[This is part five in a series on “The Abolition of Statism and Liberation From Political Bondage”: See part one, two, three, four, six, eight, nine, ten]

Leaving Egypt Ministries, Obadiah D. Morris 

The previous article in this series was intended to be more focused on the methods of finding the Lord’s sheep to gather with for the purpose of serving each other in a Kingdom network, such as local agitation and evangelism, more so than what to do with them once they are found. While much of this message will be clear during the time of evangelism, where people either accept or reject the abolitionist message to repent from the world in every way, we must make it clear to them that if they want to join us in this Kingdom endeavor, which seeks the blessings of the living God after all, that they must be fully repentant of the ways of the world.

While it is necessarily the case that men whom we evangelize will currently be in a state of unrepentance when we reach them, since the very evangelist message to the masses is that they are living in sin and need to amend their ways if they want to avoid the disaster that comes upon all those who walk on the wicked path of statism, matters become different once we seek to actually break bread with men in a Kingdom congregation, which we are seeking to form with those who we call away from the world and its systems of welfare and provision. These men will have to repent from the ways of the world in every way if they are to seek the Way with us. This means that they will have to leave behind the statist ideology that holds that human government is necessary to feed and protect men, as well as the actual practices and partakings of statism, such as voting for false gods to save them and receiving benefits from these authoritarian rulers who hand them out precisely to ensnare men into the bondage of Egypt, which not only makes them dependents of false gods but naturally also makes them apologists for these kingdoms. For what man bites the hand that feeds? All those who receive the deceitful meat of the Egyptians, whether as monthly welfare recipients, Social Security retirees, or military pensioners, are naturally also men who defend the alleged necessity of the existence of human government; this is why governments feed them benefits anyway and seek to form a class of men who are dependent on robbing their neighbors to get by. Those who indirectly rob their neighbors by receiving payments from the State have a conflict of interest against agitating for their abolition, as men who would stand to lose if they were done away with. Moreover, those who take the property doled out by the authoritarian benefactors of the world are men who covet their neighbor’s property, since everything the State has is stolen, and such sins as covetousness are the very things we need to turn away from. Those who receive the property of their neighbors are men who have whored themselves out to the Egyptians to sustain themselves and are not men who are seeking to be blessed by God alone. For one of the very tenets of Abolitionism, following the evangelist tenet, is to be “reliant on God’s providence,” and men are doing the opposite of that when they pray to false gods to feed them by voting and receive their neighbor’s property to make their way through life. To be reliant on God’s providence, men will need to join an Abolitionist congregation of men who are prepared to sustain each other through freewill offerings rather than through the violence of taxation, and start praying to God that He will look after our efforts to live as He has commanded us to live.

Getting serious about repentance

While we may avoid the tougher political problems in the early stages of seeking the Kingdom of God, where we are just beginning to find men and show them the very need to repent and gather together in decentralized, non-authoritarian society of people who are ready to serve one another freely, soon enough, if we are about to actually break bread together in a legitimate congregation and do more than evangelize in the streets to draw in people who are interested in this great cause of building the Kingdom of God, it will become necessary to lead these people to repent from all the statism and idolatry of the world that they have been roped into supporting when they were still proud Egyptian slaves, who are now beginning to turn away from these systems and see the light.

There will be no successful movement toward being liberated from the bondage of Egypt, which will have to be done at the hand of God, if men are still taking her benefits (food stamps, unemployment checks) and waving her flags from their front porches. These things will have to be left behind. Though our comments thus far on the ideological-drive needed to begin this Abolitionist effort of gathering men to repent from the kingdoms of the world and seek God’s Kingdom alone have mostly been for edifying the individual Kingdom-seeker in embarking upon the evangelist mission to find others to repent with him and join him in his efforts of local agitation, eventually the people we find will have to go through this spiritual-ideological repentance from the Egyptian ways themselves, which we have gone through in our quest to find people to gather together for this Abolitionist cause. For they will have to join us in the evangelist mission too in agitating the local community and finding more sheep to gather with in a budding network of assistance that we will be forming, and they will have to be capable of teaching others its anti-statist ways and leading them to repent, too. We will have to lead the charge in planting these seeds and pushing them into these new ways of thinking and leaving the old ones behind, allowing God to do the rest of the work on them. This newfound Abolitionist ideology in men will necessarily include their awakening to the causes of winding up in the bondage of Egypt, such as overt idolatry for human rulers as well as the covetous practices of taking their benefits, which they will repent from doing anymore.

