Chapter 13 The Kingdom of Heaven

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1 Chapter 13 The Kingdom of Heaven The State of the Nation Jesus preached a kingdom and the Apostles worked daily in the temple serving the people so that they might be freemen under God. Rome was a republic that changed over the years. There are many republics today and they have also changed. We imagine that modern systems are governments of the people, by the people and for the people. At best they are governments for and by the majority of the people who exercises authority over their neighbor. Often security is equated with freedom, license with liberty and comfort with affluence. Vanity and avarice dims our understanding of the positive influence created by the exercise of the personal responsibility required to maintain freedom, not only for ourselves but for others. Fear and pride darkens our minds to the light of liberty and the free exercise of virtue. People are angered, if not enraged, at the suggestion that their freedom is a lie, their affluence is a fraud and their religious virtue is an apostasy. Where do we find the plans for a government of liberty and freedom vested in the people? For centuries people ruled themselves and brought peace and prosperity to their community and their nation according to the virtue and courage sealed within their own hearts. With the aid of their chosen Tithingmen and Hundredsmen they received and distributed charity, thwarted invasions and kept order. There were no statutes, lawyers or regulations but every man knew the law common among freemen. Twelve freemen, their peers, decided fact and law for those who stood in open court to prove damage and harm. Almost a thousand years after the destruction of Jerusalem William the Conqueror seized a portion of England by defeating his cousin and declared himself the Fountainhead of Justice. He had persecuted the people who rebelled against his oppressive rule in Normandy and began the same in England. He was crowned by the ministers of the authoritarian church and began demanding an Oath of Fealty and registering the land from those he vanquished in battle. Steadily, all land titles were registered in his Doomsday Book under his Patrimonial power to tax. He established his own courts and police. Like the kings which Samuel warned men against, William, and others, rose up to make the ancient prophecies reality. A once free people now only held land by a mere legal title with no beneficial interest. A tax or tribute on the land was now compelled by government. Eventually there were no Freemen left in the land and statutes supplanted the common law. There was only subjects of sovereigns. The battle was fierce. The cost in human life was high. The beast had risen from his pit to rule the world again and was crowned by his mistress. The mistress of these national kings blessed their exercising authority in opposition to Christ s command and as foretold in 1 Samuel 8 the voice of the people rejected God. And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, Rev. 20:7 Three hundred years later men were still looking for an answer to this revived tyranny. Then John Wycliffe introduced his translation of the Bible in 1382 with the words, This Bible is for the Government of the People, by the People, and for the People. An old idea arose in young minds. The recollections of freedom glimmered again in men s hearts. The prophets of the adversary could not let the captives go free. Wycliffe was promptly imprisoned by the government where he suddenly died under their care. His body was later dug up by the orthodox church and burned at the stake. 123 Thy Kingdom Comes

2 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in [yourselves], neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Matthew 23:13 Another who brought this manual for good government to light even at the request of the king was Tyndale. He was eventually hunted down and burned at the stake. His books were bought up by the orthodox church and also burned. But too much had been revealed and with printing presses and paper becoming more available it was essential to do something to maintain order and control. It became necessary to teach the people a form of godliness but deny the power thereof. 294 Through deceptive teachings, covetous applications and constructive contracts the power of the kingdom fell from the hands of the people into the grasp of men who exercised authority. Instead of returning every man unto his possessions and family they returned them to the bondage of Egypt. The prophets of the adversary began to preach and teach out of the Bible but they gave an untrue rendering of what people were to read. They trained them up early in falsehoods so that they would not find their way. They taught them an easy Gospel that was sweet in the mouth but would sour in the belly. They told them the kingdom would come through observation 295 and all they had to do was believe, winking at the requirement of repentance and called it penance. They never told them what it meant to believe. They did not tell them that only those who do the will of the Father are His brethren. 296 They told men that they are forgiven their sins but they did not remind them that they must also forgive to be forgiven. 297 Religion was organized in their minds from the top down. Christ preached a kingdom and All government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery! 298 It is men, not God, who make slaves of men. Rome preached a kingdom under the Fathers of Rome. Christ preached a kingdom where you are princes of your own house under the Father in heaven. Roman law believes that consent makes the law and that agreements must be kept. God and Christ do not disagree. We are bought with a price and what belongs to God cannot be taken away without our consent. The false prophets teach that you must consent to the gentiles who exercise authority while Christ and God tell us to consent not, swear not, agree not. The modern Church tells you to tithe to their altars but obtain your daily ministration from worldly altars of power. Prayer is no longer application at Nicolaitian altars of civil governments but only words with bowed heads mumbled in ornate or costly cathedrals and churches. Worship is no longer homage but has become singing. Lifting your hands to the Lord is not working for your needy neighbor but waiving your hands in Church. Coveting your neighbors goods is now okay as long as it is done through the agency of government taxation. And being unequally yoked is okay as long as it is by license and registration. 294 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 2 Tim. 3:5 295 Luke 17:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 296 Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 297 Mark 11:25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. Matthew 6:14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: Matthew 18:35 So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses. Luke 11:4 And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. 298 Jonathon Swift 124

