It is better to trust in Yahweh1 than to put confidence in man. (Psalm 118:8)
What’s Your Paradigm?
Psalm 118:8 is not only the middle verse of the Bible, it is also represents the crux2 of the entire Bible. As amplified in the next verse, it is “better to trust in Yahweh than to put confidence in princes”—or presidents, or any other politician.
Christians would agree to this, at least when it comes to today’s “princes.” Perhaps not so much when it comes to yesterday’s “princes,” particularly those known as America’s founding fathers (not the early 17th-century Christian founding fathers, but instead the late 18th-century founding fathers). One only needs to point out to today’s Christians and patriots that the bulk of the constitutional framers were not Christians but instead Enlightenment and Masonic theistic rationalists3 to find out how much those men are not only implicitly trusted but almost deified. They can do no wrong, or what “little” wrong they did do—that’s admitted to—is quickly brushed aside as inconsequential.
Heroes/champions/idols do not die easily, especially those who have been all but sainted by Christians who desperately want them to be “our guys” and their Constitution to be “our document.”
In whom do you trust? God, or finite and fickle men? Whose canon do you appeal to for your arguments? From what paradigm are you working?4
If you love and promote judicial supremacy, then your standard of measurement is Yahweh and His immutable triune moral law.5 However, if you disdain judicial supremacy, then your paradigm is invariably We the People and the biblically adverse United States Constitution.6
Review
This and the previous article were inspired by a mailing I received from Pastor Matthew Trewhella,7 containing an article entitled “The Early Years of the Supreme Court’s March to Destroy the Sovereignty of the States.”
Many Christians and patriots are rightfully concerned about today’s judicial supremacy (aka, judicial activism) in violation of the original intent of the constitutional framers. Some of the 18th-century founding fathers warned against this abuse of power, already occurring in their day. The abuse they witnessed in their day has only intensified in ours. Grave concern is therefore justified. However, judicial abuse was inevitable for two principle reasons.
Reason #1
Any government not founded on an immutable/unchanging moral standard (found only in Yahweh’s triune moral law) as its supreme law, invariably deteriorates from bad to worse, regardless how good such a government may at first appear. It’s what God depicts as the whirlwind effect:
[B]ecause they have … trespassed against my law … they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind…. (Hosea 8:1, 7)
That the Constitutional Republic’s judiciary has gone bad is not so much the consequence of today’s progressive judges as it is the consequence of the 18th-century progressive founding fathers. Liberal progressivism on a national basis officially commenced in America in 1787 when the constitutional framers replaced the early 17th-century colonial governments of, by, and for God expressly established upon His immutable moral law for their own humanistic government of, by, and for the people based upon capricious man-made traditions.8
Judicial abuse was inevitable under the Constitution’s capricious law system.
Reason #2
The second reason it was inevitable that the Constitutional Republic’s judiciary would devolve into what it is today (to only get worse) is found in Article 6’s Christian test ban by which mandatory biblical qualifications for civil leaders were also eliminated:
The Bible stipulates, among other things, that judicial appointees must be men of truth who fear Yahweh and hate covetousness…. The United States Constitution requires no Biblical qualifications whatsoever. Nowhere does the Constitution stipulate that judges must rule on behalf of Yahweh, rendering decisions based upon His commandments, statutes, and judgments as required in Exodus 18. That not even one constitutional framer contended for Yahweh, as did King Jehoshaphat, speaks volumes about the framers’ disregard for Him and His judicial system:
And he [King Jehoshaphat] set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city, and said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for Yahweh, who is with you in the judgment…. And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and with a perfect heart. (2 Chronicles 19:5-9)9
Once Article 6 was adopted, it became inevitable that America would be ruled by nothing but nincompoops, incompetents, scoundrels, immoral reprobates, and outright criminals. Sound familiar?
Take nincompoops for example: The qualifications for judges in Exodus 18:21 begin with the fear of Yahweh:
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers…. (Exodus 18:21)
Kings David and Solomon inform us that wisdom, knowledge, and understanding all begin with the fear of Yahweh.10 Thus, without the fear of Yahweh, you end up with, at best, nincompoops.11
Such judges cannot be expected to even keep an oath to We the People and the Constitution, let alone to Yahweh and His law, the latter of which is the only means by which justice is determined:
Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy [Yahweh’s] throne…. (Psalm 89:14)
Anytime autonomous man attempts to establish justice outside the Bible’s triune moral law (as did the constitutional framers), the result is always injustice. Isaiah 5:2012 depicts this transposition as calling good evil and evil good. The word “autonomy” is derived from two Greek words: auto meaning self and nomos meaning law. The word, which literally means self-law, is just another way of describing humanism and, in this instance, constitutionalism. This, juxtaposed with theonomy, meaning God’s law.
