Ras KebreAB,
there are many misunderstandings.
When the Isrealites chose a king among them, they disobey God, Who was their Only King. From that time, they didn't serve God as their king, but one of them, and one of them is so great in his own eyes to believe he is king over his brothers, when, instead, we are all equal. And He Who rules over the equal men can be Only God.
As the Apostolic Teaching says, we have to bow and rispect and recognise the authorities, the secular powers over us. Infact we have to pay obedience to them. When the Apostle says so, he does not want to say that authorities are right, infact he hiself was imprisoned. He just says that until the Mosth High comes again, we are bound to obey men-kings. In this sense, the davidic or judaic kingship lineage is ungodly, because it wants just to take the place of God, and be king when the Only King is God. Infact Genesis says that the Scepter shall not depart from Judah till Shiloh come. In the sense that until Christ come and sit upon the Throne, there will always be a human king we have to bow to. You see, the western christianity faught agains the secular power and wanted to be the ruler over secular things, and in this way they trasgressed the Apostolic Teachings, and cannot recognise a King Who free us from the bondage and chain of human kingship (slavery etc..) because they were secular rulers for themselves: the Pope wanted to be king.
When you say that everything happen to us done by another king is legitimated by the Father you say right. You quoted the Christ when He says to Pontius that he (Pontius) could do nothing if his power didn't come from the Father. And this is the same for Israel: Solomon was annointed with a Holy , Godly Oil, and Jah gave him power over all. But this doesn't mean that Solomon's rulership is right. as i said before, God allowed a king , as well as He allowed that a woman could be stoned to death. He did it because He knew man was wicked, and that man wanted this. He did it just to show us our wickedness, so that we could repent. Now He take away the human scepter, and no one else can sit onHis Throne, indeed, there is no more succession on the Throne of David in Ethiopia. And no other Caesar has the power given by God, no more.
Now, things have changed because, He as Moses free us politically. When Iyasus came, He freed us from the bondage of spiritual sin, but not from the chain on Herod or Caesar. He didn't give us any law to assure international morality and respect for human rights, no bill, no parliament, no constitution. His Mission could not be bound to the Heavenly side, because He created both Heaven and Earth.
The first time, He assured us lie after death, life in Heaven and the forgiveness of sins, a Heavenly way. But He could not forget the Earh, and therefore He came and free us from Egypt, from Babylon, in the political sense, very concrete.
Then, the Book of Jubelee says that "Knowledge went on earth, and tried to dwell among men, but She found not a place of dwelling among them, because Adam and Eve were wicked, and She went to dwell in the heart of the angles, in Heaven". The Bible also says "Heaven as His Throne, Earth under His feet". We see that since Heaven cannot corrupt, they remained the same Holy Places of ever, and that when angels sinned they were thrown out, as Satan. In the earth, instead, were men are Parents, and they have children, they pass they sin by generation, from Adam to Abraham to Moses and so on., as Paul says in the Letter to Romans.
So, Heaven kept His Original purity, and not so for Earh. But we know that "as it was in the beginning so shall it be in the end". the Garden of Eden must be re established, and the Throne of Jah, that the whole Bible says to be in Heaven, must be re established on Earth. Why, if bot Heaven and Earth are His Creatures, only on Heaven His Throne could be? On Earth TOO! But Earth did corrupt, and it came to pass that on Earth there were priests and kings that were not God. So, if all must be re established, Jah must be again and for ever our God and King.
Now i think is clear that, though He can't change, cant lose anything nor achieve anything since HE IS NOW AND FOREVER EVERSINCE, the Earth was ruled by unjust laws owing to unjust kings to whm we had to bow , and against whom now we are authorised by the Mosth High King to rebel and figh t, and GET UP STAND UP. Before He came, no human right bill was available, that recognised both God and man in the principles of Life. (look at the frech pagan human right bill 1789, or anything else, you won't find anything like the Onu Chart, signed by Haile Selasie in Person). He has always been King, but still in the Christian era, we had to pay obedience to other kings authorised by God , as you sayd, was Pontius. yet Iyasus taught we can't serve two masters; but it was so that it had to be. And that contradiction now is up for ever.
so anyone that in the time of Saul wanted to do something that Saul had forbidden , he could, but, disobeying, he had to be imprisoned, just as in Egypt. Now that our Moses Haile Selassie has come, we can disobey to whom we want, and if imprisoned, we can escape, rebe and fight and fight and fight. Rmember that when the Apostles were imprisoned they didn't flee thanks to them selves, but thanks to an Angel who freed them. They didn't rebel, they just kept on spreading the Gospel paying the consequences, not rebelling.
The Book of Oseah Prophet speaks aboundantly about the erasing of the davidic lineage and crown , to leave the Seat the True King.
I think that the best way to reason is real time chat. In that way all the misunderstanding woul not take place, and there would be more calm to speak.
Hope to have been clear enough
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