[This is part 18 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, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, nineteen, twenty, twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four]

Leaving Egypt Ministries, Obadiah D. Morris

We have already noted that the evils inherent in state rule are themselves a form of divine judgment for the sins of statism—that is, for erecting such systems in the first place, supporting them once they do exist, or otherwise holding to the worldly ideology that human civil government should even exist at all. In other words, the guaranteed evil outcomes of setting up or furthering systems of human government, which turn out this way every time, serve as divine punishment for the sinful ideology and practices behind this worldly political pursuit. 

But we should also make it clear that God does not use the evils of state rule—this harsh rebuke that necessarily comes along with these violent systems of human government—without purpose. God’s judgment against statist sinners, which comes in the form of the evils of human government that they supported from their wicked and darkened hearts, is not solely a punishment but also a means of divine correction for those who have walked down the crooked road of the world. The evils of statism are not simply divine justice for the evildoing involved with furthering these systems. Additionally, God intends for men to learn their lesson for these sins, to turn back from them, and to get off the wicked political road they are currently on and begin seeking the Kingdom of God instead. 

Sin and judgment 

Firstly, the judgment that comes against a statist people in the form of the very evils that flow from human government is never itself without reason or cause; only sin leads to bondage and anywhere there are men in the bonds of human governments, there are ungodly men whose sins enabled these systems of political slavery to exist. Human governments and their inevitable evils never just arise on their own, contrary to the propaganda of state rulers who seek to pacify men with this deterministic idea that their rule is inevitable, natural, or unavoidable. It is for the sins associated with believing in human governments, setting them up, or furthering them once they exist, which is idolatry, that all these evils have come upon men today and in the past. God’s judgment never fell on anyone unjustly (Psa 119:137). Scripture was always clear that anytime judgment had fallen upon people, it was always preceded by their sin. 

“This is what the LORD says about this people: ‘Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish them for their sins.’ Then the LORD said to me, ‘Do not pray for the well-being of this people. Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague” (Jeremiah 14:10-12).

When men wander down the wicked road of statism, which is the very way that men stray from the straight and righteous path of seeking God’s anarchist Kingdom, they find themselves in physical bondage due to this sin, being coerced into paying taxes to fund the socialist systems they believe are necessary for their justice and welfare and paying for their own enslavement under the boots of these “law enforcers” that their sin led them to believe were indispensable to “law and order.” It is not necessary for God to reach down from the sky to judge a people who have gone down the sinful path of statism. Having to live under the governments of men and their thousands of perverted legal decrees, convoluted law codes, and arbitrary edicts that result in police violence, incarceration, and sometimes even genocides against whole populations of people, is the price men pay for refusing to keep God’s Law instead, which forbids men from setting up these false gods and calls them to instead live as an anarchist people who have His Law written on their hearts. 

Judgment and correction 

Though we should be clear to establish that God’s judgment is never just random but is always the result of specific sins like idolatry for human government or the covetous desire for its benefits that are paid through having governments rob your neighbors, we must also make it clear that such judgment should always be understood as a form of correction, too. It is never the case that God just judges a people because He enjoys doing it, or even that it is just what a people deserve who have walked the sinful path. It is never the Lord’s desire or foremost wish that men be destroyed; men do this to themselves when they rebel against God by setting up false gods to rule over them. Rather, we see in Scripture that the Lord “wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:4). Those who treat the Lord as some tyrant who arbitrarily punishes men—neither for their sin nor as a lesson to them—clearly do not know the One who does “not want anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). God’s judgment against statists is never without purpose. It is in the cause of waking men up to their own bondage and the sins that led to it that God allows human rulers to plunder and enslave men. God uses the evils that inevitably become manifest in a statist society to serve as a corrective mechanism that ideally wakes men up to their own complicity in this political slavery and to lead them back to the Lord. 

