Why Having A Government Is So Wrong
Over 4000 years ago, God warned us about government. Yet, man still hasn’t learned about the dangers of having a government rule over us. God explained to Israel exactly what would happen if they chose to go this route.
So far, as you can see, man has not learned his lesson. What exactly are the benefits of having a government, a king, a dictator, or some type of ruler to run a nation, rather then have God lead us? I, myself can not see why we need someone or some form of government to tell us what to do.
Read this that is taken from 1 Samuel 8: 1 – 20.
When Samuel grew old, he appointed his two sons as judges over Israel. The name of the firstborn was Joel, that of the younger Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba. But his sons did not follow his ways; they wanted money, taking bribes and perverting justice.
Then all the Elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. Look, they said to him,’you are old, and your sons do not follow your ways. So give us a king to rule over us, like the other nations’.
It displeased Samuel that they should say,’let us have a king to rule us’ , so he prayed to God. But god said to Samuel, ‘Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for it is not you they have rejected; they have rejected me from ruling over them.
All they have done to me from the day I brought them out of Egypt until now, they deserted me and served other gods, they are doing now to you. Well then, obey their voice; only, you must warn them solemnly and instruct them in the rights of the king who is to reign over them.
The disadvantages of the monarchy
All that God had said Samuel repeated to the people who were asking him for a king. He said,’these will be of rights of the king who is to reign over you. He will take your sons and assign them to his chariotry and calvary, and they will run in front of his chariot. He will use them as leaders of a thousand and leaders of fifty; he will make them plough his ploughland and harvest his harvest and make his weapons of war and the gear for his chariots.
You will also take your daughters as perfumers, cooks and bakers. He will then take the best of your fields, of your vineyards and olive groves and give them to his officials. He will take the best of your man servants and maid servants, of your cattle and your donkeys and make them work for him. He will tithe your flocks and you yourselves will become his slaves. When that day comes, you will cry out on account of the king you have chosen for yourselves, but on that day god will not answer you.
The people refused to listen to the words of Samuel. They said,’No! We want a king’, so that we in our turn can be like the other nations; our king shall rule us and be our leader and fight our battles.’
After all these years of having some form of government rule over nation’s like the United States, England and Israel that just can’t seem to get it right, do the people put up with it? These nations have seen so many troubled times, whether it would be with war, economic troubles, corruption, or just out right bad decisions.
It seems like people just don’t want to be bothered with making decisions, it’s like they would rather put it on someone else. Is this some type of fear? Would most of the people rather be followers, so that they can feel more secure by putting all the burden on someone else? Do the people actually have a right to place the blame on the ones that they elected for any trouble that follows?
From what we’ve seen with man’s plan, we have a never ending battle for peace, fighting crime, corruption, diseases, famine, poverty, injustice and so on. As you can see, man’s plan has never worked. So, I have to ask, what is so wrong with the plan that God has laid out for us?
With God’s plan, there would be peace, prosperity, security, no unemployment, nobody homeless, protection, no diseases, no abortions, no immorality, no neighbor fighting with neighbor, no famine, no poverty, no corruption, no birth defects, no hate, very little crime that would be dealt with harshly and many other things.
Would it really be that bad to have God as our supreme leader over our nation? God gave us the right to choose, unfortunately man hasn’t been making very good choices, have they?
God Is Love
There are people out there that think God is a cruel God. That just isn’t so. Some like to refer back to the days of Noah and Noah’s Ark, when God flooded the world. Because children had perished in this flood and God did not save them, they say God is a murderer. How can this be? Did not God tell Noah what to do to be spared from the flood? Did not Noah warn the people for many years of a coming flood?
All these people did was laugh at him and mock him. These people failed to take heed to his warning. They were acting foolishly out of their own pride. Many of these people had families, yet they chose not to secure the safety of their family.
Look at it this way, if you came across someone that was building a huge boat in a place that never gets any rain or maybe very little and this boat was being built far away from the closet body of water, would you think that this guy, Noah was a lunatic or would you think that this guy just might be right? What about when they saw him loading two animals, male and female of different kinds onto this huge ship?
