What if now it's like when Israel demanded a king in order to be a nation like the other nations? God let them have their way, but it wasn't his will. If it wasn't his will then why would it be his will now when he has brought the holy nation in Christ into existence that he wanted from the beginning?
Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD. And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. 1 Samuel 8:4-7