What Do We In Jesus Do About Evil Rulers

By R. Tyler, oldeservant@excite.com
3/26/05

What do you do about tyrants and oligarchs, judges or rulers or

legislators, who make laws and pass judgments on the basis of their
own personal baises and priorities, like many of those in the USA who
have and show contempt for our precious Constitution and its writers?
What do you do about self-willed judges who decree that conscious,
alert and responsive humans should be starved to death, like the Nazi
judges did to people whose lives had no value according to Nazi
values? What do we do when our rulers, legislators, judges and law
enforcement agents command us to do that which requires us to
disobey the specific, clear and explicit commands of Scripture? What
do we do when godless and antiChrist Judges command you not to give
your daughter food and drink that would keep her alive? What do you
do when the government and its agents tell you to murder your unborn
child or go to jail (China)? What do you do when the police, your
mother and a doctor agree to starve your coherent, aware, alert and
responsive dad to death, your dad who is so depressed he wants to
die? What do you do when the state and the school take your minor
child across state lines without your permission to help her kill her
unborn child?

1. First of all we pray for them according to 1 Tm 2:

1* ¶ I exhort then, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions
and thanksgivings be offered on behalf of all people; 2 including kings
and all who are in high station, in order that we may live peaceful and
tranquil lives with all godliness and gravity.

2. We obey them according to Rom 13 as long as what they tell us to

do does not require us to disobey the specific, clear and explicit
instructions and commandments of/in the Scriptures (Ezek 17:13-20;
Moses & Pharaoh; Acts 4:15-22).
+++Pr 8:16 by Me princes rule, and nobles, all the judges of the earth.
+++Ex 22:28 Thou shalt not revile the judges, nor curse a prince
amongst thy people.
+++Jer 27:13 Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by
the famine, and by the pestilence, as Jehovah hath spoken concerning
the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
+++Ezek 17:13 . . . .16 As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, verily in the
place of the king that made him king, whose oath he despised, and
whose covenant he broke, even with him, in the midst of Babylon, shall
he die. . . . 20
+++Eze 20:18* And I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk
not in the statutes of your fathers, neither keep their ordinances, nor
defile yourselves with their idols.

3. When they do evil to others, we are instructed to respectfully, gently

and civilly (2 Tim 2:24-26) tell them, expose to them (Ephes 5:7-11),
what God says about the evil they are doing, warn them of God's
righteous judgment on all evil (Col 1:28) and invite them to turn to
Jesus, forsaking and repenting of their evil doing in genuine godly
sorrow (2 Cor 7).

4. We are instructed not to avenge ourselves, like Jesus and the

Apostles didn't avenge themselves; which includes not avenging the
evil done to your loved ones, like Jesus and the Apostles didn't avenge
their loved ones who were cruelly executed.
+++Rom 12:18 If you can, so far as it depends on you, live at peace
with all the world. 19* Do not be revengeful, my dear friends, but give
way before anger; for it is written, “‘Revenge belongs to Me: I will pay
back,’ says the Lord.” 20 On the contrary, therefore, if your enemy is
hungry, give him food; if he is thirsty, quench his thirst. For by doing
this you will be heaping burning coals upon his head. 21* Do not be
overcome by evil/harm, but overcome the evil/harm with goodness.

5. We must trust and believe His Word that He will avenge us and our
loved ones of the evil done to them by evil rulers or judges or
enforcement agents, and thank Him in advance for being faithful to
justly avenge the evil done, as He has used famine, war/violence, wild
beasts (including harmful microorganisms), disease/pestilence and
death to do so over the centuries.
+++Jer 7:9 What? steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear
falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom
ye know not... 10 then ye come and stand before me, in this house
which is called by my name, and say, "We are delivered," --in order to
do all these abominations! . . . 15 and I will cast you out of my sight, as
I have cast out all your brethren, all the seed of Ephraim. 16 ¶ And
thou, pray not for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them,
and make not intercession to me; for I will not hear thee
+++Jer 23:14 And in the prophets of Jerusalem have I seen a horrible
thing: they commit adultery, and walk in falsehood, and strengthen the
hands of evildoers, so that none doth return [to God] from his
wickedness. They are all become unto me as Sodom, and the
inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
+++Ezek 14:12 ¶ And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 13
Son of man, when a land sinneth against me by working unfaithfulness,
and I stretch out my hand upon it, and >>>break the staff of the bread
thereof, and send famine upon it, and cut off man and beast from
it;<<< 14 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, should be in
it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith
the Lord Jehovah. . . . . 21 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: How much
more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the
>>>sword, and the famine, and the evil beast, and the
pestilence,<<< to cut off from it man and beast!
+++Jer 48:42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people,
because he hath magnified himself against Jehovah.
+++Amos 2:2 And I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the
palaces of Kerijoth; and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and
with the sound of the trumpet. 3 And >>>I will cut off the judge from
the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him,<<<
saith Jehovah. 4 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah,
and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have despised
the law of Jehovah, and have not kept his statutes; and their lies have
caused them to err, after which their fathers walked. 5 And I will send a
fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
+++Re 6:8 And I saw: and behold, a pale horse, and he that sat upon
it, his name was Death, and hades followed with him; and authority
was given to him over the fourth of the earth >>>to slay with sword,
and with hunger, and with death, and by the beasts<<< of the earth.
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As we have seen with the record number of mountain lion attacks in
California,
the shark swarms that emptied the Florida beaches this March, the
increasing number of deaths from the pestilence of HPV and HCV and
HIV in the USA and Africa, increasing cancers, viruses that are capable
of killing thousands quickly, organisms becoming antibiotic resistant,
the famines in Africa, the sword of warfare and terrorism on every
continent on earth ----- these ancient plagues are still alive and well on
planet earth --- and available to God to use against the evil people,
rulers, judges or enforcers as He so chooses. If God immediately
judged evil doers, evil doers would stop doing evil because they don't
want to suffer, not because they love God instead of their evil. God
wants people to do His will because they Love Him and choose to
submit to Him and His will, so He doesn't always make obvious to the
evil doers the connection between their evil and His judgment of their
evil ---- often allowing there to be decades between their evil and His
judgment of their evil. The seventy year judgment of Israel happened
after 490 years of disobeying God's command to let the land rest one
year out of every 7. Pharaoh and Egypt were judged after sinning
against Israel for 400 years. Herod ruled evilly for decades before he
was judged. Mao ruled China for decades and killed over 50 million
people before he died and went to Hell.

