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30. The Royal Family

1st September 2001 by Arthur Eedle

About  three thousand years ago there was a stable Royal Family in Israel,  with David as King.  He had been anointed by Samuel many years before,  in  fact some fourteen years before he was able to assume  the throne of Judah,  let alone the whole of Israel. But during his  first ten years of Royal Office, he built up a strong nation, God-fearing and successful.

And then something happened which caused deep sadness for him, and for his family, for the rest of his life. First of all he cast his eyes upon a bathing beauty,  and lusted after her. Being King, he was easily able to obtain what his heart desired.  But shortly afterwards the girl in question reported to the King that she was pregnant,  and  according to  the laws of the time,  on being found out,  she was subject to  the death penalty, because she was a married woman.

The King was now in a corner.  He had no way to move.  David was a kind, just, sympathetic man, and he couldn’t contemplate such a fate to this  beautiful  woman because of what he had done.  What could he  do? When driven into such a corner,  the human brain has remarkable  powers of  invention.  David  knew  that either Bathsheba would be  stoned  to death,  or  else,  if she betrayed him,  he would die as well  as  her, according  to  Mosaic  law.  What alternative was there?  Who  was  her husband, anyway?  Wasn’t he Uriah?  Wasn’t he one of David’s key  men? Yes, but he wasn’t an Israelite, just a Hittite. Ah, here is a way out.

Joab was given instructions to put Uriah in the front line,  where there would be a maximum chance of him being killed. When word was sent back  from  the  front,  saying that Uriah had  met  his  death,  David breathed a sigh of relief,  and promptly called Bathsheba to the Palace as soon as her days of mourning had ended. She became one of the King’s wives, and the whole thing was hushed up.

What  David hadn’t reckoned on was that the Lord had observed  the whole  episode, and  we read that “the thing displeased the Lord.”  (2 Samuel 11:27) Nathan the prophet was sent to the King with a message. A parable  was spelled out to the King,  which enangered him through  the injustice  of the rich man in this parable.  Nathan said “You are  the man!” And then the Prophet gave God’s word to him. “Now the sword shall never depart from your house,  because you despised me,  and took  the wife  of  Uriah.  – – Out of your own household I am  going  to  bring calamity upon you. – – You did this in secret, but I will do this thing in  broad  daylight before all Israel.  – – Because you have done  this thing you have made the enemies of the Lord show utter contempt.

Subsequent  history  showed  how  three of David’s  sons  came  to violent ends, Amnon, Absalom, and Adonijah. Amnon’s act of fornication with  his half-sister was a terrible disgrace for David  to  bear.  And Absalom’s  brazen  act of adultery with the King’s concubines  was  yet another. Finally, his son Absalom’s rebellion was the hardest of all to stomach.  But  the  word of the Lord was fulfilled.  “Whatsoever a  man sows, that shall he also reap.”

Now,  with regard to this “sowing and reaping” we must  understand that  in this life,  it would appear to be of God’s grace that we  reap the consequence of our sins, rather than in the afterlife. In that way, we  may  pass  through death’s door unimpeded by a load  of unrequited guilt.  But in the world,  very often the wicked seem to “get away with it.”  David henceforth  became  “a man after  God’s  own  heart.”  His repentance was real, and God didn’t require of him the death penalty.

Today,  in this land,  we have another Royal Family. And there are some remarkable parallels between the two families.  But we shall  have to  work  backwards,  looking  at evidences first  of  all,  and  then examining the cause.

In  a  recent speech,  the Queen referred to 1992  as  her  “annus horribilis”.  She  had witnessed  the divorce and  remarriage  of  her daughter  Anne,  the breakdown of Andrew’s marriage to Fergie,  coupled with  the bizarre behaviour of Fergie with another man in the south  of France,  then came the greatest family blow – the separation of Charles and  Diana.  And then the great fire in Windsor Castle.  Naturally  the nation felt keenly for the Queen in her misery, and knives were out for the rest of the Royals, depending on one’s personal proclivities. [And since I first wrote, we have seen the tragedy of Princess Diana’s death in a car accident.]

So  much for the evidences.  What about the cause?  In an  earlier chapter  I related the solemn oaths the Queen took at  her  coronation, and how of recent years she has, sadly, reneged on them. We are dealing here,  not with the non-Christian majority in the land,  who seem to be able  to pass through their mortal years and “get away with it.” We are talking  about a very special woman,  the one who occupies  the  unique position  as head of the English Church.  One may almost hear the words of Nathan the prophet all over again.  Whereas the majority feel  great sympathy for the Queen in the midst of her great family disasters,  few have seen the hidden implications from a spiritual point of view.

I take no joy in writing these things.  I have no daggers.  I wish none of the royals any harm.  Like all of us, they will have to pay for what  they do in life,  and the responsibility factor may  possibly  be seen accurately only by God Himself. But there is the other side to all this  depressing news.  If God has allowed these tragedies to occur  to the Royals, then He is dealing with the situation, rather than allowing them to pass by in this life. And in this I see a ray of hope.

In  the  past,  indeed  for  all of  my  Christian  life,  I  have unwittingly despised the word of God in the New Testament, where we are enjoined to pray for kings,  and governors, and those in authority over us.  I  have never bothered about praying for the royal family.  I have pushed them on one side,  treating them as irrelevant. I have asked the Lord’s forgiveness for this error, and now want to rectify the omission by  praying  for them.  Whether we consider other people a  part  of  God’s church,  is  not  the point.  God looks upon us where we  are,  and  in accordance  with our own profession,  and our faithfulness  to  it.  He never  holds  us responsible for things that we have never understood. Hence  for any of us to cast others aside as irrelevant is  in  essence sheer arrogance.  I have been guilty of such arrogance,  though I have never seen it as such. I now thank God for revealing this to me.

