Leaving Egypt Ministries, Obadiah D. Morris

It is rare in our world that a man can even recognize his conditions as a slave to a political regime, but when he comes to the light, he might begin to wonder how he found himself living among a bunch of Babylonian state worshipers and how to get away from them.

Here we have already answered our problem: 

We live in an Egyptian society because there are millions of men among us who are idolatrous state worshipers. It is through idolatry—one of the main sins mentioned in the first couple of commandments—that men fall as captives to men who pretend as “gods.”

Men get enslaved in Egyptian societies because they trust in the protection of men over God, because they trust in the Salvation State more than the promise of the Lord God to provide for them. 

What men think

Most men, of course, think something other than what the word of God teaches. Most men think that liberty requires a State, that without a State there is no liberty, or that statism is God’s system of liberty. They tell us, in effect, that society cannot go without socialism. 

What do men think leads to slavery, poverty, war, famine, destruction, crime, lawlessness, and “anarchy”? In short, they think that a stateless society, i.e., the free society of liberty under God where there are no “kings” but Christ the King, is what would give way to these things, and that it is only for our luck that “great” things like the Egyptian system have come down from the heavens to save us and prevent all these evils from happening. Without them, “we’d be speaking Arabic.”

If you ask almost any man what the world would be like without Pharaohs and Caesars, without building Egyptian and Roman societies for “law and order,” they will most all tell you that things would be terrible. They would tell you that all of the things that are, in fact, true of their Egyptian societies, are true of the kingdom of God.

They think their gods—the rulers of the state system—are the ones who have given them everything that is is great in the world, from protection, wealth, health, or education. “Their gods [are the] rock in whom they trusted” (Deuteronomy 32:37). They are the “gods unto whom they made their oblations” (Jeremiah 11:12), i.e., who they thank for keeping them “safe” and “free.”

Men are so fooled that they will tell you that civilization itself rests on the mighty acts of state rulers to take up the sword against the enemies of freedom, which they pretend are waiting in every corner ready to pounce on men without great armies and chariots to stand in the way and keep us free. They will tell you, in other words, that the greatest threat to civilization—the socialist plunder inherent in any state—is the keeper of “liberty.” 

It is completely common in American culture to think that “freedom” comes from the State, even if one also holds some notion about it being God-given (but “constitutionally protected”). Completely forgetting about God, most men think that we should “thank a vet for our freedoms.” For them, “freedom” comes from powerful armies that go to war on our behalf and men who sacrifice themselves to Baal—I mean, “freedom.”

Without these soldiers, wars, great tax plunder to fund it, police everywhere, distortion of the economy, etc., we’re told that it would be “anarchy” and “chaos.” But,”thank God” we have government and “freedom” instead.    

God’s liberty is shamed in the eyes of most men. They think that the kingdom of God, where men live freely under God as the sovereign, is a chaotic and anti-social “anarchy” that doesn’t work, but that their violence, wars, and economic destruction, are the height of society and civilization. 

This is how fooled most men are. Their masters have trained them to see liberty as the enemy and to see political violence and plunder as their friend and only ally. 

The rulers have, in short, caused men to take their eyes off the Lord. And this, in turn, causes God to remove His protection from such disobedient people. 

What the Scriptures teach

As expected, the scriptures teach something other than the conventional wisdom of men above, who think that statism is indispensable to liberty and prosperity, rather than its enemy. 

The scriptures teach the opposite: They say that liberty requires God and that whenever men forget God as their God, they end up turning to false gods (kings, presidents, soldiers) and getting conquered by this gang of plunderers who pretend to protect them. They teach that the statist society is possible—that the Babylonian invaders are able to break through—when men trust in Egypt to protect them, and institute military-police states. 

As opposed to men, who teach that “we would all be slaves without a government,” the scriptures teach that such slavery comes about precisely when men choose human kings to be their lords rather than God as the Lord. 

We get statist prison societies when we fail to have faith in the Lord’s liberty and go after Egyptian protection—militaristic police states—instead of His kingdom, say, out of fear that we won’t be fed if we walk away from Pharaoh or that “the bad guys” or “the terrorists” will come and get us. 