In short, God hopes that His judgment, which comes in the form of the very government evils that men beg to have come against them, will lead men to repentance. The perversions of justice, corruptions of law, legal plunder, government terrorism, and all the backwardness of a statist society is intended by God to open men’s eyes to the casual reality of the divine law: that all who stray from the righteous path, which is done namely by men pursuing systems of human government, will find themselves captives under Babylonians and Egyptians. The corruptions of a statist society are meant by God to lead men to the realization that they have sown wicked seeds in planting human rulers and are only reaping the wicked fruit of their own farming. God’s judgment upon a people is never arbitrary; it is a punishment for their sin. Nor is it to merely deal out justice to a people for the sake of it — as if God would rather a people be in chains rather living freely under His rule in an anarchist society, as He always intended it to be. Rather, the judgment of state rule is meant by God to lead them to confess their sins, repent from these practices, and turn back to the Lord as their only God and King again in this repentance. The idea is that as the wicked State progresses and becomes more undeniably evil and more intolerable than ever before, the people will realize the sins involved here, see that they are living in bondage rather than a “free country,” acknowledge that this bondage is one of their own doing, repent of all this evildoing inherent to statism, and start to seek the Lord’s Kingdom again. 

Hardheadedness in judgment 

Alas, all this is easier said than done. Though God means for the increasing evils of a statist society to wake men up to their sins and subsequently lead them to repentance, things are never quite so simple. If they were, we wouldn’t need to be here writing about it today; we would have already been delivered from our Babylonian captivity and living in God’s anarchist Kingdom. As we see among our people today, the mounting evils of a statist society rarely ever work to lead men to repent and turn back to the Lord—until, of course, it’s too late and things are completely falling apart. Such was the case in the Bible, too.

After all, it should only be expected that a people who were stonehearted enough to raise up human rulers would also be just as hardheaded in judgment, even as it became increasingly evident that they had gone down the wrong way and needed to change their ideas and behaviors. Hence why it remains difficult today, even with the wicked statist society as a real-world reference, to show men that their sins have led to their political calamity and captivity under men. Anyone with the faintest acquaintance with scripture should not be surprised that the statist idolaters of our world—that is, the overt and unrepentant sinners—fight against prophetic rebuke at every step of the way in their bondage, whether this is their dismissal of the truths preached by the Biblical prophets who could have kept them from such errors in the first place, or that of the Lord’s contemporary agitators for men to repent and seek the Kingdom of God after already finding themselves in Egypt. The stone-hearted statists of the world—these wicked men who support systems of human rule—have never wanted to hear it from a godly man that they have gone down the sinful road and brought all these great evils upon themselves. Indeed, such correction often only brings ridicule and even persecution against us. “Whoever corrects a mocker invites insults; whoever rebukes the wicked incurs abuse” (Proverbs 9:7). 

Though the intention of God’s judgment against a people is to wake them up to such sins as idolatry and covetousness that raised up systems of human government that only ended up bringing great evils against them, we should be sure to point out that men are often so hardheaded and lost in these sins, which have corrupted their minds and actions, that even under the harsh judgment of government terrorism and plunder they do not wake up to the fact that Pharaoh’s boots are on their necks because God is punishing them for the sins associated with raising up Pharaohs and “backing the blue” terrorists who serve as his officers. Most of these proud statists continue in the same prideful ways they held before the evils of human government became increasingly undeniable. The police state expands, and they still don’t hang their heads and cry. Presidents get exposed as totally wicked men who partake in global pedophile networks, and they still stake his lawn signs in their yards. Seemingly no amount of obvious corruption of their societies leads them to repent for their sins that allowed it to turn out this way. 

“Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,’ says the LORD” (Jeremiah 6:15). 

We see in history that men may come under the devastating rebuke of God’s judgment, which often just comes in the form of an entirely tyrannical government existing as a terrorist organization against them, only to still refuse repentance for the sins which led to their enslavement and abuse. As one prophet saw, observing the divine correction God had brought upon a hardheaded people, 

“You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent” (Jeremiah 5:3). 

All this shows is just how deeply sinful and idolatrous statism is for a people who are possessed by this evil spirit that leads them to support human rulers. God can send police states, labor camps, famines, genocides — the usual gamut of judgment against a statist people — and still they won’t learn their lesson that sin leads to bondage and that they must repent and turn back to the Lord as their only King. 

“I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,’ declares the LORD. ‘I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered. People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,’ declares the LORD. ‘I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,’ declares the LORD. ‘I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,’ declares the LORD. ‘Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,’ declares the LORD.” (Amos 4:6-11). 

This is not God the Dentist speaking of blessing people with good oral health, but God the famine-giver, who gives socialists a dearth of food for their sin of organizing society along the political means of violence — so that they might learn from this grave mistake and reverse their course.

