Leaving Egypt Ministries, Zachary Gomez

Statism—the sinful ideology that men are in need of human rulers—has been one of the greatest destructive forces to have infected Christianity, an ongoing sickness that has been present at least since the times of Constantine, whose “conversion” and subsequent adoption of “Christianity” as the “official religion” of Rome made it acceptable to mix a religion of free and mutual service to one another in with the violent and authoritarian practices of the institutions of the world that Jesus the Christ said the servants of His Kingdom were not to be like (Mark 10:42-45). At least since this time, men have failed to understand the inherent conflict between the two kingdoms — between the Kingdom of God on the one hand, which the true “church” should be administrating through voluntary offerings, and the false kingdoms of the world on the other hand, which practice the false, public religion of socialism that operates on the forced offerings of taxation to provide “welfare” to their neighbors, which have been a snare and trap unto them. Religion itself has been seen as nothing more than a matter of a man’s “faith” and his belief in things pertaining to the afterlife, such that professing Christians have been able to partake in the political practices of worldly kingdoms without being criticized as contradicting their true purpose of seeking God’s Kingdom, which is done wholly outside of the Roman systems of the world. As is apparent in the so-called “churches” in America today, there has been been little conflict seen between Christianity and the kingdoms of the world. Not only that, but the kingdoms of the world have been positively praised by these institutions, which are more or less just an extension of the regime. After all, “religion” is considered to be nothing more than a private matter of one’s “spiritual faith” and trust in an afterlife savior, rather than a matter of how the needy are provided for in society (whether through the freewill offerings of God’s Kingdom or the compulsory taxation of man’s), such that it has been possible in men’s minds to partake in the false religion of statism without being seen as forsaking one’s duties to carry out the business of the true church in exclusion to these worldly kingdoms. The modern-day “church” is not only not a real church, which is supposed to be a body politic that functions as the government of God that serves their people in a charitable network as their true means of worshiping God and loving their neighbors, but it is even more sinisterly a state-approved propaganda center that positively defends the statist philosophy of the world that keeps these systems going, whether through explicitly endorsing their existence or by simply lulling men into the dead works that take place in their dead buildings.

As we will see, the true church has nothing to do with the acts that “Christians” today call “church,” which has been reduced to nothing more than rituals that completely fail to seek the Kingdom of God, arguably by design. And in this lack of Kingdom-seeking among the professing Christians of today, the worldly systems of human government that we are to be repenting from serving and worshiping have been able to step in and take over where Christians have been slothful. We then have the dual problem of so-called Christians who do not act like Christians and function like a Kingdom people whose hearts are set on another Kingdom with the Lord as King, and who also apologize for the existence of worldly kingdoms in their lack of belief that the true church should be fulfilling all of these roles rather than simply organizing an entertainment hour once a week. 

Statism in the false “churches”

When Christians don’t believe that pure religion and loving God is about actual service, justice, welfare, and liberating your people, as the apostle James and many of the prophets said it was, but reduce it to nothing more than a weekly gathering for sermons and spectacles or to one’s theological beliefs about God and His existence, it is inevitable that they will pave the way for the public religion of socialism to take over in their absence of actual service to one another. When the pastors aren’t actually feeding the sheep anything more than sermons and motivational speeches, most of which are corrupted theological beliefs anyway, the door is wide open for the kingdoms of the world to swoop in and “serve” the people in the church’s failure to take up this mission, which of course is done by enslaving them into a corrupt society of taxation, inflation, and a perversion of law and justice. The so-called “pastors” today either directly lead the sheep to slaughter by telling them that they should participate in human civil government, or by operating their “churches” as mere businesses that do not function like a Kingdom network that explicitly seeks to get their people out of bondage by providing for them as a “government.” They do not set the Lord’s table and so lead their sheep to feast on the free bread of Rome, which we know isn’t free, and often even telling them it is permissible to take her enticing benefits, which we know bring men into bondage to the kingdoms of the world. This is why God, through the prophets, criticizes the false pastors of thousands of years ago, who, like today, milk their people for money and don’t even provide for them (Jer 23; Ezek 34; Zech 11).

This is the situation we have today in America and across the world. Since what is thought of as “religion” and the “church” is nothing more than partaking in vain rituals in a building once a week for an hour or so, it has been possible for the evil system of human civil government to pick up where these churchians—that is the slothful men who attend the false churches of the world to feel good about not keeping the commandments of the Lord—have left off. Human civil government is nothing but the result of Christians having failed to seek an alternate Kingdom in their belief that it either wasn’t their duty and would be futile to do so, or that the Dominion Mandate is to be carried out through reforming the systems of the world that are enemies of the Kingdom of God. We then have the situation where professing Christians do very little for God’s Kingdom, being that “church” isn’t much more to them than checking an attendance box on Sunday morning, while at the same time involving themselves in the kingdoms of the world as voters and cheerleaders with an enthusiasm that they do not have for furthering the Kingdom of God, calling upon state rulers to do the things (feed the poor, protect your neighbors, look after one another) that they should be doing as Christians! 

In our contemporary world where “Christianity” is nothing more than some private faith and “church” is nothing more than some weekly rituals, it is rarely thought that anyone needs to repent from their statism and seek another Kingdom. Indeed, since these churchians aren’t actually acting like a true church—a Kingdom government—that fulfills all the social needs of their people (welfare, housing, justice, retirement, etc), they insist that we must thrust ourselves in worldly kingdoms and their pagan rituals like voting as our only means of changing society and making it more godly, which could be accomplished by seeking the Kingdom of God alone, but which to them is only imaginable by seeking to reform the Babylonian kingdoms of man, which would be abolished if they actually acted like true Christians. Christians should be repenting of their ideological support of statism in general and of their endorsement of presidents and politicians, but many of them instead are doubling down on their support for “lesser evil” rulers under the believe that not supporting politicians and their candidacies is to approve of even more evil men (or women) by omission. They should be repenting of statism altogether, but they’re deceived into thinking God established worldly governments to be a blessing to people, when He uses them as tools of judgment — a terror to the evil works of indifference and hatred of one’s neighbor. 

The prevalence of statism in the modern “churches” is really one of the greatest proofs that they are false churches, aside from the obvious grifting and celebrity status going on inside them. To hold and preach a statist philosophy is all the proof needed that they do not preach the true Gospel of the Kingdom of God, which is of another Kingdom that is not of this world. It is all the proof needed that this so-called church is not actually administering God’s Kingdom and assembling as a Kingdom people, since they evidently believe that it is the role of human civil government to uphold justice and law (at the very least among the so-called “conservative” churches) and even care for the poor or do a million other things for the “common good” (among the so-called “progressive” churches). A belief in statism is all the evidence one needs that a so-called church is not acting like the government of God, for obviously they believe this is the role of some other institution than the body of Christ. True ekklesias will explicitly reject statism and preach the gospel of the kingdom in exclusivity. False churches will either openly espouse statism through encouraging congregants to vote and endorse rulers of a foreign government (the kingdoms of the world are foreign to Christ’s Kingdom), or they will be more silent, but still corral congregants away from the government of God through the empty rituals and vain traditions of man.

The so-called “churches” today have bought into the way of power instead of the way of the cross — the way of humbling yourself, of love that lifts the vulnerable up. These churchmen, both the “leaders” and attendees, have been tempted with exactly what Jesus was offered by the devil in the desert—that is the kingdoms of the world that entail the worship of evil—and have taken it. The greatest, most evil deception ever perpetrated on Christians is convincing them that having human rulers wasn’t idolatry and that they actually needed them for provision, protection, and law, instead of having the Lord Jesus in exclusivity to all other rulers.

