Mission Statement
We’re here to expose the folly and idolatry of statism, to call on men to repent from their worship and praise of these false political gods which has enslaved them under the rule of men, and seek the Kingdom of God as a radical alternative to the violent, plunderous kingdoms of this world that have for so long ensnared men into bondage.
Statement
It is because we are convinced that the God of the Universe who established its physical laws to govern its causes and effects (Psalm 102:25; Isa 45:12) also established spiritual laws to govern the hearts and minds of mankind (Ecc 7:31; Psa 40:8; Isa 51:7; Jer 31:33; Ezek 36:26-27; Heb 8:10), that we are compelled to recognize our culpability in forsaking God’s Laws to go into bondage under the jurisdiction of false gods who are ruling men in positions of civil authority (Psa 32:5; Prov 1:23-27; Isa 5:13; Jer 3:13; Lam 5:16; Hos 4:6, 5:15, 14:1-3; Rom 1:28). We also recognize that only a Christian worldview is efficacious to liberate man from the political domination by other men through being faithful to its principles and narrow road to liberty to be free souls under God again (Rom 8:14-15; Gal 5:1; 1 Pet 2:16-17).
We know that sin leads to political bondage and that we are captives for failing to hear the words of the Lord (1 Kings 8:46; 2 Kings 17:18-20; 2 Chron 36:15-17; Prov 1:10-19; Jer 5:19, 16:10-13, 29:18-19; Lam 1:5; Ezek 39:23). This yoke has come upon us namely because covetousness for our neighbor’s property by means of political force excuses us to look to false benefactors who exercise authority to provide goods and services for us through our neighbor’s taxes (Num 11:4-6; Psa 141:4; Prov 23:1-8; Dan 1:8; Luke 22:25, Rom 11:9, 2 Pet 2:2-3). It is also because our sloth towards the weightier matters prevents us from being faithful to the ethics that create, nurture, and maintain a free society built on brotherly love, and excuses us to outsource our responsibilities to authoritarian institutions instead (Prov 12:24; Heb 6:12). The answer to these sins is to rely on God’s charitable providence rather than the socialist benefits of pagan gods and to do the works of God’s Law (Luke 9:10-17; James 1:25-27). We know that God hears the prayers of the penitent captives who confess their complicity in the wickedness of the world and turn from their old evils (Lev 26:40-42; 1 Kings 8:47-51; 2 Chron 7:14; Neh 1:6-7; Psa 32:5; Prov 15:29, 28:13; Isa 59:12; Jer 3:12-13, 14:20, 29:12; Dan 9:3-6; 1 John 1:9).
We know that God often sends liberators to the captive to preach a divine message of repentance and reconciliation, often to men who are too stubborn to hear it (Gen 11:31-12:6, Ex 3:9-10; Judg 2:18, 6:8-14; Josh 10:6-8, 24:5-7; Neh 9:9, 9:27; 1 Sam 9:16; 2 Sam 3:18; 2 Kings 13:5; Isa 19:20). They agitate a people for the purposes of sloughing off the erroneous ideas and actions that have made them property of human civil government, and call them to begin to “do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God” (Mic 6:8; Isa 1:17; Hos 6:6; Zech 7:9-10; Amos 5:14-15; Matt 5:7). The end result of this repentance unto restored faith is to be adopted into the Kingdom of Heaven, as prescribed in all of Scripture, to restore the Dominion Mandate to the image of God (Gen 1:26-28).
We know that the quintessential example of this liberator is God himself, incarnated in the King of Freemen, Jesus the Christ (Isa 42:1, 61:1; Matt 1:23; Luke 4:18-19, 7:16; John 4:42; Acts 3:22; 2 Cor 3:17; Titus 2:14), expressed in the Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven which is a direct condemnation of all false gospels of the kingdoms of the world. We know that we are told to “seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you” (Matt 6:33), referring to the blessings of peace and prosperity of a free society that are granted to His faithful followers (Lev 26:3-13; Deut 28:1-14; Isa 1:19; Ezek 36:9-36; Jer 7:23; John 8:32-36; Rom 8:14-15). And we know that our political situation today where we have become the captives of human rulers can be understood as a failure to seek the Kingdom of God to instead suffer under the subsequent curses that come from such rebellion and idolatry (Lev 26:14-39; Deut 28:15-68; Jer 11:3-5, 17:5-6; Isa 1:20; Neh 9:26-27; Mal 2:2; Matt 7:26-27).
We know that every professing Christian who believes in God’s Gospel has the personal obligation to keep Jesus’ commandments (Luke 6:46; John 14:15-21; 1 John 2:3-5, 3:22-24, 5:3), working out the spirit of God’s Law in personal holiness to lay down their lives for their neighbor (John 15:13) to restore him to righteousness and liberty through agitation and assistance unto a network of accountability and charity (Prov 27:17; Acts 2:46-47; 1 Thess 5:11). We recognize that decentralized, voluntary, non-authoritarian communities organized around the commandments of neighborly love rather than the violent political methods of social organization are the vehicles of faith, hope, and charity making up the Kingdom of Heaven as an answer to the bureaucratic slavery of worldly kingdoms which are founded on contracts, entitlements, and taxation.
We know that God’s people must take an uncompromising stance against man-made institutions as immediatists against sin which leads to subject citizenship (Matt 5:29-30). It is self-defeating to say “let my people go” with our lips, but to accept that it should be incremental in practice — to think that democracy can be used in self-defense, to push legislation to restore our civil privileges, or to engage in any other prayer to false gods or deal-making with the devil for some incrementalist perception of liberty (Psa 146:3-7). We know that we are to pledge allegiance to God and trust in Him alone to provide all those things that the people of the world seek to obtain through political action and that curses come to those who trust in human rulers to be their providers (Ex 20:3-5; Josh 24:14-16; 1 Kings 18:21; Psa 60:11, 118:8; Isa 2:22, 30:1-3, 31:3). We recognize that salvation only comes from the God of the Bible (Isa 43:11, 45:22; Hos 13:4; Acts 4:12), and not the desperate works of men in bondage who cry out to the false political gods of this world to make their Hell a little less hot (James 4:4). We know we are to walk away from the world entirely and cannot have a savior in both the Lord and the gods of human government (Matt 6:24; John 15:18-19; 1 Cor 10:21; 2 Cor 6:14-18; Rom 12:2; ; 1 John 2:15-17).
In summary, we know that sin leads to bondage, repentance leads to righteousness, and faithfulness is rewarded with liberty by the living God. We know that the Kingdom of Heaven is its own juridical community recognized by its own laws, customs, non-authoritarian methods of governance, systems of welfare and mutual aid, and historical continuity. Its citizens are expatriates from worldly kingdoms who have been washed from their civil obligations in order to be born again without the debts of bondage which had estranged them from God’s jurisdiction since the womb (John 3:3-7; 2 Cor 5:17; 1 Pet 1:3).
Leaving Egypt Ministries 