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Socialism: The New American Civil Religion, Form #05.016, Section 5.2
DIRECT LINK: http://sedm.org/Form…vilReligion.pdf
FORMS PAGE: http://sedm.org/Forms/FormIndex.htmThe above section and section 4.3, were just added, we are told.
__________________What causes socialism to take over a culture?
A logical question to ask is the following:
“What causes socialism to take over a culture or civilization and how is it done?”The answer to that question is explained in a wonderful book on biblical law:
The Bible provides, as the foundation law of a godly social order, the law of the tithe. To understand the full implication of the tithe, it is important to know that Biblical law has no property tax; the right to tax real property is implicitly denied to the state, because the state has no earth to tax. “The earth is the Lord’s” (Ex. 9:29; Deut. 10: 14; Ps. 24: 1; I Cor. 10:26, etc.); therefore, only God can tax the earth. For the state to claim the right to tax the earth is for the state to make itself the god and creator of the earth, whereas the state is instead God’s ministry of justice (Rom. 13: 1-8). For the state to enter into God’s realm is to invite judgment.The immunity of land from taxation by the state means liberty. A man then cannot be dispossessed of his land; every man has a basic security in his property. As Rand pointed out,
It was impossible to dispossess men of their inheritance under the law of the Lord as no taxes were levied against land. Regardless of a man’s personal commitments he could not disinherit his family by being dispossessed of his land forever. Because the land is not the property of the state, nor is land a part of the state’s jurisdiction, the state therefore has no right under God to levy taxes against God’s earth. Moreover, for the state to claim as much as God, i.e., a tenth of a man’s income, is a sign of apostasy and tyranny, according to I Samuel 8: 4-19. The modern state, of course, claims several tithes in taxes.[1]
The tithe is not a gift to God; it is God’s tax for the use of the earth, which is at all points under God’s law and jurisdiction. Only when the payment to the Lord exceeds ten percent is it called a gift and a “freewill offering” (Deut. 16:10,11; Ex. 36:3-7; Lev. 22:21, etc.).
The tithe was for centuries legally collected, i.e., the state provided the legal requirement that tithes be paid to the church. When Virginia repealed its law which made payment of the tithe mandatory, George Washington expressed his disapproval in a letter to George Mason, October 3, 1785. He believed, he said, in “making people pay toward the support of that which they profess.” [2] From the 4th century on, civil governments began to require the tithe, because it was believed that a country could only deny God His tax at its peril. From the end of the 18th century, and especially in recent years, such laws have disappeared under the impact of atheistic and revolutionary movements. Instead of freeing men from an “oppressive” tax, the abolition of the tithe has opened the way for truly oppressive taxation by the state in order to assume the social responsibilities once maintained by tithe money. Basic social functions must be paid for. If they are not paid by a responsible, tithing Christian people, they will be paid for by a tyrant state which will use welfare and education as stepping-stones to totalitarian power.
The matter was ably summed up by Lansdell:
It seems clear, then, in the light of revelation, and from the practice of, perhaps, all ancient nations, that the man who denies God’s claim to a portion of the wealth that comes to his hands, is much akin to a spiritual anarchist; whilst he who so apportions less than a tenth of his income or increase is condemned by Scripture as a robber. Indeed, if in the days of Malachi not to pay the tithe was counted robbery, can a Christian who with-holds the tenth be-now, any more than then–counted honest towards God?
Right giving is a part of right living. The living is not right when the giving is wrong. The giving is wrong when we steal God’s portion to spend it on ourselves.”
It is significant that in the Soviet Union, any charitable activity is strictly forbidden to religious groups.” If a church group were to collect funds or goods to administer relief to sick and needy members of the congregation or community, it would immediately create a power independent of the state as the remedy for social problems. It would moreover create a power which would reach people more directly, efficiently, and powerfully. The consequence would be a direct affront to the preeminence of the state. For this reason, in the democracies orphanages have been steadily the target of repressive legislation to eliminate them, and charity has been preempted by the state increasingly as a major step towards totalitarianism.[3]
Lansdell was right. Those who do not tithe are spiritual anarchists: they destroy both the freedom and order of society and unleash the demons of statism [Socialism].
