Years later, when I was in high school, I saw Robert standing in the midst of a field, which he was clearing. Leaning on his scythe, he was smoking a cigarette and pulling on a pint of whisky. It looked to me as though Robert was going nowhere. How the mighty are fallen. There were other kings in high school, college, and business.
Society inevitably raises up leaders who rule wisely or poorly.
We have had despots like Hitler, Stalin, and Saddam Hussein. Democracies have had men like Churchill, Roosevelt and Kennedy. Business has its Buffetts, Templetons and Gettys. At the time of Jesus Christ people looked for a messianic king of the house of David, who would free them from Roman tyranny and would restore their nation to supremacy. There rose up a body of men and women who saw within Jesus true kingship.