Leaving Egypt Ministries, Obadiah D. Morris

Despite that the ruling elites have become even more brazen and undisguised about their evils in recent years and appear to be more shameless about their misdeeds than ever before, most people still hold the same old fallacies spun by statist propagandists centuries ago: That “America is the greatest country ever,” that “we’re the richest country in the world,” that this is the “land of the free,” etc. 

Many men, in other words, are still holding to the ancient fallacies and sins of the scriptures: Namely, worshiping the false god of “government” and forgetting that God is God.

Although men are waking up more than ever, many Americans would still identify our Babylonian society as only being slightly short of perfection, as a beast with only a few blemishes. To them, it is still one of the best creations and institutions the world has ever known, albeit having gone a little off course lately. 

The only problems usually identified are surface-level ones that they don’t think have any deeper, underlying causes (e.g., the belief that systems based on tax robbery can work any other way than they, in fact, do). The current “government” isn’t right, one “law” might have gone a little too far, and sure, many people might have been abused, kidnapped, killed, or beaten on the roadside by an officer of the law. 

But there are no problems in this “great country” that can’t be fixed by voting in new people next election, “reforming” the justice system, or having “better training” for police. They aren’t inherent, systemic problems that necessitate that these things turn out this way. The police state only has a “few bad apples”; it wasn’t created to rob people and carry out the edicts of other men. 

They don’t see the system is based on violence, abuse, and tyranny, and is working exactly like one should expect it to work. This is still the “great democracy” in which to place all our hopes for freedom and salvation.

Men may criticize the system as it stands, but they have largely not reformed their hearts and would be satisfied if only it would transform slightly in their favor. Men may hate some current politicians in a pathetic complaint about how bad it has become “all of a sudden,” but they haven’t abandoned the evil philosophy of statism, and they don’t truly understand how it had to turn out this way. 

The American idea of liberty 

Our people thus have a very skewed view of what is happening. They have mixed and matched the philosophy of God’s liberty with the systems of men, to produce a political slave society that somehow operates with libertarian-ish overtones. 

Since men have not known that the kingdom of God and statism are incompatible enemies, they allowed men to build up Egyptian social orders while the masses identify it as a work of God. 

Despite God’s relentless demands throughout the scriptures to be remembered as the God who delivers His people from Egypt, our people have adopted the Egyptian’s methods of social organization over the kingdom of God and called it “freedom.”

Our people thus have no idea what freedom is beyond the lies fed to them by the Egyptians, e.g., that “this is a free country and you can thank a solider for it.” 

They think that living on cheap credit and debt is freedom. They think that because they haven’t been destroyed yet, they are free. 

Americans’ idea of “freedom” is that they haven’t (for now) been beaten, robbed, kidnapped, or caged, because they have complied with the robbers. As long as they’re not directly in a prison, say, for “tax evasion,” they call the open-air prison society a “free” one. As long as the sword hasn’t come down on them personally (which is only proof of them being good slaves or having dodged it thus far), then it matters not to them that tens of thousands of homes are invaded by badged thugs every year in their country. “They must have been making drugs or something.”

Very few people see the plunder and the captivity. Millions of men still believe evil things like, “If you don’t want to go to prison, then don’t commit a crime.” They have no idea that “crimes” are any arbitrary thing the government calls “illegal” and that none of this equates with morality and justice, and therefore, no idea that innocent people—men who never violated anyone’s rights and hence cannot be considered criminals—are in cages for disobeying some edict of the false gods.

How much more would it confound them to assert that the people who use force against innocent men are the real criminals!?

They also define freedom not as a political concept referring to the absence of legalized aggression in society (e.g., freedom from taxation and man’s “laws”), but in terms of their material well-being, good jobs, or their lovely families. 

For many, their houses, trucks, boats, RVs, and nice neighborhoods are proof of their “freedom.” Anyone who doesn’t want to appreciate that “we’re the richest, best, most-free country in the world” should show some more appreciation, “thank a veteran,” or “leave the country if they don’t like it.” 