Since churchians today do not believe that the church should be fulfilling all the social duties that they have outsourced to human rulers in their sin and which they believe make up a “just,” “limited,” and “divinely ordained” role of the State, they naturally defend the idea that “there are two kingdoms” under this loose conception where they are citizens of God’s heavenly kingdom, where He is confined in their minds, and citizens of worldly kingdoms, where they believe the real Christian mission is to be fought. There is no denying that there are, in fact, two kingdoms. But for Christians today to have professed that “we are citizens of both kingdoms and must vote” shows that they do not have true allegiance to the Lord or His Kingdom. Men must decide which kingdom they are a part of as citizens: the Kingdom of God or the kingdoms of the world. Jesus did not preach the gospel of His Kingdom, tell us to seek His Kingdom, give us His Spirit and supreme authority to be ambassadors of His Kingdom, preach the gospel of His kingdom, make disciples of His Kingdom, and legislate His Kingdom, for us to submit to and endorse rulers of the world’s kingdom. To vote is to be political for the wrong kingdom and disobey your King if you say He’s your King. 

When Christians do not believe that they, as Christians, should be carrying out the work of God’s Kingdom, they leave open the idea in their mind that it is permissible to work through the kingdoms of this world that the Lord has called us away from. They see no conflict with human government and their Christianity, because they don’t regard Christianity as being anything more than a duty to “go to church,” by which they mean to partake in some rituals and potlucks that have nothing to do with actually serving those who meet with. As such, statism has been able to run rampant among these so-called Christians, who have passed off their duties to serve each other over to human rulers in their lack of belief that they should be doing these things themselves. If they saw what their true role was as Christians and as members of the church, which is an actual body politic seeking to further God’s Kingdom, then they would see that they must reject the worldly system of human government that it is directly opposed to the Kingdom of God that the true church is supposed to be administering. This would be obvious in the practical fact that there is no area of social life where the church should abandon their efforts and pass things off to human civil government, no point in which true Christians should stop seeking God’s Kingdom and suddenly say, “Well, this is the role of authoritarian rulers.” They would see that all these things are their responsibility, and that Jesus never called us to be men who exercise authority over our people.

It has been in this lack of Kingdom-seeking, where “church” is nothing more than an hour-a-week affair, that has made it possible for corrupt systems of human government to take over society, and not, as these same slothful men would like to argue, our lack of participation in political affairs. Human rulers have filled the slothful void of men who have made “church” into nothing more than an hour a week of entertainment and loosely “fellowshipping” with other people whose lives they know nothing about.

Those who are seeking God’s Kingdom, which means to actually begin to form a network of charity that provides for those who are gathering specially with mutual service to one another in mind, must then turn away from the violent means of world kingdoms, which operate contrary to the voluntary means of God’s Kingdom order. There is nothing the kingdoms of men should be doing that the Kingdom of God cannot provide, and nothing that man’s kingdoms can do without violating God’s Law in order to even attempt to uphold it. The human governments of the world steal, murder, covet, raise up false gods, and take the Lord’s name in vain. But if you asked the average churchman, who knows nothing about the Kingdom of God, they would tell you that human civil government was given to us as a blessing from God for social order, rather than as a judgment for the sin that set it up. They would tell you that it’s a justice-provider that has been divinely ordained to fight crime for us, when it is the evil itself and the fruit of evil people who refuse to be ruled by God. In every way, human civil government breaks God’s laws in its very existence and as a matter of policy. They have enslaved the citizenry through taxation to fund their socialist welfare system and have made you and your children a surety for the national debt. This is not of God. His Kingdom and His government officials—the ministers of His Ekklesia—operate by faith, hope, love, and free will offerings. All human civil rulers use force. Jesus and His government and true ministers do not.

The so-called “church” today

What is known today as the “church,” that is the buildings on every street corner across America where men gather once a week to be sermonized before disbanding and returning to their worldly ways, is far from what we have been called by God to do. The Church—the true Ekklesia (a political word in the Greek)—is a network of legislative assemblies, which legislate the government of God, which operates by humble servants and free will charity. It’s God’s own government that is on Jesus’ shoulders. He does not advance His kingdom through human civil government or the kingdoms of the world of which the American Empire is a part. We are called to speak and prophecy and call all people, politicians included, to repentance (to leave the world’s system and be under the rule of King Jesus). We are not called to rule from worldly seats of power or endorse worldly rulers or vote for them to wield the sword on our behalf (Luke 22:24-26). Voting for America’s rulers directly breaks the commandments 1 and 3 and indirectly breaks 8 and 10, through America’s tax system. His Holy Spirit should be helping you not justify statism or “Christian Nationalism” (doctrines of demons), which is sin, because it makes lesser and counterfeit authorities or rulers instead of Jesus and is an abdication of our dominion. It’s why God got mad at Moses for making excuses as to why he shouldn’t go to Pharaoh and tell him to let the Israelites go so that they could worship Him (be only under the rule of God).

Many of these so-called “churches” today not only apologize for the world system, but their own structures resemble them. The American church system as a whole is a breeding ground for sin in a very broad sense. Many churches are more pyramid shaped like Lucifer’s kingdom than cubed shaped like the Kingdom of God. An ekklesia of the Ekklesia should be more like a town hall meeting. The early church did not gather to sing songs and listen to one man sermonize. Everyone in the congregation was encouraged to contribute something to the assembly: a need, a testimony, a prophetic word, a teaching, a legislation or administration of God’s government. And they could because their congregations were probably no more than 100 people. With the advent of the “mega church,” things have been turned into even more of a show and spectacle, centered around an entire staff of men who act as the theological experts or leaders but who do nothing to serve the people of their flock, as the true church should be doing. These centralized religious institutions need to be dismantled and split into smaller congregations with a real shepherd over each one, incorporating the other 4 of the 5-fold ministers. There should rightly be apostles overseeing the affairs of 10 shepherds and their congregations. This is how Moses and Jesus and the Apostles structured the people, according to the model of the kingdom, so that all were cared for and discipled and submitted one to another.

The damage of these false churches

It isn’t that the so-called “churches” today have merely gotten many things wrong or are benign forces among us, but that they are positively working to steer people away from true Kingdom work by making them believe that “church” is a Sunday meeting for song-singing and that the political systems of the world are legitimate and necessary for the provision of goods and services, which the church should be providing if they were actually acting as a church rather than another propagandistic institution of the State. It isn’t as if these false pastors aren’t hurting anyone by filling up parking lots with people every Sunday, but that they are decidedly keeping people from actually seeking the Lord’s Kingdom by convincing them that pulling up in a church parking lot is what loving God and your neighbors is all about.

“Church” today has become centered around one man on the stage who is virtually idolized by the people who attended these places. These false shepherds are themselves not minded in actually serving people, but more interested in making money of those who they deceive into breaking out the checkbooks as a payment for “providing for their spiritual needs.” One big lie that one of these false churches once told me is that God causes your leaders to overlook you and not see you. This is false. Your leaders are supposed to see you and equip you for the work of ministry, involving you in legislating and building the Kingdom, not hogging the stage and mic and corralling you into roles that have nothing to do with the Kingdom and everything to do with shutting up the Kingdom in your face.

It isn’t then that these people are just doing it wrong, as much as they may be the blind leading the blind. These church leaders are false gatekeepers that keep curious souls from actually seeking the Kingdom of God. They are people who tell men to sit in pews and confine their so-called “worship services” to singing songs together, rather than providing for the flock, only to spit them back out into the world for the rest of the week again. Jesus is the gate and whoever enters through Him will come in and go out and find pasture. The effect of these churches has been far more nefarious than innocent or simply wrong. These are the very wolves that have come to keep men from seeing their true calling from the Lord. Thus, rather than pooling resources to take care of each other in Kingdom-minded congregations, we have people “tithing” to the wolves and false shepherds who are not actually administering God’s Kingdom but only fattening their own wallets and even convincing themselves that they deserve the pay because they delivered a supposedly edifying sermon.

