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"Progressivism is defined by modern media as "a political and social-reform philosophy that advocates for advancing the public good, promoting equality, and improving society through government action, new ideas, and modern methods. It focuses on addressing social ills—such as poverty, inequality, and corruption—and fostering justice for marginalized groups."

Driven by force

If it is "political" that would mean it is "Of, relating to, or dealing with the structure or affairs of government, politics, or the state." As government something political includes, "The act or process of governing, especially the control and administration of public policy in a political unit." It would mean that someone would include the "Exercise of authority in a political unit; rule."

If someone is being ruled someone else has less liberty. Progressivism is ultimately force not freedom.

Driven by belief

Progressivism is said to be "Driven by the belief that society can be improved through deliberate reform, moving beyond the status quo to more equitable conditions."

The phrase "deliberate reform" means by the force of government. The phrase "moving beyond the status quo" means some where other than the state of liberty you previously enjoyed by citizens.

"More equitable conditions" in progressive thought generally means reducing disparities in social, economic, and political outcomes by the governments power to exercise authority.^[1]

The "disparities" they often target are particularly those correlated with group identities like race, class, gender, disability, or other historically disadvantaged categories—by using Government force of "deliberate policy interventions, resource redistribution", and what they euphemistically^[2] call "institutional reforms".

It claims emphasizes fairness (equity) over identical treatment (equality). This means it does not believe all people are created equal and that the power of government will decide what is fair or not fair, what is good or evil. The word of those in power becomes law and enforced through a civil equity.

Driven by greed

They will also claim that "systemic barriers" will be dismantled by force. This means their is no individual rights nor private property, no right to the product of your labor(including your own children), no right to inherit from one generation to the next.

They, the collective, reserve the right to take from some for the benefit of others. In essence, all rights are by government suffrage, i.e. the collective.

All rights are held as if in "one purse"^[3] or one civil "Cauldron" which the Bible calls the cities of blood.^[4]

Into Babylon

If you mix the ideology of progressivism, the religious imperialism of Islam's Caliphates, the Monarch's financial globalism, and the unrighteous mammon of merchantalism you will get Mystery Babylon.

Progressivism makes everyone equally blind, foolish, and poor and the collective functioning as if it is a corporate god deciding good and evil.

This idea of progressivism is diametrically opposed to to Melchizedek, Abraham, Jacob,(when known as Israel), Moses, and eventually Jesus Christ who opposed socialism.

It is in conformity with:

Nimrod who was a mighty provider of Babylon:

“He was a mighty hunter^[5] before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the hunter before the LORD.” (Genesis 10:9)

Terah who was an Idolater^[6] who like Laban or Bera king of Sodom saw the people as possessions or merchandise.
Or the Abimelechs^[7] of the world who was a father over the people who are often led to the ways of Cain or the foolishness of Saul.

Or the rulers like Pharaoh of Egypt, Caesar of Rome, or Herod and the Pharisees and their Corban or even presidents like FDR and LBJ who brought the people into bondage with their New Deal and Great Society and the promise of free bread.

Once the Masses develop an appetite for benefits at the expense of others and depend for their livelihood on the property of others^[8] Progressivism will seem moral. But the people will degenerate and rulers will become more and more powerful until liberty is destroyed^[9] and complaining will become insurrection.

Regulatory police

Progressivism "advocates using government regulation and policy to solve economic, social, and environmental problems." That means more policy enforcement. That often requires the hue and cry of the people to be forgotten and an increase in chaos and crime to rise in society enough so that the people themselves cry for more police.

Packaging Progressivism

Progressivism as a modern term seems to have "Emerged prominently between 1890 and 1920 in the U.S. as a response to industrialization, urbanization, and political corruption", but it is clear that is an age old evil in a new gift wrapped box and pretty bow.

The claim of "Early progressivism" is that it "aimed to break up monopolies, end political machine dominance, expand democratic participation, and regulate industries to protect consumers and workers." But in truth it allowed the creation of "monopolies" with the granting of personhood to corporations giving life to Golems which contributed to "political machine dominance".

This again allowed establishment of unjust weights and measures through world wide Federal Reserve system and more.

They wrapped this all up in pretty package claiming their "Focus (was) on mitigating income inequality, enhancing civil rights, promoting environmental justice, and increasing social safety nets" when in truth it was all about power and reducing those same masses to merchandise.

Upsidedown Application

Their claim to "Supports strengthening the public sector to challenge corporate power" actually reduced the public to the collective and empowered the corporate state. at first employing fascist tactics amongst the faithful("Driven by the belief") and eventually murderous tyranny.

The claim to "Focuses on student-centered learning that adapts to individual needs" is really focused on brainwashing a dumbed down youth encouraged to rebel against the status quo.

Matthew 10:21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against [their] parents, and cause them to be put to death.^[10]

They will entice the masses to engage in the covetous practices that make all men merchandise and human resources of the State on the palpable^[11] promise of "...progressive taxation, where higher earners pay a higher proportion of their income."

Ancient History of welfare

The history of welfare goes back to at least Nimrod.

Modern History of welfare

Note: Questioning of Grok is for educational purposes only. The links and footnotes are added to aid the reader in their understanding and pursuit of the Gospel of the kingdom and the word of God.

Grok question 1

What is the history of the beginning of the idea that the government should provide individual welfare for its citizens since such schemes were previously considered both covetous and detrimental to the social bonds of a free society and immoral by Christians?

Grok responds:

The modern idea that government should systematically provide individual welfare^[12] —through social insurance,^[13] pensions, unemployment^[14] benefits, or means-tested aid as a right or entitlement for citizens—emerged in the late 19th century, primarily as a pragmatic political response^[3] to industrialization, not as a longstanding Christian or classical liberal principle.^[15]

Prior traditions emphasized voluntary private charity (especially Christian almsgiving), family responsibility, local poor relief, and limited public aid only for the "deserving" destitute. Extensive state welfare was widely viewed as covetous (violating property rights and the Tenth Commandment against coveting neighbors' goods via coercive taxation), destructive to the voluntary social bonds of a free society (undermining families, churches, and mutual aid), and immoral for Christians (true charity requires free will, not state compulsion).^[16]

Pre-Modern and Early Modern Traditions:

Voluntary Charity and Limited Poor Relief

For most of Christian history and in free societies influenced by it, welfare was not a governmental duty toward individuals as citizens but a personal and ecclesiastical one.

