3.042 Getting it together with Humpty Dumpty
April 2003
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
In the last few days, the bad boys from Babylon have given us a preview of what honest-togoodness anarchy is like. Poor Mr. H. Dumpty lies smashed to smithereens and so far all the
king's men have only been able to relegate him to the too-hard basket.
In Showdown of the Gods I have made several references to the anarchy to come, and particularly
so in the focus of the final chapter. A couple of quotes are: "The only thing worse than a
terrorist tyrant is no leadership whatsoever, where the regime of violence
explodes into a multitude of mini-despots each with a bomb, a gun, or knife…
Systems such as these have the potential to degenerate from a single arch-enemy
to the dread setting where no one in your neighbourhood -- not to mention your
own household-dare be trusted." And another: "Battlefields have boundaries [but]
anarchy recognizes not even the sanctity of a front door." For all who respect the
Scriptures, Jesus spoke of these days in Matthew Chapter 10. Hopefully all the king's horses and
all the king's men will come up with an egg shell mender before too many more Iraqis look back to
the infamous terrorist regime with vain imaginations of the "good old days".
Of course, once we get democracy in place with all its trimmings, utopia will begin!
Will it?
Here's a bit more Bible for inspection in Genesis 16. The Angel of the Lord finds forlorn and castout Hagar (pregnant with Abraham's first child) and gives her a tad of comfort but also a bit of
prophecy about the son within her womb. Verse 12—if we believe the Bible—is quite clear:
"He [Ishmael] will be a wild man;
his hand will be against everyone, and everyone's hand against him,
and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."
Ishmael is the father of not a few nations where democracy needs more than a shoehorn to make
it fit into the culture -- not to mention all of the other host of nations which function best under a
reasonable king or even a (hopefully) benevolent dictator. This is not a curse, but a prophetic
projection.
May we reveal a moment of truth that somehow the playmakers of the New World Order have a
major problem recognizing: All the king's horses will never force democracy to function
adequately (other than a make-believe veneer) for at least two-thirds of the world's masses,
including the volatile Middle East. A son of Ishmael outside of his cultural restraints can (if it
comes within his grasp) function like anyone else. Within his culture it becomes quite another
story!
"Government of the people, by the people and for the people" has served much of the
Western world well, even to the point of becoming a "god" to some. But to others of the Eastern
view, it is an inferior egocentric, even humanistic system that can't begin to compete socially with
the extended-family worldview of the dominant masses. Just because they like Coke, Big Macs
and dollars, doesn't mean that they buy the depth of the system with any more enthusiasm than
to milk a cow.
Multitudes in the West who have never encountered the Third World cultures have difficulty in
appreciating this mindset. But that doesn't make it disappear. And even then, with all the benefits
of democratic government, the Achilles heel is that it has no final answer for anarchy. In fact the
final unravelling of people-power is anarchy.
Unfortunately, the final standing of "democracy"-come-NWO is not God. (Sorry if this comes as a
shock to many Christians who don't know their Bibles). The King that is coming does not promise
His subjects everything they lust for (and then deliver only marginally) but will give them what is
best for them, and that, as a more than benevolent King. Now that might not be too bad!
So while few reading this articled will shed too many tears that Saddam is gone, just keep this
straight: All the king's horses and all the king's men may have acted in behalf of the Almighty's
sovereign judgment, but let's not get carried away with vain presumption. The real Messiah has
yet to appear, and will undoubtedly bring with Him a far different form of government that that
which now excites too many of us!
Victor Schlatter, South Pacific Island Ministries