Leaving Egypt Ministries, Obadiah D. Morris

A year has passed since God put it on my heart to launch a ministry and share His liberating word with others. I haven’t accomplished nearly as much as I imagined I would at first, but such year-marks give one time to reflect on the work that has been done. I’m grateful that things have come this far and that I have been able to produce something at all to honor the Lord and help share the anti-statist word that He is always trying to deliver to everyone, but which usually falls on deaf ears. I couldn’t have foreseen the articles that would eventually be published, since I started without a plan to write anything certain, but I am satisfied with the direction my pen has taken. 

There was a spiritual struggle at first. I was being tempted to give up and delete the site out of a fear that the enemy and the statists were trying to put into me. One state idolater, on orders from the devil, even wrote the site telling me to close it down because he found its teachings—more like its rebuke of his idolatry for the State—to be dangerous. 

I have had to learn a few things along the way. I initially planned on writing hundreds of articles and publishing one every other day or so. I realized things don’t quite come along that fast. I am still sitting on a hundred incomplete articles that I never got around to finishing so far. I learned that we have to be patient with these things anyway, even when we are anxious to see some fruits of our work and to see God’s kingdom furthered. Our desire to serve God is often stronger than our abilities, which still says something of our hearts. I learned that you have to lay some groundwork before you can continue other ministry work. On that note, I’m not too disappointed at the articles I have been able to get out. They should provide men something to run into if they were to come across a flier in person and find their way to the site. And each one of them should sufficiently attack one of the political idols—flags, constitutions, central banks, presidents, soldiers, police, or governments themselves—that men commonly harbor.

I also expected to have found a few other writers at this point, but God has sent only one so far, who I am more than blessed to have found. I have been immensely grateful for having got into contact with Paul Maitrejean, who has supplied me with a handful of articles that have been perfectly fitting for the ministry work I am trying to do: tearing down idols. We met each other online, and he immediately stepped up to the plate and submitted some articles once I had solicited him to. 

Non-internet based goals I’ve had in mind have been slow to materialize. None of the on-the-ground projects I’ve planned—providing people with paths to voluntary-based community organization, leafleting thousands of people, etc—have really been set in motion, though I continue to conceive of them. Perhaps God has them on hold so they can be better by the time they are launched. One big online project that the Holy Spirit laid on me over a year ago is nearing its completion, however, and should be in good enough shape to launch toon. I think it will do a lot to defend a major mission of this ministry: to show that governments are violent and evil, as God said they would be if men foolishly sought human kings instead of the Lord their God. Stay tuned!  

I have been able to flyer a few people and places, but not nearly to the level I wanted to at first. I printed a handful of pamphlets and put them in random places. (I should probably share them online for others to print). I haven’t written letters to a list of statist idolaters (pastors, authors, etc) that I have in mind to write, but still plan on it. And I’ve been slow to move some other things along that have been weighing on me.  

A couple people have reached out to me to let me know that they see the work of the Holy Spirit on the site and that the articles have been edifying to them, which really gave me a boost of energy and feeling that I am not writing for nothing. I’m really thankful to have heard from these strangers, who are yet brothers in the same cause. In Jesus’s Parable of the Lost Sheep, He tells just how much there is to rejoice in bringing back even one lost sheep to the Good Shepherd (Matt. 18:10-14). I am happy to find one sheep that’s ready to return to the Lord. A couple others wrote to say the opposite, that God doesn’t really oppose statism as I argue is one of the chief sins and idolatries of men. They wrote in a failed attempt to instill some doubt in the word that I know to be true and from God.

We will keep pressing on. I pray that God sends more laborers for a truly plentiful harvest that awaits us. There is so much for us out there, and very few of us are seeking it hard enough. I pray for more articles, more writers, and more readers.

Though it’s hard to gauge the stats accurately, it appears that in our first year of online ministry, approximately 1,100 people have visited the site, with approximately 2,500 views on its pages. Not enough to throw us in the lion’s den yet, but enough that a few souls have been reached, even if they have rejected it thus far.

The first year of articles 

I was able to begin with an article that points out the idolatry of such popular American holidays that most men are blind to, which is a major goal of this ministry. And I was able to write another one on the same subject a year later. This pride-for-government is a main idol this ministry seeks to attack. 

Thus, I wrote how this statist pride is no better (or worse, even) than other forms of pride that such flag-worshipers will criticize. In fact, as I argued, state pride is the essence of pride in the Bible. And I tried to prove this further by showing that God’s judgment is always coming against the proud men of governments, and how their pride is precisely associated with a lack of fear of this judgment. I also gave a brief run-down of these proud men in case anyone still can’t figure out who they are. 

I laid out a little bit of theory as to how States work so well to gain control over men by exploiting the tendency toward idolatry in men, and what our current political scene looks like.

I have pointed out how the rulers fool men into thinking that they are “free” as a way of pacifying them, but how we really have the opposite of liberty. I have explained how following men leads to slavery, and how the only true liberty is found in the Lord. I have also written about the captivity we’re living under. 

I have written about how the State, which many men worship as their “god” and even think is compatible with their faith in the One True God, is really the enemy of God’s kingdom. And how this principle applies to all levels of government.  

