March 15, 1994.
Revised August 31, 2005
The
Law of God
God gave us the commandments to aid in
our growth and maturity and Jesus told us to obey them. Moses and the
Messiah expounded upon those commandments so that we might understand
them and better implement them fruitfully in our lives.
“Whosoever
therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall
teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven:
but whosoever shall do and teach [them], the same shall be called
great in the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:19
We are to love God and have no other
gods before him. We know Paul says that there are gods many
and Jesus says that ye also are gods. We also know that a god
is someone who may make laws and exercise authority over others. When
the Bible was written, the word for “god” was the title
for a judge in courts of law and administrative courts.
We know that God told us not to bow
down nor serve those gods
that men make for themselves. We are told not to make
covenants with the people under those gods nor with their
gods, judges.
Appealing to those gods, it will become a snare to you.
He told us not to say that we put our trust in His Name and, then,
actually give our trust to someone else.
He told us because he took us out of a governmental system called
Egypt, wherein we did not own our labor or our land. He also told
us to never go back there again.
If we desire to partake of the benefits offered by those governments,
we should put a knife to our throat.
When the Israelites were in Egypt and
Moses came to free them, he did not say, “Disobey Pharaoh.”
When Jesus came to set the captives free from the Pharisees and
foreign despots, he did not say, “Don’t pay Caesar the
tax you owe him.” He said that they were to give to Caesar what
is Caesar’s and He also said that they were to give to God what
is God’s.
Are you pledging the service, that you
should giving to God, to Caesar? Do you owe Caesar your service and,
if so, how did this come about? Did you swear or apply to Caesar to
obtain his benefits or protection? Did you make him the Father of
your estate, your status?
The Israelites were in bondage in Egypt
because they jealously threw their brother into a pit of slavery. The
world is under tribute, an excise called income and property tax,
because the people desired to force their neighbors, rich or poor, to
pay for their desired public dainties. They coveted the gifts and
benefits promised by systems they created and did not mind that the
spotted charity of those “civic altars” was extracted by
force. Through their own covetousness, they have been made human
resources.
In Egypt, they sacrificed to the gods
of Egypt, who were the ruling judges of Egypt. Those gods appointed
officers and taskmasters over the people and compelled the people to
pay into the civic altars of the Pharaoh. In God’s kingdom, the
people chose to sacrifice to God upon His living altars according to
the service of its chosen ministers. What the people need to do is to
learn what it means to sacrifice to the Lord. They needed to learn
what it means to feed and care for His sheep and what it means to
love their neighbor, without coveting his goods or his right to
choose. There is no salvation in simply baptizing the outside of your
bodies. You must repent and be baptized on the inside of your hearts
and minds.
If the Church and the people had
attended to the business of Christ, the people would never had needed
to apply to Caesar. They would owe him nothing and would have
remained free. The Kingdom is still at hand and repentance is the
first step to salvation.
“If
ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have
kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.”
John 15:10
The other commandments give us clues on
what this all means. These basic laws have many applications in our
lives for like the laws of God’s creation they are repeated at
many levels in similar and repetitive ways.
We were to be industrious and work six
days and rest on the seventh, nor are we to deprive anyone else of
that rest. Some put great emphasis on the seventh day, but often
forget the six days of fruitful labor that sets that day of rest
apart.
We are to honor our Father and Mother
as we honor our Father in Heaven. Income tax is a “patrimonial
right” of the Fathers. Each Son and Daughter is to give their
offerings upon their domestic altars. Then, according to the
individual discretion of the head of the family, a freewill
contribution is granted to the servant altars of His kingdom.
Thou shalt not kill or be the cause of
death or injury by intent or neglect, but each man is responsible for
the life of each other man on earth. You shall not take a man’s
flesh nor his blood nor his sweat without his permission and you will
not damage anyone in a scheme or plan to take the blood or sweat of
your neighbor or the strangers amongst you through the agencies of
others, including the governments you may devise for yourself.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Obviously sexual adultery is a betrayal of your spouse, but also a
betrayal of God. Marital vows are before God, not just each other.
