A King of Kings
requires kings and queens. If there
are no kings besides the King of Kings, there is no King of Kings either. And in
kingdoms there will be both kings and queens. Being meek, yet we desire to be
those kings and queens, sitting down at the table with Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob. At the head of the table will sit no other than Jesus Christ.
Jesus is the King of
Kings, he always was, and he always will be.
13 I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before
Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
14 That thou keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
15 Which in his times he shall shew,
who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of
lords; (1Timothy 6:13-15)
Who will be Jesus'
tributary* kings? Will Jesus
be bound to hold on to the kings and queens of the royal houses of the world
when he sets up his Kingdom? Or will he have the opportunity to replace them
with the kings and queens that he sees fit?
5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
(Matthew 5:5)
A passage of scripture like that would probably exclude quite a
few kings and queens of the world from ruling with Jesus, but it would, on the
other hand include every repentant soul who has come unto Christ.
The meek, his
righteous saints, will be his tributary kings.
5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the
first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him
that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to
him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. (Revelation 1:5-6)
Every saint who has been purchased by the blood of Jesus would
want nothing more throughout eternity than to be a tributary king unto their
King of Kings. What honor! What grace!
9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the
book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast
slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and
tongue, and people, and nation;
10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall
reign on the earth. (Revelation 5:9-10)
All his kings love
him. This is why Jesus can be King of Kings and Lord of Lords, since
all his tributary kings are the sinners that he bought with his blood. All the
tributary kings were all saved from eternal misery in the dungeons of death
with the prince of darkness.
There will not come a day when they will not praise their King.
There will never come a time when they will want to challenge his divine
Lordship.
Jesus Anointed. Seeing that
Jesus is King of Kings, it is easy to understand why he is also named the
Christ, or the Messiah, both meaning the “Anointed One”. It is easy to see that
he is anointed King of Kings and Lord of Lords. But
how about the tributary kings of the Master?
All tributary kings
will be anointed. Shouldn’t every king be anointed? In the Old
Testament all kings were anointed, and many servants of God also. It is also
clear that there were severe punishments that followed upon lifting ones hand
against one of the Lord’s anointed, showing the importance of the act of anointing.
It appears that the prophets of the Lord were commanded by God to
anoint certain servants of God. This anointing was done in the Temple
of God,
by pouring pure oil upon their heads, this oil representing the atoning blood
of Jesus. Surely, in a day when things are the way that the Lord intends them
to be, there will be a Temple of God again, a place where the meek of the earth
could be anointed to become tributary Kings and Queens unto the most high God!
*As we use
it here, the "tributary king" should be seen as someone with great
power and authority, which power and authority comes from Jesus Christ.