I have made comments on the evils of singing “national anthems” and other such things like the “pledge of allegiance,” which men sing to celebrate a false “freedom.” I have pointed out how these things are a display of man’s deification of the State as a god.

And I wrote how singing godly, scriptural songs are actually focused on breaking out of our slavery, whereas the secular hymns of the State embrace it. 

I commented how the worship and patriotism for the State is really what idolatry and sin is all about, and how this is somehow entirely overlooked by most people. And I argued that state pride is not the exception to an understanding of pride that many men think it is. 

And I started my planned series on the “King of kings” in the scriptures, and how king-seeking is really the chief sin of men and his main way of rebelling against God. 

I also wrote about just how much we need to get back to God to break out of our political slavery. 

I did complete the series on Jonah I set out to finish, which would be a lot of heavy truths for most men (largely state worshipers) to take in. I wrote how the story of Jonah can help give us courage to preach God’s word, how we should seek for men to repent rather than hope for them to be destroyed, and how we should try to go easy on men given that so many of them are entirely in the dark about the evils of our world. 

I have written about our calling to preach the word of God to others and work to organize into Christian communities, all while so many Christians think there isn’t really anything we can (or should) be doing down here below, which for them is nothing much more than waiting to be raptured or for the millennial reign to fall from the sky. 

I have written how we should be telling men of the destruction and fall that comes with setting up evil systems as we have done here. And I wrote a small study of Isaiah 10 that serves as a good proof-text for the judgment that God brings upon such statist systems as ours. 

And I wrote about the dangers of teaching men God’s radical word, which threatens to overturn social systems as men know them today, and the difficulties of preaching God’s word to men who refuse to listen or repent. 

I wrote on the typical error that so-called “progressive Christians” make: to think that because we are called to serve others, that therefore (as they falsely conclude) the State should be the one doing it, and that all those who oppose the State are (supposedly) people who don’t care to serve their neighbors (when precisely the opposite is the truth: the State is a violent attack on our neighbors and the most ungodly way of “serving” them). And I have written about ways that men invent to forsake their duty of serving their neighbors. 

I have written on how men are tempted with paychecks to serve evil systems that God opposes, and how some Christians in the past have seen that we are not to become state police officers or soldiers. 

I started my series on the meaning of “God-fearing” in the Bible, and how we should fear God rather than governments, how fearing God means knowing the judgment He brings against wicked societies as ours, and how fearing God rather than men is necessary to liberty.  

I have tried to show how trusting in man’s political systems is not just incompatible with faith in God, but how trust in state armies and state police to save us demonstrates a complete unfaith in the Lord to take care of us. I tried to show how men who trust in God instead have no need whatsoever for man’s militaries. I also tried to show just how much the statist idea of men (that we need state militaries) differs from where the Biblical authors had placed their hopes for security. 

I have tried to explain that the political situation we have today, where the State rules over everyone and everything is not only far from God’s will, but that such taxation and political slavery is evidence of the curse that He brings upon us for turning away from Him and towards men. I have written how the State is a tool used by God, but to bring terror rather than order, as a way of teaching men a lesson in the evils of statism. And against those who claim we’re just making this stuff up and putting words in God’s mouth, I wrote how it isn’t true that we don’t have any idea about God’s nature and desire for us.  

Paul Maitrejean also wrote an article discussing how men come to fight against this political mess when their own statism is what brought about the disaster, and how confronting the statist enslavement is a better Biblical response than trying to keep participating in it or fighting against it. 

Paul also helped me attack a big idol that I wanted to tear down ahead of the 2024 election season, showing that Christians have no duty to vote, and even worse, that voting is blasphemous and also that it denies the Kingship of the Lord. And contrary to those who conflate abstention from voting and politics with withdraw from the world entirely (as if political action exhausts the means for change), Paul also wrote how repentance alone is our way of changing our social order. 

I also wrote how attempting to get politically involved in these systems is futile, given that they’re Babylonian systems and not systems that we should attempt to mold into the Kingdom of God. 

I wrote a little about the persecution and prosecution that God’s people face even when they haven’t “broken the law” — contra the statists who tell us we don’t have to get beat by their police so long as we obey them (something that will further be proven to be a lie in the upcoming project I have planned!).  

I wrote about the false prophets who attempt to teach men that statism is righteous and good and that there is nothing for us to worry about as far as the stability of the statist society. And I wrote how men who know the truth about the system of political plunder that stands above us would react much differently than those who are still celebrating it. And I wrote how these state holidays when men praise the rulers for everything they have should be an occasion to look back to the Lord. 

I was able to publish a few memes as a way of getting God’s word out there. Hopefully I can add many more once I cross the scriptures that call for it.

I was able to get one interview, with Pastor Ted R. Weiland, who helped me attack the false god of the “constitutional republic,” another idol I’ve been wanting to tear down. 

I also wrote about the false god of central banking, which average men are unaware of and which the educated idolaters defend as indispensable to smooth economic functioning. 

And I wrote about the power of one man to make an impact on the world and cause some minor troubles for the elites. 

I hope you have enjoyed what this ministry has produced in its first year, and I hope and pray that the Lord will continue to provide the energy I need to further its causes, which are all meant to serve Him. Praise God for what He has shown me.