Doctrine of the Angelic Conflict, part 35 – The essence of God – Justice. Gal 6:7; Psa 97:1-3; 146:5.Title: Doctrine of the Angelic Conflict, part 35 – The essence of God – Justice. Gal 6:7; Psa 97:1-3; 146:5.
G. Justice: The execution of what +R demands. In the trillions of decisions God has rendered, not one has ever been unfair or incorrect.
Good decisions in these areas create the environment of blessing in the life of the creature, even for the unbeliever under the laws of divine establishment.
The believer creates his own misery when he violates the LOVR in the following categories: 1. Personal sins. 2. Function of human good. 3. Function of evil.
4. Function of moral or immoral degeneracy. 5. Living in cosmic one, “grieving the Spirit.” 6. Living in cosmic two, “quenching the Spirit.”
7. Lack of common sense and bad judgment. 8. Subjective arrogance, the overestimation of your own abilities, or failing to see yourself in the light of reality. 9. Violation of the LODE.
If you have made bad decisions from a position of weakness, then you are going to suffer the consequences. To react to those consequences with bitterness, vindictiveness, implacability, hatred, pettiness, jealousy, or any other mental attitude sin is the worst thing that you can do to yourself. Rebound, recover your right system of thinking and move on.
Often it is ignorance of doctrine that makes it easy for the believer to make himself miserable, therefore the solution is a hearty diet of sound doctrine on a daily basis.
Gal 6:7 Do not be deceived [go from ignorance to cognizance], God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.
Gal 6:8 For the one who sows to his own flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit shall from the Spirit reap [the benefits] eternal life [this is the resurrection life of Phil 3:11].
This is by far the great majority of any person’s suffering, including believers. There are more laws to violate for the believer than the unbeliever.
The believer must have a clear understanding of the integrity (+R, +J, +L) of God or he will never be able to give thanks to God for all that happens to him.
1Th 5:18 in everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
“Everything” means thankfulness for your selection to be a human being made in the image of God, to have a soul, and an environment for survival, and a God who has promised to keep you alive and provided for so that you may realizing His calling to you, for you to realize His highest and best.
These are the execution of a righteous, divine government in the manifestation of its highest excellence.
If you do not have the capacity for thanksgiving, you do not have the capacity to love anyone except yourself.
If God were like this there would be no salvation.
You will hate when things don’t go your way and you will love with weak, emotional human love when things do go your way, and you are a ship in a stormy sea with a broken rudder and no anchor. All this misery because you are ignorant of the fact that what God allows is determined by His +R and executed by his +J, and He cannot make a bad decision.
And it’s not just individuals that become miserable and fall under the ignorance of God’s integrity, but also entire nations.
The justice of God causes the rise and fall of nations.
The nations that surrounded Israel up to her destruction in 70AD rose and fell based on their attitude toward Israel. These nations were used to discipline Israel at certain times in her history, but every one of them fell under the weight of their anti-Semitism.
To Israel herself, she lived under divine blessing or the administration of the five cycles of discipline depending on her attitude towards God’s Law.
Other nations, such as the Greek Empire, survived away from Israel as God was preparing the world for the coming of the Messiah.
When Israel suffered her final defeat under the 5th cycle of discipline in 70 AD then the CA would be the dispensation of the Gentile client nation, starting with the Roman Empire.
During the Church-age any gentile nation can serve as a client nation by practicing the following principles:
1. Protect human life, freedom, privacy, and property according to the laws of divine establishment.
2. Allow evangelism and Bible teaching. 3. Serve as a base for missionary activity to non-client nations. 4. Afford a haven of toleration for the dispersed Jews.
To expand these in further detail the client nation must have the following or it will find itself under the 5 cycles of discipline.
To protect freedom there has to be a civil government and policy based on the laws of divine establishment. That includes free enterprise.
We who evangelize must recognize the freedom of others. Freedom means privacy. Our job is to clearly present the gospel but we do not force people to accept Christ.
We leave people with the information; they must use their volition, and it is wrong on the part of Christians to pressure people.
The establishment of local churches which are autonomous. Denominations become the enemy of client nations.
To the extent that local churches form into denominations you are destroying the client nation principle. Autonomous local churches: neither connected with other churches to form denominations or spheres of influence, nor involved in any movement which seeks to unite church and state. One of the things that hurt England more than anything else was the fact that Henry the Eighth established his own church and made it part of the state. The same happened in the first client nation, SPQR, and in fact, practically every client nation fell for this attack by satan, to incorporate the church with the state.
A vigorous and dynamic Bible teaching to believers which emphasizes the protocol system in the plan of God.
Missionary activity to other nations under the indigenous principle of not interfering with foreign governments but providing both gospel and Bible teaching for people in the nation.
No missionary has the right to interfere with the government and become involved in the politics of the nation where he goes.
Affords a haven of toleration for the dispersed Jews.
The Jews will not have a client nation again until the Second Coming of Christ and so the client nation is indispensable in providing a safe haven for the dispersement.
map – click each client nation
When the Roman Empire fell in 476 A.D., God had already used the Goths as His client nation during the fourth century.
Scotland and Ireland were client nations during the fifth and sixth centuries.
The Franks were a client nation during the eighth and ninth centuries by the work of Charlemagne; the Vikings were during the tenth century.
[Dark ages] the Holy Roman Empire, and that interplay of papacy and empire which forms so large a part of the history of the Middle Ages. From this point of view it was the most important event of mediaeval history.
Germany under Luther, and Switzerland under Calvin were client nations during the sixteenth century.
Sweden under Gustavus Adolphus, and the Huguenots (France) during the seventeenth century were client nations.
Brandenberg-Prussia under the Hohenzollerns were a client nation during the eighteenth century.
England was the same during the reign of Victoria in the nineteenth century. And the United States of America has been a client nation from 1776 until the present.
These are just a few examples.
The first principle, protect human life, freedom, privacy, and property according to the laws of divine establishment, creates the environment in which the remaining principles can fully operate. The first principle is the chief concern of a nation’s government, while the remaining three principles express the spiritual life of the nation’s people.
It is fascinating to see that each of these highly successful client nations were prosperous because of thought as the primary cause. It wasn’t military might or large deposits of cash that made them great, but in each case the principle of freedom was followed by a tolerance that allowed Bible doctrine to thrive and then the rest fell into place. Strong militaries, economies, missionary work, and a population that loved divine establishment all followed the flourishing churches teaching Bible doctrine.
The English philosopher John Locke was an amazing influence on our own experience with freedom.
To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions, and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature; without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man. [John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 1690]
Locke stated, in the same work, that man has by nature a power to preserve his property, that is, his life, liberty, and estate and to punish those who violate those laws. Thomas Jefferson who drafted the Declaration of Independence borrowed this phrase with a change from property to pursuit of happiness.
Declaration of Independence: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. [end quote] |