As much as it will pain people who have patriotically clung to idols their wholes lives and who have been indoctrinated since they were schoolchildren to pledge allegiance to the State and treat the Constitution as the greatest gift to humanity ever crafted by men, they will have to give up their idolatry and false gods and renounce them entirely. They will have to stop voting, regarding men as their heroes, saying “back the blue” and “support the troops,” waving the flags of countries and and posting up the signs of their political candidates, and renounce their statism entirely. We can acknowledge no allegiance or citizenship to human government if we are to seek the Kingdom of God. We must repent of the former ways and repudiate all worldly politics and political involvement, including taking a bite out of our neighbors by receiving welfare payments from the plunder system that is human civil government.

Seeking the Kingdom of God or the kingdoms of man

Just as individuals in the early stages of abolition have had to renounce their worldly ideology of statism and socialism as a part of their own journey in taking up this cause for their local communities, so they must call the group of people who are loosely inquiring about these ideas to now do the same if they want to gather regularly with us in a system of daily ministration that seeks to serve each other through the voluntary charity of those who join us in this great Kingdom-seeking mission. There is no system of human civil government in the Kingdom of God, and there won’t be any statists who support such an ungodly and violent method of social organization, either. Statists are men who idolize human rulers and set them up as their gods. They are worldly people par excellence who work to further the kingdoms of this world that are at enmity with the Kingdom of God, and they can’t be tolerated in any Abolitionist society that is seeking precisely to abolish these false kingdoms of man and replace them with another Kingdom order altogether, where the Lord alone is our King and men serve each other through voluntary charity rather than through the force of taxation and the police club.

A repentant people are those who have turned away from the kingdoms of men and refuse to serve them or eat the free bread from their tables any longer, not people who plan on joining the military, signing up at the police academy, or otherwise looking to sustain themselves off the backs of their neighbors. We need men who no longer look to the civil fathers of Rome to save and feed them and who no longer put on boots for these evil institutions. We need men who can say, with the prophet, that “Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses” (Hosea 14:3). We need men who can say, “You can cut us to pieces and we will not be soldiers.” We need men who would sooner go hungry than to turn to government to rob their neighbors to feed them, but better yet, men who will trust in God to feed them if they walk in His ways and seek His Kingdom with their neighbors, serving them that they might be served in return. We need men who no longer believe that human civil government will save or protect them, and who will see instead that we are called to “put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save” (Psalm 146:3).

The men we must avoid associating with, beyond evangelizing them in the street and calling for their repentance, are those men who refuse to leave the worldly political systems behind and who still feed at the plunderous tables of the wicked, who still go down to Egypt for their bread and up to Assyria for their military aid. Those who still believe that States and their militaries for protection and “freedom” are clearly not people who seek the Lord.

“Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD” (Isaiah 31:1).

We cannot join with statists and other Babylonian whores as we seek the Kingdom of God, because they are not only men who are not seeking it, but are people who are actively working against it and helping to further the kingdoms of the world that are antagonistic to it. Trusting in God or the State is a clear choice that men must make.

“Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God” (Psalm 20:7).

We’re looking to build with the people who trust in the Lord alone to protect and feed them, not those who trust in tanks and fighter jets as their method of salvation. We’re looking for people who can admit that they were fools for believing that presidents, congressmen, and constitutions were going to save them and who are willing to repent of these things and become convicted by the word of God:

“Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him” (Isaiah 36:6).

Being separate from worldly statists

If men refuse to stop voting, to trash their flags, to scratch off their “thin blue line” bumper stickers, to quit their jobs serving the ungodly kingdoms of the world, to renounce their support for man-made political systems, or to otherwise stop making their living by robbing their neighbors indirectly through the governments of the world, then they are not repentant men and cannot be brought into the network of Kingdom congregations as people who are seeking the Kingdom of God. No one should associate with statists or socialists of any kind until they repent of their worldly ways, whether they are conservative-style socialists who find it acceptable to covet their neighbors’ property to fund legislatures, courts, and police departments, or democratic-style socialists who expand their covetousness to include welfare, housing, and a thousand other benefits. For the statist practices of the world, and the receiving of the world’s benefits, are the primary way that men demonstrate that they serve false gods rather than the Lord our God.

