KINGDOM COMMENTS ON
POLITICAL ISSUES
By
Dr. Stephen Jones: Nov 26, 2019
Blog Post Date: 11-27-2019
The
2020 election fever is spreading, now that we have entered the final year
leading up to that election.
The
battleground issues emerging are as follows:
The
Democrats are painting the Republicans and Trump as racists and white
nationalists.
The
Republicans are painting the Democrats as Socialists.
The
racial undertones of this political season coming from the Democrats make it
appear that the Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s was all for naught and that
racial hatred and discrimination are worse than ever.
In
1998 Republican Bob Dole got the highest Black vote in recent history—12%.
(Nixon got 32%.) Democrat Bill Clinton got 83%. No Republican candidate has
gotten a higher percentage since Nixon. In 2016 Trump received only 8% of the
Black vote. However, The Democrats are steadily losing the support of the Black
community and have already lost about 40% of the Hispanic community.
Black
supporters of Trump have now reached record levels of 34% and climbing. Without
at least 90% of Black support, the Democratic Party cannot hope to win the 2020
elections.
“Republican presidential candidates generally cede
the black vote to Democrats, but Trump has paid more attention to
getting the black vote than any Republican presidential candidate
in decades. Despite progressives’ hourly accusations of
white supremacy, Trump’s approval ratings among blacks are robust. If Trump’s
black vote totals are even half of the lower percentage in 2020, he’d get
four more years in office.”
Democrats
appear to be instructing the mainstream press to call them “Progressives.” It
is a term that indicates “progress,” but progress from what? That is a bit like
Obama’s call for “change.” It appeals to people who see faults in governmental
policies. But by choosing a Marxist term (i.e., the call for a “progressive
income tax”), they are really telling us that they intend to change the country
and the world from the Christian worldview of the constitutional system we were
founded upon to a Marxist Socialist worldview.
That
is the real issue facing us today. In the 1930’s we shifted from a Republican
form of government to a Democracy. The general public did not realize that
“Democracy” was a euphemism for Socialism, which in turn, is the path to
Communism, according to Karl Marx himself.
Ever
hear of the Democratic People’s Republic of China? How about the Democratic
Republic of Congo? Even the Soviet Union, though ruled by the Communist Party,
was the USSR, “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.” Though the USSR
imploded in 1991 and was reformed as the Russian Republic, the West has
gradually but steadily moved toward Socialism.
Today,
ironically, Putin’s Russia is establishing itself as a Christian Republic
(based on the Russian Orthodox Church), while the USA (until Trump) has been
establishing itself as the USSA, United Socialist States of America. In other
words, in many ways America is farther down the road to Communism than Russia
is today, and Europe is even more Socialist. The tables have turned completely.
As this becomes more and more apparent—especially among the Black community—the
Democratic Party that supports this move to Socialism is trying to relabel
itself as the Progressive Party.
Trump
may or may not be the ideal candidate to regress back to the original intent of
our founders, but these issues are now coming to the surface for all to see. In
the end, it is not about any particular candidate or person. It is about
whether or not the people lose faith in the biblical path to genuine Liberty
and whether or not they want to join its main historical nemesis, which we know
as Socialism, which was proposed by Karl Marx and others like him.
Socialism
vs. Biblical Freedom
Socialism
simulates biblical love. The main difference is that as time passes, the people
are forced to “love” others, and it loses its value as a voluntary act, which
is the biblical standard. Socialism has sounded very good to the poor, who were
easily convinced that “spreading the wealth” was a good thing, even though, at
its root, it is based on theft and abolishing the right to own property and
assets for which a person has labored. The Christian concept of freedom is
based on the sanctity of one’s labor and the right to own it. Such is the
biblical idea of justice and liberty.
Socialism,
on the other hand, is based on the principle of “fairness” and “sameness,”
where equality means that everyone must have equal wealth. To accomplish this,
one must steal from the rich and give a small portion of it to the poor, while
keeping the bulk of it for administrative purposes and to enrich the
politicians doing this “good work.” (They think they deserve it.) The result is
that all the ordinary people become equally poor, as seen in the example of the
USSR in the past century before it imploded.
No
one wants to work when they know the government will take most of it anyway. It
is, after all, much easier to be on the receiving end of the system, where the
rewards are greater. In the end, Socialism encourages people to NOT work, and
it is only where people enjoy or take pride in their labor that any work at all
is accomplished.
