Like the Israelites rejected the prophet of God and demanded a "king", thereby joining church & state, so too does the people of God demand a union of church with state.
But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us.
1 Samuel 8:6
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death;
and his deadly wound was healed:
and all the world wondered after the beast.
Revelation 13:3