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Abraham, Israel, Moses gathered the people into organized groups bound by freewill offerings. Jesus did the same when He commanded his called out to see that the people organize themselves into a network of tens so there could be a daily ministration and no one would have to eat the dainties of rulers at the tables of benefactors which are a snare and a trap. Download Recording #1
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How did nation like early Israel survive in a hostile world without a king nor some form of centralized government ruler or even without taxation?
Wrong rally
The people attending the "no king rallies" have all voted in a "democracy" which they claim to defend. But they have made democracy their king.[2]
This is because they despise the individual responsibility required in a free Republic.
They are rebelling because they want to be the king over their neighbor and through the "vast bureaucracy" which they see threatened by the present elected branches of their own democracy causes desperate panic in their unrepentent souls. That "vast bureaucracy" provides the bread and butter for their benefactors and the bread and circuses of the masses for years.
These leaders of the "no king" rally want their "vast bureaucracy" back in power. They need the graft it produces for their own pockets and power.
The demonstrators are paid performers or deluded dupes drawn from the mire of the swamp, from the masses created by the welfare State who crowned democracy years ago.[2]
With the "democracy" as their king they despise the truth. What is the Truth?
Wrong King
If "We the People" really want no kings , “We must realize that today’s Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution… the truth is that the vast bureaucracy now runs this country, irrespective of what party is in power.” Justice William O. Douglas, in his book Points of Rebellion, 1969 (page 95, page 54). It is that "vast bureaucracy" that is draining the economy and life from society and until that "vast bureaucracy" is sufficiently reduced the "Dragon lives". Until then the economy and society is going to collapse and die.
Kill the dragon
You must find the dragon befor it can be killed.
The dragon is consistently portrayed as the adversary which is the meaning of the word Satan who seeks to deceive, oppress, and destroy.
Modern Christian teachings sometimes use the chameleon to describe the negative spiritual trait of hypocrisy. The dragon of the Bible depends on hypocracy for its deception and is often associated with the stealth of a serpent as a symbol of evil.
Like mystery Babylon it will pretend to be the bride of Christ, the Church, while playing the Harlot and riding the back of a beast that devours the people.
The dragon will fill "his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out."[3]
In Revelation 13:4 we are told, "And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who [is] like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?"
Who can drain the swamp without drying up the mire?
Who speaks like a dragon today that can make fire come down from heaven in the sight of man? How did Christian survive persecution, wars, famines and the fall of Rome?
They established an international voluntary grassroot networks as Moses and Christ commanded.
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Is that what it means to seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness?
Most predominant form
The most predominant form of free self-government system throughout history has been based on voluntary systems composed of a Network of what was sometimes called the "tens, hundreds, and thousands".[4]
Early Israel, the Teutons, Saxons, Lumbards and many others societies all followed this pattern including the early Church because Christ commanded it. This allowed them to provide a Daily ministration for the welfare of all early Christians through the practice Pure Religion which was the Corban of Christ which helped early Christians survive and thrive while the Imperial Cult of Rome declined and fell. It is important to understand that the Imperial Cult of Rome and the Corban of the Pharisees were welfare systems of Social Security and public welfare that makes the word of God to none effect. They also make the people merchandise, curse children with debt and entangle you again in the yoke of bondage and the elements of the world. The Way of Christ is your only salvation.
"This Bible is for the Government of the People, by the People, and for the People."[5]
The only way to be the government of the people, for the people, and by the people is to actually do what Christ commanded. We have to learn to trust and verify. To verify we must seek the way of the tens.
The Pattern that Repeats
This pattern of tens, hundreds and thousands was used by Moses[4] and Jethro and countless other nations throughout the ages. It was one of the most predominant forms of self-government used over the long history of mankind.
It was a voluntary system used by Early Israel, the Teutons, Saxons, Lumbards and many other societies. This simple pattern allowed them to provide a Daily ministration for the welfare for many people and for all early Christians through the practice Pure Religion which was the Corban of Christ which helped early Christians survive and thrive while the Imperial Cult of Rome declined and fell and its covetous practices degenerated the masses.
Each small group or "company" chose a leader[7] of their group who would keep them connected to nine other groups. In this way, small intimate groups were able to organize a large multitude of people without having to exercise authority one over the other.
When it was used to attend to what Christ called the weightier matters it created the social bonds of a free society which kept the people free.
There was going to be a need to know that there was proper division of the bread from house to house[8] which would aee the apostles overseeing after Pentecost.
