[This is part 15 in an article series on Sin, Repentance, Salvation, and Revival. See part one. two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four]

Leaving Egypt Ministries, Obadiah D. Morris

With all the warnings of false teachers and deceitful men in the Bible who claim to serve God but who exist precisely to pervert His teachings and lead men astray, one would think that men would be inherently skeptical of all the so-called pastors, prophets, priests, and professors of the so-called churches and seminaries of today, who position themselves as the shepherds and guides of the sheep and as the men whose jobs are to teach good doctrine to others. We are warned by the Lord to “beware of false prophets” who “come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves” (Matthew 7:15) and that “many false prophets will arise and deceive many” (Matthew 24:11). 

Yet these men, much like the Pharisees of old, are regarded as the authorities on scripture whose interpretations are thought to be the infallible ones that everyone must defer to. They are thought to be the learned men whose years of training supposedly proves they know more than the lay reader of scripture, perhaps even who just picked it up for the first time. These men are regarded as the educated class of Bible teachers or the trained clergymen or who know better than the layman who might suggests that God is an anarchist. Their wicked teachings, which tell us that “God gave us human government,” rather than the truth that sinners set it up in their active rebellion against God, are taken to be truth. They are the credentialed men who know best after all! Thus, anytime we rebuke one of the millions of statist idolaters who call themselves Christians, we are told to cite a “respected theologian” or “church father” who agrees with Christian Anarchism, which any discerning reader of Scripture can see is clearly the politics of God. The moment one cannot be produced, they dismiss our assertions and continue to believe the lies of the institutionalists, who for the most part are statist propagandists who work for the devil and stand as tares among the wheat.  

In the minds of the people of the world, truth has always existed among majorities. If the “scholars,” “academics,” or “experts” don’t agree with the conclusions of some no-name with the Holy Spirit who sees that God hates statism, then it must not be the case. They cannot fathom that “the experts” in any discipline—self-called theologians no less than any other field of study—actually exist as a class of people who, for the most part, work to hide the truth from the people and disseminate lies among them. They cannot see that the real case is that the truth, and the progress of this truth toward real social action, has only ever existed among people who these institutionalists would call heretics. As Leo Tolstoy writes, “The fact is that only in what was called heresy was there any true movement, that is, true Christianity” (Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You, p. 39). 

It no surprise then that what passes for Christianity today largely consists of statist idolaters who not only fail to see a contradiction between their loose professions of faith and their love of the world, but who positively defend human government as given to us by God for social order: the professing Christian masses are largely trained up on the ideas generated and spread by false prophets, false pastors, and other institutionalists who preach the blessings of glories of statism, rather than on the word of God that preaches the curse and judgment of human rule. Instead of hearing God’s voice and searching His word, these people gather around institutionalists in their false churches who call themselves “pastors,” “professors,” and “masters of divinity,” even though they are statist idolaters who don’t know the Lord at all and stand precisely as His enemies. One would think that those who turn toward these supposedly educated men who claim to know the Lord would see that this only makes them one of the types of people spoken of in scripture: “For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths” (2 Timothy 4:3-4). After all, they are the ones being deluded by these myth-makers who tell us God loves the American government, when God hates these wicked systems of men.

The false prophets of statism 

Since the human governments of the world, all which are of the devil, stand as the primary manifestations of mankind’s rebellion against God and His Kingdom, naturally the work of false prophets is one that works to defend these man-made political systems as godly and pitch them to others as systems that God gave us for law and order. This is what we find in Scripture. The prophets who Scripture says “lead the people astray” (Micah 3:5) are precisely ones who do so in the context of a statist society. As God says, they are the men who fail to protect the sheep from the ruling elite, who “hate good and love evil” and who “tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones [and] eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones [and] chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron” (Micah 3:2-3). 

