[This is part one in a series on “Conspiracy Theory and the Bible.” See part two]

Leaving Egypt Ministries, Obadiah D. Morris

Although the term “conspiracy theorist” is often used to disparage those who don’t buy into official narratives as nothing more than nutcases who make unfounded speculations against a lovely democratic system of government that serves “the people,” conspiracy theory is a legitimate tool in which to interpret historical events, present political actions, and the nature of the State itself. In fact, given that self-interested men are involved in these institutions, it is the proper lens through which we should view the schemes of human government. There are no accidents in politics, and nor are we ruled by mere incompetent men so much as by wicked men intent on plundering us. It is not that political systems go wrong so much as that they eventually grow into being everything they were intended to be. Political systems are designed and founded by men who seek to rule over other people and rob them for all they’re worth. States have their origin in a conspiracy by evil men to plunder others, and all their further actions after this conception in plunder are likewise conspiracies to further and refine its original mission. Political rule is necessarily a conspiracy by the ruling elites against the non-ruling population to live at the expense of others and plunder and rule them in a lust for property, power, and prestige. It is through the love of power, quest for fame and image, and desire of other people’s property that the statists of the world seek political power. The State provides men a mechanism through which they can legally plunder other men, tell them what to do, and be idolized by these victims of plunder at the same time.

This idea that most of the political events that have unfolded in our world are the result of a conspiracy by a ruling elite to plunder others is warranted given that we are dealing with self-interested men whose occupation of seats of political power is done precisely to advance their own aspirations for wealth and power, as well as that of those who are allied with them. We are not dealing simply with passive, mindless men who selflessly and dispassionately administer “government” on behalf of “the people” as some benevolent “public servants” who are exceptionally fitted to carry out these duties that other men are incapable of performing, but men who have their own ideas and interests in mind. Thus, as the economist Murray Rothbard wrote,

“Far from being a paranoid or a determinist, the conspiracy analyst is an [economist]; that is, he believes that people act purposely, that they make conscious choices to employ means in order to arrive at goals. Hence, if a steel tariff is passed, he assumes that the steel industry lobbied for it; if a public works project is created, he hypothesizes that it was promoted by an alliance of construction firms and unions who enjoyed public works contracts, and bureaucrats who expanded their jobs and incomes. It is the opponents of ‘conspiracy’ analysis who profess to believe that all events—at least in government—are random and unplanned, and that therefore people do not engage in purposive choice and planning” (Rothbard, “The Conspiracy Theory of History Revisited,” Reason Magazine, April 1977). 

The only truly absurd idea is the one that the political acts of our world, from legislative acts to executive orders and other bureaucratic decisions, are carried out for the “public good” and exist for the benefit of the masses rather than for a small group of men who stand to benefit from them. 

Contrary to those deceived socialists who think “government” is staffed by selfless, benevolent men whose minds are pervaded by carrying out the “public good,” the Lord Jesus Christ—Himself a target individual by the ruling elites of the day—knew however that these allegedly public-minded men were really just plunderers who, under the guise of the “common good,” actually wield the violence of the State against people for their own benefits. As He said, instructing us to be anarchists rather than to fall into the statist ways of the world, “The kings of the Gentiles rule over them, and those exercising authority over them are called benefactors” (Luke 22:25). The idea that men who exercise authority over us (ie., who use violence against us) are “public servants” is the result of propaganda and idolatry. As Jesus says, the people who are actually servants do not lord their position over other people. The idea of the “law enforcement” officers as a “public servant” is simply propaganda to get men to buy into the idea that human government exists for their benefit, rather than for those who control this system. Hence the notion that “the government is us” and “we the people,” which deceives men into thinking that “police work for us” because “we pay their salaries.”

The Bible and conspiracy theory

What I aim to get at here is that this political conspiracy we call “government” is Biblical and spiritual. Many people are aware of this nature of the State and the global power elite, but who have not yet seen that they are the same people and systems from the ancient regimes of old as documented in the Bible. My contention is that without God on our side, we will not get very far in escaping the grips of the political plunderers who conspire against us, nor will we understand the depths of it. I say this anecdotally, but also in all seriousness. One of the first divine revelations given to me by the Lord that led me to read His word was that the State is not just unethical or uneconomic, but downright demonic and evil — that we are dealing not just with men who are intent on using the political means to plunder others, but with a satanic conspiracy to do so.

The point is that we need other “conspiracy theorists” to realize this, so that they are not kept in the darkness by those who conspire against them and wish to keep them from seeing the spiritual side of things, and so that they do not fall for false prophets who play into all their ideas but keep them away from the Lord as soon as they are at the gates of truth. Those who gravitate toward so-called conspiracy theories—our world is indeed filled with men conspiring against other men—are obviously truth seekers, and for this reason have a high potential of realizing the spiritual nature of the conspiracy. But our enemies have been one step ahead of us for a long time. They have stuffed the “conspiracy” movement full of their own guys. Various shills await truth-seekers to supply them with ready-made “contrarian” thoughts that feed them right back into the system or keep them from seeing the way out through repentance and seeking the Kingdom of God as the only way of no longer being plundered by the evil rulers of the world.

