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[[File:eve.jpg|right|350px|thumb|In [[Egypt]] under the [[Pharaoh]] 20% of your labor belonged to the [[government]] of [[Pharaoh]] as if you were [[employ]]ed and they called it the [[Bondage of Egypt]]. <Br>Was it legal? <Br>They went into [[bondage]] because they would not hear the ''anguish'' cries of their brother.<Ref>[[Genesis 42]]:21  And they said one to another, We [are] verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.</Ref><Br>When did it become [[oppress]]ion? <Br>Were the [[taskmaster]]s actually a form of slave masters in a [[corvee]] system? <Br> Are the people today back in the [[bondage of Egypt]]?<Br>All over the [[world]] today people pay much more of their labor to the government and call it freedom.<Br>Because the people had an [[appetite]] for [[benefits]] from men who ''call themselves [[Benefactors]]'' we have returned to [[bondage]]. We were told to 'never return to the bondage of [[Egypt]] but people did under [[Herod]] and [[Rome]], and in the United States under [[FDR]] and [[LBJ]] and for more than a century. It was also called a [[corvee]] system of statutory labor or the [[bondage]] of [[Egypt]]. Jesus told us  to [[repent|think a different]] way and to [[seek]] the [[Kingdom of God]] and His [[righteousness]]. Are we in need of learning the lessons of [[Exodus]]?<Br>This was because the [[corban]] of the [[Pharisees]] and [[Herod]] ''made the word of God to none effect'' because as [[covetous practices]] it mad men [[merchandise]] instead of setting the [[captive]] free.]]

== What is oppression ==

Oppression is defined as a "prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control."

The Bible uses the word ''oppress''<Ref name="notoppress">{{notoppress}}</Ref> over a hundred times but it is translated from numerous different Hebrew words that are not always translated as ''oppress'' or ''oppression''.

This long list of Hebrew words include lachats as a verb<Ref name="lachats-v">{{03905}}</Ref> and as a noun<Ref name="lachats-n"> {{03906}}</Ref>, yanah<Ref name="yanah-v">{{03238}} </Ref>, tsarar, ‘ashaq<Ref name="ashaq-v">{{06231}}</Ref>, nagas<Ref name="nagas">{{05065}}</Ref>, ‘ariyts<Ref name="ariyts-adj>{{06184}} </Ref>, ratsats<Ref name="ratsats-v"> {{07533}} </Ref>, ‘ashuwq<Ref name="ashuwq-n">{{06217}} </Ref>, and shod<Ref name="shod-n">{{07701}} </Ref>. All of these word have other meanings. <Ref name="tsarar">{{06887}}</Ref>


The word ''lachats''  means oppression in the sense of affliction while  ''yanah''  that can mean ''oppress'' is also translated proud and can man both thrust out or bound, ''tsarar'' can also mean to bind and is often translated enemy and the primitive root ''‘ashaq'' can also mean oppress but also  defraud.

The term  ''nagas''<Ref name="nagas">{{05065}}</Ref> can be an oppressor, [[taskmaster]]s, exactors, and even tax collector. The term ''‘ariyts'' is translated terrible 8, terrible one, oppressor but also mighty and strong. 

Can we call justified action [[oppress]]ion? 

Can we call [[taxation]] theft?

Much of what is called ''oppression'' today may be nothing more than justice.

God [[hear]]d the [[go cry|cries]] of the people because the Egyptians oppressed them in excess of what was just. The Israelite people were in the [[Bondage of Egypt]] and owed [[tribute]] to the [[Pharaoh]] in the form of a [[Corvee]] service. If the [[Pharaoh]] exceeded what was "just, right and fair" through ''ambuscade'', crafts of state or corruption that was called [[oppress]]ion.

That [[bondage]] in the beginning was just because Joseph's brothers sold him into bondage and so it was only right for them to go into bondage,too. As we judge to do to other becomes just if it is done by other to us. 

That [[bondage of Egypt]] was simple and consisted of at least two [[elements]].

