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Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence: Declaration of Liberty vs. Declaration of Independence, Part 20

Posted: 25th October 2021 by Ted Weiland in Uncategorized

The Perfect Law of Liberty

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass [mirror, NASB]: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. (James 1:22-25)¹

The law of Yahweh² is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of Yahweh is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of Yahweh are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of Yahweh is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of Yahweh are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. (Psalm 19:7-11)

Perfect, sure, right, pure, true, altogether righteous, resulting in conversions, wisdom, joy, enlightenment, better than fine gold, and sweeter than honey. And if all of this weren’t enough, providing a great reward.

Question: Is this what the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution³ provided America? Close your ears to all the spurious propaganda spread by Christians⁴ and patriots alike, and consider where America finds herself today.

America’s descent into today’s abysmal state of affairs is the result of what was at first a slow but incremental—at breakneck speed presently—plunge into moral depravity, officially commencing with the adoption of the United States Constitution as the law of the land,⁵ sired by the Declaration of Independence.⁶

The Declaration Speaks for Itself

Paragraph #2, Sentences 6–7

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

As we continue to biblically examine the twenty-seven Facts (grievances), take note again how many of these same abuses can be leveled at both the Declaration’s signatories and the Constitution’s framers.

Grievances #13 & 22

He [Britain’s King George III] has combined with others [members of England’s Parliament] to subject us to … their Acts ofpretended Legislation:… For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

King George was suspending the American colonials’ legislatures and replacing them with those of his own making. In turn, immediately following the War for Independence, the colonials suspended King George’s legislatures and replaced them with legislatures of their own making as found in each of the thirteen original states’ constitutions. The same then occurred thirteen years later with the adoption of the federal Constitution⁷:

Article 1, Section 1: All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

The phrase “own Legislatures” in Grievance 22 should set off biblical alarm bells for the following reason:

For … Yahweh is our lawgiver…. (Isaiah 33:22)

There is no biblical justification for men forming their own legislatures, thereby empowering finite men as lawmakers to create their own laws by which to govern themselves—whether it be King George, the 17^th-century American colonials, the constitutional framers, or anyone else.

The framers’ great aspiration is known as the Great Experiment in Self-Government. It was, therefore, inescapable that they would create their own laws by which to govern themselves, rather than submitting to Yahweh’s perfect law of liberty, as reflected in His commandments, statutes, and judgments.⁸

If ever there were a recipe for disaster, self-government is it. Self-government is what Adam and Eve attempted in the Garden. How well did that turn out for them? How well has it turned out for America?

Judgment by Spurious Laws

Yahweh is sovereign over all of His creation, thus none of what was done in the 18^th-century American colonies was without His overarching supervision. Self-appointed legislators and man-made legislation is but one of God’s means for judging man for rejecting Him and His perfect law of liberty:

[T]he most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest [lowliest, NASB] of men. (Daniel 4:17)

Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols. Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live … that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Yahweh. (Ezekiel 20:24-26)

The Prophet Micah depicts the best of the lowliest of men as briars and the most upright among them as sharper than a thorn hedge (see Micah 7:4). It’s what today under the Constitutional Republic is often described as the lesser of two evils. However, sometimes it’s the worst of two evils. Regardless, it’s always the evil of two lessers. No wonder “no one’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.”

This is invariably true unless, of course, we’re talking about Yahweh’s legislature, consisting of Him as exclusive lawgiver via His Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments as the law of the land⁸:

Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as Yahweh my God commanded me…. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as Yahweh our God is in all things that we call upon him for? And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? (Deuteronomy 4:5-8)

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. (Romans 3:31)

Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. (Romans 7:12)

Clashing Legislators

The Prophet Isaiah contrasts the caliber of leaders who serve Yahweh as Lawgiver with Micah’s briars and thorns representing finite usurpers:

Seek Yahweh while he may be found, call upon him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Yahweh, and he will have mercy upon him … for he will abundantly pardon…. For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace…. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree…. (Isaiah 55:6-13)

The fir and myrtle trees are indicative of the civil leaders the Apostle Paul depicts in Romans 13:1-7⁹ as men of God who are a continual blessing to the righteous and a perpetual terror to the wicked, under which:

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. (Psalm 92:12)

Under man’s surrogate governments, the best you get for rulers are “briars” and “thorns.” Under a biblical government established on Yahweh’s law,¹⁰ adjudicated by biblically qualified judges, we get “fir” and “myrtle trees” for civil leaders. However for the “trees” to flourish, the “briars” and “thorns” must be eliminated:

Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son…. He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth. He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth. (Psalm 72:1, 6-8)

This Psalm depicts what everyone in their right mind desires for their nation, their people, and their posterity. Yahweh is always true to His word, thus when early 1600s America was governed by God’s law, it’s exactly what America experienced:

They [the 17^th-century Puritans] exercised the rights of sovereignty; they named their magistrates, concluded peace or declared war, made police regulations, and enacted laws as if their allegiance was due only to God. Nothing can be more curious and, at the same time more instructive, than the legislation of that period; it is there that the solution of the great social problem which the United States now presents to the world is to be found [in perfect fulfillment of Deuteronomy 4:5-8, demonstrating the continuing veracity of Yahweh’s law and its accompanying blessings, per Deuteronomy 28:1-14].

Amongst these documents we shall notice, as especially characteristic, the code of laws promulgated by the little State of Connecticut in 1650. The legislators of [New Haven] Connecticut begin with the penal laws, and … they borrow their provisions from the text of Holy Writ … copied verbatim from the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy.…¹¹

America’s former greatness (blessings from God) was the result of the early 17^th-century Colonial governments of, by, and for God established upon His unchanging moral law, per Deuteronomy 28:1-14.

On the other hand, God curses nations that reject His sovereignty and replace His law and legislature with their own man-made surrogates. Thus, America began to be cursed (by God’s long suffering, only incrementally at first) when the 18^th-century “founding fathers” replaced the 17^th-century biblical governments with their own humanistic government of, by, and for the people, based upon capricious man-made Enlightenment and Masonic traditions, including the Constitutional Republic’s legislative branch.¹²

Consequently, without repentance for these sins of sedition against Yahweh and America’s complicity therein ever since, it was inevitable that America would find herself teetering on the precipice of destruction.

Source of Morality

As the source of all true morality, Yahweh is likewise the source of all true law. It’s that simple! His never-changing immutable morality (aka His righteousness) is codified and reflected in His triune law of liberty:

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. …my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation. (Isaiah 51:6-8)

Because Yahweh’s righteousness can never be abolished, neither can His moral law that conveys His righteousness to us. Thus to change His law is to change Yahweh’s moral nature, and to change Yahweh’s moral nature is (in theory) to eliminate Yahweh Himself.

Source of Law

Because legislation enacts morality (or immorality as the case may be), morality and legislation are indivisible. Because Yahweh holds the exclusive authority for determining what constitutes good and evil, He likewise holds the monopoly on legislation.

Anything else is merely man making legal what God has determined as unlawful (e.g., government-financed in utero infanticide, sodomite “marriages,” and religious pluralism) and making illegal what God has determined or dictated as lawful (e.g., mandatory biblical qualifications for civil leaders). Therefore, for any man (e.g., King George) or group of men (e.g., the constitutional framers) to form their own legislatures and thereby to legislate a law code different than Yahweh’s is tantamount to calling good evil and evil good, per Isaiah 5:20. In turn, it makes a mockery of God and His law and, in so doing, repeats the same sin responsible for casting Adam and Eve out of the Garden.

Usurped Divinity

Calling good evil and evil good—as the Constitution repeatedly does,¹³ not to mention its biblically criminal legislature ever since—is a claim to divinity. One of the attributes of God is His exclusive authority to define good and evil. Because there is only one true God (Deuteronomy 6:4, 1 Corinthians 8:4-6, etc.) and Lawgiver (Isaiah 33:22, James 4:12), there is likewise only one standard for what constitutes good and evil. Consequently, anyone who attempts to alter His determinations for good and evil is usurping His place as God:

[T]he other gods about whom we must be concerned are, as they ever have been, to be found in the seats of temporal, or human, government.¹⁴

This is what Christ, in Matthew 23:2, depicted as fraudulently sitting “in Moses seat.” This is precisely what both King George, the American colonials, and the constitutional framers were guilty of when they created their own legislatures.

Last Five Grievances

The last five grievances essentially address different aspects of the same thing:

Grievances #23

He [King George] has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

Grievances #24

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

Grievances #25

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

Grievances #26

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

Grievances #27

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

Ungodly Acts of Warfare

All of this sounds terrible! But has the United States of America fared any better? Not to sound trite, but this is the way of nations that have rejected the Bible’s perfect law of liberty as the foundational standard for society. Case in point: The Constitutional Republic’s imperialistic empire and its industrial military complex that has disregarded the biblical laws of warfare as, for example, found in Deuteronomy 20.

No one will argue that the power to declare war is a very serious responsibility. So, why were the constitutional framers so vague in defining the parameters of war and the conditions under which it could be declared? Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11¹⁵ is the only place of significance where warfare is mentioned in the Constitution:

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11: [Congress shall have the power] To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.

That’s it! Read that again. The only foundational difference from what King George was doing is the number of men empowered to do so.

Little wonder this power has been abused from the inception of the Constitution. Luther Martin, one of Maryland’s delegates to the Constitutional Convention who finally walked away from the Convention in disgust and subsequently campaigned against its ratification, protested:

[T]he congress have also a power given them to raise and support armies, without any limitation as to numbers, and without any restriction in time of peace. Thus, sir, this plan of government, instead of guarding against a standing army, that engine of arbitrary power, which has so often and so successfully been used for the subversion of freedom, has in its formation given it an express and constitutional sanction.¹⁶

Because the framers provided no biblical parameters, unbiblical warfare has been the rule ever since. From 1945 to the present (2021), the United States has bombed nineteen different countries under the guise of defending America’s sovereignty and promoting Democracy. But America is none the better for it. The international bankers are better off, but not America. Moreover, not one of those nineteen countries has become a legitimate Democracy (not that this would be anything to celebrate).

Something’s terribly amiss—at the expense of life and limb of America’s young men and women.

Wars fought for political gain or financial profit are ungodly acts of aggression—including King George’s war against the American colonials and every war initiated by the Constitutional Republic since its inception.

Doing it Righteous

What’s especially grievous about this is that as bad as it was for the American colonials under King George’s reign of terror, the colonials’ sins were just as grievous, perhaps worse, at least in the sight of God. The colonials had the opportunity in their day to do it right, that is, righteous. They instead failed miserably, as did Great Britain’s government.

It’s now our time to do it right! The Constitutional Republic is presently tearing itself apart before our very eyes as part of Yahweh’s judgment upon a very wicked nation.

Consequently, unless we want to see America and our posterity go through all of this all over again, it’s imperative we do everything in our power to ready our posterity with the tools to erect local kingdom ecclesias¹⁷ on what will someday be the inevitable ruins of the Constitutional Republic:

And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. (Matthew 7:26-27)

[E]very kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand. (Matthew 12:25)

Otherwise America needs to get ready for one more trip around Mt. Washington, similar to ancient Israel’s repeated trips around Mt. Sinai during her forty-year wilderness wanderings.

May Yahweh grant us to see the work before us:

Let the work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. (Psalm 90:16)

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord. (1 Corinthians 15:57-58)

For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete. (2 Corinthians 10:4-6, NASB)

And do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them…. But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light. For this reason it says, “Awake, sleeper, And arise from the dead, And Christ will shine on you.” Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men, but as wise, making the most of your time, because the days are evil. So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. (Ephesians 5:11, 13-17, NASB)

“Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence, Pts. 1-12” (Articles)

Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant

A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government

Ecclesia vs. Church: Why Understanding the Difference is Critical to Our Future

The Romans 13 Template for Biblical Dominion: Ten Reasons Why Romans 13 is Not About Secular Government

Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective

End Notes

1. All scripture is quoted from the King James Version unless otherwise noted.

2. 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 inspired to appear nearly 7,000 times in the Old Testament. It was unlawfully deleted by the English translators. In obedience to the Third Commandment and the scriptures that charge us to proclaim, swear by, praise, extol, call upon, bless, glorify, and hold fast to His name, I have chosen to memorialize His name, per Exodus 3:15, in this article.

For a more thorough explanation concerning important reasons for using the sacred name of God, see Thou shalt not take the name of YHWH thy God in vain, the third in a series of ten free online books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments.

3. See Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective, in which every Article and Amendment is examined by the Bible.

4. Not everyone claiming to be a Christian has been properly instructed in the biblical plan of salvation. Mark 16:15-16; Acts 2:36-41, 22:1-16; Romans 6:3-4; Galatians 3:26-27; Colossians 2:11-13; and 1 Peter 3:21 should be studied to understand what is required to be covered by the blood of Jesus and forgiven of your sins.

For a more thorough explanation concerning water immersion and its relationship to salvation, the bookBaptism: All You Wanted to Know and More may be requested from Bible Law vs. The United States Constitution, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for free.

Additionally, listen to audio series “I Had a Dream: Judgment’s Coming. Are You Under the Blood?” Part 1 can be found here. Or a MP3 CD, containing all ten messages, can be requested from Bible Law vs. The United States Constitution, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for free.

5. Chapter 9 “Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

6. “Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence” (Audio series)

7. Chapter 4 “Article 1: Legislative Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

8. For more on how the Bible’s triune and integral moral law (the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments) applies and should be implemented today as the law of the land, see Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant.

Also A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government.

Also ten books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments, beginning with Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

9. See The Romans 13 Template for Biblical Dominion: Ten Reasons Why Romans 13 is Not About Secular Government

10. A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government

11. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 2 vols. (New York: NY: The Colonial Press, 1899) vol. 1, pp. 36-37

12. Chapter 4 “Article 1: Legislative Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

13. See Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective, in which every Article and Amendment is examined by the Bible.

14. T. Robert Ingram, The World Under God’s Law (Houston, TX: St. Thomas Press, 1981) p. 33

15. Chapter 4 “Article 1: Legislative Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

16. Luther Martin, Jonathan Elliott, ed., The Debates in the Several State Conventions, on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, 4 vols. (Washington, DC: Jonathan Elliott, 1836) vol. 1, p. 368 17. Ecclesia vs. Church: Why Understanding the Difference is Critical to Our Future

Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence: Declaration of Liberty vs. Declaration of Independence, Part 19

Posted: 27th September 2021 by Ted Weiland in Uncategorized

The Perfect Law of Liberty

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass [mirror, NASB]: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. (James 1:22-25)¹

The law of Yahweh² is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of Yahweh is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of Yahweh are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of Yahweh is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of Yahweh are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. (Psalm 19:7-11)

The Declaration Speaks for Itself

Paragraph #2, Sentences 6–7

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

Grievances #13 & 20

He [Britain’s King George III] has combined with others [members of England’s Parliament] to subject us to … their Acts of pretended Legislation:… For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighboring [Canadian] Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies.

When we examine the Declaration of Independence by the Bible and its flawless law system, two phrases in this grievance jump off the page: 1) “free System of English Laws” and 2) “Arbitrary government.”