Far from what the masses tell us, then, we get enslaved by the very thing that most people tell us brings about liberty: “state protection.” 

It was the copying of heathen statists that led us into this trap of instituting an evil (statism) to fight another (XYZ bad guy). As the scriptures warned,

“if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee” (Exodus 23:33). 

We were never supposed to ally with statists, accept their “constitutions,” follow their man-made “law” systems, or pretend that we are part of some “social contract” with them.

We are told, instead,

“Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst” (Exodus 34:12). 

Paul gives this same message.

“Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols?” (2 Corinthians 6:14-16).

We were supposed to avoid associating with statists in their violent societies,

“so that they cannot teach you to do all the detestable things they do for their gods, and so cause you to sin against the LORD your God” (Deuteronomy 20:18). 

But our people learned the ways of man’s false gods anyway. They started worshiping Egyptian military societies and forgot about God, thus leaving them as slaves under a regime that is going to leave them high and dry in the end. 

Far from choosing God’s liberty and getting all the blessings—peace and prosperity—that come to the obedient, Jeremiah could say,

“We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread” (Lamentations 5:6). 

This is the ongoing scriptural story, where men go whoring after false gods (e.g., kings) in search of their protection, where men want to build and run an Egyptian system and place all of their faith in this beast. It is this that brings about their bondage to a ruling elite, which causes them to be subjugated by their enemies instead of free under God. 

Far from statism saving us, its ill effects are proof of being under God’s judgment. Far from being a blessing to a people, statism is a curse. Far from it being wise to trust in Egyptian societies for a sustainable means of social organization, God smashes these statist orders—both the rulers and their sinful followers—as based in sin. As the Lord said,

“Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him” (Jeremiah 46:25). 

Getting out of Egypt

We can choose God and avoid statism and its false gods if we want. God won’t forsake those who no longer forsake Him (which means men need to repent of their statism, i.e., their worship, idolatry, support, and philosophy of the State). The scriptures say that men must turn from their wickedness (i.e., their spiritual and ideological support for political violence) if they want to get free from these enemies of liberty and God’s kingdom, not that they need coercive, statist defense monopolies. 

And they teach that the reason we are slaves to political rulers, who got here through lies, scandals, force, and fraud (all which God’s word exhorts us to never fall for), is because we gave into this sin of statism — of believing that men can be “as gods” and rule over other people and attempt to substitute themselves for God. 

As if to assure that no one could ever be confused, the prophet Ezekiel made a clear connection between the sin of statolatry and the slave society. He said,

“The heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword” (Ezekiel 39:23). 

It was the sin against God of worshiping man’s power systems that brought about our neo-Babylonian society, which God allowed us to have out of our own foolish and sinful desire to consider the sword—as opposed to voluntary association—the proper means of social organization. 

This verse alone encapsulates virtually the whole gist of all the prophets’ message here in defense of the idea that trusting in statism as a means of fighting statism leads not to liberty, but to slavery. We are abandoned by God to statist rulers when we give into statism, not when (as we’re told) we forego Egyptian militaries. It is disobedience to God, i.e., a trust in man and his “laws” and therefore his “law enforcers,” that lead to Babylonian occupation and that leads God to abandon us. 

Foolishly and sinfully trusting in men, i.e., so-called “governments,” to protect you, leads to a statist slave society. It leads to the very society—Babylonian invaders and occupiers—that scared everyone so much that they instituted it upon their own heads. States and their destruction are a curse from God against a people who failed to believe in their Lord. 

The prophets tell a story much different than your average American statist, who may even profess Christ as Lord. The prophets tell us that statism comes down upon those who trust in Egypt, not those who trust in God! 

Contrary to the lies of statists, it is not forgoing man’s armies and police states that lead us into the hands of captors, kidnappers, thieves, and murderers, but forsaking God’s protection and trusting in police states over liberty. 

Statists are liars, fools, or both when they tell us that statism is what’s needed for our protection, and since the word of God tells us otherwise, they demonstrate themselves as haters of God when they believe in these men.  

