Anarchy – Not Chaos, but God as King

Posted by Toddy Littman | Posted on 30 Nov : 19:10 |  Comments: 0

November 28, 2011…
Although this was written months ago, the timing for it seems to be upon us as the Occupy Wall Street groups have taken to burdening society with their destructive/obstructive behavior, spreading violence and pestilence, and disruption of orderly life of those who are productive, simply to sow discontent and harbor unethical behavior. These are the actions of “entitled” individuals (70+% of the demonstrators are trust fund babies) raised without a moral compass or any notion of personal responsibility, all of which is addressed below…


May 13, 2011

God had His plan from the beginning.

The line of communication first established with Man was delivered by the “Breath of Life,” (Genesis 2:7), ‘neshamah,’ that God transferred into Adam, establishing the unique connection. This is spirit through which we, as God’s creation, conversed with our Creator. He reigned absolute and we came directly to Him with our thoughts and concerns.

And then, the trust was destroyed by Man’s shunning of God’s decree in his wish to be like God and to know the difference between good and evil, the one thing from which the omnipotent and omniscient King protected His children, His creation and charge.

The connection between God and Man was severed… until God’s plan to re-establish that bond would come to fruition. Yet, throughout the travails of man over millennia, God gave him opportunity to repair the rift, time and time again, opportunities that man squandered. There were few who heard God in the antediluvian age, so few that God finally destroyed man except for one servant who listened, Noah, with whom God confirmed his promise, as a rainbow spanning the sky, to spare the world the same calamity in the future (Genesis 9:11-14).

Still, faith was a little known commodity among creation populating the earth. From thence until Abram, did God find few willing to listen, follow, and serve Him with their whole heart (Genesis 12:1-4). Through Abraham came the seed that God would bless, and bring forth progeny with whom He would establish communion. Always, these particular people had a line of communication, a way of making supplication to the King – God – who ruled directly over the people covenanted with Him by circumcision (Genesis 17:10). No other people had this special reign of God directly over their lives. Other peoples of the earth relied on human kings and princes to wield intercessory power over them in the name of idols, their false, impotent gods.

All through the sojourn in Egypt, even when Israel was subject to a mortal monarch as slaves, did they continue to give spiritual fealty (sacrifice) to God alone, separating themselves from the polytheistic nations governed by earthly sovereigns. Even so, the coming of Moses to free them from physical and spiritual bondage was not readily accepted by the million souls he led forth from Goshen, they having become accustomed to Pharaoh’s dominion. As creatures of habit, their inability to accept God’s sovereignty, proven through 40 years of miraculous occurrences from which, incredibly, they rebelled, led that generation to be lost in the wilderness, never to lay eyes on the Promised Land.

God had given the Israelites the option to follow Him alone, His presence always among them, first as a Pillar of Fire and Cloud (Exodus 14), then in the tabernacle housing the Ark of the Covenant. Moses was the mouthpiece, the holy appointed magistrate, for their sovereign Lord in whom they were to place all faith, a government administered by God through the holy priesthood… the test of faith that they so miserably failed.

Joshua sustained the theocracy after crossing the Jordan, receiving the figurative staff of Moses to lead Israel to the Promised Land (Deuteronomy 31:23). There, God resided with them, rescuing and judging from the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant, leading the Israelites in battle, blessing them in peace. The generational cycle of doubt and falling away from the Lord’s direction to embrace idolatry, only to be saved by prayerful supplication of God’s chosen judges, continued.

The sequence was ever-repeated as the Levitical anointed consistently fell away into the depths of iniquity, until the day Israel cried to God to become like the other nations of the earth. They were willing to discard God’s perfect and sovereign rule to become subject to another fault-filled human (1Samuel 8:4-6). They rejected the perfect for the incomplete, weak and flawed, wherein God told them exactly what wickedness and betrayal they would suffer through that denial of God’s perfect nature (1Samuel 8:7-18). How is it we still wonder at the adage warning us to be wary of what we ask because we know not the consequences of our foolishness?

The perfect rule of God from His earthly throne upon the Ark was the embodiment of a true anarchical society. Anarchy has changed in its definition to be regarded as inciting chaos when, in fact, if individuals inherently respect the rights of others, society comes as close to utopian as possible. In this we pay attention to Judges 21:25 “In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” The rule of God is a rule of the heart and requires the internal acceptance of God’s precepts, giving rise to good judgment when dealing with other individuals.   Christ put it plainly, “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you” Matthew 7:12 NIV, which we universally call the Golden Rule.

God placed himself on the throne in the beginning and for all time. It was in consideration of this holy sovereignty that our founding fathers drew up the documents by which this nation was conceived and implemented… the recognition of the spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit, within believers that connects man directly to the Father, giving rise to respect others’ rights as equal to their own. Once man had rejected the rule of His true King when they came to the Prophet Samuel asking for a worldly ruler, there was no way to come home again until Christ came to bridge the spiritual gap, to fill the void. At which point, we are said to share with Christ his inheritance as he “…made us kings and priests unto God and his father,” Revelation 1:6 KJV; “and hast made us unto our God kings and priests; and we shall reign on the earth.” Revelation 5:10 KJV

Christ having come to bring the message of God’s kingdom, even then did the Jews expect the establishment of a physical kingdom, urging Jesus to take an earthly crown, “When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king…” John 6:15 KJV, he repudiated the concept of becoming a ‘head of state,’ knowing that the kingdom which he had come to establish was one of faith, invisible to all but those who understood with their hearts. Jesus clarified his place in a spiritual kingdom when rebuking the adversary, Luke 4:6-8, “…for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.” Governance on earth is to glorify God as the only master.

Isaiah, in the first chapter, also brings dominion full circle for God’s people, words which can be applied to this day and age, where he foretells the turning away of the faithful. Once the “dross” is purged, God instructed… “And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city,” Isaiah 1:26 KJV. This very concept stands behind the Declaration of Independence, where unalienable rights are affirmed to be God-given and we are all endowed as sovereigns under God’s authority.

This domain would be utopia, the anarchy that despises the elevation of one man above another in governance, reserving that exalted reign for God alone… God who is delivered to us through the resurrection of His Son, Christ Jesus, who is the incarnation of Justice delivered by Love… God’s love for his wayward creation, Man.

A. Dru Kristenev

changingwind@earthlink.net
ChangingWind Ministry
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