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Ye are gods
“But to us [there is but] one God, the Father, of whom [are] all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him.”[1] The Kingdom of God is unique because, having one God, Jesus told us: “...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: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.”[2]
His appointed government did not force the contributions of the people, but as Paul said, was bound together by charity according to the perfect law of liberty.
“Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?” (John 10:34)
What He is saying is that each of us is a god, or ruling judge, of our own choices and action. If we are born again of the Spirit and led by that Holy Spirit and the revelation of Divine will rather than our own knowledge and will then we need not fear the "wrath" of God.
We are not gods of other men or our neighbors. We should not rule over men, nor should we make men rulers over us, but we should remain free souls under God, The Father who is in Heaven. We should only be praying to our Father in heaven for "our daily bread" and not the Fathers of the earth who exercise authority and take from our neighbor and curse children with our debt.
If we do the things Jesus says and obey God’s commandments, then we shalt have no other gods ruling over us.[3] We will not have to bow down nor serve them.[4] But, if we make covenants, [5] swear oaths,[6] pray to other fathers on earth to obtain benefits[7] or break God’s laws,[8] then we will go under the powers[9] of the gods of men and their rulers.
They will be your ruling judges. They will decide what is good and what is evil. These gods of old were men who ruled, made laws and licensed evil.[10] They rejected spirit of God who ruled through the individual and chose a man to rule over them, to be a king in 1 Samuel 8.
So, also do they reject the Spiritual God of righteousness who rights His laws on the hearts and minds of the individual that he should decide "fact and law" and the people through sloth and by the creation of institutions where they chose men to take the place of God and be their gods.[11] But in the imagination of the people they do not want to see that those gods who make covenants requiring oaths, and the servece and toil of the people were men. In their imagination they cling to the idea that these gods were only the "work of men’s hands, wood and stone" idols rather than the institutions and offices created by men which they represented.[12]
“For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)” (1 Corinthians 8:5)
In the days of Jacob and Egypt, Joseph's brothers delivered their brother into bondage as a result of their own selfishness, envy, and covetous hearts. Had they not done this, Joseph's relationship with God would have revealed to them the coming events. It would have been they, not Egypt, who would have prepared for the time of famine. The sons of Jacob would have become wealthy among nations. Instead, they cast the source of their own salvation into a pit.
Because of their straying from the righteousness of God they were delivered into bondage. This bondage grew until the powers of Egypt through the subtleties of the gods of other men or our neighbors. We should not rule over men, nor should we make men rulers over us, but we should remain free souls under God, The Father who is in Heaven. We should only be praying to our Father in heaven for "our daily bread" and not the Fathers of the earth who exercise authority and take from our neighbor and curse children with our debt.
They weren't slaves as we often think of slavery but 2.5 months out of the year they labored for the government of Pharaoh. This would be called a corvee system of statutory labor. It was an excise or tribute tax upon the sweat of men's brows. All the gold and silver was in the treasuries of the government which meddled heavily into the family life of Israel, abortion was encouraged. The people only had a legal title to their land, animals, and labor.
God eventually arranged that Moses was able to redeem the people and bring them out of this bondage. They were given the gold and silver [an honest money system] replacing their interest-bearing scarabs. They got their animals and families back and once they learned the ways of the God they obtained some land of their own.
- ↑ 1 Corinthians 8:6
- ↑ 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:..."
- ↑ “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” (Exodus 20:3)
- ↑ Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
- Exodus 23:24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
- Deuteronomy 5:9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
- ↑ “Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.” (Exodus 23:32)
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- ↑ After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.” (Matthew 6:9). “And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.” (Matthew 23:9)
- ↑ “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” (John 14:15)
- ↑ “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.” (Romans 13:1) “All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.” (1 Corinthians 6:12)
- ↑ Genesis 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
- Deuteronomy 31:18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
- Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
- Judges 10:6 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.
- 2 Chronicles 7:22 And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
- Isaiah 41:23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
- Jeremiah 35:15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
- ↑ 1 Kings 9:9 "And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil."
- ↑ Jeremiah 13:10 "This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing."