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So if the word ''vote'' comes from the word meaning to vow then does the application to vote have a similar consequence to taking a vow? | So if the word ''vote'' comes from the word meaning to vow then does the application to vote have a similar consequence to taking a vow? | ||
=== Votary === | |||
'''Votary''' ''a person, such as a monk or nun, who has made vows of dedication to religious service.'' | '''Votary''' ''a person, such as a monk or nun, who has made vows of dedication to religious service.'' | ||
''mid 16th century: from Latin vot- ‘vowed’ (from the verb vovere ) + -ary'' | ''mid 16th century: from Latin vot- ‘vowed’ (from the verb vovere ) + -ary'' | ||
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Vote
Quotes |
"It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes." Joseph Stalin |
Karl Marx claimed “Democracy is the road to socialism.” |
The legal charity through the state is the quickest way to degenerate the masses into perfect savage ushering in despots and tyrants. |
“It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville |
Vote a formal indication of a choice between two or more candidates or courses of action, expressed typically through a ballot or a show of hands or by voice.
late Middle English: from Latin votum ‘a vow, wish,’ from vovere ‘to vow.’ The verb dates from the mid 16th century.
So if the word vote comes from the word meaning to vow then does the application to vote have a similar consequence to taking a vow?
Votary
Votary a person, such as a monk or nun, who has made vows of dedication to religious service.
mid 16th century: from Latin vot- ‘vowed’ (from the verb vovere ) + -ary
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There is the voice of the LORD, which is Spirit and all the other voices of the world, the flesh, and the adversary.
The bondage of Egypt is the effect of a cause, "if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes... all these curses shall come" foretold in Deuteronomy 28:15 to 68 and you will return to the "Egypt ..."ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you."
Covetous practices, which comes when there is an absence of love and fervent charity shall cause the effect of you becoming merchandise and will curse children.
Voice of the people
Many people often go down to the polls and vote to get a new leader to make things better for them. That is the "voice of the people" but is that what God wants us to do?
The voice of the people is heard and a new leader will take the office of chief executive officer of their Government or the old leaders will remain in their office with the renewed vote of the people.
These leaders will have the power to sign laws into place over the people, appoint new federal ruling judges throughout the nation, nominate new Supreme Court Justices, and send armies into battle consisting of your sons and daughters. These leaders will be able to take and take and take...
Vote for a king!
The voice of the people by the exercise of their will or vote appointed men who can now make law and all who are a part of that nation of voters will be under the rulers they have elected.
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Early Israel as one of the earliest Republics had virtually no taxation for 400 years funding a voluntary government through freewill offerings and they were a prosperous civilization. |
Then the "voice of the people" decided to elect a ruler to fight heir battles and make things right. |
God had Samuel warn the people than rulers will take and take and take and take and when you cry out God will not hear you. |
That king was corrupted by the power the people gave him and began to foolishly force the sacrifices of the people which was the beginning of taxation in early Israel and the nation went into captivity. |
The sinful man always tries to blame evil on God like Adam who tried to blame his sin on God and the woman God gave him. |
God did not create evil. |
God did not create the governments of the world. |
God created choice by giving the power of choice to man. We call that choice liberty. |
There are rulers in and of the world and they are often there to punish the wicked. What do I mean by that? Who are the wicked? The wicked are all the people who want to rule over their neighbor through governments that exercise authority one over the other to obtain benefits and social security at the expense of others through force. |
This is why Paul said in Romans 13:4 "For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to [execute] wrath upon him that doeth evil." |
When the "voice of the people" wanted a ruler in 1 Samuel 8 it was called a "rejection of God" and they were warned that "rulers" would take and take and take and when you "cry out" God would not hear you. Desiring to rule over your neighbor through governments like Cain and Nimrod is what makes people "workers of iniquity". |
Evil is what occurs when you turn your back on God, truth, righteousness. Evil is a vacuum or the absence of good, the tree of life or the Holy Spirit. When you reject or shut God out you create a void, a vacuum which will produce an effect which you call evil. |
Socialism is the Religion you get when you have no Pure Religion. |
God allows choice. Without choice there is no love. |
Most of the people will be dissatisfied with the winners. Less than half of the people who could vote will vote for the winner and many of those who do choose the winning candidate do so simply because they like the opponent even less. Some people will be elated and continue to believe that their candidate can do no wrong and they have elected God's choice until the voice of the people speaks again.