Bogus Comparisons

Thomas Jefferson is allegedly contrasting these two forms of government. However, there is no such thing as a free system of law independent of Yahweh’s triune law of liberty.³ Consequently, both forms of government were arbitrary.

Jefferson did not have the Bible’s law in mind. If he had, he would have unequivocally identified it as such—just like you would have had you been in his place. Consequently, Jefferson’s assertion regarding a “free system of English law” was bogus—just more swelling words of vanity, boasts of liberty when there was no real liberty at all.

That said, there’s no reason not to believe the American colonials’ rule of “law” was more free than the “absolute rule” King George was imposing upon them. However, more free—the very best you can ever hope for under arbitrary man-made government—is not the same as free. More free is the same as less enslaved:

[People often claim] … that we are the most free nation on earth. While this may or may not be true, most people have never considered this possibility: If all of the other nations were under 100% totalitarian dictatorships, and the United States of America was only under a 95% totalitarian dictatorship, it could still be said that “America is the most free nation on earth.”⁴

Foolish Comparisons

To make such comparisons between man-made governments is foolish:

[W]hen they measure themselves by themselves, and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding. (2 Corinthians 10:12)

The same applies to Republicans comparing themselves with Democrats.

It’s inconsequential how one finite civil leader compares to another finite civil leader, or how one man-made government compares to another man-made government, which only serves to divert people’s attention from the real issue. The only thing that matters is how we compare to Yahweh’s expectations for us.

Whenever we choose one man-made surrogate—whether man or government—over another man-made surrogate, it results, at best, in the lesser of two evils. Sometimes, the worst of the worst. And always the evil of two lessers.

Suppose it [the Constitutional Republic] be the best government on earth, does that prove its own goodness, or only the badness of all other governments?⁵

Government Oppression

For Jefferson to contrast one form of government oppression with what allegedly was a worse form of government oppression only demonstrates government oppression, regardless how it’s packaged. Nothing is accomplished by grumbling and complaining about government tyranny—aka the Declaration’s Grievances against George’s government—if you’re only going to replace it with another form of government tyranny.

Part of Jefferson’s complaint in Grievance #2 was that King George was replacing “the free system of English laws” with “arbitrary government.” The Franklin Wordmaster Thesaurus provides two lists of synonyms for “arbitrary.” The first list begins with “capricious.” The second list includes “despotic” and “tyrannical.”

Arbitrary Government

Despotism and tyranny are two of the inevitable consequences of capricious man-made government. Case in point: the Constitutional Republic, which was established upon arbitrary man-made edicts.⁶ And where does America find herself today as a result? Ruled by despotic government, at the behest of unbiblical tyrants.

Arbitrary government is what Habakkuk 1:7 depicts regarding the Chaldeans whose authority and justice originated with themselves, invariably resulting in despotism and tyranny. Arbitrary government is what’s also depicted in the Constitution’s Preamble.⁷ It’s also how John Adams described the original states’ Constitutions:

It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service [the establishment of the states’ Constitutions] had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the inspiration of Heaven … it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses…. Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone.⁸

With this admission in mind, consider again the Treaty with Tripoli, of Barbary:

[T]he government of the United States of America [aka the Constitutional Republic] is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion…. (Treaty with Tripoli, of Barbary, Article 11)

This Treaty (which became part of the supreme law of the land, per Article 6⁹) was unanimously approved by the United States Fifth Congress and signed by none other than President John Adams.

If the Constitutional Republic isn’t Christian and/or biblical, what is it? At best, it’s non-Christian. At worst, it’s anti-Christian. Regardless, it’s as arbitrary, capricious, despotic, and tyrannical as was Great Britain’s government against which the American colonials were rebelling. In fact, it’s become multiplied times worse than King George’s arbitrary government.

Grievances #13 & 21

He [Britain’s King George III] has combined with others [members of England’s Parliament] to subject us to … their Acts of pretended Legislation:… For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments.

This is essentially a reiteration of previous grievances already considered. It specifically refers to the alteration of the Massachusetts Charter regarding King George making their judges subservient to the Crown rather than answerable to the colonials themselves.

This is but more evidence that the Declaration’s signatories were not working from a biblical paradigm. Whether the colonials’ judges were answering to King George or to the people in general—whether to one, a few, or to many—it’s a humanistic government of, by, and for the people, juxtaposed with a biblical government of, by, and for God:

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)

What a stark contrast with both the judges under King George’s jurisdiction, those appointed by the colonials, and those empowered by the Constitution.¹⁰

Had King Jehoshaphat been a wicked King, he would have most likely done as King George was accused of doing, instructing his judges to rule according to his dictates. Or, at the very least, he would have charged them to represent the people of his kingdom, as with the American colonials. Either way, it would have amounted to an arbitrary despotic government in rebellion to Yahweh, His Kingdom, and His law.

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2:13)

Stay Tuned for Part 20.

“Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence, Pts. 1-12” (Articles)

Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant

A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government

Ecclesia vs. Church: Why Understanding the Difference is Critical to Our Future

The Romans 13 Template for Biblical Dominion: Ten Reasons Why Romans 13 is Not About Secular Government

Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective

End Notes

1. All scripture is quoted from the King James Version unless otherwise noted.

3. For more on how the Bible’s triune and integral moral law (the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments) applies and should be implemented today as the law of the land, see Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant.

Also A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government.

4. James Bruggeman, epilogue to Christian Duty Under Corrupt Government: A Revolutionary Commentary of Romans 13:1-7, by Ted R. Weiland, 2nd ed. (Scottsbluff, NE: Bible Law vs. The United States Constitution, 2006, 2nd ed.).

5. Lysander Spooner, No Treason, No. VI, The Constitution of No Authority, http://praxeology.net/LS-NT-6.htm#

6. See Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective, in which every Article and Amendment is examined by the Bible.

7. Chapter 3 “The Preamble: We the People vs. Yahweh” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

8. John Adams, The Works of John Adams, 10 vols. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1865) vol. 4, pp. 292-93

9. Chapter 9 “Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

10. Chapter 6 “Article 3: Judicial Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence: Declaration of Liberty vs. Declaration of Independence, Part 18

Posted: 30th August 2021 by Ted Weiland in Uncategorized

The Perfect Law of Liberty

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass [mirror, NASB]: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. (James 1:22-25)¹

The law of Yahweh² is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of Yahweh is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of Yahweh are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of Yahweh is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of Yahweh are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. (Psalm 19:7-11)

Psalm 19 depicts society functioning at its optimum liberty, prosperity, and peace. And yet self-deceived man (beginning in the Garden of Eden) seems to think he can one-up his God and Creator. The Declaration’s signatories and Constitution’s framers were no exception.

The Declaration Speaks for Itself

Paragraph #2, Sentences 6–7

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

Grievances #13 & 19

He [Britain’s King George III] has combined with others [members of England’s Parliament] to subject us to … their Acts of pretended Legislation: … For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences.

The Administration of Justice Act was one of five laws enacted by the British Parliament on May 20, 1774, in response to the Boston Tea Party. It made it possible for American colonials (in particular Massachusetts Bay citizens) to be transported to Great Britain for trial for capital offences.

Bogus Indictments Based On Bogus Legislation

Judicial litigation on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean would be a horrific inconvenience and disruption of life. However, the real issue in this grievance is not so much where court convenes, but rather the moral standard employed. Thomas Jefferson summed it up as “pretended offences” based upon “pretended legislation.”

Any judicial indictment drummed up by any government not based upon the Bible’s triune moral law of liberty—that is, upon Yahweh’s unchanging justice as reflected in His Commandments, statutes, and judgments³—is an instance of a pretended (counterfeit) offence based upon pretended (counterfeit) legislation. Case in point: the bulk of indictments originating from the Constitutional Republic’s Criminal Justice System,⁴ sired by the Declaration of Independence, and born of the biblically seditious Constitution.

Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed. (Isaiah 10:1)

Regardless whether the government is Great Britain’s, the United States of America’s, or any other nation’s, when Yahweh’s moral law is rejected as supreme and thus the standard for all of society, it’s inevitable that evil will be identified as righteousness and righteousness as evil:

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 … because they have cast away the law of Yahweh of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. (Isaiah 5:20, 24)

In turn, justice will invariably be replaced with injustice:

[Yahweh’s] law is ignored and justice is never upheld. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore, justice comes out perverted…. (Habakkuk 1:4, NASB)

This is especially true for the Constitutional Republic as a consequence of the framers banning biblical qualifications for its civil leaders, per Article 6’s Christian test ban.⁵ Would anyone dare dispute that Americans have consequently been surrounded by the wicked, legislating and adjudicating what originates with themselves?

Their justice and authority originate with themselves. (Habakkuk 1:7, NASB)

As King Solomon declared, there’s nothing new under the sun:

United States Constitution, Preamble, Sentence 1: “WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, in order to … establish justice…⁶

Counterfeit Justice

The constitutional framers were not referring to the justice that originates with Yahweh, God of the Bible, but rather with the alleged justice originating with themselves. Otherwise, they would have followed the example of their early 1600s American predecessors⁶ and, at the very least, mentioned Yahweh’s law upon which justice is determined.

Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, who seek Yahweh…. Pay attention to Me, O My people; And give ear to Me … for a law will go forth from Me, and I will set My justice for a light of the peoples. (Isaiah 51:1, 4, NASB)

As with Britain’s humanistic government, the framers merely established their own form of counterfeit justice adjudicated by tribunals of injustice,⁷ by which “pretended offences” have been, time and again, leveled against its citizens and non-citizens alike. Except for being shipped across the Atlantic Ocean, this is no different—in fact, it’s become much worse—than what the American colonials endured under King George.

Rather than replacing Britain’s government with a government of, by, and for God, the Declaration’s signatories and Constitution’s framers replaced King George’s government of, by, and, for the people with a different version of the same humanism, resulting in similar counterfeit offences based upon similar counterfeit legislation.

John Adams attested to this regarding the states’ governments:

It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service [the establishment of the states’ constitutions] … were in any degree under the inspiration of Heaven … it will ever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses…. Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone….⁸

Augustine of Hippo declared, “If justice [as can only be determined by God] be taken away, what are governments but great bands of robbers….”⁹

When the constitutional framers disregarded Yahweh’s justice they opened the door for justice to be defined however judges choose to define it based upon their own interpretations of the biblically seditious Constitution¹⁰ via their own moral (immoral) proclivities. In other words, the Constitution essentially allows “justice” to originate with the judges themselves.

Today’s constitutional courts are, with very few exceptions, tribunals of injustice,¹¹ no different from King George’s courts.

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2:13)

Stay Tuned for Part 19.

“Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence, Pts. 1-12” (Articles)

Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant

A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government

Ecclesia vs. Church: Why Understanding the Difference is Critical to Our Future

The Romans 13 Template for Biblical Dominion: Ten Reasons Why Romans 13 is Not About Secular Government

Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective

End Notes

1. All scripture is quoted from the King James Version unless otherwise noted.

Also A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government.

4. Chapter 6 “Article 3: Judicial Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

5. Chapter 9 “Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

6. Chapter 3 “The Preamble: We the People vs. Yahweh” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

7. Chapter 6 “Article 3: Judicial Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

8. John Adams, The Works of John Adams, 10 vols. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1865) vol. 4, pp. 292-93

9. Augustine of Hippo, De Civ. Dei, IX:4

10. See Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective, in which every Article and Amendment is examined by the Bible.

11. Chapter 6 “Article 3: Judicial Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence: Declaration of Liberty vs. Declaration of Independence, Part 17

Posted: 9th August 2021 by Ted Weiland in Uncategorized

The Perfect Law of Liberty

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass [mirror, NASB]: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. (James 1:22-25)¹

The law of Yahweh² is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of Yahweh is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of Yahweh are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of Yahweh is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of Yahweh are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. (Psalm 19:7-11)

James also warned:

So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. (James 2:12)

The Declaration’s signatories and Constitution’s framers should have heeded what comes from Yahweh’s law of liberty—whether the blessings resulting from obedience per Deuteronomy 28:1-14, or the curses resulting from disobedience per Deuteronomy 28:15-68.

Tragically, because of their combined failure to heed God’s law, America has invariably endured more and more (and more to come) of the Deuteronomy 28 curses since the adoption of the U.S. Constitution as the supreme law of the land.³ This further demonstrates the 18^th-Century founding fathers’ Grand Experiment in Self Government to have been a Grand Failure—destined to be so, as are all governments built upon man’s whimsical notions.

The Declaration Speaks for Itself

Paragraph #2, Sentences 6–7

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

Grievances #13 & 18

He [Britain’s King George III] has combined with others [members of England’s Parliament] to subject us to … their Acts of pretended Legislation: … For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury.

In 1768, the British Parliament passed a law that placed violations of Britain’s revenue laws under the jurisdiction of admiralty, or military, courts. The American colonials were thereby deprived of juries of their own peers in such cases. The British prosecutors and judges in admiralty courts were invariably biased towards the Crown.

This grievance appears to be justified, but only from the Declaration’s non-biblical paradigm. There is no biblical authorization for juries consisting of people randomly picked from the general population for the purpose of adjudicating cases at law.

In other words, there is no biblical sanction for juries, whether Great Britain’s, the United States of America’s, or any other nation’s. They are all man-made surrogates for the Bible’s juridical system.⁴

This is but another instance from the Declaration of Independence demonstrating its signatories were more concerned with King George’s abuses against themselves then they were with King George’s violations against Yahweh and His perfect law of liberty. Had it been otherwise, they would have strenuously objected to George’s unbiblical judicial system (both its admiralty courts and its jury system), and the Constitution’s framers would not have repeated King George’s sins when they created their own unbiblical judicial system, including its non-biblical jury system.⁴

While conducted differently, both Britain’s and the United States’ judicial systems are prime evidence that both governments were secular humanist governments, representing the people (whether one or many) rather than God.

The Constitutional Republic’s Idolatrous Jury System

Article 3’s jury system⁴ is one of the most sacred components of the Constitution—as well it should be if We the People rather than Yahweh is your Sovereign,⁵ and if you look to the Constitution as your supreme law per Article 6.⁶ While venerated by constitutionalists, the Constitutional Republic’s jury system is one of the most biblically seditious components of the entire Constitution.

The power assigned inanimate idols (that have replaced Yahweh as God) is merely a figment of the idolater’s wild imagination, whereas both the Constitution’s juries and human elections⁷ are two instances in which the surrogate God, We the People, actually wields power. This would, arguably, make constitutional idolatry a much more serious offense than other forms of inanimate idolatry.

Because We the People are animate beings created by Yahweh, We the Peopleism⁸ is a First Commandment violation.⁹ Because the Constitution is inanimate, created by man, constitutionalism is a Second Commandment violation.¹⁰ However, in this instance, the two are inseparable, alone or combined they constitute a treasonous act against Yahweh as Sovereign and His law as supreme.

U.S. Constitution, Article 3, Section 2, Clause 3: The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury.

Article 3’s provision for juries is yet another instance of the constitutional framers deciding they knew better than Yahweh. The Bible offers nothing resembling a jury system—not that some died-in-the-wool constitutionalists don’t try their best to read juries into the Bible.