3 God did not take the Israelites out of Egypt only to have the Church deliver them back into bondage. If the Church was doing its job the people would have no need to apply to authoritarian schemes of Corban and social security. In obtaining the application or consent the Benefactors of Rome establish a contractual relationship with the people which imposes certain duties and obligation both upon the people and the government. God and Christ told us not to apply or consent. Such relationships are created by constructions of law through application and acceptance. A contract is law between the parties having received their consent. 299 For thousands of years governments have obtained authority and power by the consent and applications of the people. The rights given us by God cannot be taken away except by consent in word or in deed. 300 These basic maxims of law were well understood when virtuous men and women crossed the sea in leaking ships to escape the taxing kings and ruling judges of Europe. They braved the wilderness in hopes that they might be free. The ordinary citizen, living on his farm, owned in fee simple, untroubled by any relics of feudalism, untaxed save by himself, saying his say to all the world in townmeetings. For he, had a new self-reliance. Wrestling with his soul and plough on week days, and the innumerable points of the minister s sermon on Sundays and meeting days, he was coming to be a tough nut for any imperial system to crack. 301 Ethan Allen and others fought so that all men could have such tenure title as freemen upon their own land under the authority of God. They had won their freedom in this new land even before the revolution and only declared their independence from that despotic kingly authority of unwarranted usurpation and his imposing taxes on us without our Consent: 302 The Pilgrims were called Separatists. They had studied with what was called the Ancient Church. They came to America to own the milk and the honey of the land with an allodial title that could not be taxed and taken by the would be rulers of men. Since those valiant days of rugged individualism when early Americans took the time to study what freedom really meant, men have steadily moved again into bondage. Men and women, through ignorance, avarice and arrogance, have applied to the authoritarian Benefactor of the state to supply them with benefits. They did all this knowing that those gifts were supplied by compelled sacrifices taken from their neighbor. Now, their bondage is greater than that of Egypt and Rome and their day of reckoning is not far hence. Israel, while in Egypt, was united in slavery but not in freedom. Until the people begin to learn to live and move as one nation in one accord they were not ready for freedom. During the plagues and the oppression of the pharaoh the people were strengthened by the counsel of Moses and the charity and virtue those hard times demanded. Without the pharaoh s consent Israel could not go free. Once it was obtained they left that very day. Like the day of Pentecost, it was only one day but there were many days of preparation and repentance before and after their journey toward God s kingdom. Seeking the kingdom How do we seek the kingdom? What can we do in a world so deluded in its own vain religion. 303 A society where men construct the city state of Cain, despise free dominion of the individual 299 Consesus facit legem. Consent makes the law Branch. Prine. Black s. 300 What is mine cannot be taken away without consent. Quod meum est sine me auferri non potest. Jenk. Cent. Cas Hist of US by John Truslow Adams page The Declaration of Independence 303 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man s religion is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless 125 Thy Kingdom Comes

