Children to Be Their Rulers

One of the important concepts of understanding Biblical prophecy is to understand that many of the prophecies are dualistic: they may have been fulfilled, or partly fulfilled, in ancient times, but also are applicable to the latter-days.

With that in mind, as I look back at how our national leaders have failed to do anything to mitigate the financial and debt crises they helped manufacture, and the bumbling about on foreign policy, I am reminded of this from Isaiah 3:

For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah ... [t]he mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, ... [a]nd I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

Isaiah 3:1-2, 4. The Baker Illustrated Bible Commentary indicates that these versus mean that the Lord "will remove the divinely ordained officers and will instead put over the people corrupt leaders who are immature and lacking in experience, like 'youths' and 'children.'" Such has been our doom, too.