The Governments of God and other gods

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The Bible is mostly about man's relationship with men and God or the gods men make for themselves.

That means that the Bible is about government

Questions

* What is the meaning of the word gods?

* Are there similarities between us and Rome?

** Why was Caesar called a god or Apotheoses?

** Are there men called gods today?

** Are there Apotheoses in modern government?

** Are their men called gods today?

* Who are the Fathers of the earth?

** What is a Patronus?

** What about Pater Patriae‎, Potestas‎ , Imperium, Protection.

** What is a Conscripted fathers?

* Do people pray to or apply to them for benefits?

* Do people cry to gods they have chosen?

* Do they look to an Emperor?

* Do we as a free people attend to the weightier matters?

* Do we practice Pure Religion?

* Are we engaged in covetous Practices with Benefactors of the world?

* Are we merchandise?

* Are we in bondage?

* Are we under tribute?

** Is that because of sloth and covetousness?

* What did Polybius say about our appetite?

* Have we been devoured because we are biting one another?

* Was the early Church like the Levites?

* Do we have a daily ministration?

* Are we seeking the kingdom of God?

* Are you assembling with altars of clay and stone?

* Are we constructing Altars of lively Stones?

* Have you been snared by the welfare from the altars and Corban of the world?

* Where is your FEMA who you will cry out to?

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Benefactors | Cain | Nimrod | Constantine | Christian conflict | Fathers | Conscripted fathers | Pater Patriae‎ | Patronus | Potestas‎ | Emperator | Imperium | Protection | Imperial Cult of Rome | Rome vs US | Polybius | Plutarch | Merchandise | Curse children | Bondage | Cry out | Pure Religion | Charitable Practices | Corban | Was Jesus a socialist | Public religion | Covetous Practices | Biting one another | Mark of the Beast | Elements of the world |

The Governments of God and other gods

God has said, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:3). The words “gods” and “God” are translated from the single word ‘elohiym¹ in the plural. The word ‘elohiym is defined “rulers, judges”² and “occasionally applied as deference to magistrates”³, while in the New Testament, the word “God” is translated from the Greek word theos, which figuratively means “a magistrate.”⁴

God goes on to expound upon this command that, “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them:”⁵ The emperors of Rome were often referred to as “gods” using the words Apo Theos. This was not because any one believed that they created heaven and earth, but because they were the chief magistracy and ruler of the people, appointing judges throughout the empire.⁶ Emperor⁷ and Principas Civitas⁸ were offices to which Augustus Caesar was elected. The third office he requested was the “Apo Theos” of the Empire. The words translate, “the originator of gods” which meant he appointed the imperial magistrates throughout the empire.

The power of Rome was originally from the people up. It was a free society with an all volunteer unpaid army. Things had changed with affluence and apathy, avarice and acedia. The world had turned upside down by vesting the rights of the people in offices of the state. The desire to receive the gifts, gratuities, and benefits of these rising benefactors who exercised authority had subjected the people under new gods.

“Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.” Judges 10:14 “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” (Ga 5:1)

The word “Patronus” in the Latin was a modification of the Latin word Pater, father. In Roman Law, Caesar’s rights to authority or dominion over a subject citizenry as emperor stemmed from his position as the “vicarious pater” or substitute father. God granted rights to men and men grant rights to governments they create. God instituted marriage between a man and a woman and all the rights of government come from that union, whether relinquished, invested, or abandoned.

“Excise (tribute), in its origin, is the patrimonial right of emperors and kings.” ⁹ Tribute is “A sum of money paid by an inferior sovereign or state to a superior potentate, to secure the friendship or protection of the Latter.” ¹⁰ “The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.”¹¹

The word “tribute” in Proverbs is from the Hebrew word mac¹² meaning a “body of forced laborers,” “forced service”, “enforced payment.” The first times we see the word used in the Bible is Genesis¹³ and Exodus,¹⁴ when the Israelites went under the bondage of taskmasters in Egypt for the Pharaoh. They had to give 20 percent of their income to the government of Egypt each year. They only had a legal title to their lands and property, which did not include a beneficial interest.¹⁵

This bondage came upon Israel because they did not love their brother as themselves, but instead they sold him into slavery. Their own sin and selfishness eventually brought them into bondage. Had they not betrayed their brother he would have warned them of the coming famine. They had not their own provisions, they needed to apply for the benefits of the Pharaoh. What should have been for their welfare became a snare. As always, such powers in the hands of governments led to abuse and oppression. After God sent Moses to free the people from that bondage, they were told to never return to the ways of Egypt.¹⁶ Moses set up a different type of government that depended upon living altars of stone.¹⁷

The “altars of earth” were actually men in free congregation. The altars of stone were composed of the Levites. The translations of the early text by the Pharisees, who promoted animal sacrifice, were known to be false at the time of Christ by large groups of the Jews who would not practice those bloody rituals. Instead they saw this as a metaphor for a system of charity and free will offering that sustained society in hard times. It was a system that promoted brotherly love in faith, hope, and charity.

Without such a system of pure religion¹⁸ faithfully practiced by, for, and of the people by freewill choice, a welfare system of authoritarian benefactors will arise during times of need and depression. Those systems of men will bind the people under a new rule that is not of God, but of men. As the people vest (or neglect altogether) more and more of their God given responsibilities into the power of institutions they make for themselves, they will diminish access to those rights. The people soon find themselves victims of their own rejection¹⁹ of God, and subject to tyrants.

All authority enjoyed by governments is nothing more than granted privileges which originate with the rights of the people individually given to them by God through the generations of families. When the people were manumitted²⁰ from their natural families through a threefold process of abdication in Roman law, Novation²¹, Tutor,²² and Korban,²³ they often go under the power of new, less-than-natural Fathers in the form of governments. God instituted the family. Men instituted governments.