In the Bible we also see the phrase "the voice of the people" in the first book of Samuel, a prophet of Israel, a nation with no king or central ruler for hundreds of years. It is some four hundred years after their departure from the bondage of Egypt when the people changed and chose to elect a leader who can exercise authority one over the other.
Was this a good thing?
Not according to God.
God called it a rejection of Him. [1]
This election of a central leader of authority and power was considered as if the people were turning their backs on God. They had men to lead them before, but they were not like the other nations by design. Their leader could not exercise authority over them as their leaders and government servants were actually public servants of servants, for in those days there was no central ruler in Israel.[2]
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This was the way God wanted it and based on what Jesus said we have to assume that God still wants it that way today. [3]
But the people spoke. They wanted a leader who could supply them security and benefits, who would fight their battles for them.
So they voted to have a man as their leader and they gave that leader the power to rule over their neighbor and themselves. The new elected leader of Israel would lead them into battle like the other nations but he would be able to compel the people to contribute to his government with a compelled sacrifice. These sacrifices are called taxes today and every country has gone that way. When Saul compelled an offering Samuel called him foolish for doing so and to force a sacrifice of the people was considered a violation of the commandments. [4]
Of course Samuel said if he did so it would be a foolish thing and his government would perish.[5] Samuel did not say taxing people was a sin because he knew that those who were slothful in the ways of God as described by Moses should be under tribute. [6]
So what are the ways of God?
"Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD." (Leviticus 19:18)[7]
This love included fulfilling the royal law mentioned above and in James 2:8 by not coveting our neighbor's goods or anything that is thy neighbors, especially for our benefit and by caring for one another in charity. Of course it is an evil people that excuse taking from their neighbor for their personal benefit which is so common today in the world. It is not only a rejection of God and His righteousness to give men that kind of power but it is cruel to them for they will surely be corrupted by it.
Rulers will begin to take and take and will build up their power and military and even take the sons and daughters of the people to serve their will. [8]
To give a leader the power to take from your neighbor is a violation of the laws of God in Old and New Testaments against coveting your neighbor's goods and the people will be judged by the law of liberty. [9]
Samuel gives a long clear warning from God as to what would happen if the "we" of the people were to choose a central ruler, someone who could exercise authority one over the other, someone who was a chief executive officer of their nation. It was a terrible curse Samuel spoke, but God was not choosing this curse. It was the desire of a people who had already rejected God that brought them into condemnation.[10] Prior to this Israel had appointed titular leaders from the bottom up maintaining their right to decide fact and law in their own courts according to the laws and customs written in their own hearts. Those leaders were the mere representatives of the people, not lawmakers or rulers over the people, but the people turned their back on God in vanity and pride. These new elected leaders would now appoint men from the top down. There would soon be a multitude of officers appointed from the top down to eat out their substance, take their sons to wage war for him and their daughters to work in his service. [11]
The first fruits of their labor would eventually be his as the people continued to turn away from God and toward their new leaders who called themselves benefactors but who would exercise authority over them. They would eventually return to the bondage of Egypt where more than 20 percent of their labor was taken from them each year by the government, [12] all their gold and silver was in the treasury of the government and their rights to their land were nothing more than tenants who paid an annual tribute.
Moses knew that the people might be this foolish and that giving such power to one man would be a great temptation and He warned them what elements they should put in their written constitution if they were to be so foolish as to elect a leader who had power. [13]
He should not have treaty making powers or accumulate the gold and silver of the people in his treasury or establish a standing army... Israel was a republic in the sense of Webster's definition where the leaders were titular but this new leader would have an exercising authority like the other nations who rule over the people. Israel was turning the world upside down with their vote.
What is a vote?
According to Webster's 1913 Dictionary the word vote can be defined as, "An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer. "
A vote can be considered a vow or a prayer. It is an expression of your desire and wish and it is a form of application for that wish to become law. It is also participation in an attempt to exercise authority over all other voters, both registered and those merely qualified to vote.
"Often the terms 'citizen' and voter are confused. A voter is a person who is allowed by law to take part in the government." [14]
That vote as a "vow" can be defined as, "Specifically, a promise of fidelity..." for whatever candidate wins. Is voting an act of faith? Fidelity is defined as, "Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations."
