Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
Why did the apostle Paul urge us to pray with “supplications” for “kings and all that are in authority” (1 Tim. 2:1, 2)? The “all” must mean of whatever political party our sympathies are enlisted; and yes, of whatever nation, too. It must also include the embattled police who are trying desperately to “hold” the tornado-winds of wild human passion that are blowing in France. If you own a modest-sized French car and you don’t have a fortress-like garage to park it at night, the gangs of demented youth will torch it, as they have thousands.
The “all in authority” means that we should pray for Jacques Chirac, president of France, as well as for the president of the United States. These men are human beings of flesh, blood, and nerves like us all. No matter what political giants they may have been, they are weak protoplasm. Leaders of both political parties in the U. S. believed the falsehoods that led the nation to war in Iraq; they were finite men and women subject to deception. As those who reverence the Bible and its Author, we have a holy duty we must not sinfully neglect—to put ourselves in their place as we pray. To bear the responsibilities of state just now could drive any “rulers” unglued, especially if they are immature. “Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child” (Eccl. 10:16, KJV). The Savior has told us that in these last times today leaders’ “hearts [will be] failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth” because “powers” that have always been a solid foundation beneath us “will be shaken” (Luke 21:26).
Now Iran wants to wipe Israel off the earth: this recalls Abraham’s pre-New Covenant conflict between Ishmael and Isaac. We are still enmeshed in that issue! God has promised to send us “Elijah the prophet” (Mal. 4:4, 5) who will proclaim powerful New Covenant gospel truth to the world (cf. Rev. 18:1-4)—a final message of grace and mercy.
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