The Heavens Do Rule

The Heavens do rule and it is the Lord the Most High God who governs the affairs of men. (Dan. 4:17).

Consider the following verses the next time you want to judge or criticize God’s appointed leaders. whether we like our president or not for whatever reason he is still appointed by God and we are not to judge him rather we are told by Paul to pray for our nations leadership.

Dan.n2:20-21; Daniel said, “Let the name of God be blessed for ever and ever, for wisdom and power belong to Him. It is he who changes the times and epochs; he removes kings and establishes kings; He gives wisdom to wise men, And knowledge to men of understanding.”

Again we find Daniel speaking as a prophet of God to King Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon. Dan. 3:37; “You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of Heaven has given the Kingdom, the power, the strength, the glory!” The next time we get angry with our president remember what God said concerning Nebuchadnezzar a pagan king. God called him and set him up as king of kings the ruler over the nations of the earth in his day. Today it is Jesus Christ who is presently seated at the Right Hand of Power and Majesty; He rules and He governs the affairs of men.

Again the take a look at the words of Daniel in the 4th chapter verse 17 here Daniel is speaking of the kingdoms of men; “That the Most High is the Ruler over the realm of mankind, and bestows it on whom He wishes and set over it the lowest of men.” God can put anyone he wants in office and just as easily He can remove him/her. He can establish a nation or He can tear it down. “7 The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, 8 if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it. 9 And the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, 10 if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it” (Jer. 18:7-10)

Lastly we will look at Paul’s words in Acts 17: 24-31: “24 God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. 25 Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. 26 And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27 so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ 29 Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising. 30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, 31 because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”

The God who made heaven and earth and everything in it has made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, HAVING DETERMINED THEIR APPOINTED TIMES AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THEIR HABITATION! For those a little afraid that America may lose her super-power ranking remember that God is still on the Throne, He rules, and He still governs the affairs of men; not some president, or dictator, but God Himself is in control; ALL IS WELL!