March 15, 1994.
Revised August 31, 2005
The Kingdom of
Heaven
The
State of the Nation
Jesus preached a Kingdom and the
Apostles worked daily in the temple, serving the people, so that they
might be freemen under God.
Rome was a republic that changed over
the years. There are many republics today and they have also changed.
We imagine that modern systems are governments of the people, by
the people, and for the people. At best, they are governments for
and by the majority of the people who exercises authority over
their neighbor.
Often, security is equated with freedom,
license with liberty, and comfort with affluence. Vanity and avarice
dims our understanding of the positive influence created by the
exercise of the personal responsibility required to maintain freedom,
not only for ourselves, but for others. Fear and pride darkens our
minds to the light of liberty and the free exercise of virtue. People
are angered, if not enraged, at the suggestion that their freedom is
a lie, their affluence is a fraud, and their religious virtue is an
apostasy.
Where do we find the plans for a
government of liberty and freedom that is vested in the people? For
centuries, people ruled themselves and brought peace and prosperity
to their community and their nation, according to the virtue and
courage sealed within their own hearts. With the aid of their chosen
Tithingmen and Hundredsmen, they received and distributed charity,
thwarted invasions, and kept order. There were no statutes, lawyers,
or regulations, but every man knew the law common among freemen.
Twelve freemen, their peers, decided fact and law for
those who stood in open court, to prove “damage and harm”.
Almost a thousand years after the
destruction of Jerusalem, William the Conqueror seized a portion of
England by defeating his cousin and declared himself the
“Fountainhead of Justice”. He had persecuted the people
who rebelled against his oppressive rule in Normandy and began the
same in England. He was crowned by the ministers of the authoritarian
church and began demanding an Oath of Fealty and required the land
from those he vanquished in battle be registered. Steadily, all land
titles were registered in his “Doomsday Book”, under his
Patrimonial power to tax. He established his own courts and police.
Like the kings which Samuel warned men against, William, and others,
rose up to make the ancient prophecies reality.
A once free people now only held land
by a mere “legal title” with “no beneficial
interest”. A tax or tribute on the land was now compelled by
government. Eventually, there were no Freemen left in the land, and
statutes supplanted the common law. There were only subjects of
sovereigns. The battle was fierce. The cost in human life was high.
The beast had risen from his pit to rule the world again and was
crowned by his mistress.
The mistress of these national kings
blessed their “exercising authority” in opposition to
Christ’s command and, as foretold in 1 Samuel 8, the voice
of the people rejected God.
“And
when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his
prison,” Rev. 20:7
Three hundred years later men were
still looking for an answer to this revived tyranny. Then, John
Wycliffe introduced his translation of the Bible in 1382, with the
words, “This Bible is for the Government of the People, by the
People, and for the People.” An old idea arose in young minds.
The recollections of freedom glimmered again in men’s hearts.
The prophets of the adversary could not
let the captives go free. Wycliffe was promptly imprisoned by the
government where he suddenly died under their care. His body was
later dug up by the orthodox church and burned at the stake.
“But
woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the
kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in [yourselves],
neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.” Matthew
23:13
Another who brought this manual for
good government to light, even at the request of the king, was
Tyndale. He was eventually hunted down and burned at the stake. His
books were bought up by the orthodox church and also burned. But too
much had been revealed and, with printing presses and paper becoming
more available, it was essential to do something to maintain order
and control. It became necessary to teach the people a form of
godliness, but deny
the power thereof.
Through deceptive teachings, covetous applications, and constructive
contracts, the power of the Kingdom fell from the hands of the people
into the grasp of men who exercised authority. Instead of returning
every man unto his possessions and family, they returned them to the
bondage of Egypt.
The prophets of the adversary began to
preach and teach out of the Bible, but they gave an untrue rendering
of what people were to read. These false teachers trained the people
early in falsehoods so that they would not find their way. They
taught the people an easy Gospel that was sweet in the mouth, but
would sour in the belly; they taught that the kingdom would come
through observation
and all anyone had to do was believe, winking at the
requirement of repentance, and called it “penance”. The
false teachers never told the people what it meant to believe. The
people were not instructed that only those who do the will of the
Father are His brethren.
