an update from the CDC itself. It finally has had to come clean on its false and misleading statistics about the COVID flu season. It has just recently released the information that just 6% of all deaths from COVID are a result of COVID, that is, no other symptoms or conditions. However, 94% of the deaths they have been reporting are aggravated by 2.6 other immune suppressing, debilitating, co-morbidity diseases. Most of this 94% are also over 70 years old, in fact, it seems that the over 80 was the worse affected.
There is only one death from any child under 14 from this ‘disease’! It was from a child that was already very ill and had suffered through two organ transplants as well. While a tragedy to the family involved, this does not support any cause for concern for other families with children.
Lies, lies, and more lies. Why? We have discussed this previously. But, what is interesting at this time is that the release of data, which many have been very suspicious of for months, now comes as the election draws near. Very interesting!
Now on to the state of the church and Solomon’s legacy. It is truly hard to fathom how this decline into idolatry within the nation of Israel and now also evident within the evangelical communities, all finds their root in the life of Solomon.
First, what was God’s mandate for kings and leaders?
Deuteronomy 17:14-15 "When you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you possess it and live in it, and you say, 'I will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me,'
you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses, one from among your countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman.
Interesting, God is telling them that they will demand a king over them, even though God has said He will lead them. They want to be like the other nations, while God wants them to be unlike the other nations. Does this sound like the ‘church’ today?
17:16-17 "Moreover, he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor shall he cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, since the LORD has said to you, 'You shall never again return that way.' "He shall not multiply wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself.
This is a very short and specific list of what God does not want kings to do. Yet, as we will discover, the wisest man on earth violated everyone of them.
17:18-20 "Now it shall come about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.
"It shall be with him and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes, that his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel.
How long did Solomon’s sons rule over the 12 tribes? Just a few days! It would seem that Solomon did not read the Law every day or he may have just felt it did not pertain to him. Either way, his life was not devoted to God as was the life of his father David.
So the wisest man on earth, failed miserably during the second half of his life. He started very strong, but ended very weak. His flesh overtook his mind. A lesson for all of us.