Did God Spare Queen Elizabeth II?

Reflections on the 2nd Anniversary of Her Majesty’s Death

This Sunday is the 2nd Anniversary of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.  A year ago, I speculated that the acceleration of the decline of the U. K. and of the Church of England after her death was not a coincidence.  I posited that her presence as a much beloved Christian monarch was a restraint on societal decline.

In the year since I wrote that, the U. K.’s decline has accelerated that much more.  I am that much more convinced that is connected to the removal of her presence.  But instead of pounding the table that Elizabeth II was indeed a restraint on societal decline, I want to look at the connection from a different angle, the opposite angle in a way.

The Bible contains episodes in which godly monarchs are spared from seeing the devastation that will come after them.  Hezekiah, King of Judah, was an unusually good king, who “did right in the sight of the Lord” and “trusted in the Lord.” (2 Kings 18: 1-10) Late in his reign, Isaiah prophesied to him that Judah would be conquered by Babylon.  But this was to happen well after his death.  He neither saw it nor feared it. (2 Kings 20:16-19)

The only good King of Judah after him was Josiah.  When “the Book of the Law” was discovered during Temple repairs and read to him, he tore his clothes and mourned that the Law had not been kept and that judgement therefore was likely.  To be more certain of the situation, he had his officials go inquire of a prophetess.  She warned that judgement on Judah was indeed coming but she had a special consoling word for Josiah:

But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, in this manner you shall speak to him, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘Concerning the words which you have heard— because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you,” says the LORD. Surely, therefore, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; and your eyes shall not see all the calamity which I will bring on this place.” ’ ” (2 Kings 22: 18-20)

Good King Josiah responded with extensive reforms against idolatry and to restore right worship.  And he did not live to see the devastation eventually brought upon Judah by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

Matters have gotten so bad in England in only two years that I now think the like occurred with the death of Elizabeth.  Her last Prime Minister was Liz Truss, a good and principled woman. I had high hopes for her. (The lead-in photo is Elizabeth receiving Truss as she became PM.  The Queen died two days later.)

Elizabeth did not live to see Truss backstabbed and run off only weeks later by Rishi Sunak and the Globalist Wet cabal.  She did not live to see Sunak be an utter failure and defeated by someone even worse, Keir Starmer, who almost immediately removed his reasonable mask after election to reveal himself as a totalitarian, in his two tiered justice, his attacks on free speech, and even such obsessions as banning smoking in pub gardens.  With his Labour Party having a huge majority, no telling how much worse things will get.  The invasion of deadbeats, ingrates, and criminals is certainly continuing unabated with Labour’s blessing — and threats upon those who oppose the Invasion.

So I now think that, like as God spared Hezekiah and Josiah from seeing the conquest of Judah and the destruction of Jerusalem, God spared Elizabeth II from seeing these past two years out of mercy for her and as a reward for her faithfulness.

I do not presume to know — I am no prophet.  But I know what I think.

May God continue to have mercy on the soul of Queen Elizabeth II . . . and also have mercy upon and somehow restore the Britain Elizabeth so loved.