But God has also given us our bodies to care for as the living
temples of our souls.
You shall not adulterate your own body
or the body of your family or any other family. You shall not consume
any adulterant, pollutant, contagion, contaminant, or any poisonous
substance, nor contribute to the violation of any other individual
with any form of adulterant. This could include something as obvious
as drug abuse and smoking or something seemingly benign, like eating
too much or eating a poor diet or drinking to excess.
Jeremiah speaks of a whole nation
committing adultery in Chapter 3. He says that they defiled the land
and committed adultery with stones and stocks. In Chapter 7, he
associates this national adultery with national stealing, murder, and
swearing falsely or sacrificing to Baal
,along with the following of other gods or judges.
Thou shalt not steal. You shall not
take from any one what they do not wish to give. You shall not have
agents and accomplices to take from others. You shall not allow
anyone to take from your neighbor without their permission and
agreement, either directly or through deception or through any agency
or administration. This could include imposing taxes, but it would
also include applying for benefits financed by such compelled taxes.
The modern tax system is Nicolaitan and includes an element of fear
and force.
Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbour. You shall not lie to people, mislead people,
keep the truth back from people. You will not be a part of any fraud
or deception or unjust weights and measures that eat away at the
wealth or goods of the people.
Caveat Emptor, Let the buyer beware,
should not be heard in the kingdom of Heaven. You should not take
advantage of the ignorance of others, either directly or through the
agencies of others. Knowing the truth, you shall not keep it secret,
but promote the knowledge of truth. You shall expose all lies to
those who have ears to hear and eyes to see.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s
house. You will not take from a man’s household or any portion
of his home. You shall not take from your neighbor’s house by
threatening to take it by force if he will not pay you or your rulers
usury, no matter what benefit it may bring you. This would include
free schools for your children, police or fire protection or any
service where your neighbor is forced to pay and deprived of the
choice to give. Nor shall you desire or hope to take any part of
benefits that are financed by such coveting systems.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s
wife, nor any portion of the labor of his servants, nor any part of
his assets, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. All that is
your neighbor’s is his and you or your servants, either public
or private, will not take anything that is your neighbor’s
without his desire to give it to you freely. You shall not draft his
sons or force his daughters to labor for you or for your elected
agents, nor shall you desire or hope to take any part that is your
neighbor’s.
This is what happened when men chose a
centralized ruler, or king, in the days of Samuel. God and Samuel
warned us that this is what will transpire if we reject God and
choose to have men rule over us and be our lawmakers. Men keep
returning to the same error and the solution never changes either.
Christ showed us, but so did prophets like Nehemiah.
“And
the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the
singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves
from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their
sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having
understanding; They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and
entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law,
which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do
all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his
statutes;” Nehemiah 10:28 29
Nehemiah and the people returned to the
precepts of God and separated themselves, being different from the
nations of the earth, as Jesus also said. With understanding and
right knowledge, they gathered with their brethren and contributed
willingly to the altars of God, as we see the first century Church
doing. They forsook tribute and did not impose a tax but said that
they alone would charge themselves to contribute.
This is the Kingdom of God and the subject of what the Church should
preach to all those who say that they believe the Christ.
If we seek to set all men free, then we
shall become freemen under God.
“He
that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me:
and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love
him, and will manifest myself to him.” John 14:21
Over and over, Christ said, “If
you love me, keep my commandments.” If we kept the
commandments, the lives and rights of our neighbor would be as
important to us as our own. Could we send our children to public
schools when those schools are financed by force and fear? Could we
vote to increase any levy for schools and teachers at the expense of
our neighbor? Could we tax our neighbor in order to support civic
projects, like beautifying the town, or our cemeteries, funding fire
departments, helping the deaf, aged, poor, or needy?
There is no clause where God says you
can take from your neighbor if it is a worthy cause. Might does not
make right in the Kingdom of God. The end does not justify the means.
Under God’s liberty, your neighbor may give or not give. There
is freedom in the Kingdom.
