“In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” (Judges 21:53)
Those were the days of the judges in Israel, before they had a king. Moses, Israel’s long time leader, had died. His successor, Joshua, had also died. Israel had gone from one siege of evil to another during the days of the judges. With no king and with every man doing what was right in his own eyes, it might have worked but the Bible says “all the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes.” (Proverbs 16:2) God through Moses had given them a system of laws but they were primarily disregarded.
Not having an earthly king or set of laws to which to adhere can lead to anarchy, lawlessness and political disorder. One is reminded of the lawlessness of the Wild West and the open range laws of America when every man was a law to himself.
We must look to a higher law than ourselves and to a Greater King than some earthly potentate. To do only those things that are right in one’s own eyes will destroy nations, homes and individual lives. When Madelyn Murray O’Hare led the successful rebellion against the Bible a few years ago and with the Supreme Court agreeing with her, our nation has been on a downhill, rebellious slide away from God from then until now. May God have mercy on this nation and give us a spiritual awakening.
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