4 and speak evil of dignities. They rebel against God as their king, as Core [Korah] did in the wilderness. Men feast on false charity which will hang upon them like a mill stone hung in the stormy seas of the people? 304 To read and think about the kingdom is not enough. God is a God of action and we are made in his image. The kingdom of God is not a do-nothing kingdom. It is fruitful and active. Those who seek the kingdom strive. They are industrious and diligent. If you love God, when you congregate ask not what your God can do for you but ask rather what you can do for his sheep. Make no agreement with unrighteousness. Covet not your neighbors goods nor the benefits supplied by their compelled sacrifice. Be as concerned about your brother and his rights as you are about your own God given rights. Do not forsake the gathering together and seek its righteousness. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Hebrews 10:25 The Law of God God gave us the commandments to aid in our growth and maturity and Jesus told us to obey them. Moses and the Messiah expounded upon those commandments so that we might understand them and better implement them fruitfully in our lives. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach [them], the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:19 We are to love God and have no other gods before him. We know Paul says there are gods many and Jesus says that ye also are gods. We also know that a god is someone who may make laws and exercise authority over others. When the Bible was written a god was the title of a ruling judge in courts of law and administrative courts. We know that God told us not to bow down nor serve those gods 305 that men make for themselves. We are told not to make covenants with the people under those gods nor with those gods 306 because in serving those gods it will become a snare to you. 307 He told us not to say that we put our trust in His name and then actually give our trust to someone else. 308 He told us because he took us out of a governmental system called Egypt where we did not own our labor or our land. He and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. James 1: Likewise also these [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. Jude 1: Ex 20:5 6 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Ex 23:24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images. 306 Ex 20:2.. I [am] the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 307 Ex 23:33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee. 308 Ex 20: 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain

5 also told us to never ever go back there again. 309 We are told that if we apply to partake of the offers of those rulers and governments, that we should put a knife to our throat if we have an appetite for their benefits. 310 When the Israelites were in Egypt and Moses came to free them he did not say disobey Pharaoh. When Jesus came to set the captive free from Pharisees and foreign despots he did not say don t pay Caesar the tax you owe him. He said give to Caesar what is Caesar s and He also said to give to God what is God s. Are you giving the service you should give God to Caesar? Do you owe Caesar your service and if so how did this come about? Did you swear or apply to Caesar to obtain his benefits or protection? Did you make him the Father of your estate or status? The Israelites were in bondage in Egypt because they jealously threw their brother into a pit of slavery. The world is under tribute, an excise called income and property tax, because the people desired to force the rich and their neighbor to pay for their desires. They also coveted the gifts promised by systems they created and did not mind that the spotted charity of those civic altars was extracted by force. Through their own covetousness they have been made human resources. 311 In Egypt they sacrificed to the gods of Egypt who were the ruling judges of Egypt. Those gods appointed officers and taskmasters over the people and compelled the people to pay into the civic altars of the Pharaoh. In God s kingdom the people chose to sacrifice to God upon His altars according to the service of its ministers. What the people need to do is to learn what it means to sacrifice to the Lord. They needed to learn what it means to feed and care for his sheep and what it means to love their neighbor with out coveting his offerings. There is no salvation in simply baptizing the outside of your bodies. You must repent and be baptized on the inside. If the Church and the people had attended to the business of Christ they would never had needed to apply to Caesar and would owe him nothing and would have remained free. The kingdom is still at hand and repentance is the first step to salvation. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father s commandments, and abide in his love. John 15:10 The other commandments give us clues on what this all means. These basic laws have many applications in our lives for like the laws of God s creation they are repeated at many levels in similar and repetitive ways. We were to be industrious and work six days and rest on the seventh. Nor are we to deprive anyone else of that rest. Some put great emphasis on the seventh day but often forget the six days of fruitful labor that sets that day apart. We are to Honor our Father and Mother as we honor our Father in Heaven. Income tax is a patrimonial right of the Fathers. Each Son and Daughter is to give their offerings upon their domestic altars. Then according to the individual discretion of the head of the family a freewill contribution is granted to the servant altars of His kingdom. Thou shalt not kill or be the cause of death or injury by intent or neglect but each man is responsible for the life of each other man on earth. You shall not take a man s flesh or his blood or his sweat without his permission and you will not damage anyone in a scheme or plan 309 Deuteronomy 17:16 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way. 310 Pr 23:1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat Peter 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. 127 Thy Kingdom Comes

