Template:Corban of Moses
That system of forced offerings through taxation was making the word of God to none effect. The repentant souls who got the Baptism of Christ at Pentecost were "put out"[1] of that socialist welfare system of benefits from men like Herod and Caesar who said they were Benefactors of the World but were also the Fathers of the earth.
Corban of Christ
Was the Corban of Moses the same as the Corban of Christ?
What was this Corban of the Pharisees really all about?
How did it differ from the Corban of Moses?
Corban as a Hebrew word meant a sacrifice and was specifically a "freewill offering" made by the people to a levite minister to care for the needy of society through charity and love. That daily ministration of pure Religion produced the fruit of virtue and the subsequent social bonds required for a free society under God. That Corban of Moses was in conformity with the Corban of Christ that would draw us "near" to God and God to us through His Holy Spirit.
An essential complaint about the Pharisees by Jesus was their Corban because it made the word of God to none effect.
Herod and the Pharisees established a system of legal charity that became a compelled offering for their registered members.
Jesus did not just reform the kingdom of God but as priest and king He took it from those who sat in the seat of Moses and appointed to the Apostles.[2]
At that time under the Caesars there was also a similar system through the Imperial Cult of Rome that would be at the core of the Christian conflict with Rome.
Corban of Rome
The Roman welfare system of Qorban like the Corban of the Pharisees and Herod had changed from its early days of the Roman and Israelite republics.
As Republics there were No kings in Rome nor early Israel. Their Temple systems had no buildings made of stone but were dependent upon voluntary networks of charity through which they maintained the social bonds of free societies and nations.
These governments had evolved over time into Socialist States which forced contributions of the people through taxation like in the days of the bondage of Egypt.
The masses of their Citizenry had become slothful in the ways of liberty and accustomed to living at the expense of others. That dependence upon men who called themselves benefactors of the people but who exercised authority one over the other by taking from one group to provide for another. Those covetous practices of desiring the dainties and benefits of rulers degenerated the character of the people and the very fabric of society, the family. Over time the people were willing to even borrow against the future of children to obtain the reward of unrighteousness",
This dependence was and is contrary to the instructions of Christ, and the prophets and brought with it corruption and despotism of the world.
Roman Repentance
Many Romans wanted to return to the way of the republic when their rulers were titular and they were free.
Some had sought that return to republican values by the sword through stabbing Julius Caesar which lead to civil war with Augustus Caesar becoming the Savior of the Pax Romana and hailed as the Son of God.
"Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom."[3]
There were many Romans, like the Centurion of faith[4] who had eyes to see another way of a different Savior who was also called "Son of God.
Undoubtedly, many of the Romans who became the early Christians in the Empire remembered the words of Polybius and the ways of the Libera res publica of the early Roman Republic.
"The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence. The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence; [5] and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder,[6] until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch." [7]
Two Corbans
Augustus Caesar had greatly expanded the Imperial Cult of Rome which was a state run welfare system based on registration and compelled contributions. Herod would introduce a similar system of corban in the form of a legal sacrifice in Judea.
Because religion was how you took care of the needy of society these civil institutions were a form of Public religion. FDR would institute similar systems of Social Security in the United States which would be greatly expanded under other American Apotheosis like LBJ and those who succumbed to the covetous practices of his Great Society.
Jesus said if the Pharisees really knew Moses they would have known Him.[8] Do Modern Christians know Jesus or are they under a strong delusion.[9] Jesus warned that many people would think they believed and served Christ but they actually were workers of iniquity.[10]
False teachings on Corban
The word Corban and it many forms found in many language generally means sacrifice. While the people of Israel while in the bondage of Egypt their sacrifice was one fifth of their labor which was compelled by the civil authorities, and funded the government because the government had provided a social safety net for not only the Israelites but all the citizens of Egypt.[11]
For Moses these sacrifices were to be freewill offerings[12] since his purpose was to produce a free people.
If a student of the Bible does not understand that the altars of clay and stone were symbols of systems that provided social safety nets for societies that created social bonds of care and love opposed to those systems that plowed mankind with elements of the world through the force used by the wicked but rejected by John the Baptist, legally justified by oaths, application, and fealty.