[The Institutes of Biblical Law, Rousas Rushdoony, 1973, pp. 56-58]
God’s law of tithe protects mainly the poor, needy, widows, and orphans because these are the most vulnerable members of any society:
“Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world [and the corrupted governments and laws of the world].”
[James 1:27, Bible, NKJV]“A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.
God sets the solitary in families;
He brings out those who are bound into prosperity;
But the rebellious dwell in a dry land.”
[Psalm 68:5-6, Bible, NKJV]“You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.”
[Exodus 22:2, Bible, NKJV]“When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.”
[Deut. 24:20-21, Bible, NKJV]“Cursed is the one who perverts the justice due the stranger, the fatherless, and widow.‘ “And all the people shall say, “Amen!’
[Deut. 27:19, Bible, NKJV]“The LORD watches over the strangers; He relieves the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked He turns upside down.”
[Psalm 146:9, Bible, NKJV]“Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow.”
[Isaiah 1:17, Bible, NKJV]“For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor, if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other gods to your hurt, then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.”
[Jer. 7:5-7, Bible, NKJV]Thus says the LORD: “Execute judgment and righteousness, and deliver the plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong and do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.”
[Jer. 22:3, Bible, NKJV]“Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, The alien or the poor. Let none of you plan evil in his heart Against his brother.”
[Zech. 7:10, Bible, NKJV]Lysander Spooner describes the purpose of all legitimate de jure government as follows:
“Government is established for the protection of the weak against the strong. This is the principal, if not the sole motive for the establishment of all legitimate government. It is only the weaker party that lose their liberties, when a government becomes oppressive. The stronger party, in all governments are free by virtue of their superior strength. They never oppress themselves. Legislation is the work of this stronger party; and if, in addition to the sole power of legislation, they have the sole power of determining what legislation shall be enforced, they have all power in their hands, and the weaker party are the subjects of an absolute government. Unless the weaker party have a veto, they have no power whatever in the government and…no liberties… The trial by jury is the only institution that gives the weaker party any veto upon the power of the stronger. Consequently it is the only institution that gives them any effective voice in the government, or any guaranty against oppression.”
[Lysander Spooner in his short essay entitled “Trial by Jury”]When the above purpose of ALL civil government is violated, you end up with a DE FACTO government that is scorned by God Himself:
“But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.”
“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obliged to perform it.’ Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?”
[Matt. 23:13-17, Bible, NKJV]To put the above in contemporary terms, when people don’t tithe and give to help the poor, widows, fatherless, and needy in their own family or their church with tithes and free will offerings as God commands, then:
- The poor are left in a desperate and vulnerable position that causes them to dispense with their scruples for the sake of expediency and survival.
- Once the scruples are dispensed, they are likely to abuse their authority as jurists and voters to obtain financial favors or “benefits” from the government. Since it is a CRIME to bribe a voter, then anyone who has a financial interest in the outcome of an election should not be allowed to vote, and least of all poor voters who want to elect socialist candidates that promise them goodies. But through “selective enforcement” and cronyism, this type of crime is not only not prosecuted, but is protected because it grows political empires. Congressman Michelle Bachman, a former IRS attorney, calls this “gangster government”, in which protecting criminal activity of politicians by the Dept. of Justice is used to buy political favors and expand socialism.
- Politicians will then be elected by these poor and underprivileged who have promised the poor or the have nots some state favor, “benefit” or program for free, paid for with money that is ultimately STOLEN from the haves. Governments don’t produce anything. They only steal, consume, and redistribute wealth.
- In order to facilitate the transfer of wealth, gold backed currency then will have to be eliminated and replaced with fiat currency, so that the corrupted politicians can in effect print/counterfeit money to pay for the voter bribes they promised during election time. This started mainly with FDR and his “New Deal”. It was implemented with a combination of a misleading Sixteenth Amendment and the Federal Reserve, two balancing forces.