Family life in Britain is very much the same as that in the  Royal family,  in a state of almost total collapse. What the Queen has had to endure,  the  nation  has had to endure. But we are not repentant  of this. We do not see ourselves as responsible. We just moan, and say how dreadful things are today.  “Not like the good old days.” We treat  the present day  as  a strange inexplicable happening for which  no  known cause is apparent.  On February 2nd this year,  an article appeared  in the  DAILY MAIL which is worth quoting  in this context.  It  was written by Dr.Zaki Badawi, Professor of Islamic Theology, and Principal of the Moslem College,  London.  The first part of his article reads as follows:-

“For  millions of white native readers,  a recent headline in your newspaper  must have seemed somewhat perturbing:  BRITAIN’S TRADITIONAL FAMILY IS NOW ASIAN. Extraordinary. The details contained the official Social  Trends  report,  published by the Central  Statistical  Office, outline how this country has undergone the most profound social changes over the past few years.

Yet  the same report shows how Moslems like  myself,  Hindus,  and Sikhs,  the people with roots mainly in Pakistan, Bangladesh and India, now provide the bedrock of traditional family values in this land, with 70% of our households consisting of husband, wife, and children.

Seventy per cent. Compare that figure with the mere 25 per cent of native,  white households which now consist of mum,  dad, and the kids. The  gap is immense and I believe reveals something  deeply  disturbing about  the way Britain is heading – indeed,  it is not going too far to say  that  you  will destroy your society unless  you  can  solve  this growing problem.

According to official statistics, Britain now is a country of easy sexual relationships, easy marriage, and easy divorce, a country where illegitimacy and abortion are rife.

In  the  past  20 years the number of marriages has  fallen  by  a fifth,  while  divorce has more than doubled.  The  national  rate  of illegitimacy is 32 per cent. Religious observance in all the mainstream Christian churches, meanwhile, is in decline.

The  contrast with Asian families could not be more  glaring.  The Hindu and Moslem faiths are thriving. Home life is stable. Illegitimacy is,  by  British  standards,  a  tiny problem – only 1.2  per  cent  in Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities.

I  and  my  fellow Moslems view this disparity  with  nothing  but sadness – a sense that the people of Britain have lost something  which is very precious.

The  old  certainties  and  old principles  which  sustained  this country for centuries – values which you exported to so many  countries including my own – seem to have all but crumbled.”

The  Queen  has  broken her coronation oaths,  and the  people  of Britain have forgotten the God of their fathers,  casting to the  winds not  only  their religious faith,  but also all the moral  and  ethical standards by which we once used to live. We “swim in a cess-pool of our own  making”,  to use the words of a famous Police Chief when  speaking about the AIDS virus.

And  because the heads of the English Church have also reneged  on their vows,  we now see the Anglican Church split right down the middle over  the  issue of ordination of women.  It is a divine  principle  at work,  but  we have largely lost the ability to see it. Only  national repentance,  from  the  Throne down to the ordinary man in the  street, can reverse this trend. As a nation we not only stand condemned, but we are  visibly weak, and the enemies of the God we once  worshipped  are pointing  the finger of judgment at us,  exactly as Nathan once said to David.  Professor Badawi is not one who condemns, but shows a sadness. Should we not mourn for the state we are in?

But this is not the whole story.  There are forces at work  behind the scenes who are urging the destruction along. These we must consider in the next chapter.

Filed Under: Recognising the Hand of Judgment

About Arthur Eedle

Arthur was born in 1931, and became a Christian in 1948. At London University he gained a 2nd honours degree in Physics. He went on to get a Teaching Diploma, and throughout his career life taught physics in England, Kenya, and Hong Kong. Coupled with his love of science, he was a keen student of Greek and Hebrew, and gave many lectures on Biblical subjects. Read more

Recognising the Hand of Judgement

Introduction

1st August 2001 By Arthur Eedle

1. St. Augustine. The 14th Centenary of his arrival in Britain

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2. The fire at York Minster, July 9th 1984

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3. Louise Brown. First test-tube baby. 1978

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4. “Papal infallibility” 1870

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5. The Great Seal of the United States of America

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6. Benjamin Crème and the Maitreya

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7. Helena Blavatsky and Theosophy

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8. Counterfeit miracles

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9. The testimony of a Messianic Jew

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10. “Spiritualism” and “Enlightenment”. Karl Marx and Charles Darwin

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11. San Francisco Earthquake, and Azusa Street

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12. The Llanelli Vision of July 1914

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13. The Olympic Games revived. 1896

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14. The emergence of the European Union. Revival of the Roman Empire

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15. The Dreyfus Case, 1894 – 1906

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16. Dr. Theodor Herzl

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17. Dr. Theodor Herzl and the Zionist Congress

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18. Russia, Lenin, and Aristocoli’s prophecy to Valentina

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19. The loss of the Titanic, 1912

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20. The loss of the Airship R101

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21. Suffragettes and Women’s Liberation

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22. The Angels of Mons and the White Cavalry. 1914 – 1918

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23. The House of Windsor, Balfour, Allenby, 1917

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24. The Upper Hand and the Lower Hand – Two Systems

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25. The Twenty Year Truce. 1919–1939

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26. Mist and Rainbow. 1940 – 1944

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27. The Nazis and the Nuremberg Trials

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28. Queen, Archbishop, and Church

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29. Lawlessness in British Politics

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30. The Royal Family

1st September 2001 By Arthur Eedle

31. The Puppet Masters

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32. Drawing the threads together

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