[This is part 27 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, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, twenty four, twenty five, twenty six, twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty, thirty one, thirty two, thirty three, thirty four, thirty five]

Leaving Egypt Ministries, Obadiah D. Morris

Before men can begin repenting of their idolatry toward the human systems of government they trust to save them, they must first recognize it as a sinful error that has trapped them in bondage rather than some innocent act that leads to their freedom. As it stands, most men believe that Egypt is a “free country,” that her troops “fight for our freedom,” and that there is no sin in supporting human government or curse of bondage in living under it. They see Egyptian-statist societies—this is especially true in the supposedly exceptional case of the United States—as God’s ordained order for justice, law, and order, rather than His judgment against wicked statists like them who support these systems.

We have a long way to go toward men turning around their evil ways considering just how backwards they have gotten things today, specifically their idea that the man-made systems of government that exist as a judgment have supposedly been given to us by God for ordering our society, rather than erected by men in their rebellion to God and His Kingdom. We see just how far from repentance men are in that the very thing they need to be repenting from—their love of Egypt and their trust in these statist systems to order their societies for them—not only fails to be identified as sin, bondage, and a curse against them for their disobedience, but is said to be a God-approved, freedom-giving, blessing upon mankind that all men have a “civic duty” to participate in and maintain. 

Judgment for the transgression of statism

Though the statist idolaters of the world do not believe that their political ideology and actions are sinful, that human governments are wicked and exist as a judgment against their sin, or that they must repent of these sins to find true liberation under the Lord, Scripture presents the matter in exactly the opposite way. Idolatry toward human rulers is sin that leads to political bondage, which stands as divine judgment on those who refuse to be ruled by God alone.

So not only do men fail to realize they are in bondage today and that the governments they trust in to serve them are of the same lineage as the Babylons, Egypts, and Romes that led the idolaters of Biblical times into captivity for the same sins that they are repeating today, but they also fail to see that they have been complicit in their own slavery and need to turn back to the Lord as their only savior if they ever hope to be delivered from these wicked statist systems where they have misplaced their faith. The usual reaction of men realizing that the governments of the world don’t seem to be representing them anymore is to act as victims rather than sinners who brought these evils on themselves. Rather than look at the Babylonian captivity and acknowledge that they had acted as Babylonians themselves and weep over their own evils and the consequential bondage, they just say that they don’t deserve it and can’t admit that they took any part in allowing these systems to exist through their idolatry, covetousness, and slothfulness to seek God’s Kingdom. Rather than realize they’re living under Egyptians rather than a “free country” and come to to repent for their sins that supported these systems, they continue in their Egyptian ways and seek to vote for new masters or even fantasize violent revolution against these systems which are only a result of their own sin — anything but acknowledging their own contribution to the existence of the backward, statist society they live under. The same irresponsibility that originally led men to outsource their duties of law, justice, and welfare to their neighbors over to human government only rears its head once again as these systems begin more visibly tearing at the seams, and men refuse to admit that their own idolatries and covetousness—their support for human rulers and their pursuit of benefits and incomes from these socialist systems—led to their own bondage. Rather than take matters into their own hands and begin to gather their neighbors to seek God’s Kingdom together and organize their people as a separate society of families who are repenting for the sins which led to their captivity under human rulers, all they do is sit around and complain about their problems, continue in their pragmatic participation with these systems, and avoid the only thing that would actually change their society: repent and seek the Kingdom of God.

Though the statists who profess to be Christians cannot see that their political society is an Egyptian one that holds them in captivity because of their own sin in supporting these systems, we must still show how men have come to be dominated by human rulers so that they can see where they have gone wrong and what they need to repent from once they have finally had enough beatings and come to their spiritual senses about the wickedness in their owns hearts. For as evil as the authoritarian governments of men are, they are but the manifestation of the evils that were in the hearts of the people. Human governments can only exist where there are sinners, and however evil are these systems of human governments themselves, they are made possible by the evils of the people in these societies, whose idolatry and patriotism they depended on to even exist.