Because of historical ignorance many misidentify the nature of the Corban of the Pharisees which used force to provide the dainties, free bread, and social welfare àt the tables of rulers. Those systems are a snare and a trap because of the covetousness which is idolatry and the swearing an oath.
and therefore remain ignorant of the true nature of the Gospel and Corban of Christ.
Dr. Vance Havner
Dr. Vance Havner (1901, North Carolina to August 12, 1986) was a revivalist who authored nearly forty books during his ministry.
"Jesus ... reproved them for their "corban" custom by which they dedicated gifts to God and therefore escaped giving them to the needy. It was well to vow gifts to God, but it had degenerated into a clever excuse for not helping the ones in need—a pretext for evading responsibility."
What he did not seem to understand along with other "blind leaders of the blind" that Corban of the Pharisees was instituted by the civil government of Herod and a corrupted Sanhedrin. It was a social safety net which required membership through vows and baptism. It was a major step toward the ancient cities of blood but conformed to the free bread of the Roman Imperial Cult which Polybius had warned against.
The Jews should have known better having received the teachings of the prophets concerning the snares and traps of such systems.[13]
The modern Christian and certainly the modern Church had even more warnings but strong delusions make a nation sitting in darkness blind.
Believer's Study Bible
The Believer's Study Bible by Wallie Amos Criswell Jr. ( 1909, in Oklahoma to 2002 in Texas (age 92 years)) presents a similar short combing.
"The term "Corban" means "an offering dedicated to God." While the law clearly commanded honor for parents (v10), the Pharisees effectively nullified this commandment in the practice of Corban by allowing a callous child to declare his possessions "devoted to God" so that the parents would have no claim to assistance. Should the son regret his gift of Corban, the Pharisees would insist that the vow be kept in accordance with Nu30:2. Jesus rejects this practice of using the letter of one commandment to invalidate the intent of another."
Again, this study Bible source failed to understand the purpose of those freewill offering given on the living altars of the Levites who served the tents of the congregations providing social welfare to a nation and the distinction of those non covetous practices when compared to Cain, Nimrod, Egypt and Sumer.
This put him at a disadvantage when it comes to understanding the statements about fathers[14], tables[15], practices[16] , and teachings of Christ, the Early Church, and the Apostles including Paul's statement concerning covetousness being idolatry.[17]
The Deadly Lure of Legalism
In the manuscript The Deadly Lure of Legalism by Daniel Akin[18] he mention Corban coming to the conclusion that:
"There are basically only 2 approaches to religion, each of which can be summed up in a single word: do or done. The world says the problem is out there and the answer is what I can do. The Bible says the problem is in here and the answer is what Christ has done!"[19]
There are two approaches to religion but what is religion?
Just a little over 200 years ago Religion was defined as the “Real piety in practice[20], consisting in the performance of all known duties to God and our fellow men”[21]
Our duty to God includes devotion and devotion includes obedience and homage. Obedience to God would include loving our neighbor and and caring for our parents.
So, Daniel Akin is right "There are basically only 2 approaches to" love and care for our neighbor and our parents. We can do it through freewill offerings which is charity or we can do it legally through the exercising authority of the state.
What Daniel does not seem to see is that to care for the needy of society by the legally compelled contributions of the "world", which is legal charity through the welfare State, is not only the worst form of legalism it is the antitheses of Pure Religion.
Daniel Akin wrote that the "Pharisees created a theological loophole" by simply declaring "what they would have given to their parents" has been vowed "in service to God." Daniel exclaims, "What kind of logic is that?!"[19]
The actual theological loophole by the modern Church us no different than what the Pharisees actually did. They conspired openly with Herod to establish a social safety net for the people through the civil government.
Herod and Constantine both baptized people but motive and purpose were decidedly different than Jesus' purpose.
Herod the Great through his temples established a worldwide membership in a system of social security. It included a record of registration with a clay or stone titulus for verification through the accounts of the scribes. It actually included his own Rabbinical Baptism which had long been a custom in Jewish history.
Registration made you eligible for membership and access to benefits through the treasury of the temple. Those benefits is what the parents of the blind man feared loosing in John 9.[22]
Rome had instituted its own Titulus Venetus[23] and registration through their public temples.
Herod hoped to obtain at least six hundred thousand members to form a New Israel, his own kingdom of Heaven on earth.
See also Baptism, specifically Sec.The missionaries.