Losing divine protection

The statist narrative that protection of enemies is lost without a state is contrary to the word of God, who promises to turn people over to the statist enemy if they fail to trust in the Lord for their protection. 

In the scriptures, trusting in man’s “protection” (e.g., his police and military) is the very thing that causes God to forget about people and let statism flourish. It is statism that causes God to forget societies that have apparently found new gods for themselves and don’t need God anymore. It is these things that cause God to say,

“I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it” (Ezekiel 7:22).

Thus, far from being vulnerable to “the Chinese” or “the Russians” or some other boogeyman if we didn’t have the plunderers watching over us, the sure way to let the statists into your society—whether a foreign gang that one fears will invade them or a domestic gang that claims to protect them from the foreign bad guys—is to abandon God and trust in men to protect you. 

It is trusting in men leads to captivity. And this is what our people have done. Lord, save us. 

Men are fools to believe they would be saved if they reside in Egypt and trust in Pharaoh to feed them. The scriptures teach that all the things statists promise men—food, security, shelter, clothing, peace with their neighbors—only come through God’s liberty, which is by necessity negated when men chase after the domination systems of men. 

It is only in God’s free society that men can say, “Our cattle will be well fed, there will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our public squares” (Psalm 144:14). The systems of men lead to famine, war, poverty, desolation. It’s The Law. 

As long as men believe soldiers and police keep them safe and free, they will find themselves living under shortages of goods, rising prices, rising taxation, and more arbitrary legislative “laws” — they will find themselves invaded by other men who assert a right to control their property and person, rather than safe in their dwellings under the Lord. 

Those who believe in the statist method of “security,” “protection,” “law,” “justice,” etc., lead their people into slave societies. “Our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this” (2 Chronicles 29:9). 

Far from bringing forth the results or objectives that statists promise men through political policymaking, its terrible effects and consequences—heavy and burdensome things like famines and death camps—may be better conceived as the punishments from God for the sin of believing these false gods were saviors and that their wicked systems, their corrupt tree, could produce any good fruit. 

Yet this is what men always do, in the scriptures and in our day: They believe they can go against God, build States, and not have to pay the price for it. The scriptures are a story of God looking down upon a sinful bunch of socialist state worshipers who thought that they would be saved by Egyptian systems, only to find themselves enslaved and then (maybe then) calling on God’s help, getting delivered, and then falling back into worshiping kings and princes again and back into Babylon. 

While it may be true that “religion” has been used as a tool for social control before and has been allied with the plunderers throughout history, God’s word has always stood as a testament to the law of God that men and their statist systems cannot violate the “economic” and “moral” laws of our world no matter how much they attempt to socially engineer society and shape it according to their vain imaginations. 

Disobedience to God is why we’re captives

It is disobeying God—not forsaking man’s military societies—that leads to the plunder system we’re under today. Men didn’t trust in God’s liberty to provide for them but said they needed Pharaohs and Caesars to help keep order, justice, the law, society, and peace in general. 

Those who believe in the foolish lies of statism, e.g., that militaristic police states are the salvation for men and their societies, are the ones who lead their people into slavery. As Isaiah could say,

“My people are gone into captivity because they have no knowledge” (Isaiah 5:13).

We didn’t wind up as the poor captives of some political rulers because we chose liberty, as the statists wrongly connect with a free society; we’re slaves because we chose the political systems of men over God’s liberty, because we thought Pharaoh’s many chariots and horsemen would be the glory of our people instead of their decline. 

Our people have been in grave error to have believed that we would be under tyranny without a gigantic plunder gang above them to “protect” them from “XYZ bad guys.” 

God’s word shows us something else: It is trusting in false gods (e.g., princes, kings, presidents, congressmen, etc) to protect you and provide for you that leads to a plantation society millions of square miles wide.

Statists are out of line with the scriptures when they tell us that we get subjected to our enemies when we don’t build up a massive state army and trust in kings to watch over us. The prophets described a world where God gives us over to our enemies when we disobey Him, namely by choosing these man-made statist orders over His kingdom, not vice versa.

We are not enslaved by “the Chinese” if we choose God’s liberty, as those who love their plunderous militaries tell us. On the contrary, you get the Chinese system when you trust in a “State” to protect you from “XYZ bad guys.” You get the socialism of your enemy when you say that “the only means of combating socialism is to go socialist.”

