Isaiah 9:20

Flesh of his own arm. A striking picture of the ultimate effects of greed and corruption. Selfishness at length consumes itself. He who is not interested in his neighbor’s welfare is actually working against his own best interests. No man can, in the long run, be perfectly happy and prosperous unless his neighbor is also happy. When one man builds himself up by oppressing his neighbor he prepares the way for his own destruction. When nations destroy one another in order to further their own selfish interests they are engaging in the greatest possible folly, for they are thus destroying themselves and the world in which they live. As in the past, man has destroyed man, and nation has destroyed nation, by discord and greed, so the world today is in the process of working out its own destruction.