Daniel 4: 17
... The Most High rules over the kingdoms of the World. He gives them to anyone He chooses--even to the lowliest of people.
Our Almighty God is truly the mighty Potentate Who rules over the whole Universe with wisdom and justice. And He deals with the sons and daughters of Mankind with tender mercies and compassion.
He showed Nebuchadnezzar what a base person he was, in giving him the mind of an animal for seven "times," long enough for his hair and nails to grow grotesquely.
But He did not leave him in that condition. God restored his sanity, and with it the honor and authority of his kingdom. God's mercy to him, in inflicting on him this period of mental illness, brought him to recognize that the Lord God Almighty, the Most High God, is the One Who gave him his kingdom in the first place, not he himself.
God is the one Who sets up and casts down all who have any authority in this World, and the heart of the king, the ruler, is in His hand, to turn it whithersoever He will.
And His great, grand Plan of the Ages is unfolding even today before my very eyes!
Praise and Glory and Honor and Authority and Thanksgiving and Blessing and Wisdom and Power and Might be to our Lord God forever and ever!
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
