One major false dichotomy in political theology is the idea that all those who reject worldly politics are slothful to seeking the Kingdom of God, while the only people who care about it will involve themselves in the politics of the world. This idea is completely false. The only true Kingdom-seekers are anti-statists, and statists are not seeking God's Kingdom at all.

Once we have become ideologically motivated to the anarchist Kingdom-politics of God, the great abolitionist plan of seeking God’s Kingdom eventually necessitates that we find other men to build with through real, on-the-ground evangelism that casts a wide net that works to find the sheep who hear the Lord’s voice and are ready to gather with you to serve each other and love their neighbors.

By failing to understand the political nature of gospels and making the salvation of the Lord into a purely heavenly and afterlife matter, men have been able to engage a false dichotomy where God’s Kingdom is not seen as a literal one to replace man’s kingdoms and where the latter are seen as necessary to salvation on earth. In the process, they have bought into the false gospels of statism.

When it is not understood that all social systems are theocratic or religion and that the true political spectrum is anarcho-theocracy to statist-theocracy, then it becomes possible to give support to the false dichotomy that one can have a “Christian” State or a “secular” State, when both these are just the myths that God’s true theocracy is statist or that non-theocratic statism is possible repeated.

The prevailing idea in Christianity is that the “true purpose” of the State is to act as God’s “ordained” institution for justice and law in society. A false dichotomy is then created where the State fulfills this role or is an “ungodly state.” The truth is that all States are ungodly and evil and that their only “ordained” purpose is bringing judgment upon the sinners who set them up.

One of the main ways that statists of all stripes are able to imagine that they can engage in statism without it contradicting their claims of being “religious” or “atheistic” is by maintaining a false dichotomy where the State is either “Christian” or “secular.” By tearing down this dichotomy, we can show that the “Christian statist” and the “secular statist” are mythical creatures.

Of a handful of scriptures that statists desperately seek to make a case for their wicked service and support for worldly empires as a Biblical one, one commonly corrupted one is for men to reference Isaiah’s answering of his God-given mission as supposedly akin to the devilish mission of joining the militaries or police force of human government.

The whole ministry of the Biblical prophets was one of rebuking the corrupt and unjust order that was being perpetuated by human rulers and the religious establishment that has always been in bed with the state rulers, all who have set themselves up against God. In this segment, we cover the books of the minor prophets first as a defense of this clear thesis.

It is commonly argued by self-called atheists that the existence of evils like sickness or political tyranny either disproves the existence of God or must just show that He is an arbitrary tyrant who doesn’t care about the prevalence of evil in our world. However, most of the evils in our world are a result of man’s open sin, which God has punished. They are not things that have come upon us undeservedly.

Some of the main themes of the Biblical prophets present us with a picture of the various phases of the political cycle that mankind has always been on, where statism corrupts a society, invites God’s judgment, and eventually destroys a people to teach them how to repent — all of which present a Christian Anarchist case for seeking God’s Kingdom instead.

Often through small things like lazily conflating the word “nations” in the Bible to mean “State,” so-called “Christian Nationalists” work to use the Great Commission and other scriptures like Psalm 33:12 to try and build a case for their worldly political agenda. These, however, are prooftexts for Christian Anarchism, not statism.

By showing that the prophets were persecuted by political rulers, the “religious” establishment elites, and the people themselves, for their warnings of judgment upon the sinful political orders of the day and all the injustices inherent to them, we can strengthen the case the ministry of the prophets was necessarily a political one that confronted and condemned the sins of statism.

In order to show that the divine mission given to the prophets was necessarily to rebuke statism and call people to repent from the idolatry and evils involved in supporting the man-made kingdoms of the world, we must also show that the prophets were directly confronting state rulers with this message of repentance and judgment.

In this series’ attempt to show that the prophets were necessarily rebuking statist societies, this article attempts to lay out the political scene that the prophets were preaching upon, so as to show that the corruptions and perversions of justice they had come upon, which could not be disconnected from the political systems of the day, were the cause for judgment.