For example, Mark Beliles and Douglas Anderson coauthored Contending for the Constitution: Recalling the Christian Influence on the Writing of the Constitution and the Biblical Basis of American Law and Liberty. A biblically uninitiated person might be convinced by this title alone that the Constitution must be biblical. Don’t be swayed by this book’s impressive-sounding title—Beliles and Anderson have no case!¹¹ Case in point:

[T]the right of ‘trial by jury’ [was] set forth in the Bible in Deuteronomy 19:15-19.¹²

Does Deuteronomy 19 provide for juries?

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you. (Deuteronomy 19:15-19)

Anyone can read Deuteronomy 19 and see it’s a blatant fabrication that “the right of ‘trial by jury’ [was] set forth in … Deuteronomy 19:15-19.”¹² Deuteronomy 19 speaks of witnesses to the crime and it cites priests and judges, but it says nothing about juries summoned from the general population. A population, the bulk of whom are not only generally illiterate in Bible law, but who Christ, in Matthew 7:13, depicted as being in the broad way leading to destruction.

Is that who you want determining your case if ever you’re brought to court? Not that the Constitutional Republic’s biblically unqualified judges will perform any better. Either one is a wretched choice!

Because juries are foreign to the Bible, they are therefore merely man-made surrogates (poor substitutes) for biblically qualified judges, adjudicating by the Bible’s perfect law of liberty—the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments—by which such judges prove themselves to be a continual blessing to the righteous and perpetual terror (deterrent) to the wicked, per Romans 13:1-7.¹³

Anything less than a biblical judicial system, established upon the Bible’s commandments, statutes, and judgments, and adjudicated by biblically qualified men of God fails the Romans 13 criterion.

There are a plethora of passages (Exodus 1, Judges 6, Acts 4 & 5, 17:6-7, etc.) that dictate Christians¹⁴ reject any government mandate requiring them to disobey their Lord and King. Romans 13 is not one of them.

Romans 13:1-7 has absolutely nothing to do with secular civil government. Rather everything therein depicts a biblical civil government,¹⁵ making it our commission for dominion over government and society.

Biblical Courts

The courts the Apostle Paul advanced in 1 Corinthians 6 begin with Christians judging Christians, with the eventual objective to also judge the world—that is, non-Christians—as well:

Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters [among yourselves at that present time]? …How much more things that pertain to this life? (1 Corinthians 6:2-3)

1 Corinthians 6 should be read in conjunction with the following:

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. ( 2 Corinthians 10:4-6)

The purpose of taking every thought captive is for eventually eliminating God’s enemies’ strongholds—what’s depicted in Acts 17:6-7 as turning their world upside down.

The New American Standard Bible translates 2 Corinthians 10:6 as “[W]e are ready [not yet occurring] to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.”

This Verse is typically interpreted as referring to disobedience in the church. But why would Paul delay punishment of disobedient Christians until they had become obedient? In other words, why would he wait to punish their sins until after they had repented? That makes no sense and therefore cannot be Paul’s intention.

Instead, in perfect harmony with 1 Corinthians 6:2-3, Paul is referring to a future point in history when the Christian community would be mature and powerful enough to influence and even control government policy, including the judgment and punishment of the unregenerate wicked.

This is also born out in Romans 13¹⁶ in which the Greek word ekdikos (from which the Greek word ekdikeesai translated “revenge” in 2 Corinthians 10:6 is derived) is translated “revenger”:

For rulers [biblical judges] are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute [God’s] wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. (Romans 13:3-5)

As with 1 Corinthians 6, Romans 13 depicts a Christian civil body politic (local biblical ecclesia¹⁷) that metes out Yahweh’s civil judgments upon the wicked. Romans 13 and 2 Corinthians 10 are first and second witnesses to Paul’s instructions in 1 Corinthians 6, charging the Christian community to set up their own judicial system, governed, not by constitutional judges and/or juries, but by biblical judges.

[T]hou shalt provide [judges] out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness…. And let them judge the people at all seasons…. (Exodus 18:20-22)

For all manner of trespass …. the cause of both parties shall come before the judges…. (Exodus 22:9)

I charged your judges … saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. (Deuteronomy 1:16)

Judges and officers shall thou make thee in thy gates [where open court was convened] … and they shall judge the people with just judgment. (Deuteronomy 16:18)

If there is a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them, then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. (Deuteronomy 25:1)

And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God … set magistrates and judges … all such as know the law of thy God…. (Ezra 7:25)

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? … I speak [this] to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you … that shall be able to judge between his brethren? (1 Corinthians 6:1, 5)

When a judicial system is governed by biblically qualified judges whose decisions are based exclusively upon Yahweh’s commandments, statutes, and judgments, juries based upon their members’ capricious morality are not only dangerously foolhardy, they’re entirely superfluous.

Under a biblical justice system, all judicial decisions reflect Yahweh’s never-changing morality.

In Deuteronomy 25:1, judges are admonished to “justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.” Is this most likely to occur: 1) in the courts of sinners, adjudicated by biblically unqualified judges and/or biblically illiterate juries, or 2) in the courts of the saints, adjudicated by biblically qualified justices?

Don’t look for it to occur in the courts of the unrighteous:

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves … they have done violence to the law.” (Zephaniah 3:3-4)

[T]he law is ignored and justice is never upheld. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore, justice comes out perverted. (Habakkuk 1:4)

Constitutional Juries

Most constitutionalists favor the jury system, provided jury nullification is in play—that is, every juror’s right to not only determine the guilt or innocence of the accused but also the validity of the law by which the accused is being tried as unjust, oppressive, or inapplicable to the case against the accused.

However, even if jury nullification were restored to the Constitutional Republic’s juridical system (unlikely), juries would still render decisions based upon each jury’s collective standard of morality, or immorality:

A jury drawn from the [biblically] uninstructed population is no better equipped to administer the just requirements of God’s law than a corrupt judge.¹⁸

Case in point: a jury awarded $2.3 million to Stella Liebeck when she burned herself with McDonald’s coffee. Case in point: a jury found O.J. Simpson innocent of all charges. And case after case of jury trials could be cited.

Although it might be argued that it only takes one juror to dissent and prevent a railroad job, most people lack the independence and resolution to resist the will of the majority, let alone the biblical acumen to judge righteously. Consequently, more often than not, today’s jurors reflect the type of people we’re warned against by King Solomon:

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment. (Exodus 23:2)

Juries, at best, produce unpredictable and unreliable justice, if justice at all—justice as can only be determined by God:

Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy [Yahweh’s] throne…. (Psalm 89:14)

Without the Bible’s moral law as the standard, jury decisions are based upon the capricious morality of its members. Nothing demonstrates this better than Jesus’ trial by an alleged jury of His peers, with Pontius Pilate presiding. The prevailing immorality of the jury demanded Jesus be crucified, even though He was clearly innocent of all charges.

[Under the Constitutional Republic’s unbiblical jury system] The character of the courts, judges, and legal system cannot be long maintained if the character of the people is delinquent and degenerate. [Constitutional] Courts and judges do not exist in a vacuum: they are part of the faith, culture, and moral standards of the people at large, of the nation of which they are a part.¹⁹

Any juridical system that relies upon the “character” and “moral standards of the people,” the bulk of whom are in the broad way leading to destruction, is destined for failure from its inception. Considering Americans’ general lack of morality today, is it any wonder there’s a general lack of confidence in today’s constitutional courts?

Hypocritical Ignorance

In Paragraph 20, Grievance 18, the Declaration’s signatories had the audacity to complain about King George depriving them of the “benefits of trial by jury,” when instead they should have been looking to rid themselves completely of George’s horrendous judicial system, including its unbiblical jury system.

Whereas the Constitution’s Criminal Justice System is dependent upon either biblically unqualified judges and/or the collective capricious morality of its juries, the Bible’s Criminal Justice System is based upon Yahweh’s never-changing triune moral law, adjudicated by biblically qualified justices.

The constitutional right of a trial by a jury of “impartial” peers is regarded by Americans—ironically, especially by Christian constitutionalists—as one of the last bulwarks against tyranny. If this were true, Yahweh, who is the God of justice and mercy, would have included juries somewhere in His perfect law and righteous judgments as part of His criminal justice system.

Surely one of the reasons He did not provide for juries is that juries, like elections, place judicial decisions and government policy under the control of an unpredictable and unequally yoked public, the majority of whom are in broad way leading to destruction, per Matthew 7:13.

At best, juries are but another band aid on a self-inflicted wound that when covered only chafes, festers, and rots, invariably becoming something much worse, rather than being healed.

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2:13)

Stay Tuned for Part 18.

“Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence, Pts. 1-12” (Articles)

Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant

A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government

Ecclesia vs. Church: Why Understanding the Difference is Critical to Our Future

The Romans 13 Template for Biblical Dominion: Ten Reasons Why Romans 13 is Not About Secular Government

Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective

End Notes

1. All scripture is quoted from the King James Version unless otherwise noted.

3. Chapter 9 “Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

4. Chapter 6 “Article 3: Judicial Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

5. Chapter 3 “The Preamble: We the People vs. Yahweh” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

6. Chapter 9 “Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

7. Chapter 5 “Article 2: Executive Legislation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

See also blog article “Constitutional Elections: Dining at the Devil’s Table.”

For how the Bible’s election system operates, see blog article “Salvation by Election.”

8. Chapter 3 “The Preamble: We the People vs. Yahweh” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

9. Thou shalt have no other gods before me, the first in a series of ten books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments.

10. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, the second in a series of ten books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments.

11. See Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective, in which every Article and Amendment is examined by the Bible.

12. Mark A. Beliles, Douglas S. Anderson, Contending for the Constitution: Recalling the Christian Influence on the Writing of the Constitution and the Biblical Basis of American Law and Liberty (Charlottesville, VA: Providence Foundation, 2005) p. 145

13. See The Romans 13 Template for Biblical Dominion: Ten Reasons Why Romans 13 is Not About Secular Government.

14. Not everyone claiming to be a Christian has been properly instructed in the biblical plan of salvation. Mark 16:15-16; Acts 2:36-41, 22:1-16; Romans 6:3-4; Galatians 3:26-27; Colossians 2:11-13; and 1 Peter 3:21 should be studied to understand what is required to be covered by the blood of Jesus and forgiven of your sins.

15. For more on how the Bible’s triune and integral moral law (the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments) applies and should be implemented today as the law of the land, see Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant.

Also A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government.

16. See The Romans 13 Template for Biblical Dominion: Ten Reasons Why Romans 13 is Not About Secular Government.

17. Ecclesia vs. Church: Why Understanding the Difference is Critical to Our Future

18. Dennis Oliver Woods, A Handbook of Biblical Law (Prepublication, 2010) p. 12

19. Rousas John Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law (The Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1973) p. 639

Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence: Declaration of Liberty vs. Declaration of Independence, Part 16

Posted: 19th July 2021 by Ted Weiland in Uncategorized

The Perfect Law of Liberty

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass [mirror, NASB]: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. (James 1:22-25)¹

The law of Yahweh² is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of Yahweh is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of Yahweh are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of Yahweh is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of Yahweh are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. (Psalm 19:7-11)

Any government not based upon the Bible’s perfect law of liberty is, consequently, devoid of God’s perfection, wisdom, truth, and righteousness. Case in point, the Constitutional Republic sired by the Declaration of Independence.

The Declaration Speaks for Itself

Paragraph #2, Sentences 6–7

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

Grievances #13 & 17

He [Britain’s King George III] has combined with others [members of England’s Parliament] to subject us to … their Acts of pretended Legislation: … For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent.

In addition to the Stamp Act, taxes on income, tea, paper, glass, and a host of other goods were being imposed upon the American colonials by Great Britain, without any representation from the colonials themselves. But should the lack of representation have been the American colonials’ chief concern? Hardly!

Without Our Consent

Without whose consent? Without the colonials’ consent?

Once again, the word “our” is the operative term, indicative that the Declaration’s signatories were impervious to King George’s violations against Yahweh and His law. Not only was this not their primary concern, it wasn’t cited at all. The colonials’ only concern was George’s violations against themselves.

This humanism invariably manifested itself in their own government of, by, and for the people, which the constitutional framers created eleven years later and which has become manifold times worse than the one they seceded from:

[B]ecause they have … trespassed against my law … they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind…. (Hosea 8:1, 7)

Oppressive Taxation

King George’s abusive unbiblical taxation pales in comparison with the oppressive and repressive taxation resulting from the unbiblical government created by the alleged liberty boys of 1776 and 1787, who are, once again, best depicted by the Apostle Peter:

[W]ells without water … speak[ing] great swelling words of vanity … promis[ing] … liberty, [while] they themselves are servants [slaves] of their own corruption. (2 Peter 2:17-19)

This is especially true regarding taxation. Consider the Constitutional Republic’s taxes, none of which would exist under a biblical government. Had the constitutional framers (like their early 1600 predecessors) established government based upon the Bible’s perfect law of liberty (including its economic and tax statutes), there would be no graduated income tax,³ property tax, sales tax, or any of the other Constitutional Republic’s sundry taxes inflicting economic havoc on today’s Americans.

Moreover, there would be no Federal Reserve, nor its mistress today’s usurious fiat banking system, nor its enforcement arm the Internal Revenue Service. Talk about liberty! Talk about prosperity!

Just think what life would be like without all of the Constitutional Republic’s taxes, the Federal Reserve, and the IRS, and if instead taxes were limited to only a 10% flat increase tax³ per the Bible—a voluntary tax for only those with an increase. The Bible’s 10% tax while mandatory is nonetheless voluntary in that it’s left to each individual to pay this tax without government coercion or threat. Precedent for this is found in Nehemiah 10:32 regarding the Temple tax, and in that there’s no civil judgment prescribed for God robbers. God will one day take care of that Himself.

Because of the incredible results from the Bible’s perfect law of liberty as government and society’s standard (Deuteronomy 4:5-8, 28:1-14, Psalm 19:7-11, Romans 13:1-7, etc.), coercion and threat would not be required for most people to willingly support such a government with their tithe.

If you have no increase above your expenses, you aren’t taxed anything! This would leave 90% of your increase to be spent on yourself, your family, others of your own choice (freewill offerings), or to be reinvested in your business.

Contrast this with the 18th-century founding fathers’ swelling words of vanity (hollow promises of liberty) that have only produced more and more compounded slavery, especially economic slavery. This is what inevitably comes from rejecting Yahweh, His Kingdom, and His perfect law of liberty:

Thus speaketh Yahweh of hosts, … This people say, The time is not come … that Yahweh’s house [His kingdom] should be built. Then came the word of Yahweh …, saying, Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled [paneled, NASB] houses, and this house lie waste? Now therefore thus saith Yahweh of hosts; Consider your ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag [purse, NASB] with holes. … Consider your ways…. Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it [blow it away, NASB]. Why? saith Yahweh of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. (Haggai 1:2-9)

Sounds like what many contemporary Americans are suffering under the Constitutional Republic!

