[This is part 7 In a series on “Statism and Adultery.” See part one, two, three, four, five, six]

Leaving Egypt Ministries, Obadiah D. Morris

I have already written before how the evils of statism are intended by God as a rebuke for the adultery that is seeking human rulers and armies as your protectors, how the downfall and corruption and injustices of statist societies is more or less evidence for God, how police states teach men a lesson in the consequences of police praising, how taxation and slavery is the price we pay for seeking human rulers, and on how we might consider the State as God’s “servant” in the sense that it is a tool for judgment against a wicked people who set it up in their rebellion against God. But it is worth it to harp on this theme so long as people fail to see it. And our people are a stiffnecked, hardhearted, reprobate people who refuse to repent and hear the truth. We must, with the Biblical prophets, continue to warn people of the consequences of their idolatry and God’s use of them as judgment upon a statist people. Though men set up statist systems in their sin, God makes use of these political evils to show men how greatly they have erred and, more importantly, how greatly they are in need of returning to the Lord as their only King. 

Statist evils as divine rebuke 

Though God offers peace, freedom, and prosperity to those who make the Lord their King and avoid whoring after the false god political systems of this world, He is also willing to bring social disorder, tyranny, and poverty upon a people who turn away from Him and prostitute themselves out to false kings and false kingdoms. Though God would always prefer that a people repent and turn back to Him, He is, though reluctantly and without great satisfaction, willing to hand people over to all the evils they beg for and allow them to squander their God-given liberty and inheritance over to strangers who plunder them for everything they’re worth. In short, He is willing to let statists—those who buy into the worldly ideology that says we need human rulers—eat the fruit of their own way and reap what they have sown. If men want to turn from God and trust in human government as their “saviors,” God says, “Fine, here you go…enjoy your tyranny.” 

The evils that necessarily result from the worldly ideology of statism that leads men to set up and support human civil governments serves as a divine judgment upon a people who have strayed from the Law of God. The “failure” of statism—really the system is not “broken” but working as intended to plunder people—is meant to show people that this is what happens every time people deviate from being ruled by God and trust in men to rule them and protect them. The disastrous consequences of the wide road of destruction that is the quest for human civil government works as a sort of “natural law” of economic and ethical cause and effect that should ideally show men that they have done right, or have messed up and have done evil, and from there forward lead them back to the Lord and the necessity of seeking His Kingdom in order to avoid the slavery and bondage that comes upon all those people who chase after Babylonian, Egyptian, and Roman systems, as men do today when they believe that the “United States” and its military and lawmakers are the source of “our freedom” and “law and order.” God uses statist tyranny, which is really only something that men have set up for themselves, as a harsh punishment for the sin of statism (ie., the idolatrous ideology that says we need human civil government to rule over us and idolatry that supports these systems once they exist). 

Judgment as correction

When emphasizing the judgment that results from a statist people who go whoring after men to rule over them, both upon the people who set these systems up as well as the systems themselves, we should always be sure to point out that God doesn’t allow these evils to come upon people just because He is angry with their idolatry. The tyranny and plunder that is always associated with human government does not serve only as a punishment. God is not just chastising a statist people by letting the men they begged to rule over them subjugate them and keep them in bondage. Rather, all the evils of statism (surveillance, military and police occupation, prisons, inflation, famines, labor camps) serve as a wake up call for all the people who thought they could set up political systems against God’s counsel (God has never commanded men to set up human civil government, not during the creation story or after the Great Flood, where we would expect to find this instruction. States are always set up by sinners in their rebellion to God’s counsel to be ruled by the Lord alone). To think that God punishes for punishment’s sake would be wrong. God is not some arbitrary tyrant who enjoys leading people to destruction, such as police who enjoy beating people for the sake of beating them or prosecutors or judges who get off on putting people in cages. Indeed, the entirety of His is word is a political-economics textbook on how to avoid the fatal outcomes of statism. The Bible is a freedom manual on how to avoid slavery by turning away from gods other than the Lord. It is an anarchist manifesto on the evils of the kingdoms of the world and the peace and liberty found in God’s Kingdom. It could never be said that God’s judgment comes upon a people arbitrarily or by surprise — that God just leaves a people to go into bondage to men because He doesn’t care about them. He wants people to learn from their evil ways, namely the evils of holding to a statist ideology that sets up human rulers. He wants people to see the military, surveillance police state they’re living under and have an “oh crap” moment and realize they screwed up. He wants people to look around and see their political captivity and realize their dire need to return to God as their King. He wants people to see their neighbors being plundered through socialist systems that exercise authority, and realize their need to launch the Kingdom of God that serves their neighbors freely and directly. He wants people to see the tens of thousands of home raids by SWAT teams searching for plants and terrorizing families and realizing that they should protect their own people directly, without relying on tax-funded police forces.

