Daniel 8:12 · World English Bible
The army was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through disobedience. It cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered.
Falsehood can win for a season, and pretending otherwise leaves a man defenseless when it does. Truth gets thrown down and trampled, and the force that tramples it flourishes for a time.
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Falsehood can win for a season, and pretending otherwise leaves a man defenseless when it does. Truth gets thrown down and trampled, and the force that tramples it flourishes for a time. Nothing is harder to accept about how corruption spreads. Lies build empires. They prosper openly while the honest look on in disbelief.
Yet the victory rests on transgression, and what stands on a lie is standing on nothing. The prospering is temporary, because reality is not mocked forever. A civilization that casts down the truth may thrive for a generation. All the while it hollows out the ground beneath its own feet. The collapse is already written into the success.
Clinical Psychology lens
What are you building on that would not hold if the truth came out?
What is forced does not endure, and the violent man comes to an early end. Rapid success built on force carries its collapse inside it.
Actions carry consequences that ripen in their own time, not on the schedule the actor would prefer. The gap between the deed and its result fools people into thinking there is no result.
Marcus observed how many celebrated and powerful people had already been forgotten entirely, their triumphs included. Prospering and being right are two different things.
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