2007-3-30 06:42:00
I could write much more on the House [Kingdom] Divided Principle, but I think we have covered enough to get the idea. To apply it to modern times one must isolate the various issues and examine the camps on each side. Look at where the greatest illusion is found and you will see how the workers of darkness will use ordinary and sincere people as pawns to take the whole away from freedom and prosperity.
The seeker will also discover this trend. The person or group that is captured by one deception will be susceptible to others. If one were to pick one hundred deceptions one will find that one camp will gravitate to about eighty percent of them and the other to maybe twenty percent.
This polarization changes as the times and cycles change but the foundation deception remains which is this:
"If I have more freedom and get what I want then it is worth it to strip others from their freedom who are ignorant of the good that I see."
This person will inwardly believe that the perceived end justifies the means but will not admit it to himself.
This was the false principle that justified slavery in past eras and it is the foundation of the new slavery today.
A southern state or Roman slaveholder could have expressed his views as follows:
"If I get what I want from a slave then it is worth it to force him to pay for my extra freedom by sacrificing his own freedom."
The modern day slaveholder will say:
"If I get what I want from the government then it is worth it to force the ignorant to pay for my extra freedom by enslaving them with heavy taxes."
What is the difference between the two slaveries? Nothing in principle for they are both justified by the illusion of more freedom for themselves at the expense of others.
It is true the tax slave of today has a few more freedoms than ancient slaves, but with one difference. The evils of physical slavery were headed toward liberation, but the slavery of taxation is only increasing. Unless a reversal is achieved a modern day slavery will be complete.
The words if Isaiah come to mind:
3 For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.
6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
Isaiah 52:3-8
The modern day slavery is propelled by the drive of all the advanced nations toward socialism or communism. The reason this captures the hearts of so many well meaning people is the outward ideals of socialism seems to be in harmony with the teachings of Christ and other great teachers.
Didn't Jesus teach to give our money to the poor and emphasize equality? Aren't his teachings in harmony with socialistic values?
There is great illusion here and I have seen many free enterprises argue against socialism, but never seen one strike at the core difference between the teachings of Jesus and socialism.
It is quite simply this.
Jesus taught that we should help the poor through our own free will by giving money and help directly to them. Rome had various welfare programs and not once did he say to help the poor by giving money to Caesar who would in turn help a few poor after taking his cut. Jesus instead was reluctant to pay taxes and was forced to pay back taxes at one time.
Giving directly to those in need by our free will is the way of Jesus and the way of light and love.
Being forced to give to Caesar to he can assist who he will is the way of darkness and slavery.
At the foundation of the United States we had a short period where the Beast was wounded as if it were to death and many of those who had money gave to charity and the less fortunate through their own free will. There was no income tax to forcefully redistribute money and during this period was the greatest expansion of a nation in the history of the world. If this nation had started with the tax system and restrictive laws that we have today it would have never flourished.
We owe the abundance we have today to the foundations of yesterday plus the assistance we have received from the development of technology. However, our greatest technological achievements have been done in an atmosphere of freedom and incentives.
Let us hope the day of the next gathering is soon so maximum freedom can flourish once more. Then will the prophesy of Isaiah be fulfilled:
Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? (Isaiah 51:10)
Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away. (Isaiah 51:11)
Global Warming Enlightenment:
The atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration was five to ten times higher 70 million years ago before the polar ice caps formed and the dinosaurs disappeared, and it was about the same as now 10,000 years ago when the sudden warming had set in to end the latest Ice Age, indicating that the temperature on the surface governs atmospheric concentrations. Rapid and drastic changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have always followed major temperature changes, long before man was capable of burning oil and coal. Increasing temperatures cause an increase in atmospheric carbon, dioxide by expressing dissolved gas from the oceans, which contain more than 60 times the amount present in the atmosphere. Increasing temperatures also favor faster growth of plants and trees which absorb carbon dioxide and speed up decomposition of dead organic matter. This can lead to an imbalance at the beginning of a warm period, increasing carbon dioxide concentration and temperature accelerate plant growth, but the decomposition processes, although accelerated, release less carbon dioxide than is absorbed by new, more plentiful and rapid growth.
Global Warming in a Politically Correct Climate
by M. Mihkel Mathiesen, Page 96
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