Daniel 4:32 “And they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. They shall make you eat grass like oxen; and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He chooses.”
The context of the above quoted passage of scripture is that the angel of God was teaching King Nebuchadnezzar a harsh lesson, which is that God decides who will govern a nation at any given point in time. King Nebuchadnezzar had become prideful in all of “his” achievements, and had begun to ascribe his achievements to his own prowess instead of acknowledging that God had given him all that he had. And so God taught him a lesson by removing everything from him, and only restored him once he acknowledged that God rules in the affairs of men. And so we see that just as God sets parameters around the lives of men to ensure that His purpose is fulfilled in their lives, so it is that God also sets parameters around the nations in the earth for that same purpose. So how does God do that? God does that by choosing who will govern the nations of the world, and then influencing circumstances around those individuals to place them into the positions of authority that He has predestined for them. And so God becomes more involved in influencing the decisions made by these individuals, because God uses them to influence the direction that nation states take. For example, the decisions taken by the president of a nation has more impact on the direction of a nation than the decisions taken by a bus driver in that same nation. And so it is for that reason that God is more actively involved with influencing the decisions of those whom He has placed in authority over the nations of the earth, and for the same reason God is not actively involved in the decisions made by the bus driver.
Michael E.B. Maher
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