Leaving Egypt Ministries, Obadiah D. Morris 

I have written before that the gap between men appearing to wake up to the evils of the world, and realizing their need to repent for sins that have caused them and seek the Kingdom of God as the only solution, is an enormous one. In other words, it’s hardly radical anymore for the masses to see that we’re ruled by wicked men and something has gone wrong. Who could deny it? However, it remains wildly unpopular to tell people that their own sins have led to their bondage — that the statist captivity they have found themselves living under, where they’re slaves to Pharaoh who have to make him bricks while trying to feed their own families, is one of their own doing — that, as Étienne de La Boétie knew hundreds of years ago, we live under a voluntary servitude.

What separates men today then is not so much that they may take issue with the way the world has gone, but whether or not they are able to identify the sin-root of their bondage and repentance unto righteousness as the only solution. It is easy enough anymore to see that things have gone wrong in society. Indeed, even the demagogues of the world have used such easy observations as tools for propagandizing the masses further in their schemes, as a means for leading men who don’t know cause and effect further into sin by suggesting that human governments hold the solutions (socialized healthcare) to the problems already caused by these socialist institutions (high prices for healthcare). They point out an obvious problem that most anyone agrees is a problem, and simply seek to make men infer their political “solution” is the obvious one. They point out the injustices in the world, which are always inevitable in a society of sinners who outsource their justice to human rulers, only to rope them back into the sin of thinking that even greater funding for “law enforcement” will save the day. 

The real questions are what has caused this situation of ours? And what are we going to do about it? It is in answering these questions where we find out who men truly are. Nearly everyone — Marxists as much as conservatives as much as we Christian Anarchists — sees that something isn’t right. But why isn’t it right? And how did it come about? And by what means do you propose we solve it? It is in the understanding of our causal reality and the solutions provided by it where we discover who men really are, not simply in the easy and now-common observation that everything is corrupt and unjust, which men from all worldviews can agree on. Communists can agree with us that the world is corrupt. Yet they think it is because of non-existent free markets or the “exploitation of bosses,” and their “solution” is an even greater statization of society than we have already. Clearly, agreeing on the mere conditions of the world around us today is not a basis for alliance with anyone. The observation that “groceries are expensive” or “we’re ruled by evil men” does not mean you’ve found a Christian brother who knows how it got this way and what we are to do about it.

When men don’t understand cause and effect, which is always the case when they don’t know the Author of the Law of the Universe, they are bound to be wrong about the solutions — so much so that they are bound to propose more of the causes as the solution. Any man who doesn’t know how it is that he has wound up in a backward society dominated by human rulers is simply not going to know how to get out of this bondage. Even worse, he is most likely to propose the same actions and methods that landed him there to begin with. 

This confusion of cause and effect is mostly what we see today in the professing Christian world as much as among the people who don’t profess to know the Lord. We see that almost everyone is fighting against the consequences of sin, but almost no one sees that sin is at the root of their problems. Thus, they are angry with politicians, certain political parties, pieces of legislation, prices, taxes, obviously-evil rulers, etc., all which are merely the natural and inevitable result of a people who have chosen to be ruled by men rather than God. But they don’t know how this came to be. And they think that the solution is to get better Pharaohs into office, to elect “Christian legislators,” etc. 

Judgment for sin

What men fail to see today is that it is sin, and only sin, which leads to bondage. Which means that they fail to see that repentance is the only solution. Which necessarily means that they still think sin is the solution, i.e., that we must keep acting like Egyptians and piling into Pharaoh’s polling stations and begging for new masters if we want to get out of Egypt or make our society better. Yet these are the sins that brought us into our Egyptian captivity originally. 

If men knew Biblical causality, they would see easy enough that going into bondage to men was always a judgment by God upon a people who had turned away from His Kingship in this very way: deciding to practice the statist political ways of the people of the world, who look to human kings and armies to save them, rather than trusting in the Lord alone to protect them and be their King. Scripture always made this causal-connection. Never has God destroyed a people without reason, and it would be even better to show that all instances of divine judgment were upon a people who had ultimately brought such ruin upon themselves — that all statist evils are justice just as much as they are bondage. Rather, God’s justice has come upon a people who expressly walked away from keeping His Law, namely in their sinful erection of systems of human government, which, being inherently evil, became God’s very instrument of judgment upon a people who pursued systems of human civil government rather than God’s Kingdom. 