They were told that men are forgiven their sins, but were not
reminded that they must also forgive to be forgiven.
Religion was organized in their minds from the top down.
Christ preached a Kingdom and “All
government without the consent of the governed is the very definition
of slavery!”
It is men, not God, who make slaves of men. Rome preached a kingdom
under the Fathers of Rome. Christ preached a kingdom where you are
princes of your own house under the Father in Heaven. Roman law
believes that consent makes the law and that agreements
must be kept. God and Christ do not disagree.
We are bought with a price and what
belongs to God cannot be taken away without our consent. The false
prophets teach that you must consent to the gentiles who exercise
authority while Christ and God tell us to consent not, swear not,
agree not.
The modern Church tells you to tithe to
their altars, but obtain your daily ministration from worldly altars
of power. Prayer is no longer application at Nicolaitan altars
of civil governments, but only words with bowed heads mumbled in
ornate or costly cathedrals and churches. Worship is no longer
homage, but has become singing. Lifting your hands to the Lord is not
working for your needy neighbor, but waiving your hands in Church.
Coveting your neighbor’s goods is now okay, as long as it is
done through the agency of government taxation; and being unequally
yoked is okay, as long as it is by license and registration.
God did not take the Israelites out of
Egypt only to have the Church deliver them back into bondage. If the
Church was doing its job, the people would have no need to apply to
authoritarian schemes of Corban and social security.
In obtaining the application or
consent, the Benefactors of Rome establish a contractual relationship
with the people, which imposes certain duties and obligation both
upon the people and the government. God and Christ told us not to
apply nor consent. Such relationships are created by constructions of
law through application and acceptance.
“A
contract is law between the parties having received their consent.”
For thousands of years, governments
have obtained authority and power by the consent and applications of
the people. The rights, given us by God, cannot be taken away except
by consent in word or in deed.
These basic maxims of law were well understood when virtuous men and
women crossed the sea in leaking ships to escape the taxing kings and
ruling judges of Europe. They braved the wilderness in hopes that
they might be free.
Remember, “The ordinary citizen,
living on his farm, owned in fee simple, untroubled by any relics of
feudalism, untaxed save by himself, saying his say to all the world
in townmeetings.” For he, “had a new self-reliance.
Wrestling with his soul and plough on week days, and the innumerable
points of the minister’s sermon on Sundays and meeting days, he
was coming to be a tough nut for any imperial system to crack.”
Ethan Allen and others fought so that all men could have such tenure
title as freemen upon their own land under the authority of God.
They had won their freedom in this new land, even before the
revolution, and only declared their independence from that despotic
kingly authority of “unwarranted usurpation” and his
“imposing taxes on us without our Consent:”
The Pilgrims were called Separatists.
They had studied with, what was called, the Ancient Church. They came
to America to own the milk and the honey of the land with an allodial
title that could not be taxed and taken by the would-be rulers of
men.
Since those valiant days of rugged
individualism, when early Americans took the time to study what
freedom really meant, men have steadily moved again into bondage. Men
and women, through ignorance, avarice, and arrogance, have applied to
the authoritarian benefactor of the state to supply them with
benefits. They did all of this, knowing that those gifts were
supplied by compelled sacrifices taken from their neighbor. Now,
their bondage is greater than that of Egypt and Rome, and their day
of reckoning is not far hence.
Israel, while in Egypt, was united in
slavery, but not in freedom. Until the people began to learn to live
and move as one nation, in one accord, they were not ready for
freedom. During the plagues and the oppression of the pharaoh, the
people were strengthened by the counsel of Moses and the charity and
virtue of which those hard times demanded.
Without the Pharaoh’s consent,
Israel could not go free. Once it was obtained, they left that very
day. Like the day of Pentecost, it was only one day, but there were
many days of preparation and repentance before and after their
journey toward God’s Kingdom.