Early Christians practiced communal sharing and alms (e.g., Acts 4:34), medieval monasteries and churches provided hospitals, almshouses, and aid as acts of agape (selfless love), and theologians like Thomas Aquinas framed charity as a voluntary virtue tied to personal salvation. Government involvement was minimal or local; rulers might offer sporadic benevolence, but systematic individual entitlements were absent."^[17]

The first notable shift toward any government role came with England's Elizabethan Poor Laws (1601), which built on earlier Tudor statutes after the dissolution of monasteries under Henry VIII created vagrancy crises.

Parishes were required to levy taxes for "indoor" relief (workhouses or almshouses) or limited "outdoor" aid, strictly distinguishing the "deserving poor" (elderly, disabled, orphans) from the "undeserving" (able-bodied idlers, who faced punishment or forced labor). This was residual, stigmatized, locally administered, and aimed at social order—not a broad welfare state or individual "right" to support.

Similar systems spread to American colonies but remained minimal, supplemented heavily by private religious charities.

Critics across centuries saw broader state schemes as eroding self-reliance and Christian voluntarism. ^[18]

Classical liberals and many Christians reinforced opposition:

Taxation for redistribution resembled theft or covetousness, while centralized aid risked dependency, weakening the "social bonds" of free associations (families, churches, mutual aid societies^[19]) that Alexis de Tocqueville later praised as essential to liberty. Industrialization in the 19th century exposed new urban poverty, but laissez-faire views and evangelical emphases on personal salvation and work ethic (influenced by the Protestant Reformation) kept solutions private or market-based.

The Modern Turning Point

Bismarck's Germany in the 1880s we see the decisive beginning of the idea that government should proactively provide individual welfare came in Imperial Germany under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Between 1883 and 1889, he enacted the world's first modern social insurance system:

   • 1883: Sickness (health) insurance for workers.
   • 1884: Accident insurance.
   • 1889: Old-age and disability pensions.

These were contributory (funded by workers, employers, and the state) but mandatory, state-supervised,^[1] and designed to cover individual risks like illness, injury, or retirement—marking a shift from poor relief for the destitute to proactive protection for productive citizens.

Bismarck explicitly called it "practical Christianity" in his 1881 Imperial Message and built on earlier Prussian/Saxon experiments from the 1840s, but the scale was unprecedented in an industrial society. ^[20]

Motivations were conservative and pragmatic, not primarily moral or Christian in the traditional sense: to undercut the rising Social Democratic Party^[21] (socialists), prevent revolution or emigration, foster worker loyalty to the new German Empire, and boost industrial productivity.

It was "state socialism from above" to steal the Left's thunder while preserving monarchy and property.

This model—often called the birth of the welfare state—spread quickly: Switzerland, Austria, and others adopted variants by the 1880s–1890s; Britain's Liberal reforms (1908 pensions, 1911 National Insurance) followed; France expanded under solidarism. ^[22]

Ancient examples

Ancient or non-Western examples (e.g., Roman grain dole for citizens, Emperor Ashoka's dharma-based aid in 3rd-century BCE India, or Islamic zakat as a religious tax) existed as public benevolence or ruler paternalism, but they were not systematic individual welfare states in the modern sense, nor did they replace private/religious charity amid industrialization. ^[23]

Ideological and Theological Shifts:

Social Gospel and Progressivism

In the English-speaking world, especially the US, the idea gained moral and religious legitimacy through the Social Gospel movement (late 19th–early 20th centuries). Liberal Protestants, reacting to urban slums, industrialization, and inequality, reframed Christianity as demanding social justice "on earth as in heaven" (Matthew 6:10). Key figures included Washington Gladden and Walter Rauschenbusch (Christianity and the Social Crisis, 1907), who attacked "institutionalized sin" in capitalism and advocated labor unions, child labor bans, public education, and government reforms to alleviate poverty. It was postmillennialist: Christians must build the Kingdom of God through societal transformation, not just personal salvation. ^[24]

The Social Gospel aligned with Progressivism, influencing the Federal Council of Churches' "Social Creed" (1908) and indirectly the New Deal (1935 Social Security Act under FDR, which created federal old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, and aid to dependent children amid the Great Depression). Some historians argue evangelical retreat from social action (focusing on personal piety) created space for the state to expand. In Canada, it helped birth social democratic policies like universal medicare.^[25]

This marked the key departure for many Christians:

What was once seen as immoral coercion became a moral duty of the state. Traditionalists continued (and continue) to object on grounds of covetousness, free will, and eroded voluntary bonds, viewing it as incompatible with biblical charity. ^[26]

In summary, the idea crystallized in Bismarck's 1880s Germany as top-down conservatism amid industrial and socialist pressures, then spread and acquired progressive/religious justification in the early 20th century. It represented a profound break from earlier Christian and free-society norms, driven by new economic realities rather than ancient precedent. Post-WWII expansions (e.g., UK's Beveridge Report, US Great Society) built on this foundation into the comprehensive systems familiar today.

Grok question 2:

Polybius pointed out 200 years before the New Testament that when the "masses develop an appetite" for welfare benefits at the expense of others and depend for their lively hood on the property of others instituting the rule of force the powers of government would grow and the people would degenerate into perfect savages where they would become dependent on monarchs and tyrants. Where does the Jewish and Christian Bible warn the people of this same threat to liberty and danger of degeneration?

