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Force
The word "force" appears about twenty times in the Bible but in the Old Testament it is translated from many words that appear many different times.
In the New Testament we first see the word force appear in a description concerning John the Baptist.
Matthew 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."
The kingdom of heaven preached by John required that you take care of the needs of the people of society by freewill offerings which in the new testament was called love and charity.
At that time Herod the Great of Judea had set up a system of welfare run through the temples he built. [1]
Those government systems were funded by the sacrifices of the people who were registered through a network of synagogues.
The system of Corban of the Pharisees was a part of this welfare program which included of forced offerings once you signed up for the benefits of that system.
The funds collected were kept in a central Treasury. [2]
The world of Rome had already set up similar systems of welfare under Augustus Caesar the emperor who was called the "Lord and Savior" because he established a similar welfare system requiring registration with the cult of Rome.
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit[3] the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.” James 1:27
John the Baptist offered a similar plan of social welfare but without the use of force used to collect the contributions of his people which is so common in the systems of the World.[4] His plan was based on freewill offerings like ancient Israel[5] when it was still a Republic under God.[6] Christ objected to the welfare plan called Corban offered by Herod and the Pharisees[7] not only because it made men rulers over their brothers and weakened the character of the people, and therefore society as a whole, but it also violated the precepts of God found in the Ten Commandments.
These systems of forced offerings used by Cain, Nimrod, Pharaoh, Caesar and FDR were the covetous practices that made men merchandise and cursed their children. These systems are based on biting one another and brings whole nations under a yoke of bondage where men who call themselves benefactors but exercise authority one over the other become the Fathers of the earth.
Jesus was not a socialist and neither were those who followed him. Jesus took the kingdom of God from the Pharisees, as He said He would do,[8] and appointed it to his Little flock, His Called out. Jesus preached a system of social welfare that operated under the perfect law of liberty which leads to eternal life[9] by faith, hope and charity.[10]
- ↑ The Temple in Jerusalem and The Temple of Roma.
- ↑ Matthew 27:6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury(corban), because it is the price of blood.
- ↑ Matthew 11:12 “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence [biazo=to use force, to apply force, violence], and the violent [biastes] take it by force [harpazo = to seize, carry off by force].” Luke 16:16 “The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man [all] presseth [biazo] into it.”
- ↑ Matthew 11:12 “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence [biazo=to use force, to apply force, violence], and the violent [biastes] take it by force [harpazo = to seize, carry off by force].” Luke 16:16 “ The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man [all] presseth [biazo] into it.”
- ↑ Exodus 35:29, 36:3, Leviticus 7:16, Leviticus 22:18-23, Leviticus 23:38, Numbers 15:3, Numbers 29:39, Deuteronomy 12:6, Deuteronomy 12:17, Deuteronomy 16:10, Deuteronomy 23:23, 2 Chronicles 31:14, 2 Chronicles 35:8, Ezra 1:4, Ezra 3:5, Ezra 7:13-16, Ezra 8:28, Psalms 54:6, Psalms 68:9, Psalms 110:3, Psalms 119:108, Ezekiel 46:12, Hosea 14:4, Amos 4:5.
- ↑ Luke 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.”
- ↑ The Corban of the Pharisees, http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/corban.php
- ↑ Matthew 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
- ↑ James 1:25 “But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”
- ↑ 1 Corinthians 13:13 “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.”