Limited Government

Under a biblical government,⁴ a 10% increase tax would be more than sufficient for what would be a truly limited government—unlike today’s Constitutional Republic’s behemoth.

Constitutionalists, Libertarians, and Republicans often claim that limited government was the constitutional framers’ objective. It is true that government was much more limited in the late 1700s than it is today. But do not believe for a minute that the Constitution provided America with limited government, even in the late 1700s. When compared with biblical government, a government consisting of a president, vice president, a House of Representatives, a Senate, and a judiciary can hardly be described as limited. When the framers rejected a biblical theocracy in exchange for the United States’ secular theocracy,⁵ they also cast aside limited government.

There is no more escaping theocracy (god rule) than there is escaping taxation. It’s just a matter of what kind of theocracy (biblical or secular) one chooses to live under and support with their taxes. There are no vacuums when it comes to legislated morality or, more often than not, immorality. Consequently, a government’s foundational ethical standard determines its God. Thus, there are likewise no vacuums when it comes to religious-influenced government, be it even Secular Humanism in its multifarious forms, and it usually is. Case in point: The Constitutional Republic and its God We the People.⁵

With some rare exceptions, biblical government consists of only one King and Legislator (Yahweh) and a judiciary to litigate His commandments and statutes, and enforce His civil judgments. That is limited government!

Biblical government has no need of a president and his cabinet, a House of Representatives or a Senate and their glutted bureaucracy, a tax-subsidized standing army, a prison complex, a Federal Reserve, an Internal Revenue Service, or a parasitical welfare system. Constitutionalists want to abolish nearly everything enumerated here, but they would have us “return” to the very document that birthed these excesses and robbed us of a truly limited government.

Today’s America is reaping the inevitable ever-intensifying whirlwind (Hosea 8:7) resulting from the wind (Hosea 8:1) sown by the constitutional framers and fanned by today’s hoodwinked Christians and patriots who have been bamboozled into believing today’s whirlwind can be dissipated by appealing to the wind responsible for spawning the whirlwind.

Unimaginable Prosperity

Under a biblical government, local communities (biblical ecclesias⁶) would prosper beyond our wildest imaginations—exceedingly, abundantly beyond all we could ask or think, per Ephesians 3:20. This is how you make America great and prosperous again, as well as the envy of the rest of the world:

Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as Yahweh my God commanded me…. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as Yahweh our God is in all things that we call upon him for? And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? (Deuteronomy 4:5-8)

Today’s constitutionalists have audaciously commandeered these windfalls resulting from an earlier biblical American and have profanely claimed them to be the result of the 1776 and 1787 cadre of Enlightenment and Masonic theistic rationalists and their biblically seditious Constitution⁷ created after seceding from Great Britain.

That’s not how French Historian Alexis de Tocqueville declared America’s former greatness, prosperity, and fame was acquired:

They [the 17th-century Puritans] exercised the rights of sovereignty; they named their magistrates, concluded peace or declared war, made police regulations, and enacted laws as if their allegiance was due only to God. Nothing can be more curious and, at the same time more instructive, than the legislation of that period; it is there that the solution of the great social problem which the United States now presents to the world is to be found [in perfect fulfillment of Deuteronomy 4:5-8, demonstrating the continuing veracity of Yahweh’s law and its accompanying blessings, per Deuteronomy 28:1-14]

Amongst these documents we shall notice, as especially characteristic, the code of laws promulgated by the little State of Connecticut in 1650. The legislators of [New Haven] Connecticut begin with the penal laws, and … they borrow their provisions from the text of Holy Writ … copied verbatim from the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy.…⁸

It’s blasphemous for today’s Christians⁹ and patriots to credit either the Declaration’s signatories or the Constitution’s framers with what exclusively was derived from Yahweh, His government, and His laws.

Kingdom / Ecclesia Tithing

What’s the purpose of the Bible’s 10% tax, aka the tithe?

The answer to this question will surely come as a surprise to most contemporary Christians. The Bible tithe has nothing to do with supporting churches or church pastors, if for no other reason than because churches are foreign to the Bible, despite the appearance of the word “church” in the New Testament.¹⁰ Consequently, no one has been commissioned to church, and thus no one is biblically obligated to tithe today’s churches. In fact, to tithe to any church or ministry that’s anti-Kingdom here and now, anti-biblical dominion, and/or antinomian (anti-biblical law under the New Covenant) is an act of sedition against Yahweh.

The word “church,” poorly translated from the Greek word ecclesia, wouldn’t be in our English Bibles if not for King James’ third instruction to his translators:

3. The old ecclesiastical words to be kept; as the word church, not to be translated congregation [even better assembly and/or community], &c [etc].¹¹

When you hear the word “church,” what comes to mind? For most people, the word “church” means one of two things, depending upon the context:

1) A building they frequent once, twice, or three times a week in which to pray, sing praises, and listen to preaching.

2) The people who allegedly make up the church, aka the body of Christ, who frequent a building known as a church to do the things depicted in Option #1.

What doesn’t come to mind is a community of believers in the fullest sense of the word—a biblical community established, not only on the Word of God, but also on the moral laws of God.¹² When obedient to our ecclesia commission, these biblical communities will be established not on the Ten Commandments alone, but upon the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes explaining the Ten Commandments and their respective civil judgments enforcing the Ten Commandments and their statutes, adjudicated by biblically qualified men of God who are a continual blessing to the righteous and a perpetual terror to the wicked, per Exodus 18:21, Romans 13:1-7,¹³ etc.

There is not a living person today who hears the word “church” and thinks of what’s depicted in the previous paragraph. And yet this description represents the true meaning of the Greek word ecclesia, which has been tragically translated “church.”

Ecclesia is first and foremost a political term. This is easily proven from its etymology and its historical and biblical use. Consider the Encyclopedia Britannica’s definition of ecclesia:

[An] ancient Greek assembly (“gathering of those summoned”), in ancient Greece, assembly of citizens in a city-state. … the Ecclesia … the body of male citizens 18 years of age or over and [who] had final control over policy, including the right to hear appeals in the heliaia (public court), take part in the election of archons (chief magistrates), and confer special privileges on individuals. … Assemblies of this sort existed in most Greek city-states, continuing to function throughout the Hellenistic and Romans periods, though under the Roman Empire their powers gradually atrophied.¹⁴

That the Greeks’ ecclesias were eventually eliminated under the Roman Empire should not come as surprise. Much like King James dictating to his translators to render ecclesia as church, the Roman dictators made sure they also had the monopoly on such political assemblies over the Greeks. The Romans further designed to do the same with anyone like those depicted in Acts 17:6-7 who were in the process of turning the Roman Empire upside down by declaring Christ as their King, His laws as supreme, and thereby doing “contrary to the decrees of Caesar.”

The Free Dictionary sums up ecclesia as “The political assembly of citizens of an ancient Greek state.”¹⁵

The New Testament bears out this definition in Acts 19:21-41 where the Greek word ecclesia is found three times. It has absolutely nothing to do with either church buildings or Christians. Instead, it’s translated “assembly,” referring to a political gathering conducted by the town clerk for the purpose of litigating a legal issue against the Apostle Paul’s companions.

Because no one has been commissioned to church, no one has been commanded to tithe to churches or their pastors.

Commissioned to Ecclesia

Christians have been commissioned to ecclesia¹⁶—that is, to form local biblical communities in the fullest sense of the word. This includes civil governments established upon God’s perfect law of liberty, exclusively governed by biblically qualified men of God, particularly elder judges who adjudicate per God’s triune moral law of God—that is the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments.¹⁷

Consequently, the biblical tithe is not a church tithe but rather a kingdom tithe¹⁸—a tithe for the support and maintenance of ecclesia governments and their laborers, especially men in full-time Kingdom service, who, in all likelihood, will have no other means of livelihood.

If not by the tithe then how is remuneration for services rendered to be determined in such ecclesias? God did not leave this up to conjecture, which would be an instance of doing what’s right in our own eyes, per Judges 21:25. The tithe has always been a Kingdom tithe and will always remain a Kingdom tithe—at least when employed as God intends, for the maintenance of local ecclesias and the support of Kingdom laborers.

The tithe was certainly never intended for anyone, non-Christian or alleged Christian alike, opposed to Yahweh’s extant Kingdom and its laws here and now.

If the Kingdom exists today (and it does¹⁹), it must be financially supported. Therefore, the tithe is as relevant now under the New Covenant as it was under and prior to the Mosaic Covenant.

Objections to the New Covenant Tithe Answered

Greed and covetousness aside, there are three principal reasons why many believers today oppose the tithe under the New Covenant. First, because of charlatans and their usurpation of the tithe, whereby they fleece the sheep only to enrich themselves. Of course, this no more justifies tithe hoarders than it does the charlatans. Who’s dictating our actions: the charlatans or Yahweh? Forget the charlatans! It’s your responsibility as a Christian, as a citizen of the Kingdom, to instead locate Kingdom ambassadors who deserve support—some of whom deserve a double portion:

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward. (1 Timothy 5:17-18)

The second reason some people reject the tithe under the New Covenant is because of erroneous eschatology that has the Kingdom yet off in the future or exclusively up in heaven rather than here and now.¹⁹ It’s sometimes argued by such people that without an extant Kingdom here on earth (allegedly), there’s no need to polish brass on what’s a sinking ship, and therefore no need to support those polishing the brass—that is, performing Kingdom-related duties.

But to deny the present reality of the King, His Kingdom, and His law is heresy of the worst caliber. One cannot deny the present reality of the Kingdom without at the same time denying the present reality of the King.¹⁹

That the Kingdom is here and now includes the responsibility to financially maintain and advance the Kingdom. Your tithe still belongs to God, and thus still needs to be employed on behalf of His Kingdom via those who labor for the restoration of Kingdom ecclesias. This is especially true today since the Kingdom is in such disrepair with so few promoting the Kingdom here on earth as it is in heaven, per Matthew 6:10 & 33. Consequently, today’s Kingdom ambassadors are as essential as ecclesia judges once such ecclesias have been reinstated as in early 1600s America.

The third reason why some people are opposed to the New Covenant tithe is because they have failed to discern correctly the added law of Galatians 3:19²⁰ and its implications regarding the Kingdom tithe that existed prior to the added Mosaic Covenant (Genesis 14:18-20 & Genesis 28:16-22) and is, therefore, likewise in existence now under the New Covenant.

Abraham’s tithing of all in Genesis 14:18-20 (rather than just an agricultural tithe under the Mosaic Covenant) is what the author of the Hebrews epistle uses as our example for New Covenant tithing. See Hebrews 7:2-17. Christ is our New Covenant Melchisedek, our New Covenant King. If the pre-Mosaic Covenant Melchisedek deserved Abraham’s tithe, how much more so our post-Mosaic Covenant Melchisedek and His Kingdom work here and now?

Malachi’s New Covenant Prophecy

Additionally, consider carefully the following from Malachi’s New Covenant prophecy:

I am Yahweh, I change not… Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith Yahweh of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes … and prove me now herewith, saith Yahweh of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes…. (Malachi 3:6-11)

While it’s true that the Mosaic Covenant’s agricultural tithe ended with the New Covenant, the tithe of all per Hebrews 7 based upon Abraham’s and Jacob’s pre-Mosaic examples, is still very relevant and important today—not for the support of merely church men but Kingdom men, eventually ecclesia judges.

If you want to see the blessings enumerated by Malachi manifested in our time—including the overthrow of today’s devourers—the Kingdom and its laborers must be supported by tithes and offerings.

Otherwise, the government vacuum for the lack of support will be filled by another oppressive government that will be more than pleased to take you for everything you have via its surrogate taxes, the same as the one we live under today, thanks to the Declaration’s signatories and Constitution’s framers, who were more concerned with King George robbing them than they were with themselves robbing God.

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2:13)

Stay Tuned for Part 17.

“Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence, Pts. 1-12” (Articles)

Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant

A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government

Ecclesia vs. Church: Why Understanding the Difference is Critical to Our Future

The Romans 13 Template for Biblical Dominion: Ten Reasons Why Romans 13 is Not About Secular Government

Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective

End Notes

1. All scripture is quoted from the King James Version unless otherwise noted.

3. Chapter 25 “Amendment 16: Graduated Income Tax vs. Flat Increase Tax” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

4 A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government

5. Chapter 3 “The Preamble: We the People vs. Yahweh” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

6. Ecclesia vs. Church: Why Understanding the Difference is Critical to Our Future

7. See Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective, in which every Article and Amendment is examined by the Bible.

8. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 2 vols. (New York: NY: The Colonial Press, 1899) vol. 1, pp. 36-37

9. Not everyone claiming to be a Christian has been properly instructed in the biblical plan of salvation. Mark 16:15-16; Acts 2:36-41, 22:1-16; Romans 6:3-4; Galatians 3:26-27; Colossians 2:11-13; and 1 Peter 3:21 should be studied to understand what is required to be covered by the blood of Jesus and forgiven of your sins.

10. Ecclesia vs. Church: Why Understanding the Difference is Critical to Our Future

11. Instructions to the Translators

12. For more on how the Bible’s triune and integral moral law (the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments) applies and should be implemented today as the law of the land, see Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant.

Also A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government.

13. See The Romans 13 Template for Biblical Dominion: Ten Reasons Why Romans 13 is Not About Secular Government.

14. Ecclesia: Ancient Greek Assembly, Encyclopedia Britannica, www.britannica.com/topic/Ecclesia-ancient-Greek-assembly

15. Ecclesia, The Free Dictionary, https://www.thefreedictionary.com/ecclesia

16. Ecclesia vs. Church: Why Understanding the Difference is Critical to Our Future

17. A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government

See also ten books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments.

18. Listen to the audio series “Kingdom Tithing.”

19. Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant

20. Listen to Parts 12 & 13 of “An Expository Series on Galatians.” Part 12 is subtitled “The Added, Fulfilled, and Abolished Law,” and Part 13 is subtitled “Mosaic Covenant vs. New Covenant.”

Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence: Declaration of Liberty vs. Declaration of Independence, Part 15

Posted: 29th June 2021 by Ted Weiland in Uncategorized

The Perfect Law of Liberty

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass [mirror, NASB]: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. (James 1:22-25)¹

The law of Yahweh² is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of Yahweh is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of Yahweh are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of Yahweh is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of Yahweh are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. (Psalm 19:7-11)

What could be better? And yet Psalm 19 provides only the bare bones of what’s derived from government established upon the Bible’s perfect law of liberty,³ tragically spurned by the Declaration’s signatories and the Constitution’s framers.

The Declaration Speaks for Itself

Paragraph #2, Sentences 6–7

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

Grievances #13 & 16

He [Britain’s King George III] has combined with others [members of England’s Parliament] to subject us to … their Acts of pretended Legislation: … For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world.

The Navigation Acts were a series of edicts passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade, particularly with Spain and France. This, in turn, undermined significant sources of revenue for the American colonials.

Treaties & Alliances

Is cutting off trade from other parts of the world inherently wrong? Are trade agreements with other nations inherently righteous and therefore biblically acceptable? If you’re working from a strictly biblical paradigm, the answer is: No, trade agreements are not inherently righteous, and, therefore, neither is cutting off trade with other nations inherently wrong.

