I feel like this is an extremely unpopular opinion but I really don't think republicanism was a step forward for humanity.
Monarchy is the most intuitive form of government. People tend to take care of what they own, and politicians have no incentive to leave anything better for the next generation because they really have no stake in their country. Their legacy dies with them.
A monarchy with constitutional (and familial) checks and balances is vastly preferable to a republic where the foreign interests run free and loot the taxpayers. It's pure and much simpler. No Congress, no Supreme Court, no ridiculous sham elections. Everyone knows who's in charge and what the rules are.
Those aren't monarchs, they are dictators. Dictators are not kings they are just self-serving politicians that won the game of politics through cunning and violence. The Christian Kings, not perfect, ideally should be conformed to God the Father, and were either elected or selected by accident of birth.
Christ is the King of Kings, not the President of Presidents or Secretary of Secretaries.
You obviously have no clue what ""King of Kings"" means....
It doesn't mean he VALIDATES the Kings of the Earth, he NEVER Validated any of them, in fact, his Kingdom is in the spiritual Realm, it isn't Earthly at all....
And there is Only God and Jesus who are Kings there....
Jesus and God absolutely Negate any and all Earthly Kingdoms and Powers, and I doubt that you can see or comprehend that....
In a Republic, as in Early America, the Man of the House, Married or not, was considered to be ""King of the Castle"", King in his own Home, and as a Christian, Jesus or God was His King....
In a Monarchy, there is the King, his immediate Family, his Military, His Power, and his SLAVES....
In American Republic, Everyone is Equal under the Law, but our Original Laws have been Perverted and Changed and Aberrated to such a point that they scarcely look like what they were Originally, a great loss to be sure....
Jesus King of Kings speaks to a Republic, where the Man of the House is King, and not at all to your shitty Monarchs....
America is not a Christian country (it's public governing documents), easy proof
What is the First Commandment?
What is the First Amendment?
I rest my case.
Republics and Democracies were known by Jesus and his contemporaries and well as the OT jews, but it's never mentioned in the Bible. Only Kings and Kingdoms. Even Rome is not referred to as a Republic but a Kingdom by the prophet Daniel.
Are you sure it's such easy proof???
Much of the Laws we have can be found in the Old Testament, and some in the New Testament....
I have made the exact same argument you're making to others, but I only referenced The Law Of Nations by Emmerich de Vattel as that is the set of books used by the Continental Congress and Geo. Wash. when they were putting together the founding Documents, namely the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation, but later the U.S. Constitution....
And when I did reference certain points, I was Given a reference to Bible Scriptures, so it's not just some of, but most of your directional Thinking that is flawed....
At the time that Jesus showed up in Rome, it had ceased to be a Republic, the praetorian Guard, what we would call the Secret Service, had killed off the the Leaders of the the Roman Republic, sold it off to the highest bidder, and made it into a Monarchy, so yeah, it was a shit place to live and exist, and only due to it's vastness did it survive and expand, and is exactly what the Monied Elites of the World are trying to DO to the U.S. at this time....
If they cannot Rule over a free People, then they directly intend to burn it all down and Rule over the ashes....
And That speaks volumes about Monarchy, Rulers of Ashes....