The way that “church” is understood in the modern sense of gathering for some Sunday rituals, giving some money to what is virtually a money-making business, and telling yourself that you’ve done your part for God and neighbor, has helped to pervert our understanding today of what the church should actually be. Many people think that “tithing” to these so-called “churches” today is fulfilling their godly obligations to give and be charitable. Many others rightly recognize that these are just enriching a team of church staff who squander the money on buildings and sound equipment rather than caring for the needy and looking after the flock. Thus the whole idea of tithing has been corrupted under these institutions too. People reject it when it is needed in a legitimate setting of ministers who are actually caring for the needs of their people, who are actually acting as shepherds rather than hungry wolves. A “tithe” is just a freewill offering for the shepherd’s living expenses and the distribution of charity. Not enrichment. Not a building. Not other staff salaries, not lights and a screen and a sound machine. True churches and all its members could be prospering in a network of charity that actually functions as the Kingdom of God, but most Christians have been deceived by false churches and false ministers who shut up the Kingdom of God in people’s faces, like the Pharisees and Sadducees of Jesus’s time who the Lord rightly accused of having lulled the people with traditions of men that made the word of God to no effect. It’s time to repent and seek the Kingdom and do Ekklesia the way Jesus and the first apostles modeled, with authentic Kingdom community in mind. 

It is easy then to see why these people think human government is “necessary”: they are not contributing to the work needed—feeding their hungry, clothing their poor, housing their unhoused, paying off each other’s debts—to abolish human government and act like the government of God themselves. They are merely operating entertainment complexes that fool lost sheep into attending their music and light shows and mistaking these things for being the “church” of God, when they have nothing to do with functioning like His government. If these people actually operated like the church, rather than corporations that sought to bring in money from lost flock-members who are not actually being fed and cared for, then they would be out of an excuse for the need for human government, because they would be doing all of these things themselves that they presently think are necessary for the “civil magistrates” to fulfill. If we were obeying God and fulfilling His law through love, then what law can human governors make that is greater that we should follow? There is none. The reality is that we don’t want to be responsible for the welfare of our neighbor in such a way that we would make the world’s system obsolete. We would rather have the benefits of the world and have someone else do for us what we should be doing. We’ve allowed ourselves to be ruled by sloth, covetousness, and greed. We’ve dishonored the command of Jesus to become the least and serve and legislate His government. We have found it easier to just “go to church” or confess “I believe” and call it a day. 

Jesus never meant for his churches to be 501c3 corporations of the system of the world, which give men jobs with salaries that come from coerced tithes, like politicians, who only have jobs from theft via taxation. Giving under the doctrine of tithing in modern churches is giving under compulsion. I’ve heard so many “pastors” twist the Scriptures to coerce people into funding their brand, building, and bureaucracy. True Kingdom ministers don’t have church jobs with salaries. They serve, disciple, equip, and receive freewill offerings from people they are responsible for looking after. False churches defame the name of Christ by shutting up the Kingdom in people’s faces. I love praise music too, and I understand the draw of a well-delivered sermon. But we’re not supposed to be spectators to professional clergyman orators high up on stages. We’re supposed to be participants in deliberation, and in legislating God’s literal government in the assembly for the citizens of the Kingdom of God.

The Gospel and the Kingdom of God

Most Christians today are not Kingdom-minded Christians who are seeking to administrate God’s Kingdom, which is to carry out the daily ministration of welfare and charity to those who have formed congregations and joined into this global network of people who are looking to take care of their neighbors because they love God. For most Christians, “the gospel” is just the ability to recite some biographical facts about Jesus’s life; that He brought with Him another Kingdom that does not function like the authoritarian systems of the world is completely out of their minds. The only idea of “Christianity” for most Christians is simply to profess your belief that Jesus died for your sins and from then on to await your arrival in heaven one day. The earth itself is almost seen as some cursed creation that would be futile to act in (though, in their sin, they often make an exception to acting through the kingdoms of the world, where they do believe things can be accomplished). 

If Christians aren’t preaching about the Kingdom of God, though, they aren’t preaching the gospel Jesus preached. The Gospel isn’t just that Jesus is Savior and died for your sins; it’s that He is the King and Lord and His government is the hope of the whole world. Anyone who would work through the kingdoms of the world to advance the cause of Christ shows that they do not know Him or His Gospel. The kingdom is not of this world and is not advanced by the force wielded by the American government or any of its rulers. And any attempts to do so are not of the real Jesus.

With everything as corrupted as it is today, few Christians actually even know what the Gospel message is all about, although they adopt the terminology. To say that it is about another Kingdom under Jesus Christ, where people are blessed and secured for keeping God’s commandments and living like a Kingdom-people, is a foreign concept to people in a world where “the gospel” is nothing more than repeating something so vague as “Jesus died for our sins.” What does that even mean to anyone today? Not much more than Jesus “saved” us so that we can go to heaven. This confusion is not helped by the false churches today, whose very purpose is to perpetuate these descriptions and dilutions of the truth. Christian sermonizers use Biblical words, but often divorce them of their true meaning. Gospel is a perfect example. A “gospel” is a political word and message, used by Rome before Jesus used it, of the good news of a superior kingdom and the victory of its king over all other kings and their kingdoms. So when Jesus used it, everyone knew it meant you could either submit to the rule of Jesus or Caesar, not both. Today, it has virtually no meaning. It is not a political message of salvation under another Kingdom. 

Whereas salvation in the Old Testament is clearly about being delivered from the hands of human rulers who men found themselves in bondage to due to their own sin, somehow Christians today have reduced sin and salvation to nothing more than a spiritualized concept of going to heaven when we die. They say that “Jesus died for our sins” without the slightest hint of this salvation having to do with saving us from the bondage of the kingdoms of the world by restoring us to the Dominion Mandate and providing a path to seek His Kingdom. Their idea of the Gospel and salvation is merely professing Jesus’s name and waiting on an eternal afterlife, all while forsaking any earthly duties to build the Kingdom of God. 

This is a curious position, because it would seem to make Jesus out to be a lesser savior than Moses, who led his people out of Egypt so that they would worship and serve God alone again. If Jesus didn’t intend to free us from the dominion of human rulers and their systems of theft, covetousness, and greed in a superior covenant with better promises, then why did He do it in freeing the Israelites from Pharaoh’s rule? Jesus wants people to be free in the here and now. It is for freedom He set us free. He didn’t deliver Israel from Egypt to give us anything less. It’s going to take a lot of work and personal responsibility. But anything less is sin. Statism is sin. Raising up human rulers who lord over others as benefactors is breaking God’s laws, namely the very first commandment! Trump is a god as is any other human civil ruler. The only way out of bondage and judgment is to repent and seek the Kingdom.

Churchians today have then reduced “the gospel” to nearly nothing more than competently reciting the facts of Jesus’s life, death, burial, and resurrection; that He brought another Kingdom with Him where the Lord alone shall be our King does not cross their minds when they use this term. This is a grave dilution of the reasons that God became man and that Jesus had come to earth. The word “gospel” was and is a political word. Because God has a literal kingdom with a literal government. Jesus is King, but He has called His people a royal priesthood and He gave His government officials or “ministers” another political word, the name “Church” — “ekklesia” in the Greek, another political word, which means a called out legislative assembly. His government and Kingdom is the only one that has true liberty. It is a parliamentary theocracy of servant-ministers who, in contrast to the “congressional representatives” of worldly kingdoms that rule by force and authority, help care for the welfare of the citizens of the Kingdom. Americans are slaves to a system of theft, covetousness, greed, and entitlements. The Kingdom of God, however, operates by faith, hope, love, and freewill charity. No debts. No bondage. Just the perfect law of liberty and love. 

God’s Kingdom is then distinct from the ones that many so-called Christians still cling to. If we are of the Kingdom, then repentance and sanctification will be moving away from the world’s system that is legislated through the American government and its politics, and we will be political for the Kingdom of God only. Many Christians today, however, do not want to abandon worldly kingdoms and seek the salvation of the Lord and be delivered out of them. They claim we must be participating in them and that “we are citizens of two kingdoms.” They say this even though they don’t even seek the Kingdom of God on the other hand, which is often an entirely otherworldly or spiritual concept to them. They say this even though they don’t even have one foot in God’s Kingdom while the other foot is outside of it! They prove Jesus right that a man cannot serve two masters lest he love one more. As such, all those who seek worldly rulers and worldly governments decidedly turn away from the Lord’s Kingdom and work to further man’s through their voting and appeals for legislation in their favor. They have abandoned God altogether and made men as their gods, not departing from the world as they have been commanded. 