The first, is they might have livestock and land but they did not own them to the exclusion of all else. They shared ownership in a sort of [[legal title]]. They had an "apparent title" but the pharaoh actually held what could be called the "equitable title" today but “carries no beneficial interest.”

Another element to their bondage is that the people did not own an exclusive right to their labor either. 

While the people still owned at least 4/5ths of their labor, at least 1/5 or 20% belonged to the pharaoh. We were told by God that we wee never to return to this type of relationship again.<Ref> [[Deuteronomy 17]]:16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way. read more
:    [[Hosea 8]]:13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
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The Bible tells us to never return to the [[bondage of Egypt]] and even tells us to [[CCC|write in our constitutions]] that who ever we choose to exercise authority does nothing to return us to the [[bondage of Egypt]] where a portion of our labor belongs to the government and the title to the things we own is held in [[One purse]].

If you have some one who you see as an oppressor you may imagine that you do not have to take responsibility for your actions, inaction or mistakes. If people don't have an oppressor there are people who will help you invent one.

If we [[bite]] one another through [[covetous practices]] and men who call themselves [[benefactors]] but [[exercise authority]] we should expect to be devoured, made [[merchandise]], and [[curse children]].

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|[[Deuteronomy 7]] The word ''[[oppress]]'' is often ''lachats''<Ref name="lachats-v">{{03905}}</Ref> meaning ''to squeeze'' as we see in Exodus.<Ref>[[Exodus 22]]:21  Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor [[oppress]] him: for ye were strangers in the land of [[Egypt]].
: [[Exodus 23]]:9  Also thou shalt not [[oppress]] a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of [[Egypt]].</Ref>
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| But in other verses warning about ''[[oppress]]ing the stranger''<Ref>: [[Leviticus 19]]:33  And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
: [[Jeremiah 7]]:6  [If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
: [[Zechariah 7]]:10  And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
: [[Malachi 3]]:5  And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.</Ref> we see the Hebrew word ''ashaq''<Ref name="ashaq-v">{{06231}}</Ref>
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== Bible Use ==

Exodus 3:9  Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression<Ref name="lachats-n"> {{03906}}</Ref> wherewith the Egyptians oppress <Ref name="lachats-v"> {{03905}}</Ref> them.

Exodus 22:21  Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress<Ref name="lachats-v"> {{03905}}</Ref> him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 23:9  Also thou shalt not oppress<Ref name="lachats-v"> {{03905}}</Ref> a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Leviticus 25:14  And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress<Ref name="yanah-v">{{03238}} </Ref> one another:

Leviticus 25:17  Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.

Numbers 10:9  And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth<Ref name="tsarar">{{06887}}</Ref> you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.

Deuteronomy 23:16  He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress<Ref name="yanah-v">{{03238}} </Ref> him.

Deuteronomy 24:14  Thou shalt not oppress<Ref name="ashaq-v">{{06231}} </Ref> an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:

Deuteronomy 26:7  And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:

Deuteronomy 28:29  And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed<Ref name="ashaq-v">{{06231}} </Ref> and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.

Deuteronomy 28:33  The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed<Ref name="ashaq-v">{{06231}} </Ref> and crushed alway:

Judges 2:18  And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed<Ref name="ashaq-v">{{06231}} </Ref> them and vexed them.

Judges 4:3  And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

Judges 6:9  And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you their land;

Judges 10:8  And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

Judges 10:12  The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.

1 Samuel 10:18  And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you:

1 Samuel 12:3  Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

1 Samuel 12:4  And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man’s hand.

2 Kings 13:4  And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.

2 Kings 13:22  But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

2 Chronicles 16:10  Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.

Job 3:18  There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor<Ref name="nagas">{{05065}}</Ref>.

Job 10:3  Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress<Ref name="ashaq-v">{{06231}} </Ref>, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

Job 15:20  The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor<Ref name="ariyts-adj>{{06184}} </Ref>.

Job 20:19  Because he hath oppressed<Ref name="ratsats-v"> {{07533}} </Ref> and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

Job 27:13  This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors<Ref name="lachats-n"> {{03906}}</Ref>, which they shall receive of the Almighty.


