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The laws etched in stone could included brutal punishments for the disobedient of the code. The Hammurabi Code is one of the oldest documents of significant length with at least 282 laws applied according to gender and social status. Abraham had left those systems of brutality and force where men would be Put to death for violations of the "Code".
In this new form of polity the people as individuals were given the responsibility to attend to the "weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith" with a God given conscience through Jury nullification. This is only done by a people with unseared conscience and Moses will need to create a social safety net managed by the people to keep that from happening.

Episode 11

In this Episode 11 of Exodus the series •Mar 22, 2023

"What is the purpose of God's laws in establishing a moral order? Jordan and the scholars (joined again by Douglas Hadley) unpack the significance of God’s laws contained in Exodus 21-24 and how they established not only a moral order, but binary boundaries preventing mankind from either becoming like a God, or reverting to an animal state with no morals at all." Daily Wire

Aesthetic Moral order

Jordan Peterson mentions the "Differentiation of the law".

Differentiation is the process of ascertaining what makes something different.

Jordan outlines the text as explaining what they will be ascertaining from it is 'A stable polity and the production of the axiomatic preconditions of unity as a nation through codes of conduct and the rituals and ceremonies of society and the aesthetics of worship.

Aesthetic worshippers believe that genuine praise needs a 'physical' dimension greater than mere unison singing. Aesthetic worship has been defined as being "concerned with questions about God and issues in "theology perceived through the senses" (sensation, feeling, imagination).

To define the aesthetics of worship in a religious sense we need to define words like worship and religion especially since the word religion does not even appear in the Old Testament translations..

Judgement or Code

Jordan gets off on the wrong foot when he does not read Exodus 21:1 first which states, "Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them."

There is an important word here that is often misinterpreted which will cause many to conclude Moses is setting up a legal system that parallels what people often think it should be based on their personal or even historic view of "good and evil". If we are to correctly ascertain what Moses is actually doing it is important to understand his choice of words in verse one and the whole text of the Torah and the prophets.

It is the Hebrew word mishpat most often translated "judgments" that appears here as hammišpāṭîm (הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים). The word mishpat (מִשְׁפָט‎) is from the word shaphat (שָׁפַט‎) to judge.

Are these laws, statutes, and ordinances in the form of codes like the Hammurabi Codes or are they comments concerning precepts, principles, and president based on situations that were previously judged by Moses but now will be judged by the hearts and minds of the people and that spirit that dwells in them?

There is no evidence in the text that Moses is attempting to create a code of more than 600 laws. He is simply recording precedent, previous and similar judgements. The people are given the responsibility to determine the "weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith:" is the God given conscience of man through Jury nullification. This is only done by a people with unseared conscience and Moses will need to create a social safety net managed by the people to keep that from happening.

When the Code of Hammurabi appeared, the “king is already the source of justice; the judges are strictly supervised, and appeal to the king is allowed”.

“When the common law and statue law concur, the common law is to be preferred.”

Judgement

These judgements are merely set before the people who will become the "ruling judges" within their society.

The Israelites are going to be creating one of the most fundamental institutions of the systems of the original Common Law before the kings of England even existed. There were no kings in Israel, no legislature, no supreme court to decide good and evil for them. Justice and mercy, the weightier matters, were primarily in the hands of the individuals of society, the micro as opposed to the macro.

If you do not understand the power of the jury and its ability to judge the fact and law and what is called Jury Nullification you will not understand what Moses or Israel is doing here in the Biblical text.

Servants and slaves

Jordan starts with reading Exodus 21:2 "If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing."

The 7th year is a transition year from servitude to freeman and therefore is about mercy and love for your fellowman and would be seen as a known duty to your fellowman. That process or practice will create the social bonds of a free society.

If you were in bondage today, possibly even the bondage of Egypt, how many neighbors would be willing to set you free at their own expense?

Indentured servitude may be because of debt or to raise capital for a purchase of something, or to be trained in skills such as an apprenticeship or it may occur by applying for dainties of free bread as Israel did during the famine bringing them into the bondage of Egypt.