So, who’s at fault that even the children perished in the flood? Certainly not God’s. The people had been warned for years and they chose to be ignorant. Noah could not go around and kidnap all the children and put them on board, they would’ve killed him on the spot. These people had plenty of opportunities to save themselves and their children, but they chose not to.
God has been warning people all the way back to Adam and Eve. Some will say that God set them up by putting a forbidden tree in the Garden of Eden and telling them not to partake of this tree. We have to remember that God gave us a “Free Will”, free to chose whatever we want. We have a choice to chose life or death. God does not want to force people to love Him, that wouldn’t be real love.
God loves us so much, so why is it so hard to love Him back? Why do we choose the world with it’s temporary happiness and death over life with God? Our pride seems to stop us from receiving the many blessings that God would bestow upon us if only we would love Him.
Read in the Old Testament about what happened when man fell away from God and God brought curses on them. Did God have a right to do this? Sure He did, after all He gave them the land on which they lived on. He blessed them with prosperity, but man took advantaged of it and became corrupt. It wasn’t like God hadn’t warn them over and over again. Before He gave them a nation, He gave them commandments and laws to live by. You can read about it in Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 26, it talks about the blessings and curses that God will bring upon a nation.
History always seems to repeat itself when it comes to God and nations. Man seems to think that he doesn’t need God and that man always has a better plan. I guess man proved to God that man’s plan is better. Just look around at how well things are going these days, massive unemployed, a failed economy that is still on the verge of collapsing, over 1.5 million people losing their homes and still climbing, poverty, violence, murder, abortions, rape, sexual perversion, overcrowded prisons, corrupt and confused government, greedy banks and corporations, people with massive debts, diseases, terror without the terrorism (we don’t even have terrorism and look at the stronghold it has over us) and the list goes on and on.
Look at all the children that are born with birth defects, that are suffering with cancer and other diseases and I suppose that this is God’s fault? When is man ever going to take the blame and put it upon himself for his actions?
God’s plan is about love, it’s about people living in harmony without all the hate and destruction that comes with it. God’s plan is about prosperity, where the crops grow abundantly and people have no wants or needs and suffering is eliminated. So, what is wrong with this plan? Why does man continue to reject God? Man’s suffering and hardships would vanish if only man would put away his pride and humble himself before God.
The United States, do you want your country back? England, do you want your country back? Israel, do you want your land back and never to have to fear your enemies again? All it would take is to call on God and repent. Is that so hard? God can stop the downfall of these nations, but man is too stubborn to turn from his wickedness.
God is being very patient with us, His curses have come upon us slowly, but they are getting stronger. He’s giving us plenty of time to see how we are destroying ourselves, but we are too blind to see. Unfortunately, as history repeats itself, these nations are going to fall and fall hard they will. Just look back into the Old Testament and see what happened to Jerusalem when the people fell away from God.
We are God’s children, He punishes us because He loves us and only wants the best for us. Do you not punish your children when they do wrong? Do you not do this because you love them and want them to grow up doing the right things so they could live a good life?
Turn away from the world and seek protection in the loving arms of God before it’s too late. You can’t say that you haven’t been warned.
God Bless You and Love One Another
What Happened To The United States?
Everything about this country was perfect. So, what happened?
What happened to this country? We were once the greatest nation in the world. Now, we’re on the verge of bankruptcy. It wouldn’t take much to cause a financial collapse. We could even become a third world country by the way we’re heading.
This country has it all. Good soil to grow just about any crop you want to plant. Our land is full of precious minerals that we could mine. Everything about this country was perfect. So, what happened? Why have we become so dependent on other countries for the things we have right here in our own backyard? Why do we import everything these days?
It is so important for a country to be self-sufficient. For example: When we entered World War I & II, we were able to produce everything needed to sustain ourselves. We can’t do that these days, a lot of contracts have been given to foreign countries. We also rely too much on imports. What if we went to war with one or two or more of these countries? What would happen if our enemy took over the country(ies) that we rely on for minerals or parts for our jets or basically anything that is not mined or manufactured here? We lost our self-sufficiency. We have no one to blame but ourselves.
