Sacral kingship
158Daniel in the Lion's Den - A Resurrection Story
6 Mar 2023
5:43¶ 24
“Yeah, potentially. But in the ancient world if you were king, you were king by divine right and by divine nature. You were the…”
6:25¶ 25
“The money that the king got was actually the king’s money. It wasn’t money held in trust for the people, to be used for…”
20:39¶ 77
“In that ancient world, divinity especially expressed itself in the king, the emperor, who was often called the Son of God. It wasn’t in…”
128Of Contracts and Covenants (Part 1)
25 Jul 2022
5:32¶ 16
“That’s in stark contrast to all the philosophies of the ancient world, all of whom assumed that divinity was incarnate in the king, who…”
6:00¶ 17
“Christianity and biblical thought brought this new idea that you could have a king, but he can be a constitutional monarch. In fact, in…”
113Solomon
11 Apr 2022
5:29¶ 20
“So we’ve got all this going, but at the same time Solomon engages in foreign trade, which is in itself not a bad thing.…”
6:24¶ 22
“That’s a really interesting framework distinction. For us, the president is an employee of the federal government, whereas the king is really the person…”
7:00¶ 24
“Yeah, there were always limitations going back to the Anglo-Saxons and before. There was always a balance to the king, and yet that idea…”
108The Davidic Covenant
7 Mar 2022
16:49¶ 49
“That’s exactly what I was thinking of when you were talking about this earlier. What good is having an immortal king if his people…”
17:22¶ 50
“Your point about medieval thought forms is excellent and tracks through the mythologies and the legends, the Arthurian legend, for instance. The king is…”
17:43¶ 51
“That’s an echo of biblical thought forms, and as you read the Old Testament and particularly the prophets, it comes in really clear. The…”
15The Babylon Project
12 Apr 2020
15:54¶ 51
“And the priest/king often bore the title Son of God or Son of the Gods or, in Egypt, Son of the Divine Sun, Son…”
16:19¶ 52
“He is necessary because, without the order he provides – and again, his chief weapons are his army, his bureaucracy, and magic – if…”
16:46¶ 53
“The common people looked to this Son of the Gods, this priest/king, to make things work, to bring order in the face of chaos,…”