You admit it grieves HIM yet you keep saying it is ok because someone else did it .
That’s the same kind of reasoning that got Adam kicked out of the garden .
-—You admit it grieves HIM yet you keep saying it is ok because someone else did it .——
I must have missed that.
There is nothing intrinsically evil to a kingdom as a form of government. The Israelites erred in establishing their kingdom because of their motivation —to be like the other nations.
Nevertheless, the Davidic kingdom was part of God’s providential plan: the kingdom of God spoken of in the New Testament is synonymous with the eternal Davidic Kingdom, of which Jesus is the Head.
Rejection of the Davidic kingdom is a rejection of the Kingdom of God.