Pax Americana

I was driving the other day and listening to talk radio. I had an interesting line of thought consume me as I listened and just thought. I was listening to the radio host as he spoke and as he read an article that talked about how America was spreading "its" form of democracy around the world. From this I began to think about the end times. I remember reading about how people believe that a form of the roman, something "Romanized" or if you will the Roman Empire would be reborn. This is one theory of the end times. I was thinking on this and thought that the United States is spreading democracy across the world. Good thing? Maybe? The Romans devised their government from the Greeks, they are credited with developing democracy. Now the Romans with all good intentions also started with democracy that ended in Imperialism. So my thoughts continued on this tangent. What if America spreading democracy across the world was in actuality setting the stage for Imperial conquest. What if our zeal for democracy is setting the stage for something so much bigger? I continued from this thought thinking how for Americans and those under a democracy how much more difficult it is for us to understand an all powerful God. When we have never known that in our lives. When we have never know an all powerful ruler where our say is not equally weighted. We all have a voice in democracy, but in the politics of heaven it is a hierarchy. From God down. It’s His rule. It is a concept that resonates with those that live under a system of government where one has absolute power. Those that live under a rule of one can understand the greatness and power of a righteous ruler, because they have seen the reality of this or the reality of the opposite, but I digress. I wonder where all this will lead. Will our manifest destiny eventual encompass the globe, and are we setting ourselves up to take a tremendous fall. Only the Lord knows. I certainly don’t, but it was an interesting thought as I drove down the road. It made the drive go faster. What do you think?