Upon the reign of God, the concept of what is pure and lovely and good will be put to the test. This passage seems to harken to the final verses of the book of Judgment which state that “each man did what was right in his own sight.” At that time, Israel had finished conquering the promised land and through a spirit of rebellion, they slowly decayed into a completely lawless people. Instead of the revelatory rule of God’s Ten Commandments, they eventually called for a king who could exemplify the values of the nations they had conquered. They were extolled the virtues of vanity, beauty, riches and power. Today, many who grow up under God’s rule do the same thing. They were born into the privilege of his kingdom, but reject its foundational tenets. They mock him and his princes at every turn. They replace true champions of righteousness with their own mythologies. Instead of the humble God-Man and his disciples, they would rather have the sexually charged and virile Demi-god and his drones. Instead of reason and truth, they long to worship urge and abandon. Yet, one day, ungodly fools will not be heroes. There is a time that the godly can hope in, where the reign of God and his virtues will be seen, and loved amongst his creation. Sometimes, when all that pure is being deconstructed before our eyes, this hope is all we have left, and that makes it a promise worth etching into our hearts. The grass withers and the flowers fade but the word of our Lord stand forever.