If people don’t wish to heed the word and warnings of the Lord even after human governments have gone full-blown genocidal and become destructive of all social order and still do not wish to repent of their evil statist practices and make the Lord alone their King in an anarchist society, then there is no hope for them. There’s only one thing left for a people who won’t correct their behavior even under the already-harsh judgment of living under human government at all, even in the stages of its infancy: the complete destruction at the hand of the Lord. There’s only one thing left to do for a people who will not turn from their sins even as the weight of the State, in its elder years, bears against them: “Prepare to meet your God, O Israel!” (Amos 4:12). 

If men refuse to be ruled by God alone, who will protect and bless those who live by His Law and refuse to set up systems of human government as their alleged protectors and law-givers, then they will be ruled by men in a statist slave society that will be a divine curse upon them for having turned away from the straight path of God’s Kingdom through their substitution of compulsory taxation and socialist goods and services for the freewill offerings and voluntary charity that the Lord has commanded us to practice instead. If men want to walk down the statist path, then God assures that they will find out the hard way the price that men must pay for refusing to be ruled by God as their only King. Whenever men commit the sin of trusting in human rulers to save them from their enemies, they will instead find themselves under judgment for this sin, in the form of bondage to these men who they mistakenly thought were the protectors and defenders of their alleged “freedom” and “law and order.” For the sin of supporting boots on the necks of your neighbors, which is necessary to any tax-funded system of government, God turns these evils upon these idolaters themselves. For the sin of believing that you would be invaded and subjugated if you trusted in God alone in an anarchist society and for believing that man-made governments were necessary to avoid this situation, God assures that a statist people will get dominated by the very men who you regarded as their indispensable saviors — that, for the wickedness of turning to presidents, legislators, soldiers, and police officers as your kings and lords who you believed would keep you safe from various evil men across the world, that instead “you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you” (Deuteronomy 28:48). 

The punishment for turning away from God, which men do namely by turning toward false gods (i.e., human rulers) for protection, bread, housing, and a thousand other benefits in our time, has always been to go into bondage to these men.

“Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress…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 1:3-5). 

Political bondage as judgment 

One problem among professing Christians today, which keeps them from seeing that their worldly political ideas and practices are sinful and that the existence of these systems is a judgment against them, is their tendency to spiritualize everything and retreat from the real-world problems of our earthly and physical existence. For them, sin is just some inherent wrongdoing in men that they need to faintly turn away from, salvation is just our deliverance to heaven when we die, and the gospel is just some vague idea of Jesus having died for our sins rather than a political message of another King and literal Kingdom that we are to be seeking today while repenting from going after the kingdoms of the world.

As much as men today conceive of being “freed from sin” as merely the spiritual freedom or inner-peace that one finds when the Lord works through them and changes their heart, liberation and deliverance in the Bible were always about being physically saved from the domination of men who operate systems of human government and being removed from their bondage. Similarly, while many think of being in “bondage to sin” as merely some spiritual enslavement or agony of the soul, the Bible speaks of something more concrete here, too. The price to pay for the sins inherent to statism—that is, the wicked works and evil deeds of raising up or furthering systems of human civil government—have always been for a people to find themselves in physical bondage to the kingdoms of the world, to become the actual slaves under kings and rulers who tax and incarcerate men, to be physically drug into exile under these statist territories, or to be actually destroyed by these rulers’ armies and police officers. 

That God’s judgment—save such scenarios where God brings His hand directly down upon Sodom and Gomorrahs—comes in the form of statist systems dishing it out is perfectly sensible given that the very sins of men are political ones too, where they have erected human rulers to be their kings, judges, and lawgivers when the Lord was to be all these things (Isaiah 33:22). To be sure, the sins that lead to God’s judgment in the form of bondage, invasion, exile, or general slavery under statist regimes were always of a political nature themselves. They were always for a people being involved in the violence, terrorism, war, bloodshed, and extortion that are always a part of any system of human government, making anyone who supports them (that is, statists) thieves and murderers themselves. 