The role of God’s prophets today is thus to draw these blind men a picture of how they went wrong, show them that the rulers who they trusted in for their protection are their enemies, and what they might do to right their course again once they have seen they have gone astray. Though most men can tell that something is wrong with society today simply by living through the increasing struggle of daily life as well as by witnessing the endless s schemes of politicians, they still cannot understand how exactly things came to this point or what needs to be done about it once they have begun to vaguely realize that we’re living in an Egyptian society and that things are evidently not going the way God intended it to be. More importantly, they still cannot see their own sin in their current social calamity, but chalk up the evils of human government to be some deviation of what the system was “supposed to be,” what was supposedly intended by the “founding fathers,” what has been the fault of a certain president or political party, or maybe the lack of enough legislation to get the system operating correctly again.

At any rate, most men do not know what has gone wrong even when they have some vague notion that things aren’t right. Yet the cause-and-effect reality God built into the social order at creation, which makes it impossible for statists to prevail indefinitely against God’s anarchistic Kingdom order, is not difficult to grasp. It is no mystery why the people of the world today have found themselves enslaved to systems of human government, which are a curse from God on all those men who turn from His ways. Scripture makes plain that it is the sins of idolatry, covetousness, injustice, and violence (i.e., those ideas and actions bound up in a statist society) that bring a people under judgment.

“And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them. The house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God, from that day forward. And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword. I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid my face from them” (Ezekiel 39:21-24). 

State rule as judgment for statolatry

When people turn away from God, which they do namely by turning toward the Egyptian-statist systems of the world for their salvation, God turns away from them and hands them over to their enemies to dominate them. In a great irony for all the statist idolaters who tell us that having a State is the only means of finding protection from other statists, criminals, pirates, robbers, or boogeymen of all types, God guarantees that it comes to a people who trust in human governments to secure their peace and freedom rather than trust in God to provide it for them. To teach men a lesson in the sin of statism, which is characterized by men trusting in human rulers rather than the Lord to secure them, God lets statists find out that this twisted ideology and practice of theirs actually leads to their own enslavement under evil men. For the sinful ideology and practices of setting up and furthering systems of human government, God allows these inherently wicked systems to plunder the wicked sinners who stand behind them. In short, those who live by the sword of the State are abandoned by God to fall by this sword. Those who think that entrusting one’s law, justice, and protection to human governments is the only way to avoid getting ruled by bad guys find out the hard way that this is the very way to assure you become a slave and that trusting in God alone is (against the “wisdom” of the statist) the only way to not meet this end.

Though few men can even agree that they are in bondage today, much less that their own sin led to it and that they need to repent of their evil thoughts and ways, there is no reason to wonder why we have become captives to Egyptians and Babylonians today. It is for all the sins inherent to statism—from believing in human rulers to actually dominating other men—that a people find themselves judged by God for their wickedness. When men trust in Egyptian systems rather than God alone to protect them, they find themselves ruled by the very men who they sinfully believed were there to uphold “law and order” for them and “defend the country” or maintain “public safety.” 

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

For the iniquitous practices of erecting and supporting systems of human civil government, men find themselves in bondage to these systems as judgment for these very sins. It is God’s Law that statism leads to slavery and social disorder, as God is against those sinners who are in rebellion against the divine anarchist order through their whoredom with the political systems of the world, their prostitution with their armies, and their lust for presidents and congressmen to rule over them. All men who act like Egyptians, say by voting new Pharaohs into office or rooting for his troops in war, will find themselves dominated by these very Egyptians who they mistakenly regarded as their protectors and saviors. The price to pay for the sin of statism is to be subjugated by the very men who are said to be necessary to peace and freedom or by others like them, who may invade their society from afar to bring judgment upon them or even drag them off into exile in another land that they have never known.

In short, the consequences of not keeping God’s command to have no other gods than the Lord is to be commanded around by men who not only don’t care about you, but want to rob you, cage you, and kill you. It is for all these sins tied to advancing the world’s political systems that men end up in one vast prison state run by human rulers, who, though evil themselves, serve as God’s judgment on the sinners in the population who chose to be ruled by men rather than by God. Statists are sinners who find themselves under judgment for their transgressions. They are the “fools [who], in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction” (Psalm 107:17). It is always in a statist society—that is, among an idolatrous people who trust in kings and armies as their protectors—that the prophets can say, “Their rebellious acts are many, and their unfaithful deeds are numerous” (Jeremiah 5:9). Because of the evils inherent in a statist people, from plundering men through taxation to murdering them with their militaries or police forces, God either permits these wicked rulers or raises up others like them to serve as judgment on the wickedness of the people who supported these systems and took part in their covetous and murderous practices. In other words, the punishment for acting like a Babylonian is to be dominated by Babylonians, whether the ones you raised up at home or by others who God allows to cross oceans to come after you.