The prophets make it abundantly clear that trusting in worldly systems of human government and their militaries, as idolatrous men still do today, is against the counsel of the Lord and a rejection of His Kingship. In this article, we begin to further the case that statism is the essence of sin and rebellion against God, and therefore a forbidden philosophy for the Christian to hold.

The failure to understand God’s use of state rulers as judgment against a people who have turned from the Lord as their King and ruler, which is particularly prominent in the books of the prophets, has had far reaching effects on the political theology of men today, who have adopted many of statist fallacies for not realizing the sense in which the State might be called “ordained” by God.

It is evident today, in both Christianity and outside it, that men are not very well-acquainted with the Biblical prophets — hence why they are not able to understand the political bondage we are in today as a result of the sin of trusting in human government and the divine judgment upon that sin, and still continue believing that this institution can save us from the evils it has brought.

Though it’s common in our “secular” age to ask for the logic or reasoning behind the case for a free society, men of God should be comfortable accepting the social laws of our world—our cause and effect universe—purely for coming from the mouth of God. We know that blessings come upon those who seek God’s Kingdom and curses befall those who set up man-made political systems because “thus saith the Lord.”

As anyone knows who has ever preached the true Gospel of the Kingdom of God, which is another Kingdom altogether from the false man-made political systems of the world, one is bound to encounter resistance both from the general public and the vast majority of professing Christians, both who buy into the false religion of statism. We must prepare for it as we seek God’s Kingdom.

In order to pursue the abolitionist cause and seek the Kingdom of God, men will have to abandon the statist philosophies and practices of the world, which apologized for the existence of human civil government and partook in their rituals like voting. They will have to renew their minds and abandon all the old fallacies they have heard about being “a citizen of two kingdoms” and seek God’s Kingdom alone.

The Gospel of the Kingdom of God—that Jesus has reconciled us to God and came to liberate us from the dominion of man over man and shares His Kingship with no other man—must be preached to both the people who have gotten themselves into bondage and the people who rule over them. This article contains a message at the end that you could send to a politician that you might have access to.

Though the prayers of most people today are probably much more oriented toward their personal lives or obtaining worldly luxuries, the prayers of men in the Bible were often way more focused on the political bondage we’re living under, repentance for the sins of idolatry that led to the captivity, and praying to God for salvation from our enemies.

For many Christians today, there is a strong aversion to earthly prosperity at all. This is in part due to a view of salvation and the gospel that shuns any earthly hopes to focus only on the spiritual and eternal. But we cannot ignore the many Biblical promises of real blessings of prosperity for those who seek God’s Kingdom. God wants us to prosper.

Our God-given purpose on this earth is to seek the Kingdom of God and live freely. But we have gone into captivity to men for our sin of idolatry and sloth to His ways. In order to take back our inheritance from the strangers who plunder it and begin to seek divine liberation from this Egyptian bondage, we must become radical and ideological for the Abolitionist cause.

It has been said that men choose between a “dangerous liberty” or a “peaceful slavery,” suggesting that it is better to have a State than to have an anarchist society. This is a false dichotomy. Political rule isn’t peaceful, and Liberty isn’t dangerous.

It is not emphasized enough just how much the political economy of Frederic Bastiat was in keeping with God's word and Spirit, when it cannot even be legitimately separated from the theological foundation on which he stood it upon. Arguably, what is needed today is a return of defending Liberty on the basis of it being God's natural order, as opposed to the sandy "secular" foundation it stands on today.

Whether a people are delivered by God from political bondage for repenting of their worldly ideology that upholds the existence of worldly rulers, or whether they are in bondage due to this sin of supporting them and suffering under the ramifications for their decision, God means both liberty and slavery to be a sign that men have either follow after Him or chased after false gods.

Despite the prophets using the metaphor of adulterers, prostitutes, and whores to describe a people like the majority of men in our world who idolize human government and their soldiers and police, few Christians have any grasp of this concept. This ignorance isn’t helped by the false pastors of the world who are statist adulterers themselves.