It is no coincidence today that the modern church (so-called) is full of men who sing the praises of Babylon from the pulpits and pews, fly her flags on their buildings and houses, express their support for the police and military, and who teach that God’s ideal system of government is the human civil governments of the world rather than His Kingdom: the nature of a false prophet has always been precisely to propagandize men on the statist ideology of the world, so as to preserve the existence of the governments of the devil and keep their evil schemes and conspiracies against the people going. Their role has always been to call evils like human governments and their militaries and police forces “good,” while calling good things like God’s anarchy “evil” and keeping men away from the truth. Hence why all the idolaters who call themselves Christians today think that anarchism is disorderly and devilish and, therefore, out of step with a God of order, rather than the one-would-think-obvious case that this is true precisely of their worldly statist systems that their sins have tricked them into supporting. 

The role of false prophets was always to tell everyone that statism—both the ideology that human government should exist as well as the practice of ruling over other men—is not sin and does not lead to judgment, that idolatry for human government will actually be blessed rather than cursed. Their role is to preach that the government of the devil is the ideal political order of God! It has always been the role of false prophets to deny the connection between sin and bondage—that is, between statolatry and subsequent political slavery—so that men never put two and two together and find their way out of Egypt through repentance and turning back to the Lord and His ways. It has always been their job to distort or obscure the causal reality put into place by the Author of the social laws that men live under, so that they never turn from their errors and only ever keep walking back into Egypt when they should be walking out.

We see such lies of the false prophets of the wicked ideas and practices of statism—namely, their teachings that statism isn’t sin and won’t result in curses being brought upon human society—all throughout scripture. For all the sins, iniquity, and rebellion inherent to a people who pursue false gods and idols (Jer 14:7), God always promises to “finish them off by sword and famine and plague” (Jeremiah 14:12). The price to pay for believing in the sword of statism and for praising Pharaoh’s jackboot thugs is to always find the boots of the men who thought were “public servants” on your own neck. God judges the wicked ideas and practices of statism by letting men reap all the evils that inevitably abound under these systems of human rule. The purpose of a false prophet is to come along and tell everyone that this won’t be the case—that the sins involved in pursuing the ways of the world are not even sins at all and nor do these actions invite divine justice upon a people. While God’s true prophets connect the sin of idolatry with judgment and explain the devastation and bondage that a people find themselves in as a result of their own evildoing, the job of false prophets is to come along to tell the opposite story: that sin doesn’t actually lead to bondage.

“Ah, Lord GOD!” I replied, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’” “The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of their own minds. Therefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name: I did not send them, yet they say, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ By sword and famine these very prophets will meet their end! (Jeremiah 14:13-15). 

God’s word of warning is always that the sins of a statist people will be judged by His hand, that all the evils, injustices, and corruptions that are inherent to raising up systems of human civil government will lead to a people’s ruin. 

“This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst. As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me. Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant” (Jeremiah 6:6-8).

The role of the false prophet is to come along and tell people that all the wickedness and evils that prevail in a statist society are, in fact, approved by God and won’t actually result in divine justice coming against them. Whereas all people who live under systems of human government are slaves who are living as captives to Egyptians, the role of the false prophets of the world is to come along and tell people that they actually live in a “free country” and that all is going perfectly well in Babylon. Whereas the whole nature of a statist society is one of endless wars, violence, plunder, mass incarceration, murder, genocides, and never-ending conspiracies and psychological operations against the people, the role of the false prophets is to tell everyone that these men actually exist for the maintenance of peace, law, justice, and order. False prophets come along to tell everyone that the violent, backward societies formed by human governments and the sinners who support them are actually right-side up and perfectly normal. They exist to tell everyone that the wicked statist path they’re is perfectly fine and that no destruction awaits a people who have turned down the evil path of statism. As God puts it,

“They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all” (Jeremiah 6:14).

There is no peace or security or law or justice in a statist society; these are societies of war, violence, insecurity, lawlessness, and injustice. False prophets are thus needed to spin the opposite narrative and make men believe that the lawlessness, chaos, and disorder that is evidently the case with their statist societies is really true of God’s anarchy, so that everyone will seek security in the State and place their trust in men. Hence why the majority of the population believes that there would be lawlessness and crime without human government, rather than the truth that these things—one would think this would be increasingly obvious today—come about with them and because of them. 

