Acts 12:20-24 ESV

 

Now Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they came to him with one accord, and having persuaded Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king's country for food.  On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat upon the throne, and delivered an oration to them.  And the people were shouting, "The voice of a god and not of a man!"  Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.

 

But the word of God increased and multiplied.

 

 

History is littered with self professed and/or people anointed gods with a messiah complex who, in the end, have died as mere mortals.  Not all in such a spectacular fashion as Herod.  But dead is dead however one dies.

 

Meanwhile, Jesus lives and the word of God increases.  The Messiah came and is coming again.  And life – eternal life, abundant life – is found only in Him.