Men can either choose to make the Lord their King and live freely in a stateless society that He rules over, or they can make men their kings and live in a statist plunder society that dominates them and makes people into slaves. All true Christians must decidedly be anarchists as far as the kingdoms of men go.

David Chilton's book Paradise Restored is highly motivating work on eschatology that holds a lot of hope for turning men back toward working on the Kingdom of God and getting them out of the doom and gloom worldview that has sent them into despair. It is just what men need to be inspired into action who have been led to believe our situation down below is hopeless.

The philosophy of statism is ideological whoredom, where both rulers and supporters engage in an adulterous relationship with political power. While the average man doesn't need much help prostituting himself out to political power in his own distrust in the Lord, the rulers themselves also teach this statist harlotry in order to seduce others into political idolatry in order to secure their power.

When men whore themselves out to the statists of the world for protection and welfare, they find themselves living in bondage to human rulers for this sin of political adultery. When the inevitable evils of these men expand and the consequences of their whoredom become great enough, God hopes that men will see the need to repent and return to Him as their King.

The conspiracy to plunder humanity by evil men who work through the kingdoms of this world to hatch their plots against us and legitimize them under the name of “the law” is well-documented in Scripture. Indeed, one has not yet realized the depth of the global conspiracy unless they have seen this Biblical-spiritual component.

Notwithstanding its use as a pejorative that is intended to dismiss those who see through the political scheming in our world, conspiracy theory is a legitimate lens in which to view the world and its systems. We are ruled by evil men who plot against us and prey upon us. The Bible documents it.

Men go into bondage to human rulers due to sin, and are likewise liberated from this bondage when they repent from these sins. For the sinful ideology of statism, God allows human rulers to come upon people as a curse. But those who repent from this worldly philosophy are blessed with liberty.

The divine command to have no other gods than the Lord was nothing less than a commandment to not chase after the false gods of human government. Those who champion and vote for these false gods are therefore in disagreement with the commands of God, which can only be fulfilled by opposing human rulers.

Those who whore themselves out to human governments aren't merely adulterers to the Lord through some innocent idolatry for men. Rather, they are inevitably lusting after power, violence, bloodshed, injustice, corruption, and criminality, and all the other things that these political systems necessarily entail and perpetuate.

When men cheat on God with States and go whoring after militaries to protect them, they must expect to go into bondage to these men as a consequence for this adultery. The price men pay for prostituting themselves out to human rulers and lusting over them is to live in captivity to them.

Though Christians might often think of terms like adultery and whoredom to mean nothing more than spousal infidelity and sexual promiscuity, scripture often employs these terms in a metaphorical way to refer to the idolatry and sin of statism, where people cheat on God with human rulers and their political systems.

This is a book review of Jacques Ellul’s 1988 work titled “Anarchy and Christianity.”

When men believe that human governments are needed for protection from enemies, rather than trusting in God as their Savior, they will inevitably discover that the opposite results, and, as a punishment from God himself, will find themselves ruled by tyrants who hate them and plunder them for all their worth.

Since God’s salvation is very much about protecting His people from real-world enemies and freeing them from systems of Egyptian bondage, it is clear that trusting in the kingdoms of this world for protection, as men do anytime they claim human civil government is necessary to social order, is to abandon God’s salvation to trust in men as one’s “saviors.”

The popular idea of salvation in Christianity today is an almost purely otherworldly concept of the destination of our eternal soul in heaven, stripped of all hope for divine deliverance from our this-worldly enemies. If we look at God’s word, however, we see endless examples of God literally and physically saving His people from statist oppressors.

Without understanding what it means that human rulers can be “ordained” by God as His “servants,” people are likely to believe that human governments “serve” God in a positive sense of bringing “law and order” to society, when in fact they “serve” God by bringing lawlessness and disorder to a society as a form of judgment against statist sinners.

To buy into statist ideologies like socialism cannot be explained as mere economic ignorance, but more so that men are lost in sin. This is true of its malevolent practitioners as much as the lay advocates of such ideas. To explain this sin problem as mere economic ignorance is deficient. The spiritual deception that underlies these ideologies requires not more economic education, but for men to turn back to God.

