The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

sapphires, and emeralds to emit the brilliant radiance of its glory. With these were swords, arrows, and other projectiles to complete regnant embellishment for the military requisites of royal service. The elements were thought to be dispensed by the god who bestowed the position upon the ruler. The word means “the embodiment and crown of a tribe.” Kings today are not thought of as they were when the Bible was being recorded. The democratic mind could hardly appreciate the importance of kings to a nation and its divine origin. Fearing too much power and autonomy in the hands of a single person as detrimental—and over the course of history, it was— modern minds see government from the shoulders down and not the neck up, as the early civilizations did. However, since the Scriptures are eternal, the legitimacy of kingship is not only eternal also, but spiritual as well. Kings were made by deities, not humans, because the invisible world existed before our physical one. Whenever a human being carried out the installation of a king, it was understood that he or she did so at the behest of the god of the land. The basis of the god’s choice for a king was determined by the tribe’s (and ultimately nation’s) progenitor. Hence Abraham was the first king of Israel, Scripture all but declares him such, functionally speaking. Those alive during Abraham’s day understood and concluded this truth. Based on Yahweh’s choice and induction of the man into His service, Abraham was viewed as (understood by all the surrounding peoples) having been elevated from humanity to deity. That was the idea behind kingship. An arrangement between the spiritual ruler and his or her earthly body created a mediating alliance to facilitate the god’s government of the community of people he or she supposedly birthed. A king arose from a particular lineage because its progenitor was chosen by the god of the land to serve in his or her stead, exercising their royal authority in physical form. This is why the Lord took such great pains to tell us how Jesus was born, why His Father is God, and how that makes Him King of Kings and Lord of Lords. From the moment he or she is born, the chosen monarch is groomed to eventually be offered up to the god of the land, who adopts the human into his or her divine lineage, the idea behind leaders being dubbed blue blood. Thus, they are considered divine humans, and that status gives them the right and power to rule in the name of the god. Ancient peoples believed that more than a title designation took place when a person was installed as king. They felt that the literal physiological makeup of the one adopted was transformed into that of the deity and enabled special powers and privileges to be accorded to them that were ordinarily denied the masses. The special abilities were seen as what made the