This was always the message of the prophets, that the judgment of God would wake a people up to their own sinful practices of erecting political plunder systems. Unfortunately, men rarely learn from their errors, but such was always God’s intention.

I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant. I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me and accept correction.’ Then her dwelling place would not be cut off despite all for which I punished her. But they rose early to corrupt all their deeds. Therefore wait for Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘until the day I rise to testify. For My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them My indignation— all My burning anger. For all the earth will be consumed by the fire of My jealousy” (Zephaniah 3:6-8).

Statists who won’t learn 

Those who look at the “Joe Bidens” of the world—or the Trumps if you’re on the “democrat” end of the false political dichotomy—and think they need to go vote for other men as means of combatting the other guy are still not realizing what the problem is that has come upon them, or what God is trying to teach them: that those who reject God’s rule will be ruled by false gods who hate them (Lev 26:17). When men chase after the false gods of the world, such as presidents and congressmen and supreme courts, when the Lord was all these things for them (Isa 33:22), God hands a people over to their enemies and they receive all the robbery and murder they thought they were avoiding by trusting in men to protect them. As seen all throughout Scripture, a people who chase after other ruler-gods have been “delivered them into the hands of those who plundered them.” For thinking they needed man-made law systems to keep them safe and free, God has “sold them into the hands of their enemies all around” (Judges 2:14).

Those who seek other false gods to remedy the problem of other false gods are far from understanding the problem, which is that they’re ruled by false gods for having rejected the Lord as their God in the first place. Indeed, they are still part of the problem, which is statist idolatry and support for these man-made systems whatever. Rather than repent from the participation in the kingdoms of world that are bringing all the evils upon them that God warned would come if they trusted in them, they are still maintain the hope that there is salvation through the State — that the very system which God uses as judgment for them can somehow be made into a savior. This is how you know how reprobate American conservatives are: God sends the Joe Bidens of the world (as well as all other politicians) upon a people as a judgment and rebuke for their sin of setting up and supporting human government at all, and rather than repent and turn back to the Lord as their only King, they double-down on their idolatry and say how imperative it is that “Christians” get out and vote and that we get “good guys” in office.

If brainwashed and idiotic conservatives had any idea how States are, at best, a form of divine judgment upon statist sinners like themselves who set these systems up in their rebellion against God, they wouldn’t be complaining that “the Marxists and Democrats and [insert other group] are taking over our government.” Instead, they would see that all those who reject God’s Kingship and trust in human government to save them deserve to get ruled by Marxists, Democrats, and [insert other group]. The Joe Bidens would be seen as a judgment upon them to teach them to turn back to the Lord as their King. But they’re so stupid and stiff-necked and idolatrous that they see it as more of a reason to go vote for another guy into power, when the only reason they’re even ruled at all is because they rejected God as their King. Most of conservatives’ complaints about the “demoncrats” is just them searching for a scapegoat that will allow them to ignore their own sin and complicity in raising up systems of human government, that always and inevitably become tyrannical. (This is another point where the foolishness of the average American conservative is on display. They think that the problems in the United States today are an anomaly rather than the things that God warns will happen to a people every time they seek to set up and further worldly kingdoms. In their eyes, the only problem with “our country” today is that people didn’t stick to the constitution or “the democrats” took over. They don’t see that the constitution itself was a covenant with false gods that unsurprisingly turned out this way). By blaming things on “the left” or anyone but themselves, they are basically looking to absolve themselves of blame, suggest that they aren’t in need of repentance, and that everything would have gone good if only their (equally idolatrous and statist) ideas were implemented. But all those who do not seek the Kingdom of God necessarily allow for the existence of human civil government and all the resulting injustices we have today. Conservatives are not even ashamed of their support for human government. They proudly defend it. But they don’t want to take responsibility for what became of it, so they write the evils off as a deviation from the imagined course, just as Marxists say “it’s not real socialism” once the statist scheme doesn’t play out how they imagined it was “supposed” to. These inevitable outcomes are just the fault of “the dems” or some other factor that “wasn’t supposed to” exist. They blame anyone but themselves, as if their support for human government in principle has nothing to do with it. But for all the talk by conservatives about how evil “the democrats” are, it is so-called conservatives who are really the chief idolaters in America and equally responsible for the rise of statism in the twentieth-century through their love of presidents, the military, and police.

