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Wild Man Saddam, Revisited

Every time I see a picture of the captured Saddam Hussein, I think of a really great Bible study on the Book of Daniel I took a few years ago. It had videos and visuals from Kay Arthur, a nationally-known speaker and teacher.

One of the most memorable was a drawing of what King Nebuchadnezzar must have looked like after he lived as a beast in the field for seven years as a punishment in Daniel 4.

In the beginning of that book, the king made a lot of big talk and fancy doin’s, including building a great, big statue honoring himself that he wanted his nation to worship, and putting Daniel’s three friends into the fiery furnace to test their God’s power.

But the more he challenged the living God and tried to take His spot as all-powerful in his country, the more he got the hammer, bigtime. The king was eventually driven out of human society to live, literally, like a “wild ass,” with no shelter from the elements, eating grass and just looking like an idiot.

Well, every time I see a picture of Saddam Hussein coming out of that hole over there in Iraq, with his wild eyes and crazy hair and beard, looking like he could really, REALLY use a pedicure or maybe some rabies medication, I think of old King Nebuchadnezzar.

And guess what his country was, back then? Babylon. We now know it as Iraq.

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Prayer request: Praise and thanks for the safe return this week of our friend, the father of three and husband of a very patient lady, who was in Iraq for the better part of a year. He wasn’t a soldier, but he did represent our country and was in great danger as he used his architecture skills to help rebuild that country’s simple structures, such as water and sewage, which had been so sadly neglected under Saddam Hussein. We pray that his steadfast service helped attract many Iraqis to come to know the REAL king of the universe. (Isaiah 58:12)