This Biblical pattern of God’s prophets warning of judgment for the sins associated with the statist practices of the world, and false prophets coming along to say that it isn’t really true, is a repeated one running throughout Scripture. The story is always the same: God sends out His true prophets to preach judgment upon statist societies, and false prophets come along to say that these systems aren’t actually evil and will not result in judgment. The Biblical prophets were sent out by God to preach against the idolatrous statists of the word and warn that divine justice was coming upon them for all the violence and slavery inherent to these systems.

“Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘As for you, son of man, will you judge her? Will you pass judgment on the city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her abominations and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O city who brings her own doom by shedding blood within her walls and making idols to defile herself, you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands. Those near and far will mock you, O infamous city, full of turmoil. See how every prince of Israel within you has used his power to shed blood. Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed’” (Ezekiel 22:1-7).

Since human governments are evil, it has always been necessary for these men to deploy false prophets to come along tell men otherwise—to call evil good and good evil so that no one ever wakes up and repents for their sins. The role of the false prophets in the world are men who work—directly or indirectly—with the rulers of human governments to spin the apologia for their existence and to make men believe that their rule is divinely sanctioned and morally approved by God. They work to make men believe that man-made political systems are something other than what they truly are: violent systems of plunder and mass murder that have been raised up against God’s Law and set out precisely in an attempt to usurp His kingship and suppress His anarchistic Kingdom. We see often how the rulers and the false prophets—many who do this work with the Lord’s name on their lips—work together to accomplish the devilish deception of statism that teaches men to think they are in need of human rulers to have law and order, which leads men to believe that human civil governments are good and “godly” institutions.

“Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain. Her prophets whitewash these deeds by false visions and lying divinations, saying, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken. The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice” (Ezekiel 22:27-29).

Unfortunately for anyone who likes to eat food and live in peace, the work of the false prophets in history has always won-out against the anarchist evangelism of those who were trying to show everyone else that statism is sin that brings men into bondage and eventually their destruction under the hands of these wicked men. Things are no different in our day than Elijah’s, where the prophets of Baal were 450 to 1 (1 Kings 18:22). For every 450 or so Christians who see no problem with voting, flying flags, joining the military, or “backing the blue,” there’s seemingly only one who sees through the lies — and this is a generous number. Satan’s false prophets have outnumbered God’s prophets since at least the days of Elijah. Today, they’re the ones with the so-called churches, pulpits, seminaries, Bible colleges, publishing houses, platforms, and podcasts. They not only fail to rebuke the sin of statism, which is characteristic of man’s rebellion against God, but positively apologize for it and present this rebellion against God as representing His “ordained” system of government, rather than existing as part of His judgment. The truth only ever exists among a tiny minority of the population, who are always severely outnumbered by the idolatrous statist masses and the false teachers who work to keep them believing in all the lies they hold to. Thus, as is the case today, when God looked down upon these statist societies where men were under the sway of false prophets who defend the statist order as God’s political ideal, there was always an almost complete absence of any godly men who had listened to the true prophets who warned that God’s judgment would come upon such a people as this.

“I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one. So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD” (Ezekiel 22:30-31).

Whereas true prophets of God rebuke the sins, corruptions, and injustices inherent to statism, as well as warn the people of the judgment and slavery that results from these evildoings, the masses are always far more likely to listen to and believe in the lies of the false prophets of the world, who come to teach men that human governments and their presidents, congressmen, soldiers and police, are fine by God and that Pharaohs and their police enslavers are actually liberators and protectors. 

“The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading” (Lamentations 2:14).  

In short, the primary role of a false prophet, which is fulfilled by all the so‑called pastors and professors within the modern churches and seminaries whether or not their deceit is deliberate, is to serve as a state propagandist on a theological level and do for professing Christians what worldly humanists in the universities do for unbelievers. Their job is to make men who should know on their own that raising up false gods is a violation of God’s Law, believe that there are no evils involved here and that nor will they face any consequences for this evildoing. Unlike the prophets of God, who come to warn that the sins of idolatry and covetousness bring about political bondage, false prophets come to teach men that it is actually possible to betray the Lord through turning to human systems of government without paying any price for these wicked deeds — that men can fawn over presidents, soldiers, and police who they outsource their law and justice over to without finding themselves as a people living under the enslaving consequences of their own sin.

It is mainly through the overt endorsement of human government, or the neglect to tell men that statism is sin and we must seek God’s Kingdom, that we identify false prophets. It is through the advocacy for statism that men show themselves to be false prophets, whether they are aware of their lies or not. In fact, they need not even be a credentialed man to catch this charge. Anyone who says that statism is not sin and does not lead to bondage is, by definition, a false prophet who is deceiving others about the actual Law of God: that statism is idolatry and results in political captivity, exile, or outright destruction of your society and people. This means that every so-called “pastor” in the modern church is a false prophet. Not only do they not rebuke the sin of statism, but they actively promote it as approved by God. Not only do they not tell others that we must build the Kingdom of God as an alternative political community to the kingdoms of the world that we are forbidden from partaking in, but they are actively involved in the upbuilding of man’s kingdoms and tell others that it is their “civic duty” to get engaged, too! Not only do they not point men to the narrow road that Jesus told us to seek, but they work to lead them astray on the wide road of destruction that is the kingdoms of the world.

Leading the sheep astray

As we have already shown with words that get translated into evil, wicked, sin, and iniquity, it is not difficult to show that all these words that express some concept of turning away from God and His Law are tied to the statist rebellion of men, where they have turned away from the Lord as their King and toward men as their kings. These terms are never used in a generic sense, as modern Christians would make them out to be. They appear precisely in the context of Israel turning to idols, breaking God’s Law, and specific acts of injustice and bloodshed, which is the case for all statists today as they turn away from God by setting up and furthering systems of human government. 

Another word that expresses an idea of deviating from the godly path is the Hebrew word שָׁגָה (Strong’s H7686), which gets transliterated as shagah. It is defined as “to err, to go astray, to wander.” It is a verb describing an action. Men go astray from the Lord when they seek the kingdoms of the world rather than the Kingdom of God. Men wander away from the narrow path of the Lord’s Kingdom and His righteousness when they walk on the wide path of socialist destruction that the statist institutions of the world represent. Men err when they think that presidents, lawmakers, and law enforcers are going to save them instead of the Lord their God. 

One way this concept of “going astray” is used in scripture is to describe precisely the deceit that goes on within the modern churches today, whose so-called “pastors” do not actually maintain a network of charity as true pastors who shepherd the sheep by literally feeding them and keeping them from the temptation of eating Caesar’s bread. Instead, they are nothing more than grifters who pass around offering plates to collect money for their “services” of preaching a sermon, and thereby allow their pew-sitters to go into bondage to the kingdoms of the world through their failure to build their people up as a Kingdom people who are not of this world. It is people like the so-called pastors of the institutional church today are the very types of people who the Biblical prophets said had caused the people to go astray—whether because they led them into the politics and citizenship of worldly kingdoms to be explicitly involved in their own captivity, or because they guided them no further than to passively sit in their pews as Babylonian slaves instead of seeking God’s Kingdom and living as free men. 

“Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who only feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed their flock? You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock. You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty. They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild beasts. My flock went astray on all the mountains and every high hill. They were scattered over the face of all the earth, with no one to search for them or seek them out’” (Ezekiel 34:1-6). 

These false pastors, who falsely represent the Lord and dupe millions of ignorant people into sitting in their pews and seminaries, will have their reward for not rebuking the sins inherent to human government, showing men they are in captivity due to their sins of yoking themselves with these men and their systems, or even outright telling men that human rulers are the source of their supposed freedom. “He who leads the upright along the path of evil will fall into his own pit” (Proverbs 28:10). The modern church (so-called) today is a false, worldly institution that does not build God’s Kingdom but traps men into the snares of false religion, where they practice Sunday rituals rather than the pure religion of loving one another through mutual charity and service, which if maintained keeps their people off the Roman dole and thus free from the bondage-inducing benefits of public welfare.

