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Episode 17
- "Exodus•May 3, 2023: "In the conclusion of Exodus, Jordan and the scholars recap the story of Exodus and the Israelites’ escape from tyranny to freedom. This episode also features a summation from each of the scholars as they share what has been illuminated for them through this discussion."
Recap
In this recap of Exodus by Jordan Peterson speaks of the Israelites under the yoke of the bondage of Egypt which became cruel and oppressive. They are free of the Pharaoh but not free from the responsibility that has always been corelative to maintaining rights. Jordan Peterson sees Jethro's advise to Moses about a people's court as subsidiarity which "is a principle of social organization that holds that social and political issues should be dealt with at the most immediate or local level."
The nature and elements of that subsidiarity is critical as to its outcome and longevity. Moses explains those elements and outlines that nature through symbols, metaphors, and allegories. This is partly because of the language itself but also to protect the text from those who despise dominion and the truth.
Jordan Peterson envisions an architype of ordered freedom which is composed of a hierarchy structure of responsibility which he sees the solution to the tower of Babel. At first glance this is correct but as I listened to all 16 episodes neither Jordan Peterson nor his panel could fully grasp the unique elements of the construction of that hierarchy compared to those of the world and its true nature.
Bonds and bands
At 17 minutes speaks of the relationship flourishes if the people are organized in a relation to the God of that relation. While Peterson does understands that the absolute essential elements is not contractual but relational. What he and the panel never fully addresses is a key elements of that free society that both establishes the social bonds of mankind and tries men's souls so that they may grow stronger.
It is important to understand the Nimrod's Babylon, the city-states of Sumer and its Dove Goddess of social welfare, and Pharaoh's Egypt itself provided forms of legal charity through their temples but the Bible states that those systems of tables of dainties were a snare.
As a snare and a trap[1] those systems create the band of societies that often degenerate the masses which will usher in tyrants and destroy liberty.[2]
But in Israel, as Moses explains, there are only social bonds of relations of the people is exemplified in the nature of God who protected and provided and set the precedent that to be free you must set others free, to be ensured of care for you in your time of need you must care for and about others, to receive your daily bread you must freely cast your bread upon the waters,[3] if you are to be forgiven you must forgive.
All these elements must be in the micro through the daily choice of the individual. Any system that limits the individual's right to choose is counter to the blessings of liberty.[4]
All the benefits and dainties of men who exercise authority[5] in any hierarchy of power erodes if not strangles the social bonds of a free society. It is the hierarchy of service[6] which Moses taught with his Altars of Clay and stone which were the social safety net of faith, hope, and charity of a free and peculiar people.
At 19 minutes Dennis sees that what he calls "secular" does not produce wisdom. Because "wisdom comes with the fear of God" and God and the Bible was shut out of the secular institutions.[7]from God and not from the world.
Branches
Moses was setting the captive free from one form of government and setting up another that could help them be and remain free. What are the elements of most governments of the world and how did early Israel differ?
Those local "people's court" using the the Law and the Judgements of Moses as their precedent will have to attend to what is called the weightier matters of a free society. This idea put the administration of justice at the "micro" level of society where the people can seek to understand those weightier matters and exercise the personal responsibility to decide both the application of "fact and law" within their community require governing elements beside the court itself.
The judicial branch of society is only one of at least three branches of government. We also know they had a military which is normally a part of the executive branch of government. That military was not a professional army but consisted of militias established in family groups of tens networked together.
They did not question the text's authenticity, and they see the personal relationship as a means to an order society. While they may seek to see the true nature of a third branch of government of Moses, the strong delusion of Modern Christian and Jewish Religion keeps from connecting the dots to reveal the element which nourishes true social bonds of a free society which is the glue that binds the people and those other branches of government.
- ↑ Table as a snare
- “Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake."” Psalms 69:22-23
- “And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:” Romans 11:9
- Proverbs 23:1 "When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee: 2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. 3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat."
- Exodus 23:32 "Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee."
- Exodus 34:12 "Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:"
- "And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: [[neither shalt thou serve their gods]]; for that [will be] a snare unto thee." Deuteronomy 7:16
- "And ye shall make no league [covenant] with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?" Judges 2:2
- "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not." Proverbs 1:10
- “Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.” Proverbs 6:2
- Luke 21:34 "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth."
- 1 Timothy 6:9 "But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."
- "Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?" Isaiah 40:21 is about the message of John the Baptist who was "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God" Isaiah 40:3 to avoid the "snare" of the legal charity of the welfare state which which makes the word of God to none effect bringing man back into captivity as human resources.
- ↑ Destroyers of liberty
- "That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities. But this mischief crept secretly and gradually in, and did not openly make it's appearance in Rome for a considerable time." Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.) This would include Julius Caesar and eventually Augustus Caesar which is why Plutarch also reported, “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” This was a major theme of the Bible:
- There were tables of welfare which were both snares and a traps as David and Paul stated and Peter warned would make us merchandise and curse children. Proverbs 23 told us not to not eat the "dainties" offered at those tables of Rulers and Paul says in 1 Corinthians 10 we cannot eat of those tables and the table of the Lord. We are not to consent to their covetous systems of One purse or Corban which makes the word of God to none effect.
- We know when the masses become accustomed to those benefits of legal charity which are the rewards of unrighteousness provided by benefactors who exercise authority and the Fathers of the earth through the covetous practices that makes men merchandise and curse children as a surety for debt.
- ↑ Ecclesiastes 11:1 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
- ↑ "Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.” Archibald MacLeish
- ↑ Not exercise authority
- Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."
- Mark 10:42 "But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you:..."
- Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not [be] so:..."
- ↑ Heirs of service
- The hierarchy of the kingdom of God does not go up by steps nor exercise authority one over the other but come as he that serves:
- Matthew 20:27 "And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: 28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many."
- Matthew 23:9 "And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. 10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, [even] Christ. 11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. 12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted."
- Luke 22:26 "But ye [shall] not [be] so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. 27 For whether [is] greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? [is] not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth."
- Mark 9:35 "And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, [the same] shall be last of all, and servant of all."
- Galatians 5:13 "For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another."
- ↑ Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- Proverbs 2:5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
- Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy [is] understanding.
- Proverbs 15:33 The fear of the LORD [is] the instruction of wisdom; and before honour [is] humility.
- Isaiah 11:2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
- Isaiah 33:6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, [and] strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD [is] his treasure.