Though it is the sin in a man that chiefly leads him to defend human government, the abundance of propaganda in the “United States” about a “free country” has certainly not been harmless. Yet many “Christians” will tell you that the “United States” is a “Christian country” and that we should all be lucky to live here. They may budge that it has deviated a little bit from the ideal, but nevertheless believe that this was just an accident or anomaly and that the course could be corrected with a little bit more voting. They believe in reforming Babylonian systems, not abolishing them and replacing them with God’s Kingdom government. In their eyes, everything was going just fine before, say, President Obama was elected to office. Before that, or some other point in the recent past, everything was good and godly and human civil government was doing its godly job. 

We then have the problem among American Christians (a contradiction in itself) of millions of professing believers who have been inundated by “God bless America” and “In God We Trust” propaganda from the time of their birth. This has helped to further corrupt the political theology of an already corrupted people. Most Christians think that America’s government is compatible with the Kingdom of God because some politician said they were a Christian. We know from God’s law that stealing is a sin. Governments and their rulers are not exempt from God’s laws, and stealing is just one of several of God’s laws that America’s rulers break as a habit and have even made into a law of their own. We are in bondage and under judgment here because of our longstanding consent to the evils of human civil government. We’ve been the slaves of false gods and didn’t even realize it.

A common reply to the bondage, if it’s recognized at all in this “free country,” is that we’ve found ourselves here and may as well participate in the kingdoms of the world if we want to avoid even more evil men. They assume we are backed into a wall of having to abandon God and raise up false gods again, which is already the original source of the problem. So what do we do? Is all lost? Must we sin to get free? No. We repent and seek the kingdom of God and His constitution. Jesus died and rose again to free us from our sin. Sin isn’t just personal pet sins or proclivities to certain vices. Sin involves our allegiance to rulers other than Jesus. There is not one single ruler in the American government that is righteous before God. How is that possible? Because all of their salaries come from stealing from you and your neighbor. God’s government operates differently, and its ministers, who are true servants, are paid by free will offerings. Again, we must repent from our sin of raising up kings other than Christ — the original source of this judgment we have found ourselves under.

When people think that worldly kingdoms represent the godly ideal, they will never think that they need to seek the Kingdom of God apart from these statist institutions. When men think that human civil government represents God’s will and His Law, or at least that it can be made to with enough voting and enough “Christian politicians” or “righteous men running for office,” they will never see a need to turn another way. When people think they are already living in a “free country,” they will never see a need to be delivered from this Egyptian bondage. When people think that living under statist masters is the way God wants us to live, they will never seek to be liberated from them. When people see Jesus as nothing more than a soul-saver, they will never worry about the political captivity that they and their people are living under. When people confine Jesus to being an afterlife savior rather than the King of kings who has authority on earth as in heaven, they will permit the idea that they may have human rulers on earth. If “the gospel” to them is nothing more than being “saved into heaven,” they will not see their hypocrisy in raising up human rulers, even though the gospel of Jesus explicitly excludes and condemns statism and excludes choosing and having human rulers over you if you say He is your Lord.

But Jesus is much more than a simple soul-saver who came to secure our souls a ticket into heaven. Jesus came to save us from our sin — the sins that raise up other rulers besides Him, who deceive us into breaking God’s laws and enslave us in debt and taxation, which is a judgment for being slothful, rebelling against the dominion mandate, and abdicating our responsibilities to love and serve our neighbor. We could be free, but we’re not, because we’ve put our trust in benefactor rulers who exercise authority over us instead of putting our trust in the Lord and the Gospel of His Kingdom. We could be free of debt and taxation and inflation, but we’ve rejected the Lord and His ways and commands. We’ve rejected His government and have committed adultery with false gods. We’ve rejected the provision, protection, and law of our Heavenly Father and have gone after others for their deceptive benefits. Jesus wants to save and liberate you with free will offerings rooted in faith, hope and love. America and the world already have you enslaved with compulsory and coerced offerings in the form of taxation and tithes rooted in theft, covetousness, and greed. Which one do you want? You can vote or you can administrate the Kingdom and government of God. But you can’t do both and be free or expect to be saved from this wicked and adulterous generation.

In Corinthians, Paul talks about being unleavened from the malice and wickedness of the world’s system of welfare that is based on theft and covetousness of your neighbors goods. Rome had a system of welfare, as did Egypt, and the Israelites had been sucked into receiving those stolen benefits. So just as God delivered Israel from that system of rule and welfare in Egypt, He sent Jesus to fully deliver people, who would also leave that same system in the form of Rome and be baptized into the Kingdom of God and receive the unleavened bread of Christ as His citizens, free of the snare of abdicating their dominion to benefactors, who make false promises but instead enrich themselves at you and your neighbor’s expense. Being unleavened means taking up your dominion (authority, liberty and responsibility) and directly providing for the welfare of the citizens of the kingdom with faith, hope, love, and free will charity. Not living off the bread of Rome but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This requires a faith most are not familiar with. A wilderness faith. But we must trust and walk in this direction nonetheless. This is what repentance and sanctification is. It’s also what Jesus meant when He said to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, who had put the people in bondage with a welfare system of their own that was based on Rome’s debt-based system. They had added to the laws of God and imposed taxes on the people, thus shutting up the Kingdom of God in people’s faces. So Passover is more specific in how Jesus frees us from our sin. It’s also about freeing us from the sin of eating the bread of the Pharisees and Sadducees, who are statists and Zionists, working from the model of the kingdoms of the world, giving people stolen bread. While Jesus is the bread who is given freely for us, paying the debt we owed to the lesser rulers of the world’s system.

In modern Christianity today, this generic idea of “the gospel,” which lacks all political meaning, has allowed professing Christians to, unwittingly or not, adopt the statist gospel of the world that salvation rests in human government, since they don’t see that the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which preaches another Kingdom, is in direct conflict with worldly kingdoms. As such, many are safe to say they believe “the gospel” today without running into much opposition from other professing Christians. Numerous platforms readily invite Christians to share their interpretation of the gospel and Christianity, rarely encountering opposition. The world’s system is not threatened by these diluted and inaccurate versions. Consequently, the world does not persecute or hate these Christians; instead, it accepts, respects, and provides them with a platform. However, the moment one challenges the authority of human civil government and its rulers, intense opposition arises. Why? Because the Gospel of the Kingdom, as preached by Jesus, is an anti-statist and abolitionist message aimed at liberating humanity from the dominion of human rule, posing a legitimate threat to the world’s system.

The effects of not seeing the political nature of the gospel—that it is about salvation unto another kingdom—have been manifold. When people don’t actually believe that Jesus has come to save them from the kingdoms and rulers of the world, they continue in the same sins like voting and raising up human rulers in the belief that this will save their situation, when it is the very sin that has landed them there. Voting is an act performed only by a man who does not believe in the salvation of the Lord. It is an act of a man who believes he can save himself or that other rulers can save him if he votes hard enough for them. The worst, most apathetic, rebellious, and destructive thing that Christians ever did was vote, but it is precisely the stuff of people who don’t know the true gospel of the Kingdom of God: God has His very own kingdom and government and His charge to His disciples was to administrate and be political for it in exclusivity.

The various levels of statism that men have partaken in, from the ideology to the actual practices of voting men into office or running for office yourself, have only been possible because professing Christians have not actually known the Gospel or the Lord as their King, even though they vainly profess “Christ is King” but don’t mean it. A gospel is a political message, delivered by an ambassador of a conquering kingdom to people of a conquered kingdom, for them to relinquish their former status and citizenship and become a citizen of the new conquering kingdom. Rome did this by force and the sword. America does this by the same. But Jesus does this by love. And He writes His laws on human hearts by His Spirit and grace. If you think votes are loving God and your neighbor then you don’t know the Lord like you think you do. Simple repentance is all that is required of you right now. Then be about His kingdom. And preach His gospel, the narrow way of salvation.

