Leaving Egypt Ministries, Obadiah D. Morris

When, in rare instances, men come to have some indignation for government, it’s often directed only toward the “federal” government. They usually fail to look local, even thinking that their county, and the “sheriffs deputies” who enforce these systems, are their friends and exist for the good of the local community.

But we should always be clear that such political plunder is inherent in all so-called “government,” even the so-called “local” one that is supposedly a better representative of “the people.” Indeed, county-level government might just be conceived of as smaller administrative units of the state, existing to assure that the extortion of the population can extend to all corners of the territory that the central statists control, which might otherwise be out of reach from the men who reside in their centers of power.

As God warned us, this is what we should expect anytime these systems are set up.

“[They] will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to [their] servants. [They] will take a tenth of your grain and grape harvest and give it to [their] officials and servants” (1 Samuel 8:14-15).

This post is just to show one of the thousands of cases of this happening on the county level for those who still refuse to see it. The case here is Geraldine Tyler, a retired woman in her eighties struggling to get by, who had her home stolen by some people calling themselves a “county government.” From the article:

“Tyler…moved out of her Minneapolis condo, which she owned, and relocated to an apartment in a safer neighborhood. She struggled to cover both her rent and the property taxes on her condo, accruing $2,300 in back taxes and another $13,000 in penalties, interest, and late fees. Tyler could not afford to pay the $2,300 debt, much less the total bill. So the county foreclosed on her condo and sold it…The government, after selling her condo for $40,000, [kept] all of the proceeds instead of deducting her debt and returning the $25,000 difference to her.”

We’re paying for our sins dearly today in the great plunder system called “government.” The prophets warned us about these people, but men still worshipped them anyway.

“They covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage” (Micah 2:2).