Ryrie Study Bible
Ryrie Study Bible by Charles Caldwell Ryrie[24] states:
"If a son declared that the amount needed to support his parents was Corban, the scribes said that he was exempt from his duty to care for his parents as prescribed in the law. Evidently, too, he was not really obliged to devote that sum to the Temple."
Again the Corban was a government system of social security set up by Herod with the assistance of the Pharisees and other political parties where people registered to be a member of what was presented as a New Deal.
Corban of Moses had always been a freewill sacrifice given to the Levite of your choice voluntarily. The Levite was tithed to according to his service.
Understanding Corban
Do we understand what Jesus was telling them or have we become workers of iniquity too?
The Hebrew word qorban ןברק in the Old Testament and is translated offering 68, oblation 12, offered 1, sacrifice 1. It is defined by some to mean "offering, oblation". Corban of Christ is your charitable offering to provide the Daily ministration of the needy within the Congregations of the people who seek to follow Christ. The Hebrew word qarab ברק which as a verb is defined "to come near, approach, enter into, draw near or cause to draw near".
This same word is translated as offer 95 times, but as (come, draw, … ) near 58, bring 58, (come, draw, … ) nigh 18, come 12, approach 10, at hand 4, presented 2, and another 13 other ways, appearing some 280 times. This same letter combination appears another 250 times and is translate many different ways like "midst, among, inner part, middle.
These many different ways is how the Pharisees and others deceived the people to go astray from the purposes of God.
Sacrifice or your Freewill offerings in charity had a purpose. It was an expression of your Faith in The Way of Christ and the Father.
Every successful society has instituted some method of taking care of the elderly, indigent, and needy within their society.
From the Romans to the Tuetons and Celts, from early Israel to the early Christians there was a way to provide for the needy of those communities.
This care or free bread or social welfare was also called the daily ministration [25] in the New Testament but also Pure Religion and was part of the works of the Temples of all nations.
The word ministration in the Greek is from diakonia διακονία and is translated ministry 16 times, ministration 6, ministering 3, along with 9 other ways. It is defined as "service, ministering, esp. of those who execute the commands of others" and is said to be "the office of the deacon in the church" or even "the service of those who prepare and present food".
It is from the Greek noun diakonos διάκονος which is translated minister 20 times, servant 8, deacon only 3 times. It is defined as "one who executes the commands of another, esp. of a master, a servant, attendant, minister".
So, in the first century and for centuries to follow the Church was to feed His sheep by actually providing bread and other foods for the needy which was the Corbanus of Christ.[26]
The Church was composed of benefactors who provided actual service through a Network of ministers for the needy through Freewill offerings. These offerings of Charity was the Corban of Christ given out of love for one another.
Modern Christians get their benefits from men who call themselves benefactors but who exercise authority one over the other instead of by charity and the perfect law of liberty. What they are doing in their state churches today looks nothing like what the early Church established by Christ did nor is it doing what Christ said to do. Yet, they imagine they are believers and pay ministers great sums of money to support that delusion with False religion. They say but do not do as Christ said.
Their actual Corban is through the favor or grace of the state which weakens the people and entangles them again in the elements of the world.
Those men called benefactors can exercise authority over all those who seek their benefits and because those benefits are provided at the expense of their neighbor by the force and power of the state. To desire those benefits at the expense of other people is coveting and to depend upon the state is the antitheses of Pure Religion.
John the Baptist and his baptism, Jesus teaching on love and commandments, Peters warning about Covetous Practices making us merchandise and Paul's constant proclaiming of the importance of Charity are testimony of the the Gospel and the need to create a Network through the Corban of Christ.
- ↑ John 9:22 "These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue
Anyone being baptized by the apostles were going to be "put out" of the system of Corban set up by Herod and the Pharisees. Their Corban was "making the word of God to none effect."
They would now have to look to the "called out" of Christ who preached something called the Kingdom of God for the daily ministration through pure religion.
The Corban of Christ was unspotted by the world of Herod and the "legal charity" of the Pharisees nor the "free bread" offered to them by the "savior" Caesar of the world of Rome which were both "making the word of God to none effect." - ↑ Kingdom Taken
- Matthew 2:6 "And thou Bethlehem, [in] the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor(2233), that shall rule my people Israel."
- Matthew 9:16 "No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. 17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved." Jesus did not just reform the kingdom.