Liberation as a proof of God

Though “secular” economists or philosophers might just call it “cause and effect,” the causal laws of our social world are providential and authored by God. The positive effects that come from avoiding statism and interventionism, or the negative effects that come from practicing it, serve as “natural” ways of teaching men whether they are screwing up or not. The evils that always come from seeking some end (freedom and prosperity) through the violent political means reveal to men that these are failed means for obtaining the given ends. These “natural laws” of God serve as a teacher, whether men heed the lessons or not. Whether men live in a free society, ie., a society that is absent of state rulers who plunder people’s property and claim ownership rights to men, or whether they live in a statist society that robs and cages them to fund a caste of political parasites, either is intended by God to teach men that they are walking the right path of liberty under God, or the wicked path of slavery under men. Just as the judgment of political evils is a wake up call for a people who went the statist route of idolizing men, so too is liberty—which can only be conceived of as an absence of human rulers—the proof that men have obeyed the commands of God to avoid seeking other gods and stealing from others (which men engage in anytime they accept the benefits of human government, whether in the form of direct welfare or even by using their police services). Just as God will send the sword upon a people who turn from Him, so will He free men from the sword who turn back to Him.

One of the earliest examples on the liberation side is the exodus from Egypt, which showed that God was with a people.

“I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians” (Exodus 6:7).

God revealing Himself on the side of judgment comes immediately after this, where judgment upon the rulers and those who want to be ruled is a means of God showing who He is: both the divine liberator and divine judger.

“The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them” (Exodus 7:5).

As we see, God reveals Himself in both the liberation from bondage, and the judgment He brings upon a people who do evil (which is both those men who keep slaves and the slaves who apologize for their own enslavement). For another example of the latter, God proves that He is more powerful than Pharaohs and Egyptian systems, which the statists of the world believe are necessary to security, order, and society itself.

“And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord” (Exodus 14:4).

God’s awakening judgments are meant to show a people who whore themselves out to Egyptian-statist militaries and police forces for their “freedom” and “public safety” that God smashes these false saviors.

“And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen” (Ezekiel 14:18).

Just as much as God judging statists reveals His presence and action in our lives, so too does His liberation from these men, such as the escape from the bondage of Egypt, which is frequently remembered in Scripture.

“Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the land that I swore to give your fathers” (Ezekiel 20:42).

The best way to know the Lord is to see the salvation from statists that He has worked among a people who trusted in Him as their sole King. When a people repent from their support for Egyptian systems, God sees it and plans deliverance for a people from their Egyptian captors, who they have went into bondage to due to their own sin (ie., the ideology and works that sets these systems up and furthers them, like voting for human rulers or merely apologizing for their existence). Whereas statists tell us human rulers are needed to keep us free from men, God tells us (and even common sense should too) that seeking human rulers is what a people do to invite domination by men upon themselves, and that trusting in God alone to protect you is the only method for obtaining true liberty from state plunderers and the foreign “bad guys” that statists use to justify domestic rulers, which also serves as proof for God.

“And for the house of Israel there shall be no more a brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord God” (Ezekiel 28:24).

This free society under God, where there are no more tax-plunderers who call themselves “the government” who evict people from their homes and property, is also meant to show people that God is working with them and blessing them.

“And they shall dwell securely in it, and they shall build houses and plant vineyards. They shall dwell securely, when I execute judgments upon all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God” (Ezekiel 28:26).

Whereas we are currently in tax bondage due to our sin of idolizing man-made political systems and taking benefits from these systems, which now plunder us for all we’re worth, God liberates a people from these systems and proves Himself to be a true deliverer and savior to a people who trust in Him.

“And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land. And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke, and deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them” (Ezekiel 34:27).

When a people start thinking about the Dominion Mandate again, which never permitted them to dominate other men, and begin seeking the Kingdom of God and living according to His commands, then God will bless us and show us Himself in those blessings.

“And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the Lord” (Ezekiel 36:11).

Judgment as a proof of God

But if men don’t want to learn of God through His salvation from human rule, He also essentially reveals Himself through the injustices and destruction of their statists societies, which happens to all those who turn away from Him and trust in men as their kings. 