There are biblical parameters for agreements, treaties, leagues, alliances, pacts—call them what you will—beginning with the First Commandment.⁴

The First Commandment is usually viewed as intended for individual application. However, the First Commandment goes far beyond merely personal consideration. For example, the First Commandment and its statutes and judgment is the principal law governing national borders, immigration, international alliances, and trade agreements.

Had the Declaration’s signatories and the Constitution’s framers been operating from a biblical paradigm, their grievance with King George would not have merely concerned his limitations on international trade, but that his reasons for his trade prohibitions were not generated from the First Commandment.

The constitutional framers’ trade stipulations were no more biblically inspired than were George’s trade restrictions:

Article 6, Clause 2: This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States [aka the Constitutional Republic], shall be the supreme law of the land….⁵

Treaty with Tripoli

The constitutional framers basis for international treaties was not established on biblical law. Nothing demonstrates this better than the Treaty with Tripoli made with Muslims.

…the government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion…. (Treaty with Tripoli, of Barbary, Article 11)

This treaty was unanimously approved by the Fifth Congress and signed by President John Adams, making it part of the supreme law of the land per Article 6. Even without this treaty, the Constitution was already non-Christian because anything biblically adverse is also non-Christian.⁶

The Constitution is not only unbiblical and non-Christian, it’s idolatrous. Idolatry is not so much about statues as it is statutes, such as what one considers the supreme law of the land. There can only be one supreme law: 1) The Constitution, per Article 6, or 2) Yahweh’s moral law, per the Bible.⁷

John Adams’ part in the Treaty with Tripoli’s non-Christian declaration was not new to him. Prior to becoming President, Adams made essentially the same admission regarding the original states’ constitutions:

It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service [the establishment of the states’ constitutions] had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the inspiration of Heaven … it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses…. Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone….⁸

The “natural authority of the people alone”? That’s humanism at its worst!

For obvious reasons, many people attempt to negate the Treaty with Tripoli’s non-Christian declaration:

Despite the efforts of some Christian leaders to spin-doctor this document [the Treaty with Tripoli], the statement speaks for itself…. Imagine your church saying that it was “not in any sense founded on the Christian religion,” or a member of your congregation telling his neighbor that his own personal faith was “not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.” If such words are unfit for Christians and their churches, how are they acceptable in a[n alleged] Christian government? There is simply no context that justifies the statement—other than it being a deliberate denial of Christianity.⁹

If the federal government is not Christian, what is it? At best, it’s non-Christian. At worst, it’s antichristian. And regardless—thanks to Amendment 1—it’s nationally polytheistic, which, in turn, makes it biblically seditious.¹⁰

First Commandment Statutes

Had the constitutional framers been operating from the biblical law code regarding treaties and trade agreements, they would have cited their scriptural authority, such as the following three Exodus passages, all of which are First Commandment statutes¹¹:

Thou shalt not bow down to their [the heathens’] gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images. (Exodus 23:24)

What’s this say about Amendment 1¹²?

It’s one thing to allow for individual freedom of conscience and private choice of gods—something impossible to legislate for or against to begin with. It’s another matter for government to enable any and all religions to proliferate through the land and proselytize our posterity to false gods. This is what the First Amendment legitimizes, an unequivocal violation of the First Commandment and the polar opposite of the First Commandment statute cited above that requires all Mosques, Temples, and Synagogues devoted to false gods be torn down.

National Borders

And I [Yahweh] will set thy bounds [borders]… for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. (Exodus 23:31)

Don’t let anyone tell you the Bible doesn’t mandate national borders.

When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds [borders] of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. (Deuteronomy 32:8)

[God] hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds [borders] of their habitation. (Acts 17:26)

In addition to a number of other passages ignored by today’s egalitarians and integrationists, in Numbers 20, Israel respected Edom’s national borders when denied entrance by the Edomites.

However, even when a nation’s borders are protected by border walls, that nation may still be at great jeopardy:

For I, saith Yahweh, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her. (Zechariah 2:5)

Without God as America’s principle wall of protection, her borders will never be completely secure.

Compounding America’s border problems is that America has become so ungodly that, not only is God not her wall of protection, but He’s become her greatest enemy. America officially rejected Yahweh as her Sovereign and thus His moral law as supreme in 1789 when He was replaced with We the People as America’s Sovereign¹³ and His moral law (including the First Commandment¹⁴ as America’s principle border and immigration law) was replaced with the biblically seditious Constitution, per Article 6.¹⁵

It was then that America began her suicidal trek to the precipice of moral depravity and destruction she presently finds herself teetering on, being pushed over the edge by Christians¹⁶ and patriots who are bent on promoting the genesis of her national woes as the solution to the problems it created.

Unequal Yoking

Thou shalt make no covenant with them [the heathen], nor with their gods. They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee. (Exodus 23:32-33)

God does not allow for nations established upon His sovereignty, and thus His law, to make covenants, alliances, pacts, treaties, or trade agreements with nations that do not recognize Him as their God.

Can two walk together, except they be agreed? (Amos 3:3)

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. (2 Corinthians 6:14-18)

Contemporary Christianity applies these two passages to marriage and business ventures, if they apply them at all. How much more so to nations and governments when so much more is at stake?

Had the constitutional framers based government upon the Bible’s triune moral law (beginning with the First Commandment¹⁷), treaties such as GATT, NAFTA, and other disastrous unbiblical trade agreements would have never occurred.

God Is Jealous

Immediately following the First¹⁷ and the Second¹⁸ Commandments in Exodus 20, we’re informed in Verse 5 that Yahweh is a jealous God. Consequently, He does not allow His people to enter partnerships with individuals or treaties with nations in rebellion to Him:

And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer … said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate Yahweh? therefore is wrath upon thee from before Yahweh. (2 Chronicles 19:2)

Jehoshaphat king of Judah join[ed] himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly: And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish…. Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, Yahweh hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish. (2 Chronicles 20:35-27)

The former two passages also rule out foreign aid to non-Christian nations. To provide financial assistance to a pagan nation is to disdain what may be Yahweh’s financial judgment on an ungodly nation. No amount of money can bail out a nation under God’s judgment. Such nations do not need our money; they need the gospel!

The 18^th-century American colonials’ beef with King George regarding his trade restrictions (along with his other tyrannical dictates) should have been generated from his violations of Yahweh’s perfect law of liberty and not merely their own interests. Perhaps then they wouldn’t have erected a government that’s become manifold times worse than the one from which they seceded.

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2:13)

Stay Tuned for Part 16.

“Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence, Pts. 1-12” (Articles)

Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant

A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government

Ecclesia vs. Church: Why Understanding the Difference is Critical to Our Future

The Romans 13 Template for Biblical Dominion: Ten Reasons Why Romans 13 is Not About Secular Government

Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective

End Notes

1. All scripture is quoted from the King James Version unless otherwise noted.

3. See Part 1.

Also Chapter 1 “The Perfect Law of Liberty” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

4. Thou shalt have no other gods before me is the first in a series of ten online books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments.

5. Chapter 9 “Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

6. See Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective, in which every Article and Amendment is examined by the Bible.

7. Chapter 9 “Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

8. John Adams, The Works of John Adams, 10 vols. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1865) vol. 4, pp. 292-93

9. Christian J. Pinto, “The Church in Secret Societies,” Twenty Experts Advise You on How to Overcome the Most Frightening Issues You WILL Face This Century (Crane, MO: Defender: A Division of Anomalos Publishing House, 2009) pp. 158-59.

10. Chapter 11 “Amendment 1: Government-Sanctioned Polytheism” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

11. Thou shalt have no other gods before me is the first in a series of ten online books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments.

12. Chapter 11 “Amendment 1: Government-Sanctioned Polytheism” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

13. Chapter 3 “The Preamble: We the People vs. Yahweh” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

14. Thou shalt have no other gods before me, the first in a series of ten online books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments.

15. Chapter 9 “Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

16. Not everyone claiming to be a Christian has been properly instructed in the biblical plan of salvation. Mark 16:15-16; Acts 2:36-41, 22:1-16; Romans 6:3-4; Galatians 3:26-27; Colossians 2:11-13; and 1 Peter 3:21 should be studied to understand what is required to be covered by the blood of Jesus and forgiven of your sins.

17. Thou shalt have no other gods before me, the first in a series of ten online books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments. 18. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, the second in a series of ten online books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statu

Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence: Declaration of Liberty vs. Declaration of Independence, Part 14

Posted: 24th June 2021 by Ted Weiland in Uncategorized

The Perfect Law of Liberty

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass [mirror, NASB]: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. (James 1:22-25)¹

The law of Yahweh² is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of Yahweh is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of Yahweh are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of Yahweh is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of Yahweh are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. (Psalm 19:7-11)

That anyone, let alone someone claiming to be a Christian,³ would discard the Bible’s perfect law of liberty (that provides all of the above and more) for even man’s best attempt at government is symptomatic of moral bankruptcy:

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. (Isaiah 5:20)

Man left to himself to develop his own fickle finite law code flounders about in darkness.

The Declaration Speaks for Itself

Paragraph #2, Sentences 6–7

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

Grievance #13

He [Britain’s King George III] has combined with others [member’s of England’s Parliament] to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation.

The operative word in this grievance is “our”: our constitution and our laws.

That the Declaration’s signatories had no intentions to establish a government of, by, and for God based upon His moral law (unlike those in early 1600s America) is evident in this one word “our.” The American colonials were not upset with King George for forcing his jurisdiction and edicts on them because they were contrary to Yahweh’s jurisdiction and laws. They were angry because the government George had forced upon them was contrary to their own constitution and laws. It was their own assumed sovereignty and alleged laws that they were so protective of. The same is true for the constitutional framers eleven years later.

Consequently, both the colonials’ constitutions at the time of the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution are just as aptly depicted as “Acts of pretended Legislation” as were Great Britain’s bogus laws. The same is true for any government decree today not in harmony with the Lawgiver’s law. The list of such edicts is endless thanks to the fact that neither the Declaration nor the Constitution recognized Yahweh as the sole lawgiver, per Isaiah 33:22 and James 4:12. Neither do today’s constitutional Christians!

Void of Biblical Emphasis

Had the Declaration’s signatories been concerned with violations egregious to their God and Creator, they would have made this clear from the onset and throughout the entire Declaration of Independence.

If your paradigm is God, His Word, and His law everyone will know it. If you are a subject and ambassador of the King of kings, your objective to bring Yahweh the glory due Him, to advance His kingdom here on earth as is in heaven, and to honor Christ as Savior of the remnant, will be apparent in nearly everything you say and do:

[W]hatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)

And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him…. And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men. (Colossians 3:17, 23)

This cannot be said of either the Declaration’s signatories or the Constitution’s framers.

Keeping in mind that anti-Christ Thomas Jefferson’s generic god and creator is not the God of the Bible,⁴ there’s nothing in either document that leads one to believe that the Declaration’s signatories’ objective was to promote Yahweh as America’s Sovereign and thus His Kingdom and His laws as paramount over King George’s, their own, or any other finite government.

That objective has to be wished into the Declaration and the Constitution in the futile hope of somehow christening both documents as biblical. However, such wishful thinking amounts to self-delusion and only helps to foist the same deception upon others, including one’s own posterity. This, in turn, only further secures their manacles, first forged by the Declaration’s signatories and the Constitution’s framers:

Loose yourself from the chains around your neck, O captive daughter of Zion. (Isaiah 52:2, NASB)

Is this not the fast which I choose, To loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and break every yoke? (Isaiah 58:6, NASB)

Grievances #13 & 14

He [Britain’s King George III] has combined with others [members of England’s Parliament] to subject us to … their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.

The Quartering Act passed by Britain’s Parliament in 1774 is addressed in Part 13.

In Time of War

The constitutional framers addressed this in Amendments 3 and 4:

Amendment 3: No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Amendment 4: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Although perhaps not immediately apparent, what’s found in Amendments 3 and 4⁵ is already provided for by biblical case law in Deuteronomy 24:

When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. Thou shalt stand abroad [remain outside, NASB], and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee. (Deuteronomy 24:10-11)

Even a man who has a lawful claim to another man’s pledge is not permitted to trespass another man’s home. In 1763, Sir William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, England, wrote what might be considered an applied commentary of Deuteronomy 24:10-11:

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail—its roof may shake—the wind may blow through it—the storm may enter—the rain may enter—but the King of England cannot enter!—all his force dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.⁶

Amendment 3 provides for the quartering of soldiers “in time of war” as “prescribed by [United States government] law,” whereas Yahweh’s law makes no such provision. Under biblical law, a man’s home belongs to him, not the government. He has final say over who may or may not enter. Homeowners (unless they are known criminals⁷) are protected from all uninvited visitors, even during times of war.

Making matters much worse, under constitutional law, the United States government is no longer obligated to honor its “guarantee” in Amendment 3 because it has since appropriated all private property via eminent domain, property taxes, and public lands by way of Amendment 5’s provision for government confiscation of private property.⁸ Every square inch of America is now allegedly owned by both state and federal governments. The Constitutional Republic is consequently the de facto owner of all property in America and, as such, does what it pleases with what it fraudulently claims belongs to it.

Grievances #13 & 15

He [Britain’s King George III] has combined with others [members of England’s Parliament] to subject us to … their Acts of pretended Legislation: … For protecting them, by mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they [King George’s armed troops, cited in Grievance #14] should commit on the Inhabitants of these States.

The American colonials were completely justified in this grievance leveled against King George. No one can dispute this!

Mock Justice & Murder

Nevertheless, because this accusation was not framed from a biblical paradigm, based upon the Bible’s perfect law of liberty, and then enacted by the Constitution’s framers, mock justice and murder, particularly of the unborn, are the rule of the day under the government that replaced King George’s government here in America.

Talk about spurious justice when society’s most vulnerable cannot find protection in the Constitutional Republic’s alleged justice system.⁹ Instead, their murders at the hand of a bunch of butchers has been legalized and financed by the same government.

Sins of Commission & Sins of Omission

This would have never occurred had the framers established, and their successors maintained, a biblical government based upon God’s law,¹⁰ including Exodus 20:13, 21:22-23, and Deuteronomy 27:25. Had they done so, no one would have ever heard of Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood wouldn’t exist, and millions of infants slaughtered in their mothers’ wombs financed by the Constitutional Republic would have lived to see the light of day.

Someone is likely to respond that what’s now true regarding government-financed in utero infanticide (aka abortion) was not the intention of the Constitution’s framers. It doesn’t matter! Their sins were of both commission and omission. The framers’ sins of commission are evidenced in that there’s hardly an Article or Amendment that’s not antithetical, if not seditious, to Yahweh’s sovereignty and morality.¹¹

Their sins of commission aside, the framers’ sins of omission—that is, their failure to establish government and society based upon Yahweh’s commandments, statutes, and judgments—alone sent America to the precipice of moral depravity and destruction she presently teeters on.

