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How Does Meleḵ Connect Manhattan And CPAC?

How Does Meleḵ Connect Manhattan And CPAC?

Last updated on: February 23, 2025 at 5:20 pm by Martin Thomas Johnson

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How Does Meleḵ Connect Manhattan And CPAC? 2025-02-23T17:20:14-05:00 Martin Thomas Johnson

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Earlier this week President Trump once again referred to himself as a king after ending congestion pricing in Manhattan. He spent the week clashing with other elected officials while boasting about and exerting his presidential power.

Manhattan

Once again Pres. Trump proves he is obsessed with power and is only looking out for himself. America broke away from Britain because of the oppressive rule of a king:

Excessive taxation
Self-Governance
Oppressive military presence
Political freedom

The irony of the American experiment is that the colonists and America grew and became a great nation only after they broke free from the British monarchy. The colonists served a heavenly King, not an earthly one.

One of the things the colonists wanted most was religious freedom from the British king’s control. To force a religious belief on anyone in America is both anti-American and anti-Christian.

I agree with President Trump, Long live the King—but not him. America didn’t become a great nation because of an earthly king, but because of a Heavenly King. God has sole Kingship over His people and His kingdom (Psalm 29:10, Hebrews 1:3.)

What Is a King

Most of us remember learning about kings and monarchies in school, mainly in regard to England and European countries. These nations are under the rule of a king who is the head of state.

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A king is defined as, “A male monarch; one whose position is hereditary and who rules for life.” Kings have been romanticized in fictional stories for a millennia. However earthly kings are fallen with sinful natures, just like the rest of us.

Earthly kings can be manipulated and controlled by the people. Biblically we are told that kings and all authorities get their powers from God alone (Daniel 2:21, Romans 13:1-2, Hebrews 13:17.)

The Bible and Christianity have a lot to say about kings and their authority. Kings and earthly leaders get their authority from God and they bow to His authority (Psalm 72:11.)

God raises up kings and He removes them from power (Daniel 2:21, 1 Timothy 6:15.) God is our only perfect King and Lord (1 Corinthians 8:5, Philippians 2:9-11, Colossians 1:16, Revelation 19:16.) The apostles remembered their Jewish education about God and kings.

Meleḵ

We don’t understand kings like our Jewish forefathers did. The ancient world was ruled by kings and pharaohs who promised to make people into great nations that prospered and conquered.

When God called Abraham from his father’s land and idols, He promised to make Abraham and his descendants into a great nation (Genesis 12:1-3.) God promised to make Abraham’s descendants as numerous as the stars and into a nation that will reign for eternity (Genesis 15:5; 17:4-6; 22:17-18.)

Abraham was faithful to His Lord and King. The Hebrew word in the Old Testament for king is meleḵ and it also could mean, “Royal,” depending on the context it is used in.

A couple of generations later God delivered His people from another king, the Pharaoh of Egypt. After arriving miraculously in the Promised Land, God’s people cried out for God to give them an earthly king (1 Samuel 8:6-22.)

God had been a faithful king and delivered them, yet they rejected Him because they wanted earthly power and greatness. So God answered their cries and gave them what they wanted earthly kings, some good, but most were wicked.

Saul
David
Solomon
Jeroboam I
Nadab
Baasha
Elah
Zimri
Omri
Ahab
Ahaziah
Joram
Jehu
Jehoahaz
Jehoash

Even the great hope and prophecy about the Jewish Messiah promised He would be a great King from the lineage of King David (2 Samuel 7:12-13, Isaiah 9:6-7; 11:1-2; Psalm 89:3-4.)

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When the Messiah arrived, he wasn’t the great mighty King God’s people wanted, but a humble servant and teacher. So Jesus had to explain to His followers that God’s Kingdom is not of or like this world (Matthew 6:33, Luke 22:29, John 15:19; 18:36-37.)

Jesus spent three years teaching his followers how God’s Kingdom and true greatness work (Matthew 18:1-4; 20:25-28; 23:11-12, Mark 9:33-37, Luke 9:46-48.) Jesus turned God’s people’s idea of greatness upside down and even the religious experts in the law didn’t like it (Matthew 23:1-7.)

Once again God’s people rejected their heavenly King because they wanted earthly greatness and they eventually killed their King.

CPAC 2025

This week so-called conservatives gathered in Washington DC to discuss the Republican agenda going forward. However, their agenda is anything conservative or American. One of their primary goals announced during the conference was to launch an initiative to give President Trump a third term in office.

C-PAC

First off, the forefathers of America never intended for America to be under the rule of another king. More than 70 years ago the Constitution was amended to ensure that America never fell prey to another power-hungry ruler who wanted to stay in office.

It will take another act of Congress to amend the Constitution to allow a president to serve more than two terms. We can only hope and pray that our elected officials will not allow America to be set back more than 200 years and be placed under the rule of a king wannabe.

During the conference, President Pro Tem Musk branded a chainsaw to brag and boast how he is cutting up our federal government and doing the president’s bidding. Whatever happened to Christian and conservative values like term limits and not abusing power or boasting about it?

Magna and CPAC are anti-Christian and anti-American because they focus on a temporary kingdom. Once again God’s people have rejected God and His ways because they want an earthly king to make them great.

Greed
Power-hungry
Unloving
Prideful
Boastful

Even with the Bible and the knowledge of our Jewish forefathers rejecting God, God’s people have easily turned from Him for whatever tickles their ears (Matthew 24:10-12, 2 Timothy 4:3-4.)

Look at what King Trump’s greatness has gotten us so far. America has been booed and laughed at by other nations. Inflation is on the rise. The price of eggs and groceries are already skyrocketing without any tariffs. God’s people need to humble themselves and let God be their meleḵ (2 Chronicles 7:14!)

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