[This is part 7 in a series on the “fear of the Lord” in the scriptures. See part one, two, three, four, five, six, eight, nine, ten]

Leaving Egypt Ministries, Obadiah D. Morris

I have already written about this in another article, but I will make this very important point again. The plunderers—the gang of political rulers who have controlled humanity for millennia—have always known that generating fear is a way to control men and get them to submit to the new plans of the schemers. 

And so they give us “Great Depressions” to get us to submit to “New Deals” and “World Wars” that pave the way for domestic and foreign expansion of state power; “Red Scares” to get us to submit to a domestic socialism and militarism of our own; “terrorist attacks” to get us to submit to domestic surveillance programs; “Great Recessions” to excuse the creation of trillions of more dollars by the central bank and massive interventions; and “pandemics” like Operation Covid-19 to get us to submit to the twenty-first-century technocratic system.

Fear is how you whip people into line. Did you see how many got in the sheep line in the past couple of years? They report that four-fifths of the sheep got in the sheep line at least once. And you can still hear echoes of people (four years after the greatest global psyop the world has ever known) saying how they got their “booster” and are going for more.

To be free from statists, we must fear God, i.e., trust in His protection. We would most surely not want to erect a State that is supposedly “us” to combat statism. This makes no sense. But this is what men do: Out of the fear of an alleged statist rule or the alleged prevalence of “bad guys” running around everywhere, men institute so-called “governments” that turn out to be the very type of enemy they feared in the first place. In the name of “fighting criminals,” they erect the very mass robbery they said would happen if it weren’t for Pharaohs, Pharoah’s “lawmakers,” or his police. In the name of a “war on terror,” they created the very tyrannical regimes they were (supposedly) to fight against. In the name of “containing communists,” society undergoes the socialization and statization that such systems were (supposedly) to protect us from. 

Fearing God

God’s good word gives us a solution to all this statist tyranny that men have always experienced since the beginning of time, when God’s instruction was always neglected: Fear God! 

When we fear God, we can’t possibly trust in men, since to fear God means precisely to fear what He does to those regimes—the plagues on Egypt, the fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—and the people within them who disobey God by setting up men as the “gods.”

But the coercion of the State—”comply with our decrees or we lock you in a cage”—usually works to scare men into believing in these false gods. Men are so worried about their security, their jobs, or their very bodies, that they’re scared to obey God and speak out against the systems of men. They take the vaccines, blindly pay taxes to fund the evils of government, and shut their mouths. And in the gospels, we get one of the greatest instructions of all from the Lord:

“Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28). 

The statists and their servants may arrest us, charge us with bogus crimes, and put us in cages, but we are God’s children forever no matter what they do to us now. Our fear ought clearly to be in the Lord, who truly saves His people. Amen. The salvation of men and their governments is a false salvation. Those who still believe in the Salvation State have not learned this lesson from God. 

“Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation” (Psalm 146:3).

We were never supposed to trust in men (e.g., the “US Army”) for our protection. We were to trust in God for protection from enemies too.

“Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless” (Psalm 108:12). 

Those shallow “atheists” who think the call to ‘fear God’ is just some unfounded religious suggestion to those who, for some weird reason, want to submit to a mythical being cannot see that fearing God is absolutely essential to avoiding societies that erect human rulers who always end up killing and starving everyone. We are told “to fear the Lord our God for our good always and for our survival” (Deuteronomy 6:24). For our survival! It is not that God is some unjust and arbitrary tyrant who we fear for no real reason, but that we know what happens when men fail to fear the Lord and submit to men instead: they set up man-god-kings to “protect” them, only to wind up enslaved to them.

And nor is it just a cause and effect problem, but fearing God even sums up our duties as Christians. 

“What does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul” (Deuteronomy 10:12).

The irony of fearing God, I guess, is that those who fear Him don’t have to fear; it’s those who deny God and believe they can do their own ways—erect their own control societies, experiment with socialist central planning, etc—who ought to be afraid (but who, in their pride, do not fear God’s judgment). For it is these systems that bring great terror upon men, as witnessed all throughout the twentieth century and all of history.

Fear-based rule

The state rulers trick men into slavery by inducing the fear of men in them, so that men obey the systems of men instead of the commandments of God, and so that they trust in their false protection over God’s. The global panic they created in 2020 over an alleged virus was perhaps one of the global power elite’s greatest schemes to date in the history of man. Though perhaps owing to modern communication in some way, hardly ever before have billions of people, in all corners of the world, been roped into one of their fear campaigns. 

The main scheme of the State is getting men to fear men so that they all believe the lies of men that salvation is in Egypt instead of the Lord. Recall how one early-21st century Pharaoh once spoke to a crowd of fools after fear had been induced in them:

“We’re using all elements of American power to protect the American people by taking the fight to the enemy. Our troops are carrying out operations day by day to bring the terrorists to justice. We’re keeping the pressure on them. We’re forcing them to move. Our law enforcement and intelligence professionals are working to cut off terrorist financing and disrupt their networks. Our diplomats are rallying our friends and allies throughout the region to share intelligence and to tighten security and to rout out the extremists hiding in their midst. Every day we work to protect the American people. Our strategy is this: We will fight them over there so we do not have to face them in the United States of America.”

Most people believe these lies.

It’s the trap of the world. It’s the history of the world. This is the trap that men always fall in. “Without our soldiers making sacrifices for us, you wouldn’t be free today” is the common notion among Americans. 

The perversion isn’t true. Our statist society has opened us up to “our own government” (a myth) as the enemy, created false and real enemies for us around the world that otherwise wouldn’t have existed, and gave a state apparatus to other political groups with which to even have anything to gain control over and use against people. 

We got here because we trusted in men instead of God to protect us — because men who said they knew God didn’t care for His commandments and His Law and his offer of protection, but confined God to the “spiritual realm” and raised up men as their “protectors.” As a slogan of some recent state worshipers goes, “Jesus is my savior — Trump is my president.” They didn’t believe they have a King already; the Lord was nothing more than some afterlife soul-savior who supposedly has little or no power on earth to protect against enemies, even though He teaches otherwise (Matt 6:10, 28:18).

But men don’t even see the slavery, and they think we got “here”—this statist society that they call a “free” one—thanks to men (soldiers, police, politicians, etc), and they tell us that slavery would come (it’s already here) if we didn’t have these people over us. Our people are afraid, and not of what the Lord does to these systems but of what men would supposedly do to them if they didn’t have false god rulers “protecting” them.

We will have to get back to the Lord if we ever hope to get out of Egyptian bondage; man-fearing leads us right into it.