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Knowledge Network: The Greatest Party on Earth
Watch Until March 30, 12:00am
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In 1971, the Shah of Iran celebrated 2,500 years of the Persian monarchy by throwing the greatest party known in history. Every party leaves a few hangovers. This one left a country reeling, never to recover.
Another interesting Knowledge Network documentary from Storyville. In my theological opinion, these films often highlight the depravity of humanity in a notable historical context. These films present at times a fascinating and disturbing documentary series on human nature.
This film being a documentary on the a great party thrown by the Shah of Iran at Persepolis in 1971, in celebration of 2500 years of the Persian monarchy. The story is connected to the eventual Islamic Revolution of 1979.
The Shah embraced the title King of Kings, which caught my attention.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Shāh, Old Persian Khshayathiya, title of the kings of Iran, or Persia. When compounded as shāhanshāh, it denotes “king of kings,” or emperor, a title adopted by the 20th-century Pahlavi dynasty in evocation of the ancient Persian “king of kings,” Cyrus II the Great (reigned 559–c. 529 BC). Another related title or form of address is padshāh, or “lord king.” The title shāh was also used in Afghanistan until the overturn of the monarchy in 1973 and has been used by rulers and princelings in other countries of central and southern Asia. Sometimes, as a part of a name, shāh was used by hereditary governors and heads of Ṣūfī orders. The son of a shāh is called a shāhzāda (literally “shāh son”). See also shabunder.
Iran Chamber Society: February 28 2018
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Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi Arya Mehr and Shahanshah (King of the Kings) Mohammad Reza Shah & Empress FarahMohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919-80), king of Iran (1941-1979), was born in Tehran on October 26, 1919, the eldest son of Reza Shah. He completed his primary school in Switzerland. He returned to Iran in 1935, and enrolled in a Tehran military school, from which he graduated in 1938. In 1939 he married a sister of Faroq I, king of Egypt. The couple divorced in 1949. Mohammad Reza married two more times, in 1950 with Soraya Esfandiari and 1959 with Farah Diba.
This finite and eliminated from the world scene, King of Kings, contrasted with the biblical King of Kings.
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Question: "What does it mean that Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords?"
Answer: The phrase king of kings is used in Scripture six times. Once, the title is applied to God the Father (1 Timothy 6:15), and twice to the Lord Jesus (Revelation 17:14; 19:16). The other three (Ezra 7:12; Ezekiel 26:7; Daniel 2:37) refer to either Artaxerxes or Nebuchadnezzar, kings who used the phrase to express their absolute sovereignty over their respective realms (Persia and Babylon). The phrase lord of lords is used by itself in Scripture twice and refers to God the Father (Deuteronomy 10:17; Psalm 136:3).
In Revelation 19:16 Jesus is given the full title “KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS” (Revelation 17:14 switches it: “Lord of lords and King of kings”). The title indicates someone who has the power to exercise absolute dominion over all His realm. In the case of the Lord Jesus, the realm is all of creation. In John’s vision, Jesus is returning to judge the world and establish His earthly kingdom, as He predicted in Mark 13:26.
When Jesus is called “King of kings and Lord of lords,” it means that, in the end, all other rulers will be conquered or abolished, and He alone will reign supreme as King and Lord of all the earth. There is no power, no king, and no lord who can oppose Him and win. There are myriad references to this absolute rule of Jesus and His preeminence over other rulers throughout Scripture.
Mounce reasons with 17: 14 that the Lamb will overcome adversaries and is therefore Lord of lords and King of kings. (318). This is a demonstration of the sovereignty of God.
In 19: 16: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS, emphasizes the universal sovereignty of Jesus Christ and God's eschatological victory over all enemies. (347). The antichrist and enemies will be destroyed. (348).
It could be stated that biblically the only true King of kings is God himself, and that includes God the Son, Jesus Christ.
MOUNCE, ROBERT H. (1990) The Book of Revelation, Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
