Royal Assent
At Derbyshire’s Haddon Hall are some royal signatures. Evidenty, when royals were invited to the house as guests, they were asked to sign their names on a wall. Among others, we see the name of George (V), king and emperor (above), from 1933, as well as Charles (2012), a decade before his own accession to the throne. In British law, royal signatures are more than mere autographs; they are the tokens of royal assent, without which no Parliamentary Bill may become an Act, also known as a law. George V’s days of signing legislation are long gone, and Charles III’s will not be more than a decade or two.
Kings come and go, while their governments' duration is even shorter. The laws that governments persuade parliaments to pass, and to which royal signatures are attached, can soon be repealed and replaced. In contrast, the King of kings declares:
“Look to Me, and be saved,
All you ends of the earth!
For I am God, and there is no other.
I have sworn by Myself;
The word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness,
And shall not return,
That to Me every knee shall bow,
Every tongue shall take an oath. (Isaiah 45:22-23, NKJV)
Here is a royal decree which cannot be undone, a universal law which will not be revoked. God offers to save all who come to Him, wherever they live on the planet, and to receive honour even from those who persist in slighting Him.
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