6 to take the blood or sweat of your neighbor or the strangers amongst you through the agencies of others including the governments you may devise for yourself. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Obviously sexual adultery is a betrayal of your spouse but also a betrayal of God. Marital vows are before God not just each other. But God has also given us our bodies to care for as the living temples of our souls. You shall not adulterate your own body or the body of your family or any other family. You shall not consume any adulterant, pollutant, contagion, contaminant or any poisonous substance nor contribute to the violation of any other individual with any form of adulterant. This could include something as obvious as drug abuse and smoking or something seemingly benign, like eating too much or eating a poor diet or drinking to excess. Jeremiah speaks of a whole nation committing adultery in Chapter 3. He says that it defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and stocks. In Chapter 7 he associates this national adultery with national stealing, murder and swearing falsely or sacrificing to Baal 312 along with the following of other gods or judges. 313 Thou shalt not steal. You shall not take from any one what they do not wish to give. You shall not have agents and accomplices to take from others. You shall not allow anyone to take from your neighbor without their permission and agreement, either directly or through deception or through any agency. This could include imposing taxes by agency but it would also include applying for benefits financed by such compelled taxes. The modern tax system is Nicolaitan and includes an element of fear and force. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. You shall not lie to people, mislead people, keep the truth back from people. You will not be a part of any fraud or deception or unjust weights and measures. Caveat emptor, Let the buyer beware, should not be heard in the kingdom of Heaven. You should not take advantage of the ignorance of others, either directly or through the agencies of others. Knowing the truth you shall not keep it secret but promote the knowledge of truth. You shall reveal all lie to those who will hear you. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour s house. You will not take from a man s household or any portion of his home. You shall not take from your neighbor s house by threatening to take it by forcing him to pay a usurious tax no matter what benefit it may bring you. This would include free schools for your children, police or fire protection or any service where your neighbor is forced to pay. Nor shall you desire or hope to take any part of benefits that are financed by taking from your neighbor. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour s wife, nor any portion of the labor of his servants, nor any part of his assets, nor any thing that is thy neighbour s. All that is your neighbors is his and you or your servants either public or private will not take anything that is your neighbors without his desire to give it to you freely. You shall not draft his sons or force his daughters to labor for you or for your elected agents. Nor shall you desire or hope to take any part that is your neighbors. This is what happened when men chose a centralized ruler or king in the days of Samuel. God and Samuel warned us that this is what will transpire if we choose to have men rule over us and be our lawmakers instead of God. Men keep returning to the same error and the solution never changes. Christ showed us but so did Nehemiah. And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their 312 Baal means lord or the supreme citizen or ruler of a government that has authority. 313 Jeremiah 7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; 128

7 wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding; They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes; Nehemiah 10:28 29 Nehemiah and the people returned to the precepts of God and separated themselves by being different from the nations of the earth as Jesus also said. With understanding and right knowledge they gathered with their brethren and contributed willingly to the altars of God as we see the first century Church doing. They forsook tribute and did not impose a tax but said that they would only charge themselves to contribute. 314 This is the Kingdom of God and what the Church should preach to all those who say they believe Christ. If we seek to set all men free then we shall become freemen under God. He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. John 14:21 Over and over Christ said keep my commandments if you love me. If we kept the commandments, the lives and rights of our neighbor would be as important to us as our own. Could we send our children to public schools when they are financed by force and fear? Could we vote to increase any levy for schools and teachers at the expense of our neighbor? Could we tax our neighbor in order to support civic projects like beautifying the town, cemeteries, fire departments, helping the deaf, aged, poor or needy? There is no clause where God says you can take from your neighbor if it is a worthy cause. Might does not make right in the kingdom of God. The end does not justify the means. Under God s liberty your neighbor may give or not give. There is freedom in the kingdom. In a democracy every man is king but not of himself alone but of his neighbor. He rules his neighbor with the power of his vote. A democracy as a common purse of rights which runs towards death. The laws for the king applies to the mob king called democracy. All such policies of desiring to benefit from the taking from your neighbors house or any violation of the Ten commandments should not be a temptation to us if we have truly accepted Christ into our hearts. How can we say he is Lord and continue a policy that does not do the things he has said to do? How can we claim to have accepted him if we do not know and do his sayings? In The Covenants of the gods we detail how the obligation imposed by systems of taxation is the result of several violations of the Ten Commandments by us. What these commandments are saying is that you may not desire the benefits that come from these taxes because that would be coveting your neighbors goods. It is not saying that you do not owe them. We may owe them because we have failed to follow God s word and the teachings of Christ. The ways of God do not fail, nor do they deliver men into bondage. It is us who have failed to adhere to the righteousness of God s kingdom. Some people propagate the lie that the Ten Commandments were done away with by the cross. If that were even remotely true Jesus would not keep saying obey the commandments. And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. Matthew 19: Nehemiah 10:32 Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;... shewbread,... meat,... burnt... and for the sin offerings Thy Kingdom Comes

