Political leaders are the lowest dregs of human society, according to a heavenly messenger who spoke to the prophet Daniel. And He sets them up, and He brings them down. God is in control of what goes on in the governments of men (Daniel 4).
This scathing indictment of political leaders comes from Daniel’s experiences in the court of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon. In Daniel’s vision this “holy one” said this: “To the intent that the living may know that the most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it {the governments of this world} to whomsoever He will, and sets up over it the basest of men” (Daniel 4: 17).
So, all of us who read this passage from the Bible have to either throw it away as some pipe dream of a mad Hebrew prophet 2600 years ago, or we must take it for what it says.
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