Or is further defined as, "A solemn promise made to God... an act by which one consecrates or devotes himself, absolutely or conditionally, wholly or in part, for a longer or shorter time, to some act, service, or condition; a devotion of one's possessions; as, a baptismal vow; a vow of poverty." [15]
In order to understand what a promise to God or god is we need to understand what is meant by the word god since the Bible tells us that "There are gods many".
If Jesus told us not to be like the governments of the other nations who call their leaders benefactors but also exercise authority one over the other then how can we say Jesus is our Lord or sing about Him being our King, or imagine that we believe in Him? [see Luke 22:25...]
To vote is an attempt to exercise authority over your neighbor through the agency of the elected rulers.
I must ask What is your vote, your vow, your prayer?
Who are you going to pray to have rule over you this year?
Men or God?
Men like Gideon who said, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the LORD shall rule over you”[16]
Or Jesus Christ who would not rule over the people but came to set them free? Do we have an alternative? Is there another way to go?
Is that the kingdom of God Jesus told us to preach which functions under the perfect law of liberty?
Actually, there is an alternative to democracy. It is called the Kingdom of God which is at hand and that Jesus told us to preach.
The kingdom of God begins within you when you love the justice, mercy and righteousness that is God and you are as concerned about your neighbor's rights as you are about your own. It is a very real system whereby Abraham freed many souls from Haran, Moses freed a nation from Egypt, and Jesus turned the world up side down redeeming a peculiar people.
He told His appointed ministers to go out and preach to all nations that the kingdom of God was at hand, within your reach. We are to seek it and His righteousness. That is what we hope to share with you at His Holy Church.
What is that kingdom, how did it operate and how does it set men free?
"For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." (Matthew 18:20)
People who want to be free must set their neighbor free from their own lust and avarice.
They must learn to live by faith and hope through charity in a voluntary society based on love for one another.
Most people will not choose that way of living by faith under the perfect law of liberty spoken of in the gospel of the kingdom.
- They will instead continue to covet their neighbors' goods. [17]
- They will desire to the promises of benefits at their neighbor's expense from men who exercise authority one over the other.[18]
- They will listen to their feigned words which will make them merchandise and human resources.[19]
- They will eat of their dainties with great appetite at their table.[20]
- They will vote for the men who promise them security. [22]
"And he shall say, Where [are] their gods, [their] rock in whom they trusted," (Deuteronomy 32:37)
"And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day." (1 Samuel 8:18)
Audio broadcasts
Audio broadcasts on congregations and voting
- A Man as King of the book Thy Kingdom Comes
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/TKC/TKCa1-2AManasKing.php
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Votive welfare
A votive deposit or votive offering is one or more objects displayed or deposited, without the intention of recovery or use, in a sacred place for broadly religious purposes.
Some historians define a votive offering or tama as something that may be offered. In the Greek we see τάματα tamata which over the centuries has evolved into a form of votive offering eventually used in the the Greek Orthodox Church where the Tamata might be represented by a small metal plaque with an embossed image symbolizing the subject of prayer.
This degradation of its original meaning is more superstitious than the people who survived historically like early Israel or early Church.
What we know of votive offerings has often been obscured by a bias historical vision devoid of practical knowledge of the social bonds of a free but practically temporal society.
In more ancient times, a votive offering was considered to be a gift to God or a god and became a property of a god, which could be stored within the god's temenos.[24]
But God does not eat that offering and there was clearly a benefit to society to perform these rituals and provide these consecrated sacrifices.
Temples as bank
In the "Temple Cleansing and Temple Bank" by Neill Q. Hamilton, explains the:
"function of the Jerusalem temple as a bank[25] and its connection to the cause of His death."
"A brief history of banking in temples in the ancient world will prepare us for an understanding of the Jerusalem temple bank."
Rameses, "I don't have to remind you, Moses—the temple grain is for the gods."
"What the gods can digest will not sour in the belly of a slave." Moses.
The Ten Commandments 1956 American film about the Egyptian Prince, Moses.
The granaries of the temples were store house to provide a social safety net in time of dearth or famine for society and ensure the loyalty of their citizens and subjects.
Many of the temples of Rome functioned as financial institutions, investment brokers, social safety nets, or other government service providers from building roads, docks, bridges, or aqueducts and even the minting of coins or keeping public records of lands and family lineage like birth registration. The temple at Ephesus provided some banking and investment services for 127 different countries.
