“For Yahweh is our judge, Yahweh is our lawgiver, Yahweh is our king…” (Isaiah 33:22).
“Yeshua answered, “I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. …You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again’ (John 3:5-7).
Yeshua said that we must be born ‘again’ into a Kingdom – the Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of God (John 3). What does this Kingdom look like? How does it compare with earthly kingdoms and kings, life, death, constitutions, health care, economics, foreign policy.
The Declaration of Independence
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor” (Luke 4:18).
“Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God” (1 Peter 2:16).
“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” (2 Corinthians 3:17).
“It is for freedom that Messiah has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery” (Galatians 5:1).
The Constitution
“See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess. But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed” (Deuteronomy 13:15-17).
Freedom of Religion
“Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your forefathers worshiped beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. But if serving the Lord Yahweh seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord” (Joshua 24:14-16).
Freedom of Speech
“This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words” (1 Corinthians 2:13).
“Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience” (2 Corinthians 5:11).
Freedom of Assembly
“Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching” (Hebrews 10:25).
The Executive Branch
The King – Yahweh
“Who is he, this King of glory? The Yahweh Almighty—he is the King of glory” (Psalm 24:10).
The Commander in Chief – Yeshua
“The commander of the LORD’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy” (Joshua 5:15).
“I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.”He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: king of kings and lord of lords” (Revelation 19:11-16).
Foreign Policy
“When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains. “You must be on your guard” (Mark 13:7-9).
“Then Moses said to them, “If you will do this—if you will arm yourselves before the Lord for battle, and if all of you will go armed over the Jordan before the Lord until he has driven his enemies out before him— then when the land is subdued before the Lord, you may return and be free from your obligation to the Lord and to Israel. And this land will be your possession before the Lord” (Numbers 32:20-21).
The Middle East
“Then say to Pharaoh (King of Egypt), ‘This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son, and I told you, “Let my son go, so he may worship me.” But you refused to let him go; so I will kill your firstborn son.’” (Exodus 4:22-23).
“When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel. For the Lord’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance. In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye,like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them on its pinions.The Lord alone led him; no foreign god was with him” (Deuteronomy 32:8-12).
“I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you” (Genesis 12:3).
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Psalm 122)
The Nations
“Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter” (Revelation 19:15).
Second Amendment
“Put your sword back in its place,” Yeshua said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword. Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?” (Matthew 26:51).
Search and Seizure
“But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say, for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you” (Matthew 10:19-20).
Love your enemies (Luke 6:27).
The Legislative Branch
The Law Giver – Yahweh
“When Yahweh finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God” (Exodus 31:18).
“You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am Yahweh your God. Keep my decrees and laws, for the man who obeys them will live by them. I am Yahweh” (Leviticus 18:4-5). .
“Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches? Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain” (Isaiah 10:1-4).
Fear God and keep his commandments (Ecclesiastes 12:13).
Defense of Marriage
“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? (Matthew 19:4-5).
Do not separate what God has joined together (Mark 10:9).Health Care
“Praise the Lord, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits— who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s” (Psalm 103:1-5).
Taxes
“Show me the coin (currency) used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius, and he asked them, “Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?” “Caesar’s,” they replied. Then he said to them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s” (Matthew 22:19-22).
Take care of widows and orphans (James 1:17).
Feed the hungry (Romans 12:20).
Show hospitality (3 John 1:8).
Economic Recovery
“For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “If a man will not work, he shall not eat” (2 Thessalonians 3:10).
Right to Life
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be” (Psalm 139:13-16).
Conspiracy Theories
“At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. For false Messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were possible. See, I have told you ahead of time” (Matthew 24:23-25).
Gay Rights
“Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 6:8-10).
“For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a man is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Messiah and of God” (Ephesians 5:5).
Global Warming
“Where is your faith?” he asked his disciples. In fear and amazement they asked one another, ‘Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water and they obey him” (Luke 8:25).
“There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea” (Luke 21:25).
“He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous” (Matthew 5:45).
“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, dayand night will never cease” (Genesis 8:22).
Citizenship
“All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth” (Hebrews 11:13).
“… our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Messiah Yeshua” (Philippians 3:20).
“Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Messiah Yeshua himself as the chief cornerstone” (Ephesians 2:18-20).
Patriot Act
Yeshua said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest …. But now my kingdom is from another place.” “You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Yeshua answered, “You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me” (John 18:36-37).
The Judicial Branch
The Judge – Yahweh
“He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears; but with righteousness he will judge the needy, with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked. Righteousness will be his belt and faithfulness the sash around his waist” (Isaiah 11:4-5).
“He will judge the world in righteousness; he will govern the peoples with justice” (Psalm 9:8).
“They will sing before Yahweh, for he comes, he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his truth (Psalm 96:3).
Love justice, show mercy and walk humbly with God (Micah 6:8).
Yahweh is my light and my salvation (Yeshua) — whom shall I fear? (Psalm 27:1).
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