We let too many things happen to this country. We let athiests tell us we can’t pray here or there. They tell us we have to remove God from this country. This country was built on God by faith and trust in Him. This country cannot survive without God, as you will see. It’s already falling apart. We let the immorals of homosexuality have it’s way. We all hate child molesters, yet we let people manufacture and sell costumes that makes a woman look like a little girl. Look at our prisons, filled to the max. Sex is totally out of control, there’s nothing sacred about it anymore, by the way things are going, kids will be having sex before they’re 10 years old.
Families are almost non-existent. Kids are out of control. Our youth are not getting properly educated. Too much reliability on technology(we don’t have to use our mind anymore). Both parents have to work to keep up with the wants. God will take care of our needs, provided we love Him. This is why both parents have to get a job these days. God doesn’t want to see broken homes or families that are apart even though they live together. I remember when the Father would go to work and the mother would be at home for the family. It was nice to get up in the morning to a good breakfast, come home from school and mom would be there waiting. In the evening we would all have a good wholesome dinner together, not fast food garbage or frozen dinners. This was a great time for the family to interact with each other.
Everyone seems to be so self-absorbed these days. Instead of how can I help, it’s what can I do for me. There is a great lack of consideration for one another. Instead of people being considerate, it seems like they want to make others angry. If you need an example, just take drive somewhere, it won’t be long before you see what I’m talking about. Inconsideration, purposely doing things to annoy others, or just plain being ignorant is nothing more than Hate. It’s all in your attitude. If you want to have a pleasant day, then be pleasant. If you want to be miserable, then keep it to yourself.
From time to time, things go wrong, mistakes happen, as well as accidents. Nobody’s perfect, we need to remember this. When someone makes a mistake we need to help them through it, not make it worse for them. This is called compassion, a form of love. Be grateful for what you have, there’s always someone worse off than you.
Greed has many different forms. It already has caused this country to be on the verge of a depression. The world itself is close to a global economic colapse. Things are happening all over the world that we need to be concerned about. Natural disasters, famine, disease, terrorism, a new super power on the rise (which will be a big threat to us & I don’t think we’re going to win this one).
What happened to this country? What happened to the world? Why are we putting up with terrorism? Why do we even negotiate with these people? You can’t negotiate with hate. Israel has been trying for years. They keep giving away land in exchange for a peace deal and the U. S. even coaxed them into it. They have given away land that rightfully belonged to them. They’re almost out of land. The land they’ve traded for peace, still hasn’t brought them any peace, only more terrorists. They almost have Israel completely surrounded. Egypt is the only one left and they’re hooking up with Iran and going to break ties with Isreal. Israel right now wants to give up half of Jerusalem. Israel, the United States and England seem to be wimping out these days. Not having God as head of a nation is a big mistake.
Back when Israel had faith in God, they were strong, the ultimate warriors, just as they were in the Old Testament days. Look at the Six Day War, it was an impossible feat for any country to accomplish what they did in six days. God was certainly with them then. History repeats itself, great nations come and go like the wind. With God, nothing is impossible. When we start pushing God away disaster happens. These things are happening right now to Israel, the United States and England.
It’s not going to get better until we get better, in other words Wake Up! Man seems to always want to do things his way. Why? Because of pride. God created this planet and He created us. One other of man’s downfalls is teaching evolution. God knows better than anyone about how things are supposed to be done, whether it’s farming, or how to set up a community so there isn’t people living on top of people causing diseases and how to punish criminals so crimes will cease, even how to pay taxes (one tax – 10%). We have more taxes than we know what to do with. God gives us all the instructions we need to be healthy, properous and so no one goes without. We could be free from all misery, so why are we so stupid? We wouldn’t let someone operate on us without knowing that that person was properly instructed on how to perform an operation would we? How about work on our car or build a house for us or teach our kids in school?
There’s a perfect instruction manual available to us on everything we need to know about life and how to live it. This manual is called the Bible. It was given to us by our ever so loving God. If we all would follow His Instructions, we could all live together in perfect harmony. We would be able to live our lives in total peace and freedom without fear. God wants to bless us so much, He dosen’t want us to suffer. All God is asking is that we love Him back. Why is that so hard? Such a small price to pay for peace and happiness.
May God Bless You and Your Family
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