Others were banking on the Kingdom. The Qumram of the Essenes, as well as Jesus and the early Church called for a temple made without hands but constructed of living stones.
The Essenes called that community a "temple of men" or the miqdash adam.
Ten elders of families gather together as an altar of 'adamah' e.g. clay in a free assembly and choose the living stones for |heir altars of sacrifice for the practice of Pure Religion which is the Corban of Christ, His Eucharist.
While the "seven men" in Acts 6 formed a sort of "bank" to handle funds as needed. They were a kind of nonprofit bank more like a decentralized credit unions today than the common for profit bank.
Everything about the Kingdom of God is decentralized because it is delivering a power of choice or liberty to individuals rather than to a central power or treasury.[26]
Consecrated
A Votive offering is also defined as "offered, given, dedicated, consecrated, etc., in accordance with a vow." But the manner and method of that consecration determines if it is worthy or abominable. There are two uses of the word vow in the Bible.
"Votive offerings" from the Hebrew noun neder(נֶדֶר)[27] is consistently translated "vow" but defined as a "votive offering". It is from the verb nadar(נָדַר)[28]
Originally it was specifically a religious term but this was when the definition of religion was how you provided for the needy of society. That has changed throughout the centuries. The only time religion is mentioned in the Bible in a good sense is its reference to Pure religion which had to do with the care and social welfare of the needy of society without the institutions of force found in many governments of the world at that time.
The common Hebrew word translated "freewill offering" is nëdabah(נְדָבָה)[29] which is not the NunDaletReish we see with the term translated "vow" but said to mean a "votive offering" but consists of the letters נְדָבָה֙ (NunDaletBeitHey). It is from the verb nadab(נָדַב)[30] meaning "offered willingly". The first time we see this term in the Torah is in Exodus 25: When the LORD directs that all offering of every man must be given willingly from his heart.[31]
In the bondage of Egypt when the people were living in captivity their offerings were a matter of tribute because they had pledged one-fifth of their labor to the Pharaoh to obtain his free bread.[32]
The Torah makes provision for "freewill offerings" which may be made by any individual. These are different from votive offerings which are some times linked to the term vow in the sense of prayer which is an expression of intent. Understanding that the temples were places before they were buildings and they had a function in society like the altars of clay and stone. That God only considers freewill offerings to be righteous and pledges or promises to be binding and God seems to not favor their use.
In the Old Testament, a votive offering was a voluntary offering vowed (offered) to God but not required or compelled by a Law imposed by men. The technical term in Hebrew for such an offering is neder(נֶדֶר)[27] but translated vow. It does not mean a promise or an oath.
The distinction
Vows, votive offerings and freewill offerings are all offerings freely made from the heart by a free choice of the individual. But we can make at least one distinction here:
"Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer [for] a freewill offering[29]; but for a vow[27] it shall not be accepted." Leviticus 22:23
In this verse a clear differentiation is made between the two. The Hebrew root letters for a freewill offering are נדב (NunDaletBeit) which is the noun nëdabah[29] from the verb nadab[33], but for a votive offering there are the letters נדר (NunDaletReish) forming the noun neder[27] from the root word, a verb, nadar[28].
The distinction seems to be in the "any thing superfluous" which is sara‘(שָׂרַע)[34] appearing in the text as śārūa‘(שָׂר֣וּעַ). And also "or lacking in his parts" where we see the words qalat(קָלַט)[35] appearing as wəqālūṭ;(וְקָל֑וּט).
On first examination it would seem reasonable that they are concerned with defects in the animal offered.
It was already established that almost any blemish would be rejected in verses 20 through 24.[36]
much of this seems to serve to exclude a variety of blemished animal, which is still permitted for consumption but not as a votive offering we have a seemingly unique exclusion.
The word Saru’a can mean too long as mentioned (Leviticus 21:18) and the word Kalut can mean "too short" and is related to the word miklat meaning refuge in the city of refuge (Joshua 21:13). Is their another meaning or idea connected to the words śārūa‘ wəqālūṭ(שרוע וקלוט)
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Pastors should be like shepherds who tend to all the welfare needs of the people in a daily ministration of faith, hope, and charity, so that none of the sheep of Christ have to eat at the tables of legal charity provided by the exercising authority of the Fathers of the earth.[37]
Before Jesus was able to provide the people with loaves and fishes in Mark 6:39 He "commanded" His disciples to "make" the people sit down in Tens. And then those groups were to organize in companies upon companies in divisions and "ranks" of "fifties and hundreds".