Thus, when someone wants to find the “truth” on, say, the central bankers, they run into people who, far from showing them the solution in natural money and abolition of government-controlled paper currency, tell them that the “solution” is something as absurd as a “U.S. Note” — that is, “money” controlled by the U.S. Treasury, where it is supposedly returned into the hands of a government that is presumed to the “the people,” rather than the “private” Federal Reserve System that is only more obviously not “we the people.” (This is the remedy of people like Bill Still whose seemingly anti-state documentary on the Federal Reserve, The Money Masters, is one of the more popular ones). Or when someone realizes the government is one big propaganda machine that churns out false information to get people to support it, they run into men who, with some veneer of being outside the general system, steer them right back into its hands. (This is the work of people like Noam Chomsky, who professes to be an anarchist but who is really just another statist who believes in using the political machinery to accomplish his goals). Or when people do realize that they are being ruled by interconnected elites and ancient bloodlines, they run into men like David Icke, who will feed them these ideas but turn them away from the Lord, who is our only hope for escaping the plunder conspiracy.

For too long now, those who have landed in the “conspiracy” world have hit the end of the road. The world is a conspiracy, but now what? Is it a lost cause? Are we to stand around defeated and hand the victory over to our captors? Is there no one to come to our aid? Is there no Savior? Are we hopelessly and permanently dominated by men who have got one over on human populations since time immemorial? Have we no allies? Is no one watching over us who wants to liberate us? Is there no hope?

Might we submit that the dead-end road exists because many of those in the conspiracy camp, who rightly see the schemes of the world, have slept on God — or even worse, have been made to believe that God was part of the elites’ conspiracy to brainwash and rule people. In doing so, they have neglected their one ally in the fight against men who are truly evil. Many of them have been tricked into believing that the Bible was just another tool in the conspirators’ playbook to trick the masses into obedience, rather than the truth of the matter, that it’s a liberation manual and anarchist manifesto that holds the keys to breaking out of the Egyptian bondage of man-made political systems. This is how deep the conspiracy is: the conspirators have tricked the people into thinking that even the Bible is part of the conspiracy, rather than its exposé.

It is understandable how men have been led to think this. If the Bible is an exposé of the power elite and all the political plunderers around the world, how is it that it still exists? Wouldn’t they have just gotten rid of it? Furthermore, how is it that there are hundreds of millions of professing Christians who own Bibles but haven’t seen it themselves? Wouldn’t they know of it already? Wouldn’t a movement so large just be part of the scheme too? Well, to some degree, the mainstream organs of what is called “Christianity” are part of the scheme. But this is not because God is part of it, but because the truth in scripture had to be perverted by false prophets who pretended to represent Christianity (the Bible, of course, accounts for this too, pointing out all the false prophets and pastors and religionists who come in the Lord’s name but do not do as he says and who lead men into traditions and rituals rather actual service to one another. This has been the case from the beginning of time, too. Every regime had their court prophets to spin apologia for the statist system, whether the prophets of the kingdoms of old, the Pharisees in Jesus’s day, the priestly class of the Middle Ages, the false pastors of the American churches today, or any other intellectuals and seminarians who pitch their ideas as official theological positions and doctrine).

Finding God

What I submit is that men have not yet arrived at the bottom of the conspiracy until they have found God’s part in exposing them and standing against them. They have not yet arrived at the way, the truth, and the life until they have discovered the Lord as their Savior from these systems of men. As easy as it is to dismiss the Bible, being that it has existed alongside the conspiracy and yet has never really been used to challenge it as any sort of mass movement to abolish human government and seek the Kingdom of God, one of the most amazing discoveries that awaits man is the fact that God’s word and its truth stand in spite of these men and their wicked ways — that the Bible is not something they wrote to help give some quasi-divine justification for their rule, but an anti-statist manifesto that astonishingly exists in a world where one might expect the ruling elites to do everything in their power to get rid of it being that there is nothing about it that works in their favor. What might come as a surprise to your average conspiracy theorist who is digging through a vast heap of information, God’s word is the one thing, against all the confusing theories of men that men find themselves sifting through, that amazingly stands as a testament against the ruling elites and their plunder systems. It is the one book that has amazingly survived the ages of human rulership and yet still condemns these people as rebellious, God-hating tyrants. There’s really only one explanation for this: God’s anti-statist word has been providentially preserved in a statist world that we should expect to have destroyed it from existence in order to preserve their power. Scripture is everything but written by men who seek to rule over other men. God’s word is an instruction manual on breaking free from the rule by men and returning to the rule by the Lord. Those who wish to rule over men in a world where the Bible exists are left with the only options of perverting the truth or keeping men from reading it, hence why “religious” institutions, Bible colleges, universities, and other such systems stand ready to perform these tasks. If men began to read the Bible for themselves, they would quickly see that the political regimes of the world exist as plunder conspiracies, and that the ecclesiastical systems are there to obscure the truth and lead men astray into false ideas about God.

