Ever been to a failed state? I’ve been to a couple and have friends in several others. These places aren’t a lot of fun. Failed states are broadly defined as places where the government has failed to serve their people with basic services. The result is chaos, from civil disobedience to massive refugee issues.
I was recently reminded of an insight from the Old Testament about failed states. When the nation of Israel was in Egypt, enslaved by the Pharaohs, they were a nation of people with little identity. There was no written code for their religious system and they …