Job 35:9  By reason of the multitude of oppressions<Ref name="ashuwq-n">{{06217}} </Ref> they make the ''oppressed'' to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

Job 36:15  He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression<Ref name="lachats-n"> {{03906}}</Ref>.

Psalms 9:9  The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

Psalms 10:18  To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

Psalms 12:5  For the oppression<Ref name="shod-n">{{07701}} </Ref> of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

Psalms 17:9  From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

Psalms 42:9  I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psalms 43:2  For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psalms 44:24  Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

Psalms 54:3  For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

Psalms 55:3  Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

Psalms 56:1  « To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath. » Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.

Psalms 62:10  Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

Psalms 72:4  He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

Psalms 73:8  They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

Psalms 74:21  O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

Psalms 103:6  The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

Psalms 106:42  Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

Psalms 107:39  Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.

Psalms 119:121  AIN. I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.

Psalms 119:122  Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

Psalms 119:134  Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.

Psalms 146:7  Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners:

Proverbs 3:31  Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

Proverbs 14:31  He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

Proverbs 22:16  He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

Proverbs 22:22  Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Proverbs 28:3  A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

Proverbs 28:16  The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.

Ecclesiastes 4:1  So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 5:8  If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

Ecclesiastes 7:7  Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.

Isaiah 1:17  Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Isaiah 3:5  And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

Isaiah 3:12  As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

Isaiah 5:7  For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

Isaiah 9:4  For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

Isaiah 14:2  And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

Isaiah 14:4  That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

Isaiah 16:4  Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

Isaiah 19:20  And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

Isaiah 23:12  And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.

Isaiah 30:12  Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

Isaiah 33:15  He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

Isaiah 38:14  Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.


Isaiah 49:26  And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

Isaiah 51:13  And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

Isaiah 52:4  For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

Isaiah 53:7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

Isaiah 54:14  In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.

Isaiah 58:6  Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Isaiah 59:13  In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Jeremiah 6:6  For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
Jeremiah 7:6  If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
Jeremiah 21:12  O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah 22:3  Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 22:17  But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
Jeremiah 25:38  He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 30:20  Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.

Jeremiah 46:16  He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.

Jeremiah 50:16  Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

Jeremiah 50:33  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

Ezekiel 18:7  And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

Ezekiel 18:12  Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,

Ezekiel 18:16  Neither hath oppressed any, hath not withholden the pledge, neither hath spoiled by violence, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment,

Ezekiel 18:18  As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

Ezekiel 22:7  In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

Ezekiel 22:29  The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

Ezekiel 45:8  In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

Ezekiel 46:18  Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.

Hosea 5:11  Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.

Hosea 12:7  He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

Amos 3:9  Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.

Amos 4:1  Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

Micah 2:2  And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

Zephaniah 3:1  Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!

Zechariah 7:10  And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

Zechariah 9:8  And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes.

Zechariah 10:4  Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.

Malachi 3:5  And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.


Acts 7:24  And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:

Acts 10:38  How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

James 2:6  But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?



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Job was not oppressed. He was tested.

We are tested too, daily.


Many places in the [[world]] have experienced oppression. Americans do not know true oppression. They do know [[sloth]], ''apathy'', [[avarice]], and ''[[wantonness]]''.


“It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.”
― [[Patrick Henry]] 

We have been warned for thousands of years that the [[slothful]] would be under [[tribute]]. We were told not to "[[bite]] one another, less we be devoured."

We were told that through "[[covetous practices]] we would be made [[merchandise]]", human resources. 

We were warned in [[1 Samuel 8]] that if chose men to rule over us they would "take and take and take and when we cried out God would would not hear us."

Despite all these [[warnings]] and prophetic advise we have become ''"accustomed to living at the expensive of others and have depended for their livelihood on the property of others and degenerated into [[perfect savages]]..."''<Ref>[[Polybius]]</Ref> all because they would not follow the true [[Christ]] but followed instead a [[strong delusion]] and desired the [[wages of unrighteousness]].



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