Ask the millions of infants slaughtered in their mothers’ wombs if the constitutional framers’ failure to establish government on Exodus 21:22-23 and Deuteronomy 27:25 didn’t lead to their annihilation?

There’s not one national problem in America today—government-financed in utero infanticide,¹² sodomite “marriages,”¹³ Synagogues, Mosques, and Temples devoted to false gods dotting America’s landscape,¹⁴ America’s crumbling economy, runaway debt, and taxes on nearly everything,¹⁵ etc.—that cannot be traced back to the framers’ sins of omission.

Mock justice, murder, and everything abominable in America today—all because the Declaration’s signatories and the Constitution’s framers were no more working from a biblical paradigm than was King George and his British henchmen.

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2:13)

See Part 15.

“Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence, Pts. 1-12” (Articles)

Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant

A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government

Ecclesia vs. Church: Why Understanding the Difference is Critical to Our Future

The Romans 13 Template for Biblical Dominion: Ten Reasons Why Romans 13 is Not About Secular Government

Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective

End Notes

1. All scripture is quoted from the King James Version unless otherwise noted.

3. Not everyone claiming to be a Christian has been properly instructed in the biblical plan of salvation. Mark 16:15-16; Acts 2:36-41, 22:1-16; Romans 6:3-4; Galatians 3:26-27; Colossians 2:11-13; and 1 Peter 3:21 should be studied to understand what is required to be covered by the blood of Jesus and forgiven of your sins.

4. See Part 2 and Part 3.

5. Chapter 13 “Amendments 3 & 4: Constitutional vs. Biblical Privacy” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

6. Sir William Pitt, quoted in Clive Bigham, The Prime Ministers of Britain, 1721-1921 (Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 1924) p. 83

7. Chapter 13 “Amendments 3 & 4: Constitutional vs. Biblical Privacy” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

8. Chapter 14 “Amendment 5: Constitutional vs. Biblical Judicial Protection” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

9. Chapter 6 “Article 3: Judicial Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

10. For more on how the Bible’s triune and integral moral law (the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments) applies and should be implemented today as the law of the land, see Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant.

Also A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government.

11. See Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective, in which every Article and Amendment is examined by the Bible.

12. Thou shalt not kill, the sixth in a series of ten online books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments.

13. Thou shalt not commit adultery, the seventh in a series of ten online books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments.

14. Thou shalt have no other gods before me, the first in a series of ten online books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments.

Also Chapter 11 “Amendment 1: Government-Sanctioned Polytheism” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

15. Thou shalt not steal, the eighth in a series of ten online books on each of the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments. Also Chapter 25 “Amendment 16: Graduated Income Tax vs. Flat Increase Tax” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective

Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence: Declaration of Liberty vs. Declaration of Independence, Part 13

Posted: 29th May 2021 by Ted Weiland in Uncategorized

The Perfect Law of Liberty

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass [mirror, NASB]: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. (James 1:22-25)¹

The law of Yahweh² is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of Yahweh is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of Yahweh are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of Yahweh is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of Yahweh are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. (Psalm 19:7-11)

Anyone who hasn’t read the previous articles in this series³ or Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective⁴ might question: “Why make such a fuss over the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution?”

Many Christians and patriots have been blinded by the artificial splendor of both documents, based upon outright lies, ironically, parroted and circulated mostly by Christians.⁵The Declaration and Constitution are America’s national idols, both of which until torn down, like Gideon’s father’s idol in Judges 6:1-32, stand in the way of any significant advancement of the Kingdom as it is in heaven here in America, per Matthew 6:10 & 33.⁶

Why then is this people … slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return…. How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? Lo, … the pen of the scribes [e.g., that of the Declaration’s signatories and Constitution’s framers has made it] … vain. (Jeremiah 8:5, 8)

Consequently, if we hope to save America from the precipice she presently teeters on as a consequence of both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, these lies must be laid bare before the glorious light of God’s Word.

The Declaration Speaks for Itself

Paragraph #2, Sentences 6–7

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

Grievances #11 & 12

He [Britain’s King George III] has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

Standing Armies

King George was keeping the American colonials in check with the armed forces he had sent to America. This included the 1774 Quartering Act passed by Britain’s Parliament. This act allowed army officers to appropriate private property in which to quarter their troops without the consent of the owners.

As with all nations with standing armies, this was George’s last line of defense for ensuring compliance to his dictatorial government, especially for subjects with an ocean separating them from his immediate jurisdictional subjugation.

The Prophet Samuel warned that this is but one of the consequences of earthly kings:

Samuel told all the words of Yahweh unto the people that asked of him a king. And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. (1 Samuel 8:10-12)

Those not conscripted into the King’s military industrial complex would be easily subjugated by those who were.

After recognizing their sin, the people declared unto the Prophet Samuel in 1 Samuel 12:19, “Pray for thy servants unto Yahweh thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.” Is it any different under the Constitutional Republic when every four years the people clamor for a President? The sin is the same. The only difference is the frequency in which it occurs under the United States government.

Woe to the rebellious children, saith Yahweh, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin. (Isaiah 30:1)

The Prophet Isaiah is not referring to just any sin, but to the same compounded violation as that depicted in 1 Samuel 12:19. James Strong defines the Hebrew word nacak translated “cover”:

…‎a primitive root; … by analogy, to anoint a king.⁷

Prior to 1 Samuel 8, Yahweh was the Israelite’s King covering and sole protector, with no need for another.

If God be for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31)

In 1 Samuel 10:19, just before anointing Saul as the Israelites’ first king, Samuel declares:

Ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations: and you have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. (1 Samuel 10:19)

The Israelites covered themselves with a surrogate covering and thereby compounded their sin. It was one thing to violate one or more of the Ten Commandments. It was something else to purposely choose a surrogate human king over Yahweh. Samuel recites some of the consequences of such treason in 1 Samuel 8:9-18, but to no avail:

Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. (1 Samuel 8:19-20)

The sad irony in this is that Yahweh had chosen the Israelites to be a nation like no other—that is, as His wife and queen ruling at His side over all the other nations.⁸ That is, in fact, what Israel means: ruling with El. (El is the abbreviation for Elohym, the Hebrew word translated “God” in the Old Testament). Israel was slated to rule with God above all the other nations, and how does she respond? Pathetically, she chooses to be like all the other nations she was chosen to rule over.

Because the Constitution’s framers chose We the People and their representatives rather than Yahweh as America’s Sovereign,⁹ their sin was the same, with consequences the same, as the Israelites in 1 Samuel 8. Every four years the sin is repeated here in America when Americans insist on their alleged right¹⁰ to elect a new President, despite the utter failure of all preceding Presidents¹¹ to do anything to halt America’s suicidal trek to the precipice of moral depravity and destruction.

Today’s Industrial Military Complex

This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them … to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. (1 Samuel 8:11-12)

Bible law does not call for standing armies, but rather civilian militias, per Numbers 1:1-3, etc.

It’s true that both Article 1¹² and the Second Amendment¹³ provide for a militia, however, consider its purpose:

To execute the Laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel Invasions … as may be employed in the Service of the United States … according to the discipline prescribed by Congress. (Article 1, Section 8, Paragraphs 15-16)

Except for repelling invasions, there’s nothing biblical about this provision—especially being that a constitutional militia’s principle purpose is to “execute the Laws of the Union … in the Service of the United States”—that is, the “laws” of the biblically seditious Constitution in service to the biblically abominable Constitutional Republic.¹⁴

Making matters much worse, constitutional militias have been all but eliminated and replaced with today’s standing army. Elbridge Gerry, one of Massachusetts’s delegates to the Constitutional Convention, who refused to sign the Constitution, warned of this eventuality:

Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.¹⁵

An unbiblical standing army (what today under the Constitutional Republic has become an international industrial military complex) was one of the colonials’ grievances against King George. But was the colonials’ ire fueled by God’s law or something else? Obviously something else being the constitutional framers, once again, replicated George’s biblical violation here in America.

A standing army was one of the issues disconcerting to some of the opponents to the Constitution. This was particularly true for Luther Martin, one of Maryland’s delegates to the Constitutional Convention, who after attending the Conference for approximately three months (on September 3, 1787), prior to its formal conclusion, left in disgust.

At the Maryland Ratifying Convention, among a number of other grave concerns, Luther Martin voiced his alarm regarding the constitutional likelihood of a standing army:

…the congress have also a power given them to raise and support armies, without any limitation as to numbers, and without any restriction in time of peace. Thus, sir, this plan of government, instead of guarding against a standing army, that engine of arbitrary power, which has so often and so successfully been used for the subversion of freedom, has in its formation given it an express and constitutional sanction….¹⁶

A standing army in times of peace, the very same grievance leveled at King George twelve years earlier, which is still in place today, but multiplied times more dangerous. President John Quincy Adams “prophetically” predicted some of the consequences of America’s international military entanglements that, in turn, are consequences of Article 4’s provision for a standing army¹⁷:

[America] well knows that by once enlisting under other [nation’s] banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy and ambition, which assume the colors, and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change fromliberty to force; the frontlet on her brow would no longer beam with the ineffable splendor of freedom and independence; but in its stead would soon be substituted an imperial diadem, flashing in false and tarnished luster, the murky radiance ofdominion and power. She might become the dictatress of the world….¹⁸

With the Constitution having so little to say regarding warfare, no wonder Adams’s warnings have become a reality, at the behest of the international bankers and their one-world-order machinations.

War Powers

The power to declare war is an extremely serious responsibility. So why were the framers so vague in defining the parameters of warfare and the conditions under which war could be declared?

Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11: [Congress shall have power] To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.

Article 1, Section 8 is the only place of significance that warfare is cited in the Constitution.¹⁹ Little wonder this power has been abused, especially when left to the “discretion” of a bunch of unbiblical legislative usurpers.¹⁹

Because the framers provided no biblical parameters, unbiblical warfare has been the rule ever since. As a result, from 1945 to the present, the Constitutional Republic has bombed nineteen different countries. This has been done under the guise of defending America’s sovereignty and promoting Democracy—as if promoting Democracy is something noble.

The fact is, America is none the better for those wars and not one of those nineteen countries has yet to be become a legitimate Democracy—not that this would be something to celebrate had they done so.

Something’s egregiously amiss. Wars fought for political gain or financial profit are ungodly acts of aggression. It would be prudent for today’s Presidents to take heed and learn from King Josiah’s and King Amaziah’s tragic mistakes. Although they were both acclaimed godly men by God, Josiah was nonetheless killed per 2 Chronicles 35:21-24 and Amaziah was taken captive per 2 Kings 14:8-14, for their unprovoked wars of aggression.

War Propaganda

It’s a propaganda mantra here in America that we need to “fight them over there so we won’t have to fight them over here.” But fighting alleged enemies “over there” has not made America any safer and, in some instances, such acts of aggression have made America less safe.

Without the constitutional power to borrow per Article 1, Section 8, Clause 2¹⁹ (making America a slave to her lenders per Proverbs 22:7, one of the reasons the international bankers love war so much), all of America’s former and current unbiblical military conflicts could have been averted and an innumerable number of lives spared.

The Declaration’s signatories and Constitution’s framers (including George Washington who presided over the Constitutional Convention) were not concerned about standing armies, only England’s King George’s standing army. That this is true was witnessed a mere six years after the Constitution was ratified in the 1794 Whisky Tax Rebellion when President George Washington himself led a military force of nearly 13,000 strong against some 400 Pennsylvania tax-protesting farmers, under the pretense of protecting the Constitution.

Biblical Warfare

None of America’s previous military conflicts would have occurred had the constitutional framers established biblical militias per Numbers 1, governed according to the biblical statutes for warfare.¹⁹

And Yahweh spake unto Moses … saying, Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel … every male by their polls; from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war…. (Numbers 1:1-3)

This describes an autonomous militia, not a national standing army, national service, or military draft. Under King Saul, ancient Israel gave up this autonomy under Yahweh as her commander for a centralized standing army.

The Constitutional Republic’s standing army is part of the curse Yahweh warned the Israelites about in 1 Samuel 8 that would come with their enthronement of an earthly human king—or President.

America’s young men are kidnapped via the Constitutional Republic’s draft (when enforced) and often sacrificed by today’s military industrial complex. In other words, United States citizens are financing the Constitutional Republic’s ungodly conflicts not only with their tax dollars but also with the blood of their sons and daughters.

It’s often said that if your government calls it’s your patriotic duty to serve regardless the cause. However, Yahweh prescribes strict rules of warfare for His subjects:

When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it. And it shall be, if it make thee [an] answer of peace … then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee. And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it…. When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the [fruit] trees … to employ them in the siege: Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat [fruit], thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued. (Deuteronomy 20:10-20)

Because most Christians are unaware of the Bible’s warfare statutes, they’re likewise oblivious to the United States unbiblical warfare tactics. Case in point: the United States’ attack upon Iraq in 2003 after George W. Bush spurned Saddam Hussein’s peace offering. Another example: the United States indiscriminate Agent Orange defoliation policy employed in Vietnam, which alone identified it as an unbiblical and therefore unrighteous war.

These and other biblical rules of warfare determine the righteousness of a war. It’s true that untold numbers of people have been killed globally in wars fought in the name of Christianity, but few of these wars were actually Christian. If a military conflict waged in the name of Christianity is not biblical, it’s not Christian.

More often than not, these conflicts have been departures from the biblical rules of warfare and are, consequently, culpable for the untold number of unjustified deaths in these alleged holy wars.

Only conflicts waged in legitimate defense of one’s homeland are biblically justified and godly. Consequently, Christians must stand vigilant against sending their children to fight in the Constitutional Republic’s ungodly conflicts to defend the biblically egregious Republic. Not only might their children be sacrificed in an unrighteous cause, the soldiers in these unbiblical wars of aggression are very likely to be judged by God as murderers or accomplices to murder.

This is true today because the Declaration’s signatories’ grievance regarding King George’s standing army was not generated from a biblical paradigm but from merely their own ethical standards (“without the consent of our legislatures”), resulting in the Constitution’s framers installing their own standing army, one today that makes George’s standing army look impotent.

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2:13)

See Part 14.

“Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence, Pts. 1-12” (Articles)

Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant

A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government

Ecclesia vs. Church: Why Understanding the Difference is Critical to Our Future

The Romans 13 Template for Biblical Dominion: Ten Reasons Why Romans 13 is Not About Secular Government

Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective

End Notes

1. All scripture is quoted from the King James Version unless otherwise noted.

3. “Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence, Pts. 1-12” (Articles)

“Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence” (Audio series)

4. Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective

5. Not everyone claiming to be a Christian has been properly instructed in the biblical plan of salvation. Mark 16:15-16; Acts 2:36-41, 22:1-16; Romans 6:3-4; Galatians 3:26-27; Colossians 2:11-13; and 1 Peter 3:21 should be studied to understand what is required to be covered by the blood of Jesus and forgiven of your sins.

6. Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant

7. James Strong, “Dictionary of the Greek Testament,” The New Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, s.v. “nacak” (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1990) p.79.