Justice is defined as “the quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness.”13 This is a perfect description of Yahweh and His law, particularly from the perspective found in Isaiah 33:2214 and James 4:1215 that there is only one lawgiver…. All law, righteousness, equity, morality, truthfulness, and justice originate with and emanate from Him. None of this exists outside Yahweh and His law, and it all existed long before 1787. Because the Constitution did not uphold Yahweh’s lawfulness, righteousness, and justice, it established lawlessness, unrighteousness, and injustice. Christian Constitutionalists recognize this in regard to any other false god. Their unwillingness to apply the same criterion to WE THE PEOPLE is evidence that WE THE PEOPLE is indeed a god to them.16
The wind was sown and we’re reaping the whirlwind. Under the Constitution’s inherent capricious fallibility, governed by biblically unqualified men and women,17 the Republic has predictably devolved from bad to worse. Thus, what was from its inception a biblically incompatible juridical system, could only grow worse and more abusive, including the Supreme Court’s dominance over the executive and legislative branches. But, once again, judicial supremacy is not the problem. The problem is the caliber of men (and women) overseeing the Constitutional Republic’s judicial branch and the “law”18 they’re adjudicating.
State Sovereignty
Those who take a constitutional approach to today’s judicial supremacy, invariably promote state sovereignty and the intervention of lesser magistrates as the solutions to this abuse of power. I am completely on board when it comes to the doctrine of lesser magistrates. However, returning power to the states via Amendment 10 is not the answer for our nation.
For example, most Americans (regardless their Party affiliation) considered the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a veritable conservative.
Question: What’s the true conservative position19 regarding in utero infanticide (wrongly termed “abortion”20)?
Answer: The conservative position is that it’s murder as established by Yahweh, the only One with the authority to determine whether or not it’s criminal and deserving of capital punishment. Turning the decision over to the states to decide (which was Scalia’s position) is not the conservative position.
Question: Why was this Scalia’s position?
Answer: Because Scalia swore allegiance to uphold the Constitution rather than God’s law as the Supreme Law of the land.
When biblical standards are rejected, state governments are just as wicked as is the federal government. It’s a roll of the dice, and the odds don’t favor state governments doing any better than the federal government, especially with biblically unqualified men and women at their helm. In turn, millions of in utero infants will continue to be murdered.
Case in point: New Jersey’s Governor Phil Murphy recently reinstated ObamaCare’s individual mandate that includes an “abortion” (in utero infanticide20) premium mandate, to take effect January 1, 2019, the same day the federal mandate is set to expire. Are those who promote the Tenth Amendment as the solution for America’s woes going to be consistent and promote New Jersey’s right to re-implement the individual mandate?
Every Christian needs to answer the following question: When did God turn over His exclusive authority to secular government21—federal or state—to determine what constitutes good and evil?
America’s only answer is to return to Yahweh as her Sovereign, His Son as the Savior of the remnant, and His morality as found in His perfect law and altogether righteous judgments for society.
I repeat: Despite how vigorously some people may try to do so, remedying today’s whirlwind (including today’s judicial supremacy) will never be achieved by appealing to the wind (including Amendment 10’s state sovereignty) responsible for spawning the whirlwind.
Biblical Judicial Supremacy
For Yahweh is our judge, Yahweh is our lawgiver, Yahweh is our king; he will save us. (Isaiah 33:22)
One King. Thus, under His sovereignty, there’s no need for a human executive branch, like that instituted by the constitutional framers.22
One Lawgiver. There’s likewise no need for a human legislative branch.23 God has already determined all law as reflected in His Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments.24 Nothing can be added to the Bible’s triune law. Any attempt to do so makes legal what God has determined unlawful and illegal what He’s made lawful.
Legislators? No. Overseers? Yes.
Overseers who are responsible for applying and adjudicating Yahweh’s law—which principally devolves to the judicial branch, delegated to biblically qualified men, adjudicating according to Yahweh’s moral law.
Such judges are a blessing to the righteous and a terror, or deterrent, to the wicked “continually,” as depicted by the Apostle Paul in Romans 13:1-7. It is important to note that there is nothing in Romans 13 depicting a secular civil government. Everything therein depicts a biblical civil government. The one word “continually” (amplifying Verses 3 and 4) alone proves the point. Thus, Romans 13 is a template for biblical dominion—that is, for establishing Christian judges, first over ourselves, and eventually over all of society.25
Under a biblical paradigm—with Yahweh as the exclusive King and Lawgiver—the judicial branch, under the command of godly judges (identified as rulers in Exodus 18:21), reigns supreme, and it’s a beautiful thing to behold. It is the epitome of justice. This is because it’s delegated to only biblically qualified men who recognize, execute, and adjudicate only God’s law as society’s standard.