It
took 70 years for the USSR’s system of Socialism to collapse. That experiment
alone proves that it does not work. Under such a system, it eventually becomes
necessary to force the people to work. Governmental power increases
proportionately, until the people are in abject slavery. This is the opposite
of biblical liberty.
Hence,
we are presented with the atheistic path and the God-given path to liberty. The
people as a whole must choose between two opposite paths. Do the people have
faith in God and His law, or do they reject God and search for a secular path
to liberty? One system is based on the sanctity of labor; the other is based on
government-sanctioned theft of labor.
The
Democratic Party has chosen to align itself with the Socialist path and is
being pulled to the far left as a radical “Progressive” movement. The Republican
Party is being pulled in the other direction by President Trump after being
just another arm of the Babylonian rulers for a long time. This polarization is
dividing the people into radically different camps.
Tithe
is not Theft
Biblical
taxation is based on a return on one’s labor. God labored to create the world,
giving Him the right to a return on His labor. He provides the dirt, the rain,
the atmosphere, the sun, etc., while men provide their own labor, using God’s
materials to produce wealth. In this business arrangement, men are given 90% of
that which is produced as payment; God is given 10% in payment for His labor.
Tithes are owed when men create wealth using God’s materials (nature).
Offerings are voluntary, but there are also first-fruits offerings that are
owed to God by the law of first-fruits.
That
which is owed to God is then delegated to Kingdom governments who represent Him
on earth. The money or assets are used to support those who are in authority
who work full time as God’s agents. Their duties are primarily in the area of
defense. Their day-to-day duties include record keeping and the administration
of justice. On occasion they may be called to lead the people in wars of
self-defense from foreign threats.
God’s
agents in government are also responsible to teach the laws and spiritual
principles in the word of God. They are expected to know how to conduct
spiritual warfare as well, because all battles must be won in the heavens
before they can be won on earth.
If
God’s government agents do their jobs according to their individual callings,
they are worthy of the financial support that God delegates to them through the
tithes from the land, flocks, and herds, supplemented also by various voluntary
offerings.
In
Times of Captivity
In
times of captivity, where God sells the nation into the hands of foreign,
ungodly governments, the tithe system of the Kingdom is disrupted. With the
authority that God delegates to ungodly governments also comes the right to
receive the tithes for the support of such governments. However, they
inevitably tax the people more than is allowed by God’s law.
God
uses this as a form of corrective judgment in order to show His people the
folly of lawlessness and how the bondage of other gods promotes false paths to
liberty.
In
the time of the Judges, God put Israel in captivity to six different nations,
all of which followed the laws of false gods. When the divine sentence expired,
God raised up Judges to deliver them, and the people repented of their
lawlessness, at least temporarily. Yet the age-long problem remained, which is
that the law was not truly written on their hearts. They again saw false gods
as desirable and considered God’s law to be restrictive and contrary to
liberty.
In
simple terms, the flesh desires to sin and considers the law of God to be
oppressive. So it seems that each generation has had to learn the lesson for
itself.
The
last great captivity began first with the Assyrian captivity of Israel and was
completed with the Babylonian captivity of Judah. Both captivities were based
upon God’s judgment time cycles. The Assyrian captivity was based on the “seven
times” judgment (2,520 years). Judah’s captivity gave us more details, breaking
it down into 4 main empires with certain extensions.
Israel’s
captivity ended from 1776-1800, which was 2,520 years from 745-721 B.C. Judah’s
captivity would have ended in 1917, had it not been for the century of
independence that they enjoyed from 163-63 B.C. Because of this, Judah’s
captivity did not truly end until 2017.
In
the past century, America was turned into a Socialist Democracy and secularized
in order to bring up a generation of lawless people who forgot the principles
of biblical government that was set up after Israel’s captivity ended in
1776-1800.
But
now that Judah’s captivity has ended (2017), we are seeing the implosion of
Babylonian Socialism. This is seen clearly in the current political conflict
and crisis, as each side of the debate has come to the surface. There are good
and bad people in both parties, of course, but these two paths are emerging
steadily, giving the people opportunity to repent once again, as seen so often
in the book of Judges.
It
is not about voting for any particular candidate of either party. It is about
understanding the laws of God and the path of true liberty that He has set
forth in His word. All political candidates express their own views, either for
or against the Kingdom of God. It is for us to understand the underlying issues
and the significance of the times in which we now live. We are responsible to
act accordingly, and if we know the divine plan, we know that those advocating
the Kingdom of God are destined to win, regardless of the chaos now seen in the
world.