“‘Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand. They quivers are like open graves; they are all mighty men. They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust’” (Jeremiah 5:15-17). 

When men become statists themselves and practice all the evils and violence inherent in establishing or operating systems of human civil government, God gives these wicked idolaters over to their own schemes. He either allows them to fall prey to the domestic tyrants they believed were needed to protect them, or to foreign tyrants they believed they would be secured from by raising up government armies and police at home. God “visits destruction” upon the transgressors of the world, whose main evils are the acts of plunder and violence involved with their statist societies (Amos 3:14). 

Forgiveness for transgression

If men wish to undo the political bondage they have found themselves in today because of their sins—namely their whoredom with Egyptians and Romans whom they have trusted to order their societies for them—then they must get the Lord back with them and undo the separation they have caused between themselves and God through their own iniquities. Yet to find this blessing they must repent and turn away from their mistaken belief that Egypt can be reformed and made into a system that upholds law, delivers justice, and saves their people when this is something that can only be found in God’s anarchist order. They must confess that their Egyptian ways have been sinful and vow to make the Lord alone their King if they do not want to continue to reap the evils they have sown.

To find the blessings of peace and liberty that the Lord has for those who walk in His ways, men must first acknowledge that statism is sin so that they can even begin to approach repentance, which is not just some vain or vague verbal profession that does not manifest in any real change in their thoughts, deeds, and ways, but by actually abandoning the statist ideology and practices that have led to a barrier being built between men and God, like believing that human governments should even exist, participating in their elections, taking employment with them, or feeding from their systems of welfare and benefits. As the psalmists were able to say, 

“I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,’ and You forgave the guilt of my sin” (Psalm 32:5). 

Confessing one’s transgressions to the Lord is what the stubborn statists of the world have been unable to do today, who still apologize for the existence of human rule and still participate in the politics of the world. They have refused to acknowledge their statist ideology and practices as sinful, much less arrive at the conclusion that they need to repent for this statist transgression of theirs, where they have rebelled against God and His Kingdom by raising up false gods to rule over them and supporting their violent and plunderous systems of human government.

As much as professing Christians today do not think that their statist idolatry is sin or that they need to repent from walking down the crooked road of Babylon to be saved from it, scripture has it that God’s mercy is contingent upon man’s confession and repentance of sin.

“Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy” (Proverbs 28:13). 

God will have it either way men choose: they can repent of their evils and find favor with the Lord, or they can continue in all their wicked practices—such as raising up rulers and crying out to soldiers to “fight for our freedom”—and find themselves judged by God for their rebellion against His kingship and their statist rejection of His salvation.

“The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness, maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations,a forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations” (Exodus 34:6-7). 

God desires that all men turn from their evil ways and that no one should perish for their iniquities. Yet He leaves it up to men whether they will turn from the wicked statist path and seek the Lord’s salvation instead, or whether they will continue seeking salvation in human government and be destroyed for their sins.

“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin. Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord GOD; so turn, and live” (Ezekiel 18:30-32). 

God’s mercy on the repentant 

As much as the role of a true prophet of God is to warn men that the statist path is a sinful one that leads to their enslavement under the authoritarian governments that they believe are necessary to social order, the other side of the coin is to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of God that saves those who repent from the sins that led to their political bondage, by leading them to seek the Kingdom of God and live as a people who are set apart from the statists of the world and protected by God for their willingness to walk another way and gather with others for mutual service rather than continue to plunder each other through socialist systems of government. Indeed, as much as the mere existence of human government and its inevitable evils stand as divine justice against the people living under it, we may well always emphasize God’s mercifulness to statist sinners more so than His judgment, for we even read that God does not always bring upon a people all the evils they deserve. 

