It seems that most of the members of my extended family play that daily word game.....Wordle....and occasionally they have asked me if I wanted to join in. I'll tell them that I have my own type of calculations....that I do almost on a daily basis.
The estimates of Trump's net worth range from around 5 billion to over ten billion. A lot of that money is volatile.....paper money they call it.....where it could increase or decrease by billions in a very short period of time. It is estimated also that his net worth may have increased by as much as 3 billion since taking office in his second term....and the very latest estimate....this by Forbes....has Trump's net worth as 6.6 billion dollars.
Solomon went from the wisest man on the planet....to the stupidest. Did you know that he abandoned the covenant faith at one point....and did those things that God's Word said that a king was not to do....as he accumulated gold....and horses....and foreign wives? That is why many of the passages in Ecclesiastes seem so odd....so foreign to God's Word everywhere else. Solomon was like Samson....who had the great strength....then lost it....as Solomon lost his wisdom....and then was given it back at the very end. The strength was there....but no longer the glory. Samson completed his task....as did Solomon....and we are to learn from both.
Are you aware of this? when Solomon turned away from God....his annual income was 666 talents of gold? How odd it seems for us to be given such a specific income figure? We will find out about all of this....probably in the near future....but the least that we can take from it right now is that gold....(riches is an acceptable interpretation of it)....and the love and accumulation of it....is key.....not only in the rise and fall of any individual....but in the rise and fall of any group of individuals.....governments if you will....corporations....churches.....anything.
1 Kings 11:9
Deuteronomy 17
"This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666." Revelation 13:18 ESV
