PROPRIETOR1. one granted ownership of a colony (such as one of the original American colonies) and full prerogatives of establishing a government and distributing land.2. a person who has the legal right or exclusive title to something3. one having an interest (such as control or present use) less than absolute and exclusive rightAs a result of the king's enthronement, at least three elements are made to characterize God's anointed king: DARTMOOR PATH OF 82 > KINGCREST The king is elected as God's earthly representative such that he shares God's throne and is installed as God's son (Pss 2:7; 89:26-27 cf. 2 Sam 7:12-14). The divine right of kings, or divine-right theory of kingship, is a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy. It asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving his right to rule directly from the will of God.DESOLATOR OF THE APOSTATES The king is rescued out of a situation of distress, is exalted over his enemies (Ps 2:8-9; 110:2; cf. Dan 7:14), and is invited to rule over them.JUDGE OF THE WORLD The enthroned king ushers in a time of righteous rule characterized by peace and prosperity for his people.KING OF GLORYThere is an inextricable relationship between the rule of God's royal son and the good of the people. The king's rule over his people and his concomitant defeat of his enemies, it was believed, would usher in a period of peace and prosperity for his subjects. The life and rule of the king (Ps 72:5-6, 15), it was hoped, would result in "prosperity for the people" (v. 3), "peace abounding" (v. 7), and an "abundance of grain in the land" (v. 16). Thus, the psalmist prays that the king would "have dominion from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth. May his foes bow down before him and his enemies lick the dust" (Ps 72:8; cf. Gen 49:8-12; Num 24:17-19; Zech 9:10). God's establishment of the king's throne enables the king to "crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him" (Ps 89:23). The rule of this righteous king will result in "all nations [being] blessed in him" (Ps 72:17). The end of Ps 2 declares that those who "take refuge in him" (Ps 2:11), that is, those who submit to the king's rule, will find blessing and will not perish (Ps 2:9-10). The king will protect and defend the righteous from evildoers (Ps 101:5-8). The king defends his people and delivers them from their enemies (Ps 72:1-4, 12-14). The king's rule over his people is characterized by God's own "faithfulness and steadfast love" (Ps 89:24). In Ps 144 the king prays for his deliverance from his enemies so that his people may enjoy protection, peace, and fertility in the land (Ps 144:11-14). God's granting of life and deliverance to the king (Ps 22:20-25) will result in food for the poor (22:26 and service and worship of God (22:27-31). The king even stabilizes and rules the cosmos as God sets "his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers" (Ps 89:25)."God's gift of life to his king brings life also to his people." Eaton, Kingship and the Psalms, 156. On the saints sharing in God's rule in pre-Christian Judaism, see M. David Litwa, We are Being Transformed: Deification in Paul's Soteriology (BZNW 187; Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2012), 179-82. See also Franz Mussner, who points to Jewish apocalyptic to explain the conceptual precedent for the ruled sharing in the rule of a transcendent figure; Franz Mussner, Christus das All und die Kirche: Studien zur Theol-ogie des Epheserbriefes (Trier: Paulinus, 1955), 91-97.Going Boldly Where The Last Man has Gone Before! Decrease time over target: PayPal or Venmo @clastronaut Cash App $clastronaut39 See Eaton, Kingship and the Psalms, 166.