The charges brought against the people, prior to coming under judgment, were more or less always the same. The prophets told the rulers and those who support them that they are a people who “despise justice and pervert all that is right, who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity” (Micah 3:9-10). It is the violence inherent to human government that is the primary sinful practice of men and that which simultaneously serves as a judgment against them once it comes back around. The price to pay for outsourcing law and justice to human rulers is to find out that they corrupt and pervert it and wield these systems against the people themselves, who stupidly shout “back the blue” while the boots are coming down on their own necks. It was never just for some vague sins that God judged a people, but always that they had engaged in specific acts of rebellion and injustice, namely that which is bound-up with these man-made political systems which represent mankind’s primary way of turning against God. 

“Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him” (Isaiah 1:4).

Going into captivity to human rulers and their police forces is the price that men pay for their sin of turning to wicked systems themselves. Yet God means for it to be a rebuke that teaches them a lesson, for it to reveal their own sin of statism to themselves, and to lead to their repentance.

“When they sin against You—for there is no one who does not sin—and You become angry with them and deliver them to an enemy who takes them as captives to his own land, whether far or near, and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’ and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to You in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name, then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and petition, and may You uphold their cause. May You forgive Your people who have sinned against You and all the transgressions they have committed against You, and may You grant them compassion in the eyes of their captors to show them mercy” (1 Kings 8:46-50). 

Humbling the pride of statists 

For all the evil practices that are intrinsic to raising up and supporting systems of human government, all which have their origins and further subsistence on violence, plunder, idolatry, and injustice, and which naturally go on to expand these things as they grow, a people are given over to all the evils they deserved: 

“Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away” (Lamentations 1:8). 

All the proud statists of the world, who think they can endlessly dominate everyone without ever paying the price for it, eventually become the laughingstock of the world. All the people who believed that they had “the most powerful military in the world” that could never be stopped will eventually be put to shame and pointed at by all the people of the world. God judges a people to tear down their pride and bring them back to their senses. As the psalmists put it, “You have made us an object of derision to our neighbors, and our enemies mock us” (Psalm 80:6). God does this so that a people might humble themselves and turn back to the Lord upon realizing they weren’t the high and mighty people they thought they were after all. Instead of believing that no one can stop them, which they once believed in their pride and sin, they will now have to admit that “we have become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us” (Psalm 79:4). 

It is in the very nature of a statist society—they are all inherently corrupt and evil from their origins to their final days—that the circumstances of a people would be a rebuke unto them. They will come to find out the hard way that it was never worth it to beg for defense, law, justice, and order from the governments of the world and their armies and police forces that they built to maintain their own power. As a wake-up call for the sin of statism, men would always find that there was truly nothing to be gained for their whoredoms and adulteries with kings and armies and would only find themselves living as their slaves. 

“‘Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? What will you gain on your way to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphratese? Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,’ declares the Lord GOD of Hosts” (Jeremiah 2:18-19). 

The taxation, wars, inflation, injustices, surveillance, stalking, psyops, political schemes, and all the other wickedness that men see today are the evils that God uses to lead men to acknowledge their own sins and repent from them. These things are meant to wake men up to their causal reality that their own sin, which raised up human rulers, has been responsible for the decline of their social order and all the evils that prevail in society around them. The judgment that human government will necessarily mean for a people serves the divine purpose and leading men to see that their own idolatry and rebellion, which are always foundational to these statist systems, is at the root of all the other symptoms that one finds in society today (Jer 2:5, 29). The backwardness of these systems works to make men realize that all these things which they even complain about today, but have not yet connected to their own sinful pursuit of human government, are but the wicked fruit of their own wicked sowing. 

Repentance and salvation 

Though most statists today see no need to repent of their idolatrous political ideology because they have not identified statism as sin, and though most of them reduce salvation to a merely heavenly idea and believe they’re already “saved” on little more than their professions of faith that never actually lead to them turning from their allegiance to human government as their earthly saviors, scripture has it that men actually need to come out and confess their sins if they hope for the Lord to relent of the disaster and judgment that He has planned for all those wicked men who walk in the political ways of the world. It has never been the Biblical case that men can continue in their sins and still find blessings from the Lord, namely in the form of being liberated—that is, saved—from their physical bondage to human governments. “He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy” (Proverbs 28:13). Moreover, what the Lord really saves people from is not just “sin” in some vague sense or bondage in some spiritual sense, but the consequences of sin, i.e., the bondage of Egypt that comes upon all those whose idolatry and covetousness led them to becoming captives under the political systems of men. Jesus came not just to liberate men in some spiritual sense of alleviating men from the mental slavery of living in “bondage to sin,” but to actually bring liberty to the captives and set free the prisoners who found themselves living under the rule of human governments which they raised up and supported when they were still living in sin and walking in the ways of the world. 

