“Woe to him who builds his realm by unjust gain to set his nest on high, to escape the clutches of ruin!
You have plotted the ruin of many peoples, shaming your own house and forfeiting your life.
The stones of the wall will cry out, and the beams of the woodwork will echo it.
“Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by crime!
Has not the LORD Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.  Habakkuk 2:9-14

This is a continuation of yesterday’s verses on the judgment of Babylon and its rulers. And it could be straight from the headlines of some of the nations in the news today.

More than a decade ago, the nations of the world sat back as the small country of Rwanda was embroiled in what is now called “ethnic cleansing” or genocide. More than 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered in a period of 100 days. I say that the world sat back because it was happening in front of us and we toyed around with the word “genocide” because we couldn’t believe it was actually happening “on our watch” or we didn’t want to get involved.

Sadly, it is happening again in a few nations that do not get a lot of press. The region of Darfur Sudan is one such place. The Muslim Khartoum regime is slaughtering unarmed innocents in that region and the world debates the real meaning of the word “genocide.” The death toll is rising, though not as quickly as it did in Rwanda. Make no mistake, though, if nobody was watching or monitoring the situation, there would probably be nobody left alive in Darfur, and quite probably all of south Sudan.

Pray that the Church will continue to thrive and be a powerful force against Satan and his minions in Sudan. One day, as Habakkuk 2:14 states: the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.