[This is part 2 in a series on God and justice. See part one, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten]

Leaving Egypt Ministries, Obadiah D. Morris

We have already described the general perversion of justice found in statist societies, where rather than protecting citizens from crime and violations of their person and property, the law is turned into an instrument of plunder by those in power who wield it against people and property for their own gain, while exempting their own crimes from punishment. Under political systems of law, the “law” itself becomes criminal while all sorts of non-crimes, like not obtaining a license for something or not giving Pharaoh money, are called “illegal.” 

This perversion of justice is what always results when men abandon their Godly calling to seek the Kingdom of God and instead institute human rulers above them to protect them and feed them, just as the Israelites did when they sinfully asked for a human king to fight their battles for them when the Lord was their King, or when they had longed to return to the bondage of Egypt, where Pharaohs provided them with abundant food but kept them as slaves. 

To go further, we must point out that these injustices, where so-called “law” is turned into a weapon that creates victims rather than something that prevents the victimization of others, are a means of judgment from God for these very errors. They are evils that may get men to weep and repent upon realizing they’re captives to men and cry out to the Lord again, “Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old—unless you have utterly rejected us, and you remain exceedingly angry with us” (Lamentations 5:21-22).

Statism and its injustices are a divine punishment for forsaking God’s ways and blessings in favor of the man-made system of state law.

“If you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you” (Deuteronomy 28:15). 

Ignoring God’s counsel, men pursue the authoritarian law systems of men of the human kingdoms of the world, only to become enslaved in societies where injustice is systemic and part of the “law” itself. God always warns of these evils before men try them out; they are sitting there in His word to be read and heeded at any time. 

“But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God. They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate” (2 Kings 17:14-15). 

Injustice as judgment 

Rather than avoid the political systems of the world as God instructed, men chase after these fraudulent law orders and find themselves living as captives under a regime of psychopathic plunderers who extort men for money and cage them when they don’t pay up. Such evils as going under tribute to men as their tax slaves are the price we pay for denying God as our ruler.

These perversions of justice come about when people outsource their God-given responsibilities to their families and neighbors over to other men who exercise authority over them. This acts as a corrective mechanism of God’s natural law that works to teach people of their foolish and sinful belief that “governments are needed to protect us” and “without them we’d have nothing.” 

The injustices of statism are part of God’s judgment for turning away from seeking His kingdom and turning toward the systems of men instead. These agents, who call themselves “the government,” bring evils upon people for their wicked works of trusting in man-made law systems. This is why we live in a world where thousands are killed by police a year, hundreds of billions of dollars are stolen in annual taxes, “law enforcement” agents are stealing homes, cars and cash with so-called “civil asset forfeiture” and sharing it with their buddies, the theft by the police who are said to be needed to prevent crime actually exceeds all private theft, millions of people are incarcerated, millions are run through their extortion court systems regularly which brings in billions of dollars for local governments, and satan-worshiping pedophiles rule over us and force us to give them money at gunpoint to fund their criminal operations against us. The sinful support of human government is why we’re being absolutely looted today by these so-called “protectors,” just as God warned would happen to men who trusted in such systems (1 Sam 8).  

Contrary to those who think that there would be no “law and order” without government and its police, which is an entirely sinful belief that is devoid of any faith in God, they are the very people who work to make sure injustice becomes institutionalized. Police are the enforcement arm of the unjust decrees of politicians and bureaucrats, the muscle that assures the legal plunder of political rulings are not just empty decrees, but actually put into practice. With many different actors passing the buck around, such as the claim by police that “we don’t make the laws we just enforce them,” the state system in total is able to bring overall injustice to a society. They fail to punish actual criminals, use violence against the non-violent, and call their own crimes “law.”

Such evils are the things a people get when they’re stupid and rebellious enough to say “back the blue” and think that Satan’s “law enforcement” agents—men who steal, kill, and destroy—are needed to rule over them. They are what happen every time men put their faith in Egyptian police states to “protect and serve” them.

Injustice as the consequence for irresponsibility 

We should be sure to point out that none of these injustices that come under man’s political systems are accidental either, lest we think that the failings of the Babylonian plunder system are only in need of reform — that the only problem with the “job of “law enforcement,” which is to use violence to enforce man-made decrees, is just that “they need better training” or “more schooling in the law.” These injustices are inherent to these systems. God guarantees they will always come upon those who trust in human kings and officers to protect them from their enemies (1 Sam 8:10-18). They are not merely the result of “a few bad apples,” as statists like to explain police misconduct and brutality. They are not merely fixed with “criminal justice reform.” They are what a sinful people get who refuse to listen to God’s instruction to “put not your trust in princes…whom there is no help” (Psalm 146:3). Injustice is a necessary result of people who have sinfully chosen human government to rule them rather than God. It is judgment upon a people who sinfully trust in human princes and kings to “protect and serve” them. 

We suffer under great injustices today precisely because we abandoned the righteous ways of God’s kingdom and entrusted the control of various goods and services that we thought were outside our role to the false gods of the world. We forsook our Godly duty of private, voluntary Christian administration of welfare, defense, justice, and other societal needs, and instead allowed men calling themselves “the government” to take over these responsibilities for us. The church also failed in its role to act as a government and feed and protect the flock, and handed these duties over to political systems who they assume are responsible for defense and law, all while reducing the idea of worship to mere rituals, ceremonies, singalongs, and attendance. For all these failures of our own, we have found ourselves living in captivity to men who call themselves “public servants” but exercise authority over the people they “serve.”

The unsurprising abysmal failure of government services is the price we pay for disobeying God and trusting in men. Statism and the accompanying tyranny of its law officers, lawmakers, prosecutors, judges, lawyers, jailers, court clerks, tax agents, faceless bureaucrats, and everyone who is employed to make sure the “business” of government violence is administered, come as a curse upon a disobedient people who chose to trust in men rather than God, who say that tax-funded “Justice Departments” and “Defense Departments” are needed for “public safety” and “national defense.” For this sinful thinking, men get the opposite of what they hope for: systemic injustices and insecurity.  

If we ever hope to restore a free and just society, men will have to turn away from their idolatry for government and its police and soldiers as their alleged protectors, because it has been these very things—the “back the blue” and “support the troops” mentality among our slavish people—that have wound us up in captivity to men and their bogus laws.