When God Casts His Vote…

I was struck by a recent study in the Book of Daniel wherein God demonstrated his power over the kingdoms of the earth. As we in the United States are presented with a presidential election, it is striking that in this moment we are not faced with a selection among the best and the brightest, but rather two men who their respective parties have deemed electable. The most successful (meaning electable) politicians in our society are often those that are most willing to compromise every moral and ethical principal in pursuit of power. Their parties assessment of electability means that they are deemed not to be the best person, but rather the best able to sway a sufficient number of the 56% of our voting age population who are expected to vote and who are residing in the appropriate locations to enable them to win the election. But in the current race strangely, and sadly, each candidate is campaigning for the other. One candidate’s message is “Vote for me! I’m less repugnant than the other guy!”; while the message of the other is “Vote for me! I don’t have dementia!”. Every time either of these men take the stage, they drive voters to their opposite, either by their overt repugnancy or their apparent cognitive decline. Who will win? Well, the repugnant candidate doesn’t listen to his handlers, so he won’t step back from the stage. His opponent hasn’t the capacity to ignore his handlers, so he is largely being hidden from public view. However, his absence testifies to his decline.

The Soviet tyrant Joseph Stalin is reputed to have said “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything”. In secular society, that thought rings true because of the conviction that the affairs of mankind are decided by mankind. However, those who know God know it to be false. Daniel 4:17 recounts the revelation from God to King Nebuchadnezzar “This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men”. It reasserts God’s authority as stated in Daniel 2:21 “And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:” In our present day we should do well to remember that God is Sovereign over all nations. A proof of this will come for us in less than two weeks as God sets up over us “the basest of men”.  I won’t speculate as to who will win. But I know that there is only one vote that counts, and His has already been cast is not dependent on the U.S. Postal Service for delivery. His will be done. Hallelujah!