“The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities” (Psalm 103:8-10). 

God is so merciful that even when a wicked people deserve to be utterly destroyed for their sinful ways, He still tames the judgment against them and keeps them from being brought to an absolute end. There are all sorts of instances in scripture where people deserve to be completely ruined for their evil thoughts or deeds, but where we read instead that “the LORD relented from the disaster that He had spoken of bringing on His people” (Exodus 32:14). This is surely the case with Americans today, who are among the most idolatrous and wicked-hearted people of the world today, who yet still have not seen a much-deserved day of absolute judgment come against them for their rampant patriotism, their fawning over presidents, their praise of police, their endless salutes to soldiers as their heroes, and their championing of state rule in general. Indeed, Americans are so hardhearted that instead of seeing this rocky continuation of their evil society as God extending His mercy against them and giving them a further chance to repent of their wicked deeds, they think they are still being blessed for their good works and that God doesn’t mind at all that they are pursuing systems of human civil government that, in fact, stand as enemies to the anarchistic Kingdom of God.

A chance to repent 

Yet the point of sparing a people from total ruin is to allow them time to learn a lesson for their sins and lead them to turn away from their evildoing so that they can avoid the further calamity and judgment that is sure to come upon a people if they remain in their current thoughts and behaviors, such as believing that human governments are necessary to order their societies and that men must vote for human rulers to sit in the seats of these Babylonian offices. If God had sent men on preaching missions just to tell people that they were destined to an unavoidable fate at His hand, then there would have been no point in commissioning men to go out and prophesy to the people of the world; He could have just let these people soon find out what was coming their way rather than put any effort into changing their minds. Thus the words of correction and rebuke by the prophets were always so that a people might turn from their old and evil ways so as to avoid the reality that will follow if they refuse to listen and stay on their current path. As one prophet thus says, 

“So now, correct your ways and deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, so that He might relent of the disaster He has pronounced against you” (Jeremiah 26:13). 

An ultimate judgment—the complete destruction of men and their perverted statist  societies—is always looming for a Babylonian people who choose to go in the way of the world rather than the way of the Lord, yet this fate is inevitable only insofar as men refuse to repent and decide to continue down the road to Egypt in their hardheadedness. A prophetic word on the divine causal reality of human social order—particularly, that sins like idolatry for men lead to bondage under their political systems—was never given to a people who couldn’t change their ways, but precisely so that they would see what will come of them if they don’t soon straighten up their act. 

“Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds” (Jeremiah 18:11). 

God never sent out prophets to tell people that it was impossible for them to turn around and that they were going to be destroyed no matter what they do, but rather to “repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall” (Ezekiel 18:30). If men turned from their statist ways today and stopped looking to the “United States” and other Roman systems like it to get their societies in order, but would instead seek the Kingdom of God as the only answer to their political bondage under worldly governments, then God would likewise spare them the calamity He has planned for all those who refuse to repent and continue to trust in the political systems of man for their salvation. 

Repenting for the transgression of statism

Though the sin of statism brings judgment upon those who hold this ideology and practice the wicked works of worldly politics, we must always be sure to show that the Lord will withhold His wrath from those who will repent of these evils and turn back to His ways. As much as God plans greater judgment against those who continue to walk in the statist ways of the world, so He will also relent of the disaster He has planned for a people who will turn away from these sins. As the prophet says, 

“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 the wages of sin is always death and the wicked deeds of statism cannot go unpunished, God never desires to destroy a people and always wishes that they would repent, instead of bringing such judgment upon themselves. 

“As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?” (Ezekiel 33:11). 

As evil and punishable as the sins of statism remain in the eyes of God, our Lord is not one to hold a grudge against men forever, should they admit their guilt, repent from these evils of theirs, and begin to walk another way. As the prophet added, “The wickedness of the wicked man [will not] cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness” (Ezekiel 33:12). Though statism is evil and brings judgment to a society, it is never inevitable that men stay on this course. The slavery of human government is reserved exclusively for sinners as a form of divine justice; God gives liberty and deliverance from statist bondage to the repentant anarchists of the world who seek His Kingdom at the exclusion of man’s worldly systems.