Coming out of these “churches”

We are called to things far bigger than what most Christians realize today, whether they are the ones being pacified in their phony churches or sitting around thinking that their mere belief is good enough. Jesus didn’t mean for us to go to church and spectate or participate in vain religious ritual. He meant for us to be the Church, which means we should be gathering in small, adhocratic congregations of free will charity to legislate or administrate His government. Sunday isn’t the day to fill up on a sermon, it’s the first day of the week to get to work. And everyday is a day to be filled with the Spirit and eat and do the word of God. It is beyond me that Christians can take all of Jesus’s explicit teachings and boil them down to going to church, singing songs, listening to sermons, and voting for rulers of the world’s system who exercise authority over their neighbor, something Jesus said not to do.

The hard truth is that many so-called Christians really just do not know who the Lord Jesus really is or why He came. They do not care one bit about the title “Lord” or “Christ,” which they are willing to use all while defending Caesars and worldly kingdoms from the other side of their mouths. They have no idea about seeking His Kingdom and have reduced “church” to nothing more than a little Sunday gathering to sing songs together. But this is not the church. Singing four worship songs and listening to a sermon every Sunday is not what Jesus died for! It is not what Jesus meant we should be doing when He called His Church a legislative assembly. It’s not what the early Christians of the first century churches were doing. Legislation, so to speak, is not happening in today’s typical churches regardless of the denomination or even in the so-called “home churches” of people who grew tired of the mainstream spectacles. Until believers come together and form true ekklesias, the Kingdom of God is being shut up in our faces. Most of us don’t even know what a gospel is or how the Kingdom of God operates. There should be no needy among us. We should be paying off each other’s debts, and working together to make everyone so prosperous that we put the world to shame for all its debt-based “benefits.” But so many Christians are tithing to false churches and false ministers, who are grifting off people to build their religion businesses. So many others are just sitting on their hands and doing nothing to organize their people.

I trust that over time, people will continue to come out of these false “churches” and realize they have nothing to do with the true church, which is not the buildings we see on the corner today that suck in people who are looking for an excuse to remain apathetic, feed them on a sermon, and then spit them back out into the world, but the organization of God’s Kingdom that seeks to feed, clothe, and house our people and take on all the roles that slothful men have passed off to human civil government in their failure to carry out the work of God’s Kingdom that we are called to do. 

Many today lament that “church attendance” is declining, a phrase which in itself only shows that these institutions were never looking for anything more than bodies to warm their pews once a week and throw some money in the offering plate to help buy the false pastor a Cadillac. But the only reason this is lamentable is that these people aren’t leaving these institutions to build God’s Kingdom; they are leaving them because they have been falsely led to believe that this is all that “church” is about and have not been shown the business of true Christians, which is building God’s Kingdom. For the most part, these institutions called “churches” have served as nothing more than a deception to keep people from actually building God’s Kingdom and hearing the true Gospel of seeking to live under another Kingdom with the Lord Jesus Christ as the only King. Otherwise, a decline in “church attendance” would be a good thing and something we should hope to see more. We need people to come out of these dead institutions, but we need them to help us further the Kingdom of God when they do come out of them.

I believe we are coming upon a time where more and more men will realize that these institutions are indeed dead and that the Lord has not called us to vain rituals, but to actual service to one another — to justice, liberty, welfare, and freeing the captives who are in bondage to the kingdoms of the world for their sin of idolatry and sloth. More and more people, whether Protestant, Catholic, or Orthodox will have to realize that their “worship services,” “masses,” and “divine liturgies” have nothing to do with actual worship or liturgy, but are merely rituals that they are partaking in precisely to give themselves a pat on the back for otherwise doing nothing to advance the Kingdom of God. 

This progress away from the institutions called “churches” and toward the building of God’s Kingdom is being advanced not only due to the Holy Spirit speaking to people, but also due to the spiritual deadness of these institutions themselves, which alone work to make men realize that warming pews and listening to sermons is not the great calling that God has upon our lives. From the failure of these institutions alone will more men realize that “going to church,” whether the “high” church or the “low” church, has nothing to do with the Dominion Mandate. Eventually, more and more Christians will have to grow tired of the Sunday morning consumeristic, spectator “worship” experience, of having their participation being relegated to “serving” on a team as a cog in a corporate wheel to make sure the “service” runs smoothly. More and more people will continue to feel that there’s more to their identity and purpose and calling in Christ, and they will begin to see exactly what this is. Instead of being an administrator of a State sponsored corporation, they could be an administrator of God’s government. They could actually directly contribute to the holistic welfare of their brothers and sisters and be a part of fulfilling the great commission by making disciples of the Kingdom, not just another church brand.

As much as we should take this gospel first to the people themselves who are deceived into attending these institutions, being that the leaders of these institutions have incentives (money coming in the church coffers or degrees they have spent years obtaining) keep running the show they way they currently are, God willing, not only the pew-warmers but also the “pastors” will begin to realize what their true calling is and abandon their current status as local or neighborhood celebrities who prepare weak, watered-down sermons for a few hundred people who admire them one hour a week and hand over money to them for their supposed edification of the “flock.” Pastors are supposed to be actual shepherds of their congregations — a shepherd sheep of other sheep. A shepherd feeds his sheep and tends to their physical needs and wellbeing. This is no less important than the needs of the soul, as most of them confine their preaching. They should be getting up every morning and asking people in the congregation what their needs are and asking for fellow brothers and sisters if they can come together to help meet those needs — practical, real world needs like paying their bills, feeding their families, keeping the heat on, clothing their children, paying off their debts, etc.  This is part of being a legislative assembly and legislating God’s government for the citizens of the Kingdom. Jesus, the Good Shepherd, did not separate meeting physical needs from teaching and preaching.

Many Christians today have been content to call sermonizers “pastors” merely because they operate some building that claims to be a church, regardless of whether or not they actually serve people and function as ministers of God’s Kingdom (which we know no registered “non-profit” church does). It is then curious why anyone continues to attend these buildings, being that the whole idea of a shepherd of a flock is one who actually takes care of the sheep — not just for the alleged spiritual edification of their sermons, but for their daily bread and setting the Lord’s table so that their people are not left to taking the socialist benefits of the kingdoms of the world that ensnare their people into bondage. Church people should ask themselves, if you do not know your pastor and he doesn’t know you and doesn’t care for your welfare on a daily basis then you have a false pastor, not a true shepherd, and a hired hand, who will abandon you at the first sign of real trouble, and maybe you have a wolf, playing a sheep, who’s waiting for the right time to devour you. We need to come out of such falsely-called churches, who have a gatekeeper CEO shutting up the Kingdom of God in your face.

The institutions that are called “churches” today are false churches with false ministers. They lie, preach a false statist gospel, and tell the people they are building the kingdom and doing what Jesus said, when they most certainly are not . The false churches are what Jesus is calling people out of. He did it when He called the lost sheep of Israel out of the religious system of the Pharisees and Sadducees. And He’s doing it now with the 501c3 corporations calling themselves houses of God. 

Though this will sound shocking to the average Christian who thinks the so-called churches today represent pure religion, the irony is that to actually begin serving God and loving our neighbors, we must come out of these “churches.” There is no actual “worship service” in these so-called “worship services.” Serving according to Jesus and the first apostles means sharing with each other from what we have, cooking and serving food and eating together in each other’s homes, which is actual communion, and helping to meet each other’s needs as it pertains to facilitating the skills and services necessary for a free society under God, and not any human ruler. Serving has nothing to do with making a “worship service” run smoothly. Where did Jesus say serving meant being an usher or a greeter or a parking lot attendant? Such serving roles are the result of false and vain religion. True religion is caring for the needy among us and being unpolluted by the world’s system in all its compromising practices of abdicating our authority, liberty, and responsibility to a few “elite” ruling benefactors. If we want to experience true kingdom living we have to repent of going to church and of endorsing American politicians.

We are here to seek God’s Kingdom, not just “go to church” as the majority of Christians have reduced things to. God has a literal Kingdom, a society with citizens by faith in Jesus and believing His gospel. And He has a government: the Ekklesia, consisting of local ekklesias of servant ministers — apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers. The elders are heads of families which make up what would be considered State representatives for a comparison with the kingdoms of the world. The statist corruption in the so-called “churches” today have blinded people to this need to function like a government that carries out the daily ministration of God’s Kingdom. We’ve been told that we need to elect rulers to offices within the American government. Such elections are sinful because the world’s system and its rulers operate contrary to the ways and laws of God, by theft, covetousness and greed. We should be forming kingdom congregations and legislating the kingdom of God by faith, hope, love and free will charity and offerings. Traditional churches aren’t doing this in any denomination or brand. To begin to seek God’s Kingdom thus requires that we come out of the false churches. This will require an evangelism we are not used to. Churchians do not want to be told that their slothful churchian ways are not the true role of a Christian in society, not anymore than an obese person wants to be told they need to start exercising, as this would require that they begin to do more for their people than put on a light show once a week. 