What we need today is more men waking up to the conspiracy, which is that the conspiracy is Biblical and spiritual. It is not good enough to see the political systems of men in a non-spiritual way, such that they are men who just happen to have obtained power somehow and perhaps might be disposed of in a violent revolution, or to look at these systems in some sort of democratic fashion as worldly people do, who think that there is no God and that we’re just living in a world where we need to vote new men into power or take positions of power ourselves. The statist systems of the world are satanic plunder conspiracies—part of an evil plan to steal, kill, and destroy. It’s high time we wake up to their scheming against us and our position as children of God who they have come against. To see the conspiracy without knowing the Lord and seeing our place in it as ambassadors of His Kingdom is to leave men helpless to do anything about it. This is the scene of the scriptures, though, which are permeated with cases of conspiracies against righteous men who seek to serve the Lord by wicked men who are doing the work of the devil and plundering humanity. Scripture is filled with holy lessons on steering clear of the plunder schemes that have been perpetrated by human rulers since the beginning of time, who still carry on their schemes and agendas today. 

Again, it almost seems too good to be true. How is it that Bibles are commonplace and yet these ideas (eg., governments are evil plunderers) are hardly known? Wouldn’t most professing Christians know this if it were the case? Why is it that they are mostly statists who are unaware of the schemers? And how has the Bible survived through all this if what we’re saying is the case? Wouldn’t the rulers just “cancel” the Bible if it didn’t suit their agenda? We’ll, they have tried. Men were burnt at the stake for translating it to English and trying to bring it to the average reader. And to some extent, it has been canceled by turning men away from God and making them believe that truths are to be found in our secular humanist world, among atheist philosophers, or any other source but the word of God. Since the Bible is here providentially and despite the conspirators’ desire to have it gone, they are left with pushing men away from the Word or perverting its truths to anyone who does attempt to read it. By making men believe that the Bible is just a mythological book or a work assembled by men to help them rule over others, its profound lessons of the conspiracy against us have been effectively contained for some time. It has been the belief that the Bible is a tool of social control that functions as a tool of social control. For the other approach, the conspirators have placed false prophets to stand between those seeking God and the truth of His word. As the old saying goes, “If you can’t beat em, join em.” Since God’s word couldn’t be eliminated, they chose the road of perverting its lessons. And so, many thousands of men have been sent to pervert God’s word as false pastors in false churches, water-down its message where they can, avoid wide swaths of scripture that might awaken a man (how many people have ever heard a sermon on prophet Habakkuk or Amos?), invent and skew theological doctrines that would pacify the slaves, steer men into purely spiritual and heavenly thinking and hopes, and simply pitch things in a way that deliberately fails to bear fruit. Since they weren’t able to delete Bibles from history, their only choice has been to send out false prophets who diluted its meaning and avoided the heavier stuff, or to simply hope that men avoided reading it for themselves (as they mostly have). 

But our contention here is that “conspiracy theory,” however proper it is for understanding our world, is dead without seeing that God has always known about it. The real power of the correct, conspiracy theory of history will come when it is bolstered by God and His word — when men realize that the global political conspiracy against us both Biblical, spiritual, and ancient, and that we’re not simply ruled by some gang of men who have somehow managed to gain control over us and take us for a plunder, but by men who have spiritual evil on their side and have existed since the dawn of time. The one thing the political conspirators of the world can’t have happen is for the masses to pick up Bible and catch onto the spiritual nature of their conspiracy. For then the conspiracy is over with. If men realize they have God on their side, the conspirators are in big trouble. They were never much worried by a “free thinker” running into one of their shills, gatekeepers, or false prophets who merely steered them to another pseudo-contrarian lie or false rebellion, but they cannot have masses come to know the ungodly nature of their plans and the Lord Himself who plans on putting an end to them.

Those who presently see that all political systems are nothing more than a conspiracy to plunder and enslave humanity, but have not yet found God and His word, are primed to have their eyes opened spiritually if they would crack a Bible and realize that God has known about the plunder conspiracy of men all along. They would see that this statist conspiracy is part of the original rebellion against God since the days of Cain and Nimrod, who both rebelled against God by setting up such systems as characteristic of man’s rebellion and sin against God. They would see that the States of our time, whether the “United States” or the “United Kingdom,” are just continuations of the empires of old, notwithstanding the guise of “democracy” they have slapped on top of it in recent centuries. They would see that these presently existing statist systems are the same ancient plunder systems of old, replete with modern weapons of mass destruction and means of population control that has the Pharaohs and Caesars of old drooling in their graves for a go at it themselves. And not only that they are the same systems in form, but that they are run by the same families and bloodlines who ruled over Egypts, Babylons, and Romes, and that we’ve been occupied by the same evil men for millennia.

In the following article, I will explore some themes of conspiracy in the Bible. It will it be a complete list, as it would be possible to go on and on with this point. But I want to show how some of God’s people were talking about the plunderers of their time who preyed upon the people of God, just as the statists do today.