It is under bondage to the kingdoms of the world, where a people have evidently not yet sought the Kingdom of God and the salvation of the Lord, that conditions would become dire enough that men would begin to cry out to the Lord to save them from their own evildoings. God’s idea of judging a people—necessarily by letting them eat the fruit of their own wicked statist ways—was always that they might wake up in Babylon one day and realize what they had done to themselves. The whole purpose of divine justice is that it will actually result in a change in the people, that they might finally see that their adultery with human governments, lust for human kings, and prostitution with their armies and police, have led them to become slaves in an unfree land that is not being protected and blessed by God, but rather being cursed for the disobedience involved in going the way of the world. 

As much as it is true that God would be just in wiping all statists off the face of the earth for their evildoings, God never brings the boot down on a statist people just because they deserve it. He does it that they might turn from these ways under judgment. The goal in judgment was always that it would lead to repentance, not a further hardening of the people’s hearts. After showing the people that their bondage and captivity had come upon them due to their own sins, the final message of the prophets was always to repent and turn back to the Lord.

“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). 

The need to repent 

As much as people today do not believe they need to repent in order for God to save them and deliver them from their bondage, or as much as they think they already have repented by offering up some vague confession of turning away from “my sins” with no clear connection to their statist idolatry, Scripture teaches that God’s mercy upon a people in bondage depends on their turning back to the Lord. God wants to see a people change themselves before He is willing to turn back the captivity that He has justly brought against them for their Babylonian whoredom with the kingdoms of the world. 

“If My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14). 

As much as it is common today for statist idolaters who take the Lord’s name in vain to claim that they won’t be judged for their wicked works because Jesus died for all their sins (as if this was done so that they may continue in them), Scripture has it that God judges a people for their deeds and will revoke the judgment He has planned for an idolatrous people if they will repent, return to Him as their only King, and seek His Kingdom alone. 

“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). 

Though the common thinking among modern Christians is that their deeds don’t matter, Scripture has it that God judges people according to their ways. This is not just an Old Testament concept, either. Jesus himself taught His followers that “unless you repent, you too will all perish” (Luke 13:3). Jesus’s whole ministry was preaching to men to “repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 3:2). This has always been the word of God: that people must repent and turn from all their transgressions, so that their sins will not become their downfall, i.e., that their idolatry for Egypts, Babylons, and Romes will not get them destroyed under these systems. God has always called upon people to cast away their sins and fashion for themselves a new heart, one that was not fixed on the kingdoms of the world but rather on the Kingdom of God. As much as God would be the final arbiter in bringing judgment against a people, He was always calling people to not kill themselves by remaining in their sins. 

God’s words of warning for men to repent was never just a suggestion or even a matter of an afterlife in heaven or hell. Men face real-world consequences—living as captives in Egypt—for their sins. Men break God’s Law only at their own peril. It is not possible to rebel against God and avoid judgment. Sin will always bring about bondage. It is not just optional for men to turn from their sin, nor a matter of repenting from some vague “sins” that are never understood as positively turning away from one’s idolatry for human government. Sin is a matter of life and death, feast or famine, peace or war, freedom or slavery, prosperity or poverty, blessings or curses. Those who will not turn from their sins, i.e., from their adultery with the kingdoms of the world, will be destroyed—that is, consumed by the wicked statist systems they support. Those who repent, however, will live. 

God’s mercy 

As much as professing Christians today act like they don’t need to repent or turn from their wicked deeds because Jesus has already died for their sins, which leaves them without the ability to understand how the political plunder society came upon them, the men of the Bible could always see and say how the social calamity and captivity they lived under “has come upon us because of our evil deeds and our great guilt” (Ezra 9:13). Modern Christians today refuse to admit that the existence of human government is all the proof needed that they are under judgment for active and ongoing sins from which they refuse to repent from committing. They refuse to see that the Egyptian systems they chase after are slave societies, much less confess that their own sins led them there. They still believe that Egypt is a “free country” and that Rome represents God’s ideal political order. It is for these sinful ideas that men must live under the slavery of human government, until they finally realize just what it has done to them and their lives and eventually turn back from the sins that led to their bondage. 

