#GOD APPOINTS KINGS AND RULERS FREE#

Then righteousness, justice, and peace will flow on earth like rivers. Then the wicked will not prosper or live long lives (Isa 65:20). Then the good will not die young (Isa 65:22). When Jesus’ millennial kingdom comes, He will rule and He will keep all the rulers of the nations in line so that there will be no terrible rulers ( Zech 14:9-19). The answer is because the kingdom has not yet come. If the people of the world had chosen to follow the Lord after the Fall or after the Flood, then the governments of the world would have been good governments.īut isn’t this really a concern about why God allows evil in the world at all? Why does He sometimes allow godly believers to die young? Why does He sometimes allow ungodly people to prosper financially and to live long lives? Remember Israel’s experience with King Saul. Or they chose to be a monarchy and to appoint a king. And even in those other countries, people chose at some point in the past to be part of the revolution that led to the dictatorship or communist regime. We must recognize that except in monarchies, dictatorships, and communist countries, people choose their own rulers. Why does God allow ungodly men and women to rise to power? I find this issue grievous, as it sounds like FH does.

#GOD APPOINTS KINGS AND RULERS FREE#

And even when they were in power, they were not free to do all the evil that they would have liked to do. But evil rulers like Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Idi Amin ultimately lost power.

They may think that they are totally free. The point here is that God gives rulers limited freedom. “The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, like the rivers of water He turns it wherever He wishes” (Prov 21:1). He is responsible for setting leaders in place (often for reasons and purposes we do not understand).” In some sense, God puts rulers in place.ī (see here ) says, “What we have to keep in mind is that whether a leader is good or bad, God continues to accomplish His will. But it also does not mean that God simply set the world in motion and then left all the details up to men. So, rulers are “from God” and are “appointed by God.” That does not mean that God forces nations or states or cities to choose ungodly rulers. “There is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God” (Rom 13:1). What language does the Lord Himself use concerning rulers? No matter if they are good or bad, godly or ungodly, believer or unbeliever? Am I to understand that God even put into power the bad leaders? I have read a number of passages and heard a number of preachers and Christians, but I am still trying to understand whether God puts into place and takes down every single king, leader, and president in every nation past, present, future.

God appoints kings and rulers