When men partake in the political evils of the world, such as voting for men or simply believing that these kingdoms of men are necessary for their law and order, God hands them over to the desires of their wicked hearts and allows them to throw away the liberty they could have had under His kingship. If men knew their Bible, they would see that all instances of bondage, where God sent statists to rule over a people who didn’t want to be ruled by God, were but the result of their own sin. God had sent His own people into captivity under other men so that both they and the people around them would see the results of such sins of idolatry, covetousness, and the general evildoing of a people who walk down the wicked path of statism.

“The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity, because they were unfaithful to Me. So I hid My face from them and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, so that they all fell by the sword. I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and transgressions, and I hid My face from them” (Ezekiel 39:23-24). 

It isn’t just that things go wrong when men fail to participate in human government and elect “good politicians,” as the false “Christians” of the world make the issue out to be. It isn’t that our society is corrupt today due to Christians abstaining from politics, which these idolaters interpret as “sitting on the sidelines,” but rather, it is precisely that men have thought and acted in this way. Men get handed over to political plunder systems when they turn away from God’s Law, which they do every time they seek systems of human government to order their society for them, which is a competing theory of salvation that demonstrates one’s lack of faith in the Lord to save them. 

“So the LORD was very angry with Israel, and He removed them from His presence. Only the tribe of Judah remained, and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced. So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel. He afflicted them and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, until He had banished them from His presence” (2 Kings 17:18-20). 

It is not surprising that these falsely professing Christians today who tell us that our lack of participation in the politics of Egypt is the problem (which is to argue that a lack of sin is the cause of these political evils today) also mock those who tell them that it is, in fact, these very wicked ways of theirs that have wound them up in Egypt: People also get ruled by men when they refuse to heed the rebukes brought against their idolatry by prophets of God who tell them that their systems of human government are raised up in sin and that they must repent if they don’t want to be destroyed.

“Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place. But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy. So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar” (Chronicles 36:15-17). 

Misplaced anger

What we see today then are largely people who are fighting against the effects of their own sin, rather than attacking the sin itself! They say they hate that their statist societies have become corrupt, lawless, and run by evil men, but they both refuse to see that this is only the very judgment against them for supporting these systems and that they must repent and seek God’s Kingdom if they want anything to change. Instead, they keep believing that change can come through compromise with the government of the devil, which all the kingdoms of the world are under. They keep believing, under a strong delusion by the evil one himself, that Egypt can be made “Christian” with “the right” people in power, even when Jesus himself, whose teaching they ignore, taught that His Kingdom is not of this world and its political systems. They keep thinking, in their reprobate and debased minds, that human government can be made “godly” with enough “Christians” voting and running for office, when human civil government is directly contrary to godly civil government in structure and form, and is not merely a matter of having false Christians preside over the offices of the devil’s government who say “Lord, Lord” with their lips but do not do as He says. 

As such, these people who cannot identify that it has already been their sin which led to their bondage likewise do not see that repentance from these sins is the only solution. In fact, these people largely cannot even recognize that they are in bondage at all, as they have been told they live in a “free country” or the “land of the free.”

When men are this fooled about causation and reality, they will never be able to see the way out of Egypt through repentance from the ways of Egypt. Naturally, these men are merely fighting against the wicked growth of the wicked tree they planted, while refusing to stop planting evil seeds and always failing to strike the root of sin. They remain involved in the politics of the world through voting, running for office, and seeking legislative “victories” that only prune the branches of the wicked tree and keep it growing back stronger than before. They maintain the sinful belief that human government could one day serve them, if only “Christians” would throw their support behind a lesser evil Pharaoh who will hold up a Bible in front of some photographers and say he’s a Christian. They never see that human government is a wicked tree that can only bear wicked fruit. They never seek God’s Kingdom as the only social order that will give them what they vainly and sinfully seek through human government. And then they complain about the results that materialize every time.

Yet since men are not striking the root of sin nor calling for repentance from statism as the solution, they are not even legitimately in a position to complain. (So much for the old statist saying, “If you don’t vote you can’t complain.” The only people who can lament the situation we are in today are those who abstain from these evils and repent of them). For all the complaining heard from the statists around the world, they are only reaping the very evils they have sown. It is not surprising at all that these people are merely taking issue with the effects of their own sin: they were always so shortsighted and blinded in the first place to even allow these systems to be instituted and furthered, and never really cared to consider what would inevitably come of them. 