The real church

If you asked most Christians today what a church is, they would point to the counterfeit, state-approved institutions that are present on the corners of every city and town, often adorned with American flags to display the kings and kingdoms where their allegiance truly lies. They would point to these buildings with steeples on them and say that’s a church. But Ekklesia isn’t a building, brand, or bureaucracy. It isn’t even a “worship service” where we gather and “fellowship” merely by singing songs together. It is a gathering of called-out ministers who legislate the Kingdom of God for the members of a congregation, who are seeking the Kingdom, who would be its citizens by faith, hope, and charity.

To keep it simple here, the true church equals the ekklesia equals a legislative or administrative assembly of called-out servant-ministers equals the government of God’s Kingdom. This means that all these churches that are under governments of the world’s system are not true churches or governments of God. While they might be full of well-meaning people, who have encountered Jesus to some extent, they are not acting like the true church which administers God’s Kingdom. They are a fraudulent counterfeit that is merely pretending to be the “church” while not keeping the weightier matters that Jesus has called us to uphold. They are merely buildings that practice the traditions of men, whether out of ignorance of everyone involved, or intentionally led by false pastors who are trying to keep the sheep away from seeking the Kingdom of God as their way of upholding the kingdoms of the world that the true church would effectively abolish. 

Indeed, whether explicitly in their ideology or matter of factly in their appeal for tax-exempt status, these so-called churches are directly yoked to the world that we are to be separate from. Most Christians today struggle to see any problem with the so-called church as a brand, a business, or a 501c3 corporation, being a party in a contract with the system of the world. They shop around for “churches” like they do restaurants and go with whichever one of these fake institutions appeals to them, whether it was the marquee or their tag line.

But none of these things are the true church. A church does not need tag lines. A church needs to be a legislative assembly — a body of believers who, with the help of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, legislate, or, said another way, administrate God’s government for its citizens. Jesus preached the message of His kingdom, which has a government and citizens. If you go to church and you don’t know this and participate in this, then you might not be part of a God-authorized church. They may say it’s God’s house. But God’s house is not a multi-million dollar building. It’s not a “worship” experience or “Sunday service.” God’s house or temple is His people being built together as living stones in His cube-shaped Kingdom, where all are empowered to be kings and priests and participants in the assembly. Church is not supposed to be a business, a 501c3 corporation, a singalong, or listening to a sermon. Church is supposed to be God’s government on the earth, separate from the system and governments of the world. Jesus used the political word “Ekklesia.” In the Greek context it referred to a legislative assembly. God’s laws are already established. So while I’ve been saying that Christians should be “legislating” when they gather on Sunday, a more appropriate word would be administrate, which is to decide how to carry out or implement the ways and laws of God, primarily in regards to loving and serving our brothers and sisters, meeting needs and distributing charity, and fulfilling all functions that men have handed over to human civil government in their belief that human rulers have a role to play in God’s Kingdom, too. It’s what the word “minister” means. Again, true religion is kingdom politics and government. But most churches, regardless of denomination, have turned it into a vain ritual, which has led to people being sold out to the false gods of the State, making them merchandise and surety for the national debt. The true Church, made up of decentralized churches and their congregations, through seeking and administrating the Kingdom, aims to deliver people from the dominion of man — from the bondage of the sin of raising up human rulers. The false churches aim to keep men in the bondage of the world, whether through explicit teaching or by making men think that “church” is nothing more than the show they have made it into.

According to the model God established through Moses and Jesus and the Apostles, true churches are: local governments of God with congregations of about 10 elders, which are just 10 heads of families that make up the State or Body politic of God. Ekklesia in the Greek, the word Jesus used for His Church, means a legislative assembly. So the Church should be made up of adhocratic, not bureaucratic, churches that administrate the Kingdom of God for the citizens of the Kingdom of God, operating by faith, hope, love, and free will offerings and charity. True religion is just kingdom politics, separate from the statism of the world’s system. This interpretation is inherent in the meaning of the word “gospel,” the message of the kingdom of God that Jesus preached. It’s caring for the welfare of our brothers and sisters, especially the needy among us, sharing and distributing charity, so that we all may prosper. It’s not a focus on singing songs and listening to a sermon week after week, draining money and resources that could be much better managed.

A true pastor is a shepherd, a part of God’s government, aided by the other ministers, the apostles, prophets, evangelists and teachers, overseen by the elders, responsible for the distribution of charity. The pastor’s primary role isn’t to preach a weekly sermon. It’s to facilitate a network of charity for a free and prosperous society. Preaching is really a function of evangelizing unbelievers with the gospel. The Greeks were known for their orators and sophists, the early Church was known for its evangelism and discipleship, love and network of charity.

None of these things we see in the so-called “church” today have anything to do with living out the Kingdom of God, as the early Christians were doing. They are merely vain rituals that mistake motion—swinging your hands in the air and crying—for real Christian action. First century Christians followed Christ by loving their neighbor in a network of free will charity in the Kingdom of God on earth, which delivered people from Rome’s social security administration and the bondage of its subject citizenship. Modern Christians do not follow Christ in the way He commanded and make the word of God to no effect, taking the Lord’s name in vain by following in the ways of the world and calling the slavery of American citizenship “freedom.” It is not God’s will that His children stay enslaved in taxation, debt and inflation, because such things are consequences of sin and unrighteousness. Getting taken for 30-50% of the fruits of our labor means we are in more bondage than they were in Egypt and Rome. Being a true Christian means doing the righteous deeds that make for a free society.

As long as men believe that human civil government has a role to play in a godly society, whether they limit this to justice and law or go even further in their socialism and say it is needed for welfare of the people, they will never understand what the role of the true church actually is all about. It is actually really simple once we expel the statism from our minds and realize the need to provide for our people on a voluntary and decentralized basis in the absence of authoritarian rulers who rob our neighbors to provide their deceitful benefits to others: Church is God’s government. So think about everything a government does. That’s what the church should be doing for the people who are the citizens of God’s kingdom. Church should be making the kingdoms of the world and their debt-based systems obsolete.

Christian Anarchism

It’s not hard to see that statism—the worldly ideological belief that human rulers are needed—has been one of the main corrupting forces on the Christian mind, keeping them from actually seeking God’s Kingdom and instead settling for churchian rituals and repeating the propaganda that comes from these institutions. The greatest conspiracy and deception ever perpetrated on Christians is convincing them that God established America’s government and its rulers. It really goes back to Constantine and convincing them that God used him to make Christianity the State religion. It really really goes back to 1 Samuel 8 when Israel mistook God’s frustrated concession or allowance with His approval. The only rule God wants people to be under is His, because that’s where true and complete liberty exists.

We see just how corrupting the ideology of statism has been upon Christians today once we see that it is necessary to contrast the true church against the State, that is the government of God against the authoritarian kingdoms of the world. The latter kingdoms operate through forced offerings, called taxation, rather than freewill offerings, which is the only way the ministers of God’s Kingdom obtain resources with which to distribute charity to others. The latter kingdoms call their legislators “representatives” but they actually rule over their subject citizens, rather than freely serve them. For this reason, every single human ruler is illegitimate and puts people in bondage in one way or another. God’s ministers are not rulers, they are servants. Anyone who rules over their neighbor and demands they give them money at gunpoint is not a Christian, but a statist. 

