There is a world wide effort to identify every man woman and child on the earth. I don't really have a problem with someone who wants to know who I am. But is that really the purpose behind the effort to identify everyone? Or is it an attempt to identify the STATUS of everyone "in the world" and everyone "of the world"? Is there a difference? And if so then what is the final purpose of all this?
Jesus talked a great deal about being "in the world" but not "of the world". The many words translated into "world" from the original Greek text are easily defined and Jesus was not talking about the planet in these verses but something very specific.
My kingdom is not of this world http://www.hisholychurch.net/sermon/world.HTM
They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. John 17:16. The word 'world' in these quotes meant "the constitutional order or system of government" and was from a Greek word 'komizo' meaning 'to take care of, provide for'. The Israelites went into bondage to the Pharaoh because they could not care for themselves. Most nations go deeper into bondage under the governments they create because they become increasingly dependent upon such governments and their offered benefits. As "citizens entitled" they become "subject citizens". What this means is that people of the world are little more than what Peter calls merchandise, local governments call human resources, or as the GAO calls them "Human Capital".
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d041063sp.pdf
Are they numbering their property? Is this a new question? "Are people the property of the state, or are they free souls under God? This battle continues throughout the world today." Cecil B. DeMille, "The Ten Commandments".
Once we understand the context of Christ's statements we can look into the identification of Jesus disciples with the name of the Father rather than the name of another father on earth. Of course Jesus is not talking about your natural Fathers. "While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept..."John 17:12
Call no man on earth Father http://www.hisholychurch.net/sermon/fatherabba.html
Once we understand the mystery surrounding the use of terms like 'world', 'Father', and 'name', we can move on to answer more practical questions as to what can we do about this trend today of greater dependence upon a government as a benefactor who exercises authority. That is an issue we are dealing with here at His Church on a daily basis.
People are seeking answers and to find those answers we need to do some studying and make an effort to move forward with what we have already learned in the hope and expectation of learning more.
One such person is David Alan Carmichael.
He recently sent this message to me: The Idaho Supreme Court refused to review an Idaho Court of Appeals ruling that Section 666 of the Federal Social Security Code (42 USC §666) preempts Idaho's Free Exercise of Religion Act (FERA). Section 666 'appears' to mandate that every State force everyone to identify with a SSN in order to obtain a professional, occupational, recreational, driver's or marriage license. The Appellant, Larry Lewis, his associate David Alan Carmichael, and their lawyer Dr. Herbert W. Titus, all intend to do something about it.
Some people, like Larry Lewis in Idaho, are prohibited from identifying with a national identification number on the basis of their religion. Revelation, Chapter 13, of the Bible warns of a beast that requires every person to identify with a number in order to engage in livelihood.
Full text of article with html links is found http://www.christianliberty.org/art/religiouslaw-666.html
I and David Justice will be meeting with Dr. Herbert W. Titus and others in McLean, Virginia on the 12th and 13th of December. We will be explaining where and what we believe Christ desires us to be going and doing to implement His redemption in the lives of those seeking His Kingdom and His righteousness. If you would like to meet with us while we are there get in touch with me this week.
There are many changes coming in the future but since history repeats itself there is a way to prepare for the future by doing what is right now before us.
Over a decade ago we were writing articles about the laws being past by the United States Congress that eventually were codified in title 42 Section 666. http://www.hisholychurch.net/news/article/issue9w.htm
Is that social security number the biblical mark of the beast? This question can be debated endlessly. Perhaps more important is the truth that the Mark of God and the Mark of the Beast, both mentioned in the Bible, first have a spiritual reality that we should learn to understand.
Every aspect of our lives is being tied to that number and membership in this scheme of social security offered to the people by government. That system is remarkably similar to the system of Corban offered by the Pharisees in they days of Christ's ministry. Jesus said that system 'made the word of God to none effect'. Mark 7:7-9
There is no law requiring you to obtain that number but there are more and more laws saying you may not participate in any regulated activity unless you choose to obtain that number. Can we get a democracy, deeply in debt, morally bankrupt, and controlled by an untouchable elite, to relent in this demand? Is there another way to go, to live, to be? Is this other way more like the way of Christ practiced by the early Christians?
Since this was almost the identical situation in Judea and the Roman Empire centuries ago, we must ask, "Did Christ have a plan?"
We had already written the book "The Covenants of the gods" which outlined the purpose behind such bills and laws in relationship to governments, both past and present, with constant references to Biblical texts in their historical context.
[The Covenants of the gods located in html on the net] http://www.hisholychurch.net/study/gods/writings.htm
While this book explained, in 15 independent chapters, why and how the machination of modern and ancient governments could be used to legally suppress the people, it did not explain what the solution or remedy was to overcome such legal bondage.
In the book Thy Kingdom Comes we reveal the difference between what Abraham, Moses and Jesus were doing and teaching to free and redeem the people and what we have been taught and told to do by ministers today. The state of the Church today has been most instrumental in the deliverance of people into the very bondage that Abraham, Moses and Jesus came to deliver us from. Their true mission was to redeem and emancipate the people from authoritarian benefactors under the perfect law of liberty. In fact Abraham, Moses and Jesus pointed to the very solution we need to know, understand and implement in our lives today.
[Thy Kingdom Comes located in html on the net] http://www.hisholychurch.net/thykingdom/tkca.html
We have since the publication of those books written another work in progress. The His Church Formation Report, which explains how that plan of God may be implemented today for those who are seeking to be free souls under God according to His righteousness, is available.
His Church Formation Reports
[since this is a work in progress all the links are not yet in place for the general public but a considerable amount of working material is available to began the essential activities conducive to liberty under God] http://www.hisholychurch.net/pdfiles/His-Church/
The His Church Formation Report is a working copy but it will be refined into two books. The first book will deal exclusively with the basics of what a church can do now to repeat the activities of the early Church that steadily made it possible for Christians to survive the decline and fall of the Roman empire as it imposed its own autocratic authority upon the people in an attempt to form and maintain a world government. The second book will be a reference appendix that has already exceeded the size of the original book and is not yet available on the net to the general public by us, although the information is out there. While much of this appendix is based on US laws there is an overwhelming similarity in the laws of countries all around the world, a consistency that can only be a part of a plan. We have shared much of this material with our working ministers and functioning congregations and will be releasing it as we finish this work.
There is much to do and there are those already doing and seeking the kingdom of God and that righteousness that is His.
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