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For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
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In ancient Egypt elections were not held for the people to choose a new ruler, as today’s verse states, he was raised up by God for His purpose. There is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God, just as the Word of God makes clear. {Rom.13:1}

Nebuchadnezzar, the ruler who built the idolatrous statue of gold and then required that all people were to fall down and worship the golden image or die. {Dan.3:6} Daniel would say “Let the name of God be blessed forever and ever, for wisdom and power belong to Him. It is He who changes the times and the epochs; He removes kings and establishes kings.” {Dan.2:20-21} Praise the Name of the Lord!

Those same truths were written to the believers in Rome at the time that Nero was the ruler, the Caesar, and certainly not a particularly nice or godly guy. He murdered his own mother, his wife and his step-brother and greatly persecuted the Christians. Regardless of whether it is a saint or a sinner who comes to power, It is always God at work both to will and to work for His good pleasure. It is for His purpose! {Php.2:13}

It is virtually impossible for a bible believing child of God to get involved voting in politics and not disobey the commandment of God, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.” {Pro.3:5} Otherwise you will surely choose who you want—and may not serve what God wants!

Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, three faithful young Jewish men who had also been taken to Babylon loved the Lord more than their lives and refused to serve false gods or bow to the idol. They were consequently thrown into a fire that was heated seven times more than usual. They did not find death, they found somebody else, the Son of God, walking with them in those flames. {Dan.3:12-25} They were walking loosed from their bonds and unharmed by the flames accompanied by the One who IS a consuming fire. {Heb.12:29}

The king’s (every ruler’s) heart is in the hand of the Lord; He turns it wherever He wishes. {Pro.21:1} Remember that it was the Lord who hardened the heart of Pharaoh so that he did not listen to Moses and Aaron who brought him the word and the will of God. {Ex.9:12} God’s thoughts and His ways are not our ways. His thoughts and His ways are certainly higher than ours. {Is.55:8-9} He does not appoint kings, presidents, prime minister, etc.,etc. that we will like the best, He appoints those who will serve His eternal purpose the best! And yes (yikes) that would include people like Genghis Khan, Joseph Stalin, Idi Amin Dada and (oh my) Adolph Hitler—as dark a soul as has ever trod the earth. And that resulted in horrible human cost as well as Israel being returned to the people of God after two-thousand years of exile!

The children of God (us) are to know and remember that there is only one faith, one God and Father of all who is over all. {Eph.4:5-6} When the Lord returns to the earth in the last days He will come as the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, the King of glory. {Rev.19:16} And at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” {Php.2:10-11} That too includes people like Genghis Khan, Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler and Idi Amin Dada.

“He (the Father) has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by Him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through Him and for Him.” (Colossians 1:13-16)

GOD IS IN CONTROL AND WORKING HIS PLAN