Many are addressing the problems in churches and ministries, and rightly so. But most are not bringing any worthy solution, namely that the whole 501c3 corporate model of church needs to be exited. Not just reform but a new wineskin. Christian anarchy is the only viable and true Scriptural solution and position for the Ekklesia to have. This should not be understood as chaos or anything goes. This should be understood as anti-statism in all its forms. No more bureaucracy. No more institutional churches of centralized religious control and empty traditions of man. The abolition of human archism. No king or ruler but Jesus Christ. Christian anarchy is every member of the Body of Christ submitting one to another out of reverence for Christ in adhocratic networks of free will charity, elevating the royal priesthood of every believer, accepting our God given roles in His non-hierarchal, cube-shaped kingdom.

The problem for many people who identify as Christians today is that they cannot see an alternative to walking away from the kingdoms of the world. In their minds, participating in worldly politics is the only thing that makes them active for God; abandoning this wicked path of sin is thought by them to be slothful. As such, they criticize anyone who abandons the world and its institutions as forsaking their duty to seek the Kingdom of God, since in their minds this is only done by partaking in human civil government as a voter or candidate to political office. They have been made to believe that the Dominion Mandate entails operating through the kingdoms of the world and taking dominion over the political realm, which should, in fact, be abolished and replaced by God’s Kingdom-government. 

What these types of people don’t see is that the Kingdom of God should indeed be sought, but done so outside of these institutions altogether. Consenting and appealing to the government puts us further into bondage. What we should be doing as Christians is to stop worrying about these worldly institutions at all, which act only as a judgment for sin, and begin seeking the Kingdom of God outside of them. The political systems of the world, which are satanic, are nothing more than scripted political theater to manipulate and control people and get them to abdicate their authority, liberty and responsibility as Christians to love their neighbor directly. Instead, these people believe that they must work through the kingdoms of the world to further the Kingdom of God, essentially saying—contrary to Jesus’s teaching on the fruit that a given tree must bear—that evil means can be used to produce good ends.

By working through the State or believing that our role is to make human civil government bend to God’s Law or to “legislate Christian morality,” these men—notwithstanding their imagination that they are the dominion-oriented men of action—are the ones who are actually forsaking God’s Kingdom, not those who shun worldly politics. Voting, running for office, and seeking legislation are merely ways of slacking off doing the real work of going outside, knocking on their neighbors’ doors, and asking them how they’re doing and how they can serve them. They are actually the easy things that allow these men to mistake their motions for real Christian action. They are ways of patting themselves on the back and telling others that they have fulfilled their Christian duty by checking a mail-in ballot from the comfort of their couch, which they probably even had their wives run to the mailbox. Casting a ballot is really the “most” these idolaters are willing to do. It isn’t like they vote and then keep building God’s Kingdom; they tell themselves that this is all they need to be doing: vote for someone else to do things for them. 

When we point these things out to people, such that voting, and not abstention from worldly political affairs, is really the way of the apathetic, the typical reaction of these men is to grow angry and fight back. This is revealing in itself, as this is a reaction born out of the conviction of their sin and realizing how wrong they have been. The extent to which professing Christians are willing to fight against the rebuke of their sin and idolatry, like voting for human rulers and merely believing in the existence of human government, tells us all we need to know about the state of modern Christianity: most people are not willing to repent of the sin that has led us into bondage, but only want to double-down on it by telling us “we have a Christian duty to vote.” These people evidently hate the consequences of their sin, which are manifest in the increasing corruption of human government, but want to remain under the sinful delusion that these institutions ought to be reformed rather than abolished. 

The truth becomes clearer and clearer to me when I see just how much people fight to keep their idols and fight to continue in their promotion of adherence and submission to human rulers of worldly governments and religious bureaucratic institutions. The truth is this: People don’t want to be responsible. They want someone else to do for them what they should be doing themselves, which is why they passed off law, justice, national defense, and welfare to human government in the first place. It is okay that we may not know exactly ourselves where to begin to build this Kingdom with our neighbors. The point is that we must begin to seek it, which at the very least requires that we turn away from the kingdoms of the world and furthering them through harboring the worldly ideology of statism, identifying as citizens of the worldly kingdoms, and acting like one through voting and accepting their benefits. This is discipleship and sanctification: being transformed into a proper image-bearer, who stewards himself, his family, and community well through administrating the government of God. We may fail every day and run into problems that we have not figured out or mastered yet, but we must seek to rule/serve as a son of the Kingdom.

One of the greatest obstacles to seeking the Kingdom of God is not that it is necessarily difficult to begin organizing with our neighbors, providing for our own people, or finding blessings and rewards for doing so. After all, Jesus says to seek His Kingdom and all these things will be added unto you. The greatest obstacle really is how idolatrous and brainwashed—a combination of sin and churchian propaganda—people remain to seeking this Kingdom, and how doubtful they are that it can be done outside the institutions of the world. Getting Christians to see that they should not be voting for rulers of the world’s system, which is of the devil, is one of the most frustrating things ever. We already have a ruler and His name is Jesus. We need and should want no other. Human civil government is a plunderer of goods, services, and physical and human resources per 1 Samuel 8. Repentance has just as much to do with leaving such systems as it does with not fornicating — or better yet, associating with them is what Biblical fornication and adultery is all about. Voting is choosing rulers other than the Lord and an abdication of your dominion. As followers of Jesus, we are called to legislate God’s government, which is to serve our neighbor in love and humility.

With so many “Christians” today being deceived by the false pastors of the institutional churches, our work has become even more difficult. We not only need to get people to seek God’s Kingdom, but to see that this isn’t occurring in the “churches” where they think it is. Christians today are under so much churchian propaganda that they spread the false gospel of statism—salvation as coming through the State and their votes—without even realizing that it contradicts the Gospel of God’s Kingdom, which is to be sought outside of both the State and the so-called churches. So many Christians today are only repeating lies they’ve heard from churchmen and theologians rather than being filled with the Holy Spirit to seek God’s Kingdom. They have come to believe that the way to make a Christian society is to work through the Egyptian and Babylonian systems of the world that they are supposed to be coming out from. Yet calling upon people to vote and participate in worldly kingdoms is often the advice of “Christian leaders,” whose statism has them actually acting as messengers of Satan rather than God. 

Telling people to vote for America’s rulers is preaching a false gospel, because it’s the gospel of the world’s system, and most “pastors” preach this false gospel explicitly in the pulpit or by the example of their lives, thereby making disciples of another kingdom. Voting cannot advance God’s kingdom in the slightest, and indeed it only furthers man’s. Jesus said to preach the gospel of His kingdom in exclusivity. There can be no mixture of the two kingdoms, no serving two masters. If you’re in the Kingdom, Jesus is to be your only ruler. Jesus never said, I am your king, but Caesar is your emperor. And He’s not saying today, I am your king, but Trump is your president. If Trump is your president then you’re not of the Kingdom of God, but a proud citizen of the world. There is nowhere in Scripture where God wanted His people to be under the rule and reign of any ruler but Him. Why would Jesus, the King of kings, come and preach the gospel of His kingdom, call us to repent and be under His rule, then die and rise from the dead, tell us that He was giving us His supreme authority to preach the good news of His kingdom, and make disciples, only for Him to want us to submit to rulers who have less authority than Him and us, and wield their authority in a way contrary to the way He did and said we should??

Our authority as Christians

This statism that has infected so many “Christians” today has even incapacitated them on an individual level. They are so used to deferring to human civil government as “the authorities” that they have forgotten their own authority as priests and kings, so to speak. In the same way they have already outsourced their Christian responsibilities to love and serve their neighbors to human rulers, they individually forget about their “power” to make anything happen in our world. 

If you are a Christian who sincerely trusts in Jesus and is seeking His Kingdom and righteousness and making every effort to walk in faith, hope and love, fulfilling the law and the Great Commission, and you believe that President Trump has more authority than you, you believe a lie from Satan. In fact, you are the highest authority on the earth. The authority that God established was the liberty and power He gave you in Christ to love and preach the gospel and make disciples as an ambassador of His kingdom.

