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Abramham's altars of clay and stone were systems of votive offerings which functioned differently than the city states like Sodom and Gomorrah. They were networks of free people that formed a "Polis" through charity rather than force.

Votive

A votive deposit or votive offering is one or more objects displayed or deposited, without the intention of recovery or use, in a sacred place for broadly religious purposes. Some historians define a votive offering or tama as something that may be offered at the icon or shrine but sometimes historians are more superstitious than the people who survived history.

What we know of votive offerings has often been obscured by a historical vision devoid of practical knowledge of the bonds of a free but temporal society. A Votive is also defined as "offered, given, dedicated, etc., in accordance with a vow." There are two uses of the word vow in the Bible.

Votive offerings may have a religious side to them but the definition of religion has changed throughout the centuries. The only time religion is mentioned in the Bible in a good sense is its reference to Pure religion which had to do with the care and welfare of the needy of society without the institutions of force found in many governments at that time.

In the Old Testament, a votive offering was a voluntary offering vowed to God but not required by the Law. The technical term in Hebrew for such an offering is neder (vow).

The Torah makes provision for "freewill offerings" which may be made by any individual. These are different from votive offerings which are linked to a vow or prayer. Understanding that the temples were places before they were buildings and they had a function in society like the altars of clay and stone.

"Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer [for] a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted." Leviticus 22:23

In this verse a clear differentiation is made between the two. The Hebrew root letters for a freewill offering are נדב (NunDaletBeit) which is the noun nadab from the verb nadab, but for a votive offering there are the letters נדר (NunDaletReish) forming the noun neder from the root word, a verb, nadar.

"Feed my sheep!"
Pastors should be like shepherds who tend to all the welfare needs of the people in a daily ministration of faith, hope, and charity, so that none of the sheep of Christ have to eat at the tables of legal charity provided by the exercising authority of the Fathers of the earth.
Before Jesus was able to provide the people with loaves and fishes in Mark 6:39 He "commanded" His disciples to "make" the people sit down in Tens. And then those groups were to organize in companies upon companies in divisions and "ranks" of "fifties and hundreds".
Christ also told His disciples not to be like the rulers and princes of the Gentiles who provided benefits by exercising authority one over the other.
Everyone who got the Baptism of Christ was "put out" by the ordinance of the Pharisees of the Jewish synagogue system which was also composed of ten families through which they provided welfare with the "Corban" of the people.
Christ appointed a kingdom to His "called out" group He called His "little flock" to be ministers or servants to the people in "free assemblies" not rulers like the "benefactors" of the "world" who "exercise authority". Every man should be led by the Holy Spirit to gather in order to love one another. The minister is supposed to be serving by making or requiring the people voluntarily organize themselves in Companies of tens, fifties and hundreds, and thousands so that people may love one another through daily ministration in the practice of Pure Religion as we see the early Church doing in history for centuries.
If all the people who say they are Christians were actually doing what Christ commanded, socialism would be obsolete and no one could be or would be exploited. Socialism is the religion you get when you refuse to do what Christ commanded and have no Pure Religion.

In the text we see "[as] a freewill offering" appearing with an additional letter נְדָבָה֙ (NunDaletBeitHey). It takes this form some ten times but appears in other form some 16 additional forms.

In the text we see "but for a vow" appearing with additional letters וּלְנֵ֖דֶר (VavLamedNunDaletReish).

The whole system of altars of clay and stone allowed the people to care for the needs of society without waiving individual rights. Contrary to the systems of Sodom and Gomorrah or Nimrod of Babylon and the Pharaoh of Egypt they strengthened the poor.

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“Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville

So much has changed since the original Constitution when we could say that the “People of a state are entitled to all rights which formerly belonged to the king by his prerogative.” Or we could argue that “In one sense, the term ‘sovereign’ has for its correlative ‘subject.’ In this sense, the term can receive no application; for it has no object in the [Original] Constitution of the United States. Under that Constitution there are citizens, but no subjects.” “For when the revolution took place, the people of each state became themselves sovereign; and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them, for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the constitution to the general government.”

Originally, citizenship did not include the title or sense of subject ,but later in the United States, we see a citizenship binding subjects to the laws of a “sovereign”. Prior to the Fourteenth Amendment, “No private person has a right to complain, by suit in court, on the ground of a breach of Constitution. The constitution it is true, is a compact, but he is not a party to it. The states are party to it.”

Today, “in the United States ‘it [citizenship] is a political obligation’ depending not on ownership of land, but on the enjoyment of the protection of government; and it ‘binds the citizen to the observance of all laws’ of his sovereign.”

This is not so much do to the fact that legislators have altered laws but because the people have altered their relationship with the government. Because of the rise of the welfare state and the people not “Constantly bearing in mind that in entering into society individuals must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest…" the status of American citizenship has changed. People today are already in a political system that is a direct or indirect democracy certainly have motivation at least to vote for their own protection.

Democracies are not always a good form of government and for centuries in America they were not considered to good. In fact, until World War II democracy was considered “A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic - negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard for consequences. Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.”

If you live in a democracy and you have a right to vote. You certainly may feel a need to vote in self defense in order to protect yourself and your neighbor from the covetous practices of the welfare state and those who desire to rule over and even rob their neighbor through socialist schemes of wealth distribution.

John Adams: “Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."

Israel, before they made the grave mistake of electing to have a king/commander in chief supported their government entirely with freewill offerings. They had gathered in small groups tens and linked those groups through a network of tens, hundreds and thousands. Jesus commanded that his disciples do the same thing. The primary purpose was to create a daily ministration based on charity rather than the forced contributions of Rome and Herod.

Herod had set up such a system if compelled sacrifices of the people with the support of the Pharisees which is referenced in the Bible as Corban. It was a system of taxation to fund the welfare system of Judea.

Originally welfare in free societies were based on a systems of charity. That system of votive offerings was originally based on faith, hope and charity but under these systems which are rooted in force, fear, and fealty the nation is altered. This can be seen under FDR's New Deal or LBJ's Great Society. Any system of forced offerings makes the people merchandise and often curse children with debt. It is because these systems of socialism are essentially covetous practices that make the people a surety for debt.

The Bible is filled with warnings of these one purse schemes which run to death.

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We have only a few things to do:

Repent which means to think a different way.

Seek to establish a government that run on love and charity instead of fear and force.

Seek righteousness in everything we do where ever we are at or what ever status we are in.

While we do that we should do that together in small intimate groups networked together.