This theme of both liberation or judgment as a means of revealing God to a people is particularly prominent in the prophet Ezekiel, with over 60 mentions. The whole idea of God’s judgment and liberation is to wake people up to His existence, to abandon their idolatry after they are wrecked for these practices and turn back to the Lord as their God. He means for the people to recognize His authority through this judgment. And so God pronounces judgment upon an idolatrous people and says, “And the slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the Lord” (Ezekiel 6:7). When a people are unfaithful to God and chase after false gods, God must prove to them that His threats and warnings were not empty, and that idolatry really does bring evils upon them. “And they shall know that I am the Lord. I have not said in vain that I will do this evil to them” (Ezekiel 6:10). When lands turn desolate and impoverished from having allowed human rulers to centrally control and plan your society, it should be seen as proof that God exists and that His warnings were not false: turning away from God really does leave a people to be destroyed by false gods and come under divine judgment. God must show statist rebels that they cannot succeed in fighting against Him by forming human systems of authority. “And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord” (Ezekiel 7:4). The severe consequences that eventually arrive upon all people who seek worldly governments to rule over them serves as proof that God is acting against a people who act against Him, that He is a God who brings justice upon a people who have unjustly sought wicked political systems to dominate their fellow man with. “Then you will know that I am the Lord, who strikes” (Ezekiel 7:9). Those who commit the wicked works of setting up violent political systems receive those same works on top of them, at the hand of God who metes out the punishment upon them. “According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the Lord” (Ezekiel 7:27). The evils of statism are justice for a people who have been unjust — both the rulers themselves, who are at once evil and being used by God to do evil, and the people themselves who receive these evils for their own evils works (eg., voting) that put men in power. It is not just the State as a tool of judgment to be used against the statist population, but the state rulers themselves who also need to know the Lord upon receiving judgment. As God addressed these workers of iniquity in Jerusalem, “You shall fall by the sword. I will judge you at the border of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord” (Ezekiel 11:10). The judgment that comes upon the rulers themselves, say in the form of falling into the hands of other rulers, is also meant to show them that they have deviated from the laws of God and engaged in the evil practices of human lawmaking and human “law” enforcing. “And you shall know that I am the Lord. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you” (Ezekiel 11:12). What an embarrassment it will be when all those who say “America is the freest country in the world” are exposed to the people around the world in their downfall? “And you shall be profaned in yourself in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the Lord” (Ezekiel 22:16). Hopefully, as the American empire continues to crumble and fall under total judgment, men continue to wake up to God. “As silver is melted in a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the Lord; I have poured out my wrath upon you” (Ezekiel 22:22).

Whereas God brings salvation upon a people who keep His commands to have no other gods, which is typically depicted as a large or open space where we are safe from all enemies that may come upon us, so He judges a people who chase after worldly ways by tossing them out into the world that they evidently seek. “And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries” (Ezekiel 11:15). Have you come to know the Lord yet, being scattered among a bunch of heathens in a land occupied by evil men who call themselves the “United States Government?” Have you realized yet that God means business when He says there is a price to pay for whoring yourselves out to the systems of men? Is it hurting enough yet? Does it need to get worse before you will know Him? “And the inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the Lord” (Ezekiel 12:20). Are you going to wait until the stores are empty and soldiers are marching from door to door to realize how much you need God? Are you still believing the false prophets telling you that all is well in Babylon? God exposes these lies of a “Golden Age” coming for an unrepentant statist people, too. “And I will break down the wall that you have smeared with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be laid bare…and you shall know that I am the Lord” (Ezekiel 13:14).

When men whore themselves out to the kingdoms of the world for “law and order,” justice, welfare, and all the other things that statists expect human civil government to perform for them, they receive all this back on their heads — as always, that it might wake them up to their evil doings. The militaries and police they lusted after become their enemies rather than their lovers. “And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord God” (Ezekiel 23:49). Whereas statists claim that you need a military and police force of your own to keep the “bad guys” away, which is a rejection of God’s offers of protection, God teaches that this is actually a means of getting yourself invaded — which, again, should serve as a sign that a people who “support the troops” and “back the blue” have been in error.

“Therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations…and you will know that I am the Lord” (Ezekiel 25:7).

The judgments that God brings upon all statists everywhere are really always meant to affirm His identify and existence.

“I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I lay my vengeance upon them” (Ezekiel 25:17).