One thing that keeps people participating in the systems of this world is the idea that other people are going to do it anyway and, therefore, we should do the same. This is nothing but worldly temptation. God’s people should be walking out of Egypt even if others demand to stay behind believing they can salvage their false and failing kingdoms.

We have sinfully believed that we needed human rulers to lord over us and provide alleged “public goods” in order to have social order, and we have found ourselves justly living in captivity for this defiance of God’s commands. It’s time to repent of the political systems and seek the Kingdom of God as our only hope.

Though the evil statist systems of the world function as a means of God’s judgment upon a sinful people who are foolish enough to set them up, they are nevertheless evil themselves and also come under judgment from God for their sins, which He once used to bring terror upon a people’s wicked works.

God made men to live freely under Him, not to be property of the State. Much to His dismay, however, our people have followed after the ways of men instead of the ways of the Lord, and we have found ourselves living in captivity to human rulers for our own iniquity and idolatry for human government.

The institutions that go by the name of a “church” today are nothing more than distractions that keep people from seeking the Kingdom of God, which has everything to do with seeking justice, freedom, and actually serving one another in brotherly love, and very little to do with the rituals that men have mistake for “worship.”

The Biblical truth that a people reap what they sow perfectly explains the Egyptian police state society we live under today, where sowing the wicked seeds of human civil government have done nothing but reap a predictably evil harvest. It’s time we repent from these evils and seek the Kingdom of God if we wish to turn back the curse of statism.

Going under human civil government to feed and protect you is a sin because it makes you an accomplice to the theft, murder, idolatry, and other violations of God’s law that these systems are based on. This sin is repaid with bondage, where men find themselves feeding a class of political parasites as a punishment for their refusal to be ruled by God.

Many Christians today neglect their responsibility to pursue justice on earth and focus more on personal salvation and the afterlife. Yet this very heavenly-minded abdication of responsibility is what has led to the great injustices of political rule that have come upon us today. They have forgotten that God desires us to seek justice, and have strayed from seeing it the longer these evils have continued.

It is not too common in modern Christianity to hear anyone emphasize God’s love of justice and His sorrowful view of the injustices that we have made in our world. But God hates the political plunder systems we live under today, and He calls us to seek true justice as part of our general seeking of His kingdom.

As evil as the system of human government is, it is only a reflection of our own evils, where we have handed over our Godly responsibilities to the kingdoms of men. For this grave error, we are punished with great injustices that prevail all throughout society that act as divine judgment upon a backward people.

Whenever men abdicate their godly responsibilities to one another and hand the administration of justice and law over to state rulers to monopolize and control it, these men are naturally able to turn it into an instrument of plunder, and the whole nature of law is perverted and turned into a weapon against the people they pretend to protect.

True followers of Christ must reject the State and its enforcement agents, who are regularly involved in oppressive and violent systems that contradict God's principles. Mere verbal claims of faith are insufficient proof of one's allegiance to God; genuine faith necessitates a transformation in behaviors, including a complete renunciation of roles that perpetrate systemic injustices. Repentance and a commitment to righteousness are essential for the servant of the Lord.

Many who profess to be followers of the Lord have drawn illegitimate exceptions to their faith when it comes to worldly institutions. Thinking of the Lord as nothing more than their soul-saver, they find it acceptable to turn to human rulers and soldiers to protect them, when this is actually a rebellion against God. God’s true people should trust in the Lord as their “national defense.”

Those who know just how much God hates statism are well aware of the anxious citation of Romans 13 by Christians to justify their own statolatry. This scripture has been historically manipulated to support tyranny. But did you know that church leaders have been trained by the government to use it as a weapon for gaining obedience from believers?

All States are born in sin and rebellion to God. When the definition of statism is arbitrarily limited to include only those political systems that exceed some arbitrary bounds for what a State is “supposed to be” doing, they ignore the inherent sin-nature of these systems and seek to reform them to their alleged bounds, rather than repent from them altogether and seek the Kingdom of God.