8. Exodus 19:3-9, Numbers 23:9, Deuteronomy 14:2, 26:16-19, 28:1-2, 1 Chronicles 17:21-22.

9. Chapter 3 “The Preamble: We the People vs. Yahweh” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

10. See Part 4.

11. Chapter 5 “Article 2: Executive Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

12. Chapter 4 “Article 1: Legislative Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

13. Chapter 12 “Amendment 2: Constitutional vs. Biblical Self-Defense” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

14. See Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective, in which every Article and Amendment is examined by the Bible.

15. Elbridge Gerry, Spoken during the House of Representatives’ debate regarding the Second Amendment, Annals of Congress, August 17, 1789

16. Luther Martin, Jonathan Elliott, ed., The Debates in the Several State Conventions, on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, 4 vols. (Washington, DC: Jonathan Elliott, 1836) vol. 1, p. 59

17. Chapter 4 “Article 1: Legislative Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

18. John Quincy Adams, quoted in William H. Seward, Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams (New York, NY: C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co., 1860) p. 132

19. Chapter 4 “Article 1: Legislative Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence: Declaration of Liberty vs. Declaration of Independence, Part 12

Posted: 6th May 2021 by Ted Weiland in Uncategorized

The Perfect Law of Liberty

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass [mirror, NASB]: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. (James 1:22-25)¹

The law of Yahweh² is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of Yahweh is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of Yahweh are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of Yahweh is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of Yahweh are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. (Psalm 19:7-11)

Perfect, sure, right, pure, true, and altogether righteous, resulting in conversions, wisdom, joy, enlightenment, better than fine gold, sweeter than honey, and providing a great reward. It can’t get any better than that! It’s known as the perfect law of liberty.³

Incredibly, many Christians⁴ and patriots are willing to settle for man’s alleged best—that is, the United States Constitution.⁵ Even if the government created by the Declaration’s signatories and the Constitution’s framers is the best government ever devised by man, it remains only man’s best imperfection:

Suppose it be “the best government on earth,” does that prove its own goodness, or only the badness of all other governments?⁶

Why would anyone settle for man’s imperfection—regardless how much better it is than man’s other imperfections—when instead we can have Yahweh’s perfection?

This is precisely what the 18^th-century American colonials did. They replaced England’s imperfect government with their own imperfect government—what, in fact, has turned out to be a far more egregious version of man’s imperfection.

The Declaration Speaks for Itself

Paragraph #2, Sentences 6–7

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

Grievance #10

He [Britain’s King George III] has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

Adding to the Word

Regardless what these offices were that King George introduced in the American colonies, anything in addition to the Bible’s civil offices, and George was guilty of adding to the Word and law of the King of kings:

Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God…. (Deuteronomy 4:2)

The American colonials were, once again, completely justified in this grievance against King George—from a biblical paradigm. If only that had been the case!

Worldview on Display

To know someone’s worldview, one only needs to determine the ethical paradigm⁷ from which he operates.

If your worldview futilely attempts to combine the Bible and the biblically seditious Constitution,⁸ not only is your paradigm unbiblical, it’s as double-minded as were the Israelites on Mt. Carmel with Elijah in 1 Kings 18 and the Pharisees and Herodians in Matthew 22, outmaneuvered by Christ in their Caesar-coin subterfuge.⁹

Why halt ye between two opinions?

If Baal be God, follow him. If Yahweh be God, follow Him.

If Caesar is your King, render to him what’s due him. If Christ is your King, render to him what’s due Him.⁹

If We the People be God,¹⁰ serve them. If Yahweh be God, serve Him.¹¹

All three of these are essentially the same options. Choose incorrectly or choose both and it will invariably result in slacking the law of Yahweh or disregarding it entirely:

[T]he law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. (Habakkuk 1:4)

You cannot serve two masters; you will end up loving one and hating the other—the other likely being Christ in the tradition of the 1^st-century Judahites when they responded to Pilate “We have no King but Caesar!,” or in the Constitutional Republic’s case “We have no God but We the People!”¹¹

King George’s Added Offices

The colonials’ protest against King George for adding uncalled-for civil offices was justified, provided their grievance was biblically motivated. Otherwise, George had just as much alleged right to add non-biblical civil offices as the constitutional framers did when creating the three branches of the Constitutional Republic, none of which are biblical.¹² This, despite today’s Christians repeated futile attempts to make them biblical.

Beware! Christians are generally so determined for the Declaration’s signatories and Constitution’s framers to be our guys and the Constitution to be our document that they’re willing to go to just about any length in their attempts to make it so. But doing so only culminates in Isaiah 5:20 & 24—that is, in calling evil good and bitter sweet, per Verse 20. This stems from their having cast away the law of Yahweh of hosts, per Verse 24—the only way you can arrive at such a conclusion.¹³

Proof Texting

Isaiah 33:22 is, arguably, today’s Christians’ favorite proof text in attempting to make the Constitution biblically compatible:

For Yahweh is our judge, Yahweh is our lawgiver, Yahweh is our king…. (Isaiah 33:22)

Isaiah 33:22 depicts three branches of government: legislative, executive, and judicial—the same as in the U.S. Constitution. Thus, it’s often parroted that Isaiah 33:22 was the inspiration for the Constitutional Republic’s three-branch government—despite the fact that this claim was never made by even one of the constitutional framers.

If you were constructing a government based upon Yahweh as its Sovereign and His moral law as supreme would you not go out of your way to acknowledge God and credit His Word for everything in your document inspired by His Word? Of course you would!

That the constitutional framers didn’t do so proves by itself that neither they nor their Constitution is what Christians wish it to be. It also means today’s Christians are endeavoring to make a silk purse out of sow’s ear.

Glaring Inconsistencies

If the United States Constitutional Republic’s three-branch government is biblical, then today’s Constitution of the Russian Federation (adopted on December 12, 1993) is also biblically inspired for the same reason:

State power in the … [Russian Federation] shall be exercised on the basis of its division into legislative, executive and judicial authority [even the order is the same as the U.S. Constitution’s]. Bodies of legislative, executive and judicial authority shall be independent [same as with U.S. Constitution]. (Section 1, Chapter 1, Article 10)

If the United States Constitution is biblically based because of its three branches of government, then so is Russia’s current Constitution. By this standard, there’s hardly a constitution in existence that’s not biblically inspired including the 1936 Constitution of the Soviet Socialist Republics, inspired by Marx and Lenin. Chapters two, five, and nine are devoted to its legislative, executive, and judicial branches and also found in the same order as the United States Constitution and Isaiah 33:22.

How about a Constitution that quotes Scripture? Certainly a Constitution that quotes the Bible would be biblical.

If this is true, then, once again, the 1936 Constitution of the Soviet Socialist Republics is biblically compatible because 2 Thessalonians 3:10 is found therein:

In the U.S.S.R. work is a duty and matter of honour for every able-bodied citizen, in accordance with the principal: “He who does not work, neither shall he eat.” (Chapter 1, Article 12)

You can also find, among others, the following biblically compatible components in the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation:

Equality before the law, per Section 1, Chapter 2, Article 9

Protection for the life of everyone, per Section 1, Chapter 2, Article 20

Capital punishment for murderers, per Section 1, Chapter 2, Article 20

Innocence until proven guilty, per Section 1, Chapter 2, Article 49

The same can be done with any nation’s Constitution.

Do biblically compatible components mean the Constitution of the Russian Federation is biblically inspired or even biblically compatible? Of course not! And yet similar lists created by wishful Christians have been produced with similar components extracted from the United States Constitution that the compilers, in turn, claim prove the U.S. Constitution is biblically inspired.

Just because there are biblical components in a Constitution does not make the Constitution biblically compatible, especially when the same document is riddled with components that are not only biblically adverse but biblically seditious. Case in point: the United States Constitution in which there’s hardly an Article or Amendment that’s not biblically egregious.¹³

Constitutional Framers’ Added Offices

Article 1, Section 1: All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

Herein granted! Granted by whom? By a bunch of legislative usurpers!¹⁴

Article 1 is proven to be biblically seditious by the very same passage of Scripture that allegedly proves the Constitution’s three-branch government was biblically inspired:

…Yahweh is our lawgiver…. (Isaiah 33:22)

Noah Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language defines “legislator” as “a lawgiver, one who makes laws….”¹⁵

Yahweh, as God and Creator, and thus the only one with authority to determine what constitutes good and evil for His creation, is thus the one and only lawgiver, or legislator.

What’s this say about those whom the constitutional framers allegedly made legislators? What’s this say about the constitutional framers? The framers and those whom they enabled as legislators are equally usurpers of Yahweh’s exclusive legislative authority.

Consequently, Article 1’s legislative branch is as much an added civil office as were those added by King George that the American colonials were so irate about, and therefore just as biblically seditious.

Morality Monopoly

As the source of morality, Yahweh is likewise the source of all true law. Because legislation enacts morality, morality and legislation are indivisible. Because only Almighty God can legitimately differentiate between what is good and what is evil, Yahweh holds the monopoly on legislation.

Finite men who claim legislative authority invariably make illegal what is lawful and legal what is unlawful. It’s been inherent for them to do so ever since the Garden of Eden. Thus for any man (such as King George) or group of men (such as the constitutional framers) to enact a different law code than God’s is tantamount to calling good evil and evil good per Isaiah 5:20. In turn, this makes a mockery of Yahweh and His law.

Worse, calling good evil and evil good—as the Constitution does repeatedly¹⁶—is a claim to divinity. One of the attributes of God is the authority to define and legislate good and evil. Because there is only one true God¹⁷, there is likewise only one standard for what is good and evil. Therefore anyone who attempts to legislate differently from Yahweh is usurping His place as God:

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.¹⁸

[T]he other gods about whom we must be concerned are, as they ever have been, to be found in the seats of temporal, or human, government.¹⁹

This is what, in Matthew 23:2, Christ depicted as fraudulently sitting “in Moses’ seat.” This is what both King George and the constitutional framers were guilty of when they added unbiblical civil offices as part of their legal codes. In the constitutional framers’ case, this included the legislative,²⁰ executive,²¹ and judicial²² branches.

Grievance #10

He [King George III] has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

King George was behaving himself like a Midianite:

[T]he Midianites … encamped against them [the Israelites], and destroyed the increase of the earth … and left no sustenance for Israel…. And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites…. (Judges 6:3-6)

The American colonials had good reason to rebel against such despotic government oppression. But tragically, America has fared no better—in fact, much worse—from the government created by the constitutional framers in reaction to George’s government:

Article 1, Section 6, Clause 1: The Senators and representatives shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the treasury….

Ascertained by law! Whose law?

Any amount of remuneration not prescribed in the Bible—nowhere even inferred in the Constitution—only goes to further demonstrate the framers’ disregard for God and His law. Regardless the amount, any compensation slated for legislators who themselves are in violation of Isaiah 33:22 only goes to pay them to further their legislative usurpation.²³

Unlike the Bible, the Constitution provides no salary ceiling for the amount of compensation for civil leaders. Consequently, such compensation was subject to change with the whims of those determining the amount of compensation. And who was that? The very ones who were being compensated.

Congressional Salaries

Congressional salaries—while evil because of what they bankrolled—were nonetheless not so bad as to the amount originally paid to the Constitutional Republic’s original hoodlums—only $6.00 per day while in session.

However, that quickly changed. By 1815 (only twenty seven years later), congressmen had rewarded themselves with $1,500 annually, regardless how often they were in session. By 1968, their annual salaries soared to $30,000. The current outrageous salary for senators and representatives is $174,000. The Speaker of the House receives $223,500 (nearly a quarter million dollars annually) and the Majority and Minority Leaders each receive $193,400.

Every year congressman and senators also receive an automatic cost of living adjustment. Every member in both the Senate and House receive an additional allotment for office expenses. This amounts to approximately $1 million per office.

The current annual congressional expenditure is $626,103,500, not accounting for many other financial perks and lavish retirement plans received by former congressmen and women and their spouses.

King George and his minions could have only dreamt of such a haul!

And all of this extravagance for what? Thomas Jefferson expressed it quite adequately in Grievance #10: “swarms of officers [counterfeit legislators are] … harass[ing] our people, and eat[ing] out their substance.”

No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.²⁴

Taxpayers are financing their own destruction and all because the Declaration’s signatories and Constitution’s framers committed the same biblical violations King George committed.

If Only for More Gideons

In Judges 6, when the Midianites and others were plundering the people, Gideon hid his and his families’ sustenance from the counterfeit legislators of his day (aka ravaging Midianites) and was honored by God for having done so. Yahweh then used Gideon and his little band of three hundred to defeat the overwhelming hoards of Midianites. In turn, the Israelites requested that Gideon and his sons be their rulers, to which Gideon responded as follows:

I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: Yahweh shall rule over you. (Judges 8:23)

If only George Washington and his fellow compatriots had done the same when responding to King George, how different America would look today. Tragically, they instead chose to repeat King George’s sins and his violations against Yahweh.

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2:13)

See Part 13.

“Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence, Pts. 1-11” (Articles)

Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant

A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government

Ecclesia vs. Church: Why Understanding the Difference is Critical to Our Future

The Romans 13 Template for Biblical Dominion: Ten Reasons Why Romans 13 is Not About Secular Government

Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective

End Notes

1. All scripture is quoted from the King James Version unless otherwise noted.

3. For more on how the Bible’s immutable/unchanging triune moral law (the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments) applies and should be implemented today as the law of the land, see free online book Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant.

Then A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government.

5. See Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective, in which every Article and Amendment is examined by the Bible.

6. Lysander Spooner, No Treason, No. VI, The Constitution of No Authority, http://praxeology.net/LS-NT-6.htm#

7. Listen to “What’s Your Paradigm?”

8. See Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective, in which every Article and Amendment is examined by the Bible.

9. See Chapter 9 “The Government Depicted by the Apostle Paul is Due Tribute, Custom, Fear, and Honour” of The Romans 13 Template for Biblical Dominion: Ten Reasons Why Romans 13 is Not About Secular Government

10. We the People is a contemporary form of Baal. See blog article “Could YOU Be a Disciple of Baal and Not Know It?”

11. See Chapter 3 “The Preamble: We the People vs. Yahweh” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

12. See Chapter 4 “Article 1: Legislative Usurpation,” Chapter 5 “Article 2: Executive Usurpation,” and Chapter 6 “Article 3: Judicial Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

13. See Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective, in which every Article and Amendment is examined by the Bible.

14. See Chapter 4 “Article 1: Legislative Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

See also Chapter 9 “Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land.”

15. Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language, s.v. “Legislator” (1828; reprint ed. San Francisco, CA: The Foundation for American Christian Education, 1967)

16. See Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective, in which every Article and Amendment is examined by the Bible.

