Who's in Control?

Last night I kept hoping and praying every time I woke up that McCain would make it, though I knew Obama was doing far too well. Before Dennis left this morning (it's his birthday today!) he checked the internet and we learned the awful truth. I'm not terribly surprised, but still very disappointed. And kind of numb. The Democrats are controlling everything -- the White House, the House, and the Senate. What horrors will these next four years bring??

But wait! They don't control everything! Not really. Here are some verses I read in Isaiah 40 that jumped out at my yesterday:
"Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing: he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hat created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth. Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding."

I think about the rulers that Christians have endured in the past -- Roman emperors, English tyrants, European tyrants, Hitler, Chinese emperors, and others, and I've got to conclude that we've had it pretty good here in America. Times will be hard ahead, but maybe they'll help Christians to wake up from their apathy and take a stand for righteousness! It's time to be "hot" Christians, not lukewarm.

I've been studying Revelation and read this sobering bit of info:

The average age of the world's great civilization has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:
From Bondage to Spiritual Faith
From Spiritual Faith to Great Courage
From Courage to Liberty
From Liberty to Abundance
From Abundance to Selfishness
From Selfishness to Complacency
From Complacency to Apathy
From Apathy to Dependence
From Dependence back again to Bondage
(J.V. McGee)

So where are we?