The story of Jacob and Laban is also an example of Indentured servitude And also the passage to the Americas was bought with an agreement to work for seven years.

Israel did not have a slave class or really any superior class on the time when there were no kings in Israel.

social safety nets

4:20 Jonathan Pageau says it is hard to understand slavery today because "we have social safety nets" they did not have.

The bondage of Egypt was a social safety net.

Today's social safety nets have returned the whole world and its citizens back to the bondage of Egypt and it will take humility and knowledge to grasp the truth so that we may repent. The present was begun by FDR and his New Deal, which was as old as Nimrod and the Nicolaitan]]s, and perpetuated by LBJ and their War on Poverty or claim of social justice.

There was still a social safety net in the micro but not in the macro because the benefits or dainties of rulers in government runs toward evil and sears the conscience of the people until they become perfect savages.

Staying with masters

8: Dennis speaks of many slaves who loved their master. We see that in the beginning of the Civil War where slaves stayed with their masters and defended them.

8:50 Blackwood talks of the wife having to stay with the master if she was already bound in servitude before they married. But it is not law unless Moses is writing a "code". He knowing the precedent laid down by Moses can make arrangements for a "frank marriage". Todays marriages are now regulated by codes.

Law only for Israel

10: Larry Paul Arnn is completely confused about this law being only for Israel. And he also lacks knowledge concerning the statement by Jesus that his kingdom is not of this world.

Israel includes those who do the will of God according to Dennis and the Old Testament but also Jesus.

10:45 Douglas Hadley makes the error of thinking that these are laws listed in Exodus 21 but again these are "judgements" or what should be understood as Precedent in the Common Law which are virtually guidelines expressing precepts.

To apply these judgements as if they are a codified law (i.e. the letter of the law) will kill the spirit of the law.

There is one law as there is one God and these "judgements" are share like guideposts to help the people apply Right Reason, which is Divine Will.

But without fervent charity providing a social safety net for society to strengthen the social bonds of a free people you will sear the conscience and kill the spirit of the law is a social safety net of legal charity which is the leviathan in the room. They can only do the Will of God or even know it if they draw near God which will not happen if they are engaged in covetous practices instead of the Corban of Christ which is found as pure Religion.

To see the laws as codes the people will loose sight of The Way of righteousness and again be entangled in the elements of the world.

Priests and rulers

11:20 11:50 Nor do they seem to understand that the function of the priest nor the problem with the rulers may exercise authority over the people. The power of taxation and the treasury are not in the hands of priest nor ruler (macro) but the individual people (micro). Even the "fact and law" of the judiciary remained primarily with the people through Jury nullification which few understand today.

This system of servant priests and servant leaders were held in checks and balance by it's division of the power of the purses of the people through the hands of the elders of the families which is foundation of a government by the micro.

This is why understanding the "altars" and their function and destructive nature of idolatry which is covetousness. 13:

They also imagine that Exodus is the democratization of the nation, but Israel was a pure Republic with the power of government held by the individual in the micro.

Democratization is the process through which a political regime becomes democracy which leads to kings like Saul who foolishly forced a sacrifice which doomed his government. Democracy leads to socialism which is the religion you get when you have no religion taught by Moses and Christ.

We know the greatest destroyer of liberty is legal charity. We know that an appetite for benefits at the expense of our neighbor will degenerate the masses and bring tyrants to power. This was why Karl Marx loved democracy because it leads to socialism which leads to communism.

14: The sovereignty in the kingdom of God is vested in the individual (micro). To maintain it the people must tend to the weightier matters through pure religion, jury nullification and seeking the righteousness of God.

The individual sovereignty is liberty. But it must be both right and responsibility exercised in the micro according to the righteousness of God and not in the macro. or the power of the "world".

Revolutionary of revelation

16: Os is right about about about this being revolutionary and the product of revelation rather than evolutionary.

Revelation always seem to be revolutionary to those who have forgotten the way of what is defined as the righteousness of God.

What Moses doing on his writing of judgements is helping the people seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness. If the scripture id the product of revelation the understanding it must also be a product of revelation and not merely rational thinking or evolved ideas. For rational thinking to be correct it must be Right Reason.