- The tax system will then be abused as a vehicle to transfer wealth from the haves to the have nots as a way to provide charity to the have nots.
- The haves will be punished for their virtues and quit producing because the taxes will be so high that they abandon their role as producers.
- As the producers abandon the tax roles, the government debt will accumulate and the government will become insolvent and bankrupt.
- The economy will collapse and revolution and anarchy will result.
Every major civilization goes through the above stages and inevitably collapses. The transformation is accomplished by abusing tax money as a form of bribery.
“The king establishes the land by justice, But he who receives bribes [socialist handouts, government “benefits”, or PLUNDER stolen from nontaxpayers] overthrows it.”[Prov. 29:4, Bible, NKJV]“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
[1 Tim. 6:10, Bible, NKJV]“Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure [unearned money from the government] that war in your members [and your democratic governments]? You lust [after other people’s money] and do not have. You murder [the unborn to increase your standard of living] and covet [the unearned] and cannot obtain [except by empowering your government to STEAL for you!]. You fight and war [against the rich and the nontaxpayers to subsidize your idleness]. Yet you do not have because you do not ask [the Lord, but instead ask the deceitful government]. You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world [or the governments of the world] is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world [or the governments of the world] makes himself an enemy of God.”
[James 4:4 , Bible, NKJV]These socialist bribes called “benefits” are described in the Book of Revelations as “fornication” and the people who participate in them as “Babylon the Great Harlot”. See Rev. 17. The people dispensing the bribes are described in Rev. 19:19 as “the kings of the earth” or political rulers.
“Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot [the atheist totalitarian democracy] who sits on many waters [which are described as seas and multitudes of people in Rev. 17:15[, with whom the kings of the earth [political rulers of today] committed fornication [intercourse], and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication [intercourse, usurious and harmful commerce].”So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication [intercourse]. And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.”
[Rev. 17:1-6, Bible, NKJV]The “fornication” spoken of is legally defined as “commerce”. Note the use of the word “intercourse” in the definition of “commerce”:
“Commerce. …Intercourse by way of trade and traffic between different peoples or states and the citizens or inhabitants thereof, including not only the purchase, sale, and exchange of commodities, but also the instrumentalities [governments] and agencies by which it is promoted and the means and appliances by which it is carried on…”
[Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, p. 269]The Bible describes how Christians are to react to the above mechanisms in the following prophecy:
Avoid Bad Company“My son, if sinners [socialists, in this case] entice you,
Do not consent
If they say, “Come with us,
Let us lie in wait to shed blood;
Let us lurk secretly for the innocent [nontaxpayers, the newborn, and the producers] without cause;
Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,
And whole, like those who go down to the Pit:
We shall fill our houses with spoil [plunder];
Cast in your lot among us,
Let us all have one purse [the GOVERNMENT purse]”–
My son, do not walk in the way with them,
Keep your foot from their path;
For their feet run to evil,
And they make haste to shed blood.
Surely, in vain the net is spread
In the sight of any bird;
But they lie in wait for their own blood.
They lurk secretly for their own lives.
So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain;
It takes away the life of its owners.”
[Proverbs 1:10-19, Bible, NKJV]The plunder spoken of above is the abuse of the government’s taxing power to transfer wealth between private parties, which the U.S. Supreme Court said is NOT “taxation” as legally defined but THEFT. That is why the Bible calls it “plunder”:Quote:“The power to tax is, therefore, the strongest, the most pervading of all powers of government, reaching directly or indirectly to all classes of the people. It was said by Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of McCulloch v. Md., 4 Wheat. 431, that the power to tax is the power to destroy. A striking instance of the truth of the proposition is seen in the fact that the existing tax of ten per cent, imposed by the United States on the circulation of all other banks than the National Banks, drove out of existence every *state bank of circulation within a year or two after its passage. This power can be readily employed against one class of individuals and in favor of another, so as to ruin the one class and give unlimited wealth and prosperity to the other, if there is no implied limitation of the uses for which the power may be exercised.