And you get it even harder if you think it’s “liberty” because it’s draped in flags, slogans, and songs, because then the plunderers have free reign to take millions of fools for a spoil while the blind run around in circles and produce for them. Our people gave into socialism/statism and they called it “freedom,” yet it was to adopt the “principles” of their enemies. They said, “The only way to beat the communists is with communism.”

If men want Babylon, usually because they say (in an amazing contradiction) that it would be Babylon without King Nebuchadnezzar, then God reluctantly gives them over to their evil wishes, after telling them of course that they have chosen the sure road to slavery. 

As men have long known, you can’t keep liberty if you give it up for (false) security; it is lost when entrusted to men and their systems. As the prophet Jeremiah tells disobedient statists who rebel against God,

“You will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever” (Jeremiah 17:4). 

When men leave behind God and claim they need Egypt’s protection (i.e., a monstrously evil state system), they ought to be prepared to endure all the inevitable evils that result from these choices as law (war, invasion, impoverishment, moral degeneracy, etc), and indeed all those evils that they foolishly thought would come about without Pharaoh’s expert oversight of the grain storages, the armed forces, the means of protection in society, etc.

“You will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you” (Deuteronomy 28:48). 

If you like food, clothing, shelter, safety, community, family, social order, and economic progress, you must avoid statism/socialism. If you like being free of men with guns who believe they have a right to tell other people what to do and cage those who resist them, you must avoid false god worship. 

Conclusion

We see that average men are entirely wrong when they claim liberty comes from the political plunderers. It is this very belief—that we need men to rule over us and “protect” us—that leads to political enslavement. It is forsaking God’s kingdom for man’s, with the relevant effects. 

The statists are thus entirely wrong. Allowing men to rule over us leads not to liberty but to political enslavement. When men let a government military grow up around them for their “protection,” it ends up being a great siphon on private resources and a great force that comes down upon them. It ends up robbing them of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of their property to fund a machine that makes war-makers rich and destroys whole countries and people, including those wielding the sword when the bill comes due. 

Those who say the Egyptians will save us are liars and false prophets. Isaiah saw where Egyptian protection (e.g., “The Army”) leads: “Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace” (Isaiah 30:3). Those who trust in Egypt should expect to see their societies devastated, not saved. They should expect to find themselves captives of a regime more evil than the conjectural and foreign one that scared them into trusting in Pharaoh’s horses and chariots.

The glories of the empire are thus only “cool” and “glorious” for a short while. And then it fades, and the people fall. The old “glories” of Babylon end up being the destruction of society, as the prophets said. And yet these backward people always kill the prophets who tell the people of their sins and evils, namely through their faith in statism. They crucify the people who know how to lead men back to the way God intended them to be, and they keep their people in captivity. 

While the might of state militaries may seem “awesome” at first, then, it soon becomes evident that all other private interests in society become subordinate to feeding the beast, which eventually leaves everyone poor, broken, robbed, or killed. Their machines and power are “awesome” until you find yourself running from Blackhawk helicopters and praying to God in the sewers that your enemy can’t find you with the technology he bought with your property. 

Babylon is coming under judgment today for her sins of worshiping false god states. Men are not ready for the great destruction that the systems of men have planned against them in all the years they refused to believe a conspiracy and system of plunder was at work. 

Our people have gone astray. Some are only beginning to see the cracks, if they aren’t deeper in the delusion than ever before. They are only beginning to see how complicit they have been in the evils. 

We still need men to repent of their statism, which is what brings about Babylonian shackles. Anyone still worshiping the false gods ought to get on the level of the psalmists, who wept at what they saw and cried to the Lord for salvation from their enemies. Anyone still waving flags and rooting for the empire might want to confess, “We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly” (Psalm 106:6).

We ought to be praying that our people recover from their sickness of statism and come by to the Lord, and yet many are still going as if the Babylonian scene is what God had intended it to be. 

Our people have gone into captivity and haven’t even known it. They thought “Egyptian freedom” was a real thing.