17. Deuteronomy 6:4, Isaiah 44:6, 2 Corinthians 8:4-6, etc.

18. George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists, 1903, https://www.panarchy.org/shaw/maxims.1903.html

19. T. Robert Ingram, The World Under God’s Law (Houston, TX: St. Thomas Press, 1981) p. 33

20. Chapter 4 “Article 1: Legislative Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

21. Chapter 5 “Article 2: Executive Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

22. Chapter 6 “Article 3: Judicial Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

23. Chapter 4 “Article 1: Legislative Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

24. Gideon J. Tucker, New York Surrogate Reports (New York, NY: New York Surrogate, 1866), p. 249, quoted in Suzy Platt, ed., Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (New York: NY: Barnes & Noble, 1992) p. 198

Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence: Declaration of Liberty vs. Declaration of Independence, Part 11

Posted: 12th April 2021 by Ted Weiland in Uncategorized

The Perfect Law of Liberty

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass [mirror, NASB]: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. (James 1:22-25)¹

The law of Yahweh² is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of Yahweh is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of Yahweh are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of Yahweh is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of Yahweh are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. (Psalm 19:7-11)

The Declaration of Independence is sometimes described as the birth certificate of the United States Constitution. Because it refers to a god and creator, erroneously identified as the God of the Bible,³ many Christians⁴ consider the Declaration their ace in the hole when it comes to making the Constitution biblically compatible. However, it should already be quite apparent that the Declaration is better depicted as an ace up the sleeve. Any attempt to employ the Declaration as a means of christening the Constitution is as legitimate as winning a poker game with a concealed ace.

Neither the Declaration⁵ nor the Constitution⁶ it birthed can be depicted as biblically compatible.

The Declaration Speaks for Itself

Paragraph #2, Sentences 6–7

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

Grievance #9

He [Britain’s King George III] has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

These are, once again, legitimate concerns. How much more so had the Declaration’s signatories been operating from a biblical paradigm—that is, what should have been outrage regarding the fact that King George had appointed judges who were dependent upon his will instead of Yahweh’s will, as defined by God’s moral law.⁷ In other words, King George was no King Jehoshaphat:

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)

Judicial Usurpation

That King George had usurped God’s judicial authority was not cited as the cause of the colonials’ grievance. Their concern was not that George was ignoring Yahweh’s will, but that he was instead ignoring their will.

Whether the will of one man or many men, it’s all the same. When the American colonials appealed to the will of the many, it was the same humanism as King George’s, only structured differently. Theirs was an attempt to overrule God by a majority consensus of finite humans, with what has invariably been disastrous results:

[Yahweh’s] law is ignored justice is never upheld. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore, justice comes out perverted. (Habakkuk 1:4, NASB)

The Constitutional Republic’s judicial branch is a contemporary case of Habakkuk 1:4. If ever you’ve been unjustly prosecuted, you know what it’s like to be surrounded by the wicked where justice is never upheld.

You can thank the Declaration’s signatories and the Constitution’s framers that justice is seldom upheld in the Constitutional Republic’s Criminal Justice System. It couldn’t be otherwise being the entire Constitutional Republic was established upon capricious secular humanism and thus the fickle edicts of finite men.⁸

Violence to the Law

How much more so when Yahweh’s law is despised:

[H]er priests have … done violence to the law. (Zephaniah 3:4)

If it seems harsh to accuse the constitutional framers of doing violence to God’s law, look no further than Article 6 and its claim that the Constitution, rather than Yahweh’s law, is supreme.⁹

There can only be one supreme law at any given time. Consequently, if the Constitution is supreme, God’s law, at best, has been made subservient to the secular Constitution. In numerous instances, God’s law is abrogated entirely by the Constitution and its subsidiary laws.

Rather than appealing to God’s justice as reflected in His triune moral law, the framers, like King George, also usurped His judicial authority.¹⁰ In so doing, they created a Supreme Court adjudicated by nine biblically unqualified justices who have the ultimate authority to decide all appeals based upon what is predominantly their own immoral whims or those of the framers’, if they happen to be constitutional originalists.¹¹

Forgetting Yahweh

Justice is not the habitation of We the People. It’s the habitation of Yahweh’s throne,¹² and He was forgotten in 1787:

It is said that, after the convention had adjourned, Rev. Dr. Miller, a distinguished professor in Princeton College, met Alexander Hamilton in the streets of Philadelphia, and said, “Mr. Hamilton, we are greatly grieved that the Constitution has no recognition of God or the Christian religion.” “I declare,” said Hamilton, “we forgot it!”¹³

Hamilton and his fellow constitutional framers would have done well to have considered Deuteronomy 8:

Beware that thou forget not Yahweh thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes…. Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget Yahweh thy God…. And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. But thou shalt remember Yahweh thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth…. And it shall be, if thou do at all forget Yahweh thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. (Deuteronomy 8:11-19)

Contemporary Americans would do well to consider the same. To forget Yahweh is to forget His law, with consequences equally calamitous:

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee … seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. (Hosea 4:6)

America, God is speaking to you!

Self–Deifying Authority

Their justice and authority originate with themselves. (Habakkuk 1:7, NASB)

Because the Judahites in Verse 4 shunned Yahweh’s law, they were exiled into Babylonian captivity and were thereby under Chaldean dominion whose “justice” and “authority” originated with themselves (the same as in the Preamble of the United States Constitution¹⁴). In doing so, the Chaldeans had made themselves their own God:

[I]mputing this his power unto his god. (Habakkuk 1:11)

According to 1 Corinthians 8:4-6, there’s only one true God—the Great I Am, the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and end of all things. All other so-called gods amount to finite men ascribing their own renegade power unto their own bogus gods. In other words, the Chaldeans’ god, like all false gods, was merely an extension of themselves whose “justice” and “authority” originated with themselves.

To put it another way: the Chaldeans’ god was merely an ancient form of We the People,¹⁴ no different from King George or the constitutional framers whose “authority” and “justice” originated with themselves. Thus, George’s violation regarding his unbiblical judges and the constitutional framers’ violation regarding their unbiblical judges was one and the same.

No Biblical Mantle

The constitutional framers’ violation was, in part, a consequence of the Declarations’ signatories, whose “justice” and “authority” also originated with themselves, and who therefore had no biblical mantle and/or commission to pass onto the constitutional framers eleven years later. They had nothing comparable to the mantle and charge Moses passed on to Joshua:

And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel … Yahweh hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan … Joshua, he shall go over before thee…. And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage…. (Deuteronomy 31:1-7)

Strong and courageous in what?

Now after the death of Moses … it came to pass, that Yahweh spake unto Joshua…. Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. (Joshua 1:1-8)

If only the Declaration’s signatories and Constitution’s framers had been as courageous.

They Suffered in Vain

Having endured despotism at the hands of King George, the American colonials (especially the Declaration’s signatories) were willing to suffer horrific losses in order to secure their liberty from Great Britain. However, the real tragedy was that in doing so they only succeeded in creating a government inherently destined to become multiplied times more tyrannical than the one they were defying. You only need to compare 21^st-century America under Constitution rule with 18^th-century America under British rule to know this is true.

19^th-century libertarian attorney Lysander Spooner summed up what was already true in 1870:

[The Constitution] has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it.¹⁵

This was destined to be the case because the Constitutional Republic, although of a different construct, is nonetheless the same humanism as was Great Britain’s government, including a judicial system built upon judges dependent upon man’s will rather than Yahweh’s will.

Grievance #9

He [Britain’s King George III] has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

For the tenure, or duration, of said judges’ terms in office. In other words, King George’s judges’ time in office was dictated by George rather than by God.

Judicial Tenure

How does what the constitutional framers did in this regard compare with that of King George? This is actually one place where the framers got it right.

Article 3¹⁶ of the Constitution dictates that judges are appointed with no time constraints to their tenure in office. They remain judges as long as they wish, provided they behave themselves(whatever that means since good behavior is nowhere defined in the Constitution). Lifetime tenure is biblical:

Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom Yahweh thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee…. And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book …. And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them: That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom…. (Deuteronomy 17:15-20)

When any civil leader is of the caliber depicted here in Deuteronomy 17, Yahweh intends (and we should as well) for such a man to remain a civil leader indefinitely, provided he’s physically and mentally able, and provided he behaves himself—that is, provided he remains biblically qualified.

Good behavior is biblically defined as serving Yahweh as Sovereign along with serving the King’s subjects (aka loving Yahweh your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength and your neighbor as yourself), according to His commandments, statutes, and judgments.

For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged. (Proverbs 28:2)

Any government system that provides for ruler after ruler is indicative of a government under God’s judgment. Godly men not only limit or reduce the number of overall rulers, they also assist in prolonging Kingdom rule here on earth—that is, biblical government as established and expressed in local ecclesias.¹⁷

Righteous Leaders & Righteous Laws = Righteous Nations

According to Proverbs 14:34, it’s righteousness that not only prolongs but exalts a nation, as in Deuteronomy 4:

Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as Yahweh our God is in all things that we call upon him for? And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? (Deuteronomy 4:5-8)

Righteous leaders adjudicating righteous laws make for righteous nations.

Proverbs 14:34, Deuteronomy 4:5-8, and especially Deuteronomy 28:1-14 (that enumerates the blessings God bestows upon righteous nations) attest to the fact that America’s former greatness was not the result of the Declaration’s signatories nor the Constitution’s framers, as so many Americans have been conned into believing. Rather, America’s former greatness was the result of the early 1600 Puritans who formed governments of, by, and for God, expressly established upon His moral law:

Fundamental Agreement of the Colony of New Haven, Connecticut, 1639: Agreement; We all agree that the scriptures hold forth a perfect rule for the direction and government of all men in duties which they are to perform to God and to man, as well in families and commonwealth as in matters of the church; so likewise in all public officers which concern civil order, as choice of magistrates and officers, making and repealing laws, dividing allotments of inheritance, and all things of like nature, we will, all of us, be ordered by the rules which the scripture holds forth; and we agree that such persons may be entrusted with such matters of government as are described in Exodus 18:21 and Deuteronomy 1:13 with Deuteronomy 17:15 and 1 Corinthians 6:1, 6 & 7….

Executive Tenure

Whereas the constitutional framers got it correct in Article 3¹⁸ regarding the tenure of judges, they blew it in Article 2¹⁹ regarding the tenure of Presidents, which is an unbiblical position of civil leadership to begin with.

Article 2 provides four-year terms for Presidents, and Amendment 22²⁰ limits Presidents to two terms. In other words, the Constitution provides that the United States be ruled by ruler after ruler, which is part of God’s judgment upon our sinful nation.

Term Limits

Many Christians and patriots clamor for similar term limits to be adopted for the Constitutional Republic’s judges. However, the length of tenure is not the problem, but rather the caliber of judges—thanks to Article 6’s Christian test ban²¹ by which mandatory biblical qualifications were likewise eliminated.

Most people would concede that term limits are a good thing when evil men rule. However, although term limits prevent corrupt officials from ruling any longer than their term allows, they permit them to rule as long as their terms allows.

Furthermore, term limits can work in favor of the wicked just as easily as they can for better men and women, and never will anyone be replaced with righteous men as long as Article 6’s Christian test ban remains intact.

Being that Article 6 has guaranteed evil men and women as the Constitutional Republic’s civil “leaders,” the only thing term limits will accomplish is the replacement of one evil leader with another evil leader, who may very well be more wicked than one he or she is replacing.

Term limits, at best, are nothing but a Band-Aid on a self-inflicted wound, incurred with Article 6’s Christian test ban.²¹

Under a biblical government, provided a man remains biblically qualified and physically and mentally capable, he would never need to be removed from his bench. Only when a judge, for whatever reason, becomes biblically unfit should his term end.

The constitutional framers got the lifetime tenure of judges correct. They failed miserably regarding the judges themselves, all of whom since the inception of the Constitutional Republic should have never been given any tenure as judges, if for no other reason than because at their inauguration they swear to uphold the biblically seditious Constitution rather than the Bible’s triune law as the law of the land.²¹

Grievance #9

He [Britain’s King George III] has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

Financial Compensation

America’s pre-revolutionary judges and governors were not financially compensated by the colonials but were instead dependent upon King George for their wages. This, in turn, led to many of these judges and governors’ being loyal to George rather than sympathetic to the needs of their fellow colonials.

This political conundrum would never occur under a biblical government. Matthew 10:10 informs us that a “workman is worthy of his support.” According to 1 Timothy 5:17-18, biblical elders who devote themselves and their time to Kingdom work are worthy of a double wage. Consequently, such judges would be financially compensated via the tithe collected from the general population whom they serve as judges.

The biblical tithe is not a church tithe, but rather a Kingdom tithe²²—the Kingdom here on earth as established in local ecclesias.²³

The biblical tithe also differs greatly from the Constitutional Republic’s graduated income tax.²⁴ Instead, it’s a flat 10% increase tax—required, albeit voluntary, from only those with an increase.²⁵

Under a biblical government, there is no graduated income tax, property tax, sales tax, nor any of the other sundry unbiblical taxes Americans suffer under, thanks to the Constitution’s framers rejection of Yahweh as America’s Sovereign and His moral law as supreme, including its economic and taxing statutes.

There’s little difference between King George’s oppressive taxation and that of the government created by the Declaration’s signatories and Constitution’s framers—with the exception that under the Constitutional Republic taxes are multiplied times worse than anything imagined by King George.

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. (Jeremiah 2:13)

See Part 12.

“Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence, Pts. 1-10” (Articles)

Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant

A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government

Ecclesia vs. Church: Why Understanding the Difference is Critical to Our Future

The Romans 13 Template for Biblical Dominion: Ten Reasons Why Romans 13 is Not About Secular Government

Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective

End Notes

1. All scripture is quoted from the King James Version unless otherwise noted.

3. See Part 2 and Part 3.

5. Listen to audio series “Biblical Examination of the Declaration of Independence.”

6. See Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective, in which every Article and Amendment is examined by the Bible.

7. For more on how the Bible’s immutable/unchanging triune moral law (the Ten Commandments and their respective statutes and judgments) applies and should be implemented today as the law of the land, see free online book Law and Kingdom: Their Relevance Under the New Covenant.

Then A Biblical Constitution: A Scriptural Replacement for Secular Government.

8. See Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective, in which every Article and Amendment is examined by the Bible.

9. See Chapter 9 “Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

10. See Chapter 6 “Article 3: Judicial Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

11. Originalism asserts that the Constitution must be interpreted based on the original understanding at the time the Constitution was adopted.

12. See Part 10.

13. Benjamin F. Morris, The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States (Powder Springs, GA: American Vision, Inc., 2009, originally published 1864) pp. 296-97

14. See Chapter 3 “The Preamble: We the People vs. Yahweh” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

15. Lysander Spooner, No Treason, No. 7, The Constitution of No Authority, http://praxeology.net/LS-NT-6.htm#

16. See Chapter 6 “Article 3: Judicial Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

17. See Ecclesia vs. Church: Why Understanding the Difference is Critical to Our Future

18. See Chapter 6 “Article 3: Judicial Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

19. See Chapter 5 “Article 2: Executive Usurpation” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

20. See Chapter 31 “Amendments 22-25: Additional Extraneous Executive Regulations” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

21. See Chapter 9 “Article 6: The Supreme Law of the Land” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

22. Listen to audio series “Kingdom Tithing.”

23. See Ecclesia vs. Church: Why Understanding the Difference is Critical to Our Future

24. See Chapter 25 “Amendment 16: Graduated Income Tax vs. Flat Increase Tax” of Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective.

25. Listen to audio series “Kingdom Tithing.”

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