They panel remains confused because the see a priestly cast and do not grasp the power of choice vestid in the elder of every family to choose the minister they desire to support. The priestly cast which in one sense includes the Levites or Levitical priesthood and does not go up by steps nor are they hewn stones of a living altar.

The Levitical priesthood performed subordinate services associated with public worship. Worship was serving God by caring for his people. Levite duties could be classified as musicians, gate keepers, guardians, officials in service to the Tabernacle of the congregations, judges of the people's courts, and craftsmen.

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Power of choice ?

What Moses was giving the people the power of choice within the terms or precepts of God.

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Because the power or in the Greek excousia of government is in the micro there is no authoritarian caste system which would be "a social hierarchy passed down as heirs through families, and it can dictate the professions a person can work in as well as aspects of their social lives."

The hierarchy in this system or organization in which people are ranked according to status or authority is not like many hierarchies of the [[exercise authority |exercise of authority of one over the other.

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Douglas Hadley sees the constitutional nature of Israel but is misinformed about its separation of powers. There are no kings but the elder of each house or family. 20:

Again Arnn lacks knowledge concerning the covenant and its national politics, money powers, social safety net because it is primarily in the micro.

There is no need for a constitution unless they seek to consentrate power in a ruler or king in the macro. See Deuteronomy 17.

23:50 to 26: Exodus 21:6 the judges are elohim, gods.

26: exclusion from the altar means so much more if we understand the function and purpose of those altars of religion.

28 cities of refuge. To prevent vengeance and bias local juries.

30: cause parents

31 consequences are built in see put to death.

38: Dennis on death penalty.

40 light and heavy

45: compensation not punishment is

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Another panelist was also misled by the confusion about Jesus statement to Pilate that his kingdom was not of the "world" of Rome. This will also lend itself to the confusion about "Pure Religion" being unspotted by that same world. That again brings us back to covetous practices, and the altars or tables that are a snare and those which set the captive free.

Douglas Hadley also thinks there were rulers and priests in this system who are an "exercising authority" in Israel but there were "no kings" for every man is king and priest in his own family. There is a national priesthood but they are dependent upon the freewill offerings of the people who are the treasury of the kingdom through the power of their purse (micro) for there is among them no golden calf, no central bank, no reserve fund except what is in the purses of the people. Proverbs 1:10

Any nation that has one purse (macro) "their feet run to evil". Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Put to death 40: Dennis says all those death penalties were never intended and there is no record of them being done.

41: Honour and curse Dennis says heavy and lightly It actually is fatten or slight

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They do grasp the idea of eye for an eye is a limitation and there seems to be no record of an eye being forfeited. But is agreed that is about just compensation.

1:14 witchcraft is about navigating around the consequences of natural law or even the will of God.

They do grasp the idea of eye for an eye is a limitation and there seems to be no record of an eye being forfeited. But is agreed that is about just compensation.

Beginning of forgivnace rather than feeding vengeance.

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Responsibility of conjugal relations is imposed on the man

109: clinical evidence that casual short term sexual relationships is a common marker to other abnormal social behaviors including criminal parasitical social behaviors. These behaviors and other cultural practices "will" undermine all social and moral relationships.

Multiple early sexual partners leads to anti social behavior.

Care or lack of care of parents, Covetous practices. Vengeance's. Lack of forgiveness....

112: female refusal to marry.

Witchcraft

1:14 They conclude that witchcraft includes the sorceries of Egypt which is about navigating around the consequences of natural law or even the will of God.

Power over others, over knowledge, over nature appeals to the idea than "man is God" or a god. We are given some dominion but the test is will we conform to the Divine Will, the spirit that gives life or a spirit that wants power even the cost of life of others.

Subjectivism

120: If Subjectivism is the doctrine that "our own mental activity is the only unquestionable fact of our experience", instead of shared or communal, and that there is no external or objective truth then how do you know what is true?

Do we project meaning on the world, scripture and religion?

122: Exodus 22:20 "He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed."

What is and why sacrifice?

We must naturally Sacrifice to live. But is not a new thing in nature or society. The idea of giving life for others or lay down life to obtain a more abundant life.