In a democracy, every man is king, but
not of himself alone, but also of his neighbor. He rules his neighbor
with the power of his vote. A democracy as a common purse of rights
and runs towards death. The laws for the king apply to the mob
as king, called democracy.
All such policies of desiring to
benefit from the taking from your neighbors’ house or any
violation of the Ten commandments should not be a temptation to us if
we have truly accepted Christ into our hearts. How can we say that He
is Lord and continue a policy that does not do the things He has said
to do? How can we claim to have accepted Him if we do not know and do
according to His sayings?
In The Covenants of the gods,
we detail how the obligations imposed by systems of world of men and
power are the result of numerous violations of the Ten Commandments
by us. What these commandments are saying is that you may not desire
the benefits that come from these compelled assessments because that
would be coveting your neighbor’s goods. It is not saying that
you do not owe them. We may owe them because we have failed to follow
God’s Word and the teachings of Christ. The ways of God do not
fail, nor do they deliver men into bondage. It is us who have failed
to adhere to the righteousness of God’s Kingdom.
Some people propagate the lie that the
Ten Commandments were done away at the cross. If that were even
remotely true, Jesus would not keep saying, “Obey the
commandments.”
“And
he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but
one, [that is], God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the
commandments.” Matthew 19:17
If some did not lie or deceive or
mislead the people about the gospel, many people would be out of
business. Whole systems would shut down. Nothing has robbed the
people more than usurious money systems that deplete the value of
personal wealth day by day.
Taking the silver out of coins was
dishonest. Thinking that silver has the same value as iron is
deception. Yet, many people were gobbling up silver quarters and
giving out iron coins as if they had the same value. The government
economists knew they were not the same, but they encouraged the
people to think they were. The reason they removed the silver is
because it was worth more than the iron coins that they gave out in
their place. They knowingly robbed the people and, anyone not
revealing that truth, is a part of that lie and deception, but this
is only one small example of the vast scope of modern delusions.
“Thou
knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not
steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.”
Luke 18:20
How an administration could have
enslaved an entire population and still calls itself “Christian”
is hard to conceive. People say that we need taxes to support
government. Yes, we need funds to support government, but do we need
to force those funds from people in order to get them to contribute?
Is that the Kingdom of Heaven or Babylon? Is that of God and Christ,
Abraham and Moses, or is that of Cain and Nimrod, Pharaoh, and
Caesar?
“Thou
knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not
steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and
mother.” Mark 10:19
If Jesus were going to do away with the
Ten Commandments or create an easy salvation, whereby you say a few
words, get choked up, and make an doleful altar call, then what is
Christ saying when he states, “if you love me, keep my
commandments?” John 14:15
“And
Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments [is], Hear, O
Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And
the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.”
Mark 12:29-31
You cannot love your neighbor and take
away his rights. Thomas Jefferson said it best when he stated,
“Democracy is mob rule where fifty-one percent of the people
take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
This is telling us that, at least, 51
percent of the voters do not love Christ as a matter of policy. This
is not to say that the other forty-nine are not sinners, too. They
just did not get the largest block of sinners during the vote. Though
a thing is legal, it may still be a sin against God. Of course, not
everyone votes to take things away from their neighbor. Some people
consistently vote to stop their neighbor from robbing.
So, what is the solution? We cannot
flee to the new world; there is no new world to go to. The answer is
that we must flee to a new way. Jesus has been talking about
it from the beginning. It is not without burden, but it is light
compared to other options.
