By Anna Von Reitz
The problem with kings is that
they are men and men vary widely in their characters and abilities, so that one
may be a perfectly good king and another, even his own son, a disaster.
Witness the Hebrew's experience.
They demanded a king, so God told Samuel--- it's a bad idea, but if that's what
you want, have Saul for a king.
And yes, it was a bad idea. Years
of war and bloodshed and tragedy and all sorts of scandal and nastiness, even
madness at the end----- and finally, the people had the great King David, who
was a good, brave, and talented man, but also deeply flawed, and then his son,
Solomon, the "wisest" king ever, and yet, he fell away and worshiped idols and
accepted all the nastiness of Babylonian religious practices.
The plain fact is that men are
not -- generally speaking --- able or willing or wise enough to govern
themselves, so what realistic hope is there that they will be able to wisely
govern others?