httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZPZOpFLHVE
More nudges. It appears that most people do not understand the different forms of government ranging from complete control by the government (oligarchy) to no control (anarchy). What did our founding fathers intend? They wanted to get as close to anarchy as possible while allowing people to have freedom. This meant a very limited republic constrained by Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. They understood that man is a flawed creation who must strive to be Christlike but will never be moral or virtuous enough to have unlimited freedom.
As the video above outlines, there is no difference between government labels where the people are controlled: there are only gradients between control and no control. If man was able to live without the need for the rule of man’s law as our Lord asks of us, we could live without government. Our Lord would be our King of kings. So where does that leave us? We literally have a majority of the people in our country who believe in big government that is not constrained by law or our Lord. We are begging for our “king” to take care of us so that we can be like other nations.
Did the Lord intend for his believers to be like other nations?Or did he intend for his people to be free and not subject to evil rulers? For those who believe that anarchy is the will of Satan, I respectfully disagree. If we achieved the state of righteousness as the Lord would have us achieve, there would be no need for man’s laws. Without the need for laws, we would not have the need for government. Can anyone say the same for the Word of God? Disparaging or misrepresenting the Word of God is the true work of Satan. Asking “What would Jesus do?” is the work of Satan. A believer in the Word of God would not have to ask that question: he would be able to repeat Jesus’s word in their proper context.
I wish that we were spiritually advanced enough to live without government under God’s natural laws. But as our founding fathers knew, we are still flawed beings who need some laws to keep us secure and free. However, the great experiment is no longer in practice in our country. We now live under a repressive dictatorship which would have us believe that we are free. The cost to regain our Liberty will be dear. As it should be so that we will cherish it once again. As for those who simper in the shadows pulling on our chains under the guise of social justice and big government: the consequences of your actions will not go unpunished.
Fortunately, Christian justice is not based on revenge. Isn’t it time that America woke up and stopped looking for a king?
David DeGerolamo
Samuel 8
1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
2 Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba.
3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.
4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
5 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.
6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
7 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.
8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
9 Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
10 And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king.
11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
20 That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
22 And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.