When people ask, “What is the proof of God?,” we should answer by the means that God most often gives as proof: that we’re currently under judgment in the form of political bondage. The existence of presidents, politicians, police officers, etc., is proof of God. They are proof that God has sent judgment upon a people who have turned away from Him. The judgment of statist evils, and the eventual judgment upon these systems themselves, is one way God reveals Himself to people. “They shall know that I am the Lord when I execute judgments in her and manifest my holiness in her” (Ezekiel 28:22).

The point of God’s judgments, which come in the form of either invading statists or the tyranny of the the statists that sinners set up in their hopes to be “saved” for foreign enemies, is to show all statists that they can’t get around rebelling against God. “I will execute judgments on Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord” (Ezekiel 30:19). The evils that befall all statist societies should wake men up to the fact that God is judging them for their violations of His Law, which was that men should make God their only ruler.

“When I make the land of Egypt desolate, and when the land is desolate of all that fills it, when I strike all who dwell in it, then they will know that I am the Lord” (Ezekiel 32:15).

The downfall of statist systems should show all men that they have done wrong by God’s standards and have been an unrighteous people for defending the existence of evil statist systems.

“Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations that they have committed” (Ezekiel 33:29).

When you’re no longer able to feed your family, afford groceries, afford your taxes, avoid prisons, dodge police on the streets who prey upon you for fines, then this should be a sign that you have strayed from God.

“I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord” (Ezekiel 35:9).

God’s word on deaf ears

Of course, there is no guarantee that God’s judgment—the plunderous Egyptian police state society that stands as a constant threat to every man’s personal liberty—will actually mean correction and lead people to wake up, repent, and turn around back to Him. Many men are judged with heavy taxation, inflation, great depressions, famines, mass incarceration, labor camps, genocides, world wars, police preying on them as they travel, global scamdemics, flying planes into buildings, and still sinfully call for more human government over them. They see the problem as a lack of legislative decrees and funding for police and military, rather than the result of all these things in the first place. They want more socialism to combat the problems that are already caused by socialism.

At any rate, the evils of statism ought to serve to set people straight once things become bad enough. God always knew people won’t listen to us when we tell them that statism is sin that brings bondage. He always knows we’re up against a hardheaded people who are responsible for the bondage in the first place and won’t want to hear the way out of it. 

“When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you; when you call to them, they will not answer. Therefore say to them, ‘This is the nation that has not obeyed the Lord its God or responded to correction. Truth has perished; it has vanished from their lips’” (Jeremiah 7:27-28).

But it is our role to tell them anyway. God wants us to evangelize the truth whether men listen to us or not. For there may always be people who will hear it and join us in building His Kingdom, as well as people who may realize these truths later on as their political societies descend into the chaos and “anarchy” that they thought was only possible in a society without human government, when they recall the seed planted in them by one of the Lord’s evangelists. This was often the case with the Biblical prophets that God would send them off to preach the word to a people who God already knew wouldn’t listen. 

“Son of man, go now to the house of Israel and speak My words to them. For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you. But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted” (Ezekiel 3:4-7). 

For God to send prophets—He still does this today in all those who preach His anti-statist word—is His means of effectively absolving Himself from blame when judgment comes upon a people. God gave His warning both in His word and among His people who deliver it to others. Men have been amply warned in America today of the cause and effect reality of rebelling against God and finding yourself living under tyrants. There would be nothing surprising about this society going belly-up. These people were told, and they refused to listen. God has shown himself in the injustices that statism has brought against us, and people didn’t want to know the Lord. Just as in Biblical times, men hate the prophets that God has sent in any generation. We are dealing with a rebellious house that does not want to listen to the will of the Lord, whether through God’s word or through our preaching of it. They want to remain in their own hardheaded ways and worship and praise the kingdoms of this world as their saviors, even when they pay a great price for this whoredom and find themselves living as captives. The Biblical prophets were preaching to a people living in statist bondage and they still wouldn’t listen (Ezek 3:11). Our people today are living in political bondage, which God intends to use to wake people up, and they still don’t want to realize the need to be ruled by God. The proud statists believe they can just elect new men to office to solve the inherent problems of human civil government, and the self-centered libertarians think they can go their own way without a need for a Savior and without any personal obligation to love and support their neighbors. 

At any rate, both salvation from bondage (ie., liberation from statist captors) and bondage itself are meant by God to show people (respectively) the result of following His commands or rebelling against them. God either frees a people from the domination by men who they end their statist adultery and turn back to Him, or sends them into bondage for lusting after men to rule over them — whichever they choose. God’s salvation is to free a people from being captives to men once they are willing to stop prostituting themselves out to these men and make the Lord alone their King again. 