They have attributed all they have to men, not to God. And they never heed the word of God on these matters, that “he who trusts in his riches will fall” (Proverbs 11:28). They didn’t read the scriptures that tell us it’s God who will feed us, and men who will bring us famines through their socialist schemes. 

Men have become drunk on the plunder of the empire and have long forgotten God, which tells us that we’re in for a major correction. The loot of the empire—the retirements that come from serving their military, the big trucks one can get with cheap credit, the high-paying jobs that one can get in its corporations—have already done the people in and caused them to sell out to the rulers. 

We were warned of this scenario where men would get carried away with worldly riches and forget about their bondage and God’s ability to deliver us from it:

“Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day. Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint. He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper” (Deuteronomy 8:11-16). 

Men quit trusting in God to feed them, protect them, house them, etc. They don’t believe in His liberty. They tell us, rather, that we would all be hungry, vulnerable to criminals, or starving, without Pharaoh to watch over us. 

They think that all they have came from the empire, which they can’t imagine will leave them desolate one day. But this is essentially God’s promise: If you think that Pharaoh feeds you and that you no longer have a need for God, you will soon find out that these “governments” are false gods that leave people homeless, broken, and starved. 

“You might say in your heart, ‘The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.’ But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day. If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish. Like the nations that the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God” (Deuteronomy 8:17-20). 

The destruction of society with wars, conflicts, poverty, famines, etc., that naturally result from state intervention is God’s way of punishing people for their sins of socialism and (hopefully) waking them back up to the need to choose God if they want to be fed. Statism destroys societies so that men will (hopefully) come back to the kingdom of God. 

Nevertheless, men are hardheaded and never learn. Even when men do see that freedom is compromised in the process of building up a state system to rob property and supposedly protect everyone with government armies and government police, then they just justify the contradiction with absurd slogans like “freedom isn’t free.” They reason that freedom has to be sacrificed to have it, i.e., men have to be robbed for trillions of dollars a year to pay for a state military. They repeat the old Bush fallacy that “we have to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market.” They claim that freedom requires a military and police state when such a system would inherently invade liberty and negate the claim to it entirely, as it more surely does every day now. 

But it’s hard to make anyone see this. As the prophet Isaiah said straight away, “My people do not understand” (Isaiah 1:3). They think slavery is freedom, and that freedom is slavery. They think that Egypt and Pharaohs are the kingdom of God and the Lord’s will. Men are “free” to them when there is a police state. 

The only real freedom is when God is the Sovereign and man’s rule ceases to stand over populations as the “legitimate authority.” But our people have not known that. They count their liberty by the number of boots men have strapped on for Pharaoh. 

The fallacy of a “godly statist” society 

To think that statist societies have God on them is thus the peak of absurdity (unless, of course, we’re considering that God’s condemnation and judgment is upon it). We see that we can never trust the view of the masses because they, by and large, think Babylonian empires are representative of the kingdom of God when the scriptures tell us it is its main enemy.  

Far from being approved by God, setting up statist societies has always been to forsake God’s liberty. As one prophet said, “They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction” (Hosea 8:4). Man’s “governments” are conspiracies against the kingdom of God, and yet men find them to be the fulfillment of God’s will. 

There is no greater contradiction than the idea of State and God together (and I don’t mean this in the sense that we need some secular State to stand alone free of religion, or that there should be a state and that it shouldn’t bother religion). There is no such thing as a “Christian State,” period. All States have their origins against God and in an attempt to substitute men for God. When Cain went to start his city-state, he “went out from the presence of the Lord” (Genesis 4:16). When Babel was being built they attempted to “reach into heaven” (Genesis 11:4). When the Israelites wanted a king, they “rejected God” (1 Samuel 10:19). All the kingdoms the prophets tell us about were deviations from the godly society, hence why they came under judgment. 

For men to believe that the evil state system has “God” on it is a great Satanic deception. That’s just how Satan works, though, to pose as good. “Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light” (2 Corinthians 11:14). 

