The Return OF The Stone
There has always been controversy or legends around Jacob’s Pillow A.K.A Stone Of Jacob A.K.A Stone Of Scone A.K.A The Stone Of Destiny A.K.A The Coronation Stone. It has been used for centuries in the coronation of the monarchs of Scotland. So of course you know England would end up getting involved. On 3 July 1996, in response to a growing discussion around Scottish cultural history, the British Government announced that the stone would return to Scotland, 700 years after it had been taken. In December 2020, the Scottish Government announced the stone would be relocated to Perth City Hall. I digress but we sometimes say what happens in the natural will happen in the spiritual.
We all generally understand the concept if the King or Queen is not dead you do not have a coronation for somebody else to pronounce them as ruler. Such a thing would be considered treason with the harshest of consequences. So, consider if God can play a mean game of you treason, I treason it’s only fair as we look at some passages from the bible.
Israel asks Samuel for a king. NIV 1 Samuel 8:5 They said to him, “You are old, and your sons do not follow your ways; now appoint a king to lead us, such as the other nations have. NIV 1 Samuel 8:7 And the LORD told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king. KJV version And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
Now we need to back up for a second. Samuel was a prophet but as a child, he was dedicated to the priesthood or promised to the Lord by his mother. This treason is about to come through the priesthood and prophets. Samuel was not happy about it. So God lets Samuel off the hook when he tells him to listen to the people. Now this is when things should have gotten scary for Israel cause in the account we start hitting verse 9 Now listen to them, but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will claim as his rights.” then verse 17-18 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.
The first round of treason and Saul is selected and anointed as king by Samuel, So Israel just used Samuel to commit treason, God’s turn 1 Samuel 10-11 Then the word of the Lord came to Samuel: “I regret that I have made Saul king because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions.” Samuel was angry, and he cried out to the Lord all that night.
You can also think of it in terms of God just rejecting Israel cause they turned away and did not follow his instructions. Kings can represent the nation and they were warned they might become slaves. 1 Samuel 16 1-2 The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem. I have chosen one of his sons to be king.” But Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears about it, he will kill me.” The stakes are high with Saul being the current king. We have the same type of pattern as above. God has rejected the king of Israel and can/will claim for his rights what he wants.
The question is, was this issue dealt with when God told Samuel to go and anoint David and that is the end of the matter? I don’t think so, for reasons of the priesthood, and a prophet was used for this treason. The zeal of Aron was replaced by the zeal for a king like the other nations. So my short answer would be just as God replaced Saul with David, He has also in a way replaced the priesthood. There is a fork in the road and Israel picked a side. Consider in the King James Version the Book of Psalms 110:4 names Melchizedek as representative of the priestly line through which a future king of Israel’s Davidic line was ordained. Psalm 110:4 The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.”.