[This is part 12 in an article series on Sin, Repentance, Salvation, and Revival. See part one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four]

Leaving Egypt Ministries, Obadiah D. Morris

We have already submitted that sin is more than just some vague and general idea of mankind’s failing, that repentance is more than one’s vague confession of turning from some ill-defined wrongs, and that salvation is more than just waiting on a heavenly escape after death. 

But let’s continue bringing all of these ideas together. They have all been highly diluted in the popular thinking of our time that passes for Christianity, which gets reduced to a mere “religion” that apparently has nothing to do with a political gospel of another literal Kingdom that men who claim to be Christ-followers must pledge their sole allegiance to serving. Most professing Christians not only completely fail to recognize the idolatry for human government and its rulers and officers as sin, to understand repentance as turning away from this statist ideology of the world, or to see salvation as being deliverance from these evil systems; they continue to participate in the very worldly practices like voting and seeking to reform Babylonian political systems that God condemns as evil and warns will be a judgment unto them.

It is not hard though to see how the terrible state of modern Christianity has come about, where the statist ideology of Rome has been mixed into what is regarded as merely the spiritual beliefs of Christianity which concerns the matter of the salvation of one’s soul but not their freedom on earth, which is thought to be the domain of political rulers who have a responsibility in the “earthly realm” that is supposedly beyond the scope of the Christian religion. The continued idolatry for human government among professing Christians today has only been the natural conclusions of a people who never took these doctrines seriously as they relate to the world and its political systems, which they believed they could maintain citizenship in and continue to pledge allegiance to all while counting themselves as one of the Lord’s children. If men do not see statism as the essence of sin and the characteristic mark of man’s rebellion against God, they will not only refuse to repent for this sin, but will trust in the very people who God would save us from—the human rulers of the world—as their saviors! 

The statist’s need to pervert the truth

It is no wonder that all the core concepts of Christianity—from sin, repentance, salvation, the gospel, and revival—have been diluted into virtually meaningless ideas today. If their anarchistic political implications were fully worked out and men took their alleged faith in the Lord seriously, most people who call themselves Christians would have to admit that they are really Romans, whose ideology and works serve the government of the devil rather than the Lord and His Kingdom. Rather than waver between two opinions and claim that they can be “citizens of two kingdoms” who can serve both the Lord and Caesar (1 Kings 18:21), they would have to actually choose on this very day who they serve — that is, who their God or gods are and to which kingdom they place their saving faith and allegiance in: whether the anarchistic Kingdom of God, where the Lord alone is King, or the human governments of the world that are made up of many false gods and rulers.

Since the vast majority of professing Christians today don’t actually believe they need to repent of their idolatry for human government and seek the Kingdom of God alone, the only choice left for those who want to still claim they are Christians is to dilute all the essential Christian teachings so that they can claim they have repented and are saved, all while still walking in the political ways of the world and living in bondage to the human governments that they have raised up in their sin and which act as a judgment upon them.

Only by stripping the concept of sin of any specific acts connected to raising up rulers, turning repentance into nothing more than some vague confession of turning from some non-specific sins, and conceiving of salvation as nothing more than one’s trip to heaven when they die on account of their loose and vague repentance, can men call themselves servants or followers of Jesus the Christ while still thinking, acting, and living like citizens of Babylon and general enemies of God and His Kingdom. 

The “Christians” of today

It has been under this great dilution of every core Christian concept today that modern Christianity (so-called) consists mostly of reprobate idolaters who do not actually know the Lord at all. It has been under this dilution of Christianity into a mere spiritualized “religion” that apparently concerns nothing more than the salvation of one’s soul, as opposed to a necessarily political gospel message that directly confronts the kingdoms of the world, that professing Christians today are largely statists who cannot even see that they are the very sinners from the Bible who have turned away from the Lord’s ways and found themselves under judgment for it. 

Without any understanding of the essential Christian doctrines, which may be summed up in the Gospel of the Kingdom of God, as necessarily political ones that force a man to decide at once whether his allegiance is with God’s Kingdom or the kingdoms of man, professed followers of Jesus Christ—the King of a literal Kingdom—have become virtually indistinguishable from any other statist idolater of the world who supports the devilish systems of human civil government as the chief mark of a people who have gone astray from the Lord as their God. They are not saved from the bondage of Egypt, because they are still trusting in Egypt to save them and refuse to repent of the idolatry for her Pharaohs, soldiers, and police officers, which is not coincidentally widely prevalent in the United States, which could not exist without it. They do not believe they need to repent of their Egyptian ways of thinking and living because they do not think that statism is sin, which only naturally leads them to trust in human rulers as their lords and saviors.