We simply cannot be associated with people who not only believe in human civil government and refuse to repent from this ideology, but who also accept the benefits of these systems, which operate by robbing their neighbors. Statists are characteristically worldly people, as well as characteristically unrepentant people. They will only keep us in the world that we seek to come out from worshiping. To believe in a State is to disbelieve in God and shows an entire lack of faith in His ability to serve a people who serve Him. To trust in presidents and militaries to save you is a false theory of salvation and only shows that one is not ready for the salvation of the Lord, which is precisely to be saved from these systems. Statism is the main way that men show they do not know the Lord and that they are the lost sheep of the world who do not care for the Kingdom of God.

Though the so-called “churches” of the world today look for nothing more than verbal professions of faith and not only fail to call upon men to repent of statism but actively teach this worldly ideology and support men in their service to these kingdoms (eg., as soldiers or police), things will have to be much different for those of us who are seeking the Kingdom of God, as we are not merely substituting churchian rituals—mistakenly called “worship services”—for the weightier matters that we are called to uphold, as the “church” institutions do as their means of deliberately keeping people trapped in Egypt while thinking of themselves as people who worship God, love their neighbors, and are actually distinct from the Roman statists of the world who they are, in fact, indistinguishable from. Rather, we are seeking another literal Kingdom, where we feed and provide for men under an alternative Kingdom-model that is not of this world and its systems, and which has Jesus as its only King. It has been possible for the so-called “churches” today to keep worldly statists around because their idea of “religion” is nothing more than a man’s beliefs about God, and their idea of worship and fellowship is nothing more than Sunday singalongs and sermons. If it were seen, rather, that we are to be operating as a body politic of people who seek to provide for others in a Kingdom community that functions in a fundamentally different way than the authoritarian systems of the world, it would then be seen just how necessary it is for those who join with us to repent from their worldly ways that are antagonistic to seeking another Kingdom.

Those pursuing pure religion—actually serving each other with charity and works towards our neighbors—must be more serious about who we associate with than the modern “church,” which, for feeding their people on nothing more than weekly sermons, does not do anything to keep its people from partaking in the public religion of socialism, where they end up going to find their bread in the absence of an actual Kingdom people to provide for them, which leaves them to become merchandise in the statist schemes of men. Indeed, the “churches” assure that their so-called congregants remain slaves, as they teach that “religion” is nothing more than getting people to sit in pews once a week. Churches, by design, do not provide the resources needed to keep their people from turning to the temples of the world for their welfare, because they are part of the conspiracy to keep men in statist bondage, namely by making them think that Christians are called to nothing more than “going to church” to sing songs with nameless people, which makes men believe they have satisfied their whole duties to God by Sunday afternoon. They don’t teach that we are to repent and seek the Kingdom of God, and they don’t seek to build the literal Kingdom of God either, which thereby shuts up the Kingdom in the faces of those who don’t know any better (Matt 23:13).

Scripture calls us to separate from such people who won’t repent from the statist ideas and practices of the world, as they are evidently people who do not trust in the Lord as their King and who are not interested in actually doing anything more than participating in their false forms of so-called worship, such as singing songs and listening to sermons.

“Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?” (2 Corinthians 6:14).

Repentance must include renouncing both the ideology of statism and the tax-funded benefits of the kingdoms of this world, which are two of the main ways that men have found themselves in bondage to these man-made kingdoms, which depend on an idolatrous and covetous people to function. If men cannot do this, they will never be fit for the Kingdom of God, and will do nothing but stall our efforts and turn away God’s hand upon us. Calling men to give up on their worldly ideology of statism, socialism, or democracy is an essential part of keeping men accountable to the Kingdom we are seeking. A man cannot have two masters, and anyone who cannot say clearly that Jesus is His King and actually mean it is not one who is truly seeking to enter another Kingdom. The Lord won’t bless it, and we can’t tolerate it either. In fact, statists are a cursed people and will corrupt our efforts.

“This is what the LORD says: ‘Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD’” (Jeremiah 17:5).