It’s no surprise then that the plunderers have posted “In God We Trust” on their extortion courts, their predatory police cruisers, and their inflationary paper money. It’s no surprise that they teach “we” are “one nation under God.” They had to make men equate robbery and violence with God and make them believe that man’s plunder systems were sanctioned by the Lord.

Far from being a “godly” society, any statist society is essentially proof that people are under the judgment of God for their sins of worshiping false gods (e.g., politicians). Those who believe in the contradiction of “God and country” are going to struggle to maintain their lie that statism, which is nothing more than false god worship, is compatible with God and that our society is a godly one.  

American society is one full of false gods (politicians, soldiers, police officers, etc), with God, at best, on the back burner. Men in our world have regarded other men as gods. They forgot that “the Egyptians are men, and not God” (Isaiah 31:3). No wonder they have thought that man’s political systems are the kingdom of God. 

We see that our people have been all around fooled and brought into Egyptian bondage, not only without realizing it but while thinking God approved of it. 

The only way to see what’s truly going on is to turn to the word of God, since men are liars and perverters and most often come up with various socialist philosophies and worldviews when they seek to understand the world around them.

The prophets saw something other than what American men think they see when they conflate a statist society as a godly one. The statism in our society is thus the opposite of godliness; it is a society of false god worship. Far from seeing godly men in a statist society, what Isaiah saw was that “this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord” (Isaiah 30:9).          

This is a people who build states against the will of God, who repeat the lies of statism, and who calls man’s violent edicts by the good name of “law” and then justify their “law enforcers” as holy men who keep the peace when they’re the very plunderers that prey on our people daily. 

Americans vs. the Prophets 

We thus have a severe discrepancy between what the word of God says about our conditions, and what the average man thinks his society is. The prophets tell of a scene far different from the statist paradise preached by most men. 

The prophet Isaiah was seeing something in the social order of his day, which is the same as ours today, that is much different than what the average man can discern. He saw that, 

“This is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, ‘Restore'” (Isaiah 44:22). 

We’re all a bunch of tax slaves, slaves of court systems, slaves of jails and prisons, slaves of police hiding behind unmowed grass to prey on us, and very few men really care. (So few, in fact, that it’s a risk to even talk about it). The lying statists have our brothers whipped into line and none of them are crying to God to save us from these Babylonians. 

Though some men speak of vague “reforms” that need to happen, few men reject the Babylonian system outright as a great wickedness against God and His law of liberty. Our people have been taken for a spoil, and they think it has been the most glorious system the world has ever known. 

The problems that they have loosely identified (e.g., demoralized youth) are usually the effects of a system that they still support. They are more concerned that children are dying their hair blue than that thugs in blue rob our people of billions of dollars a year on the roadside alone, not to mention all the plunder of the general system that they enforce. 

To them there is no moral problem of the State itself, no real ethical reason to oppose it, but only that this system gets misused by the “wrong people” in power (as if there’s such thing as the “right people” for having power over other men). Most people still don’t see that the underlying political order, which again has its origins in rebellion against God’s order, is inherently corrupt and destined to destroy all that’s in its path. So they keep supporting it. They keep believing in the same old lies.

The prophets, on the other hand, would never repeat such tired statist slogans as one commonly encounters in American culture and upbringing. The prophets wouldn’t have been caught dead saying, “This is a free country!” On the contrary, as the prophet Jeremiah said, “For since I spoke, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil” (Jeremiah 20:8). True prophets point out the slavery around them, not call evil “good” and good “evil.” 

Jeremiah thus saw something else than what generic American statists see. He saw a plunder system that was plunderous just as sure as the daylight. “As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me” (Jeremiah 6:7). 

The prophets did not think that the societies they witnessed were free or godly societies as Americans think of their prison camp. As the prophet Habakkuk saw, “Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds” (Hab 1:3). 

