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Episode 11

Exodus 21:2 "If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing." The 7th year is a transition year from servitude to freeman.

Servants and slaves Indentured servitude may be because of debt or to purchase something, or to be trained in skills such as an apprentice.

Jacob and Lebon is an example. Israel did not have a slave class or really any superior class when there were no kings in Israel.

10:45 Douglas Hadley makes the error of thinking that these are laws listed in Exodus 21. But again these are "judgements" or what should be understood as Precedents. To apply them as a codified law, i.e. letter of the law will kill the spirit of the law.

There is one law as there is one God and these "judgements" are share like guideposts to help the people apply Right Reason, which is Divine Will.

They can only do that if they draw near God which will not happen if they are engaged in covetous practices instead of the Corban of Christ which is pure Religion.

PRECEDENTS. the decision of courts of justice; when exactly in point with a case before the court, they are generally held to have a binding authority, as well to keep the scale of justice even and steady, as because the law in that case has been solemnly declared and determined. 9 M. R. 355.

2. To render precedents valid, they must be founded in reason and justice; Hob. 270; must have been made upon argument, and be the solemn decision of the court; 4 Co. 94; and in order to give them binding effect, there must be a current of decisions. Cro. Car. 528; Cro. Jac. 386; 8 Co. 163. 3. According to Lord Talbot, it is "much better to stick to the known general rules, than to follow any one particular precedent, which may be founded on reason, unknown to us." Cas. Temp. Talb. 26. Blackstone, 1 Com. 70, says, that a former decision is in general to be followed, unless "manifestly absurd or unjust,", and, in the latter case, ii is declared, when overruled, not that the former sentence was bad law, but that it was not law.

4. Precedents can only be useful when they show that the case has been decided upon a certain principle, and ought not to be binding when contrary to such principle. If a precedent is to be followed because it is a precedent, even when decided against an established rule of law, there can be no possible correction of abuses, because the fact of, their existence renders them above the law. It is always safe to rely upon principles. See Principle; Rewon. de 16 Vin. Ab. 499; Wesk. on Inst. h. t.: 2 Swanst. 163; 2 Jac. & W. 31; 3 Ves. 527; 2 Atk. 559; 2 P. Wms. 258; 2 Bro. C. C. 86; 1 Ves. jr. 11; and 2 Evans Poth. 377, where the author argues against the policy of making precedents binding when contrary to reason. See also 1 Kent, Comm.475-77; Liv.Syst. 104-5; Gresl. Ev. 300; 16 Johns. R. 402; 20 Johns. R. 722; Cro. Jac. 527; 33 H. VII. 41; Jones, Bailment, 46; and the articles Reason and Stare decisis [Latin, Let the decision stand.]. Bouvier's Law Dictionary , 1856 Edition -

Douglas Hadley was also misled by the confusion about Jesus statement to Pilate that his kingdom was not of the "world" of Rome. This will also lend itself to the confusion about "Pure Religion" being unspotted by that same world. That again brings us back to covetous practices, and the altars or tables that are a snare and those which set the captive free.

Douglas Hadley also thinks there were rulers and priests in this system who are an "exercising authority" in Israel but there were "no kings" for every man is king and priest in his own family. There is a national priesthood but they are dependent upon the freewill offerings of the people who are the treasury of the kingdom through the power of their purse (micro) for there is among them no golden calf, no central bank, no reserve fund except what is in the purses of the people. Proverbs 1:10

Any nation that has one purse (macro) "their feet run to evil". Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

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They also imagine that Exodus is the democratization of the nation, but Israel was a pure Republic with the power of government held by the individual in the micro.

Democratization is the process through which a political regime becomes democracy which leads to kings like Saul who foolishly forced a sacrifice which doomed his government. Democracy leads to socialism which is the religion you get when you have no religion taught by Moses and Christ.

We know the greatest destroyer of liberty is legal charity. We know that an appetite for benefits at the expense of our neighbor will degenerate the masses and bring tyrants to power. This was why Karl Marx loved democracy because it leads to socialism which leads to communism.

14: The sovereignty in the kingdom of God is vested in the individual (micro). To maintain it the people must tend to the weightier matters through pure religion, jury nullification and seeking the righteousness of God. 15:

16: They panel remains confused because the see a priestly cast and do not grasp the power of choice vestid in the elder of every family to choose the minister they desire to support. The priestly cast which in one sense includes the Levites or levitical priesthood and does not go up by steps nor are they hewn stones of a living altar.

The levitical priesthood performed subordinate services associated with public worship. Worship was serving God by caring for his people. Levite duties could be classified as musicians, gate keepers, guardians, officials in service to the Tabernacle of the congregations, judges of the people's courts, and craftsmen.

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Douglas Hadley sees the constitutional nature of Israel but is misinformed about its separation of powers. There are no kings but the elder of each house or family.

Put to death 40: Dennis says all those death penalties were never intended and there is no record of them being done.

41: Honour and curse Dennis says heavy and lightly It actually is fatten or slight

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They do grasp the idea of eye for an eye is a limitation and there seems to be no record of an eye being forfeited. But is agreed that is about just compensation.

1:14 witchcraft is about navigating around the consequences of natural law or even the will of God.