SUBJECT: Kings, Presidents and Rulers
QUESTION: Does God have anything to do with who our
president is or what rulers rule over countries?
ANSWER:
Yes He does.
Proverbs 8:15
By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
Romans 13:1
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there
is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of
God.
1 Samuel 9:17
And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him, Behold the
man whom I spake to thee of! this same shall reign over my
people.
1 Samuel 16:1
And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for
Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel?
fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse
the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his
sons.
1 Chronicles 28:5
And of all my sons, (for the LORD hath given me many sons,)
he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the
kingdom of the LORD over Israel.
Jeremiah 27:5-7
5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon
the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm,
and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.
6 And now have I given all these lands unto the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the
beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.
7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his
son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then
many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
Daniel 2:21
And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth
kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise,
and knowledge to them that know understanding:
Daniel 4:25
That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall
be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to
eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of
heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know
that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth
it to whomsoever he will.
Daniel 4:32
And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall
be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat
grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until
thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men,
and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Daniel 5:18-31
18 O thou king, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy
father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour:
19 And for the majesty that he gave him, all people,
nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom
he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom
he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.
20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened
in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they
took his glory from him:
21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was
made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild
asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was
wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high
God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over
it whomsoever he will.
22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine
heart, though thou knewest all this;
23 But hast lifted up thyself against the LORD of heaven;
and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee,
and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have
drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of
silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see
not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy
breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not
glorified:
24 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this
writing was written.
25 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE,
TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath
numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found
wanting.
28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and
Persians.
29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with
scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a
proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third
ruler in the kingdom.
30 In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans
slain.
31 And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about
threescore and two years old.
Matthew 28:18
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is
given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Romans 13:1
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there
is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of
God.
Revelation 19:16
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written,
KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. |