Grok Response:

The Jewish Bible (Tanakh/Hebrew Scriptures, which Christians call the Old Testament) and the Christian New Testament do not describe a modern "welfare state" in contemporary terms, but they contain explicit warnings against the very dynamics Polybius outlined in his Histories (Book VI): a people's covetous "appetite" for living off others' property through coercive force, leading to expanded government power, moral and social degeneration ("perfect savages"), dependency, and subjugation to tyrants or monarchs. ^[27]

These warnings appear in multiple places, emphasizing personal responsibility, the dangers of centralized human rule, the sin of covetousness, and the consequences of idleness or demanding provision from rulers rather than God or one's own labor. The closest parallels are not isolated proof-texts but recurring themes: rejecting God's direct rule for human kings leads to extraction of wealth and liberty; coveting neighbors' goods is forbidden as the root of theft and injustice; and unwillingness to work breeds dependency and decay.

1. The Core Warning Against Demanding Centralized Government Power (1 Samuel 8)

The most direct biblical parallel to Polybius's cycle—where the masses' desire for security and benefits from the state erodes liberty and installs tyranny—is 1 Samuel 8 (in both Jewish and Christian Bibles). Here, the Israelites reject God's theocratic rule through judges (a decentralized system) and demand a human king "like all the nations" to fight their battles and provide security.

The prophet Samuel explicitly warns them of the consequences:

"He said, 'These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots... He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants. He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants. He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men and your donkeys, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.'" (1 Samuel 8:11-18, ESV)

The people insist anyway, leading to Saul's kingship and eventual cycles of oppression under later monarchs. This is presented as a rejection of God as King (v. 7) and a choice for coercive extraction of labor and property—exactly the "rule of force" and dependency Polybius described. Commentaries and historical readings often highlight this as a foundational biblical caution against the growth of state power through popular demand, resulting in slavery-like subjugation rather than true liberty. ^[28]

This theme echoes throughout the Hebrew Bible: the Book of Judges depicts a repeating cycle of moral degeneration (idolatry, "everyone did what was right in his own eyes"—Judges 21:25), oppression by foreign powers, cries for deliverance, and temporary judges—showing how internal decay invites tyranny until the demand for a permanent king in 1 Samuel.

2. The Prohibition Against Covetousness as the Root of Living Off Others' Property (Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21)

The Tenth Commandment directly targets the "appetite" for others' goods that Polybius saw as corrosive:

"You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's." (Exodus 20:17; cf. Deuteronomy 5:21)

In biblical theology, covetousness is not mere envy but the inward sin that fuels theft, fraud, and injustice (see also James 1:14-15; Micah 2:2 on seizing fields). Traditional Jewish and Christian interpreters (including early church fathers and later thinkers) viewed this as prohibiting schemes—personal or institutional—that coerce redistribution of another's labor or property, as it violates the sanctity of ownership established in the Eighth Commandment ("You shall not steal"). It warns that normalizing such appetite degenerates society into force-based dependency rather than voluntary provision. ^[29]

3. Warnings Against Idleness, Dependency, and Resulting Degeneration (New Testament and Wisdom Literature)

The Christian New Testament reinforces self-reliance to prevent the moral decay Polybius linked to living off others:

"For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat." (2 Thessalonians 3:10, ESV; context: 3:6-15, addressing idle busybodies in the early church community)

Paul commands the Thessalonian believers to work quietly, mind their own affairs, and avoid dependency so they "may win the respect of outsiders and be dependent on no one" (1 Thessalonians 4:11-12). This is not about the unable (widows, orphans—see James 1:27), but the unwilling, warning that idleness breeds disruption and burdens the community, leading to spiritual and social degeneration. ^[30]

The Hebrew Bible's Proverbs repeatedly link laziness to ruin and savagery-like poverty:

• "Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise... A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man." (Proverbs 6:6-11; see also Proverbs 10:4, Proverbs 13:4, Proverbs 20:4, Proverbs 21:25, Proverbs 24:30-34, Proverbs 26:13-16)

These portray dependency as self-inflicted degeneration, contrasting with diligence as the path to liberty and provision.

Additional Echoes

• Psalm 106:15 (on Israel's craving in the wilderness): God "gave them what they asked, but sent a wasting disease among them" (or "leanness into their soul")—illustrating how granted appetites can bring degeneration. • Prophetic books (e.g., Isaiah 1:23, Micah 3:1-3) condemn rulers and people complicit in exploiting the vulnerable, showing how such systems invite divine judgment and tyranny.

In summary, the Bible warns of this threat most pointedly in 1 Samuel 8 (demand for rulers leads to property seizure and slavery), the Tenth Commandment (covetousness as the moral gateway), and 2 Thessalonians 3:10/Proverbs (idleness breeds dependency and decay). These form a consistent scriptural caution: forsaking personal responsibility and God's order for coercive human systems produces the exact degeneration and tyranny Polybius diagnosed centuries earlier. Jewish and Christian traditions have long cited these as timeless safeguards for liberty, though interpretations vary on application to modern governance.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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:..."
↑ in a way that avoids saying an unpleasant or offensive word by using a different word or phrase
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One Purse
- Proverbs 1:14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives. 19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
- 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. 4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. 6 Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
- Ezekiel 11:3 "Which say, [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the caldron, and we [be] the flesh. 4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
- Ezekiel 11:11 This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; [but] I will judge you in the border of Israel:
- Micah 3:3 "Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron."
- Deuteronomy 24:7 "If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you."
- Jude 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
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Cities of blood
Exodus 16:3 "And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

Genesis 11:4 "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."

Jeremiah 26:15 "But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears."

Isaiah 45:13 "I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts."

Ezekiel 11:3 "Which say, [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the caldron, and we [be] the flesh."

Ezekiel 7:23 "Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence."

Ezekiel 9:9 "Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not."

Ezekiel 11:11 "This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; [but] I will judge you in the border of Israel:"

Ezekiel 22:2 "Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations. 3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself."

Ezekiel 24:6... "Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum [is] therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it... 9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great."