To lay, with one hand, the power of the government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation. This is not legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms.]
Nor is it taxation. ‘A tax,’ says Webster’s Dictionary, ‘is a rate or sum of money assessed on the person or property of a citizen by government for the use of the nation or State.’ ‘Taxes are burdens or charges imposed by the Legislature upon persons or property to raise money for public purposes.’ Cooley, Const. Lim., 479.
Coulter, J., in Northern Liberties v. St. John’s Church, 13 Pa. St., 104 says, very forcibly, ‘I think the common mind has everywhere taken in the understanding that taxes are a public imposition, levied by authority of the government for the purposes of carrying on the government in all its machinery and operations—that they are imposed for a public purpose.’ See, also Pray v. Northern Liberties, 31 Pa.St., 69; Matter of Mayor of N.Y., 11 Johns., 77; Camden v. Allen, 2 Dutch., 398; Sharpless v. Mayor, supra; Hanson v. Vernon, 27 Ia., 47; Whiting v. Fond du Lac, supra.”
[Loan Association v. Topeka, 20 Wall. 655 (1874)]
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“A tax, in the general understanding of the term and as used in the constitution, signifies an exaction for the support of the government. The word has never thought to connote the expropriation of money from one group for the benefit of another.”
U.S. v. Butler, 297 U.S. 1, 1936]“The power to destroy” spoken of in Loan Association above is synonymous with the phrase “It takes away the life of its owners.” In Prov. 1:10-19.
The founding fathers were familiar with these mechanisms. As a matter of fact, the design of our republican form of government was based on a book entitled The Spirit of Laws by Montesquieu. The following passage in that wonderful book states the following on this important subject:
“The principle of democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is extinct [BECAUSE OF FRANCHISES!], but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality, and when each citizen would fain be upon a level with those whom he has chosen to command him. Then the people, incapable of bearing the very power they have delegated, want to manage everything themselves, to debate for the senate, to execute for the magistrate, and to decide for the judges.
When this is the case, virtue can no longer subsist in the republic. The people are desirous of exercising the functions of the magistrates, who cease to be revered. The deliberations of the senate are slighted; all respect is then laid aside for the senators, and consequently for old age. If there is no more respect for old age, there will be none presently for parents; deference to husbands will be likewise thrown off, and submission to masters. This license will soon become general, and the trouble of command be as fatiguing as that of obedience. Wives, children, slaves will shake off all subjection. No longer will there be any such thing as manners, order, or virtue.
We find in Xenophon’s Banquet a very lively description of a republic in which the people abused their equality. Each guest gives in his turn the reason why he is satisfied. “Content I am,” says Chamides, “because of my poverty. When I was rich, I was obliged to pay my court to informers, knowing I was more liable to be hurt by them than capable of doing them harm. The republic constantly demanded some new tax of me; and I could not decline paying. Since I have grown poor, I have acquired authority; nobody threatens me; I rather threaten others. I can go or stay where I please. The rich already rise from their seats and give me the way. I am a king, I was before a slave: I paid taxes to the republic, now it maintains [PAYS “BENFITS” TO] me: I am no longer afraid of losing: but I hope to acquire.“
The people fall into this misfortune when those in whom they confide, desirous of concealing their own corruption, endeavour to corrupt them. To disguise their own ambition, they speak to them only of the grandeur of the state; to conceal their own avarice, they incessantly flatter theirs.
The corruption will increase among the corruptors, and likewise among those who are already corrupted. The people will divide the public money among themselves [to pay “BENEFITS”], and, having added the administration of affairs to their indolence, will be for blending their poverty with the amusements of luxury. But with their indolence and luxury, nothing but the public treasure [“BENEFITS”]will be able to satisfy their demands.
We must not be surprised to see their suffrages [VOTES at the ballot box] given for money [GOVERNMENT “BENEFITS”]. It is impossible to make great largesses to the people without great extortion: and to compass this, the state must be subverted. The greater the advantages they seem to derive from their liberty, the nearer they approach towards the critical moment of losing it. Petty tyrants arise who have all the vices of a single tyrant. The small remains of liberty soon become insupportable; a single tyrant starts up, and the people are stripped of everything, even of the profits of their corruption.’
