What is the point here? As the Son of man reduced authority, as he wasted no time in reducing his Fathers ten commandments down to one covenant, so, it is God's Will to reduce both the numbers of laws and the sizes of governments. My interpretation here, which are often times crazy and many times outright wrong, goes on to include the book of Acts. God's desire is to weed out authority from his glorious purpose. Indeed, as it is with all virtue, even authority in and of itself and apart from God is evil.
I must pause to confess that beyond Jesus Christ being central to God's purpose as the fullness of God - as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit - I know very little about scripture. I do have a reverence for the Old Testament based on the writings of Moses with him being God's chosen vessel. I also have a reverence for those holy ones (the Hindus, Buddhists, and others) who, because they were experts in reading the stars, were brought to the very birth of Christ!
What I am certain about is that our Lord Jesus Christ narrowed his heavenly Father's Ten Commandments down to one. He did not increase them! Indeed, even the process of law becomes evil when its virtue is valued alone apart from God!! Similarly, neither is the idea of justice a glorious end, but just a mere means to an even greater glory. In order to lessen persecution, no law will ever decrease the size of government by abolishing laws - no law will ever be legislated, administered, or adjudicated in such a successful way. To the contrary, the more that laws get created, and the more that criminals get convicted as a result, the more the number of prisons will be needed to house them, the more the number of lawyers will be needed in perpetuating such a vicious cycle of justice, and the more poorly the remaining submissive ones to the law will behave.
As Jesus was able to achieve the narrowing of authority, the law was never able to locate him. Indeed, though three wise men did manage to locate him at his birth by reading the stars, they were run off soon afterwards by threats from the law. Meanwhile, his mother Mary safeguarded her child Jesus from that of a menacing law searching to kill him. Later, during his ministry, it was Jesus who went out to locate his disciples offering them the opportunity to follow after him.
In the end, as incredible as it might sound, the only ones able to ever seek out Jesus in the wilderness were the outcast wretches; furthermore, after Jesus had approached the law in Jerusalem, after realizing that he had to reveal himself there in order to die on the cross for our sins, a betrayer named Judas had to be raised up and sent by him in order to bring the law to Himself!!
Again, to review, this holy act of ordaining the ten commandment economy over all others placed the Gentiles further on the outside and at a disadvantage economically. After accomplishing his mission though, as the Messiah was being forced to come against his will, Jesus was now free to express his will. Paradoxically, he fled immediately from thevordained Jewish temple / marketplace (they being one in the same during that time) in order to narrow the ten commandment based economy down, for the benefit of the Gentiles, to the single covenant commandment that we "love thy neighbor as thyself." After warning his disciples not to look back or they would be turned into a pillar of salt, Jesus set about speaking a whole new gospel. In the meantime, the disciples following after him thought that he was speaking nonsense. Indeed, by Old Testament law, Jesus was limited solely to ministering to them about matters pertaining to the Old Testament.
Incredibly, while he was teaching the Old Testament to them recovering its true spiritual meaning within his disciples (again, a meaning wholly separate from the marketplace), Jesus was also operating quite below-the-conscious by preaching a whole New Testament to the outcast wretches who approached him in the wilderness.
Understand, a wretch is not part of any social dichotomy as she is treated as a dog and worse than a prostitute. She is rejected by those both in the master and slave classes! Indeed, Mary the mother of Jesus wasn't just labeled a prostitute by many possessing little faith, but she was outcast and hated also by many more after they had lost their firstborn to king Herod's decree of infanticide (that every firstborn should be killed).
Again, Jesus Christ is sovereign over all. As taking an oath to the law still makes sense for those over in the Old World, it should be treated as nonsense in our New one.
This in mind, when they focus giving their allegiance to it, it doesn't mean that Americans are being obedient to it. Rather, they are being submissive to the peace (order) for which its symbols stand. Indeed, to further the people's Civil Purpose, our Founders chose wisely to preserve the function of government - more specifically its authority and its laws - redeeming it as a necessary evil or necessary tyranny not of, by, and for officials as was the case in prior times, but for the benefit of the People's Civil Purpose. To maintain our Union, sometimes it is necessary to unleash this necessary tyranny which was the case during both World Wars. However, after achieving victory over our enemy - an enemy not of German, Italian, or Japanese flesh and blood, but of evil principalities and powers - the authority of this loosened Federal monster should have been reduced back down in size and zipped up!
Indeed, the American people today possess a peaceful Civil Purpose and not that of a militant legal one which was the case during prior times over in the old world.
Right?
In the past, a drunkard aristocracy of Old World warmongers would set us up as pieces just to knock us down. In our new world, a necessary tyranny was established by our Founders which, when it wasneeded, could be unleashed on the Old World in order to maintain our pieces as prerequisite.
Paradoxically and quite against the norm, our Founders would first declare an order of peace in The Declaration of Independence. They then, within the U.S. Constitution, would institute laws upon that peaceful foundation. The laws were not established for the sake of the law, but they were instituted to maintain the peaceful order.
When today's militant extremists preach insubordination to the law which is the same as being against the peaceful order, and as evil will surely destroy itself, the unfortunate who choose to be misguided by such a wayward leadership are the ones who most suffer.
Right?
- As wayward states around the world support a strategic terror against those being submissive to the law (again, towards the peaceful order), in the end, it is those living in that state of terror who most suffer.