Hosea 6:8 "Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood."

Micah 3:9 "Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, [Is] not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us. 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest. -- Micah 4:1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, [that] the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it."

Habakkuk 2:8 “‭Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein... ‭12 Woe to him that buildeth a 'town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!”
- The frequent reference to cities of blood, flesh pots, and a civil cauldron (i.e. One purse) often is associated with a "harlot in the city" as we saw in Amos 7:17, but in Nahum 3:4 it says she "selleth nations through her whoredoms" that is Babylon. These are the systems of legal charity that provide a social welfare through governments that exercise authority one over the other entangling the masses in covetous practices which are traps and a snares and makes the word of God to none effect.
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06718 ^דיצ^ TzadikYodDalet tsayid \@tsah’- yid\@ from a form of 06679 and meaning the same; n m; AV-venison 8, hunter 3, victuals 2, provision 2, hunting 1, catch 1, food 1, hunting 1; 19
1) hunting, game
1a) hunting

1b) game hunted

2) provision, food
2a) provision, food, food-supply
- צ ץ Tzadik is always related to The Faith of the Righteous One, the foundation of the word "to hunt" or Harvest even eat or desire. [Harvest, pant, desire] (Numeric value: 90)
- י Yod The Infinite Point of essential good. Divine spark hidden in the ט Tet. Spark of spirit. [closed hand... Deed, work, to make] (Numeric value: 10)
- ד Dalet Selflessness – Charity, back and forth or through a door or pathway, to enter like a fish (Numeric value: 4)
- Esau was a cunning hunter 06718 Genesis 25:27 צַיִד‎ TzadikYodDalet
- Nimrod in Genesis 10:9 was said to be a mighty hunter using 06718 צַיִד‎ tsayid TzadikYodDalet
- Another "hunt" is 06679 ^דוצ^ TzadikVavDalet tsuwd
- Micah 7:2 we also see 06679 with additional letters יָצ֥וּדוּ YodTzadikVavDaletVav yā·ṣū·ḏū where brothers "hunt" the blood of one another.
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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.
↑ 040 אֲבִימֶלֶךְ‎ ‘Abiymelek [ab-ee-mel’-ek] from 01 and 04428; n pr m; [BDB-4a] [{See TWOT on 3 @@ "3b" }] AV-Abimelech 67; 67 Abimelech= "Melek is father" or "my father is king"
1) king of Gerar in Abraham’s time

2) king of Gath in David’s time; maybe title of Philistine kings

3) son of Gideon by a concubine

4) priest, son of Abiathar
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Pagans Understood
- Polybius as the "Historian of Historians" believed "All democracies fail".
- Polybius explains in "The Histories" (130 BC), A Fatal Sequence commonly occurs "... 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." Polybius#Translations_compare Polybius
- Part of this corruption, "So when they begin to be fond of office, and find themselves unable to obtain it by their own unassisted efforts and their own merits, they ruin their estates, while enticing and corrupting the common people in every possible way. By which means when, in their senseless mania for reputation, they have made the populace ready and greedy to receive bribes, the virtue of democracy is destroyed, and it is transformed into a government of violence and the strong hand." Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, Translated, EBook #44126
- This is all because "The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence." And this is the result of, "The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others..." This leads to the people and their government will, "institute the rule of violence; and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch."
Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.) states, "That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities. But this mischief crept secretly and gradually in, and did not openly make it's appearance in Rome for a considerable time."
- These practices from Nimrod to Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar, and Herod among others all were rulers who exercise authority ushered in a social decay. This is why Plutarch also reported, “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.”
- Julian the Apostate, who followed Constantine, believed “the disbanding of all private welfare institutions” seeing that private charity had the power to potentially liberate people from dependence on the state.
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Destroyers of liberty
"That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities. But this mischief crept secretly and gradually in, and did not openly make it's appearance in Rome for a considerable time." Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.) This would include Julius Caesar and eventually Augustus Caesar which is why Plutarch also reported, “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” This was a major theme of the Bible:

There were tables of welfare which were both snares and a traps as David and Paul stated and Peter warned would make us merchandise and curse children. Proverbs 23 told us not to not eat the "dainties" offered at those tables of Rulers and Paul says in 1 Corinthians 10 we cannot eat of those tables and the table of the Lord. We are not to consent to their covetous systems of One purse or Corban which makes the word of God to none effect.

