I am well aware life goes on. That there are innumerable events occurring all around our world. Many needing mentioning. Many needing understanding. We’ll get back to the ongoing onslaught of such things here once again. Soon.

It does not hurt, and in truth is a necessary salve and balm, beneficial to pause and consider, contemplate, and collectively realize we the living have witnessed in the death of Queen Elizabeth II the altering of the course this world will take. For it is God our Father Who ordains kings and queens and rulers. If Bible literate, fluent, and believing then there is the knowledge that while every earthly king, queen, or ruler is a sinner and possesses the nature universal in God’s creation as a fallen human being by the sin of Adam and Eve, God has made the way at times for purely evil and horrendous kings, queens, and rulers of nations to hold temporary power — due to the people. We the people and our venturing far afield of God’s Word and further distancing ourselves from our Creator, His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and living in rebellion and greater disobedience to the Holy Spirit ignoring the Holy Spirit’s instruction to us. If this is alien then spend time, a goodly amount of serious time opening, reading, and studying the Bible to reveal this truth. Also, venture into some reading of world history to further collaborate this truth.

Conversely, when the people need a goodly, just, strong ruler to lead them where they need to be led, and the people in great part give God the honor, glory, praise, and thanks they ought to, at least a goodly number of faithful and obedient do, God can and has provided kindly, goodly, just and righteous rulers for the people.

Kings and queens come and go. The King of kings, Lord of lords is forever and will one day establish His kingdom.

Queen Elizabeth II knew this, believed this and lived accordingly.

And her death is the end of a reign not only of a strong, balanced, kind, just ruler, a queen dying but also of an age dying. A way of life dying.

While nothing is ever the same in the lives of those left living when someone they know, care about, love, or are familiar with dies the deaths of certain individuals leave a much greater impact upon entire civilizations, nations, and the world.

Queen Elizabeth’s death is the passing of a strong, bold, firm in the Christian faith woman who went to church twice every Sunday, prayed to God daily, and nightly, and never remained silent, never found it awkward to express her faith in God, her faith and reliance on the Lord Jesus Christ, or her unwavering belief in the Word of God and the power of prayer.

The monarch taking her place, which no person, no monarch can, has demonstrated in living his life, by his words, by his deeds demonstrated he is not the true believer, the child of God, the disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, the man to turn to the Word of God, to go down on his knees in prayer to a Higher Reigning King.

Some people are irreplaceable and the world is forever altered by their death.

Such is the world with the death of Elizabeth. May she be comforted eternally in heaven and may every true believer, every disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ be firm, bold, solid in the faith, proclaiming the gospel which is Jesus Christ, and be a light unto the world, the salt of the earth as a woman who was never meant to be what she became as an example of a lifetime of steadfastness and faithfulness, high in worldly stature as she was bowing daily, nightly to her Sovereign, her King, the Lord Jesus Christ.

May we now have faithfulness in our prayers we need to offer up that her son will turn from the worldly darkness that has gripped him and may he come to ponder in private quiet times the faith of his mother, turn to God as she did daily, turn to the Bible daily, and bow himself, humble himself to God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and come to believe every word within the Word.

Some people are irreplaceable and the world is forever altered by their death. Because those who come after them are mere shadows of those who preceded them. The lions give way to the wolves, the goats, and the rats. There is an ongoing erosion and weakening, accommodating sin and evil and lies with the passing of each generation, a weakening of principles and standards, of morals and faith in God. This gets to the point the Lord asks if a faithful person can be found and this world as it has been known comes to its end. If unaware of this turn to the Bible and discover the real reality, the true source of truth. And the only way to live, the only way to life. Eternal life.

All things are possible.

Especially when the people of God repent, faithfully obey, continually believe, and live pleasing lives to the Lord. All things are possible as a certain age passes and the people of this fallen world fall further, deeper into the abyss of sin, lies, evil, and darkness.

All things are possible when we believe in God, obey God, serve God, and place God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit above all else in, on, and of this world.

