Kings are gods in Their Eyes

I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me. Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream. Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof. (Daniel 4: 5 – 7)

There is an uproar in many places of the world against leaders who have abandoned common sense and decided that they were bigger than the nations they led in the policies they pursue.

I then thought to consider the kings in scripture to be able to understand not only why they believe so but also know how the led can take back their nations. And it is not a pleasant pursuit.

Do you realize that very few kings, probably less than enough to count on the fingers of one hand, made seeking God a priority? And do you realize that some who started right ended up badly like Solomon, Hezekiah, Asa, Uzziah? Do you also realize that the others who sought God did so after all their options crumbled like Manasseh?

Simply speaking, a king will seek God when no other option remains. It means that he has tried all options and they have failed him terribly.

All kings have their magicians, wizards, etc. And they listen to them.

They will only stop listening to them when the same group acknowledge that they are stumped. And they do not do that easily. It is a war to death for some.

Remember Pharaoh? Nebuchadnezzar? Belshazzar? Ahab? Zedekiah?

But before we go on, why is that so?

People love being in charge. Wasn’t that the reason we fell in Eden? We do not enjoy oversight or control.

What happens then if people make you their lord? That desire shoots through the roof. You feel it is beneath you to be under anybody or anything else.

And that is where sorcerers come in. They are prophets of the earthly order ruled by the god of the world and so completely at home in everything that happens in the world. But it also means that they are opposed to God’s agenda.

A king will therefore look for spiritual counsel that agrees with him as opposed to that which comes from God. Remember Micaiah?

I repeat, the only time he will seek to know God’s will is when all his systems collapse and his prophets and counsellors confess they can do nothing about it. Otherwise he will still continue to spite God and His people in his actions and words since there is nothing anyone can do about it, in his eyes.

Incidentally you will realize that is how kings and kingdoms go down, Nebuchadnezzar being a prime example.

Let us stop pleading with our leaders to listen to reason because they will not. Let us not plead them to consider the vulnerable because they register nowhere in their radar. Let us not seek constitutional ways to speak sense to them because constitution be damned if it does not support them. They can even change it because they have the resources to do so as we have seen.

And spiritual logic is not only detested but feared to the point that they could kill the messenger. Remember Jeroboam and Herod and Asa?

We can only pray that he and his sorcerers are trampled on by the King of kings because then he will have nowhere else to run to. Then we pray that God will raise for us a leader connected to his agenda for our nation.

You see the only language an arrogant leader listen to is a power greater than his own. And no power is greater than God’s.

You are free to disagree with me. But this is what I strongly feel we need to do.

Only God can undo the mess the pride and selfishness our leadership has visited on us and our land.