LIFE: Democracy And A Great King

This is three quotes from http://www.wikiquote.org/

1. Democracy is a form of government in which power ultimately comes from the people governed, whether through direct voting or through elected representatives.

2. All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence a zest and camaraderie that outweighed its pitfalls and defects. It gave to thought and science and enterprise the freedom essential to their operation and growth. It broke down the walls of privilege and class, and in each generation it raised up ability from every rank and place.
Historian Will Durant in his book The Lessons of History, chapter "Government and History" p.78

3. The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson

The following two quotes have "unknown authors" and the titles were given by Loren Collins.

1. "WHY DEMOCRACIES FAIL"

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.

2. "FATAL SEQUENCE"

Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.

My opinion is that America is at the point just before a dictatorship. Democracy is indeed the best form of government, if the majority of the people have a moral foundation based on the Bible. That is no big wonder since the Bible is God's word and directions to mankind.

The following is a quote from www. Wiktionary.org .

1. KING

"A male monarch; member of a royal family who is the supreme ruler of his nation."

So a king doesn't take a vote. He is the supreme ruler. This is a good situation if the king has your best interest at heart. Psalm 47 talks about the greatest king.

O clap your hands, all peoples ; Shout to God with the voice of joy.
For the LORD Most High is to be feared, A great King over all the earth.
He subdues peoples under us And nations under our feet.
He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom He loves. Selah.
God has ascended with a shout, The LORD, with the sound of a trumpet.
Sing praises to God, sing praises ; Sing praises to our King, sing praises.
For God is the King of all the earth ; Sing praises with a skillful psalm.
God reigns over the nations, God sits on His holy throne.
The princes of the people have assembled themselves as the people of the God of Abraham, For the shields of the earth belong to God ; He is highly exalted.

Psalm 47, New American Standard Bible

The following is a prophecy of the Great King (Jesus).

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion ! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem ! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Zechariah 9:9, New American Standard Bible

Next is a quote form the gospel of Matthew. Jesus is talking.
"Then the King will say to those on His right, 'Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Matthew 25:34, NASB

This article is intended to show the difference between a democracy today and a Kingdom that is coming to this earth. The Kingdom that is coming will never end and will be ever increasing.

How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God ! How vast is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. Ps 139:17-18, NASB