Yet what we mostly see today are people taking issue with the way these statist systems have turned out while continuing to participate in them, rather than to see that this is the way they always turn out and that they must repent from the sin-cause if they want things to be any other way. Thus, it is popular for men today to call for tax protests or tax revolts against the system, without ever seeing that taxation — as scripture makes clear — is but a judgment upon their own sin of wanting to be ruled by human kings rather than the Lord their King (1 Sam 8). Rather than repent for their statism, they merely lament the “natural” outcomes of this sin while continuing to practice the root-cause of everything they’re complaining about on the other hand. Like the labcoats of the modern medical world who slap bandaids on wounds and prescribe drugs to manage the symptoms of a disease without ever addressing the causes, these people merely fight against the effects of their own sin without being willing to repent. Rather than turn away from root causes that create the problems in the first place, they care only to fight against the late-stage effects of their own sin, like an obese person who goes in for a liposuction procedure rather than fixing their diet and lifestyle. This is why we see conservatives today whose most radical position is to whine about transgenderism or some other degeneracies, when these are but the late-stage manifestations of a failing statist society that they fundamentally and in principle still support. They cannot see that everything they’re witnessing today is how such sinful statist systems turn out every time, and they cannot see that they must repent and seek the Kingdom of God if they want it to be any different.  

Finding God again in Babylon

In short, men aren’t fighting against the root today, which are the sins that have led to their bondage, but only the wicked fruit of this sin. Which is ironic, because only repentance would resolve their complaints; their state of unrepentance only furthers them. 

We see this confusion even among libertarian anarchists whose unceasing ire against politicians fails to recognize how this system came about: through the sins of idolatry, covetousness, or the failure to seek God’s Kingdom as an alternative. Not surprisingly, we see that many of them hold the idea that violence or revolution against the rulers is a solution, that they need to take up arms against the tyrants to bring them down. This shows a people’s failure to perceive how it is that we wound up in the bondage of Egypt, which scripture shows is through our own iniquity. We aren’t to rebel against the captivity itself; this is simply the result of such sinful behaviors as voting for rulers, running for office ourselves, standing behind political parties, being willing to covet our neighbors property by accepting government benefits, or otherwise failing to obey God’s commands to serve our neighbors directly and freely on our own. Rather, we are to repent and begin to do right again while in bondage.

It is not surprising that statist idolaters, who have been given over by God to a reprobate mind to not understand His word anymore, interpret such instruction of doing right again while in Babylon as a supposed defense of statism, i.e., that God’s counsel to do right again while in political bondage means that these systems receive God’s moral approval and stamp of endorsement. Like the idolatrous fools they are, they take passages of God instructing men to learn to do right again in their slavery as a defense of the very statist practices that led to their enslavement. Jeremiah 29 is of this nature, and it is widely cited by statist idolaters to excuse their participation in worldly politics, which is the very sins that have wound them up in bondage! The passage often cited as a justification for statism is this: 

“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says to all the exiles who were carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon: ‘Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease. Seek the prosperity of the city to which I have sent you as exiles. Pray to the LORD on its behalf, for if it prospers, you too will prosper’” (Jeremiah 29:4-7). 

To cite this as a defense of running for office, voting, or seeking legislative acts, first of all ignores that these are a people in bondage due to these types of sins, and secondly, that this is not to be their permanent resting place — that God would one day deliver them from this political domination. The statist view, however, is that Babylonian political structures — that is, the model of all the man-made kingdoms of the world — is something of the ideal model for the Christian, that God “ordained” human civil government as our divine institution for law and order rather than as an instrument of judgment against a people who went the way of the world. Not only is state rule not for them a proof in itself that a people are under judgment, but moreover, it is something they should directly partake in and seek to further, as opposed to seeking God’s Kingdom instead and in spite of being enslaved. Jeremiah 29 is not God telling a people to become Babylonians while in Babylon; it is God giving instruction to a people whose sins have already led to their divine judgment to start getting back to His ways and expecting deliverance in the future for it. It is God telling people to get back to the Dominion Mandate and godly ways of living again, not Him telling people to continue in the sins that led to their enslavement and grow completely comfortable with this model, as American “Christians” do today when they seek to make modern-day Rome resemble God’s ideal model rather than seek God’s Kingdom alone. Moreover, it is God’s instruction to not fight against the consequences of their own sin by rebelling or throwing a revolution.