Christ also told His disciples not to be like the rulers and princes of the Gentiles who provided benefits by exercising authority one over the other.
Everyone who got the Baptism of Christ was "put out" by the ordinance of the Pharisees of the Jewish synagogue system which was also composed of ten families through which they provided welfare with the "Corban" of the people.
Christ appointed a kingdom to His "called out" group He called His "little flock" to be ministers or servants to the people in "free assemblies" not rulers like the "benefactors" of the "world" who "exercise authority". Every man should be led by the Holy Spirit to gather in order to love one another. The minister is supposed to be serving by making or requiring the people voluntarily organize themselves in Companies of tens, fifties and hundreds, and thousands so that people may love one another through daily ministration in the practice of Pure Religion as we see the early Church doing in history for centuries.
If all the people who say they are Christians were actually doing what Christ commanded, socialism would be obsolete and no one could be or would be exploited. Socialism is the religion you get when you refuse to do what Christ commanded and have no Pure Religion.
The whole system of freewill offerings given from the heart of the individual created a peculiar people through the altars of clay and stone which allowed the people to care for the needs of society by a Corban that makes the word of God to effect without waiving individual God endowed rights nor engaging in covetous practices that degenerate the masses.
Contrary to the systems of Sodom and Gomorrah or Nimrod of Babylon and the Pharaoh of Egypt they strengthened the poor.[38]
It was not the symbols of the ancients but the spirit reflected in their form that alters men.
The tabernacle was a symbol of that way of righteousness taught by Moses and again by Jesus. It was a reminder in its symbolic construction of this moving monument echoed the patterns of the kingdom. It also housed a unique golden box called the "ark of the covenant" and "ark of the testimony" and "ark of the LORD". But with all its mystery it was not the tabernacle, nor its contents that made Israel a great nation.
What made Israel great was the willingness of the people to obey the LORD's directions in their heart and mind in order to be a "government of the people, by the people, and for the people".
The viable republic that resulted from this conformity to the righteousness of God, like the early Church, operated within the "perfect law of liberty" by "freewill offerings" only, which in the New Testament were called the "charity" and "love" of the Corban of Christ because they had no need for forced taxation nor the men who "call themselves benefactors" but "exercise authority[39] one over the other" in order to provide a social safety net for the care of the needy through pure Religion. They followed The Way of righteousness in fellowship with the righteousness of God with no king or no legislature of the world, and no covetous practices which makes men merchandise, curse children, and is idolatry.[40]
Is voting bad
So much has changed since the original Constitution when we could say that the “People of a state are entitled to all rights which formerly belonged to the king by his prerogative.”[41] Or we could argue that “In one sense, the term ‘sovereign’ has for its correlative ‘subject.’ In this sense, the term can receive no application; for it has no object in the [Original] Constitution of the United States. Under that Constitution there are citizens, but no subjects.”[42] “For when the revolution took place, the people of each state became themselves sovereign; and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them, for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the constitution to the general government.”[43]
Originally, citizenship did not include the title or sense of subject ,but later in the United States, we see a citizenship binding subjects to the laws of a “sovereign”. Prior to the Fourteenth Amendment, “No private person has a right to complain, by suit in court, on the ground of a breach of Constitution. The constitution it is true, is a compact, but he is not a party to it. The states are party to it.”[44]
Today, “in the United States ‘it [citizenship] is a political obligation’ depending not on ownership of land, but on the enjoyment of the protection of government; and it ‘binds the citizen to the observance of all laws’ of his sovereign.”[45]
This is not so much do to the fact that legislators have altered laws but because the people have altered their relationship with the government. Because of the rise of the welfare state and the people not “Constantly bearing in mind that in entering into society individuals must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest…"[46] the status of American citizenship has changed. People today are already in a political system that is a direct or indirect democracy certainly have motivation at least to vote for their own protection.
Democracies are not always a good form of government and for centuries in America they were not considered to good. In fact, until World War II democracy was considered “A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic - negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard for consequences. Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.”[47]
If you live in a democracy and you have a right to vote. You certainly may feel a need to vote in self defense in order to protect yourself and your neighbor from the covetous practices of the welfare state and those who desire to rule over and even rob their neighbor through socialist schemes of wealth distribution.