Although the prosperity of inflationist regimes may mask their underlying destruction and plunder for some time, all empires inevitably fall and come under judgment for their sin of theft, inflation, murder, and oppression. Those who want to survive the collapse must seek the Kingdom of God as the only alternative to the failing systems of men.

It is easy for men to be lured into the illusion of prosperity under man’s political systems, given that inflationary regimes may appear to offer great prosperity for some time. Since true prosperity and economic stability requires patience and faith in God, many people end up forsaking God for the perceived prosperity of Egypts and Romes, under the delusion that these plunder regimes can last forever.

The Israelites' longing to return to Egypt during their exodus parallels modern trust in the State. Those who lack faith in God turn back to human rulers to provide for them at the cost of their enslavement, and this lack of faith helps to empower the systems of man. Political bondage is made possible by men who believe socialist systems are the way to secure liberty and prosperity.

The temporary comforts of Egyptian-statist systems are usually sufficient to make men complacent to their bondage. Just as men before had failed to trust in God to provide for them, looking back to the alleged benefits of Egypt, so today they find it preferable to trust in States to deliver peace and prosperity than to put their faith in divine deliverance and providential provision, even though man’s systems are unsustainable.

Human government operates as a parasitic entity that thrives on wealth extraction through taxation that ultimately destroys economies and societies. Despite appearing prosperous due to its global economic dominance and the status of the U.S. dollar, the system is built on unsustainable practices of plunder and debt. Though a false prosperity masks underlying destruction for now, which has kept men hopeful, the U.S. faces an inevitable day of reckoning.

Sometimes the Spirit of the Lord has it that a long winded cry comes upon a man at the condition of political bondage which he lives under, and the longing to see the Kingdom of God appear.

It is foolish to think that political intervention stems from ignorance rather than malice. We are ruled by men who intentionally enact harmful policies to expand their power and enrich themselves, using deceptive narratives about the "common good” to do so. Understanding economics won't change the actions of the men who rule over us, as their actions are driven by calculated exploitation. True change requires rejecting these inherently corrupt systems.

Many secular advocates of liberty reject God in their vain attempt to get free from human rulers, thinking that being ruled by men or God is one and the same. They fail to recognize that statism is a result of rejecting God and that true liberty is only achievable under God's sovereignty, and by rejecting God’s rule themselves, they inadvertently fall into the hands of tyrants.

Though few professing Christians would like to admit it, the very job of policing—using violence to enforce the edicts of politicians—involves behavior and acts that God detests, such as pride, deceit, violence, and discord. The role of “law Police are men who serve the State, rather than God.

Though the kingdoms of this world have many supporters, often many who tend to see through them have taken a hopeless view of what to do about it, thinking that any action to change society is futile. These men should rise up from their slumber and begin seeking the Kingdom of God. They should follow up their apathetic rejection of statism with active work to establish a godly society.

Many like to argue that a mere profession that one is a “Christian” is sufficient proof that they are, thus allowing for discrepancies between words and actions, such as claiming Christ but pledging allegiance to the kingdoms of this world. But scripture well-supports the idea that many men falsely claim to be servants of the Lord, who say one thing but do another.

Statism is an ungodly ideology that arises as part of man's rebellion against divine order. The idea that human government is essential to social order does not come from God and demonstrates a total lack of faith in Him. True Christians reject statism, trust solely in God for all things, and pursue divine wisdom rather than follow the deceptive philosophies of the world.

Most modern churches not only fail to embody true Christian worship, which can be understood as serving one another, but they are even sinister institutions that exist to promote the worldly ideology of statism. They are nothing more than propaganda centers that pacify men into inaction. Far from idolizing the gods of this world, true Christian congregation actually serves one another and rejects political provision of goods.