We know when the masses become accustomed to those benefits of legal charity which are the rewards of unrighteousness provided by benefactors who exercise authority and the Fathers of the earth through the covetous practices that makes men merchandise and curse children as a surety for debt.
- We should know, "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it...". Abraham Lincoln But that alteration must begin with ourselves.
↑ Mark 13:12 Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against [their] parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.
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The Error of Balaam and Babylon
- This Error is not new but is seen at the dawn of mankind. The idea that government should systematically provide individual welfare through governments that exercise authority is seen in Mesopotamia and Sumer with the Turtledove Goddess of welfare.
- Balaam was a prophet from Mesopotamia (Deuteronomy 23:4), a region that includes the ancient city of Babylon, and the ways of Cain, Nimrod, Abimelech, Pharaoh, and Caesar.
- The "error" or "doctrine" of Balaam refers to seeking financial gain, with an appetite for the Dainties of rulers (loving the "wages of unrighteousness") and teaching Israel to sin through idolatry and the immorality fornication and national adultery, often by advising the Moabites and Midianites to seduce Israelite men with the same type of whoredom we see with Mystery Babylon in Revelation 17:5 "And upon her forehead [was] a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."
- In the Book of Revelation, the "error of Balaam" is mentioned alongside the "doctrine of the Nicolaitans" and the "woman Jezebel" (often symbolic of Babylon the Great), suggesting a thematic link between a false religious influence, greed, idolatry, and the covetousness which makes men merchandise and entangles them again in the yoke of bondage.
- In summary, the "error" represents a greedy, idolatrous, and covetous influence over the hearts and minds of the masses under a stronge dellusion and a corrupt systems of covetous practices, including the symbolic Babylon of Revelation.
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Social Insurance of the State
- Helvering v. Davis (1937), Court had ruled that Social Security was not a contributory insurance program, saying, “The proceeds of both the employee and employer taxes are to be paid into the Treasury like any other internal revenue generally, and are not earmarked in any way.” The people do not have "an earned right".
- “Congress could, in its future discretion, spend that money for whatever Congress then judged to be the general welfare of the country” having “no constitutional power to earmark or segregate certain kinds of tax proceeds for certain purposes, whether the purposes be farm-price supports, foreign aid or social security payments.” The Social Security Tax, by Clarence E. Manion. U.S. vs. Butler, 297 U.S. 1 (1936); Steward Machine Company vs. Davis, 301 U.S, 548 (1937); Helvering vs.Davis, 301 U.S. 619 (1937).
- Social Security was not a Ponzi scheme because there was never any intent to return a profit nor a guarantee of benefits. It is true that it was sold as a social safety net, but was neither true insurance nor a system that promised returns on your investments.
- “The President wanted everybody covered for every contingency in life---’cradle to the grave,’ he called it---under the social insurance system… But the Government of the United States is not an insurance company and so it could be done.” Forward by Frances Perkins Sec of Labor 1933-45.
- The Development of the Social Security Act by Edwin E. Witte, ppVII.
  On page 936 through page 946 of the Ways and Means hearings (1953) the originator of the Act, Edwin E. Witte, stated that the phrase “sold as if it were insurance” was a mistake and should not have been published as such. It was not until 1953 when the originator admitted that it is not insurance as published in 1936. To be like insurance is not being insurance.
- What was it?
“Protection draws to it subjection; subjection protection.”
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Employ vs Enslave
- "EMPLOYEES See Master and Servant (this index)” Summary of American Law George L. Clark p 635 (only entry for employ or employee in the index).
- “The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.” Henry George - Social Problems, Ch. V.
- “Whatever day makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.” Homer - Odyssey. Bk.XVII. L.392. Pope’s trans.
- Tribute. “Of the twenty-three uses of this term, all but three (Isaiah 31; Lamentations 1:1; Esther 10:1) occur early in the literature. The institution of tribute, or corvée, involves involuntary, unpaid labour, or other service, for superior power-a feudal lord, a king, or a foreign ruler (Exodus 1:11; Lamentations 1:1; Esther 10:1). In Genesis 49:15, Jacob’s blessing on Issachar identifies him as bowing to ‘tribute.’ In Egypt, the Israelites find themselves in that position." From R. Laird Harris’ ‘Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament.
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The way of error
- 2 Peter 2:13 "And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 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: 15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;"
- Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
- Jude 1:11 "Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. 12 These are spots(not "unspotted" like Pure Religion) in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;"
- Revelation 2:14-17 "But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication ("to permit one’s self to be drawn away by another into idolatry"). 15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. 16 Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. 17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth [it]."
Ezekiel 16:49 "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy."
- The way of the world is the way of Cain and His city-state, the Corban of the Pharisees and the cities of blood, Nimrod and the Nicolaitan, Babylon and Balaam, Sumer and Sodom, Pharaoh and the foolishness of Saul, and more recently FDR and LBJ and all the welfare States who use legal charity which is not The Way of Christ, the Kingdom of God nor the righteousness of God.
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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.
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[exauth-1] 1.0 ^1.1 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:..."

[2] way that avoids saying an unpleasant or offensive word by using a different word or phrase

[civpurse-3] 3.0 ^3.1 One Purse

Proverbs 1:14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives. 19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

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. 4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. 6 Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

Ezekiel 11:3 "Which say, [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the caldron, and we [be] the flesh. 4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

Ezekiel 11:11 This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; [but] I will judge you in the border of Israel:

Micah 3:3 "Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron."

Deuteronomy 24:7 "If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you."

Jude 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

[4] Proverbs 1:14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives. 19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

[5] 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. 4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. 6 Eat thou not the bread of [him that hath] an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:

[6] Ezekiel 11:3 "Which say, [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the caldron, and we [be] the flesh. 4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

[7] Ezekiel 11:11 This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; [but] I will judge you in the border of Israel:

[8] Micah 3:3 "Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron."

[9] Deuteronomy 24:7 "If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you."

[10] Jude 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

[cityblood-4] Cities of blood
Exodus 16:3 "And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, [and] when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

Genesis 11:4 "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."

Jeremiah 26:15 "But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears."

Isaiah 45:13 "I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts."

Ezekiel 11:3 "Which say, [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the caldron, and we [be] the flesh."

Ezekiel 7:23 "Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence."

Ezekiel 9:9 "Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah [is] exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not."

Ezekiel 11:11 "This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; [but] I will judge you in the border of Israel:"

Ezekiel 22:2 "Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations. 3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself."

Ezekiel 24:6... "Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum [is] therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it... 9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great."

Hosea 6:8 "Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood."

Micah 3:9 "Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. 10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, [Is] not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us. 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest. -- Micah 4:1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, [that] the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it."

Habakkuk 2:8 “‭Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein... ‭12 Woe to him that buildeth a 'town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!”

The frequent reference to cities of blood, flesh pots, and a civil cauldron (i.e. One purse) often is associated with a "harlot in the city" as we saw in Amos 7:17, but in Nahum 3:4 it says she "selleth nations through her whoredoms" that is Babylon. These are the systems of legal charity that provide a social welfare through governments that exercise authority one over the other entangling the masses in covetous practices which are traps and a snares and makes the word of God to none effect.

[12] The frequent reference to cities of blood, flesh pots, and a civil cauldron (i.e. One purse) often is associated with a "harlot in the city" as we saw in Amos 7:17, but in Nahum 3:4 it says she "selleth nations through her whoredoms" that is Babylon. These are the systems of legal charity that provide a social welfare through governments that exercise authority one over the other entangling the masses in covetous practices which are traps and a snares and makes the word of God to none effect.