For statists to cite Jeremiah 29 as an excuse for worldly political participation shows how hypocritical they are. For these are the very sinful practices that led to their enslavement in the first place, the same idolatry and disobedience to God’s Law that led to God’s people being carried away captive in Babylon. 

Misinterpreting judgment 

The problem today is that as it has become increasingly difficult to deny the sorry state of the world around us, statists are still going to have to come up with some interpretation for why it has gone wrong, without this interpretation being one that leads to their repentance. Thus, statists have to come up with some corrupted view of what has led to the undeniable divine judgment we are under, other than the sin inherent in statism itself. So they propose that the people failed to elect “Christian civil magistrates” or that we’ve had “evil politicians” (redundancy) who failed to “legislate righteously,” so that they don’t have to confess their own sins: that all men who seek men to rule over their neighbors are evil people who have turned from righteousness, and that these are the reasons why things have become this way. 

The statists thus craft a subtle perversion of the Biblical reasons that we’re under judgment. Rather than see that we have gone into political bondage and that society has become all-around corrupt for the sins inherent to the statist belief in human rule, they water this down to suggesting that the only sin has been to not pursue the “right kind” of statism — that we went after “secular” human government rather than “Christian” human government, when all human government is of the devil and can never be Christian. This subtle corruption of the truth allows them to excuse their unrepentant sin from being identified as the main cause of their bondage, which allows them to remain in it.

This distinction is somewhat subtle, since the statists can still look around the world and agree with us that we are under judgment. But they ultimately don’t see why or how. Indeed, as we have argued, they think it is our toleration of the judgment itself — allowing wicked rulers to stand in office when we should be voting “godly politicians” in — that has been the sin, when these things are only the natural fruit of the wicked tree they still plant and water. 

Again, when men cannot understand cause and effect — and those statists who can admit we’re under judgment without confessing their own sin or repenting are chief among them — then they arrive at drastically different ideas as to what must be done. If the sins inherent to statism are not at the root of all the political evils today, then men won’t believe they need to repent from their worldly ideology of statism and will identify something else as the cause of lawlessness and injustices (eg., “democrat judges” or a lack of funding for police).

The failure to understand Biblical causality — seeking other kings than the Lord will get you ruled by men — thus leads to critically different proposals of what to do about things, which as we have been arguing leads men to fight against the effects rather than the causes. These people see these effects of judgment as things that themselves shouldn’t be tolerated, as if these things are the sins that get us into trouble, rather than the expected effects of sin. Thus, they look to, say, the existence of female rulers and see that the Bible says these are proofs of judgment (Isa 3:12). Or they see that foreigners from another country than theirs have risen to the ranks of political office, and they point this out as judgment (Deut 28:43). 

However, since these false Christians don’t see the evils of the world as the curses of their own statist disobedience, their “solution” is to fight against these things themselves and to attack the fruit of their own wicked ways rather than strike the root of their own sin. Rather than repent and turn from statism in order to find God’s blessings once again and not be ruled by men at all, they think that it is only their toleration of the curses that would make them deserving of these evils, and they thus call for men to fight against the outcomes of their own evildoing rather than the evildoing itself. They say we need to remove the right of women to vote or take office, rather than see that human rulers per se are a judgment against the sin of wanting rulers at all, and that the sin isn’t just electing women into office but electing human rulers period. They say we must employ Border Patrol agents to fight immigration and keep the foreigners from being exalted above us — as if these effects of sin are the sins themselves. They say we need to stop sending money to foreign governments and evil programs that fund ungodly things, when being forced to fund evil things are but the judgments that are owed to a people who believe in tax-funded governments whatever. These people are merely eating the fruit of their own ways and crying about how bad it has become, yet without repenting from their causes and indeed even contributing to them still. 

The sins of statism 

In this great error of confusing the effects of sin for the sins themselves, the idolatrous statists of the world who pretend to be Christians actually go on to participate in the very sins that created these problems! They double-down in their support for state violence or seek to elect males to rule over them, when it was the very vain quest for a “righteous human civil government” that proved to be corrupt as a judgment against this foolish idea. But these are the very sins that led to these things they hate! Anyone who supports state violence or human rulers at all deserves to get ruled by women and conquered by foreigners. These are the effects of sin. They are the consequences of being a statist.

