informs us that God “made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place.” God thus not only sovereignly determines how long each individual will live but also how long each nation will survive (see Daniel 2:36-45; Luke 21:24). As Bible expositor Thomas Constable has put it, God “determines the times of nations—their seasons, when they rise and fall—and their boundaries.”1