Salvation from the devil State 

The curious thing about the political captivity of our time is that even when men vaguely acknowledge that their societies are full of corruption and oppression, they still never wish to acknowledge these sins, repent from them, and believe that there is a real solution in seeking the Kingdom of God. Their usual course is just to act as if they don’t need to repent, that repentance wouldn’t work anyway, to sit around and wait on an afterlife in heaven, or to fall into apathy and despair on earth. Yet the Gospel of the Kingdom of God is that the Lord has come to save men into His Kingdom order as a separate society altogether, apart from the world and its Egyptian and Roman systems that are exclusively a means of divine judgment against the sinners who want to be ruled by men. The Lord would deliver us from the bondage of statism today, but the false Christians of the world do not believe that the Lord’s salvation has anything to do with being saved from the bondage of Egypt, not surprisingly because they are Egyptians themselves who trust in Pharaohs, armies, and officers to bring their peace, freedom, law, and order, only to find themselves enslaved under these men as judgment for the sins related to believing in these systems.

Though men still search in vain for freedom through systems of human government and refuse to admit the sin involved in their statist ways, it has been for the transgression of statism that men have been delivered into political slavery instead of the liberty found in God’s anarchist society, which they have rejected as chaotic and lawless in their darkened hearts, closed-off eyes, and stopped/up ears that never wanted to come to the truth. Contrary to the reprobate statists today who cannot see what they have done to themselves, the men of the Bible always knew that it was transgressions such as idolatry and support for the injustices and aggression inherent to human government that lead a people into bondage.  

“My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand” (Lamentations 1:14). 

Repenting for statism specifically

Since the great transgression against God’s anarchist law-order has always been man’s whoredom with the kingdoms of the world to provide protection (i.e., salvation) for them, which has led to their bondage rather than their liberty, naturally the very repentance that men need to come around to is confessing this very sin and turning away from their hopes in human rulers and their armies and police forces, which stands today as the primary evidence of a people who have rebelled against God and are living in violation of His commands. 

Repentance to God then entails not just some vague confession that “we are sorry for our sins,” which is the loose and meaningless idea of repentance that keeps men involved in the very political evils that they need to turn away from by making “sin” into some non-specific failing in men, but an explicit turn from the statist ideology and wicked practices of raising up rulers, supporting them or joining them, and otherwise trusting in the agents of these systems as their source of alleged freedom, justice, law, order, and bread. True repentance requires the very real confession that “Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses” (Hosea 14:3). It requires that men realize that far from being under the care of men who “fight for our freedom” or “protect and serve” us, that the mere existence of human governments and human rulers is proof that they are under judgment in the form of political bondage and that their own sins lead them there — nevermind the thousands of legal decrees and worldwide schemes, plots, and conspiracies that inevitably follow from these systems once they are put into operation.

Repentance and hope

For all the warnings we must give to statist sinners should they continue down the Roman road they are currently walking on, none of it is meant to make them fall into despair and hopelessness or even to embarrass them, but indeed to lead them to repent and trust in the Lord alone as their God again. The situation is never hopeless considering that even the statist captivity we are living under is but a judgment from God for our own evildoing, which men can repent from taking part in and which God can relent of bringing down upon us. 

Though the position of statist sinners, who tell us that abandoning Egypt’s politics will only allow evil men and pagans to take over, is effectively that it is not worth it to repent and that God won’t provide for those who do, our only hope in the face of the judgment currently upon us and any greater judgment to come is to repent of our wicked ways and turn our trust and allegiance back to the Lord. To stay behind in Egypt and worry about what will come of her intrinsically rotten systems if we don’t keep up the wicked works of raising up men into positions of authority is the worry of worldly sinners who do not trust in the Lord to secure them if they began to do right again and seek the Kingdom of God instead. All men who submit that “Christians” (so-called) must continue playing politics in Babylon are lost sinners who have no faith in what the Lord would do for men if only they would seek His ways again, which is why they are more worried about elections and legislative sessions than repentance and setting their sights exclusively upon the Kingdom of God.

