What determines whether presidents and kings rise or fall?
History indicates that presidents and kings rise or fall largely because of the men around them—their advisers and counselors. Weak advisers, or those who constantly get a leader into trouble, cause history to judge that leader harshly. God, by contrast, needs no cabinet or counselors.
Les explains that history demonstrates presidents and kings rise or fall pretty much based on the men around them—their advisers and counselors. If they have weak advisers, or people constantly getting the president or king into hot water, history will not be very kind to them. By contrast, God does not have that problem. He does not need a cabinet, a kitchen cabinet, or counselors; He is all the counseling He ever needed. Les connects this to the verse in Acts about the predetermined counsel and foreknowledge of God: the triune God came together without any outside counsel and put the whole thing together, and His ways are past human understanding.
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?