The First Book of Samuel makes it clear: Democracy comes from the devil. How so? Today’s Reading is from 1 Samuel, 8: 4-7, 12-22. We don’t need to see the entirety of the reading to understand that Democracy comes from the devil.
All the elders of Israel came in a body to Samuel at Ramah
and said to him, “Now that you are old,
and your sons do not follow your example,
appoint a king over us, as other nations have, to judge us.”
Samuel was displeased when they asked for a king to judge them.
He prayed to the LORD, however, who said in answer:
“Grant the people’s every request.
Samuel delivered the message of the LORD in full
to those who were asking him for a king.
He told them:
“The rights of the king who will rule you will be as follows:
He will take your sons and assign them to his chariots and horses,
and they will run before his chariot.
He will also appoint from among them his commanders of groups
of a thousand and of a hundred soldiers.
He will set them to do his plowing and his harvesting,
and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.
He will use your daughters as ointment makers, as cooks, and as bakers.
He will take the best of your fields, vineyards, and olive groves,
and give them to his officials.
He will tithe your crops and your vineyards,
and give the revenue to his eunuchs and his slaves.
He will take your male and female servants,
as well as your best oxen and your asses,
and use them to do his work.
He will tithe your flocks and you yourselves will become his slaves.
The people, however, refused to listen to Samuel’s warning and said,
“Not so! There must be a king over us.
We too must be like other nations,
with a king to rule us and to lead us in warfare
and fight our battles.”
When Samuel had listened to all the people had to say,
he repeated it to the LORD, who then said to him,
“Grant their request and appoint a king to rule them.”
After this, of course, they had many kings. Fat lot of good it did them. A few hundred years later, the kings of the Northern Tribes were conquered and deported to the North. From there, many migrated into Europe, growing the nations therein and becoming Catholic in their time. Later, many migrated to the Americas.
A couple dozen centuries passed. They tired of their kings. They complained. They revolted. But, as 1 8:4-7 Samuel makes clear, God did not answer them. God promised: “When you complain about your king, I will not answer you.”
The vainest fools decided that it was better to be ruled by those most skilled at manipulating their neighbors, they, themselves. Every day, democracies look at their leaders and see living proof of Scriptural truth: “When you complain about your king, I will not answer you.”
We see clearly in administration after administration that God kept His promise to not answer complaints about a King. So, it must have been the devil who did, destroying us with democracy after democracy. Each democracy embraces the slaughter of the unborn. Babylon resurgent spreads sin and death through peoples too paralyzed to stop it.
“But on that day, The Lord will not answer you.” He did not. We see the results in leaders of democracies all over the world. Abortion, sin, divorce, shattered families, broken lives, Moslem ascendency. Democracy comes from the devil.
