When one is asked to kneel, the question that is immediately begged is, "To whom?" If we are being asked to kneel to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, then we must kneel immediately. He is God.
But if we are being directed to kneel before a glorious, shining angel, a thousand times more powerful and glorious than any human being, the answer is different. We are forbidden to kneel to angels, regardless of how powerful and glorious they may be. (Revelation 19:10) And if we are forbidden any kneeling to such glorious, godly creatures, how much more are we forbidden to kneel to feeble, fallen, sinful humankind.
"Taking the knee" (as it has come to be known) is thus the pose of a fool, unless it be a declaration of humble submission to the King of kings.
Joshua Lawson, writing in The Federalist has it exactly right:
The kneeling phenomenon demanded by the radical left in the wake of George Floyd’s death—and embraced by those guilted into submission—creates a two-tiered social stratification of “kneelers” and “those who refuse to bend the knee” that’s wholly un-American.
Mobs resulting from years of citizens saturated in “critical race theory” and grievance studies have pressured far too many into believing they bear guilt for the past sins of others. Now they kneel in fealty to that false reality or are exiled from society.
Unfortunately, it’s also moved beyond just kneeling.
A crowd in Webster, Massachusetts, recently forced Police Chief Michael Shaw to lie face-down on the ground for eight minutes. In Cary, North Carolina, a group of Caucasians washed the feet of black organizers to “ask for forgiveness.” Not to be outdone by the latest woke trends, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a knee at a massive anti-racism protest at Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
