Deja Vu

History's Patterns

There is an eerie familiarity to what is playing out now in North Korea under the gentle beneficence of Kim Jong Un.  Kim has heard the divine call from himself to execute his former uncle and round up as many of his former relatives as he could find and either imprison them or execute them.

He shows all the symptoms of a tyro beating his chest, letting his country know who is boss.  This resonates with a time in Israel's history when the young Rehoboam succeeded his father, Solomon.  We take up the narrative in I Kings 12: 3ff: