“Then those men, when they had seen the sign that Jesus did, said, “This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.” Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone. (John 6:14-15)
Before denying Jesus as king, the people of Israel at one time were going to make Jesus their king – and Jesus refused to let it happen!
But why did Jesus refuse to allow the people to make him king? Was it because he was not the Messiah of God’s people? No (John 4:25-26). Was it because he was not the prophet they believed him to be? No (John 5:46). Was it because he was not the king? No (John 18:37).
The prophesied kingdom of the prophesied king was not going to be a physical kingdom with physical borders (Luke 17:20-21), rather his kingdom would be spiritual and it would spread amongst all the nations of the world (Matthew 28:18-19), and its king would show the world one nation at a time that he is King of kings, and Lord of lords (1 Timothy 6:15), and upon his return, when the kingdom shall be delivered up – not established (1 Corinthians 15:24), every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess him to the glory of God the Father.
Jesus did not allow the people to make him king because they did not have the right to do it. The kingdom preached by John, the forerunner of Jesus, and by Jesus, did not belong to the people (Matthew 3:1-2; Mark 1:14-15). The kingdom over which Jesus would reign would be given to him by the Father after his death, burial, resurrection and ascension into Heaven where he would sit upon the throne (Daniel 7:13-14; Matthew 16:16-19; Luke 22:29; Acts 2:29-36; Revelation 19:11-16). Jesus did not come to be a pawn in the political games of people – he came to be king!
"Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." (Philippians 2:9-11)
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