The End Of The Great Men Of The Earth

 September 9

"It shall come to pass in the day the Lord
gives you rest from your sorrow,
and from your fear and the hard bondage
in which you were made to serve,
that you will take up this proverb
against the king of Babylon, and say:
'How the oppressor has ceased,
the golden city ceased!
The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,
the scepter of the rulers;'"
Isaiah 14:3-5

There is an end date on the agendas of the wicked. They are allowed a period of time in which they bring sorrow to the people of God. But it will come to an end. Then deliverance will come for God's people, but terrible judgment will come upon the wicked who lived in power and pride on the earth:

There will actually be a sick kind of joy in hell when these pompous tyrants step into eternity:

vs 9:
“Hell from beneath is excited about you
to meet you at your coming;
it stirs up the dead for you,
all the chief ones of the earth;"

When a wicked person enters hell, there he is humiliated before all:

vs 10-11:
"They all shall speak and say to you:
‘Have you also become as weak as we?
Have you become like us?
Your pomp is brought down to Sheol…"

On earth they had power to kill and destroy, to bring all manner of sorrow, but when the great men of the earth enter hell, they will find they are no longer great. There they will be like all, humiliated in their pomp. Forever.

When Jesus's disciples came to him rejoicing that even the demons were subject to them in his name, Jesus answered:

"Nevertheless do not rejoice in this,
that the spirits are subject to you,
but rather rejoice because
your names are written in heaven.”
Luke 10:20

Their names won't be there. Ensure that yours won't be.