Yet the statists reason that we must fight against the effects of sin, and they never realize that if they truly wanted these things to go away, they must repent for their sins. As God warned for a people’s rebellion against His rule, “You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you” (Leviticus 26:38). It isn’t that getting consumed by foreigners is the sin that one must not allow if they want to be repentant, such that we need to support “law enforcement” to keep them away if we want to do right by the Lord again. These things are the effects of sins, precisely the sins of trusting in human rulers to “protect and serve” you rather than the Lord as your sole protector. These men have their causality and solutions reversed: supporting human law enforcers and man-made law-systems is the exact sin that brought about the corrupted, lawless, and unjust societies they live under, not the failure to give greater funds to the police and unleash them on the criminals. 

Statists mistake the consequences of sin, such as taxation or the evil-doing political rulers, for the sins themselves which shouldn’t be tolerated, because they are unrepentant idolaters and not only see things through a worldly-statist lens, but must see them this way, lest they have to repent and realize they are responsible for all the evils that have come upon them. They fail to see that all the things they hate are but the consequences of their own sin of believing these systems should even exist at all. As a result of this confusion, they argue that we should wage war, not on sin, but on its effects. They tell us that we must seek “Christian rulers” (a contradiction their wicked hearts can’t identify) to reduce the lawlessness, injustices, or plunder of the land, without seeing that these are merely the natural results of raising up these systems, whose wickedness serves as God’s way of judging a people who turn aside to false gods to provide for them. 

It is statism in general — the belief in human government or the practice of ruling over others — that has been the sins of men, not the failure to seek a specific type of supposedly-“Christian” form of statism, which all the idolaters who argue that a lack of voting among “Christians” think has been the reason for judgment. It is this very statist idolatry — still promoted by these false Christians as the solution to their problems — that led to their bondage in the first place. The true sin was not a mere toleration of its consequences, as these men claim, but the idolatry itself. Yet they misidentify the problem and seek to attack its effects through even more state violence. God has always shown that all these things that statists hate, like finding themselves in tax bondage or dominated by foreigners, are the consequences of sin and not the sins themselves to be fought.

It is also no wonder that statists are surprised at the effects of these systems of human government today: when men fail to identify sin at the root of erecting statist political systems, they likewise can’t understand how they always turn out this way. When men raise false gods up into the offices of human government, which is the sin underlying their problems, they should expect nothing less than to have all their fears of a godly anarchist society, which they held in their lack of fear of the Lord, to come true of their wicked statist systems — that the very means of getting dominated, ruled, enslaved, invaded, or carried away captive, is actually to trust in man-gods like presidents and kings to protect you. 

“And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own’” (Jeremiah 5:19). 

Statism and judgment 

We are ruled by evil men today not because we failed to elect “good rulers” to office or take up our supposed “Christian civic duties” in the kingdoms of the world, but because we have sought systems of human government, period. Evil rulers—these are the only kind—are a judgment against the belief that there is any such thing as “good” ones. We are ruled by wicked men, women, clowns, pedophiles, rapists, thieves, murderers, schemers, scoundrels, and Satanists today because we sought to make humans into kings and saviors at all, rather than making the Lord our King in an anarchist society. It is not that we didn’t vote hard enough to put “Christian princes” and “godly politicians” into office that we find ourselves paying taxes to a global cabal of child traffickers who sacrifice babies to Satan and eat them, but that we believed in tax-funded systems of authoritarian government whatever, all which are contrary to God’s Kingdom government, which operates exclusively on freewill offerings and is administered by men who do not exercise authority over other men but rather exist to serve them. It has always been man’s sinful quest to raise up the false gods that are human rulers over himself and his neighbors whatever that explains all the evils that come about in a statist society. It has always been the violation of God’s Law that is inherent to erecting systems of human government that explains the judgment that has come upon a people, not their supposed failure to vote for human rulers who “keep God’s Law,” which is never possible for them to do. 

“When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’  Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction. And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me. So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor’” (Jeremiah 16:10-13). 