The modern dilution vs. the Bible

Again, it is no mystery why Christians today have reduced salvation to nothing more than the saving of their souls into heaven when they die: they needed an excuse for trusting in the gospels of human rulers who promise to save them from their enemies on earth. They needed to turn Christianity into nothing more than a heavenly-minded, spiritualized religion with no apparent political implications, so that they could remain Egyptians while still being seen as men of God.

Contrary to popular escapist and spiritualized  thinking of today though, the Biblical context of salvation shows that that being saved has a great deal to do with being set free from the grip of earthly rulers and their systems of human government, who are the truly wicked people of the world who live in active rebellion against God, His Kingdom, and those who seek it. 

Though professing Christians today mostly conceive of salvation in a purely spiritual sense where a man finds some inner freedom in his mind and is “saved” from a vague bondage of sin upon confessing some ill-defined iniquities that have nothing to do with his own willful acts like raising up human governments and fawning over their kings and officers, a much more biblical idea is that God physically saves people from the political bondage of human government when they repent of the sins, like idolatry and covetousness, that are inherently associated with systems.

Contrary to the men of today, whose only hope for liberation is to be delivered into heaven when they die, the men of the Bible prayed to God to save them from their enemies on earth, and they repented of very specific sins, such as idolatry and whoredom for soldiers and rulers, which they acknowledged had led to their captivity and exile under various worldly systems of human government. This stands in stark contrast to the unrepentant men today who claim the Lord’s name yet attribute their falsely perceived “freedom” to Egypt and her Pharaoh, soldiers, and police officers.

Notwithstanding the almost entirely otherworldly concept of being saved among professing Christians today, biblical references to being saved—especially in the context of the “evil” and “wicked” state rulers that we are concerned with here—show that the salvation men prayed for, and that which God brought to a people, was actual deliverance from under the boot of political rulers, such as the Egyptians or Babylonians, whose plunder and enslavement had clearly come upon them for their own sins. 

Repentance and salvation 

The point we are trying to get at is that repentance is necessary for salvation and revival and must necessarily precede any sort of exodus or divine liberation that God would give a people who wanted to live as His Kingdom-people again. There will be no deliverance from the bondage of Egypt without people actually turning away from its (statist) ideology and practices. Contrary to those professing Christians today who don’t actually think they need to change their Egyptian-statist ways to be saved (mostly because they do not even see their idolatry for human government as sin nor its existence as judgment upon this sin), God is only looking to save a people from Egyptian-statist bondage who repent of the sins of idolatry and covetousness that have led to it. Those who want to remain in their worldly-statist ways can continue to suffer the consequences of their own sins as divine punishment for their political rebellion against the Kingdom of God. 

The problem today is that the majority of so-called Christians today are, in fact, Romans who have made the very state rulers whom God would save us from into their saviors! They are unrepentant men who tell us that presidents, legislators, soldiers, and police officers are necessary to provide for our “peace” and “prosperity,” to secure our “freedom” and “rights,” and to uphold “law” and “order” in society. Far from being saved, they are a people who are in physical bondage to the kingdoms of the world for their sins of prostituting themselves out to these men for defense, protection, safety, law, order, and all the other things that God would provide for those who trusted in Him alone. They are the very people who are in rebellion to God and are being cursed for their sins. 

It is no insignificant act in God’s eyes for men to have whored themselves out to the kingdoms of the world. Statism is what sin and rebellion against God are all about. The chief way that men betray the Lord as their King and Savior is by making men into their kings, judges, lawgivers, and law enforcers. It is no coincidence that these things are all a feature of a society of people today who have turned from God, whether in name or deed. To turn toward human government is what it means to turn away from the Lord as your King. All those who trust in human governments are ungodly people, and all ungodly people will necessarily trust in human rulers as the primary display of their rebellion against the Kingdom of God. 