Anyone who’s in tune with God can see what’s going on in our world, and those who aren’t deep in the scriptures every day rarely stand a chance of figuring out the schemes and are most often apologists for them.

Knowing who’s lying 

So how do we know who’s telling the truth? Popular “wisdom” tells us that the truth is in the majority. So shouldn’t we trust the statist masses against the lone prophets? Wasn’t the prophet Elijah just the one crazy man up against four hundred and fifty men who were right and not crazy (1 Kings 18:22)? Wouldn’t hundreds of college-educated “experts” working for the king know better than the single “crazy guy” who knows the word of God? Don’t they know best that the society around us is actually a “free” one?

It turns out, No. As hard as it is to believe, the masses are foolish and generally wrong. They are the dupes of some intellectuals and slaves to their own sinful desires to seek wisdom in their own eyes. They do not know what’s going on because they don’t search the scriptures daily for understanding, or they believe they can know without the wisdom of the Lord. Instead, they get their ideas from “the intellectuals” (i.e., statist propagandists who work in colleges), who are themselves fools and slaves to an evil system of lies. 

The main reason we should know men are liars when they preach the greatness of government is that it’s God’s word that statism must always go broke and bust. Anyone preaching the greatness of statism is a liar, fool, or both. This is the simple criterion to know who’s a false prophet: They prophesy something other than what God’s prophets teach, which is that statist societies destroy people, property, and ultimately civilization. 

Thus, anyone who tells you that “things are great” as far as the course of statism is concerned is a false prophet. Anyone who says, “Vote for me, I’ll fix everything,” is a false prophet. Anyone spinning the socialist philosophy of salvation through the state and the central planning board is a false prophet. Anyone who says that society will be fixed with the next piece of legislation, the next round of monetary inflation, more government programs, more police, more soldiers, and more state agents, is a false prophet. 

All statists are thus inherently false prophets because they’re telling us, as a necessary assumption of their evil philosophy, that something “great” can come of joining up with the Egyptians or the Assyrians. They tell us, against the word of God through His prophets, that we don’t have to seek God’s divine protection through prayer and repentance, but that we’ll be just fine in a statist order. They tell us that we don’t need God, just another round of money-printing, another tax, or another piece of legislation.

They are prophesying unto you lies, my brothers. They are demagogues whose promises are incompatible with the scriptures. They cannot be checked by God or the prophets. Statists are scheming liars. Amen. God knew it long before we did and He tried to tell us. Praise the Lord that He has been able to show a remnant that these men are liars!

Their lie is this: That they can violate the laws of God with their violent state intervention into the private market system without facing judgment for doing so. They tell people that there are no repercussions, no economic or moral effects like poverty and degeneracy, to introducing violence and coercion into the social order in the form of “taxes,” “laws,” “police,” etc.

Statists think they can do whatever they want without being destroyed for it (e.g., they say things like “deficits don’t matter”). They never even think that their plunder societies will go up in smoke for their plundering. Their evil eyes are glued on the loot which they think is everlasting. “Sinners say, ‘We will find all manner of precious goods, we will fill our houses with plunder'” (Proverbs 1:13). 

It is the ignorance and evil of all socialists who think they can substitute central planning boards, politics, and a ruling elite, for God’s natural order. It is the sinful belief that men can bring peace and prosperity through state plunder. 

God shows it isn’t true. Destruction comes to all those societies that forsake God and trust in men. All statist/socialist societies fail every time. And praise God that they do! What a loving God that we have, that He will not allow statist tyrants to come down on us forever. Statism doesn’t work. It’s God’s Law.

Most “men” don’t know this. Americans are mostly delusional statists who believe in the plethora of lies spun by socialist propagandists. They will tell you that soldiers and police fight for our “freedom” and our “rights,” not against them. They will tell you the evil statist empire is a bastion of free markets and liberty. 

So the word of God comes as a wrecking ball to any man who thinks he can build a statist society without it crumbling on him. It is probably no wonder men don’t want to confront it: It proves their false gods to be, well, false.