Footnotes
Footnotes:
Table of Contents
of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
Peace be to this house,
The Prologue of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
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1. The Kingdom of God of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
Is Righteousness of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCa1-1IsRighteousness.php
A Man as King of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCa1-2AManasKing.php
2. Abraham Uncivilized of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
The City State of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCb2-1TheCityState.php
Two kingdoms/ The Merchants of Men of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCb2-2MerchantsofMen.php
The Hindu Connection of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCb2-3HinduConnection.php
Abraham and the Legend, The Prodigal Son
Our king and our god? of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCb2-4Legend.php
The Code of Abraham of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCb2-5code.php
Abraham and the Family of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCb2-6Family.php
3. The Altar of Abraham of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
Moses and the Altars of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCc3-1AltarsofClay.php
The Altar of Sin of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCc3-2Sin.php
Sacrifice of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCc3-3Sophistry.php
4. Moses, Moses of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
The Civil State of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCd4-1CivilState.php
Gods Many of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCd4-2godsmany.php
No Kings of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCd4-3NoKings.php
Servant Priests of a Nation of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCd4-4Servants.php
5. Joshua’s Altar of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
White Altars of Joshua
King over us of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCe5-1WhiteAltars.php
Adultery of a Nation of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCe5-2Adultery.php
Fear, Faith and Foolishness of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCe5-3RearFaith.php
6. The World of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
Of Rome and Judea of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCf6-1Rome.php
The Remarkable History of Israel of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCf6-2Israel.php
Rome the Believer of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
The Commander in chiefs
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCf6-3RomeBeliever.php
A Father’s offer of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCf6-4TheOffer.php
The Hasmonean Appeal of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
Socialization of Rome
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCf6-5SocialAppeal.php
The Love of kings of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCf6-6LovingKings.php
7. Factions at the Altar of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
The Pharisees and The Sadducees of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCg7-1Factions.php
The Essenes of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
The Healers of a Nation
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8. A King is Born of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
A King is Born of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCh8-1KingBorn.php
What is redemption? of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCh8-2Redemption.php
Kingdom in Turmoil of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCh8-3Turmoil.php
The New Deal of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCh8-4NewDeal.php
9. Temples and Churches of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
The Church
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCi9-1TemplesandChurches.php
Investing in Diana of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCi9-2InvestinDiana.php
One Father of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCi9-3OurFather.php
Arts of the Temples of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCi9-4TempleArts.php
The Temple of Satan of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCi9-5SatansTemple.php
The Royal Treasury of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCi9-6RoyalTreasury.php
10. Two Paths of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
God’s dominion from the Beginning of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
The revenue of the wicked
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCj10-1Paths.php
Beams in our eyes of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
Removing the Beam
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCj10-2Beams.php
These two Kingdoms of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCj10-3TwoKingdoms.php
Faith is actions of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCj10-4Action.php
The kingdom appointed to Liberty of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCj10-5AppointedLiberty.php
11. Where is the kingdom of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
The kingdom comes of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCk11-1Kingdom.php
Eating in the kingdom of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCk11-2Eating.php
Washing in the kingdom of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCk11-3Washing.php
Where is the Church? of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCk11-4Where.php
We are all kings of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCk11-5AllKings.php
12. Apostasy of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
The Ship of State of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCl12-1Ship.php
The Allurement of Wolves of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCl12-2Wolves.php
The Church of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCl12-3Church.php
The Separate Church
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCl12-4Separate.php
13. The Kingdom of Heaven of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
The State of the Nation of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCm13-1Heaven.php
Seeking the kingdom, The Law of God of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCm13-2SeekLaw.php
What does the Kingdom look like? of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCm13-3looks.php
Assembling a congregation of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
Where to start seeking the kingdom of God
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCm13-4Start.php
Appendix of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
Appendix 1. Kingdom of Heaven and God of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
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Appendix 2. The things He says of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
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Appendix 3. What is Worship? of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
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Appendix 4. Who are the Nicolaitans? of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCn-4AppenNicolaitan.php
Appendix 5. Who is a god? of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCn-5Appengods.php
Appendix 6. Oaths and Swearing of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCn-6AppenOaths.php
The Cover of the book, Thy Kingdom Comes
The Elixir of Love.
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About the Author of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/tkczzwb.php
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