We see just how out of step statists are with God’s abolitionist mission once we see that the very people who they place their faith in for salvation are the very people whom God saves us from! Statists are not just people who are engaged in acts that are mildly out of line with God, but precisely people who trust in false gods as their saviors. They are men who believe in and practice the very worldly ways that prove a people to be God’s enemies. They are the very people who show themselves to be unrepentant men who do not know the Lord whatsoever. 

Our main point here is that statists are not saved and are not going to be saved so long as they continue in their worldly ways, such as voting for new human rulers or simply believing they should even exist. God is not going to deliver anyone from the bondage of Egypt who won’t repent from their Egyptian ideology and practices, whether holding to the worldly philosophy of statism or directly partaking in these systems as a voter, politician, soldier, police officer, government employee, or otherwise a recipient of the benefits of these systems, all which are funded through the sinful practice of coveting our neighbors’ property to fund various socialist schemes. 

Repenting for statism 

Contrary to the popular teachings today among the hundreds of thousands of false prophets in the institutional church who tell men that they don’t really need to repent of the specific sins inherent to statism and that being being “saved” is only about having one’s soul secured into heaven in the afterlife, which leads men to believe they can partake in the very worldly political practices that God finds abhorrent and punishes by placing men in bondage under these systems, God wills that all men repent for very specific sins today and to begin to seek the Kingdom of God on earth in repentance for the sinful pursuit of human governments and human rulers that they once sought after when they still had lustful and adulterous eyes for the world.  

Men will only be divinely delivered from the bondage of statism when they decidedly and decisively repent for the sins inherent to these systems, which necessarily requires them to first acknowledge the idolatry and covetousness involved in these political practices. If men wish to be saved—that is, delivered from the hands of their enemies on earth—then they must turn away from their evil belief in human government, which has been the very reason for their bondage. Those who even think that human government should exist, much less those who cheer it on its presidents, soldiers, and law enforcers in their war and plunder, are a people with sinful thoughts and practices. It isn’t even just the wicked deeds of statism, like voting or ruling over other men, that are sinful but also the ideological thought itself. Other prophets even made expelling these worldly ideas from one’s heart into a matter of salvation. 

“Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?” (Jeremiah 4:14).

Men will have to remove the evil statist ideology from their hearts if they want to be saved. They will have to wash themselves of their Egyptians ways that have led them to vote for presidents, “support the troops,” and “back the blue.” They will have to stop harboring the evil belief that they need human rulers as their saviors on earth, and actually turn away from this specific ideology that they learned from the world rather than the counsel of the Lord. Repentance is not merely turning from private vices or some general sins, as the idolaters who call themselves Christians today would have it, but rather to turn away from the systems of human government that represent the primary manifestation of mankind’s rebellion against God’s rule. 

If men ever want to be saved (i.e., delivered from the bondage of human government) then they will have to first turn away from their wicked political ideology and practices, where they defend the existence of human civil government and raise up human rulers in their elections. They will have to realize that they are not saved and that human government is the very proof that they are in bondage to sin — that sin is the specific acts of idolatry and covetousness involved in human government and that bondage is actual enslavement under the violent and tax-based governments of the world. 

Though the Romans who falsely call themselves Christians today essentially tell us that they don’t need to repent of their worldly political ideology to be saved and believe that they may continue down the path of the world without being in active rebellion against God, such ideological repentance — that is, purging the statist thinking from one’s heart and soul — will necessarily be a prerequisite to any liberation at the hand of God.

As much as men teach that they don’t really need to change their ways at all for God to turn back to them, scripture shows the Lord’s interest in delivering people from the slavery of human government hangs upon man’s own repentance for his sins. The Lord is waiting for men to turn back to Him. “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). God is not going to save a people who trust in false gods to provide it; these are unrepentant men who can continue to reap all the evils that they have sown and brought upon themselves, so that they might be weaned from their love of Egypt the hard way by being left to share in her plagues. 

God’s mercy upon the repentant

It should not be thought that by preaching that bondage is a consequences for sin that this is some irreversible path or even something that we hope God will bring upon the people of the world who remain loyal to the kingdoms of satan. This is simply the causal reality that all prophets of God must preach to the masses who have not yet figured out why they’re in bondage, precisely so that they may turn away from their wicked statist ways and back towards the ways of God’s anarchistic Kingdom that is not of this world and its political systems. As much as God is a God of judgment, so he is also a God of forgiveness and mercy and—more than He prefers to judge a people who have to be punished for their adultery with human government—will save a people should they turn from the evil ways that are present in any people who trust in human rulers to protect and save them. 

