When God Raises Up a Ruler
Writer Author Sylvia Huffnagle
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When God raises up a ruler, He has a purpose for them. Their choices will determine their purpose and their future.
Let’s look at Ezek: 30:21-26: Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword. 22: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand. 23: And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. 24: And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man. 25: But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt. 26: And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
(Why would God raise up the king of Egypt and why would He put him down and raise up the King of Babylon, after all neither of these kings belonged to God? They were not one of His. That’s what we are going to find out.)
Ezek: 31:1-14: And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2: Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? 3: Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. 4: The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field. 5: Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth. 6: All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations. 7: Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
8: The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty. 9: I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him. 10: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; 11: I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness. 12: And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him. 13: Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches: 14: To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
(According to Ezekiel 31, God raised up the king of Egypt so that the oppressed and weak would have a place to go for refuge in their time of trouble. Israel went to Egypt different times. Abram, later Abraham went to Egypt, Isaac went to Egypt and Joseph, Jesus’ father, went to Egypt to save Jesus’ life.
Why Pharaoh? My guess is because he was in the right place at the right time for God to use him and God knew he would not oppress the people.
Why did God use him for a while and then judge him and take him out? It shows in these passages that Pharaoh got a big head. He got puffed up and according to what it says in verse 11, Pharaoh must have misused his power after he began to think more highly of himself than he ought. He apparently did what all corrupt rulers do, he concentrated on pleasing himself above all else, therefore he became an oppressor.
Why would God raise up the king of Babylon? Babylon has always been a bad influence on God’s people. Because God deemed that a lesson needed to be taught to all and that is revealed in verse 14. He wants the world to know that He alone is God and no one should think more highly of himself than that which he know to be true, which is he or she is a mere man and without God they are as grass that is here today and gone tomorrow.
God is teaching this lesson again. This is why Babylon or Babylonian thinking is taking over the world today. It is for the purpose of teaching another lesson in hearkening unto God and no other. Any teaching that is not Biblical is Babylonian and will come to naught along with all those who do not repent of that way of thinking.
Sylvia Huffnagle
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