The source of false teachings 

Whenever one wonders how it is that professing Christians today have largely become statist idolaters who think human government is reconcilable with God’s Kingdom, we can look directly to the so-called teachers and leaders of the institutions that pose as Christian organizations. The so-called “churches” today and their so-called “pastors” have been instrumental in leading people down the wide road of destruction. As David Lipscomb once saw, “The kingdoms of the evil one are built up by the material prepared by the [so-called] church of God” (Lipscomb, On Civil Government). These institutions and the men who run them have been uniquely positioned to fool people who thought they were carrying out their Christian duties by attending their so-called churches into believing that the kingdoms of the world are approved by God, when they exist precisely as His enemies. They are the people who have diluted the concept of religion into Sunday rituals and traditions of men that keep the people from actually seeking the literal Kingdom of God and gathering with their neighbors to actually serve one another as their means of worship and service to God. They are the people who have worked to make the word of God to no effect by lulling the lost sheep into the pews, where they fed them on nothing but sermons and singalongs and other forms of entertainment, so that they would never rise as a Kingdom people who practiced pure religion and started on the righteous path that would make the kingdoms of the world obsolete by no longer outsourcing their direct responsibilities to their neighbors over to so-called “public servants” who operate by exercising authority over them.

In many cases, it has been the blind leading the blind — people who don’t know any better becoming the men who lead others who don’t know any better. In others, it has been a deliberate scheme of false prophets self-consciously working to deceive the sheep, fill their pews and purses, and propagandize their followers in the statist ideology of the world. At any rate, the main dissemination of lies and perversions of the truth in modern Christianity comes from men who profess to be one of Christ’s. 

False pastors as defenders of statist evils 

These false pastors of the modern church and professors of the seminaries are among the main teachers of the worldly statist ideology that defends the existence of the plunder system of human government and keeps their lost sheep corralled in a pew staring at Caesar’s flag in the corner, believing that “God and country” go hand-in-hand with each other, or that a “Secretary of War” can be a Christian, when nothing could be further from the truth. In a return of the Hebrew word (ra’) that most often gets translated as “evil,” we see that the “religious” leaders of the world have always been responsible for apologizing for the statist systems of the world who plunder God’s children, bomb them overseas, or kidnap and cage them at home. 

“Among the prophets of Samaria I saw an offensive thing: They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray. And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns his back on wickedness. They are all like Sodom to Me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah” (Jeremiah 23:13-14). 

Working together to make Egypts and Romes possible, both the rulers of human civil governments, as well as the false pastors in the institutional church, have labored to lead men on the statist path of destruction: whether overtly, by training the men to think that human rulers were necessary for freedom, law, justice, and order on earth; by omission, in failing to rebuke the idolatry of statism; or by otherwise keeping men from practicing the pure religion that would abolish human government, by keeping them believing that their Christian duties are fulfilled through attending their Sunday rituals instead. Thus, as one prophet says, “Those who guide you lead you astray and confuse the direction of your paths (Isaiah 3:12). God thinks the same thing today when He sees presidents tempting men to vote them into office and pastors (so-called) rallying men to sit complacently in their pews. “Those who guide this people are leading them astray” (Isaiah 9:16).

The men who operate the churches and seminaries lead men astray by apologizing for the existence of human civil government, encouraging outright idolatry and participation in these institutions, or by otherwise failing to rebuke sin and neglecting to call others to seek the Kingdom of God rather than slothfully sit around in pews. 

The role of the false pastor in the American church—that is, every man standing in a pulpit claiming to be a pastor while not actually feeding the sheep and getting them out of bondage—has always been to keep people walking down the statist road of sin and bondage, whether they do so by explicitly defending the institution of human civil government, by failing to ever denounce this sin, or whether they do as as self-conscious false prophets who know of their deceptions or as fools themselves who are nevertheless spreading lies. The role of the false pastors and false prophets of the world has always been to leave people in the bondage of Egypt rather than bring them out of it — to let them remain as the plundered slaves of their Babylonian captors rather than to point the way out of Egypt through repentance and free their people from the tax plantations of human governments by building God’s literal Kingdom. Whether through overtly leading men to praise the presidents, congressmen, soldiers, and police officers of worldly kingdoms as their saviors, or simply by failing to build God’s Kingdom, they leave their people wandering astray throughout the world and turning to civil fathers for their protection, welfare, and benefits, who ensnare all those who feed at their tables into bondage. 

