The Government is NOT God

Daniel 6
Our relationship to God and Government from a Biblical perspective.

Daniel 6:10
10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house, and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem,

he got down upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, 

as he had done previously.

Isaiah 10:1
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

Daniel 6:10
10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house, and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem,

he got down upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.

Ezekiel 28:6-7
Therefore thus says the Lord God: 

Because you have imagined your mind as the mind of God

Behold therefore, I am bringing strangers upon you, the most terrible of the nations, and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom [O Tyre], and they shall defile your splendor.

Corruption Explained

Daniel 6:3
Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

Daniel 6:4a
Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom

Corruption Inflamed 

Daniel 6:4b
but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithfulneither was there any error or fault found in him.

Ezekiel 14:13, 19-20
13 Son of man, when a land sins against Me

19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out My wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast,

20 Though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, says the Lord God, they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would but deliver their own lives by their righteousness 

Corruption Unrestrained 

Daniel 6:4
Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Danielexcept we find it against him concerning the law of his God. 

Corruption Insane

Daniel 6:7-9
All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. 

Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altered notWherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

Corruption Disdained 

Daniel 6:24
24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; 

and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.

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