A nation’s civil law determines what kind of a nation it is. Only a nation that establishes God’s Civil Law is a Christian nation - God’s Ten Commandments, Statutes, and Judgments. Only then can a nation honestly declare it is - “One Nation Under God!”

The implementation of God’s “perfect Law of liberty” would virtually resolve every problem facing America or any nation today. If you think not, you don’t know either God or His Law very well. To understand why and how this would be the case is explained in greater detail in the other three volumes of Christian Manifesto. Here are some of the issues that God’s Law addresses and thereby would dramatically reduce:

* Crime

* Immorality

* Broken families

* Murdering unborn babies

* Onerous regulations

* Crooked politicians

* Unfair justice

* Greedy lawyers

* Rigged juries.

* Election fraud

* Special interest groups

* Bureaucratic system

* Gun controls

* The prison system

* The Federal Reserve

* Money manipulation

* The Internal Revenue Service

* Oppressive taxation

* Eminent domain

* Welfare

* Insurance

* Immigration

* All the “isms”: Multiculturalism, pluralism, polytheism, racism, socialism, globalism, Marxism, Communism, etc.

Why would any Christian want to forfeit God’s perfect never-changing Law for the forever-changing fallible laws of man?

Under God’s Law

God’s Law design for the nation of Israel was to be God’s civic model for ALL nations - a biblical constitutional republic - God’s Law governed by God’s people.

* Under God’s Law - Israel was the first recorded instance of an entire nation ruled without a physical king. For the first 400 years of Israel, the Lord God was their King and His Law was their civil law.

* Under God’s Law - everyone in the nation was to be treated equally. This was the first law like this anywhere in the world (Deut. 1:17):

“You shall not respect persons in judgment; but you shall hear the poor as well as the rich.”

* Under God’s Law - male and female are created in the image of God, possessing God given rights, which government has no right to take away. Rather, government is to protect everyone’s individual rights, and especially unheard of, for all women. This was the first nation in the world with this law.

* Under God’s Law - there were only 613 infallible never-changing laws that addresses every issue a nation faces. Only the wisdom of God could make such a perfect and complete Law. And God’s Law is full of love (Lev. 19:18):

“You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against anyone. Love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.”

* Under God’s Law - foreigners could not have any civil authority and had to obey God’s Law but were to be loved and have equal justice (Lev. 19:34):

“The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”

* Under God’s Law - anyone could believe whatever they wanted to, they just could not promote false gods or their religions contrary to God and His Law. That would be treason and a capital offense (Deut. 13 & 17), like any other nation that has capital offense for subversion of their law and constitution.

* Under God’s Law - it provided a system for honest commerce (Lev. 19:36 & Prov. 11:1):

“Your scales and weights must be accurate and honest. Your containers for measuring dry materials or liquids must be honest and accurate… A false balance is an abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is His delight.”

* Under God’s Law - land was permanently titled to families. This contrasted with most of the world, where kings granted land to loyal vassals, or as in Egypt, where only pharaohs owned land. Israel’s land was called the “Promised Land” because the people actually owned title to their land. This prevented a dictator from gathering up the land and putting the people into slavery. If a person owned land, they could accumulate possessions. Karl Marx condemned this as “capitalism.” The Bible called this being “blessed.”

* Under God’s Law - there were few people needing welfare. The poor in many godless nations became beggars and were never taken care of or discarded like trash. God’s Law had a bureaucracy-free two command welfare system:

* One - when everyone harvested their fields, they were to leave the gleanings for the poor. The poor needed to work to get free food, going out into the fields to gather up the gleanings. This gave them some dignity in working for their food. Also, the farmers were blessed in seeing their gleanings going directly to people in need.

* Two - they had a once in three-year local food tithe. This was not administered by some unknown distant bureaucrat but directly by the local people to their local poor. This law was good in several ways. People could see exactly where their food tithe was going, eliminating fraud, and making sure food was only going to the truly deserving poor. The contributor could be blessed seeing the fruit of their contribution. Finally, the amount of food was enough to be stored up to last for some time and not to be tithed again for three more years. This gave the poor person incentive and time to get “back on their feet” and develop their own self-supported living.

