Leaving Egypt Ministries, Obadiah D. Morris

Among a handful of scriptures that are twisted and perverted by statists who like to appropriate God’s anti-statist word as justifications for their allegedly God-approved system of political violence are Jesus’s words given in His sermon on the mountain, “Blessed are the peacemakers” (Matthew 5:9). Since police officers, who are tasked with violently enforcing any arbitrary edict given by Caesar that they call “law,” have conflated their title with “peace officer,” they like to imagine that they are the “peacemakers” — that the Lord is talking to them when He is addressing the meek, the poor in spirit, the pure in heart, and the persecuted. (They’re the ones doing the persecuting, not those who are among the persecuted, though it is not surprising that the victim mentality of these men, many who are psychopaths, leads them to think they’re the “good guys” who are being hurt and everyone they hurt are the “bad guys”). 

But they are far from men who follow Jesus’s words to “love your enemies and do good to them” (Luke 6:35). Their “jobs” are to charge, catch, or beat up anyone who is deemed to be an enemy of the State — which, in the early days of police and still today, are not just true criminals who violate men or their property, but anyone who fails to satisfy some edict of the State. Their idea of “law” is not based on God or any set of ethics, but simply to use violence for whatever men say is “illegal.” They are out enforcing the “statutes,” “codes,” and “laws” of men, not the laws of God. And since these edicts have no necessary connection to any true crime (ie., trespass against person or property), this means that police necessarily use violence against innocent (ie., non-violent) people who have not invaded anyone’s bodies or property and thus cannot be considered criminals (making the one using violence in the name of “the law” the true criminal).

Moreover, a police officer’s income is funded through taxation, which is compulsory and coercive. If men don’t pay taxes, these very “peace officers” will be the ones to show up and haul us off to a courtroom, and then a prison. Their means of being paid is contradictory in and of itself. The concept of a peacemaker must be related to an act of charity and personal responsibility. If a peacemaker gets paid, then he has a conflict of interest against peace. He is a moneymaker. If a peacemaker gets paid with taxes, then his very existence is war against taxpayers whose own income is extracted by force and extortion to pay for the so-called peacemaker. 

But don’t they claim to know the Lord? 

But it is no surprise that men who sign up to hurt those who don’t obey politicians (or their personal commands) pretend that they know the Lord, and that they would try and present themselves as the “peacemakers” Jesus was talking about when they’re, in fact, exactly the opposite. We read that “Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light” (2 Corinthians 11:14), that many people claim to know the Lord but really don’t (Matt 7:22). It is to be expected that men of darkness pretend to be children of God and blasphemously plaster a “thin blue line” flag in the middle of Jesus’s words (something so ridiculous that it hasn’t even really been seen until the last decade, as man’s idolatrous displays have seemingly grown).  

But Jesus taught that we know men by their fruit, not simply the words of their mouths (Matt 7:15-20). What matters is what a man actually does, not what he says. Of course a man can say he is a Christian while he wears a badge for Pharaoh’s plunder system. The proof that a man is following Christ is not that he claims to know Him, however, but that he has actually turned from evil. You’re not walking with the Lord if you strap on boots for Pharaohs and go looking for men to bring back to his dungeons and to drag into his courtrooms; you’re a servant of the crown of the kingdoms of the world. A man’s actions must change to prove he is walking with the Lord, not merely the words of his mouth. “If we say we have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth” (1 John 1:6).

We shouldn’t find this analysis harsh, either, to suggest that many men are indeed only posing as Christians. The scriptures have no trouble showing us that the world is full of men who say one thing but do another. They have no trouble showing us that men profess to know the Lord, eg., write “In God We Trust” on their vehicles that have come to prey on the public, but who swear falsely (Jer 5:2). Since we know the “job” of policing is to violently enforce hundreds, even thousands, of man-made edicts that have nothing to do with God’s word, this gives us our way to know who they really are. So while police may “profess to know God, by their actions they deny him” (Titus 1:8). They are willing to kick in a man’s door, shoot him if he puts up a fight, and terrorize his family, all because men told them that it’s “illegal” to possess a plant and that they must “do their job” enforcing it. 

To follow Christ means to do the will of the Father, not merely to exclaim, “I’m a Christian!” Jesus says, “If you love me you will keep my commandments” (John 14:15), not “if you love me you’ll at least profess to know me while breaking into someone’s home and shooting them.” To follow Christ means to be an actual “peacemaker,” not a violence-starter, which we know those in “law enforcement” are. When the Apostle Paul instructs followers of Christ to live at peace with others (Rom 12:18), he is talking about the every-day men who, contrary to what police officers do on a daily basis, operate in a virtually state of peaceful “anarchy” by granting freedom to their neighbors and the strangers whom they pass by, without anyone making them do it. Police officers violate this instruction to live at peace with others by making war with their neighbors under the cover of a badge and with the backing of a gang of other blue-line thugs to support them. 

