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TYRANTS: LEARN FROM MUGABE’S ENDING

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Sir,

With the African continent and the world at large, still reeling from the shocking news of the fall of the world’s longest ruling political leader, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, to those who closely follow the Bible prophecy, such news shouldn’t come as a surprise.


God’s infallible word tells us about how He raises and brings down kingdoms. Daniel 2:21 narrates: ‘’He changes times and seasons; He deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning...’’


Robert Mugabe’s stranglehold and ruthless grip on power for an unbelievable 37 years, was bound to end in disgrace - sooner or later, in the long run
Like all dictators - past and present - Mugabe, with pomposity, believed himself as invincible and that his coming into power was through his own might and wisdom, forgetting that there is a Lofty and Mighty One, who controls and directs the affairs of men, for His own divine purpose.


Since the dawn of creation, many ruthless, repressive and brutal dictators have met their end in disgrace. Some have met a gruesome ending at the hands of the very people they have ruled with an iron hand for years.
History is blotted with the records of the fall of numerous tyrants who ruled their countries with an iron fist and used hard-line tactics to muzzle voices clamouring for democratic dispensation, but sadly came to a bitter ending.
I can mention a long list of brutal rulers who believed themselves beyond criticism, were pompous and brutally crushed any dissenting voices. Hitler of Nazi Germany, Mobutu Seseko of Congo, and Saddam Hussein of Iraq - the list is endless.


We still have the Zuma’s, the Kim Jung-uns, the Bashar-al-Assads of this world, who still believe themselves beyond reproach and critique, but sadly fail to heed history’s lessons that God eventually responds to a nation’s people cry for help.
God used King Cyprus of the Persian Empire to bring to an end the brutal exile of His children - the Israelites in Babylon, who were in exile for 70 years. Centuries before, He dramatically ended ancient king Pharaoh’s repressive rule of His children in Egyptian slavery.


These biblical records were written as a warning to rulers that God eventually acts when the sins of a nation and its rulers finally reaches up to the corridors of heaven.
Sadly, political leaders never learn.


Millions of Zimbabweans have fled their country of birth because of the iron fisted rule of Mugabe. Many have died while illegally trying to gain entry in to neighbouring countries.
Women and children have been violated, raped and met their deaths at the hands of human predators while trying to flee from hunger in Zimbabwe. White farmers, who contributed in making Zimbabwe the former breadbasket of Africa, had their land confiscated by Mugabe and his bloodthirsty ZANU-PF followers.


Was the loving God supposed to turn a blind eye and deaf ear forever to the cry for intervention of His people?
May all remaining dictators in the world take a leaf out of tyrannical Mugabe’s sad ending? May they know that whatever is impossible with men is possible with God?


I and millions of others around the world do not feel a shred of sympathy for Robert Gabriel Mugabe and his Jezebel wife, the Dis-Graceful Grace.
He must thank the very God he has been spiteful of that this was a bloodless takeover.
For the world’s remaining oppressors, beware: God has had enough. Your kingdoms have been weighted and found wanting.

Alex Lucky Nxumalo
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