Praying for Rulers

What is our stance as we consider those who have power over us, particularly when they are wicked?

Nebuchadnezzar is a classic example of a megalomanical tyrant. How do we pray for such wicked people?

1 Timothy 2:1-8 guides us. While the Bible makes plain that God has an elect people (1 Corinthians 1:26-31; Romans 9).

How do we reconcile 1Timothy 2:4 with that and with 2 Timothy 2:10?

How do we understand 1 Timothy 2:5? The death of Jesus is SUFFICIENT for all men and women and children everywhere, even though it is only EFFICIENT for believers.

Nebuchadnezzar was a low-life, and God struck him with insanity in order to humble him and bring him to confess that great confession in Daniel 4:34-38.

1 Timothy 2:1-8 encourages us to view others as elect -- in a judgment of charity of course. How can we effectively witness, or how can we effectively pray when we look at others as under the decree of reprobation? They may be, but only God knows that.

How should we sing the imprecatory Psalms in the time between the First and Second Comings of Christ? "Father, forgive them" (Luke 23:34).

I believe we will meet Nebuchadnezzar in heaven.