8 If you cannot lie or deceive or mislead anyone about anything, many people would be out of business. The fact is banks would shut down. Nothing has robbed the people more than usurious money systems that deplete the value of personal wealth day by day. Taking the silver out of coins was dishonest. Thinking that silver has the same value as iron is deception. Yet, many people were gobbling up silver quarters and giving out iron coins as if they had the same value. The government economists knew they were not the same but they encouraged the people to think they were. The reason they removed the silver is because it was worth more than the iron coins that they gave out in their place. They knowingly robbed the people and anyone not revealing that truth is a part of that lie and deception but this is only one small example of the scope of modern delusions. Luke 18:20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother. How a nation has enslaved an entire population and still calls itself Christian is hard to conceive. People say we need taxes to support government. Yes, we need funds to support government but do we need to force those funds from people in order to get them to contribute? Is that Babylon or the kingdom of heaven? Is that of God and Christ, Abraham and Moses or is that of Cain and Nimrod, Pharaoh and Caesar? Mark 10:19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother. If ye love me, keep my commandments. John 14:15 If Jesus were going to do away with the Ten Commandments or create an easy salvation where you say a few words, get choked up and make an altar call, then what is Christ saying when he states if you love me keep my commandments? And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments [is], Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. Mark 12:29-31 You cannot love your neighbor and take away his rights. Thomas Jefferson said it best when he stated, democracy is mob rule where fifty-one percent of the people take away the rights of the other forty-nine. This is telling us that at least 51 percent of the voters do not love Christ as a matter of policy. This is not to say that the other forty-nine are not sinners too. They just did not get the largest block of sinners during the vote. Though a thing is legal it may still be a sin against God. Of course not everyone votes to take things away from their neighbor. Some people consistently vote to stop their neighbor from robbing them. So, what is the solution? We cannot flee to the new world? There is no new world to go to. The answer is that we must flee to a new way. Jesus has been talking about it from the beginning. It is not without burden but it is light compared to other options. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Matthew 6:33 What does the Kingdom look like? No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:

9 Mammon is not money although money may represent a form of mammon. Mammon is entrusted wealth. 315 We have seen that the corporate state and its enfranchised citizenry are part of the corpus of the state. Like the camp of the golden calf all wealth is bound under the authority of the civil state. Jesus compares God and mammon as two masters, both requiring service. And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. Luke 16:9 If you are bound to the mammon or corpus of the modern civil state you are given a similar alternative today. Jesus tells us to be friends with the unrighteous mammon for when it fails we will be received into everlasting tabernacles or tents. In other words if you are a selfish disobedient cheat under the system of unrighteous mammon you will probably do the same with God. There is another clue to mammon in this statement. He speaks of it failing as a sure thing that will happen. For this reason as much as any other we should seek the kingdom and its righteousness. Rather than seeking the Truth of God s kingdom on earth, men heed not his prophetic warnings and follow after their own pernicious ways. If they knew that these systems of Mammon have plagued the history of man since before the Corban and Quarban of Herod and Caesar or the flesh pots of Egypt they might have pursued another path. Paul also tells us what to do if we find ourselves a servant to mammon or any thing or anyone else. Art thou called [being] a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use [it] rather. 1 Corinthians 7:21 Assembling a congregation Clearly freedom is preferred but it may take some time and work to get there depending on where we are at when we start to seek it and how much of the beam we are willing to remove from our own eye in the process. We must remember that the kingdom is about His righteousness not our own. We may never be righteous but we may and must seek a righteousness that exceeds that of the Pharisees as a matter of policy. If we love Christ and the Father, this is possible. We can start by coming together in congregations of families like the Israelites and the early Christians. If you cannot find ten families near you find what you can. Help the ministers working for the kingdom find more people and gather them together. Help them preach the Gospel of the kingdom at hand. Contribute according to your heart, enlist others, invest in each other with hope, faith and love. We need to preach the kingdom and help others do the same in the way most suited to our gifts. Nurture and strengthen your family relationships. Home school your children and help other do the same. Learn about home health, home care, home industries and home business. Develop skills, and knowledge for independent living. Help take care of others. Visit, care for and nurture the elderly and ill. If you are in a church find out how a free Church should be formed. Start a home Bible study. Share and work together to learn and grow. Start good Samaritan outreach projects. Network with others in groups of tens, hundreds and thousands. Provide for family, congregation and congregation of congregations as if there was no other government to depend upon. Learn to stand alone and together. Be fruitful and multiply in virtue and numbers. Don t impose your religious perception or dogma on others. Be patient. 315 Mammon, an Aramaic word mamon wealth It is probably derived from Ma amon, something entrusted to safe keeping. Encyclopedia Britanica. 131 Thy Kingdom Comes