If we are to seek righteousness with the people we are gathering with, then we cannot gather with statists who still believe in, participate in, receive from, or seek to further the man-made kingdoms of the world, which are of the devil. After all, we are seeking to gather for the express purpose of seeking God’s Kingdom together, and not merely the loosely understood “fellowship” of the modern church, whose Sunday singalongs are nothing like the early church, which had an actual Kingdom-network of charity that had them in conflict with Rome. The belief in human civil government is evil, and we must live apart from these types of people, which is what being “worldly” is all about: buying into the socialist ideology of human government. We are called to another path, which is to live as a people who operate wholly differently from the people of the world, who meet their “public” needs by robbing their neighbors, rather than through the charitable practices of a decentralized people who seek the Kingdom of God.

“Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take” (Psalm 1:1).

Turning down worldly benefits 

In this stage of kingdom-seeking, where we have just begun to meet a handful of people who are interested in serving God and seeking His Kingdom and His righteousness together and who have their eyes set on leaving Egypt, we must begin to call our people away from the world entirely if we are actually to begin breaking bread together in a Kingdom community. Any such prospective Kingdom builders who are seriously inquiring with the agitators who have been evangelizing them to this great cause must repent from the statist ideology of the world and from receiving the deceitful meat of Pharaohs and Caesars that these false gods dole out to those who serve these evil systems. We must keep them from all worldly temptations, perhaps most important of all being that of keeping them away from using the socialistic services of human government that have been the very means to ensnaring men into civil bondage by turning them away from a responsibility to provide for their own directly. This is the whole idea of agitating people away from statism, which is not just calling upon men to think differently, but also to act differently and actually seek another, literal Kingdom, where they form an actual network of assistance for men to be received into as they repent from serving the kingdoms of the world and forsake its benefits that brought them and their neighbors into bondage. We are not just calling upon men to repent of the statist political ideology that has empowered the kingdoms of the world, but also seeking to build a network of assistance where this repentant people’s needs are men through the private charity of fellow Kingdom-seekers, so that they do not have to eat at the tables of false gods and accept the bondage-inducing benefits of these kingdoms. The whole purpose of agitating men to gather with us in a congregation is to actually liberate them from the enslaving systems of the world by getting them under pastors who actually and literally feed and care for the sheep with the help of the families who give their charity to these ministers to distribute, unlike the modern “church” that purposely works to keep them in bondage by feeding men nothing more than sermons and never rebuking them for their idolatry and covetousness.

Most of this will come when we begin to serve one another and look after each other’s needs on our own. By providing for our people directly, we will keep them from eating at the tables of the political fathers of this world, who have been more than willing to hand out bread to people in exchange for the political right to tax their income and keep them as virtual slaves, and we will teach men once again how to set the Lord’s table instead, which is a society of voluntary charity not based on the force that human governments use against others to dangle their dainties in front of the weak men who take the bait to go into bondage. But it will also be necessary to be very direct that men must turn from these covetous practices of socialism, which has been one of the main ways that they have become captives to the Egyptians, who then gained the “right” to tax them to fund these benefits in a debt-fueled system that turned every into a slave to uphold. Anyone accepting “government” money (i.e., their neighbor’s property), whether its food assistance, unemployment benefits, or payroll checks, will have to give up these benefits along with their ideological support for these systems. Some will have to quit their jobs serving Pharaoh, which has paid their bills for now but have done so at the expense of their neighbor, who they are not called to love rather than extort. There can be no people among us who feed from the hands of Pharaohs, nor who believe that kings and princes are necessary to feed and protect people. We need men who are ready to trust in God’s providence and who are provided for by joining in with their local Kingdom-seekers, not by accepting jobs with Pharaoh’s army, police forces, or bureaucracy in general. We will not find God’s Kingdom if we are still allowing human civil government to feed, house, or protect us, which is the very method that is opposite of what we are seeking. We must do these things on our own and learn to walk away from these systems.

Seeking God’s Kingdom while in Egypt

Getting our people off government food assistance and other tax-funded benefits will present needed challenges to our group — an immediate gap that will need to be filled by those who can lend a helping hand. We must learn to bear the burden of helping others even as we ourselves are living under the burdens and bondage of human government, and feeding a member as a group in order to get them off Caesar’s “social welfare” system is the cost we must endure to go another way than the kingdoms of this world. We will have to learn how to provide for our own people again even as we remain in the tax bondage of the kingdoms of the world as an additional burden, which has come about precisely due to our failure to seek God’s Kingdom way in the first place. Nevertheless, we will need to start providing for our own people again, even as we are making bricks for Pharaoh as the consequence for the sins of either idolizing human rulers, coveting our neighbors’ property for benefits and public services, or simply failing to seek God’s Kingdom as an alternative.