Police today

The modern police forces that we have and know today did not even exist until closer to the middle of the 19th-century, showing, for one, that they obviously weren’t needed at earlier points in history, but also that there has been a progression (for the worst) in the enforcement methods of political rulers in the modern age of statism. The State we know today was transforming into something even more sinister and destructive than the one in ages past, giving us even less of a reason to praise “law enforcement” officers as the alleged “peacekeepers” whom Jesus has given us, and even less of a reason to think the thugs in blue we know today are who Jesus was referring to. 

The police we know today, who have a connection to the slave patrols in the American south under chattel slavery, are really these same men today, though tasked with upholding a society-wide political slavery by enforcing the political system’s “laws.” Nothing has changed in principle, if however it has in scale, being that they now patrol whole populations of slaves. Police are still plantation officers, albeit the plantation is the entire country that they claim “jurisdiction” over.

Who police really are

Though the rulers must of course sell us on the alleged necessity of these men to “law and order” in order to get them over on us, in reality they are the violent arm of state rulers whose “jobs” are making everyone compliant with the arbitrary and subjective desires of the men who rule over us. The real job of policing is as an enforcement arm of the Pharaohs, princes, and their political order. Their “job” (as they call it to excuse their plunder) is to wield the sword of the State to uphold a system of political slavery. Far from “catching bad guys,” as childish men who watched too much television as kids believe, police are simply legalized criminals that are no different from any other criminals, except that “the government” has unilaterally declared their violence, theft, kidnapping, and murder to be “legal.” They are men who have set out, on patrols, to prey on the public and seek to catch them in a trap. They are men who set up roadblocks to find everyone who hasn’t given Pharaoh money for a “driver license,” “registration,” or insurance. And such efforts to control people and make them fall into snares have really only been possible with the advent of modern policing, which, rather than to simply respond to calls of crimes, seeks to actively find men in which to bring the State down upon them. The modern system of policing we know today did not arise to deal with rising crime among the private segment of society, but out of an increased interest of the ruling elites to clamp down their control over people and secure their power. 

And this is the role “law enforcement” fulfills today. It is only convenient for them that men view them as “crime fighters” and existing solely to fight the “bad guys” that are presumed to be lurking behind every bush without a police officer on “the beat.” Their real job and purpose is to assure that all the edicts of men (not the laws of God) are enforced with materialized violence if necessary, but at minimum through the threat of such. Police exist to make sure the State can function in its purpose as an institution of plunder, not so that, as we’re made to believe, “the public” can be safe. 

It may be true, however, that there is some incentive to provide some level of public safety, even though they mostly fail at this too, but this incentive comes only because the State wishes to have some positive view by the people whom grant it legitimacy and monopoly status, which otherwise might be threatened if they refused to lift even a finger to help anyone, though they confess no legal obligation to help anyone, proving what their real cause is all about. For the most part, though, “public safety” is a ruse to get people to accept being dominated by men, just as the “public health” scheme was used to get men to accept “lockdowns” in the early days of Operation Covid 19. 

The real job of law enforcement is to engage in acts of violence in the effort to uphold the arbitrary, man-made “laws” of the political plunder system, not to keep people safe. They “serve and protect” only the interests of the political system, not those of the average men. To that end they are willing to use aggressive violence in the cause of furthering state power, which is no different in principle from the violence of any other individual. They kid themselves to believe that those who “hunger and thirst after righteousness” (Matt 5:6) are those who uphold “the law,” for this is the law of men, which is decidedly opposed to the law of God. To the contrary, men who truly hunger after righteousness hate to see the injustice of man’s law and the evils of its “law enforcers.” Men who thirst for righteousness precisely wish to see the system of statism overturned, not enforced. Police officers kid themselves (or use these lies to kid others) to say that “peacemakers…have chosen a profession or way of life that daily reaffirms our faith and to God” and “that by doing our job correctly we actively support the furtherance of Judeo-Christian values.” Precisely the opposite, the “job” of policing daily confirms one’s rebellion to God and commitment in enforcing and expanding the kingdoms of men, which Jesus said are not His (John 18:36). 

We can’t agree with other ministries that attempt to present the police as “peacemakers” and to exempt them from being considered criminals. As one article says, “They’re called to deal with the most violent people, doing the most violent things, without being violent themselves…because, after all, they’re peacemakers.” This isn’t true at all. Police are the worst of all criminals, because they have “the law” on their side. And their whole “job” is based in violence. 

