Monarchy

Long live Charles III

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Canadians do not usually sing “God Save Our Gracious King” but yesterday crowds, gathered in Ottawa to greet and meet the king and queen, burst into the Royal Anthem.  In an era when all kinds of rascally racist and rapist rulers are buying, stealing and embezzling honours and respect, Canada begins its 45th parliament absolutely anchored in the rich traditions in which British North America began and has thrived. 

Vive le Roi et Mort a Ses Ennemis

“Long live the king and death to his enemies” is a balanced chant that strikes the beast of rampant white nationalism in the jugular.  It will also crush the notion of Islam, Judaism or Catholicism dictating the paths of Canadian society.  How quickly we forget that the current British monarch succeeds a woman who gave the world an enduring example of Christian faith and what public service can be in good and adverse times.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and to the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong, but I shall not have strength to carry out this resolution alone unless you join in it with me, as I now invite you to do.

Elizabeth II, at her coronation, 1953

Charles III is especially bound by the noblest and unambiguous values, unlike the US president, who is usually the creation of big money, an agent of big business, and comes to power as a result of manipulated voting blocks.  Canada’s king is never an instrument of any of the corrupting players in American politics.  Death to the enemies of Athenian democracy! is a chant that needs not be public.  The Hollywood (American) and Jerusalem versions of greatness are four days dead (The Gospel of John 11:37).  America will do no better than Israel as when Israel returned from exile with a racist heart.  Israel can do no worse than attack defenseless women and children and call it a war.  Monarchs are expected to be gracious, so let King Charles invite the American president to the UK, but Canadians do not want the government inviting the felon in the White House to come across the border, because felons are expected to stay home.  Vive le Canada!

Skirting the city to create a hamlet

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If the returning exiles needed a guiding light it was not the Sinai Covenant or the patriarch traditions. Mosaic traditions had by this time become useless – blood that cleansed nothing. Where was the crown? We do not know how the Lord inspired Cyrus to decree the return, but Cyrus could not but have been impressed by the proud attachment of a people to a palace for an invisible king; a palace built by a king whose kingdom is the opposite of his own. They celebrated and embraced the Mosaic legacy but skirted the throne and the truthful village connected to SSolomon’s dynasty.

He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.

1 Chronicles 22:10
No monarchy in the restoration

Cyrus learned from the records that his predecessor’s reign came to an end just as predicted. He also learned that there was a king whose kingdom was not going to end. His own name appears in prophecy stating his role in rebuilding the Province of Judea.

The return to Judea had just about everything except a Solomonic monarch. Solomon may have had an unimpeachable life as a wise ruler but he was a poor model for Mosaic orthodoxy. No conscientious disciple of Moses would rush to line up behind Solomon. The returnees chose to distance themselves from anything connected with the reason for their captivity in the first place. Solomon was the poster boy for idolatry, the classic Israelite folly. Yet the sure mercies of God to David found its legs in the Solomonic throne. David’s son will build the temple and it is his throne that  will be established for ever.

What is Jerusalem without a Davidide ruler? A desolate house.