“But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life. Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.” (Ezekiel 18:27-28)

Though wicked statists — both the supporters and servants of human government — like to claim they are “saved” because they “go to church” or have recited some verbal profession of faith, the fact is that God requires that people actually turn from the evil path they are walking on as proof that they have truly repented.

Turning from the wicked path of statism

Though the statist idolaters today effectively argue that they should be saved without having turned from their devilish practices of supporting the violent systems of human government, the Biblical message was always that judgment comes upon those whose deeds are wicked and that blessings are reserved for those who serve the Lord by actually turning away from this wicked path.

“Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does. Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish” (Psalm 1:1-6).

The Biblical message was never just that God awaits the vain, verbal professions of men who merely mention His name but do not do as He says, but that men must decidedly repent from such wicked works like signing up to serve as one of Pharaoh’s plunder agents or waving a “thin blue line” flag in support of them from the sidelines of their evildoings. The counsel of the Lord was always to resist becoming a statist predator, not that one is fine by God so long as they claim His name while committing the evil works of robbing God’s children for a living.

“My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them. If they say, ‘Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause, let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit. We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder. Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse’ — my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path. For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood. How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it! But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives. Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors” (Proverbs 1:10-19).

There is no such thing as a “Christian statist,” a “Christian politician,” a “Christian soldier,” or a “Christian police officer.” Christians are people who repent of their sins, not only by confessing them to the Lord but also by decidedly turning from their evil ways. Anyone who enlists to be an order-follower on Pharaoh’s payroll and who obeys and enforces the commands and legal decrees of men after claiming to be a Christian is—notwithstanding this declaration—still an unrepentant Roman. God is not looking merely for men who say they believe in Him while still working to further the kingdoms of man, but for men who sincerely dedicate their lives to furthering His Kingdom alone, as the main proof of their repentance. It is not that God wants statists to be destroyed for their sins, but that statists are, in fact, sinners who will be destroyed for their evils as a matter of God’s Law. 

“Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall. Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel? For I take no pleasure in anyone’s death, declares the Lord GOD. So repent and live!” (Ezekiel 18:30-32)

Repent and live! That is the biblical message—not, live however you want, never renouncing your statist ideas and practices, and then wait for your arrival in heaven in the afterlife because you claimed to be a Christian in name. The Biblical message is not to go around professing the Lord’s name with your lips, which is specifically called-out as a common practice of false converts, but rather to repent of the specific sins of idolatry and covetousness involved in human government, and to seek the Kingdom of God on earth in this genuine repentance. The Biblical message is not to remain a statist and trust in the Lord as your heavenly savior, but rather to turn from your statist ways today and seek God’s Kingdom alone, trusting that He will liberate you from the bondage of Egypt that you found yourselves living under when you were still asleep in the world! 

Contrary to all those professing Christians today who think they have repented while still walking in the statist ways of the world, or who essentially take up the position that they don’t need to repent because Jesus has already died for their sins, scripture is clear that for salvation to be forthcoming—that is, for God to deliver a people from the political bondage they have landed in due to their own sin—they must repent and turn from their evil ways, where they have lusted after human rulers to save them.

God always stands ready to turn back the divine judgment of human government that comes upon all those sinners who walk on the evil statist path of the world. “If that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring” (Jeremiah 18:8). Yet they must actually turn from this path to come out from under the yoke of bondage. God has compassion and mercy, yet it is precisely reserved for those who repent, which means not just to say some verbal profession that you are sorry for your general sins, but to decidedly turn from your wicked ways and deeds and seek the Kingdom of God again. 

“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). 

As much as idolaters today like to argue that Jesus already died for the sins and as excuse to suggest that they don’t really need to repent for their wicked ways, scripture always makes clear that repentance must also come. “Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away” (Acts 3:19). Lest someone argue that the idea of being saved from Egyptian bondage is contingent upon repentance is merely some Old Testament idea that changed once Jesus arrived, Jesus himself taught that “unless you repent, you will all perish” (Luke 13:3). This was the main message of the very Gospel of the Kingdom of God, which Jesus preached, saying, “repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand” (Matthew 4:17). There was no need to delay in one’s repentance in the day Jesus preached this message, and there is certainly no excuse today for men to remain statists who pledge allegiance to the kingdoms of the world. The message of all of scripture, which came to a head at the advent of Jesus the Christ, was that men should pledge their sole and exclusive allegiance to the King of kings and seek His Kingdom alone — that repentance meant to leave Egypt and become a citizen of God’s Kingdom. 

