The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

person eligible for divine service, as he or she was to be used for the facilitation of the duties and tasks of kingship. Wisdom was imparted, power dispensed, authority conferred, and prescribed duties were appointed to be discharged. In their minds, any extensive encounter and acceptance by the god of the land elevated one from their station of human subject to that of coregent with the spiritual ancestor of the land, tribe, and its communities. The prophets are important in this because they were always the ones notified by the land’s deity who the next king would be. In addition, the prophet’s anointing, likened to that of the god itself, was applied to the incumbent king by the prophets to transmit the power of the deity to their new ruler. Kingship was born upon this premise, with God being the very first King and His Son Jesus Christ (Daniel 7:14) being the first Son to whom divine power and right to rule was passed. The spiritual mold for subsequent lawful kingship was set by this eternal prototype. The seed of the king, from the Creator’s perspective, was placed in the genealogy of the lines so chosen for it. The mind of the ancient world, for this reason, saw their kings being as the embodiment of the kingdom inherited and/or built. So the title was not merely granted upon physical evidence of the effect of the monarch’s rule, but was bestowed on the basis of the genealogical inheritance. Lastly, kings were accepted as being the instrument of the god’s dominion and the agent ordained to see to its prosperous perpetuity. The reason a certain line was chosen was because of the spirit of the ruler originally ordained to continue to pass on the nature and caliber of the initiating rule from generation to generation until the end of time or the demise of the kingdom. It is in this spirit that Revelation’s messenger identified those born again in Christ as kings and priests to the Lord. The king’s attire, crown, scepter, robe, throne, etc., all serve the purpose of crystallizing for the subjects the glory of the god’s presence and eminence upon the king. The crown, a circlet, is to depict the ring of glory that covers the head of the empowering deity. The scepter represents a symbol of the governing beams of creation upon which the world and its systems hang. The robe is reflective of the glory covering of the deity, with its colors corresponding to the powers and elements of creation over which he or she governs. The throne, self-explanatory, replicates the seat upon which the deity dispenses his or her judgments and metes out punishments and rewards. The throne room symbolizes where the deity holds court, and administrates the powers, resources, and wealth of the spiritual kingdom behind the one the earthly monarch rules. Other emblems of kingship—the ring for the marriage-like covenant between the regent and his or her god, the breastplate for the covering that protects the vital organs in combat and conquests (the torso