- Matthew 21:43 "Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof." Jesus would take it as priest and king.
- Luke 13:9 "And if it bear fruit, [well]: and if not, [then] after that thou shalt cut it down." The Corbans of the world were covetous practices
- John 19:15...19 "But they cried out, Away with [him], away with [him], crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar." The kingdom taken by the words of their own mouth.
- John 15:4 "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me." The people must seek The Way.
- John 15:8 "Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples."
- Luke 12:32 "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom."
- Luke 22:29 "And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;"
- Mark 15:26 And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
- Acts 17:7 "Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus."
- 1 Peter 2:9 "But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:"
- See Taking and Giving the Kingdom
- ↑ Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 3
- ↑ Matthew 8:10 "When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel."
- ↑ Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
- ↑ Luke 16:16 The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
- ↑ Context and alternate translation: "But when a new generation arises and the democracy falls into the hands of the grandchildren of its founders, they have become so accustomed to freedom and equality that they no longer value them, and begin to aim at pre-eminence; and it is chiefly those of ample fortune who fall into this error. 6 So when they begin to lust for power and cannot attain it through themselves or their own good qualities, they ruin their estates, tempting and corrupting the people in every possible way. 7 And hence when by their foolish thirst for reputation they have created among the masses an appetite for gifts and the habit of receiving them, democracy in its turn is abolished and changes into a rule of force and violence. 8 For the people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others, as soon as they find a leader who is enterprising but is excluded from the houses of office by his penury, institute the rule of violence; 9 and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch." Polybius: The Histories (composed at Rome around 130 BC)Fragments of Book VI, p289 See also Loeb Classical Library edition, 1922 thru 1927
- ↑ John 5:46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
- ↑ 2 Thessalonians 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
- ↑ Luke 13:27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all [ye] workers of iniquity.
- ↑ Fifth part
- Genesis 47:24 "And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth [part] unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants. 26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part]; except the land of the priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh’s."
It should also be noted this was the beginning of the bondage of Egypt but in verse 22 "Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands."
- Genesis 47:24 "And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth [part] unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. 25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants. 26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part]; except the land of the priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh’s."
- ↑ A Freewill offering is charity which is love.
- Exodus 25:2 "Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering<08641>: of every man that giveth it willingly<05068> with his heart ye shall take my offering<08641>."
- Exodus 35:5 "Take ye from among you an offering<08641> unto the LORD: whosoever [is] of a willing<05081> heart, let him bring it, an offering<08641> of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass,"
- Exodus 35:10 "And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the LORD hath commanded;"
- Exodus 35:21 "And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing<05068>, [and] they brought the LORD’S offering<08641> to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments."
- Exodus 35:29 "The children of Israel brought a willing offering<05071> unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing<05068> to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses."
- Exodus 36:3 "And they received of Moses all the offering<08641>, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it [withal]. And they brought yet unto him free offerings <05071> every morning."
- Leviticus 1:2 "Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering <07133-Corban> unto the LORD, ye shall bring your offering <07133-Corban> of the cattle, [even] of the herd, and of the flock. 3 If his offering [be] a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will <07522> at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD."
- Leviticus 2:4 "And if thou bring an oblation <07133> of a meat offering baken in the oven, [it shall be] unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil. 5 And if thy oblation <07133-Corban> [be] a meat offering [baken] in a pan, it shall be [of] fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil."
- Leviticus 7:16 "But if the sacrifice of his offering [be] a vow, or a voluntary offering <05071>, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:"
- Leviticus 22:18 "Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever [he be] of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation<07133-Corban> for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings<05071>, which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering; 19 Ye shall offer at your own will ..."
- Deuteronomy 16:10 "And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering<05071> of thine hand, which thou shalt give [unto the LORD thy God], according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:"
- Ezra 7:13 "I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and [of] his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill <05069> to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee....15 And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered <05069> unto the God of Israel, whose habitation [is] in Jerusalem, 16 And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the province of Babylon, with the freewill offering <05069> of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly <05069> for the house of their God which [is] in Jerusalem:"
- ↑ Table as a snare
- Psalms 69:22-23 “Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake."”
- Romans 11:9 “And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:”
- Proverbs 23:1 "When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee: 2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. 3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat."
- Exodus 23:32 "Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee."