The scriptures that speak of men scheming and preying against other men are more applicable to police and other agents of the State than anyone else today, other than the ruling elites above them whom they serve. The Bible is not talking about the common criminal when they speak of men scheming, but obviously those who hold and uphold political power. Again, it would be hard to see this if you foolishly thought that their only job was “catching bad guys” without being the bad guys themselves. But if you knew that their real “job” was using violence to enforce the “laws” of men, you could see that they are, without a doubt, the men who “do not speak peace, but devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land” (Psalm 35:20). (Or, at the very least, are the men who cowardly follow orders to enforce the deceitful schemes concocted by the men whom they serve). You would see these road pirates are men who “lay snares,” who “wish [us] harm and speak destruction,” and who are “plotting deceit all day long” (Psalm 38:12). You would see that these men, who hide behind bushes to catch people going three miles per hour over their speed limit, are the “wicked men who lie in wait like men who catch birds,” who “set a trap to catch men” (Jeremiah 5:26). You would see that they are the men who “lie in wait like a lion in a thicket [who] lurks to seize the oppressed, [who] catch the lowly in his net” (Psalm 10:9). You would see that police agencies are the men who recruit others to plunder with them, who say, “Come along with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause” (Proverbs 1:11). That they are men who “hatch plots to destroy the poor with lies” (Isaiah 32:7). That these pre-dawn SWAT raiders are the men who “devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds,” who “at morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands” (Micah 2:1). That these enforcers of the tax authorities’ decrees are the men who “covet fields and seize them,” who “take away houses [and] deprive a man of his home” (Micah 2:2). You would see they are the men with “war in their hearts” (Psalm 55:21).

Are police God’s servants? 

While it is of course comforting to evil men to tell themselves they are carrying out God’s will, it is our job to expose their self-deception and point them toward repentance instead. 

The only sense in which the State’s law enforcement agents “serve” the Lord is by bringing terror to a land that has turned from God and deserves to live under the police state they asked for. In this sense they are God’s “ministers,” just as God had called the evil Assyrian State the “rod of My anger” (Isa 10:5), or king Nebuchadnezzar “My servant” (Jer 27:6). God uses wicked, violent men (eg., police) to punish godless people who trust in these very police state systems to protect themselves and thus deserve to be plundered (Isa 10:6). 

But they are not servants of the Lord in a true sense, ie., men who walk in His path. Agents of the State are only unwitting ministers of God (Isa 10:7), who do evil on the Lord’s behalf as a form of judgment against a people but don’t even realize their role in it. As the Christian anarchist Kevin Craig has written, “It is impossible for a State (a system of institutionalized violence and revenge) to self-consciously obey God’s Law and serve Christ (Romans 12:17-21).” At best, the State beats up people who asked for a police state, without realizing they’re even administering God’s justice against disobedient people in a roundabout way. Thus, anyone who serves the State, especially police who do so in a directly violent capacity, cannot actually pretend as if they are positively and consciously serving God and His kingdom. For States, in the scriptures, only serve God by doing evil. As Kevin Craig has put it, “The State serves God by sinning.”

Is policing for God’s people? 

Though many men have been deluded into thinking that becoming a police officer can be reconciled with their faith in God, anyone who knows the Lord would never trick themselves into thinking there is no problem with it — that kicking in doors in search of men or objects makes one a “peacekeeper.”

I can say, speaking from the Holy Spirit within me, that if men truly knew the Lord, the last thing they would do is head down to the police academy or the military recruiter to seek a career in bearing the sword for Caesars. Such occupations do not represent the Christian life. Indeed, if men truly knew the Lord and wanted to walk in His footsteps rather than merely uphold some vain verbal profession of His name, they would repent of their statist ways of thinking and walk away from these jobs that prey on and plunder God’s people for the advancement of the sinful kingdoms of men, which are decidedly enemies of God’s kingdom. That men remain on as officers of man’s “law” shows how much they are still living in darkness about the means of serving God; the others who make no such profession of godliness know full-well they’re plunderers with a badge. 

Such systems as modern day police arise only when men forsake their duties to family, neighbors, and community, and hand over their responsibilities to so-called “governments” who are more than willing—indeed it is essential to their domination—to monopolize such services as a means of controlling everyone. If men carried out their God-given duties to protect themselves and others around them, to raise up godly children in the word of the Lord, there would be no police state today or system of political government at all. The State exists only because men have rebelled against God and instituted men to take care of them and protect them (who, as anyone should see, do the opposite). 

Conclusion

Don’t be deceived by statist propaganda then that the blue line thugs have come to bring peace. No matter how much they might call their armored personnel carriers “peacemakers” right before the SWAT team busts in your door because some bureaucrats decided you possessed some “illegal device” or “controlled substance,” these men are hellraisers who have come to bring terror to society. They are sons of satan, who have come to steal, kill, and destroy.