John Adams: “Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
Israel, before they made the grave mistake of electing to have a king/commander in chief supported their government entirely with freewill offerings. They had gathered in small groups tens and linked those groups through a network of tens, hundreds and thousands. Jesus commanded that his disciples do the same thing. The primary purpose was to create a daily ministration based on charity rather than the forced contributions of Rome and Herod.
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“Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville |
Herod had set up such a system if compelled sacrifices of the people with the support of the Pharisees which is referenced in the Bible as Corban. It was a system of taxation to fund the welfare system of Judea.
Originally welfare in free societies were based on a systems of charity. That system of votive offerings was originally based on faith, hope and charity but under these systems which are rooted in force, fear, and fealty the nation is altered. This can be seen under FDR's New Deal or LBJ's Great Society. Any system of forced offerings makes the people merchandise and often curse children with debt. It is because these systems of socialism are essentially covetous practices that make the people a surety for debt.
The Bible is filled with warnings of these one purse schemes which run to death.
We have only a few things to do:
- Repent which means to think a different way.
- Seek righteousness in everything we do where ever we are at or what ever status we are in.
- While we do that we should do that together in small intimate groups networked together.
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- ↑ 1 Samuel 8:7 "And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them."
- ↑ Judges 17:6 "In those days [there was] no king in Israel, [but] every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes." [Judges 21:25]
- ↑ 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 it shall not be so among you:" [Mt 20:25 Mk 10:42]
- ↑ 1 Samuel 13:13 "And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever."
- ↑ Samuel did not say taxing people was a sin because he knew that those who were slothful in the ways of God as described by Moses should be under tribute.
- ↑ Proverbs 12:24 "The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute."
- ↑ Matthew 5:43, 19:19, 22:39, Mark 12:31, Romans 13:9, Galatians 5:14, James 2:8.
- ↑ 1 Samuel 8:11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons... and [some] shall run before his chariots.... to make his instruments of war... And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day. Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD. And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city."
- ↑ James 2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
- ↑ 1 Samuel 8:7 "And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee. Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them. And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king. And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day. Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD. And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city."
- ↑ "WASHINGTON -- The chief of the Selective Service System has proposed registering women for the military draft and requiring that young Americans regularly inform the government about whether they have training in niche specialties needed in the armed services." Eric Rosenberg, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Washington Bureau
- ↑ Employ vs. Enslave http://www.hisholychurch.org /study/gods/cog4eve.php
- ↑ Deuteronomy 17:15 "Thou shalt in any wise set [him] king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: [one] from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which [is] not thy brother. But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way. Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold. And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:"
- ↑ Quincy v. Duncan. 4Har.(Del.) 383; etc. (see Black’s 3rd.)
- ↑ Webster's 1913
- ↑ Judges 8:22-23 Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian. And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the Lord shall rule over you.
- ↑ Exodus 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Romans 13:9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. - ↑ Matthew 20:25, Mark 10:42, 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 it shall not be so among you:...
- ↑ 2 Peter 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
- ↑ Proverbs 23 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
- ↑ Psalms 69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
- And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
- ↑ 2 Peter 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
- ↑ Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Philippians 1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
Philippians 4:1 Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, [my] dearly beloved.
1 Thessalonians 3:8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
2 Thessalonians 2:15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
1 Corinthians 16:13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. - ↑ A temenos enclosed a sacred space called a hieron(a temple or a sacred place). A temenos is a piece of land cut off and assigned as an official domain of land marked off from common uses and dedicated to and for the purpose of God or a god .