The problem with human government is not just that it has (expectedly) grown out of control. All degrees and forms of statism are inherently ungodly, rebellious, and plunderous. Seeking human rulers goes against the warnings in scriptures and ultimately leads to slavery. There is no hope in fixing the system from within. It needs to be abandoned as an evil false god. Statism must be abolished, not limited.

Though many “secularists” blame “theocracy” for the world’s problems, the social issues we face today are precisely due to humanity's rejection of God's true (anarchistic) theocracy in favor of man-made systems of governance. The tyrannies we face are a result not of “theocracy” per se, but forsaking divine rule for the false theocracy of statism. True liberty lies in embracing a God-centered order rather than a system of political gods.

By introducing anarcho-theocracy into the picture, we can challenge the notion that all theocratic systems lead to tyranny. While all social systems inherently possess theocratic elements, true theocracy, governed by God’s principles, promotes liberation rather than oppression. We have to distinguish between false theocracies, rooted in statism, and genuine theocracy. The latter—following God's commandments—leads to a non-violent, charitable society rather than tyranny.

True allegiance to God involves renouncing worldly powers and the statist ideologies that accompany these systems. Genuine conversion requires Christians to live distinctly from secular influences, rejecting nationalistic symbols and the glorification of earthly governments that they may have once fell for. Those who follow the Lord must be born again into a new kingdom. Those entangled with worldly systems lack true commitment to Christ's kingdom and need repentance.

Besides God's command that true allegiance belongs solely to Him, there is another reason believers must reject the idea of dual citizenship in the Kingdom of God and the kingdoms of men: The consequences of such divided loyalties bring great evils to society. Restoration is possible through sincere acknowledgment of sin and a commitment to serve only God.

There has been a persistent rebellion against God's guidance throughout the history of mankind in regards to the misguided belief that state systems offer security and order, when in truth a reliance on political leaders as saviors leads to oppression and idols contrary to divine rule. This rebellion has resulted in repeated historical cycles of political subjugation and spiritual disobedience.

True allegiance to God must be to God alone. Participation in earthly political systems and idolization of their leaders contradicts biblical teachings. Christians who engage in statist practices are falling to satanic temptation. Jesus made it clear that His kingdom is separate from those of the worldly powers. Believers must reject "dual citizenship" and refrain from alliances with the kingdoms of this world and those who pursue their causes.

Followers of the Lord were always to be a separate people from worldly political systems. The States of today are the same oppressive kingdoms like Egypt and Rome that God calls us to avoid. Allegiance to God alone requires rejecting the practices of statists and participation in their systems. Going after the man-made authoritarianism of the world is a betrayal of faith. Christians must seek God's kingdom instead.

Christians cannot simultaneously pledge allegiance to God and earthly governments. Such dual loyalty is spiritual adultery and betrays God. Men of God must choose God's kingdom over the statist kingdoms of the world, as these earthly authorities are false gods. True believers must renounce all worldly ties to faithfully serve the Lord alone.

When men perceive that “their” guys are in power, they are likely to grow complacent with power itself as well as continue to forsake working on the advancement of God’s Kingdom, which they now figure is more or less being delivered by the government itself. After the 2024 election, there appears to be an unhealthy optimism toward the political system, which remains on God’s chopping block.

The political spectrum as commonly understood does not provide us with enough information once God is considered. Here we propose that the real spectrum is between anarcho-theocracy and statist theocracy. True liberty arises only when God governs society, and all human authority is ungodly. All forms of statism reject God's rule, leading to tyranny.

The basic Biblical instruction to reject earthly rulers and embrace Jesus Christ as the sole King provides us with a Christian politics. This political position might be called "Christarchism," where there is no King but Christ Jesus. A Christian social order is an "anarcho-theocracy" of sorts where God is the ruler of a stateless people. The worldly ideology of statism—the allegiance to human authority—is incompatible with Christianity.

Statism functions as a false religion, characterized by rulers acting as "gods" in opposition to the true theocracy of God. Christians who align themselves with statism therefore expose themselves as unfaithful to God, because there is inherent conflict between allegiance to God and earthly governments. Genuine faith demands rejection of state worship, which is unavoidable in the ideology of statism itself.