“But
seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;
and
all these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:33
Footnotes
Footnotes:
Table of Contents
of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
Peace be to this house,
The Prologue of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCa1-0Prologue.php
1. The Kingdom of God of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
Is Righteousness of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCa1-1IsRighteousness.php
A Man as King of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCa1-2AManasKing.php
2. Abraham Uncivilized of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
The City State of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCb2-1TheCityState.php
Two kingdoms/ The Merchants of Men of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCb2-2MerchantsofMen.php
The Hindu Connection of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCb2-3HinduConnection.php
Abraham and the Legend, The Prodigal Son
Our king and our god? of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCb2-4Legend.php
The Code of Abraham of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCb2-5code.php
Abraham and the Family of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCb2-6Family.php
3. The Altar of Abraham of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
Moses and the Altars of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCc3-1AltarsofClay.php
The Altar of Sin of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCc3-2Sin.php
Sacrifice of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCc3-3Sophistry.php
4. Moses, Moses of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
The Civil State of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCd4-1CivilState.php
Gods Many of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCd4-2godsmany.php
No Kings of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCd4-3NoKings.php
Servant Priests of a Nation of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCd4-4Servants.php
5. Joshua’s Altar of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
White Altars of Joshua
King over us of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCe5-1WhiteAltars.php
Adultery of a Nation of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCe5-2Adultery.php
Fear, Faith and Foolishness of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCe5-3RearFaith.php
6. The World of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
Of Rome and Judea of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCf6-1Rome.php
The Remarkable History of Israel of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCf6-2Israel.php
Rome the Believer of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
The Commander in chiefs
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCf6-3RomeBeliever.php
A Father’s offer of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCf6-4TheOffer.php
The Hasmonean Appeal of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
Socialization of Rome
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCf6-5SocialAppeal.php
The Love of kings of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCf6-6LovingKings.php
7. Factions at the Altar of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
The Pharisees and The Sadducees of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCg7-1Factions.php
The Essenes of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
The Healers of a Nation
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8. A King is Born of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
A King is Born of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCh8-1KingBorn.php
What is redemption? of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCh8-2Redemption.php
Kingdom in Turmoil of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCh8-3Turmoil.php
The New Deal of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCh8-4NewDeal.php
9. Temples and Churches of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
The Church
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCi9-1TemplesandChurches.php
Investing in Diana of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCi9-2InvestinDiana.php
One Father of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCi9-3OurFather.php
Arts of the Temples of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCi9-4TempleArts.php
The Temple of Satan of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCi9-5SatansTemple.php
The Royal Treasury of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCi9-6RoyalTreasury.php
10. Two Paths of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
God’s dominion from the Beginning of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
The revenue of the wicked
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCj10-1Paths.php
Beams in our eyes of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
Removing the Beam
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCj10-2Beams.php
These two Kingdoms of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCj10-3TwoKingdoms.php
Faith is actions of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCj10-4Action.php
The kingdom appointed to Liberty of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCj10-5AppointedLiberty.php
11. Where is the kingdom of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
The kingdom comes of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCk11-1Kingdom.php
Eating in the kingdom of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCk11-2Eating.php
Washing in the kingdom of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCk11-3Washing.php
Where is the Church? of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCk11-4Where.php
We are all kings of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCk11-5AllKings.php
12. Apostasy of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
The Ship of State of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCl12-1Ship.php
The Allurement of Wolves of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCl12-2Wolves.php
The Church of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCl12-3Church.php
The Separate Church
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCl12-4Separate.php
13. The Kingdom of Heaven of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
The State of the Nation of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCm13-1Heaven.php
Seeking the kingdom, The Law of God of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCm13-2SeekLaw.php
What does the Kingdom look like? of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCm13-3looks.php
Assembling a congregation of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
Where to start seeking the kingdom of God
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCm13-4Start.php
Appendix of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
Appendix 1. Kingdom of Heaven and God of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCn-1Appendix.php
Appendix 2. The things He says of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCn-2AppenSaid.php
Appendix 3. What is Worship? of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCn-3AppenWorship.php
Appendix 4. Who are the Nicolaitans? of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCn-4AppenNicolaitan.php
Appendix 5. Who is a god? of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCn-5Appengods.php
Appendix 6. Oaths and Swearing of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCn-6AppenOaths.php
The Cover of the book, Thy Kingdom Comes
The Elixir of Love.
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/tkczzwa.php
About the Author of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/tkczzwb.php
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