When men fear all the alleged evils that would come about in an anarchist society where God is a people’s only King, which plainly reveals their lack of faith in the Lord, they will find all these things coming down on their head from the very systems of human government that they assumed would save them from these alleged dangers of liberty under God. In seeking human governments to save them from the alleged evils of anarchy, which is to say from God’s natural order, men commit the very sin which ensures their judgment. It is for the sins of statism, which is a claim that God alone cannot provide for a people, that guarantees that they will reap all the evils they feared would come about if they didn’t have men to “protect and serve” them. This is the great irony of the statist position, which argues that we must turn away from God and toward men to find safety, only to find that this grave statist decision is the sin that leads them into bondage. All the things statists whine about today — the taxation, the lawlessness and injustices, the threats of foreign enemies, the invasion of their land, the foreign occupiers in their government — are but the results of their own sin. All the things that statists sought to avoid in raising up human rulers to “protect and serve” them become manifest in their ungodly statist societies. 

“Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy” (Lamentations 1:5). 

Repenting from sin

Since statists do not identify their own sin as the cause of all their problems, they naturally come to argue that we must continue in these sins. The whole statist position, when adopted by a professing Christian, might be summed up as follows: repenting and turning back to God will not be rewarded or blessed, and we must go on sinning, acting like Babylonians and partaking in the politics of the devil’s government, if we want to win.

In their reprobate minds then, they cannot find the only solution that would actually bear the good fruits they claim to desire and actually expunge the wickedness they claim to want to rid from society. The solution to the consequences of sin, which statists identify as the sins themselves that must be fought against with more sinning, is, of course, to repent of these sins. It is repentance, not a continuation of evildoing under the idea that fighting wickedness necessitates Babylonian political involvement, that would led them to avoid the consequences of sin and which God is seeking to bless. 

“But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity, then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land” (Leviticus 26:40-42). 

So long as men mix up cause and effect, however, and point to the symptoms (e.g., taxation and slavery) of their own sinful ways as the things which are themselves to be fought against, they will continue to reason that staying in their sin is the “solution” to all their problems — that they must turn to the false gods of the kingdoms of the world to fight against taxation, women rulers, mass immigration, lawlessness and injustice, or whatever else has come upon them as a result of these very sinful ways. 

So long as our people remain in Babylonian captivity and reason that the way to heal the land is to continue to participate in Babylon’s sham elections rather than to repent, they will never recognize the true root of their troubles and will indeed continue contributing to these causes by mistaking them as the solution. They will continually fail to see that it is the very sins they continue to practice that lie at the root of their bondage. They will continually fail to see that their own prostitution and whoredom with Babylons, which they continue to think is the remedy to their social ills, is actually the sin that lies at the heart of their corrupt social condition.

In the Bible, God always sent judgment upon a people for their sin so that they would come to realize it was due to their sin. Yet the people of the world today are such reprobate idolaters that they think Christian participation in worldly politics is a remedy for the evils that have come upon them precisely for this adultery of theirs: failing to seek God’s Kingdom exclusively and reasoning that when in Babylon, you may as well become a Babylonian. What God wants is for a people under judgment to realize that they got their due to their sin, and not their failure to fight against the effects of sin through raising up new Pharaohs or seeking justice through human legislatures.

“On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’ And on that day I will surely hide My face because of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods” (Deuteronomy 31:17-18). 

The statist false converts of the professing Christian world, such as “Christian” Nationalists, have this reasoning entirely backward. They think that all these disasters have come upon us because we have not sought to use state violence enough against our enemies. They can’t even recognize that they are living in Egypt because of their own Egyptian ways. They think Egypts are fundamentally God’s ideal political model, and that the only problem is that we have become lazy in keeping them “Christian” (say, via “pastors” who shied away from preaching politics in the pulpit).

Turning back to God again 

So long as men continue in their Egyptian-statist ways and fail to realize that all these indeed-tragic evils have come upon them for acting like Egyptians themselves, then they will never find God’s favor again. God is looking for men to repent from their Egyptian-statist ways and confess that their statism and idolatry and covetousness involved with it has been sin, not to look at the effects of the sin of statism and reason that these things have come upon only because we haven’t been earnest enough statists who piled into the political offices of Egypt, raised up “good Pharaohs,” and sought legislation that “resembles God’s Law.” 