The idea of theocracy has been ill-conceived by most people. It has been defined as the religio-political systems of the world. While we may call these systems theocracies too, true theocracy is diametrically opposed to statist systems. Theocracy in its truest sense is anarchist. Statism is a false religion, a 'false god' system that is completely at odds with God's theocracy, where He rules instead of men.

Few Christians seem to recognize their authority to pray to God against the demonic forces of our world. But this theme of calling upon God to remove our enemies is all throughout the Psalms, and calls of repentance are found all throughout the books of the prophets. It would be wise for us to get back to this tradition as the evils advance.

The great, sinful idolatry towards the State isn't even realized by most Christians, who have been trained to think "God and country" are compatible ideas. And so they even mock those who don't take part in their idolatries, as was evident in a sports injury by someone who wouldn't kneel for the National Anthem.

Combating statism requires more than logical argumentation or economic education. Men need to undergo a spiritual transformation and truly come out of the world and all its lies. Men endorse statism more due to spiritual corruption rather than lack of understanding. We have to keep this in mind as we minister to men in the ways of the Lord.

The State functions as a false god, substituting itself for God's promises of protection and prosperity. The “joy” of the godless man is in these political systems and their figures. It only makes sense that a politician would say “we will vote with joy.” It is men and their systems that they trust in. True joy and security, however, come from trusting in the Lord, not in human institutions.

State holidays such as Veterans Day are a celebration of idolatry. The faith and trust many Christians place in the State and its military is misplaced and should be redirected towards God. This idolatrous veneration of the State contradicts biblical teachings about reliance on God for protection, salvation, and guidance.

Many Christians are misled to believe that voting for human rulers is necessary given the existence of even worse ones. But this merely showcases a lack of faith in God. Placing trust in man-kings is a rejection of divine authority and protection, no matter how many evil men there are. The true call for believers is to repent from supporting earthly governments and return to reliance on God for deliverance.

There is a pervasive theme in the Psalms that is almost always overlooked: the existence of evil conspirators, ie., government rulers, who prey on God's children. The Psalms call for divine protection from these wicked men and speak of God's eventual judgment upon them. The praise-oriented lessons typically taken from the Psalms is enriched by seeing that it is linked to God's justice against these enemies of humanity.

The modern intertwining of Christianity and political systems is a corruption. The many Christians today who mistakenly justify state violence and politics as essential for societal good are in error and out of step with earlier Christians. Many historical Christian teachings decidedly advocate against involvement in worldly politics, and preach a reliance on faith and non-violence rather than voting, campaigning, political power, or military might.

The biblical narrative of God's people seeking earthly kings to rule over them is easily likened to modern voters forsaking divine leadership for human rulers. No less than with a monarch, democratic voting represents a rejection of God, perpetuating a cycle of bondage while advocating for political systems rooted in violence and sin. True liberation lies in repentance and reestablishing God’s sovereignty, rather than seeking worldly governance.

According to many Christians, the prevalence of evils in our world strengthens the case for our political participation. But the truth is that political participation and the ideology and idolatry of statism that comes along with it is the very cause of our problems today. If we truly hated the evils, we would repent rather than vote, which is truly a mark of unrepentance.

Serving the State as a soldier, police officer, or tax-collector is not compatible with serving the Lord. There is an irreconcilable conflict between God and the State that means that Christians may not serve it. They have to decide whether they serve either the One True God or the false gods of the world.

There is a crucial distinction between "State" and "government.” While the State raises up men who coercively monopolize goods and services, genuine government, as prescribed by God, operates within family order. The State's agenda opposes God's family-centered social order. Thus, opposing the State does not equate to opposing government; instead, it aligns with returning to true governance under God. Statism is lawlessness, and there is order in God's government.

God is calling His people to restore a God-centered society free from the oppression of man-made political systems. Christians must reject statism and return to divine principles of organizing social order. We must advocate and practice voluntary charity and warn against the destructive nature of human governance that enslaves people and property.