[5] 06718 ^דיצ^ TzadikYodDalet tsayid \@tsah’- yid\@ from a form of 06679 and meaning the same; n m; AV-venison 8, hunter 3, victuals 2, provision 2, hunting 1, catch 1, food 1, hunting 1; 19
1) hunting, game
1a) hunting

1b) game hunted

2) provision, food
2a) provision, food, food-supply

צ ץ Tzadik is always related to The Faith of the Righteous One, the foundation of the word "to hunt" or Harvest even eat or desire. [Harvest, pant, desire] (Numeric value: 90)

י Yod The Infinite Point of essential good. Divine spark hidden in the ט Tet. Spark of spirit. [closed hand... Deed, work, to make] (Numeric value: 10)

ד Dalet Selflessness – Charity, back and forth or through a door or pathway, to enter like a fish (Numeric value: 4)

Esau was a cunning hunter 06718 Genesis 25:27 צַיִד‎ TzadikYodDalet

Nimrod in Genesis 10:9 was said to be a mighty hunter using 06718 צַיִד‎ tsayid TzadikYodDalet

Another "hunt" is 06679 ^דוצ^ TzadikVavDalet tsuwd

Micah 7:2 we also see 06679 with additional letters יָצ֥וּדוּ YodTzadikVavDaletVav yā·ṣū·ḏū where brothers "hunt" the blood of one another.

[14] צ ץ Tzadik is always related to The Faith of the Righteous One, the foundation of the word "to hunt" or Harvest even eat or desire. [Harvest, pant, desire] (Numeric value: 90)

[15] י Yod The Infinite Point of essential good. Divine spark hidden in the ט Tet. Spark of spirit. [closed hand... Deed, work, to make] (Numeric value: 10)

[16] ד Dalet Selflessness – Charity, back and forth or through a door or pathway, to enter like a fish (Numeric value: 4)

[17] Esau was a cunning hunter 06718 Genesis 25:27 צַיִד‎ TzadikYodDalet

[18] Nimrod in Genesis 10:9 was said to be a mighty hunter using 06718 צַיִד‎ tsayid TzadikYodDalet

[19] Another "hunt" is 06679 ^דוצ^ TzadikVavDalet tsuwd

[20] Micah 7:2 we also see 06679 with additional letters יָצ֥וּדוּ YodTzadikVavDaletVav yā·ṣū·ḏū where brothers "hunt" the blood of one another.

[Isidolatry-6] 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.

[22] 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.

[Abameleck-7] 040 אֲבִימֶלֶךְ‎ ‘Abiymelek [ab-ee-mel’-ek] from 01 and 04428; n pr m; [BDB-4a] [{See TWOT on 3 @@ "3b" }] AV-Abimelech 67; 67 Abimelech= "Melek is father" or "my father is king"
1) king of Gerar in Abraham’s time

2) king of Gath in David’s time; maybe title of Philistine kings

3) son of Gideon by a concubine

4) priest, son of Abiathar

[pdesliberty-8] Pagans Understood

Polybius as the "Historian of Historians" believed "All democracies fail".

Polybius explains in "The Histories" (130 BC), A Fatal Sequence commonly occurs "... 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." Polybius#Translations_compare Polybius

Part of this corruption, "So when they begin to be fond of office, and find themselves unable to obtain it by their own unassisted efforts and their own merits, they ruin their estates, while enticing and corrupting the common people in every possible way. By which means when, in their senseless mania for reputation, they have made the populace ready and greedy to receive bribes, the virtue of democracy is destroyed, and it is transformed into a government of violence and the strong hand." Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, Translated, EBook #44126

This is all because "The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence." And this is the result of, "The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others..." This leads to the people and their government will, "institute the rule of violence; and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch."

Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.) states, "That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities. But this mischief crept secretly and gradually in, and did not openly make it's appearance in Rome for a considerable time."

These practices from Nimrod to Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar, and Herod among others all were rulers who exercise authority ushered in a social decay. This is why Plutarch also reported, “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.”

Julian the Apostate, who followed Constantine, believed “the disbanding of all private welfare institutions” seeing that private charity had the power to potentially liberate people from dependence on the state.

[25] Polybius as the "Historian of Historians" believed "All democracies fail".

[26] Polybius explains in "The Histories" (130 BC), A Fatal Sequence commonly occurs "... 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." Polybius#Translations_compare Polybius

[27] Part of this corruption, "So when they begin to be fond of office, and find themselves unable to obtain it by their own unassisted efforts and their own merits, they ruin their estates, while enticing and corrupting the common people in every possible way. By which means when, in their senseless mania for reputation, they have made the populace ready and greedy to receive bribes, the virtue of democracy is destroyed, and it is transformed into a government of violence and the strong hand." Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, Translated, EBook #44126

[28] This is all because "The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence." And this is the result of, "The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others..." This leads to the people and their government will, "institute the rule of violence; and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch."

[29] These practices from Nimrod to Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar, and Herod among others all were rulers who exercise authority ushered in a social decay. This is why Plutarch also reported, “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.”

[30] Julian the Apostate, who followed Constantine, believed “the disbanding of all private welfare institutions” seeing that private charity had the power to potentially liberate people from dependence on the state.

[desliberty-9] Destroyers of liberty
"That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities. But this mischief crept secretly and gradually in, and did not openly make it's appearance in Rome for a considerable time." Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.) This would include Julius Caesar and eventually Augustus Caesar which is why Plutarch also reported, “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” This was a major theme of the Bible:

There were tables of welfare which were both snares and a traps as David and Paul stated and Peter warned would make us merchandise and curse children. Proverbs 23 told us not to not eat the "dainties" offered at those tables of Rulers and Paul says in 1 Corinthians 10 we cannot eat of those tables and the table of the Lord. We are not to consent to their covetous systems of One purse or Corban which makes the word of God to none effect.

