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In the Book of Samuel&#8230;
Over 4000 years ago, God warned us about government.  Yet, man still hasn&#8217;t learned about the dangers of having a government or a person that hasn&#8217;t been appointed by God to lead a nation.  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?  For God to anoint one that will be His representative here on earth? I, myself can not see why we need to elect someone or some form of government to tell us what to do. I would much rather have God rule over us.
Read this that is taken from 1 Samuel 8: 1 &#8211; 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,&#8217;you are old, and your sons do not follow your ways.  So give us a king to rule over us, like the other nations&#8217;.
It displeased Samuel that they should say,&#8217;let us have a king to rule us&#8217; , so he prayed to God.  But god said to Samuel, &#8216;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,&#8217;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,&#8217;No!  We want a king&#8217;, 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.&#8217;
After all these years of having some form of government rule over nation&#8217;s like the United States, England and Israel that just can&#8217;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&#8217;t want to be bothered with making decisions, it&#8217;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[...]</itunes:summary>
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God is Love, Not a Cruel God
There are people out there that think God is a cruel God. That just isn&#8217;t so. Some like to refer back to the days of Noah and Noah&#8217;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&#8217;s at fault that even the children perished in the flood? Certainly not God&#8217;s. Noah&#8217;s ark represented salvation. 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&#8217;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 &#8220;Free Will&#8221;, 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&#8217;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&#8217;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. So, how can we not say that God is love? It would be because we are being governed by our pride.
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&#8217;t like God hadn&#8217;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&#8217;t need God and that man always has a better plan. I guess man proved to God that man&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;s fault? When is man ever going to take the blame and put it upon himself for his actions? Man reaps what he sows.
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