Our rulers today, in America and in other nations, are idiots and are a curse upon us! God, in his providence, often gives a nation wicked rulers as a judgment upon the people. Wrote John Calvin:
Indeed, he says that those who rule for the public benefit are true patterns and evidences of this beneficence of his; that they who rule unjustly and incompetently have been raised up by him to punish the wickedness of the people; that all equally have been endowed with that holy majesty with which he has invested lawful power. I shall proceed no farther until I have added some sure testimonies of this thing. Yet, we need not labor to prove that a wicked king is the Lord’s wrath upon the earth [Job 34:30, Vg.; Hos. 13:11; Isa. 3:4; 10:5; Deut. 28:29], for I believe no man will contradict me; and thus nothing more would be said of a king than of a robber who seizes your possessions, of an adulterer who pollutes your marriage bed, or of a murderer who seeks to kill you. For Scripture reckons all such calamities among God’s curses.
(Book four, chapter 20, section 25 of the Institutes - See here)
"When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, But when a wicked man rules, people groan." (Prov. 29: 2)
"Like a roaring lion and a rushing bear Is a wicked ruler over a poor people." (28: 15)
Today we have "the blind leading the blind." God help us!
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