Salvation as earthly liberation from statists

As much as the idea of repentance today is that of renouncing some vague and general sins of mankind in order to get to heaven one day, a much more Biblical conception of both of these ideas is to turn away from the idolatry that men have for human government and thereby be delivered from this political slavery by the hand of God, who either punishes the sin of statism with the curse of human rulers or blesses repentance and righteousness with being liberated from the yoke of human government that came upon men due to the evils involved in believing in these systems and participating in them.

Though both these concepts have been watered down today among modern Christians, who refuse to recognize statism as sin and trust in the Lord alone to save them on earth, the type of salvation God offers to the repentant — that is, those who actually turn from the concrete sins of raising up human rulers and partaking in the covetous practices of receiving its stolen property in benefits — is to be physically delivered from the oppression of the evildoers of the world, who we established are those men who raise up human governments and those who control them. 

“Sing to the LORD! Praise the LORD! For He rescues the life of the needy from the hands of evildoers” (Jeremiah 20:13). 

The salvation of the Lord is not limited to the mere salvation of the soul into heaven when we die, as the concept has been popularly reduced to today, but includes physical liberation from statists on earth for the people who repent and begin to seek God’s Kingdom at the exclusion of man-made kingdoms. 

“The LORD lives, and blessed be my Rock! And may the God of my salvation be exalted—the God who avenges me and subdues nations beneath me, who delivers me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men. Therefore I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name” (Psalm 18:48-49). 

The praises to the Lord in the Bible were not just vague praises that the Lord has secured the fate of their eternal soul in the afterlife, but were praises acknowledging that God can and will remove His repentant people from the bondage of Egypt when they repent of the sins that led them into captivity to men. Thus sang Moses, 

“I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea. The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him” (Exodus 15:1-2). 

God’s promise was never just that He’s got our souls when we pass away from this earth, such that we me engage in the politics of Egypt in the meantime without being judged for it, but that “I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless” (Jeremiah 15:21).

However, God is looking out for a truly faithful people today who abandon their love affair with the Egypts, Romes, and United States’ of the world as the necessary proof of their repentance. God is awaiting a people who renounce their sinful allegiance to the kingdoms of the world and who turn back to the Lord as their only King. God is looking not merely for people who make some vague confession of some unspecified sins and who loosely announce Jesus as their Lord and Savior without understanding these to be political terms forbidding them from having human rulers, but for people who specifically recognize statolatry as man’s primary sin and rebellion against God and who will admit that to support the governments of the world is to be a lost sheep who has gone astray from the Lord’s ways and proves one to not be one of His followers at all.

Though the statist idolaters of today would of course love to have to keep the narrow road to God’s Kingdom as easy and wide as they have made it, believing that they are going to heaven simply because they profess the Lord’s name with their otherwise Babylonian lips, the salvation of the Lord in the Bible—the physical deliverance from both an Egyptian people who beg for rulers and the rulers themselves who oppress these idolaters in judgment—was always connected to actually turning back to the Lord in one’s mind and deeds. “The LORD helps and delivers them; He rescues and saves them from the wicked, because they take refuge in Him” (Psalm 37:40). Those who take refuge under Pharaohs, soldiers, and police officers only prove themselves to be the opposite of a people who are seeking the Lord’s salvation. They are precisely the people who anger the Lord and invite His judgment upon themselves.

Human government is bondage 

Though modern Christianity has turned the doctrine of salvation into a purely heavenly-minded idea of being saved from hell on account of one’s alleged belief in Jesus as their Savior, the people of the world today who find themselves living under systems of human government today are, in fact, not saved and for this reason: they are living under human rulers, whose existence is always a judgment against sin and curse for disobedience against God. All statist societies are the result of sin and contain within them unrepentant sinners who have brought all the political evils they experience upon themselves. The existence of human government is all the proof needed that the people living under it have not yet repented for their sins connected to it, because a repentant people who trust in the Lord again as their savior can hope to be delivered from the political bondage that originally came about as a result of their sin. 

