Vast bureaucracy
What is the "city[1] and tower[2]" of Babel we see in Genesis 11 really all about?
If we understand what Nimrod was doing will we then understand what Mystery Babylon means in Revelation 18?
Was "city[1] and tower[2]" like Babylon a civil system[3], a vast bureaucracy, set up by men of idolatry[4] like Nimrod, Terah, Caesar, Herod, and FDR?
Were these terms metaphors for the city of blood spoken of by Jeremiah[5], Ezekiel[6], Hosea[7], Nahum[8], Habakkuk[9], and even Revelation.[10]? Which way is can we go to be Exiting Babylon?
The word Babylon is from the Hebrew word Babel meaning "confusion by mingling".
The Babylonian system was a "One purse" system based on the "covetous practices" of "legal charity" leading to socialism with Nimrod's officers of his welfare state as the Benefactors of society.
The way society "mingles" or "entangles" itself in the "elements" of the "world" relates to the way the masses provide Social welfare, which may degenerate them into perfect savages through becoming accustomed to the covetous practices of the world. Nimrod's city and tower was to provide protection in the form of a "social security" system that would make the people merchandise, returning them to the bondage of Egypt.
There is another form of government where the bureaucracy remains responsive to the people. It is a network of intimate groups of ten families established from the ground up where the individuals and their family are dependent on voluntary application of fervent charity to maintain all social welfare through its daily ministration, the administration of justice, and national defence.
Bureaucracy
A bureaucracy is "a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives."
Three models
There are three models of bureaucracy which permit conflict - Weberian, human relation, and professional.
In the Weberian model there are different levels of rules which are hierarchically arranged in a system of superordination and subordination. Administrative procedures are based on written rules, an impersonal order, and a clear division of labor. The professional appointment of bureaucrats is based on qualification and performance. Therefore, the ideal type of bureaucracy, the Weberian model, was one in which agencies are apolitical, hierarchically organized, and governed by formal procedures. Furthermore, specialized bureaucrats would be better able to solve problems through logical reasoning.
Human Relations Theory focuses specifically on the individuals needs and resultant behaviors of individuals and groups. It takes an interpersonal approach to managing human beings or the duties of the bureaucracy. It presents an organization which is made up of formal and informal elements.
Professional bureaucracy is where the operating core and standardization of skills dominate the organization. This bureaucratic configuration relies on the standardization of skills rather than work processes or outputs for its coordination and so emerges as dramatically different from the machine bureaucracy. It is the structure hospitals, universities, and accounting firms tend most often to favor.
There also the Divisionalized form, where the middle line and standardization of outputs dominate the organization.
And the Adhocracy, where the support staff and mutual adjustment dominate the organization.
The Vast Bureacracy
The more you increase government by bureaucracy the less you have government by the people. The less you have government by the people the less you have government for the people the more you have government for the bureaucracy until there is a government composed of a vast bureaucracy which goes about to devour the people.
If "We the People" really want no kings , “We must realize that today’s Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution… the truth is that the vast bureaucracy now runs this country, irrespective of what party is in power.” Justice William O. Douglas, in his book Points of Rebellion, 1969 (page 95, page 54).
It is that "vast bureaucracy" that is draining the economy and life from society and until that "vast bureaucracy" is sufficiently reduced the "Dragon lives". Until then the economy and society is going to collapse and die.
Just as the Beast is the product of the appetite of the beast in the hearts and minds of the people that allows them to bite one another through the rulers who exercise authority but offer benefits and dainties at their covetous tables which are not only a snare and a trap but also idolatry.[4]
Bureaucracy of liberty
If a bureaucracy is "a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives" then in one sense the elders in free assemblies form the bureaucracy of the kingdom of God because in a network of individual home congregations gathered in tens as commanded by Christ which form "a system of government in which most of the important decisions" are made by the people in a state of liberty rather than by elected representatives.
The body of ministers called out by Moses in Israel consisted of the Church in the wilderness who were the Levites and the body of ministers called out by Christ was the early Church.
Both of whom became the Benefactors who did not exercise authority but rightly divided the bread of those Freewill offerings from house to house.[11]
If a minister fails to do a good job the people have the power to shift support to those who are doing things better. The free-market principles applied to government the way to liberty.
Today, many people calling themselves Christian pray to "the Fathers of the earth" and the men who call themselves Benefactors but exercise authority one over the other.
They must love their neighbor as themselves with "fervent charity" and not desire the Corban of the Pharisees that make the word of God to none effect and the wages of unrighteousness.
That welfare provided by legal charity is a snare and makes them merchandise and curse children through covetous practices.
Once you understand the role of minister and elder you can take a look at what Pure Religion means and how it was the daily ministration.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 05892 ^ריע^ ‘iyr \@eer\@ AyinYodReish or (in the plural) ^רע^ ‘ar \@awr\@ or ^ריע^ ‘ayar (#Jud 10:4) \@aw-yar’\@ a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post); from 05782 spelled AyinVavReish עוּר ‘uwr [oor] a primitive root; n m; {See TWOT on 1587 @@ "1587a"} {See TWOT on 1615} AV-city 1074, town 7, every one 2, variant 6; 1089
- 1) excitement, anguish
- 1a) of terror
- 2) city, town (a place of waking, guarded)
- 2a) city, town
- 1) excitement, anguish
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 04026 מִגְדָּל MemGimeDaletLamed migdal [mig-dawl’] also (in pl.) fem. מגדלה migdalah [mig-daw-law’] from 01431, Greek 3093 Μαγδαλα; n m; [BDB-153b] [{See TWOT on 315 @@ "315f" }] [{See TWOT on 315 @@ "315g" }] AV-tower 47, castles 1, flowers 1, pulpit 1; 50
- 1) tower
- 1a) tower
- 1b) elevated stage, pulpit
- 1c) raised bed
- 1) tower
- ↑ God hates the deeds
- 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,"
- Matthew 6:24 "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
- Revelation 2:6 "But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate."
- 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.
- * The way of the world is not The Way Of Christ but the way of Cain and His city-state, the way of the Corban of the Herod and the Pharisees that makes the word of God to none effect which God hates. These cities of blood, of Babylon and Balaam, of Cain and Nimrod, of Sumer and Sodom, Pharaoh and the foolishness of Saul, and more recently FDR and LBJ and all the welfare States who provide a legal charity of force and fealty making merchandise of the Nicolaitan as they enter the corvee which is a snare and a trap being Greedy for gain.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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.
- ↑ Jeremiah 26:15
- ↑ Ezekiel 7:23, Ezekiel 9:9, Ezekiel 22:2-3 ,Ezekiel 24:6-9
- ↑ Hosea 6:8
- ↑ Nahum 3:1
- ↑ Habakkuk 2:8, 12,17
- ↑ Revelation 14:20
- ↑ Acts 2:46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,