Is Hezekiah’s gaffe being repeated?

Being familiar with the story of King Hezekiah as recounted in the Bible (Isaiah Chapters 36-39, 2 Kings Chapters18-20, and 2 Chronicles Chapters 29-33), correlations can be drawn between what he experienced and our nation’s current circumstances.

Hezekiah made one fatal mistake before finally passing his legacy to the next generation

For a quick overview, Hezekiah gained the throne in Jerusalem from his father, Ahaz, who had corrupted Judah before God, violating the Temple, worshipping idols and building their altars throughout the realm, even sacrificing children to Molech’s fiery gullet. Ahaz paid tribute to Assyria, instituted its foreign immorality, becoming subject to that heathen nation.

Does that sound anything like Obama and Biden handing our nation’s wealth to Islam (Iran, etc.) and China while championing abortion, transgender ideology, and victimizing Christianity?

Hezekiah looked toward God to redeem Judah as his northern neighbor, Israel, was plundered by Assyria and the people taken captive for having abandoned God. He prayed, undertook the heavy labor of cleansing and reconsecrating the Temple to God, and appeased Sennacherib with a basic tribute while rebuilding Jerusalem’s wall and re-instituting the Passover which had not been celebrated in years.

When Sennacherib threatened Judah with the same ruin he had inflicted on Israel and other surrounding nations, denigrating God in his warnings, Hezekiah prayed fervently and waited on the Lord’s answer that was delivered by the Prophet Isaiah. The king’s supplications were answered when the encampment of 185,000 Assyrians was destroyed by God’s hand, and Sennacherib himself was murdered by his own sons while worshipping at the feet of an idol.

Judah had regained affluence during Hezekiah’s reign, favored by God who returned it to glory from Ahaz’s insidious rule. Yet later, he suffered a deadly illness and entreated the Lord to save his life. Isaiah interceded for him and the Lord granted Hezekiah 15 more years of prosperity.

Hezekiah made one fatal mistake before finally passing his legacy to the next generation. After watching the wondrous rebirth of Judah and the safety that had been secured from enemies, he allowed pride to establish a foothold. Emboldened by the feigned friendly outreach from ambassadors of Babylon, which had conquered the Assyrian empire, Hezekiah let down his guard and gave them access to all his nation’s treasures and defenses. They learned all they needed to insinuate themselves into his confidence that eventually led to Judah’s destruction (Book of Jeremiah).

Hezekiah’s frankness opened the door to disaster

History is never exactly replicated and President Trump is working day and night to rectify the damage done by the previous administration, surpassing the country’s former level of wealth and productivity. But is the president inadvertently following Hezekiah’s path?

After Hezekiah was delivered from a death sentence (in Trump’s case, it was exile from power) and given more years to benefit his people, he rejoiced in Jerusalem’s re-blossoming. Expecting to build a rapport with the powerful Babylonian empire, he welcomed its envoys to witness Judah’s wealth and resources for themselves. His miscalculation of opening a hand of goodwill, stemming from confidence in his accomplishments rather than the blessing of God, provoked Babylon’s imperialistic spirit.

Hezekiah’s frankness opened the door to disaster. His gesture of establishing a working relationship with unholy despots set the stage for Jerusalem’s utter destruction and his people’s captivity for 70 years, but not during Hezekiah’s reign since God had promised him 15 years of peace.

The difference between then and now? It was Hezekiah’s own folly and misplaced pride that allowed ungodly potentates access to his nation’s secrets, whereas President Trump may be listening more to misguided or self-serving advisors and narcissistic tech oligarchs than to the people who support his leadership. The tech magnates aren’t trustworthy, having too many ties to adversaries. Artificial Intelligence, their baby, has demonstrated that it has no guardrails, and the developers, by their own admission, don’t fully understand the workings of what they’ve built nor have the capacity to rein it in.

Hezekiah’s joy in allayed death led to overlooking imminent dangers, siring a son, and paving a route to catastrophe. What occurred 2700 years ago is a semblance of an updated version of events.

The economic “progeny,” guided by amoral AI wizards and promoters, has limited vision

The economic “progeny,” guided by amoral AI wizards and promoters, has limited vision. To rebuild national production and development, the focus is on substantial investment from antagonists of our constitutional foundation – Islam and communism. Alliances with ideological adversaries whose underlying creed is domination can never end well, and for Judah, it didn’t.

God’s purpose for this nation is to be a beacon of light in a dark world being overrun by oppressive regimes, including ones that appear benign.

Embracing hostile cultures and technology, allowing them to gain footing in the United States under the guise of partnership, undermines our sovereignty. Stepping into alliances without tightly restricting foreign access by not restraining AI development that leeches U.S. waters, electricity and resources, burdening the very people who placed this executive in office, is to release hostile influence on our soil.

The president’s attempt to address these issues, as well as protections for children, creators, and artists, in the executive order signed December 11, 2025, is ambiguous in language that’s meant to install federal AI regulation. It doesn’t actually regulate anything while stating multiple times that the federal government will assume authority over states’ “onerous” statutes.

The term “onerous” is left open to being interpreted in favor of AI investors if state law is perceived to restrict development in any way whatsoever. Where is the line drawn? To protect foreign and tech corporate cash, or that of the states’ citizens who may be under “onerous” pressure to pay the freight for data centers swallowing the lion’s share of water, land and electricity needed for agriculture and homes?

The Epoch Times reporting on Georgia Public Service Commission’s agreement with AI developers is a case in point. Although touting the developers’ underwriting the cost of “massive grid expansion” to feed proposed data centers, contract language is couched in secrecy.

There is reason for concern that in the president’s haste to rebuild America from the flotsam left in Biden’s wake

From their story: “Despite these assurances, consumer advocates argue “cost shifts” from developers to rate-payers are allegedly incorporated in confidential contracts negotiated with Georgia Power, which has refused to disclose details of these agreements, claiming they are “trade secrets” under Georgia statute.”

There is reason for concern that in the president’s haste to rebuild America from the flotsam left in Biden’s wake, he is placing faith in manmade AI that he said he preferred be called “supreme intelligence”. Although agreeing with President Trump on most issues, this off-the-cuff description of AI is thoroughly erroneous. There is only one “supreme intelligence,” which is God, and no man can ever hope or expect to equal or overtake Him or His Creation.

Differentiation is proven by this simple test: God cannot lie but AI, and promised AGI and ASI, are prone to lying, being embedded with the propensity for “hallucinating” (creating “facts” out of nothing). Deceitfulness is built into AI’s fallible nature that is, as much as proponents will deny it, the nature of evil, biblically known as satan.

Despite the quick cash infusion into the economy, American as well as foreign owned or operated AI developers must be regulated and restricted to protect the homeland from ideologies incompatible with the Constitution, and toxic to our nation’s social order. This administration, and we who support it, would like to see rapid reversal of Biden’s economic and cultural devastation, but AI expansion must be treated with extreme caution, not fast-tracked to the point of negative impact that, once embedded, can’t be rescinded.

Ultimately, the people of Judah, sent into captivity, were replaced by foreign populations serving foreign gods.

That template prompts the question of whether America will be able to re-establish its foundations after suffering Biden’s non-Christian repopulation, and AI’s non-human depopulation.

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