The problem is that professing Christians have not known their Bibles today and simply believe all the lies that the false prophets tell them, such that “God has given us human civil government for law and order.” They have passed off all their responsibilities as Christians to human rulers, and even accuse us of being the ones who fail to fulfill our Christian responsibilities by abstaining from participating in the kingdoms of the world, even though it is their partaking in the evils of voting and running political candidates that is entirely representative of apathy and sloth to the ways of God. A misinterpretation of things like Romans 13, and all of Scripture really, is why we’re here. And if we really knew Jesus and were really seeking His Kingdom, we would have never voted for rulers of a foreign government. We already have a ruler. We already have a responsibility to be a royal priest in the Kingdom of God. But in deception, rebellion, and idolatry, we have chosen lesser rulers and false gods and have chosen to abdicate our authority and responsibility to Satanists.

How can Jesus have all authority and confer on His disciples the same supreme authority to preach the gospel of His superior kingdom and make disciples and yet somehow we have less authority than rulers of governments of the world’s system? Do you really think worldly governments have greater laws than God’s laws which are fulfilled by love? When was the last time you heard any politician or media talking head talk about agape love? They are lesser authorities and we are under judgment for choosing them instead of God; for choosing to violate and rebel against our and our neighbor’s higher authorities.

Seeking the Kingdom of God

While we must seek the Kingdom of God today, as Jesus called us to do, this has been perverted by many people into seeking to make a godly society through the kingdoms of the world. Most “dominionists” have not been anarchists who saw the true gospel of the Kingdom of God as a decentralized society administered by the true church. They have proposed that we invade power centers in order to attempt to make human civil government—an inherently ungodly institution of the world—into a “Christian government.” 

To water down the Great Commission to even involve civic duty to State fathers is the kind of idolatry the Lord always judged His people for. It’s a twisting of authority, liberty, and responsibility. Satan’s kingdom is more unified and organized than what Christians have allowed to happen in the churches. Only Christians brave enough to come out of these compromised, corrupt, and dead churches are any real threat to the powers that (should not) be. As of now, however, few people are really seeking God’s Kingdom. We have escapist churchians on one hand and statist false converts on the other, both who only work to further the kingdoms of the world, whether through the sloth or overt idolatry. 

It has been an interested scene where professing Christians who vote for human rulers tell us that it is those of us who abstain from this worldly evil who are apathetic, because it is precisely these people, who have failed to act as God’s Kingdom people, who have helped us to arrive where we are today, at the downturn of an empire that was always bound to turn out this way. Things are as bad as they are because Christians have been voting for human, civil, benefactor, false god rulers who exercise authority over others, instead of administrating the Kingdom and government of God under the rule of Jesus Christ.

Christianity is infected both by people who think God’s Kingdom is either furthered by worldly political means and by people who forsake all their earthly duties and think their only role here is waiting around to go to heaven when they die. The former never learned Jesus’s basic words that His Kingdom is not of this world (ie., not like its Roman systems), and fight against it all while claiming to be the only people who care about furthering it. The latter think that God’s creation is cursed and that there is no use in seeking a godly social order. They complain about the evils of the world and yet don’t lift a finger to alleviate them and free their neighbors from bondage.

It’s like Christians don’t even know what a gospel is and that Jesus preached the gospel of His Kingdom. It’s like they don’t know that His Kingdom, like any other, has a government, and it has an administration, and it has citizens that need to be cared for and discipled in the ways of this Kingdom. These things are not arbitrary. In this sense, many lost in the “churches” today do not really even know the Lord or what we’re supposed to be doing down here. They are so caught up in the religious ritual of going to church that they don’t even know what it means to be an ekklesia (a legislative assembly). Traditional “Sunday services” in a church building is not what Jesus had in mind when he used the word Ekklesia

Many of factors have led to this situation where men forsake the Kingdom of God, primarily the sin in men who don’t believe in seeking it. Many people today, with the help of end-times preaching in the false churches, have come to forsake seeking the Kingdom of God, believing it to be a hopeless endeavor in light of what they view as a cursed earth. Though this slothfulness preceded their hopeless eschatological view, this popular eschatological view that life on earth is soon coming to an end has helped to aid generations of Christians into being content with their slothfulness. Though they were never interested in lifting a finger for God’s Kingdom in the first place, this theological view that has made them think it would be Biblically futile to do so has helped them sign-off on their failure to seek God’s Kingdom, thinking that our only hope is waiting on Heaven. Others have gone in the complete opposite direction and bought into the false dichotomy that you’re either helplessly waiting on heaven or working through the political means of the world. They cannot imagine that anyone who rejects the political means is not just some end-times Christian sitting on their hands.

Both these people are wrong. We are to be seeking the Kingdom of God. However, this has nothing to do with worldly political means. It is man’s God-given duty to seek this Kingdom, regardless of outcomes or any imagined timeline when the earth is coming to an end. We should be doing all we can to pursue the dominion mandate regardless of uncertain outcomes or what worldly governments do or don’t do. Sanctification is a life long process, especially when coming out of longstanding bondage. Dominion is not political power or domination. Christians should not be wielding State power or endorsing rulers to wield such power on our behalf as benefactors, who primarily enrich themselves and consolidate more and more centralized control through the violence of conquest and theft via taxation and extortion. True Kingdom dominion is legislating God’s government for God’s people through faith, hope and charity or love. And inclusive in love is the way of Jesus as a humble servant. This omits worldly political means or force of arms.

Since most Christians today do not know what freedom and salvation actually is all about and even think it is provided by human rulers, they haven’t known how to begin to seek God’s Kingdom and pray for liberation from the kingdoms of man. They have thought they could claim the Lord’s name while pledging allegiance to the kingdoms of the world, all without any consequences. If you really want freedom in Christ and to see others free, then you have to move away from systems that enslave people. But if you don’t know what systems enslave you and why then how can you move towards freedom? It is for freedom that Jesus came to set us free! Free from what? Sin, yes. What is sin? It’s breaking God’s laws. If you have trusted in the Lord Jesus then His Spirit will convict you of sin and empower you to do the works of righteousness in keeping with His laws. The first command is to have no other gods. A god is a ruler both human or non human. If Jesus is your King, you should not be voting or endorsing the rulers of the world’s system which enslave people in their practices of theft, covetousness and greed. This is step number one in seeking the kingdom, because once you realize that you should not be appealing to human rulers for benefits then you can move towards the ways in which God gives benefits through the legislation of His kingdom and government.

As long as people believe they can remain citizens of two kingdoms, they will never know how to seek God’s Kingdom, which is done at the exclusion of those of the world. The first step to being a citizen of the kingdom of God is to stop voting for the world’s rulers. But many “Christians” don’t believe they need to repent for this. They say “Jesus is King” but vote for America’s rulers, showing that they haven’t understood the gospel in its fullest meaning.

It is not good enough that we sit around and wait to pass away from this earth, as all the generations before us have done. Our purpose is to begin breaking ground on this Kingdom of God — an organized, global network of men gathered for the express purpose of serving one another in love and charity. The kingdoms of the world have taken over because we have been slothful to love and serve our neighbors freely, allowing them to slip in where we have failed. Some people (eg., libertarians) imagine that government should just be abolished but that they have no duties to their neighbors and should just be free to go hide out in the woods away from everyone else. Freedom doesn’t work this way. To be free requires that we take responsibility to serve others. Again, the State was able to take over because we refused to do freely what it does violently. We didn’t want to provide for the welfare of our people, so they did it for us, and brought everyone into slavery, even as much as they have provided these benefits as a way of gaining power rather than actually making sure men are served. At any rate, men can never escape their responsibilities to their neighbors; they only get to choose how this is performed, whether freely on their own or forcibly through socialist systems of the world. To seek God’s Kingdom then, where the kingdoms of the world are abolished, cannot be separated from seeking to serve our neighbors. These endeavors are one and the same. Do you want to be prosperous and free under God? Do you want to see your neighbor prosperous and free? Then find brothers and sisters to seek the kingdom of God with in exclusivity. If we don’t repent together, some of us won’t make it. Some of us are hanging on by a thread. It is taking more and more to live as the reality of America’s debt based system is tightening the noose as evidenced in the cost of living, inflation, low wages, and consumer and national debt. When will we wake up and reject vain religion and politics? If we don’t come together and start directly caring for the needs of our brothers and sisters in such a way as to deliver each other from debt and tax slavery, then it’s going to get much much worse.