* Under God’s Law - there is no police force and no need for one. Americans had no police force for 300 years, from the 17th century until around the 20th century, when America was promoting much of God’s Law - the Ten Commandments, to love the Lord God with all your heart, and to love your neighbor as yourself… and not violate his neighbor, lest he receive swift and equal justice. Everyone was responsible to keep God’s Law themselves and responsible to help enforce the Law, a type of community “deputization.”

* Under God’s Law - there were no prisons and no need for one. God’s Law requires swift and equal justice. If someone died at the hands of another, the perpetrator had to immediately flee to a “City of Refuge” and await fair and just trail to see if it was an accident, self-defense, or intentional killing i.e., murder. Because of the wisdom in God’s Law, it is much easier to determine what is just without continual appeals. If the verdict was murder, he would be put to death without delay.

If the perpetrator did not flee to a “City of Refuge” and the victim’s family, relatives, or others found him, they were “deputized” to legally put him to death. This successfully eliminated the need for prisons. When God’s Law was applied in Israel murder was rare. This was also true in early America when it was more closely following God’s Law. Neither was there a need for a prison system. The primary prison system did not start in American until the 20th century, especially promoted by the unbiblical early Progressive movement.

As America has turned away from God’s Law - today there are literally thousands of prisons with millions of inmates. This is costing Americans over $180 billion dollars every year and impacting our economy over $350 billion dollars annually… and cities are full of crime! This alone should be enough reason for Christians and even non-Christians to demand a return to God’s Civil Law immediately.

* Under God’s Law - Israel was the first nation in the world where everyone was taught to read. At the time Moses and the Children of Israel left Egypt:

* The Hittite language had 375 cuneiform characters.

* The Indus Valley Harappan language had 417 symbols.

* The Luwian language of Anatolia had over 500 logographic hieroglyphs.

* The Akkadian language in Mesopotamia had over 1,500 Sumerian cuneiform characters.

* The Egyptian language had over 3,000 hieroglyphic characters.

* The Chinese language had nearly 10,000 pictogram and ideogram characters.

When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, he not only had the Ten Commandments, but he had them in only a 22-character alphabet! With so few characters, everyone, including children, could learn to read. Parents and grandparents taught their children to read God’s Word and obey it.

In most countries, reading and writing were skills only for kings, pharaohs, emperors, and their scribes, ruling class and some merchants. But God’s Law views all people being no less important than kings, as all being created in God’s image.

Since The Time Of Christ

In Acts 17:7, the disciples were described as already serving Jesus as their King instead of Caesar. The very fact that Rome persecuted, imprisoned, and murdered Christians demonstrated that the Romans understood that the kingdom the Christians preached and lived was an existing rival kingdom.

Had Christianity been considered a religion like it mostly is today, Rome would not have concerned itself with Christianity any more than it did with any of the other religions in its realm. But Christendom’s King, His kingdom, and His civil Law posed a major threat to the survival of the pagan Roman Empire and eventually was overthrown along with the Christian Emperor Constantine the Great.

Though history revisionists have influenced many today to think Constantine was bad or a hypocrite, he did in fact replace the pagan Roman law with much of God’s Law. And I tend to believe what the Christians say about Constantine in his time than non-Christians or Christians today think about him. The Christians in his time gave him the title of Constantine the Great. He did great things for the Christians and the Kingdom of God.

Christ’s kingdom in nations today is mostly under the rule of non-Christians. Not because it has yet to be established, but because many Christians have been taught the theological lie of the last century that the Kingdom of God does not exist on earth at this time. They have consequently abdicated leadership of society and civic governance, to no longer be the “head” but think it’s “spiritual” to be the “tail.” The church has become governmentally and culturally impotent today, focusing on itself instead of the outward mission Jesus said - “to be the salt of the earth… and the light of the world.”