Perhaps one of the reasons that men do not think that their support for human governments today is evil is that these systems have not yet fully collapsed on them. As much as one could point to all the ways in which they already act as a judgment against a people, American society has not yet turned completely upside-down. Men are still comfortable enough to keep from seeing a need to repent from their current course, which often requires that things become much worse than they already are at the present time. 

However, that God has not yet turned American society completely upside-down should not lead anyone to believe that this statist society is not sinful, not under judgment, and not in need of repentance. Like the Babylons and Romes before it, the United States represents another political system and culture of people that is representative of all the things that show a people to be living in sin and rebellion against God’s natural, anarchistic order. There are, of course, times in the Bible where God is merciful and compassionate even against sinful people who He would have been just to completely destroy. Scripture records such episodes as these. “He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities” (Psalm 103:10). We may well conceive of the current American scene as one where God has already held back the utter destruction that such an idolatrous and evil people as this would deserve. 

Nevertheless, this is only God keeping the governments of the world, all which are raised up in sin and rebellion against God, from wiping us off the face of earth completely. Though all the unashamed idolatry of Americans for the United States Government would certainly warrant God utterly destroying these people, yet they haven’t been completely ruined yet. However, this is only God being more merciful than we deserve, not God suddenly believing that statism isn’t sinful and not deserving of being punished. This is but God giving men another chance to repent, when He would have been just to wipe these statists off the face of the earth decades or centuries ago. Men have already been given more than enough chances to turn from their evils at this point.

Let no statist think that because they are still being allowed to exist by God that they are not living in sin, deserving of judgment, and not in need of repentance, and let them see their continued walk down the crooked and wicked path of the world as an extension of God’s mercy toward an unrepentant people as them. Human government is always, at all times and phases of its existence, acting as a form of divine judgment against the very sins that support it; the judgment they unconsciously deal out is not limited to the final downfall of these systems. The sinful political systems of man are always a form of slavery and always exist as divine justice upon a people who would not seek God’s anarchist Kingdom instead, whether because they were enthusiastically idolizing the kingdoms of men or simply failing to seek the Kingdom of God in their slothfulness. Its mere existence and systems of taxation and police predation are a judgment upon a people who wouldn’t be ruled by God alone, even when they have not yet evolved into the full-blown police states that they are always tending toward. Yet God means these evils to lead men to repent for their sinful ways. If need be, He allows these wicked systems to grow worse over time, so that men will realize the urgency of the need to go a different way and never play with the fire of human government ever again, finally realizing what it means for them to do so. But so long as they exist, God means for the human governments of the world to be such an endless source of evil that men will finally seek God’s Kingdom instead, which does not operate like the violent, authoritarian kingdoms of the world that must always plunder and murder men to even exist.

Prayer

Lord, I pray that the increasing evils in our statist world today will be enough of a rebuke against men that they will begin to repent and seek Your Kingdom, and that You will not have to bring us to the totalitarian point of genocides and famines for the historically hardheaded people of the earth to see that their own sins have led to their bondage under these systems of men. Let the people today who realize that something has gone wrong in their society go all the way and realize that their belief in human government is sinful, that they must turn from this sin, and that they must begin to gather together to build Your anarchist Kingdom if they wish to be saved from the disaster You have scheduled for all statist people who refuse the correction You have given to them through allowing these wicked political systems of men to grow increasingly evil against them. Let the current state of things, which is already bad, be enough of a judgment for people and let us stop here and begin to turn back to You and Your ways today. Put it in men’s hearts for them to repent of their love of Egypt that has them in chains today and let them sincerely forsake their worldly ways and the evil ideology of statism, where the devil has deceived them into thinking presidents, congressmen, armies, and police officers are necessary to their salvation. Let men wake up today and be blinded no more by the darkness of the world that has them under a strong delusion. Undo the demonic deceptions they are under to think that human governments are law and order-givers, when they are nothing but corrupters and perverters of Law and Justice exist only to serve as harsh judgment against their sin of refusing to maintain these things themselves in a free society under Your sole and exclusive kingship. Amen.