In Roman law, “patria potestas”²⁴ must be viewed as an imperium,²⁵ and not as a right of property like the power of a master over his slave.²⁶ The office of imperium was vested by the people in the Emperor and was called Patronus (our Father); Senators were called Patres (father) or Conscripti Patres, the Conscripted Fathers.

These systems of centralized power of men over men have been around since the days of Cain and Lemech, Nimrod and Pharaoh, and of course Caesar and Herod. John the Baptist had another idea²⁷ of bringing the people together under the perfect law of liberty by faith, hope, and charity.²⁸ Jesus told us to pray to our Father in heaven for any benefits required and not to the substitute fathers of the nations who are benefactors who exercise authority one over the other. In Matthew 23:9 He went so far as to say, “And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.” (Mt. 23:9)

If society, through consent or application, creates offices of power, then men who seek power will seek office. If you create offices of service then men who seek service will seek office.

To seek the kingdom and His righteousness the faithful are required by Christ to strive for justice and mercy for all, without coveting their neighbor’s goods through the agency of these benefactors who force the contributions of the people. They must learn to care about their neighbor’s rights and needs as much as they care about their own.

This essential practice of pure religion requires the virtue of God to be written in the hearts and minds of the people, which is the beginning of the Kingdom of God. Abraham and Moses, John and Jesus taught the people how this Kingdom worked. The knowledge of the truth of the gospel of the Kingdom will set the people free, if they will repent and return to the virtue of Christ.

“I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and courts. These are false hopes, believe me; these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no Constitution, no law, no court can save it.”²⁹

The decline of almost all forms of government is because virtue fails in the people. Despotism is a system of an evil and complacent society, not the cause of it. Only a people of true faith and love, service and sacrifice can make a truly free society work. Only selfish and greedy hearts and minds are capable of nurturing destruction. Through sloth and covetousness, men have delivered themselves into states of bondage where they become little more than human resources throughout history.

God made man free and gave him the right of choice, because the exercise of choice and the consequences of choice nurtures and prepares the soul of man to receive the mind of Christ.

“Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.”³⁰

If we are to be free we must set all men free from our own willful control of their life and toil. No single tyrant can rule a nation without a nation of tyrants to do his bidding.

Alexander Tyler once wrote, “A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”

He went on to say that during the average age of most great civilizations they will under go the following sequence:

“From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”³¹

1Strong’s No. 0430 ‘elohiym {el-o-heem’} plural of 433

2Online Bible and Concordance. Woodside Bible Fellowship.

3Strong’s Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary.

4Strong’s Greek Dictionary of the New Testament.

5Exodus 20:5

6“The last act was the formal decree of the senate by which Augustus, like his father Julius before him, was added to the number of the gods recognized by the Roman state.” Encyclopedia Britanica 1953,Vol II, pp. 689b

7An “Emperator” meant the “Commander-in-chief” of the millitary. Collin’s Latin Dictionary

8Principas Civitas was the “first citizen” of Rome, the chief executive officer of Rome, a municipality.

9Vectigal, origina ipsa, jus Cæsarum et regum patrimoniale est.

10Brande. Black’s 3rd Ed. p. 1757.

11Proverbs 12:24

12 04522 om mac from oom macac meaning to waste away; n is a noun translated -tribute 12 times, tributary 5, levy 4, discomfited, and taskmasters. 1) gang or body of forced laborers, task-workers, labor band or gang, forced service, task-work, serfdom, tributary, tribute, levy, taskmasters, discomfited 1a) labor-band, labor-gang, slave gang1b) gang-overseers 1c) forced service, serfdom, tribute, enforced payment

13Genesis 49:15 “And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute <04522>.”

14Exodus 1:11 “Therefore they did set over them taskmasters <04522> to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.”

15See The Covenants of the gods, Legal vs. Lawful

16Deuteronomy 17:16 “But he shall not ... cause the people to return to Egypt... forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.”

17See “Thy Kingdom Comes,” or “Artifice in Language Land.”

18Pure Religion vs. Impure Religion, The Free Church Report

191 Samuel 8:1...20 “...And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them....”

20The patria potestas could not be dissolved immediately by manumissio (manumission), because the patria potestas must be viewed as an imperium, and not as a right of property like the power of a master over his slave.” Unterholzner, Zeitschrift, vol. ii p. 139; Von den formen der Manumissio per Vindictam und der Emancipatio.

21“the remodeling of an old obligation.” Webster’s Dictionary. Eventually included forced birth registration in 168 AD under Marcus Aurelius.

22“tutor -ari, dep.: also tuto -are: to protect, watch, keep. guard against.” This included benefits including education.

23Bringing closer to the originator or father or “substitute father” and consisted of a contribution given as an adult.

24Patria Potestas signifies the authority which a father had over of his children, grandchildren, and other descendants.

25The imperium was originally the power of each man to protect himself and his neighbor which was eventually vested in a king or president as a military merum or within the community as the mixtum. Both were merged at that point incident to the jurisdictio established by application, contract, or some nexus and or acquiescence.

26Unterholzner, Zeitschrift, vol. ii p. 139; Von den formen der Manumissio per Vindictam und der Emancipatio.

27Matthew 11:12 “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”

28Luke 3:11 “He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.”

29Judge Learned Hand, Spirit of Liberty, p189.

30Archibald MacLeish was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. (1892 – 1982)

31Alexander Tyler, professor of history at Edinburgh Scotland, writing about “The Fall of the Athenian Republic.”

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