[The Spirit of Laws, Charles de Montesquieu,
SOURCE: http://famguardian.org/Publications/SpiritOfLaws/sol_08.htm#002]Ayn Rand, who came hundreds of years after Montesquieu, and who fled Soviet communism and its attendant corruption to come to this country, stated the same thing as Monetsquieu slightly differently, but much more passionately:
“But money demands of you the highest virtues, if you wish to make it or to keep it. Men who have no courage, pride, or self-esteem, men who have no moral sense of their right to their money and are not willing to defend it as they defend their life, men who apologize for being rich–will not remain rich for long. They are the natural bait for the swarms of looters [who gravitate like magnets to places of power in a corrupted government] that stay under rocks for centuries, but come crawling out at the first smell of a man who begs to be forgiven for the guilt of owning wealth. They will hasten to relieve him of the guilt–and of his life, as he deserves.
“Then you will see the rise of the double standard–the men who live by force [the de facto government an corrupted legal profession], yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their looted money–the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue. In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law–men who use force to seize the wealth of DISARMED victims–then money becomes its creators’ avenger. Such looters [de facto government thieves] believe it safe to rob defenseless [made ignorant of the law by sneaky lawyers and politicians who run the public education system, in this case] men, once they’ve passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter.
The economic war fought in the jury box and the ballot box of a democratic government between the HAVES and the HAVE NOTS was also described by the U.S. Supreme Court in Pollock v. Farmers Loan and Trust:
“Here I close my opinion. I could not say less in view of questions of such gravity that go down to the very foundation of the government. If the provisions of the constitution can be set aside by an act of congress, where is the course of usurpation to end? The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich,-a war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness. ‘If the court sanctions the power of discriminating taxation, and nullifies the uniformity mandate of the constitution,’ as said by one who has been all his life a student of our institutions, ‘it will mark the hour when the sure decadence of our present government will commence.‘ If the purely arbitrary limitation of four thousand dollars in the present law can be sustained, none having less than that amount of income being assessed or taxed for the support of the government, the limitation of future congresses may be fixed at a much larger sum, at five or ten or twenty thousand dollars, parties possessing an income of that amount alone being bound to bear the burdens of government; or the limitation may be designated at such an amount as a board of ‘walking delegates’ may deem necessary. There is no safety in allowing the limitation to be adjusted except in strict compliance with the mandates of the constitution, which require its taxation, if imposed by direct taxes, to be apportioned among the states according to their representation, and, if imposed by indirect taxes, to be uniform in operation and, so far as practicable, in proportion to their property, equal upon all citizens. Unless the rule of the constitution governs, a majority may fix the limitation at such rate as will not include any of their own number.”
[Pollock v. Farmers Loan and Trust Co., 157 U.S. 429 (1895)]In the above case, the very first national income tax was declared unconstitutional. The current one we have is equally unconstitutional but its unlawful nature is being disguised and protected with judicial verbicide, words of art, and criminal conflict of interest, mostly by a corrupted judiciary. For exhaustive evidence of this fact, see:
Great IRS Hoax, Form #11.302
http://famguardian.o…reatIRSHoax.htmThe “war on capital” spoken of above in Pollock is actually a war against PRIVATE property. The right to own property includes the right to EXCLUDE all others from benefitting from or using it. Hence, REAL property ownership implies that the property CANNOT be taxed directly and that only avoidable activities can be taxed:
Property. That which is peculiar or proper to any person; that which belongs exclusively to one. In the strict legal sense, an aggregate of rights which are guaranteed and protected by the government. Fulton Light, Heat & Power Co. v. State, 65 Misc.Rep. 263, 121 N.Y.S. 536. The term is said to extend to every species of valuable right and interest. More specifically, ownership; the unrestricted and exclusive right to a thing; the right to dispose of a thing in every legal way, to possess it, to use it, and to exclude everyone else from interfering with it. That dominion or indefinite right of use or disposition which one may lawfully exercise over particular things or subjects. The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying, and disposing of a thing. The highest right a man can have to anything; being used to refer to that right which one has to lands or tenements, goods or chattels, which no way depends on another man’s courtesy.[Black’s Law Dictionary, Fifth Edition, p. 1095]The ultimate result of the war on PRIVATE property and PRIVATE “capital” as the U.S. Supreme Court calls it is to:
- Convert RIGHTS into PRIVILEGES and FRANCHISES.