We know when the masses become accustomed to those benefits of legal charity which are the rewards of unrighteousness provided by benefactors who exercise authority and the Fathers of the earth through the covetous practices that makes men merchandise and curse children as a surety for debt.

We should know, "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it...". Abraham Lincoln But that alteration must begin with ourselves.

[32] We should know, "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it...". Abraham Lincoln But that alteration must begin with ourselves.

[10] Mark 13:12 Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against [their] parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.

[11] so obvious that it can easily be seen or known, or (of a feeling) so strong that it seems as if it can be touched or physically felt:

[Balbabyl-12] The Error of Balaam and Babylon
This Error is not new but is seen at the dawn of mankind. The idea that government should systematically provide individual welfare through governments that exercise authority is seen in Mesopotamia and Sumer with the Turtledove Goddess of welfare.

Balaam was a prophet from Mesopotamia (Deuteronomy 23:4), a region that includes the ancient city of Babylon, and the ways of Cain, Nimrod, Abimelech, Pharaoh, and Caesar.

The "error" or "doctrine" of Balaam refers to seeking financial gain, with an appetite for the Dainties of rulers (loving the "wages of unrighteousness") and teaching Israel to sin through idolatry and the immorality fornication and national adultery, often by advising the Moabites and Midianites to seduce Israelite men with the same type of whoredom we see with Mystery Babylon in Revelation 17:5 "And upon her forehead [was] a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."

In the Book of Revelation, the "error of Balaam" is mentioned alongside the "doctrine of the Nicolaitans" and the "woman Jezebel" (often symbolic of Babylon the Great), suggesting a thematic link between a false religious influence, greed, idolatry, and the covetousness which makes men merchandise and entangles them again in the yoke of bondage.

In summary, the "error" represents a greedy, idolatrous, and covetous influence over the hearts and minds of the masses under a stronge dellusion and a corrupt systems of covetous practices, including the symbolic Babylon of Revelation.

[36] This Error is not new but is seen at the dawn of mankind. The idea that government should systematically provide individual welfare through governments that exercise authority is seen in Mesopotamia and Sumer with the Turtledove Goddess of welfare.

[37] Balaam was a prophet from Mesopotamia (Deuteronomy 23:4), a region that includes the ancient city of Babylon, and the ways of Cain, Nimrod, Abimelech, Pharaoh, and Caesar.

[38] The "error" or "doctrine" of Balaam refers to seeking financial gain, with an appetite for the Dainties of rulers (loving the "wages of unrighteousness") and teaching Israel to sin through idolatry and the immorality fornication and national adultery, often by advising the Moabites and Midianites to seduce Israelite men with the same type of whoredom we see with Mystery Babylon in Revelation 17:5 "And upon her forehead [was] a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH."

[39] In the Book of Revelation, the "error of Balaam" is mentioned alongside the "doctrine of the Nicolaitans" and the "woman Jezebel" (often symbolic of Babylon the Great), suggesting a thematic link between a false religious influence, greed, idolatry, and the covetousness which makes men merchandise and entangles them again in the yoke of bondage.

[40] In summary, the "error" represents a greedy, idolatrous, and covetous influence over the hearts and minds of the masses under a stronge dellusion and a corrupt systems of covetous practices, including the symbolic Babylon of Revelation.

[insuress-13] Social Insurance of the State
Helvering v. Davis (1937), Court had ruled that Social Security was not a contributory insurance program, saying, “The proceeds of both the employee and employer taxes are to be paid into the Treasury like any other internal revenue generally, and are not earmarked in any way.” The people do not have "an earned right".

“Congress could, in its future discretion, spend that money for whatever Congress then judged to be the general welfare of the country” having “no constitutional power to earmark or segregate certain kinds of tax proceeds for certain purposes, whether the purposes be farm-price supports, foreign aid or social security payments.” The Social Security Tax, by Clarence E. Manion. U.S. vs. Butler, 297 U.S. 1 (1936); Steward Machine Company vs. Davis, 301 U.S, 548 (1937); Helvering vs.Davis, 301 U.S. 619 (1937).

Social Security was not a Ponzi scheme because there was never any intent to return a profit nor a guarantee of benefits. It is true that it was sold as a social safety net, but was neither true insurance nor a system that promised returns on your investments.

“The President wanted everybody covered for every contingency in life---’cradle to the grave,’ he called it---under the social insurance system… But the Government of the United States is not an insurance company and so it could be done.” Forward by Frances Perkins Sec of Labor 1933-45.

The Development of the Social Security Act by Edwin E. Witte, ppVII.
On page 936 through page 946 of the Ways and Means hearings (1953) the originator of the Act, Edwin E. Witte, stated that the phrase “sold as if it were insurance” was a mistake and should not have been published as such. It was not until 1953 when the originator admitted that it is not insurance as published in 1936. To be like insurance is not being insurance.

What was it?

“Protection draws to it subjection; subjection protection.”

[42] Helvering v. Davis (1937), Court had ruled that Social Security was not a contributory insurance program, saying, “The proceeds of both the employee and employer taxes are to be paid into the Treasury like any other internal revenue generally, and are not earmarked in any way.” The people do not have "an earned right".

[43] “Congress could, in its future discretion, spend that money for whatever Congress then judged to be the general welfare of the country” having “no constitutional power to earmark or segregate certain kinds of tax proceeds for certain purposes, whether the purposes be farm-price supports, foreign aid or social security payments.” The Social Security Tax, by Clarence E. Manion. U.S. vs. Butler, 297 U.S. 1 (1936); Steward Machine Company vs. Davis, 301 U.S, 548 (1937); Helvering vs.Davis, 301 U.S. 619 (1937).

[44] Social Security was not a Ponzi scheme because there was never any intent to return a profit nor a guarantee of benefits. It is true that it was sold as a social safety net, but was neither true insurance nor a system that promised returns on your investments.