- Exodus 34:12 "Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:"
- Deuteronomy 7:16 "And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare unto thee."
- Judges 2:2 "And ye shall make no league [covenant] with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?"
- Proverbs 1:10 "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not."
- Proverbs 6:2 “Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.” Swear not
- Luke 21:34 "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth."
- 1 Timothy 6:9 "But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."
- "Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?" Isaiah 40:21 is about the message of John the Baptist who was "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God" Isaiah 40:3 to avoid the "snare" of the legal charity of the welfare state which which makes the word of God to none effect bringing man back into captivity as human resources.
- ↑ Fathers of the earth
- Matthew 23:9 "And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."
- Matthew 6:8 "Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. 9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as [it is] in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen."
- Matthew 7:21 "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven."
- Matthew 12:50 "For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother."
- John 14:26 "But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you."
- Romans 8:15 "For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father."
- 2 Corinthians 6:18 "And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."
- 1 John 3:1 ¶ "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not."
- The Fathers of the earth assume the natural role of the father of the family. Like the Conscripti Patri or the Patronus of Rome who become the benefactors of the masses offering them benefits and dainties from their civil tables of social welfare which are not only a snare, but destroy liberty, making the people merchandise. The Church established by Jesus would seek to have a daily ministration of Pure Religion through fervent charity.
- ↑ Two tables
- Psalms 69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. 24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate; [and] let none dwell in their tents."
- Romans 11:8 "(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. 9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway."
- 1 Corinthians 10:20 "But [I say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils." (See the sacrifice of fools in Ecclesiastes 5:1)
- Acts 6:2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples [unto them], and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. (see "portion to seven" Ecclesiastes 11:2 and Acts 6.)
- Luke 22:30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
- Isaiah 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean]. 9 ¶ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned from the milk, [and] drawn from the breasts. 10 For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:
- Malachi 1:7 Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] contemptible.
- Malachi 1:12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] polluted; and the fruit thereof, [even] his meat, [is] contemptible.
- Malachi 2:2 "If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay [it] to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings<01293>: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay [it] to heart." See wages of unrighteousness and snare.
- Isaiah 8:14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
- 1 Peter 2:8 "And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:" (see merchandise)
- ↑ Covet not
- Exodus 20:17 "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour’s."
- Deuteronomy 5:21 "Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any [thing] that [is] thy neighbour’s."
- Micah 2:2 "And they covet fields, and take [them] by violence; and houses, and take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage." Property and inheritance tax.
- Habakkuk 2:9 "Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! 10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul."
- Mark 7:20 "And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."
- Romans 7:7 "What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet."
- Romans 13:9 "For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
- 1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
- 1 Corinthians 6:10 "Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." See Not inherit the kingdom
- Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God." See Not inherit the kingdom
- 2 Timothy 3:2 "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
- 2 Peter 2:3 "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."
- 2 Peter 2:14 "Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:"
- Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:"
- ↑ Covetousness is idolatry
- Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"
- Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
- 1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
- For it is written that the tables of dainties provided by rulers of the world are a snare because they cause the masses to bite one another through government systems of legal charity which are covetous practices which are a form of fornication or adultery where the people are devoured as merchandise, curse children and are "entangled again in the yoke of bondage" with the aid of the false religion of the whore who rides the beast.
- ↑ the sixth president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and the College at Southeastern in Wake Forest, North Carolina, United States. Born 1957. Education: Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, The University of Texas at Arlington, Criswell College.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 The Deadly Lure of Legalism by Daniel Akin, 2011, 08
- ↑ Piety is often defined today as a devotion to God or to religious practices but piety has been defined as the duty. Those who obey God are devoted to Him, those who do not do what He says are not devoted to God.
- ↑ Religion “Real piety in practice, consisting in the performance of all known duties to God and our fellow men.” John Bouvier's 1856 Law Dictionary
- ↑ John 9:22 These [words] spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue."
- ↑ Titulus Venetus a census took place around AD 5-6 and was typical of those held in the Roman Empire
- ↑ Charles Caldwell Ryrie (1925 to 2016) was an American Bible scholar and Christian theologian. He served as professor of systematic theology and dean of doctoral studies at Dallas Theological Seminary and as president and professor at what is now Cairn University.
- ↑ Acts 6:1 "And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration."
- ↑ 1 Peter 2:4 "To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, 5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. 7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, 8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.