Without the extra burden of maintaining an executive and legislative branch, such a government is where we find a truly limited and inexpensive government, easily supported by the Kingdom tithe.26 When the incredible blessings from such a government27 are savored, citizens will willingly support such a government with ten percent of their increase.
That in a nutshell is the beauty of judicial supremacy under the biblical government prescribed by our King, Judge, and Lawgiver,28 as contrasted with the ugliness of judicial supremacy under the Constitutional Republic.29
Rather than fighting against judicial supremacy from a constitutional paradigm, we should instead be fighting for judicial supremacy from a biblical paradigm. This in turn will eliminate abusive constitutional supremacy on both the federal and state levels.
Related posts:
“The Beauty of Judicial Supremacy, Pt. 1”
Chapter 3 “The Preamble: WE THE PEOPLE vs. YAHWEH” of free online book Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective
Chapter 4 “Article 1: Legislative Usurpation” of free online book Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective
Chapter 5 “Article 2: Executive Usurpation” of free online book Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective
Chapter 6 “Article 3: Judicial Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective
Chapter 9 “Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land of free online book Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective
Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective
Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant
A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government
End notes:
1. YHWH, the English transliteration of the Tetragrammaton, is most often pronounced Yahweh. It is the principal Hebrew name of the God of the Bible and was divinely inspired to appear nearly 7,000 times in the Old Testament. In obedience to the Third Commandment and in honor of His memorial name (Exodus 3:15), and the multitudes of Scriptures that charge us to proclaim, swear by, praise, extol, call upon, bless, glorify, and hold fast to His name, I have chosen to use His name throughout this article. For a more thorough explanation concerning important reasons for using the sacred name of God, see “The Third Commandment,” the third in a series of ten free online books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments.
2. The English word “crux,” of Latin origin, means cross. Better to trust in God than man, lest the man be Yeshua (Yah who saves) hanging on the cross in our place. There indeed is the crux of the matter.
3. For more regarding the late 1700s founders’ religious persuasions, see Dr. Albert Mohler’s interview with Dr. Gregg Frazer. Dr. Frazer proves from the key founders’ own writings (without cherry picking) that they were neither Deists in the purest sense of the word, nor were they Christians in the biblical sense of the word. Instead, they were theistic rationalists.
Dr. Mohler is President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Frazer is Professor of History of the Master’s College in California.
4. Listen to audio series “What’s Your Paradigm?”
5. Yahweh’s triune moral law is cited numerous times in the Bible. For example: “Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them….” (Deuteronomy 6:1)
For more on how Yahweh’s immutable moral law applies and should be implemented today, see free online book Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant.
See also A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government.
6. See free online book Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective in which every Article and Amendment is examined by the Bible.
7. These articles are not meant to be an attack upon Pastor Trewhella, whom I appreciate very much, especially for his courageous stand on behalf of the unborn. I view his article as merely an opportunity to hopefully enlighten him and other good men as to the reason America finds herself precipitously teetering on the precipice of moral depravity and destruction, and the only solution to the same.
8. For more regarding these two polar opposite forms of governments, see Chapter 3 “The Preamble: WE THE PEOPLE vs. YAHWEH” of free online book Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.
9. Chapter 6 “Article 3: Judicial Usurpation” of free online book Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective
10. Psalm 111:10; Proverbs 1:7; Proverbs 9:10
11. For more regarding Article 6’s Christian test ban, see Chapter 9 “Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land” of free online book Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.
12. “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20)
13. Random House Webster’s College Dictionary, s.v. “justice” (New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 2000) p. 720
14. “For Yahweh … is our lawgiver….” (Isaiah 33:22)
15. “There is one lawgiver….” (James 4:12)
16. Chapter 3 “The Preamble: WE THE PEOPLE vs. YAHWEH” of free online book Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective
17. Chapter 28 “Amendment 19: The Curse of Women’s Suffrage” of free online book Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective
18. Isaiah 33:22 and James 4:12 depict Yahweh as the only lawgiver. Thus, only His law is genuine law.
19. See blog article “Right, Left, and Center: Who Get’s to Decide?”
20. The battle against this atrocity begins with identifying it correctly. By calling it “abortion,” we’ve acquiesced to the opposition’s terminology. Look up “abortion” and “miscarriage” in any dictionary. A miscarriage is an abortion. What doctors (and parents) do to infants in the womb is murder. Had Roe v. Wade been waged over in utero infanticide rather than abortion, it would have never made it to the court room. In fact, by employing the word “abortion,” Roe v. Wade was won before it ever got to court.