“I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety” (Jeremiah 32:37). 

Statism as a warning

As bad as things have become today under our political society, you would think that men would be waking up to it as a rebuke from God. Some people are. Praise God. But others still believe they will find salvation through human government — that these worldly systems themselves are not raised up in sin and plunder, but only have the problem of the “wrong guys” in power. They still have not found the evils of statism as a harsh rebuke, just as the men in the Bible who refused to learn from the judgment and bondage that had come upon them.

“You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent” (Jeremiah 5:3).

We have to wonder, with the prophets, why our people want more beatings to wake up (Isa 1:5-6). We have to wonder how much worse things must get before men wake up and get to know the Lord who has brought us under judgment for our statist idolatry. Because right now, among these voters and flag-wavers, “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land! Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another” (Hosea 4:1-2). Our people are a bunch of statist whores who haven’t learned their lesson in the sin of statism yet, and have even doubled-down on their voting and advocacy of new presidents in light of the previous ones. God has always used the disasters of statist societies to teach men that they have strayed from the Lord, and still it hasn’t woken them up.

“I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,’ declares the LORD. ‘I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered. People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,’ declares the LORD” (Amos 4:6-11).

God has rebuked people over and over by allowing their political societies to manifest into every evil that he warned they would turn into, as well as sent prophets among these people to tell them that the sin of statism brings them on, and still they have “heeded no voice and accepted no correction” (Zephaniah 3:2). God allowed the evils of statism to afflict people and punish them so that the would see that setting up human governments are a violation of His Law, which therefore brings negative consequences upon a people, and still “the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts” (Isaiah 9:13). But God surely always means for the disastrous outcomes of human king-seeking to wake them up to the need for the Lord as their King — for the statist society to serve as proof of God. “Israel’s arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the LORD their God; despite all this, they do not seek Him” (Hosea 7:10).

Take this as a warning. God will not tolerate the idolatry and evils of statism that are rampant in America and around this world forever. God hates seeing people wave flags, vote for presidents, root for congressmen, sing national anthems at sports events, say pledges of allegiance to false kingdoms, say that it is “the troops” who “fight for our freedom,” and overall sell themselves out to men and act like whores for the systems of the world. God thinks these things are “lustful neighings” and “shameless prostitution” (Jer 13:27). He won’t have it forever. Though these systems and their evils serve as a tool for His judgment, they are also simultaneously intolerable evils that God does not want men to partake in. Indeed, the State “serves” God by doing evil against a people who seek these evils and deviate from His commands. For man’s praise of political power and tax-funded “public servants,” God allows these people to be enslaved, extorted, kidnapped, incarcerated, and murdered by the people who they thought were their “protectors” in place of God.

“This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Bring a mob against them and consign them to terror and plunder. The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses. So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your behavior. They will repay you for your indecency, and you will bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD’” (Ezekiel 23:46-49).

The judgment at the hand of God in the form of statist destruction is to serve as a reminder that people rebel against God at their own peril. For while God, as the Sovereign, may be said to be the one who sends the evils, it is ultimately the people who have brought it on themselves with their own idolatry. God just allows it to happen to them, and does so as a harsh rebuke in hopes they will learn a lesson in the sin of statism and return to the Lord their God. 

“‘Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,’ declares the Lord GOD” (Jeremiah 2:19). 

God always warns men that statist whores are inviting evils upon themselves by turning away from God for false gods and idols, but they never listen. In order to wake men up to the evils of statism, to show them that they have been acting as whores and prostitutes with their wicked ideology of political rule, God allows all these evils to come upon people so that they might turn back to Him. The disasters that always result every time that men rebel against God and trust in men to “save” them serve as a harsh rebuke for their evils. 

“This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places. Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols. I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars. Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out. The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD. Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands. Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations. And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not declare in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them. This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out “Alas!” because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, who will fall by sword and famine and plague. He who is far off will die by the plague, he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains will die by famine. So I will vent My fury upon them. Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols. I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah.a Then they will know that I am the LORD'” (Ezekiel 6:3-14). 

This is what we are to be doing as prophets of the Lord: warning statist whores that their whoredom—their “thank the troops” and “back the blue” mentality towards men—is going to get them destroyed. 

Men try in vain to escape God, who reveals Himself in the very judgments that come upon people who set up human civil government in their rebellion against Him. They attempt in vain to find salvation in the systems of men. 

“See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand” (Deuteronomy 32:39).