- Turn all “citizens” and “residents” into public officers in the government.
- Turn ABSOLUTE ownership into QUALIFIED ownership.
- Make you the EQUITABLE rather than LEGAL owner of your property.
- Use government identifying numbers as a means to “license” people to represent public offices in the government.
- Use the association of government identifying numbers with property as a method to DONATE formerly PRIVATE property to a PUBLIC use, PUBLIC purpose and/or a PUBLIC office.
- Convert CONSTITUTIONAL courts into administrative FRANCHISE courts in which the “judge” is an Executive rather than Judicial employee.
For more on the above mechanisms, see:
1. The “Trade or Business” Scam, Form #05.001
http://sedm.org/Forms/FormIndex.htm2. About SSNs/TINs on Government Forms and Correspondence, Form #05.012
http://sedm.org/Forms/FormIndex.htm3. Why You are a “national”, “state national”, and Constitutional but not Statutory Citizen, Form #05.006.
http://sedm.org/Forms/FormIndex.htm4. Why Your Government is Either a Thief or You are a “Public Officer” for Income Tax Purposes, Form #05.008
http://sedm.org/Forms/FormIndex.htm5. What Statutory Civil Law is Law for Government and Not Private Persons, Form #05.037
http://sedm.org/Forms/FormIndex.htmThe Bible also describes what life is like in a culture in which the HAVE NOTS have won against the HAVES and outnumber the HAVES:
Quote:“Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem;
See now and know;
And seek in her open places
If you can find a man,
If there is anyone who executes judgment,
Who seeks the truth,
And I will pardon her.
Though they say, “As the LORD lives,’
Surely they swear falsely.” [/left]O LORD, are not Your eyes on the truth?
You have stricken them,
But they have not grieved;
You have consumed them,
But they have refused to receive correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to return [to Your ways].Therefore I said, “Surely these are poor.
They are foolish;
For they do not know the way of the LORD,
The judgment of their God.
I will go to the great men and speak to them,
For they have known the way of the LORD,
The judgment of their God.”But these have altogether broken the yoke
And burst the bonds.
Therefore a lion from the forest shall slay them,
A wolf of the deserts shall destroy them;
A leopard will watch over their cities.
Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces,
Because their transgressions are many;
Their backslidings have increased.“How shall I pardon you for this?
Your children have forsaken Me
And sworn [on tax returns] by those [in government] that are not gods.
When I had fed them to the full,
Then they committed adultery [and fornication and sexual perversity]
And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.
They were like well-fed lusty stallions;
Every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife [sexual perversion].
Shall I not punish them for these things?” says the LORD.
“And shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”“Go up on her walls and destroy,
But do not make a complete end.
Take away her branches,
For they are not the LORD’s.
For the house of Israel and the house of Judah
Have dealt very treacherously with Me,” says the LORD.They have lied about the LORD [evolutionism],
And said, “It is not He.
Neither will evil come upon us,
Nor shall we see sword or famine.
And the prophets become wind,
For the word is not in them.
Thus shall it be done to them.”Therefore thus says the LORD God of hosts:“Because you speak this word,
Behold, I will make My words in your mouth fire,
And this people wood,
And it shall devour them.
Behold, I will bring a nation [in the District of Columbia, Washington D.C.] against you from afar,
O house of Israel,” says the LORD.
“It is a mighty nation,
It is an ancient nation,
A nation whose language [legalese] you do not know,
Nor can you understand what they say [in their deceitful laws].