Infringe on the rights of others, upon their life, and you rights will be forfeited. Bite and you will be devoured. Take life and life will be taken from you.

124: Exodus 22:21 "Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. 23 If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; 24 And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless."

Of course this is just an a repeat of the precept as you judge so shall you be judged or if you bite one another so shall you be devoured.

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Post modernist's like Sam Harris questions if we are projecting meaning into these interpretation.

Peterson asks if we see these patterns that repeat across numerous cultures and times then they may become fundamental to nature and the Law of Nature and is not just Subjectivism.

Usury

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Charging usury to the poor was forbidding.

Christianity forbid this until the reformation.

"Borrowing from the future" is about borrowing today and will pay back tomorrow. There is no one on the Panel that sees this as a violation of the Sabbath even though God makes it clear that he worked first and then took his rest. Anything other than that would return you to the Bondage of Egypt.

Debts that required your labor in payment could not go for more than seven years in Israel or certainly other debts concerning land were ended after 49 years.

There is a lot of excuse making about credit cards and business borrow money every day from banks which are run and own by men that often have more money than the people they are loaning to.

There is little exploration that there may be error on our part upon depending on bankers for these loans.

The truth is everyone on the panel is back in the bondage of of Egypt and have become surety for national debt and are daily cursing their children with more and more debt.

Their social safety net is run by the Nimrods, Cains, Pharaohs of the world they have constructed for themselves. Why are banks the only alternative and what if your usury become oppressive to even the stranger and widows and orphans who lose their homes because banks cannot forgive debt.

Have the people gone the way of the golden calf?

Do they have just weights and measures in their purse?

Do they have one purse?

Dennis mentions "the free loan society".

Dennis does say you do not have to pay charity back but that is not entirely true. It does not have to been given back directly but it has to be reciprocated.

Skipping verses

Exodus 22 :29 Thou shalt not delay [to offer] the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

Exodus 23

They did comment about Exodus 23:3 "Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause."

The modern social justice warrior wants to privilege the poor where he gets preferential treatment. The panel say they oppose that yet they have said almost nothing against legal charity which Moses and Jesus opposed. But as we see skipping verses or failing to gather the full meaning of the text leads to misinterpretation under most modern theologies and denominations.

In the Bible, which advocates for the poor and fervent charity, speaks against the preferential treatment of the poor here in Exodus. And it forbids legal charity as the wages of unrighteousness warning against any appetite for the dainties of rulers. We know that economists like Cloward and Piven designed such social justice to destroy the economy and families.

Many of the things which they are missing are clearly going to have disastrous consequences and already are. While capitalism brings people out of poverty the mixing of legal charity in democracy and anti-capitalist bankers like Edward Mandell House and their banking systems of unjust weights, debt notes, and usury will plunge the whole world back into poverty and oppression.

Exodus 23 is also forbidding all forms of social welfare like legal charity or the welfare by men who go up by steps and exercise authority one over the other because they only offer what they take away from your neighbor or borrow against the future of your children, which is covetous practices. By biting your neighbor you are devoured as human resources who must again bow down and serve the gods of Egypt again.

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Douglas Hedley brings up that "these are not brute dictates but grounded in the goodness of God". They recognized these are principles but have not let go of thinking of these as laws or codes rather than just the judgements of Moses to help you guide. But you need the revelation of God writing in your heart and mind. The offerings of Corban which was corrupted by Herod and the Pharisees when it became the funding of legal charity.

Larry Paul Arnn correctly adds that we need to absorb this "and the reason for this" to fully understand. What was the purpose of the sacrifice, the judgements, the temples and the Levites. Was not it to avoid the bondage of Egypt and provide a social safety net that is not a snare.

Dr James Orr and Jordan converse that you will have to abide by the "principles" rather than the letter of the "judgements" as if they were laws and codes. The understanding that these are principles rather than laws, statutes, and ordinances like 600 codes is because he is giving reasons rather than merely commanding obey.

In reading Exodus 22:32 "Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee." they need to understand these other gods and the "Differentiation of the gods and their laws".