The purpose of organizing in this fashion was more than two-fold. The apostles would receive and distribute (breaking) what people were willing to share as we see in:
- Acts 2:46 And every day, they continued to gather together in the temple, breaking (klōntes | κλῶντες) bread from house to house, sharing their food with joy and simplicity of heart,
- Acts 20:7 On the first day of the week, when we had gathered to break (klasai | κλάσαι) bread, Paul addressed them, and since he intended to leave the next day, he continued his message until midnight.
- 1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break (klōmen | κλῶμεν), is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?
- 1 Corinthians 11:24 and after giving thanks, he broke (eklasen | ἔκλασεν) it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
We see these patterns of welfare through a network of organized congregations of elders who were heads of families throughout the history of early Christians such as in the gatherings of Justin the Martyr and others.
- “And the wealthy among us help the needy ... and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need.” "Justin the Martyr's Apology" to the Emperor Antonius Pius in 150 AD, (Ch. 65-67)[9]
We certainly see Paul and Barnabas bring relief all over the Roman Empire during the dearths and famines the swept across the landscape as Rome declined under corruption, inflation, and decay of the social bonds which degenerated under the welfare State of the Imperial Cult of Rome.
Without that well organized network of small intimate groups spread across the Roman Empire and beyond the daily ministration as we see being done in Acts would be impossible.
Each company of elders would pick one elder to gather together with nine men like himself to create a small group of ten men who could oversee a righteous distribution to a hundred.
The only alternative social safety net was those offered by Caesar or Herod or other rulers but we know those systems of welfare are a snare and "make the word of God to none effect". Besides, Christ told is we were not to be like the men of other governments who called themselves "Benefactors" of the people but exercise authority taking from your neighbor to provide "benefits" for you. That would be unacceptable to Christ because that would be iniquity.
- Mark 6: 41 "And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all."
The “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together" of Hebrews 10:25 was exemplified when the disciples were "commanded" by Jesus to make the people sit down in "ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties."[10]
We see this same pattern of Tens when the disciples were told to make the people sit down by fifties in a company in Luke 9:14.[11]
But this pattern of Tens was at essential at Pentecost when thousands upon thousands of Jewish citizens accepted Jesus as the Christ and king and upon their Baptism were put out of the system of Corban of the Pharisees and Herod that was "making the word of God to none effect".
This organized gathering in Tens was to implement the welfare of The Congregation of the people, to provide the benefits for the people, of the people, and by the people's fervent charity freely provided. The disciples of Jesus through the intimate network of the early Church practiced Pure Religion through The Way of Christ by faith, hope and charity which bound the people together in the Social bonds of love. This righteous Corban of Christ would make the word of God to effect again.
The entire Christian conflict with Rome was rooted in the "union and discipline" of their network of Charity. The true Early Christian did not apply for benefits and dainties at the government temples of Rome nor did they take part in the legal charity of the Imperial Cult of Rome which was part of the social welfare State provided through the Fathers of the earth who called themselves Benefactors but exercised authority one over the other.[12]
- "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." Hebrews 10:25
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- ↑ Romans 13:8 "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law."
- Romans 13:10 "Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law."
- Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- James 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 All democracies fail
- “A democracy is always temporary in nature;" clarifying “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.” ― Alexander Fraser Tytler, a.k.a. Lord Woodhouselee, (1747–1813) a judge, writer, and Professor at the University of Edinburgh.
- “The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is the reward of this study, to decide in each case the best policy to follow. Now in all political situations we must understand that the principle factor which makes for success or failure is the form of a state's constitution: it is from this source, as if from a fountainhead, that all designs and plans of action not only originate but reach their fulfillment.”― Polybius, The Rise of the Roman Empire.
- “I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. … Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.” ― John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams.
- "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." John Galt, Dreams Come Due: Government and Economics as if Freedom Mattered (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986)
- Democracy without constraint against the worst impulses of the majority will lead to tyranny. Plato, Book VIII of “The Republic.”
- "To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, — the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, & the fruits acquired by it." Jefferson's note on Destutt de Tracy’s Treatise on Political Economy, [ca. May 18, 1816].
- Benjamin Franklin's response to Elizabeth Willing Powel's question: "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" was, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
- Democracy is the common purse of rights and property where by the mob is a king who may gorge themselves on the fleshpots of the cities of blood until they become perfect savages and are also devoured by the Dragon of their own making.
- “Democracy is the most vile form of government ... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.” James Madison, 1787, stated in the Federalist Paper #10.