Why should anyone expect that their societies will be changed and restored when they won’t even repent from the statist idolatry that created and furthered these systems? Why should anyone think God will return upon their social orders when they won’t return to Him by repenting from statism and seeking His Kingdom exclusively? Statists are people who have forsaken the Lord as their God by turning to men as their gods, and in turn they are a God-forsaken people who the Lord has abandoned to be ruled by the men they begged to have over them and to eat the fruit of their ways in bondage.

What God is looking for today is a people who turn back to Him by repenting from their worldly political ways, not merely a people whose lips say, “Lord, Lord” but whose deeds are Babylonian. These statists who take the Lord’s name in vain are even worse than men who don’t even profess to be Christians at all. God is looking to save and restore a people who repent from the belief and quest for human government entirely and who realize this divine judgment, coming in the form of all the evils that necessarily come along with these systems, has been a result of the sins inherent to believing in human government, unlike the idolaters of the world who still think that supporting police and federal agents will be their means of undoing what is but the consequence of their own sin.

“Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me” (Hosea 5:15). 

So long as men want to turn from God by turning toward the false gods of the State to heal their land, “enforce the law,” or “pass Christian legislation,” all which are merely the vain attempts of sinners to find a solution to what is already the effect of their own sin, then God will keep His backed turned on these idolaters, too. We should find no scriptural difficulty asserting that God is waiting on men to repent in order to heal their land, or that God turns His back on people who turn their backs on Him by seeking human kings and presidents.  

“The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you” (2 Chronicles 15:2). 

God will be with a people who actually want to serve Him, which is only true of anarchists who seek His Kingdom alone. The Lord is ready to provide all the liberty, peace, and prosperity that sinners seek in a State in their acceptance of the gospels of Caesars, but He needs men to repent from these sins and trust in Him alone as their savior. 

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded” (James 4:8). 

Those statists who believe they may continue participating in Babylonian systems simply because those systems exist fail to see that both the systems themselves and the evils they produce endure precisely because of that sinful reasoning. To argue that we may as well vote or run for the offices of Satan’s government—as though such institutions were tools given by God to advance His Kingdom—only shows just how much their hearts are still captive to sin, and just how little they have diagnosed the central and inward problem here that can be found in their own hearts. Such men will remain in Egypt and will not find their way out so long as they persist in this delusion.

Those statists who argue that we may well continue in our Egyptian ways in order to counteract the dreadful consequences already brought about by them have their sense of cause and effect entirely reversed. The argument of all statists is effectively that it is not yet time to trust in the Lord alone to save us and that we must continue you in our sins to find blessings, when the only reason they are kept from these blessings is precisely because they refuse to serve the Lord alone again. They are people who do not believe that God would bless them if they actually did right by the Lord again, which is why they reject anarchism and embrace statism instead. The fundamental claim of all statists is that it just isn’t worth it to serve God alone. They are the people from the Bible who reason, “It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart” (Jeremiah 18:12). God is waiting for statist idolaters to repent and return to Him, yet they remain preoccupied with insisting that we must keep voting in the meantime to fix “our country’s” problems. They insist that the great “sin” is not joining them in these evils, that the apathy and wickedness of Christians today is not walking on the evil path that God told us to avoid.

What God is looking for today is men who will confess their sins of idolatry that have been inherent to systems of political rule, admit they screwed up, face the fact that they have been stupid people their whole lives and bought into the lies of the world in their foolishness, and make the Lord their only King again in repentance. Those statists who think that God is going to return to their social order merely because they profess His name are sorely mistaken, as are those who think they need not lift a finger to show God that they have repented unto righteousness and are now seeking His Kingdom at the exclusion of all the kingdoms of the world. Notwithstanding the popular notion in modern Christianity that there’s really nothing we can do on our part gain the favor of the Lord, God is looking for people who are ready to repent and change their ways and waiting for them to step forth.

“So tell the people that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Return to Me, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of Hosts’” (Zechariah 1:3). 

There is never a legitimate justification that we must continue in our evil-doing as our way of combating evil, i.e., that we must continue partaking in Babylonian political elections and trying to put “good Christian rulers” into office “so that we aren’t ruled by evil people.” Rather, Biblical causality runs in the opposite direction: we repent of our evildoing and then God takes care of us.

“Let the wicked man forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon” (Isaiah 55:7). 