Their quiver is like an open tomb;
They are all mighty [deceitful] men.
And they [and the IRS, their henchmen] shall eat up your harvest and your bread,
Which your sons and daughters should eat.
They shall eat up your flocks and your herds;
They shall eat up your vines and your fig trees;
They shall destroy your fortified cities [and businesses and families],
In which you trust, with the sword.“Nevertheless in those days,” says the LORD, “I will not make a complete end of you. 19And it will be when you say, “Why does the LORD our God do all these things to us?’ then you shall answer them, “Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve aliens in a land that is not yours.’“Declare this in the house of Jacob
And proclaim it in Judah, saying,
“Hear this now, O foolish people,
Without understanding [ignorant and presumptuous],
Who have eyes and see not,
And who have ears and hear not:
Do you not fear Me?’ says the LORD.
“Will you not tremble at My presence,
Who have placed the sand as the bound of the sea,
By a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass beyond it?
And though its waves toss to and fro,
Yet they cannot prevail;
Though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it.
But this people has a defiant and rebellious heart;
They have revolted and departed.
They do not say in their heart,
“Let us now fear the LORD our God,
Who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season.
He reserves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.”
Your iniquities have turned these things away,
And your sins have withheld good from you.“For among My people are found wicked men [the IRS, federal reserve, bankers, lawyers, and politicians];
They lie in wait as one who sets snares;
They set a trap;
They catch men [with deceit and greed as their weapon].
As a cage is full of birds,
So their houses are full of deceit [IRS publications and law books and government propaganda].
Therefore they have become great and grown rich [from plundering YOUR money illegally].
They have grown fat, they are sleek;
Yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked;
They do not plead the cause,
The cause of the fatherless;
Yet they prosper,
And the right of the needy they do not defend.
Shall I not punish them for these things?’ says the LORD.
“Shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?’“An astonishing and horrible thing
Has been committed in the land:
The prophets prophesy falsely,
And the priests [federal judges] rule by their own power;
And My people love to have it so.
But what will you do in the end?”[Jeremiah 5, Bible, NKJV, Emphasis added]Here is what an early U.S. Supreme Court said about the sanctity of PRIVATE property, before the courts became corrupted and the judges became statutory “taxpayers” with a criminal conflict of interest. The illegal enforcement of the Internal Revenue Code by the I.R.S. would end immediately if we had judges this honest today:
Quote:“A statutory provision which is not a legitimate police regulation cannot be made such by being placed in the same act with a police regulation, or by being enacted under a title that declares a purpose which would be a proper object for the exercise of that power.
“It being self-evident that, unless all things are held in common, some persons must have more property than others, it is from the nature of things impossible to uphold freedom of contract and the right of private property without at the same time recognizing as legitimate those inequalities of fortune that are the necessary result of the exercise of those rights.
“The Fourteenth Amendment recognizes “liberty” and “property” as coexistent human rights, and debars the states from any unwarranted interference with either.
“Since a state may not strike down the rights of liberty or property directly, it may not do so indirectly, as by declaring in effect that the public good requires the removal of those inequalities that are but the normal and inevitable result of the exercise of those rights, and then invoking the police power in order to remove the inequalities, without other object in view.
“The Fourteenth Amendment debars the states from striking down personal liberty or property rights or materially restricting their normal exercise excepting so far as may be incidentally necessary for the accomplishment of some other and paramount object, and one that concerns the public welfare. The mere restriction of liberty or of property rights cannot, of itself, be denominated “public welfare” and treated as a legitimate object of the police power, for such restriction is the very thing that is inhibited by the Amendment. [236 U.S. 3]”
Coppage v. Kansas, 236 U.S. 1 (1915)]Lastly, God prescribed what the remedy for the corruption and socialism is, which is to restore HONEST judges and lawyers to the legal profession:
Alas, sinful nation,
A people laden with iniquity
A brood of evildoers
Children who are corrupters!
They have forsaken the Lord
They have provoked to anger
The Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away backward.