To be sure, there is a great amount of work before us. To add to the hard work and responsibility involved with seeking God’s Kingdom in a free society, which was evidently already more than most men were willing to do, given that we have found ourselves in Egypt instead, we have the added difficulty that we are living under the Egyptians for our failure to do so. Most men simply give up here and reason that since Pharaoh is feeding their neighbors and they are paying their taxes, that they now have nothing more they need to do for their people; they are already doing it through the system of human government. Yet this is the very sinful and slothful attitude that has landed us in Egypt to begin with, where men outsourced their responsibilities to their neighbors over to human rulers to perform the weightier matters for them, which has been to forsake the pure religion of Christ for the public religion of socialism. Today, we have a double burden of seeking to serve our neighbors again while we have also been made to serve men in our failure to carry out the former on our own. Not only must we learn to carry out our godly obligations to serve our neighbors again, which is already enough work in free air, we must also deal with the current captivity that we’re living under and satisfy the Egyptians who stand over us and demand our property or our lives. We could have avoided being the slaves of Pharaohs if we had sought God’s Kingdom the first time, but this isn’t the point we’re working from anymore. We already screwed up, and our efforts now are to make things right again.

We’re living in captivity today because men have found it acceptable to covet their neighbors property and receive benefits from human rulers who run a coercive, tax-funded political system to pay for it all. As an essential part of getting out of tax bondage, which has come upon us because we refused to serve our neighbors on our own and passed off these obligations to human rulers to do it for us, we must refuse to receive these hand-outs and begin to provide for the welfare of our people on our own again, without robbery. We cannot allow the provisions of human government to be mixed in with our efforts to seek God’s Kingdom, because these two kingdoms—God’s and man’s worldly political systems—don’t mix with each other. The two kingdoms cannot be mixed at all, for one negates the other and proves to be furthered only by forsaking the other, whichever one it is that men choose. If men seek the kingdoms of man, they turn away from the Kingdom of God, and if men seek the Kingdom of God, they are necessarily carrying out work that abolishes the kingdoms of man by replacing it with a new, non-authoritarian Kingdom model based on the ways of Jesus Christ instead. The whole point of the Abolitionist movement is to provide these goods and services to ourselves, without the violence and plunder of legal charity, so that the kingdoms of men become obsolete and no longer have any claims of being “necessary” service providers for us, which they use to justify taxation and control over the people who accept this method of government. Repentance from the idea of state services, and subsequent refusal to accept them anymore, is a necessary to any movement for liberty under God. This covetousness of our neighbor’s property is a sin and must be turned away from. We must provide for our neighbors directly again, which we will begin doing by gathering with them in Kingdom congregations that are organized for this express purpose.

Per scripture, those who covet their neighbor’s property (e.g., who accept military retirement pay, government paychecks or pensions in general, public food assistance, etc) are idolaters, and we cannot have fellowship with them in a true Kingdom congregation, as these are not men who will inherit the Kingdom, which, if it seems there are too many “rules” here, is a narrow path indeed.

“For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them” (Ephesians 5:5-7).

We cannot gather and organize with those who will not renounce their ideological belief and their acceptance of government benefits, as these are the very covetous practices that have led us into bondage. These people will not be blessed by God, and they will make it to where the Lord—the very source of our salvation who we are trusting in for divine liberation from the bondage of man’s kingdoms—will never even come to our movement, or leave it if He had been there. Statists are unrepentant men who can’t be brought into a congregation of ten families, or the wider charitable network of the overall movement of Kingdom-seekers where congregations are organized by servant-ministers who make up the (non-authoritarian) government of God’s Kingdom, as they are people who still operate on the forced offerings of worldly kingdoms and believe in living at the expense of their neighbors who they are called to love. They are people that will keep us from the very liberation we seek through serving God and living righteously again, forsaking the deceitful bread handed out by Caesars and Pharaohs to bring men into bondage.

“Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).