Had the constitutional framers (like their 17th-century Christian colonial predecessors) expressly established government and society upon Yahweh’s moral law (including Exodus 20:13 and 21:22-23), there would be no government-financed infanticide in America, Roe v. Wade would have never seen a courtroom, Planned Parenthood wouldn’t exist, and millions of babies would have seen the light of the day.
The Greek word brephos employed in the New Testament for infants already born is the same word used for infants in the womb (Luke 2:12 and Luke 1:41), without specifying the precise moment they became a brephos. Therefore, our only option is to accept they became such at conception. Thus, intentionally killing a brephos at any point is “brephocide” or, more properly, infanticide. The same is true for the Hebrew word in the Old Testament translated “infant.”
21. What makes a government secular is its rejection of Yahweh as its Sovereign and thus His moral law as supreme. Case in point: the United States Constitutional Republic.
22. Chapter 5 “Article 2: Executive Usurpation” of free online book Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective
23. Chapter 4 “Article 1: Legislative Usurpation” of free online book Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective
24. For more on how the Bible’s triune moral law applies and should be implemented today, see free online book Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant.
See also A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government.
25. See free online book The Romans 13 Template for Biblical Dominion: Ten Reasons Why Romans 13 is Not About Secular Government.
See also Christian Duty Under Corrupt Government: A Revolutionary Commentary on Romans 13:1-7.
26. Listen to audio series “Kingdom Tithing.”
27. See Deuteronomy 4:5-8; 28:1-14; Psalm 19:7-11; Romans 2:20; 7:12; 1 Timothy 1:8; etc.
For more on how Yahweh’s immutable moral law applies and should be implemented today, see free online book Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant.
28. See free online book A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government.
29. Chapter 6 “Article 3: Judicial Usurpation” of free online book Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective
I used to subscribe to a Christian sites blog that sent me weekly emails on scripture, and finally they sent me one on Romans 13. Their email was all about how were subject to Govt etc… When I wrote them on this issue, and how Romans 13 had nothing to do with secular Govt. and all they did was call me heathen, and how they would not teach this to anyone.
I sent them this sites link, but they just said it was against God.
I wrote back telling them No!!! it’s not, and it’s their fault.
(Meaning they ignore truth at their own peril).
Do you think this truth is part of prophecy? I mean part of Daniels prophecy that in the end times people increase in knowledge?
And how much of this will make mainstream, and maybe start helping fulfill other prophecy’s?
Noone? Noone wants to handle my question or at least add?
Ok
But I think it does to some degree but…
Doug, thanks for responding.
I had responded to your initial post when you first posted but for some reason, it wasn’t recorded.
I’m not surprised at the response you received regarding Romans 13. Most Christians simply ignore the word “continually” in Verse 6 that amplifies Verses 3 and 4. Unless someone’s prepared to claim the Roman Empire (one of the most notorious for murdering Christians) was a government that continually blessed Christians and terrorized the wicked, they best rethink their theology regarding this very important passage of Scripture.
For more, see free online book “The Romans 13 Template for Biblical Dominion: Ten Reasons Why Romans 13 is Not About Secular Government” at http://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/Romans13/Romans13-contents.html.
OK thanks!
yeah everywhere I post these truths people are taken aback.
Just yesterday, some guy was asking for prayer for Trump and his Govt and Pence, and I posted in the prayer I prayed for this, but not for Trump, or Pence, and said why. I said Romans 13 was never about Govt, or secular Govt, but about God’s. The reply I got back was more saying how wrong I am and posted a bunch of scripture supporting his opinion.
I replied back using this link and some others supporting this hidden truth. so…
I haven’t seen if he’s said anything more or not but…
I will keep trying to bring these new but not new, just hidden truths that the false prophet/s have managed to hide for 2k years and more.
Hopefully keep planting seed so tares will be gone soon.
You’re very welcome.
Don’t forget that the book “The Romans 13 Template for Biblical Dominion: Ten Reasons Why Romans 13 is Not About Secular Government” can be found online at https://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/Romans13/Romans13-contents.html.
In responding to naysayers, I usually post the following: There’s absolutely nothing in Romans 13:1-7 that describes a secular civil government. Rather, everything therein depicts a biblical civil government.
The one word “continually” or “devoted” alone (depending on your Bible version) in Verse 6 (amplifying Verses 3 and 4) alone proved the point. Unless someone’s prepared to declare the Roman Empire (one of the most notorious for murdering Christians) was a government that *continually* blessed Christians and punished the wicked, they best rethink their theology on the extremely important passage of Scripture.
Hope this helps.