6. Our God has no pleasure in the death of the wicked (Eze 18:32; Eze
33:11), enlightening every human (born or murdered in the womb -- Jn
1:9), conviciting everyone in the world of their sin and His righteous
judgment of sin (Jn 16:7-11). What He longs for is for us to turn to Him
forsaking our sin and agreeing with Him about our sin (Prov 28:13; 2
Cor 7; 1 Jn 1:9).
+++Jer 29:10 For thus saith Jehovah: When seventy years shall be
accomplished for Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word
toward you, in bringing you back to this place. 11 For I know the
thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and
not of evil, to give you in your latter end a hope. 12 And ye shall call
upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto
you; 13 and ye shall seek me and find me, for ye shall search for me
with all your heart, 14 and I will be found of you, saith Jehovah. And I
will turn your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and
from all the places whither I have driven you, saith Jehovah; and I will
bring you again into the place whence I have caused you to be carried
away captive.

7. As with Pharaoh, He will harden our hearts into our own way and will
only after we have repeatedly hardened our own hearts against Him
and His will (Exodus 1-9). Then it is only a matter of time before the
hammer of judgment falls on the unrepentant.
+++2 Pet2:10 ¶ especially those who, following the promptings of
their lower nature, indulge their polluting passions and despise all
control. Audacious and self-willed, they feel no awe of the Mighty,
maligning them, 11 even where angels, though excelling them in
strength and power, do not bring against them a malignant charge
before the Lord. 12 These men, however, like animals without reason,
intended by nature to be caught and killed--these men, I say, malign
those of whom they know nothing, and will assuredly perish through
their own corruption, 13 suffering themselves, as the penalty for the
suffering that they have inflicted. They think that pleasure consists in
the self-indulgence of the moment. They are a stain and a disgrace,
indulging, as they do, in their wanton revelry, even while joining you at
your feasts. 14 They have eyes only for adulteresses, eyes never tired
of sin; they entice weak souls; their minds are trained to covet; they
live under a curse. 15 Leaving the straight road, they have gone astray
and followed in the steps of Balaam, the son of Beor, who set his heart
on the reward for wrong-doing, . . . . 17 These men are like springs
without water, or mists driven before a gale; and for them the blackest
darkness has been reserved. 18 With boastful and foolish talk, they
appeal to the passions of man’s lower nature, and, by their profligacy,
entice those who are just escaping from the men who live such
misguided lives. 19 They promise them freedom, while they
themselves are slaves to corrupt habits; for a man is the slave of
anything to which he gives way. 20 If, after having escaped the
polluting influences of the world, through knowing our Lord and Savior,
Jesus Christ, men are again entangled in them, and give way to them,
their last state has become worse than their first. 21 It would, indeed,
have been better for them not to have known the Way of
Righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn away from the holy
Command delivered to them.[1 John 2:19] 22 In their case is seen the
truth of the proverb-- ‘A dog returns to what he has vomited’ and ‘A
sow after washing to her wallowing-place in the mud.’TCNT
Now that's a pretty good description of many judges and legislators in
America today, and they have God's hammers --- famine, war/violence,
wild beasts (including harmful microorganisms), disease/pestilence and
death --- hanging over their heads. But what about America as a
nation that has rejected Jesus, mocked His account of creation, defied
His commandments and disrespect His people? God is not mocked and
I still believe his hammer will be a nuclear attack on our west coast by
China, in a war involving Taiwan, the Phillipines, Japan and South
Korea.

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