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(With all their evils, are kings servants of God? The Bible gives the answer.:) Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylon, was a great king and a very evil tyrant. And yet, God ordered all the earth to submit to the power of the King of Babylon. Therefore, when the Jews hardened and refused to obey the will of God, He ordered the prophet Jeremiah to say to the Jews:

Nebuchadnezzar was a servant of God in that he becamabecame [sic] an instrument of His wrath. (:That is why Paul calls the evil and cruel kings "servants of God." But this does not mean that the priests of the Church should praise these Caesars and emulate their deeds and techniques, incorporating them as an article of faith into a system for the defense of the Church.:) Jer. 25: 8–10,. 206*