What God sees when He looks down upon a people as ours today, who claim to be Christians but who live under the bondage of human government, is a people who have been deceived by institutionalists in the churches and seminaries into thinking that their whole Egyptian society, which brought them into the bondage of the world, was fine by God. 

“My people are lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, causing them to roam the mountains. They have wandered from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place” (Jeremiah 50:6) 

Without true pastors to set the Lord’s table and feed the sheep through a daily ministration of service to others in a network of charity that functions as a literal Kingdom alternative to the bondage-inducing welfare traps of the world, the people—the churchgoers of the world as well as those who don’t go to churches—are wandering astray and fall under the boot of Egypts, Romes, and Americas, which ensnare men into slavery who are left to seek welfare and protection from the socialist systems of worldly welfare. As the above passage concludes, the false shepherds’ failure to actually provide for others left them in a situation where “all who found them devoured them” (Jeremiah 50:7).

By corralling men into their false churches rather than gathering them to seek God’s Kingdom together in a decentralized Kingdom network of congregations linked together for mutual service to one another, the sheep who should be seeking God’s Kingdom are instead left vulnerable to the political predators of the world who are search for individuals to consume and destroy on their tax plantations and in their prisons. By failing to actually lead the people out of Egypt by building God’s literal Kingdom for them to come into once they have repented from the citizenship under the kingdoms of the world and their systems of socialized welfare and socialized law and defense, they leave the people wandering throughout the world without any protection. This is the accusation God brought against them.

“Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: ‘You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them’” (Jeremiah 23:2).

False pastors as grifters 

Not only are the false shepherds of the world either corrupters and perverters by commission or omission, but they also work to coerce money out of the people who attend their false “worship services” that lead the people astray by not building them up on the anarchist word of God that calls people to seek His Kingdom in exclusivity. Whether blind themselves, or deceivers who are attempting to make blind men, the false teachers of modern Christianity work to lead the masses into idolatry, lull them into complacency, and push them to empty their pockets into their offering plates, which don’t even get used to feed the sheep of God’s Kingdom.

It was never just that a people were lost all on their own when scripture addresses such a people who have gone astray, but that they had been—at least partially—led there by people who claimed to be the teachers of the will of God but who were, in fact, men who had come to prophesy lies and keep people from discovering the truth. It was never against the people that God witnessed a scene of men who had gone astray, but that all the so-called pastors and prophets that operated under His name were complicit in the corruption. 

“Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber. Like ravenous dogs, they are never satisfied. They are shepherds with no discernment; they all turn to their own way, each one seeking his own gain” (Isaiah 56:10-11). 

Not only do the so-called pastors of today preach worthless sermons that do not edify anyone to the cause of building God’s Kingdom, but in addition to their fraud, they are riding around in Cadillacs and living large off the money they’ve coerced their lost sheep into giving them — all while these sheep, who are without a shepherd, are running around in Babylon believing that their political captors are their liberators, law enforcers, and saviors.

Keeping men from God’s Kingdom

The overall purpose of the many false prophets of Christianity today is to avoid confronting the idolatry and sins of statism, to never call men to repent of these sins, and to never actually build God’s Kingdom for the sheep who attend their so-called worship services. Whether by openly teaching men that human civil government is good, or simply by failing to warn that it is evil and contrary to God’s Kingdom model that does not operate by men exercising authority over other men, the main work of these deceivers and false shepherds is to keep men from actually gathering in genuine mutual service to one another as a people who are living as citizens of another Kingdom, which has the effect of keeping those who are under their guidance living as citizens of the kingdoms of the world which they wrongly believe are necessary for their law, order, defense, and even their welfare. By substituting vain rituals, singalongs, and sermons for the real work of setting the Lord’s table and feeding the sheep in a regular network of voluntary charity toward one another, the Christian religion—that pure religion of actually caring for one another—is reduced to nothing more than some spiritualized idea of waiting around for heaven, and the socialist religion of statism, which keeps men captives to a system of taxation and debt, is furthered as a people’s supposed means for obtaining what these false prophets say are necessary for human civil governments to provide. They are the people from the Bible who “make the word of God to no effect” by turning men toward rituals, superstitions, and heavenly-minded hopes, when they should be living as the citizens of another Kingdom that is not of this world.