Responding to the 2008 Presidential Election: a Christian Perspective (part 3)

I would now like to look at three types of rulers God has established and moved through in different ways. The First I would like to look are those Leaders who do not worship God whose opposition to Him He uses in the redemption of his people. I have two New Testament and one Old Testament examples. They are Pharaoh, Pilot, and Herod. Pharaoh was used by God to demonstrate his power by hardening his heart so that God might display his love for people and his Control over all things by sending the plagues and ultimately delivering the Israelites to the land He had promised them after years of slavery in Egypt. Similarly God used both Pilot and Herod in advancing his redemptive plan during the life and misty of John the Baptist and Jesus. Acts 13:27-30 says, “The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath. Though they found no proper ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed. When they had carried out all that was written about him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb. But God raised him from the dead.” God used all three men, all of whom were opposed to his puposes, used them to fulfill those puposes. The take home lesson is that, yes, while some Obama's policies are opposed to God He may use these proposed evils for our redemptive good.