 even though he doesn't have any more power and we don't have to obey him. And so why doesn't the Lord just obliterate him? It's because he uses him as an object lesson. It says in verse 17, your heart was filled up because of your beauty. You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I cast you to the ground. I put you before kings that they may see you. So I want, God says, I want to keep you around so that they would see