{"id":2247,"date":"2016-07-23T14:11:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T19:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/?page_id=2247"},"modified":"2024-06-02T15:19:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T20:19:11","slug":"kings-queens-and-princes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/kings-queens-and-princes","title":{"rendered":"Kings, Queens and Princes"},"content":{"rendered":"

INTRODUCTION<\/strong>
\nIn these modern times we do not think much about kings except with respect to a few foreign cultures that continue to hold on to ancient traditions regarding monarchies. Those of us who live in advanced (more or less) democratic cultures find it difficult to understand how these other cultures can place their trust (more or less) in kings and queens who govern for life and who are replaced by their natural children when they die. On the surface it seems less civilized and modern than systems in which leaders are democratically elected and given authority to govern for a defined period of time.<\/p>\n

When reading the Bible, these images of kings and kingdoms tend to confuse our understanding of what God had in mind when he used the concept of\u00a0royalty and kingdoms to communicate\u00a0spiritual truth to us. We can accept that the Messiah is a king in the House of David. But beyond that, those of us who do not live in a culture that practices monarchical<\/a> government tend to dismiss whatever God has to say about kings and lesser levels of royalty.\u00a0 Neither can we see ourselves functioning as\u00a0royalty in the classical sense and we have no idea of what it means to function as a king spiritually. Nor can we imagine submitting ourselves to a human with\u00a0royal authority. It all seems so backward and unsophisticated.<\/p>\n

Therefore, we tend to\u00a0consider scriptures with stories about\u00a0kings, queens and princes only for their historical value. And we all but dismiss what God says about us being kings. We have a hard time thinking that they might\u00a0apply to us because we do not live in that kind of governmental system. We are smugly confident about our enlightened, modern ways and look down our spiritual noses at backward cultures who made mistakes that we would never make.<\/p>\n

By looking at kings, queens and princes historically and as royalty in archaic governmental structures, however, we deny what God said about the effectiveness of all scripture for training in righteousness<\/a>. With this attitude firmly in place, we tend to miss the symbolic meaning of kings, queens and princes which we see as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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