Daniel #71 Is the Pope a King?

Reformed Presbytery in North America

Jesus Christ is King. That is not to diminish at all that He is indeed our Savior from the guilt and-punishment of sin, but He has also been exalted by the Father to His right hand to be King and Lord of all.-Many want Jesus as a loving Savior from sin and its punishment, but they do not want Him as a loving and just-King and to rule over their lives by way of His holy commandments. That is forming a Jesus after our own-imagination and not the Jesus revealed in Scripture that alone can save us and give us eternal life with Him.-Unlike all other kings-rulers of the earth that receive their appointment through the mediation of-fellow human beings, Jesus reigns as King of kings and Lord of lords by way of the direct appointment of God-without the mediation of any man -Psalm 2-. Jesus is a unique King, for He is both King of the princes of the-earth -Revelation 1-5- and King of saints-King of His Church -Revelation 15-3-.-No one has been appointed by God to reign in the place of Jesus Christ upon earth, and yet we shall-learn of a king in history that was prophesied to come here in Daniel 11-36 ff. that makes such a claim to reign-in the place of Jesus Christ over the nations and over the Church.