King of Kings

A King of Kings requires kings and queens.  If there are no kings besides the King of Kings, there is obviously no King of Kings either! And, of course, 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 all those 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 with 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.