- “Our constitution (a Republican form of government) was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams also reminded the Fourth branch of government of the essential responsibility to avoid immorality included covetous practices.
- ↑ Jeremiah 51:34 "Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon כַּתַּנִּ֔ין, he hath filled his belly with my delicates מֵֽעֲדָנָ֑י, he hath cast me out." Revelation 17:16-18; Revelation 18:6-8; Revelation 18:20-24; Revelation 19:1-3
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Pattern of Tens
- Exodus 18:24 "So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said. 25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers (שָׂרֵ֣י) of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers (שָׂרֵ֣י) of fifties, and rulers (וְשָׂרֵ֥י) of tens. 26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves."
- Deuteronomy 1:15: Moses recalls this organizational structure as he recounts the wilderness journey. He states, "So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them as leaders over you—as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, and as officers for your tribes".
- Deuteronomy 28:1-14 Moses exhorted Israel to make a choice as a part of the covenant God made with Israel contained three major features: The law, the sacrifice, and the choice. Joshua 24:15 ("choose this day whom you will serve"), Matthew 4:19 (Jesus' call to his disciples, "Follow Me... and I will make you fishers of men"), Matthew 22:37–39 (the great commandments to love God and neighbor), and Romans 12:2 (to not conform to the world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind)
- Mark 6:8 "And commanded (παρήγγειλεν parēngeilen to order) them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse:".
- Mark 8:6 "And he commanded (παραγγέλλει parangellei) the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before [them]; and they did set [them] before the people."(parangellei Acts 17:30)
- Mark 6:39 "And he commanded (epitasso) them to make all sit down (ἀνακλῖναι anaklinai ana=each) by companies (συμπόσια συμπόσια, symposia symposia twice) upon the green grass." He was commanding the disciples not the people. * Matthew 8:11 "And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down (anaklithēsontai) with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven."
- Acts 6:3: The New Testament account of the early church appointing deacons echoes this leadership model. The apostles told the believers, "Therefore, brothers, select from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty". This shows the biblical precedent for delegating responsibilities to capable leaders, which was first established by Moses.
- ↑ is attributed to the General Prologue to the John Wycliffe Bible translation of 1384, as quoted in Lincoln at Gettysburg.
- ↑ Romans 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
- Romans 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
- Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
- James 2:8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
- ↑ 1588 ~ἐκλεκτός~ eklektos \@ek-lek-tos’\@ from 1586; TDNT-4:181,505; {See TDNT 431} adj AV-elect 16, chosen 7; 23
- 1) picked out, chosen
- 1a) chosen by God,
- 1a1) to obtain salvation through Christ
- 1a1a) Christians are called "chosen or elect" of God
- 1a2) the Messiah is called "elect," as appointed by God to the most exalted office conceivable
- 1a3) choice, select, i.e. the best of its kind or class, excellence preeminent: applied to certain individual Christians
- 1a1) to obtain salvation through Christ
- 1a) chosen by God,
- 1) picked out, chosen
- ↑ Acts 2:46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
- ↑ alternate translation:
- “And they who are well to do, and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need.” Chapter LXVII
Geof T Emery interlinear:
6. Οἱ εὐποροῦντες δὲ καὶ βουλόμενοι κατὰ προαίρεσιν ἕκαστος τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ὃ βούλεται
δίδωσι, καὶ τὸ συλλεγόμενον παρὰ τῷ προεστῶτι ἀποτίθεται, καὶ αὐτὸς ἐπικουρεῖ
he gives, and the being collected with the having presided is deposited, and he he gives aid
ὀρφανοῖς τε καὶ χήραις, καὶ τοῖς διὰ νόσον ἢ δι’ ἄλλην αἰτίαν λειπομένοις,
to orphans both and widows, and to the through sickness or through other cause being in want,
καὶ τοῖς ἐν δεσμοῖς οὖσι, καὶ τοῖς παρεπιδήμοις οὖσι ξένοις, καὶ ἁπλῶς πᾶσι τοῖς ἐν
and to the in chains are, and to the sojourning being strangers, and briefly to all the in
χρείᾳ οὖσι κηδεμὼν γίνεται.
in need being a guardian he is. - “And they who are well to do, and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need.” Chapter LXVII
- ↑ John 6:10 And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
- ↑ Luke 9:14 For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
- ↑ Not exercise authority
- Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."
- Mark 10:42 "But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you:..."
- Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not [be] so:..."