But God says to His people (Deut. 18:13):

“If you listen to the commands of the Lord your God and carefully obey them, the Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always be on top and never at the bottom.”

However, God goes on to say (Deut. 28:15-44):

“But if you refuse to listen to the Lord your God and do not obey all the commands and decrees I am giving you… they will be the head, and you will be the tail!”

The Kingdom was the focus of Jesus’ earthly ministry and is the central issue of the entire Bible. The phrases “the Father’s Kingdom,” “the Kingdom of God,” “the Kingdom of heaven,” “the heavenly Kingdom,” “the Kingdom of Christ,” “the gospel of the Kingdom,” and the word “Kingdom” appears 146 times in the New Testament.

What the Apostle Paul taught can be summarized in two words - King and Kingdom (Acts 28:30-31):

“For the next two years, Paul lived in Rome at his own expense. He welcomed all who visited him, boldly proclaiming the Kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Because the Kingdom of God is in existence today, our principal objective as Ambassadors of the King of kings (2 Cor. 5:20), is to please our King and advance His Kingdom. That is the mission of the Church, with the gospel only being the first step. Being faithful ambassadors, this certainly includes pursuing Christians to be the civil leaders implementing God’s “perfect Law of liberty” (James 1:25).

What’s inscribed on the Liberty Bell should be enough for us to know how early Americans promoted God’s Law (Leviticus 25:10):

“Proclaim LIBERTY Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants Thereof.”

Jesus made clear what priority the Kingdom of God should be to those of us who claim to follow Him - Jesus commanded (Matt. 6:33):

“Seek FIRST the Kingdom of God!”

Christians had a practical understanding of this in 1643 when the colonies of New Plymouth, Massachusetts, and New Haven, Connecticut formed the New England Confederation. Their purpose in coming to America was to advance the Kingdom of God. They put it in writing (Historical Collections Phil., Pa: T. Dobson, 1792, vol. 2, p.1.):

“We all came into these parts of America with one and the same end and aim, namely to advance the Kingdom of our Lord and Jesus Christ.”

“Government” has become a dirty word to many Christians. But this thinking is an aberration from that of the Christians who first came to America from Europe. They looked upon government as a holy ordinance of God for the purpose of advancing the Kingdom of God here on earth. Listen to what William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, wrote in Pennsylvania’s Charter, Dec. 17, 1682:

“Whereas the glory of Almighty God and the good of mankind is the reason and end of government and, therefore, government in itself is a venerable ordinance of God. And forasmuch as it is principally desired and intended by the Proprietary and Governor and the freemen of the province of Pennsylvania and the territories thereunto belonging to make and establish such laws as shall best preserve true Christian civil liberty in opposition to all unchristian, licentious, and unjust practices.”

If you want to see how God intervenes in the affairs of nations, read 2 Chronicles in the Bible. Repeatedly, generation after generation, without one exception, when the civil leaders were righteous, following God’s civil Law, the whole nation and all the people were greatly blessed and had peace and great prosperity.

When the civil leaders were unrighteous, not following God’s civil Law, without exception, the whole nation began to suffer greatly under the judgment of God from “foreigners, wars, diseases, troubles, and loss of prosperity.” However, if or when God’s people repented and turned back to God in obeying His Law, without exception, God would show mercy and bless the nation again giving the people freedom, peace, and great prosperity.

God is NOT indifferent to the affairs of nations today any more than He is to any individual today. When any individual repents to follow Jesus today, doesn’t God always forgive them and begin blessing them? When a nation or civil leader repents to follow Jesus and His Law today, will God not also always forgive and bless that civil leader and nation today? YES, and also without exception!

Do you know the two last things God said in the last book of the Old Testament (Mal. 3:6, 4:4 NLB):

“I am the Lord and I do not change… Remember to obey God’s Law.”

Do you know that God repeated the same thing in the New Testament (Heb. 13:8; James 4:11 NLB):

“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever… and your job is to obey God’s Law.”

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