* SIGN OF THE TIMES: NOT QUALIFIED

 

Now more than ever in history perhaps we have this irrefutable truth made abundantly clear:

 

People on their own are not qualified to rule.  They cannot be good kings or any other type of top ruler.

 

We have this guidance given us way back in the early books of the Bible.  The Israelites kept pestering the spiritual leader of their time, Samuel, for God to give them a king.  They wanted to have a king like all the other nations.  Of course, God was their leader.  They were his people.  And no nation could compete with Israel when they were truly following God.

 

Still these Israelites kept demanding a king.

 

So God decided to give them one.  Samuel was so ashamed, but God pointed out to him it was not Samuel they had rejected but God himself.  Imagine.  What if you or I had that choice?  Would you take God over President Biden or President Trump or any other worldly leader?  Of course you would, if you are a true believer.  Otherwise, probably not.

 

So Samuel told the people all the horrible things a king would do to them.  You can read all this in 1 Samuel 8.

 

And then he went forward and anointed Saul as God had led him to do.  And the rest is history.  Saul had some good points but also some very bad ones.  And David finally became King.  He too had some good points.  But not entirely.  And so it went.  King after king, in Judah and Israel.  Good and bad, but often really bad.

 

No doubt many of their problems could have all been avoided but the people chose to have a king. 

 

And here we are today with our human top leaders.  The current government obviously doesn’t know what to do with the key problems of the day.  It is a matter of stumbling along.  That is true throughout the world.  And it is apparent the leaders – at least most – don’t know where we are in time and what is soon to happen with the Lord’s return.  They are just lost in their confused and jumbled world.

 

Jesus has promised to his believers that we will rule with him.  We will sit on his throne with him!  How wonderful is that!  And how wonderful is it that we will rule with him, not by ourselves.  With him!

 

And Jesus will be King of all the earth.

 

 

 

February 2024

 

Copyright © 2024 by John Newlin

 

 

 

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