- ↑ Mark 11:15-19, Luke 19:48-49, Matthew 21:12,13
- ↑ Matthew 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 27.3 05088 ^רדנ^ neder \@neh’- der\@ or ^רדנ^ neder \@nay’- der\@ from the verb nadar 05087; n m; {See TWOT on 1308 @@ "1308a"} AV-vow 58, vowed 2; 60
- 1) vow, votive offering
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 05087 ^רדנ^ nadar \@naw-dar’\@ a primitive root; v; {See TWOT on 1308} AV-vow 30, made 1; 31
- 1) to vow, make a vow
- 1a) (Qal) to vow a vow
- 1) to vow, make a vow
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 05071 ^הבדנ^ nᵉdabah \@ned-aw-baw’\@ NunDaletBeitHey from 05068 NunDaletBeit offer willingly; n f; {See TWOT on 1299 @@ "1299a"} AV-freewill offering 15, offerings 9, free offering 2, freely 2, willing offering 1, voluntary offering 1, plentiful 1, voluntarily 1, voluntary 1, willing 1, willingly 1; 26
- 1) voluntariness, free-will offering
- 1a) voluntariness
- 1b) freewill, voluntary, offering
- 1) voluntariness, free-will offering
- ↑ 05068 ^בדנ^ nadab \@naw-dab’\@ a primitive root BeitDaletNun; v; {See TWOT on 1299} AV-offered willingly 6, willingly offered 5, willing 2, offered 1, willing 1, offered freely 1, give willingly 1; 17
- 1) to incite, impel, make willing
- 1a) (Qal) to incite, impel
- 1b) (Hithpael)
- 1b1) to volunteer
- 1b2) to offer free-will offerings
- See also 05069 בדנ nᵉdab translated AV-freely offered, freewill offering, offering willingly, minded of their own freewill; defined
- 1) to incite, impel, make willing
- ↑ Exodus 25:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly <05068> with his heart ye shall take my offering.
- ↑ Genesis 47:24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth [part] unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones...And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, [that] Pharaoh should have the fifth [part]; except the land of the priests only, [which] became not Pharaoh’s.
- ↑ 05068 ^בדנ^ nadab \@naw-dab’\@ a primitive root BeitDaletNun; v; {See TWOT on 1299} AV-offered willingly 6, willingly offered 5, willing 2, offered 1, willing 1, offered freely 1, give willingly 1; 17
- 1) to incite, impel, make willing
- 1a) (Qal) to incite, impel
- 1b) (Hithpael)
- 1b1) to volunteer
- 1b2) to offer free-will offerings
- See also 05069 בדנ nᵉdab translated AV-freely offered, freewill offering, offering willingly, minded of their own freewill; defined
- 1) to incite, impel, make willing
- ↑ 08311 שָׂרַע sara‘ [saw-rah’] a primitive root appearing only twice Leviticus as śārūa‘ (שָׂר֣וּעַ) and once in Isaiah 28:20 as mêhiśtārêa‘;(מֵֽהִשְׂתָּרֵ֑עַ); v; [BDB-976b] [{See TWOT on 2291 }] AV-superfluous 2, stretch out 1; 3
- 1) to extend, stretch out
- 1a) (Qal) extended (participle)
- 1b) (Hithpael) to stretch oneself
- 1) to extend, stretch out
- ↑ 07038 קָלַט qalat [kaw-lat’] a primitive root appearing once in the bible as wəqālūṭ; (וְקָל֑וּט); v; [BDB-886a] [{See TWOT on 2027 }] AV-lacking in his parts 1; 1
- 1) (Qal) to be stunted, be handicapped, be deformed (of a sacrificial animal lacking body parts)
- ↑ Leviticus 22:20 [But] whatsoever hath a blemish, [that] shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you. 21 And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD to accomplish [his] vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein. 22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD. 23 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer [for] a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted. 24 Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make [any offering thereof] in your land.
- ↑ "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. 11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. 12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you." John 15:10
- ↑ Ezekiel 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
- ↑ 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:..."
- ↑ Covetousness is idolatry
- Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:"
- Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
- 1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
- For it is written that the tables of dainties provided by rulers of the world are a snare because they cause the masses to bite one another through government systems of legal charity which are covetous practices which are a form of fornication or adultery where the people are devoured as merchandise, curse children and are "entangled again in the yoke of bondage" with the aid of the false religion of the whore who rides the beast.
- ↑ Lansing vs Smith 21 D. 89...4 Wendell 9, 20 (1829)
- ↑ Chishom v.Georgia, 2 Dall. (U.S.) 419,455, 1L Ed 440 (1793).
- ↑ Martin vs Waddell, 41 US (16 Pet) 367, 410 (1842)
- ↑ Supreme Court of Ga, Padelford, Fay & Co. vs Mayor& Alderman, City of Savannah, 14 Ga. 438,520 (1854)
- ↑ Julliard v. Greenman, 110 U.S.421
- ↑ Andrew Jackson, March 4, 1833.
- ↑ 1928 U.S. Army Training Manual