Kingdoms (proverbs 14:28)

A kingdom is only as great as the number of people it boasts.

"In the multitude of people is the king's glory, but in a lack of people is a prince's ruin." Proverbs 14:28, Amplified

How great would America be today if it still only had the original amount of settlers today? America would not be the Super Power it became.

The number of persons in a kingdom boasts many different things about the kingdom. More people build larger armies. More people speak of a rich and fertile land. More people talk of an excellent monarchy.

We can easily make this verse's contents applicable for today. Movements come and movements go. It is all about how many people you have backing the cause. Great causes have been born on the backs of tragedy. But if the population of that movement does not grow, it will fall and become forgotten. The same can be said of restaurants, stores and institutions. A legacy must be made and sustained in order for it to be passed to the next generation.

Even religious movements can be categorized under this same hierarchy. Cults such as the Rashnish in Oregon where love and rampant sexual activity thrived as well a sexually transmitted diseases. It was closed by local authorities; a true religion would have thrived over such opposition. No one can ever forget the Jamestown massacre, where all the parishioners were forced to drink punch laced with poison; a true religion would have gathered more followers post mordem.

The one religion that will never be pigeon-holed into this idea is Christianity. I believe this to be the case for two reasons. We serve the only true God. Secondly, it is not a religion that we are brought into to succumb to its rules and regulations, rather it is a relationship that we are asked into and become a part of its nurturing. And no matter how much opposition comes against Christianity, its populace grows and grows.