Visions of the Kingdom

Visions of the Kingdom: Week 34

31:3 The nations are likened to trees in Eden, the garden of God. As He planted and tended the trees of Eden, so he plants and tends the nations.
31:4 "sending their channels" - both metaphorical and literal, the great aqueducts of Assyria were used for millenia, with the last being decommissioned in 1996 in Iraq, after over 3000 years of operation.
31:5 "towered higher than all the other trees" - cue Jordan Peterson talking about hierarchy.
31:6 nations lived in its shade. For example, Assyrian king Adad-Nirari delivered Israel from Syria in 2 Kings 13 as prophesied by Jonah in 2 Kings 14:25.
31:7 "beautiful in its greatness" Assyria gave us most of the basic technology still in use today. See Daniel prequel.
31:10 Assyria was the policeman of the world until they became proud and cruel.
31:11 "ruler of nations" - Nabolassar led an international coalition to take down Assyria, died in battle, and was succeeded by his son, Nebuchadnezzar.
31:12 "most ruthless" - the Chaldeans did not mess around, but they ruled justly until Nabonitas/Belshazzer.
31:17 "allies had lived it its shade" - the allies of Assyria had all fallen to the Chaldean coalition.
31:18 "you also will be brought down" - the Egyptian empire had also become proud and carelss, will also be thrown on the dustbin of history.