Yet this is how bad things are among the Romans today who call themselves Christians. Not only do they dilute the idea of salvation into thinking they’re going to heaven when they die, but they remain people who pledge allegiance to the authoritarian kingdoms of the world that Jesus Christ says are opposed to the ways of His Kingdom (Mark 10:42-45). Far from being free or saved, as they falsely believe they are, the Romans who call themselves Christians today are largely a people who still partake in all the sins (e.g., voting for rulers and taking their benefits) of statism and who precisely trust in men as their saviors, which is only the natural result of the thinking that the Lord’s salvation is a merely a spiritual one confined to the heavenly afterlife, rather than a physical one that would take place on earth for those who repent of their worldly allegiances to Egypts and Romes. 

It is no wonder then why the people of the world today are not saved: they remain statists who trust in human civil government to save them, i.e., defend them, protect them, and provide for peace, prosperity, law, and order. If anyone wishes to be saved from the bondage of Egypt, they must first stop seeking refuge under her armies and searching for shade under her next president and instead turn from this idolatry. God doesn’t save Egyptians; they are left to be destroyed as the wicked people of the earth. God is looking to save repentant anarchists, i.e., men who turn their hearts, minds, and deeds back to seeking His Kingdom exclusively. 

Though the common teaching today is that everyone is “saved” into heaven on a mere account of verbal professions of faith that do not necessitate any change in their worldly ways, we see in scripture that there are clearly many people who do not find the blessings that God has to offer—salvation and freedom under His Kingdom order—when they refuse to repent for their sins. Those men who partake in the covetous practices of human government, whether receiving welfare benefits directly or supporting tax-funded socialist law and policing, are idolaters and will not inherit the Kingdom of God (Ephesians 5:5). Statists of all types, whether your run-of-the-mill American idolater or one of the more niche “Christian nationalists,” will not inherit the Kingdom of God. They are precisely the type of people who will share in the plagues that God has planned for all the Egyptians and Babylonians of the world who whore themselves out to human governments to protect and serve them. 

God is always prepared to save people from the bondage of their own doing, but they must acknowledge that their statist ways have been sinful and decidedly turn from them in order to find this salvation. 

“Return, you backsliding children, And I will heal your backslidings.’ ‘Indeed we do come to You, For You are the Lord our God. Truly, in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, And from the multitude of mountains; Truly, in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel. For shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth— Their flocks and their herds, Their sons and their daughters. We lie down in our shame, And our reproach covers us. For we have sinned against the Lord our God, We and our fathers, From our youth even to this day, And have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God” (Jeremiah 3:22-25). 

This type of repentance—connecting one’s judgment to their own sin—is something the statists of the world have not done and cannot do so long as they remain statists. Not only do they not see that they are under judgment by being under the political rule of men, they tell us that soldiers and police are the men who “fight for our freedom” and “keep us safe at night”! They adopt all the statist practices of the world that God condemns as sin and warns are always a judgment unto a people who walk in these ways, and yet they still say they are “Christians” who are “saved.”

If these people who claim to be the Lord’s today wish to be saved from their political slavery, they are going to need a total rehaul of all their worldly ways of thinking that have led them to believe human governments have been responsible for a “freedom” and “law and order” that they don’t even have. They will need to fully turn from all the false and watered down teachings of the modern church that have led them to believe not only that statism isn’t sin, but that it should be fervently practiced and that every “Christian” has a “civic duty” to vote for presidents and congressmen. For as it stands, they are people headed for a totalitarian hell of their own doing. 

In stark contrast to the highly diluted and deliberately distorted Christianity of today, where sin is a vague concept, repentance is more or less optional, and salvation a mere ticket to heaven, the counsel of scripture demands that we repent of the idolatry and covetousness involved in the statist practices of the world — to sharply turn away from human governments, who represent the wide road of destruction that Jesus warned us to not walk upon, and to turn toward the anarchistic Kingdom of God on earth. Biblical salvation isn’t merely some otherworldly escape into the heavens once we pass away from this earth, but deals with actual deliverance of our bodies and lives from statist political bondage, as seen in many prayers against the evildoers of the world and in God’s responses to those who have repented from these ways themselves.