Keeping our people away from Pharaoh’s benefits

To begin building another kingdom and seeking a new path than the wide road of destruction we are currently on, we must keep our people from the temptation of government welfare, food stamps programs, social security payments, cop calling, etc, all which are paid through our neighbor’s taxes, and provide these things on our own through voluntary means. We must not only build them up ideologically, so that they would repent from taking them on their own, but also build them up physically by accepting them into a network of assistance, so that they won’t need them anymore. For it is the very temptation of accepting tax-funded services that rulers have been able to trap people in their system of state rule in exchange for benefits which make them into merchandise. In exchange for perceived benefits of living under human government, like so-called “social safety nets” and “public safety” provided by police, men sell themselves into tax bondage. Scripture warns us against taking these benefits, lest we become slaves. 

“When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat. Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee” (Proverbs 23:1-7).

It is not out of concern for the “public good” or general welfare that state rulers provide goods funded at the expense of our neighbors, but out of a desire to rule over people who, out of their sin and sloth, hand over their God-given inheritance to government officials to carry out a system of welfare that we should be doing ourselves if we didn’t forsake the calling to love and serve one another. The governments of the world get involved in transferring property to people not because they are benevolent men who care about others and needed the lovely system of tax-funded government to carry out these selfless and upstanding social acts, but because they know it’s a means of gaining dependents, supporters, and slaves who will come to apologize for their plunder systems and forget about the ways of God’s anarchist Kingdom that keeps men free by serving them directly and without the use of force.

As part of keeping our people to a holy standard, as well as getting away from these Egyptian-statist systems that we have been yoked to serving for our own iniquities, we must call those who are ready to gather with us in a legitimate Kingdom congregation to withdraw from receiving any of Pharaoh’s enslaving benefits, stop believing that Caesars is needed for anything, and step in to provide for our people in the place of the false gods who, in our sloth, have been able to pick up the slack of a people who refused to it on their own and live freely. Per Jesus, the Kingdom of God is not carried out using the political methods of the rulers of this world, who exercise authority over other men and claim to be public benefactors (Mark 10:42), while they are actually just men who bring everyone into bondage to worldly rulers. We do not truly love our neighbors if we allow them to be taxed to transfer property to others. Contrary to the perversion of Christianity among so-called Christian socialists, supporting government welfare is the very means of denying God and His Kingdom and handing it over to men who produce either no fruit or evil works. Our movement must turn away from these systems of welfare that work against the very thing we are trying to build. As the Christian Abolitionist, Michael Plaisted, has written,

“The rulers of these bureaucratic institutions offer benefits extracted from our neighbor’s through forced taxation, predicated on subject citizenship to the kingdoms of the world. To tempt your covetous eye and thieving hand with the daily bread of socialist benefactors who exercise civil authority is to gaze upon your own destruction and receive the damnation owed to you by your deal with the devil.”

We have to show people that the systems they have supported—the “Americas” that they once rooted for in their sin—is built on the slave-labor and plunder of our neighbors and that these systems are at odds with the Kingdom of God, which they now must turn away from. The people we are gathering with will have expressly repent from their sinful ideology of statism—including the practices of robbing their neighbors via these authoritarian systems—which has led them into bondage, or else they will not be walking out of Egypt with us and God will not be looking favorably upon our fervent Kingdom-seeking. We must shed any ideological statism and any benefits we may be receiving from human government before we can proceed with our Kingdom work, because the very things we need to be repenting of are the old statist practices of the world, where we have robbed our neighbors rather than loved and served them. There will be no leaving Egypt if we are still asking for the Egyptians to protect and feed us. We are going to have to learn to do things far differently from the ways men have hitherto thought to be the only way. The implications here represent a drastic change from the statist ways of the world that most men have known and never question. It means no more relying on police, no more voting for false gods to serve us, no more applications to government welfare offices to feed us or house us, no more accepting their Social Security benefits to retire, no more selling our children into bondage through Birth Certification and handing them over to Caesar’s schools, and no more supporting these systems of slavery in general. 

Are you ready to stop receiving the deceitful meat of Pharaohs and provide for the repentant people who are ready to get off the Roman dole and gather with you in a budding Kingdom society of voluntary charity and personal responsibility? Are you tired of being a tax slave in Egypt? Well then it’s time to repent of our Egyptian ways and start doing things God’s way again. Only then can we hope to be blessed by God and saved from the Egyptian systems that have come upon us for our own sins.