10 "To that field the head of each family led his sons and kinsfolk; every ten families (or tything) were united under their own chosen captain. Every ten of these tythings had, again, some loftier chief, dear to the populace in peace; and so on the holy circle spread from household, hamlet, town,--till, all combined, as one county under one Earl, the warriors fought under the eyes of their own kinsfolk, friends, neighbours, chosen chiefs! What wonder that they were brave?" 316 Learn about the Gospel of the kingdom as it was in the first century and how it existed in the world, amongst its laws and its institutions without being of the world. Each congregation of ten families is an unincorporated fellowship united by a network of ministers or public servants of the kingdom. Ministers also assemble in groups of ten choosing a leader to minister to them. Each man of an assembly brings some expertise, talent or gift and each ministerially connected assembly adds more wisdom and knowledge to the whole. The congregations comes together to strengthen those who are weak, educate those who are uninformed and make the people and the nation of God whole and healthy again. Advise from brothers and ministers on every subject was readily available through a network of communication and service. The health, education and welfare services of the kingdom may take many forms enlightening people about independent living, home power, gardening, agriculture, veterinary, hygiene and health. Information and assistance can be located through this national network. If a few ministers talk to their immediate constituents thousands of people can be consulted. The more you help and work the larger and more willing the rest of the kingdom will be to help you. Your investment is not in a bank or national treasury but in your neighbor, your congregations and assemblies and in the kingdom of your God. You become linked with the most unselfish, hard working and giving people in the world. Love and charity binds you with people who have God s laws written on their hearts and on their minds. Men and women of all backgrounds who have been called and are seeking the kingdom are immediately attracted to the kingdom and its righteousness. The kingdom is not for the selfish and slothful. It is for the diligent and industrious. The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute. Proverbs 12:24 The kingdom of God does all the work of governments. Israel was a nation of brothers in liberty forming a free dominion. When there were deportations or depressions, calamities or national emergencies in the first century as Rome declined the Christian Church had connections all over the world and places of refuge outside the cities. They fed each other, cared for the orphans and widows and served one another as Christ taught. Many people have already begun to seek the independence and freedom of the kingdom of God but they are still scattered. They are still seeking and learning what the kingdom means. They are His sheep but they have not seen the full nature of the shepherd and his kingdom. They may continue to come together step by step without the loss of freedom. Seeking the kingdom is an infinite journey of love and hope, sacrifice and joy. Many will feel that the present systems must be pursued until Christ comes again but shall he come and find you doing the will of the Father or the will and service to your father in Rome. Have you been seeking the kingdom or applying at the altars of the Nicolaitians? The contracts of Rome that bind the people through application and participation can be undone by the new covenant with God and His kingdom. That power of contract may bind you on earth or in heaven. In God s kingdom we serve God by caring for His sheep and loving our 316 Harold, Book 12. by Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Last Of The Saxon Kings 132

11 neighbor and following in His ways. This requires his patience, humility, charity and love actively fulfilling the gospel of the kingdom every day in every way. Where to start seeking the kingdom of God Rome was not built in a day but brick by brick. The kingdom of God is not built in a day either but with stone by stone. The stones of the kingdom are not piled one upon another but are a free gatherings of living stones. Those stones of the true followers of Christ form living altars of faith, hope and charity. We have been taught many forms of government but not God s government. We have been told that the kingdom is not at hand contrary to Christ s words. We are told that our applications and contracts with other governments has nothing to do with our salvation. We may never completely arrive in God s infinite kingdom but it is not about arriving it is about turning around in repentance and taking the journey. It is about seeking the kingdom. And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it. 2 John 1:6 Salvation is first about repenting and going another way, God s way. It is about following after Christ and obeying His commandments because we love Him and the Father who sent Him. It is about seeking Christ in His Kingdom of God by serving Christ by feeding His sheep and loving our neighbor. It is a journey, a path, a way and each man and woman must decide daily how they will make that journey, working out their own salvation with fear and trembling. That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world. 317 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. Mark 1: Philippians 2:12-14 : 133 Thy Kingdom Comes