While statists tell us about all the things that would happen if we stopped sinning, that is if we walked away from the polls and left these Babylonian systems to the Babylonians who want to be destroyed by them, men who know the Lord are worried only about the things that would come upon us if we continued practicing the transgressions of statism and refuse to repent. Those who cannot bring themselves to turning away from the political systems of the world have no fear of the Lord, which is why they continue to place their faith in human governments to protect them from their enemies, real and imagined. Those who fear the Lord can trust in God alone to provide for them in an anarchist society where the Lord is our only King. We can repent of our statist idolatry and rest assured, in a peacefulness that statists have never known, that the Lord will provide for those who fear Him and who stop imagining all the numerous disasters that would supposedly come upon them if they abandoned their sinful faith in human governments to “protect and serve” them.

There is no need for godly men to stay behind in Egypt and make sure her next Pharaoh is a supposedly “lesser evil” than the other false god who is falsely presented before them, and anyone who thinks this much only demonstrates themselves to be someone who is more interested in dabbling in sin than doing right by the Lord and trusting in Him to make our paths straight should we get on the righteous path ourselves. Furthermore, they show themselves to lack the most basic Biblical promises of the fate that awaits all those who walk on the wicked path of the world, which would not only keep them from playing Babylon’s political games which would include them among the wicked, but would also leave the endgame for the men in the hands of God: “Transgressors shall be altogether destroyed; the future of the wicked shall be cut off” (Psalm 37:38). Lest we share in their plagues—that is, be destroyed alongside the wicked systems of human government—we must repent and turn another way: down the straight and righteous path of the Lord and His anarchistic Kingdom. We must stop believing that we must do evil so that good may supposedly come, i.e., that we must take up the sword of the State ourselves to keep our enemies away. Instead, we must see that doing this would make us wicked as well, and that we should instead begin trusting in God’s plan for all the evil men of the world: “For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished” (Proverbs 24:20). Only sinners believe they must erect a State to do what God would do for those who will just repent: to take care of their enemies for them and deliver them to safety.

The time is now 

It is high time that men wise-up to their Egyptian slavery, realize their own complicity in this political bondage, and begin to repent for the sins of statism that have led them to where we are today. For up to this point, the masses of men—professing Christians shamefully among them—have had everything wrong in their analysis of our society and how it has gone wrong. Whereas statism is sin that leads to bondage, they have preached that it is God’s great gift to mankind that He has given to assure the smooth operation of their societies. Yet human government is not God’s ordained institution for law and order, but rather His judgment on statist idolaters who trust in kings and armies instead of the Lord to save them. The political bondage we endure today, which most people cannot even recognize as slavery, is the direct result of our own sins—idolatry, covetousness, injustice, and violence—that come along with supporting these systems and continuing to believe that they can be made into good, godly institutions if only they were occupied by “Christians” or that the evils that are inherent to these systems could be undone through greater political participation or electing “righteous rulers” to office. The only path to true liberation is radical repentance: abandoning all faith in human governments to “protect and serve” (i.e., to save), turning away from the evil of taking up the State’s sword, and trusting wholly in God’s anarchistic Kingdom, where He provides for those who fear Him. God will either spare us through our repentance or judge us through the very tyrants we begged to have over us. This is the choice we face today and which mankind has always faced: seek God and live, or seek human kings and kingdoms and be destroyed.

It’s time for all the statists of the earth to recognize that walking down the political path of the world has been man’s great rebellion against God and His anarchist Kingdom and to begin getting back on the righteous path upon this realization and confession of sin. It’s time for men to see their statism has been sinful and get back to God’s ways again, to make the Lord their savior again, and to once again hear His voice, saying, “Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors, remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me” (Isaiah 46:8-9). It’s time for all men everywhere to see that the political path of the world has been a crooked one that led men astray from the Lord and His ways, and to begin seeking God’s anarchy as the solution to their bondage under human governments which were raised up under man’s failure to build God’s Kingdom instead and serve each other freely and directly, out of love for their neighbors and a desire to see their people free. It is time for men everywhere to have the humility of the prophets to realize that all the evils that have befallen us—from the existence of human rulers to their many schemes—have been the consequences of our own sins, which we now need to turn from. It’s time for all men to say with the prophets,

“Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the LORD! Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven: ‘We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven’” (Lamentations 3:40-42).