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Monday, September 12th, 2022

Queen Elizabeth II’s reign was the afterglow of a Christian civilization

September 9, 2022

By Jonathon Van Maren

Reprinted from The Bridgehead

On June 13, 1981, gunshots rang out near Buckingham Palace. A 17-year-old who idolized the assassins of John Lennon and John F. Kennedy had fired six blanks at Queen Elizabeth, who was riding her horse in parade. He was swiftly seized by police while the Queen, who had no way of knowing the shots hadn’t been real, merely calmed her startled steed and resumed her place. It was the reaction of a woman who, as an 18-year-old princess, begged her father to let her join the armed forces and trained as a mechanic and military truck driver, the only female member of the royal family to do so. Eventually, she became the last living head of state who served in World War II.

Now, after 70 years on the throne, she is gone. Queen Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God Queen of this Realm and of her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, died at the age of 96 at Balmoral Castle. With her, the twentieth century finally departs. We are poorer without her in a way that we are only just beginning to understand. Her death is, as one writer put it, another of “the successive snapping of the small tethers that still tied us back to another world.” That world has been gone for decades, but the stolidly smiling visage of Queen Elizabeth allowed us, for awhile, to pretend that it hadn’t. She was the afterglow of a vanished civilization.

As Brett McKracken wrote: “Queen Elizabeth II embodied dignity and class in an age of scandal; selfless duty in an age of expressive individualism; virtue and discipline in an age of unscrupulous moral decadence.” Andrew Sullivan concurred: “I’m trying to write a column and I find myself in tears. I fear that everything she exemplified—restraint, duty, grace, reticence, persistence—are disappearing from the world.” She was a living bridge to an era when such things were, if not common, at least expected. She was better than her times.

For over seven decades, the Queen was omnipresent. She was on all our money—old pennies I collected as a boy showed the young woman who ascended the throne at age 25. I am currently flying on a passport—my one last to say this—requesting that I be able to pass freely “in the name of Her Majesty the Queen.” In a little hotel in Zimbabwe miles from anywhere, I spotted a large photograph of the beautiful young queen and her handsome husband—autographed personally by them—framed behind the counter under a layer of fine African dust. Indeed, despite all the racialist babble from the usual suspects today, the Queen was beloved by millions the world over in a way airtight ideological minds can never understand.

It is easy to understand why so many progressive commentators and academics cannot bear to see this remarkable woman commemorated and mourned—it is because so many are grieving the passing of things they have worked so hard to destroy. During her first televised Christmas message in 1957, Queen Elizabeth called on her subjects not to cast aside “ageless ideals” and “fundamental principles which guided the men and women who built the greatness of this country and Commonwealth.” That message today sounds positively revolutionary. I will not quote any of the slanderous trash being tweeted about the Queen, but it was especially disappointing to see BBC Radio 4 talking about how the monarchy is about “white inherited privilege” and “at odds with a multi-faith society.”

I’ve often wondered what Queen Elizabeth thought as she watched the breakup of the British Empire (her first prime minister was Winston Churchill); the long, withdrawing roar of Christian Britain, where orthodox faith is now as rare as her virtues were; the complete colonization of the Church of England by the sexual revolutionaries. Towards the end, there was not much faith left for her to defend, and so instead she used her Christmas speeches to subtly remind her subjects of God and of Great Britain’s Christian heritage. She was an extremely private person, but she publicly asked her people to pray for her when she turned 21, and again when she was anticipating her coronation.

In fact, despite her grandfather’s hope that nothing would get between “Bertie, Lillibet, and the throne,” the only reason Elizabeth became Queen at all is because Great Britain would not tolerate the marriage of her Uncle David to a divorced woman, Wallis Simpson—and even those who think that ridiculous should shudder to consider how things may have turned out if Edward VIII had been on the throne when Hitler was rising to power. In God’s Providence, it was the country’s commitment to Christian values that ensured that George VI was king when the great contest between barbarism and Western civilization was fought. And Lillibet was, in every way, her father’s daughter. He would have been so very proud of her.

Our Queen has left us. God save the King.