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(:It is the responsibility of the pagan rulers to preserve peace- But the devil always seeks How to prevent or pervert this order.:) He led the first two human brothers to do evil ami to murder because of hatred. He does this in every generation, (and every generation has its own Cains). The secular sovereignty is like a fence, supposed to preserve the lost sheep for a later time of salvation. But when mankind arouses the anger of God no fence can resist His wrath. Then kings make wars and inflict all kinds of sufferings That is why Samuel said to the Jewish people,

For all men and their kings are foolish. The Master Adversary says that royal sovereignty and civil authority began with Cain's lust for power when he built the Gen. 4.

1-Sam. 12: 13 and 25.

"For all men are foolish by nature." Wisdom of Solomon, 13:1.

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