[45] “The President wanted everybody covered for every contingency in life---’cradle to the grave,’ he called it---under the social insurance system… But the Government of the United States is not an insurance company and so it could be done.” Forward by Frances Perkins Sec of Labor 1933-45.

[46] The Development of the Social Security Act by Edwin E. Witte, ppVII.
On page 936 through page 946 of the Ways and Means hearings (1953) the originator of the Act, Edwin E. Witte, stated that the phrase “sold as if it were insurance” was a mistake and should not have been published as such. It was not until 1953 when the originator admitted that it is not insurance as published in 1936. To be like insurance is not being insurance.

[47] What was it?

[employq-14] Employ vs Enslave

"EMPLOYEES See Master and Servant (this index)” Summary of American Law George L. Clark p 635 (only entry for employ or employee in the index).

“The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.” Henry George - Social Problems, Ch. V.

“Whatever day makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.” Homer - Odyssey. Bk.XVII. L.392. Pope’s trans.

Tribute. “Of the twenty-three uses of this term, all but three (Isaiah 31; Lamentations 1:1; Esther 10:1) occur early in the literature. The institution of tribute, or corvée, involves involuntary, unpaid labour, or other service, for superior power-a feudal lord, a king, or a foreign ruler (Exodus 1:11; Lamentations 1:1; Esther 10:1). In Genesis 49:15, Jacob’s blessing on Issachar identifies him as bowing to ‘tribute.’ In Egypt, the Israelites find themselves in that position." From R. Laird Harris’ ‘Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament.

[49] "EMPLOYEES See Master and Servant (this index)” Summary of American Law George L. Clark p 635 (only entry for employ or employee in the index).

[50] “The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.” Henry George - Social Problems, Ch. V.

[51] “Whatever day makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.” Homer - Odyssey. Bk.XVII. L.392. Pope’s trans.

[52] Tribute. “Of the twenty-three uses of this term, all but three (Isaiah 31; Lamentations 1:1; Esther 10:1) occur early in the literature. The institution of tribute, or corvée, involves involuntary, unpaid labour, or other service, for superior power-a feudal lord, a king, or a foreign ruler (Exodus 1:11; Lamentations 1:1; Esther 10:1). In Genesis 49:15, Jacob’s blessing on Issachar identifies him as bowing to ‘tribute.’ In Egypt, the Israelites find themselves in that position." From R. Laird Harris’ ‘Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament.

[Errorbn-15] The way of error
2 Peter 2:13 "And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 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: 15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;"

Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

Jude 1:11 "Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. 12 These are spots(not "unspotted" like Pure Religion) in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;"

Revelation 2:14-17 "But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication ("to permit one’s self to be drawn away by another into idolatry"). 15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. 16 Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. 17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth [it]."

Ezekiel 16:49 "Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy."

The way of the world is the way of Cain and His city-state, the Corban of the Pharisees and the cities of blood, Nimrod and the Nicolaitan, Babylon and Balaam, Sumer and Sodom, Pharaoh and the foolishness of Saul, and more recently FDR and LBJ and all the welfare States who use legal charity which is not The Way of Christ, the Kingdom of God nor the righteousness of God.

[54] 2 Peter 2:13 "And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 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: 15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;"

[55] Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

[56] Jude 1:11 "Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. 12 These are spots(not "unspotted" like Pure Religion) in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds [they are] without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;"

[57] Revelation 2:14-17 "But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication ("to permit one’s self to be drawn away by another into idolatry"). 15 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. 16 Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. 17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth [it]."

[58] The way of the world is the way of Cain and His city-state, the Corban of the Pharisees and the cities of blood, Nimrod and the Nicolaitan, Babylon and Balaam, Sumer and Sodom, Pharaoh and the foolishness of Saul, and more recently FDR and LBJ and all the welfare States who use legal charity which is not The Way of Christ, the Kingdom of God nor the righteousness of God.

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[mutualaid-19] Mutual aid societies are community-based networks that connect individuals in need with resources through voluntary cooperation and solidarity. They focus on sharing resources and support among members, rather than operating as businesses or charities.

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[demofail-21] 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.

[65] “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.

[66] “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.

[67] “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.

[68] "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)

[69] Democracy without constraint against the worst impulses of the majority will lead to tyranny. Plato, Book VIII of “The Republic.”

[70] "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].

[71] 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.”

[72] 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.

[73] “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.

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Progressivism

Contents

Audio files

Progressivism

Driven by force

Driven by belief

Driven by greed

Into Babylon

Regulatory police

Packaging Progressivism

Upsidedown Application

Ancient History of welfare

Modern History of welfare

Grok question 1

Grok responds:

Pre-Modern and Early Modern Traditions:

Classical liberals and many Christians reinforced opposition:

The Modern Turning Point

Ancient examples

Ideological and Theological Shifts:

This marked the key departure for many Christians:

Grok question 2:

Grok Response:

1. The Core Warning Against Demanding Centralized Government Power (1 Samuel 8)

2. The Prohibition Against Covetousness as the Root of Living Off Others' Property (Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21)

3. Warnings Against Idleness, Dependency, and Resulting Degeneration (New Testament and Wisdom Literature)

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Progressivism

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Driven by belief

Driven by greed

Into Babylon

Regulatory police

Packaging Progressivism

Upsidedown Application

Ancient History of welfare

Modern History of welfare

Grok question 1

Grok responds:

Pre-Modern and Early Modern Traditions:

Classical liberals and many Christians reinforced opposition:

The Modern Turning Point

Ancient examples

Ideological and Theological Shifts:

This marked the key departure for many Christians:

Grok question 2:

Grok Response:

1. The Core Warning Against Demanding Centralized Government Power (1 Samuel 8)

2. The Prohibition Against Covetousness as the Root of Living Off Others' Property (Exodus 20:17; Deuteronomy 5:21)

3. Warnings Against Idleness, Dependency, and Resulting Degeneration (New Testament and Wisdom Literature)

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