We're suffering a deficit of language here, I feel.
Kings, and the rule of monarchy are based (as we all know, and I recently found out) on their authority and place in the "Great Chain of Being".
Even if we subscribed to the Great Chain model, it would be, in order from the top: God, Angels, Heaven, Humans, (subsets=) Kings, Royals, Aristocrats, Nobility, and so on, downward.
Jesus can't be anything other than God, and describing him as "King" doesn't really suggest otherwise, we just don't have a good way to describe him.
People do tend to forget if you are for Kings, that also includes serfs, no upward mobility, etc. We put an end to that in 1776 and aren't looking back.
It was toward the end of the Book of Judges as the final end of that era, before the Book of Kings. The Israelites had asked the prophet of the time if God would appoint them a King. He counseled with God who instructed him to tell the Israelites all the woes that would result from having a King, and he did, but the Israelites still wanted a King. So began the history starting with King Saul, leading to King David, and then to King Solomon in the Book of Kings. Not hard to look up.
We're suffering a deficit of language here, I feel.
Kings, and the rule of monarchy are based (as we all know, and I recently found out) on their authority and place in the "Great Chain of Being". Even if we subscribed to the Great Chain model, it would be, in order from the top: God, Angels, Heaven, Humans, (subsets=) Kings, Royals, Aristocrats, Nobility, and so on, downward.
Jesus can't be anything other than God, and describing him as "King" doesn't really suggest otherwise, we just don't have a good way to describe him.
People do tend to forget if you are for Kings, that also includes serfs, no upward mobility, etc. We put an end to that in 1776 and aren't looking back.
Be mindful of the fact that God advised Israel against having kings. Those passages read like pure libertarianism.
To what passages are you referring? Can you copy or highlight them?
It was toward the end of the Book of Judges as the final end of that era, before the Book of Kings. The Israelites had asked the prophet of the time if God would appoint them a King. He counseled with God who instructed him to tell the Israelites all the woes that would result from having a King, and he did, but the Israelites still wanted a King. So began the history starting with King Saul, leading to King David, and then to King Solomon in the Book of Kings. Not hard to look up.
Er, this was far before the voyage of the Mayflower.