Monadnock (@OrthodoxMonadnock)

In his 2021 book The Mystery Of Jewish History, Vladimir Moss refutes Christian opposition to Monarchy: Some democrats [i.e. advocates of democratic republicanism] have argued that the Holy Scriptures do not approve of kingship. This is not true. Kingship as such is never condemned in Holy Scripture: rather, it is considered the norm of political leadership. Let us consider the following passages: -“Blessed are thou, O land, when thou hast a king from a noble family” (Ecclesiastes 10.17); -"He appoints kings and removes them" (Daniel 2.21) -"He sends kings upon thrones, and girds their loins with a girdle" (Job 12.18) -"Thou, O king, art a king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given a powerful and honourable and strong kingdom in every place where the children of men dwell" (Daniel 2.37-38) The tragedy of the story of the first Israelite king, Saul, did not consist in the fact that the Israelites sought a king for themselves - as we have seen, God did not condemn kingship as long as He was recognized as the true King of kings. The sacrament of kingly anointing, which was performed for the first time by the Prophet Samuel on Saul, gave the earthly king the grace to serve the Heavenly King as his true Sovereign. The tragedy consisted in the fact that the Israelites sought a king "like [those of] the other nations around" them (Deuteronomy 17.14), - in other words, a pagan-style king who would satisfy the people’s notions of kingship rather than God’s, - and that this desire amounted to apostasy in the eyes of the Lord. (page 14) https://www.orthodoxchristianbooks.com/downloads/903_THE_MYSTERY_OF_JEWISH_HISTORY.pdf #christianity #monarch #monarchy #monarchism #king #kings #kingdom #queen #queens #royal #royalty #democracy #republic #orthodox #orthodoxy #orthodoxchristianity