Why should you be stricken again?
You will revolt more and more.
The whole head is sick [they are out of their minds!: insane or STUPID or both],
And the whole heart faints….Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;
Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes.
Cease to do evil,
Learn to do good;
Seek justice,
Rebuke the oppressor [the IRS and the Federal Reserve and a corrupted judicial system];
Defend the fatherless,
Plead for the widow [and the “[/i]nontaxpayer“]….How the faithful city has become a harlot!
It [the Constitutional Republic] was full of justice;
Righteousness lodged in it,
But now murderers [and abortionists, and socialists, and democrats, and liars and corrupted judges].
Your silver has become dross,
Your wine mixed with water.
Your princes [President, Congressmen, Judges] are rebellious,
Everyone loves bribes,
And follows after rewards.
They do not defend the fatherless,
nor does the cause of the widow [or the “nontaxpayer”] come before them.Therefore the Lord says,
The Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel,
“Ah, I will rid Myself of My adversaries,
And take vengeance on My enemies.
I will turn My hand against you,
And thoroughly purge away your dross,
And take away your alloy.
I will restore your judges [eliminate the BAD judges] as at the first,
And your counselors [eliminate the BAD lawyers] as at the beginning.
Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.”
[Isaiah 1:1-26, Bible, NKJV][1] Howard B. Rand, Digest of the Divine Law (Merrimac, Mass.: Destiny Publishers, 1943, 1959), p. 111.
[2] Jared Sparks, ed., The Writings of George Washington (Boston: Ferdinand Andrews, 1838), IX, 137.
[3] Lansdell, Tithe in Scripture, p. 148.
"Two things I request of You (Deprive me not before I die): Remove falsehood and lies far from me; Give me neither poverty nor riches— Feed me with the food allotted to me; Lest I be full and deny You, And say, “Who is the Lord?” Or lest I be poor and steal, And profane the name of my God."
[Prov. 30:7-9, Bible, NKJV]The corrupt abuse of the tax system as described above is not unique to governments. Even churches do it. To this day, Austria collects a tax for every baptized catholic in its jurisdiction and forwards the money to the Vatican. However, this money only supports the pope. No worthy poor person sees one euro of it. Any money that goes into the Vatican bank is not used for good in the world (like putting up churches in mission areas). The money only enriches the pope. When the Austrians threatened to boycott the tax because of Vatican corruption in the sexual scandal coverups, a Vatican official said publicly that such a boycott would have a serious impact on “our lifestyle.”
"Two things I request of You (Deprive me not before I die): Remove falsehood and lies far from me; Give me neither poverty nor riches— Feed me with the food allotted to me; Lest I be full and deny You, And say, “Who is the Lord?” Or lest I be poor and steal, And profane the name of my God."
[Prov. 30:7-9, Bible, NKJV]The Greatest Speech Ever Made
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo
"Two things I request of You (Deprive me not before I die): Remove falsehood and lies far from me; Give me neither poverty nor riches— Feed me with the food allotted to me; Lest I be full and deny You, And say, “Who is the Lord?” Or lest I be poor and steal, And profane the name of my God."
[Prov. 30:7-9, Bible, NKJV]Additional information on Christian socialism:
http://www.boundaries-for-effective-ministry.org/christian-socialism.html
"Two things I request of You (Deprive me not before I die): Remove falsehood and lies far from me; Give me neither poverty nor riches— Feed me with the food allotted to me; Lest I be full and deny You, And say, “Who is the Lord?” Or lest I be poor and steal, And profane the name of my God."
[Prov. 30:7-9, Bible, NKJV]A Secular Case for Tithing?
http://www.gospel.com/blog/index.php/2011/03/02/a-secular-case-for-tithing/
"Two things I request of You (Deprive me not before I die): Remove falsehood and lies far from me; Give me neither poverty nor riches— Feed me with the food allotted to me; Lest I be full and deny You, And say, “Who is the Lord?” Or lest I be poor and steal, And profane the name of my God."
[Prov. 30:7-9, Bible, NKJV]
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