Christ the King
As we are nearing Christmas Day, we must reflect upon what the day really means. Christmas is not only the birthday of our Savior Jesus Christ, the Son of God but of the King of the Universe.
He is the king over all. His kingship must be proclaimed to all. He must be proclaimed as the king over the modern state of Israel, even though they don’t yet recognize Him as their king. He must be proclaimed as the King over the people of Saudi Arabia, even though they are muslim and don’t accept him as the Son of God. He is King over the people of India, even though most of them are polytheistic Hindus that don’t accept Christ.
In 1925 in the encyclical Quas Primas, Pope Pius XI explained this very well. In paragraph 8 of the encyclical, it clearly states:
“Do we not read throughout the Scriptures that Christ is the King? He it is that shall come out of Jacob to rule, who has been set by the Father as king over Sion, his holy mount, and shall have the Gentiles for his inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for his possession.”
In Apocalypse 2:27 we read: “And he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and as the vessel of a potter they shall be broken”
These are certainly the attributes of a King.
If Christ is King and King over all, why don’t we proclaim this? There is a really clear reason for this. That is because most of us who believe in our King are too afraid at what the world will think if we proclaim this. We are too afraid of the world and forget that we have the King with us.
I stated earlier that Christ is King over the modern state of Israel even though the Jewish people there don’t accept Him. Could you proclaim this to them? It certainly isn’t popular. Could you proclaim it to a muslim? It flies in the face of everything that their book says about God and Jesus.
Many Christians don’t think of Christ as King. We think of him as the Christ, our savior, the Son of God, the second person of the Trinity but not as our King.
Equally important, our politicians need to proclaim Him as King. This is the only way to recover Western Civilization, which has gone down the drain since it forgot its King. This truth was proclaimed by the great Christian civilizations whether they be the Roman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Holy Roman Empire. In those civilizations the politicians did proclaim Him as their King.
As Pope Pius XI states clearly in Quas Primas: “It would be a grave error, on the other hand, to say that Christ has no authority whatever in civil affairs, since, by virtue of the absolute empire over all creatures committed to him by the Father, all things are in his power.”
Let’s proclaim the birth of our King!
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