Surely this is a lesson for our day. We hear many cries today for a righteous ruler. The desire among many in each election is for a President to be elected who will oppose abortion and homosexuality and stand for family values as set forth in Scripture. No, not according to this passage. Yet we do not have to stop here.
Scripture provides a number of other similar illustrations.
Moses led a people who refused to enter the Promised Land. God would have given them the victory. They gave in to democracy and believed the false report of the ten spies rather than the accurate report of the two. They refused to follow the righteous leadership of Moses. That generation was destroyed over the next 40 years in the wilderness.