Crowning Wisdom: Georgia

King George XII wore the new crown of Georgia for his coronation in 1798, the previous headdress having been destroyed or plundered by the Persians in 1795. Rather Western in its design with its circlet and closed arches, it was made in Russia at a time when that great land was looking westward rather than eastward. Encrusted with nearly 250 diamonds, amethysts, rubies, and emeralds, the tsars kept it in the Kremlin after George’s death in 1800 to prevent the crowing of a successor, thus retaining Georgia as a province of the Russian Empire. There it remained until 1923 when the Soviets allowed its return, the prospects of an independent Georgian monarchy then slighter than ever. In 1930, the communists changed their mind, and arranged for the crown’s repatriation to Moscow, whereupon it was broken up and destroyed.  

Destroying a crown is one way to damage a monarchy and maintain a republic or impose vassal status. Like the English Parliament’s destruction of the original St Edward’s crown in 1649, so the kingdoms of this world would usurp King Jesus’ rightful dignity. Despite the English Parliament’s experiment with republicanism, a melted-down crown could not stop the return of a king in due course. The Dragon of Revelation chapter 12, Satan, may wear his seven stolen crowns with pride, and his protégé, the Beast of Revelation chapter 13, might wear his ten with much pomp, but the great White Rider of chapter 19, who wears ‘many crowns’, is coming to claim His kingdom nonetheless. There are many today who deny the Crown of King Jesus, but king He remains, and He will subdue the Earth to His royal rule:

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,

Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. Psalm 2:2-6

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