God does not regard those professing Christians who continue to vote for men to rule over themselves and their neighbors as the righteous, activist heroes they imagine themselves to be. Rather, He sees them as unrepentant sinners who refuse to turn from their wicked ways.

All statists are people who are seeking blessings from false gods, rather than the salvation of the Lord, which is a liberation from these very men. They are people who believe in the gospels of men: that salvation rests in their kingdoms. All statists are pragmatists in alliance with the devil’s government, in hopes that they might win some incrementalist “win” for what they falsely think is the Kingdom of God. They are people who argue, “Let us do evil, that good may come” (Romans 3:8). They are people “who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter” (Isaiah 5:20). They are people who think that even if it’s true that God might bless obedience, that the situation is just too dire right now to start trusting in God alone again. 

Again, God’s cause and effect reality runs in the other direction. Not only are men in such dire circumstances today for having turned away from God, but it is in political bondage that it becomes more urgent than ever for men to turn back to the Lord again. For them to reason that it’s best to delay serving God again and continue partaking in the sins of Babylon is the height of human ignorance. For them to reason that now is not the time to repent and seek God’s Kingdom alone (what time would be better than now?), and to worry about the fate of worldly government instead, shows just how big of fools men are. For the only way out of their troubles is to turn away from the sins that led to them and begin trusting in God alone to provide for you. Jesus preached to seek the Kingdom of God and thereby find that all the things you formerly sought in man’s kingdoms will be added unto you in your repentance from these worldly ways. Never does God tell men to keep acting like Egyptians to mitigate the disasters that have come upon them, but rather, to have faith that God—the Author of the Law and the Divine Dispenser of blessings and curses, after all—will restore those who repent from these sins. 

“But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die. None of the transgressions he has committed will be held against him. Because of the righteousness he has practiced, he will live. Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Lord GOD. Wouldn’t I prefer that he turn from his ways and live” (Ezekiel 18:21-23). 

So long as men remain statists and argue that they must vote, run for office, and seek legislation as their means of saving themselves, then they are unrepentant men in the eyes of God who have not confessed their sins whatsoever. God is looking for men to return to Him alone as their savior and renounce their old worldly-statist ways, which were the beliefs of the old man as they walked in darkness prior to becoming born again. 

“Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity. Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: ‘Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips’” (Hosea 14:1-2). 

As it stands, God has shut His ears off the vain prayers of statists who remain involved in the politics of the world, who seek to “fix the country” rather than to seek the Kingdom of God at the exclusion of the kingdoms of men. God has turned His eyes away from a people who seek to reform Babylonian systems and “restore” human government, rather than further the only truly Christian society, which is God’s anarchistic Kingdom order. These are men who seek to provide their own salvation. The very restoration that God provides is a deliverance from human bondage, not to slap a patch on Babylon and call it good, as these “fix the country” reprobates think. God is looking to bring a people completely out of Egypt who recognize and confess that their bondage has been the result of their own sin, as opposed to the unrepentant statists who look around them, see an abundance of evil, and argue that they must double-down on their statist sins and try to make Egypt approximate a “Christian” society. 

“Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile” (Jeremiah 29:12-14). 

Up to this point, statists have chosen to remain in a state of unrepentance while also believing that they will still be blessed by God for it, merely because they vainly professed His name while acting like Babylonian whores. The irony in statists arguing that they must keep acting like Babylonians so long as they are in this mess is not only that these are the things which led to their captivity under men, or even that repentance is the only way out of this bondage, but that God’s instruction has always been to repent first and then receive His blessings. Scripture says, “Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away” (Acts 3:19). The reasoning of all statists is the opposite: “Let us remain in sin until God saves us.” Yet God is only looking to serve a people who repent for their sins. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). 

Will you repent from the sins that led to your bondage today? Will you recognize that you are in bondage due to sin? Will you turn away from your statist idolatry? Will you stop fighting against the judgment against your sin and acknowledge that it has been a just recompense for your own wicked ways? Will you turn away from human government and seek God’s Kingdom alone? Will you perhaps even pray on for all the men who won’t do it that God restores us to a free society? Or will you continue in your adultery with the kingdoms of the world and expect something good to come from it? go on sinning in the false belief that your fornication with Babylon will lead to your freedom? keep acting like a statist whore and imagining that something other than judgment will come from it?