Spoke 10
II Samuel, Jonah, I Timothy
Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake,
saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. Also in time past, when Saul was king over
us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee,
Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.
So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with
them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel.
David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
Spoke 10, Cycle 1
(II Samuel 5.1f)
Otto I, The Great
 Otto I, "the Great," was crowned Emperor of
the Holy Roman Empire 
by Pope John XII (though the term "holy" was not added until the Thirteenth Century).
Otto chose to have the cermony conducted at Aachen, built by Charlemagne in
the Eighth Century as a sign that he was continuing the
Carolingian legacy. Many dukes of the
realm served him a great banguet to show the German unity. This was the beginning of the first
"German Reich" in the line that culminated in Hitler's failed attempt to form the Third Reich.
The Empire was strongly allied with the
Roman Catholic Church. Papal approval and coronation was required for the elected "king of the Romans"
to become "Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire." The relation between
Church and Empire was often tumultuous, with many German kings such as
Henry IV and
Frederick I opposing the Pope because of
inevitable political differences between the German Emperors and Italian Popes.
The rise of the Holy Roman Empire in the Tenth Century corresponds to
David's ascent to the Throne in II Samuel. Its zenith of power in the following few centuries corresponds
to the books of Kings and Chronicles that are filled with the history of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
Its decline around the Thirteenth Century is described by
Dr. Harold Damerow , the Senior Professor of
Government and History at Union County College,
in his article on the
Holy Roman Empire :
While the Holy Roman Empire survived until 1806 when the self-made Emperor Napoleon I
of France finally abolishes it, the Empire became a weak confederation of ultimately more
than 300 independent little states. ...
Just as France and England emerged as powerful monarchical states in the thirteenth century,
the Holy Roman Empire went into decline.
This means that the correlation between the history of the Kings of Israel that begins on Spoke 9
and follows through to Spoke 14 corresponds almost exactly
with that of the Holy Roman Empire.
The Eternal King
The Crown of the Holy Roman Empire was built with eight hinged panels with pictures of
King David (II Samuel), King Solomon (I Kings), King Hezekiah (II Kings) and Christ the Eternal King.
This integrates with the content of Spoke 10 and the great theme of God the Eternal King, which forms
a strong link between I Timothy (Spoke 10, Cycle 3) and Psalm 10 based on the set
(King, "for ever and ever") [Verify]
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