Samuel and the Central Government

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Samuel and the Central Government

by David Yeagley · May 2009
http://www.badeagle.com/2009/05/22/samuel-and-the-central-government/

The failure of nations is caused by disbelief in the Almighty. Dissolving societies represent aversion to the Creator of every kindred, tongue, and people. Unbelief is the cause for the slavish dependency on central government, and the lustful desire to expand its power. Powerful regimes fail through abusing their own people.
The old prophet Samuel understood all this. He knew Israel’s craving for a king, a powerful central government, was a communal ego trip, a lust for illusive power. When the people demanded a king, he told them plainly that the Lord Himself had delivered them from ferocious enemies at least a half dozen times in their recent history. (I Sam. 12: 9-11.) The Lord did this by simply raising up a spiritual military leader as needed, from time to time. At the very time the people demanded a king of Samuel, they were free of Philistine oppression! (I Sam. 7:13.) There was simply no need for a king. It was rather some natural aversion to God, some typical human writhing for illusive freedom. Their demand was an atrocious facade. Their cry was a lie.

Samuel, from a Byzantine pigment on plaster fresco, Kiev,Golden Dome Monastery.

Yet, the people demanded that they be submitted to complete self-oppression! Samuel told them what kind of king they would have, and what kind of government would evolve from him. It would be awful. They would be taxed into poverty, their families would be broken up–all in the name of the government. I Sam. 8: 9-18. Nay, but the people would not hear of it. They wanted their king, their vicarious communal ego figure. In their unbelief, they thought it would be great.
What we have then in this ancient example is actually a testimony of willing dependency. Self-idolizing, as it were. Americans today love to talk about independence, and conservatives especially laud the idea of individualism and self-reliance. This is right, indeed. But, in terms of Biblical reality, that kind of independence is achieved only through absolute dependence on the Lord. In the history of our American country, that kind of in individualism was successful only because the people believed and trusted in their God.
Now, interestingly, that very kind of dependence on the Lord requires a rip-roaring, hell-fired independence from everyone and everything else! (Deut. 6:4,5.) But people don’t generally like being different, so that is ever a tall, tall order. At times, ancient Israel just couldn’t do it.
So, what we have in the case of Samuel’s predicament is a people who are crying out rather for dependency! They can’t handle the Lord anymore. They are giving up on that system. They they’re calling for human leadership, human organization, a new social order, one that works like everyone else’s–with a human figure figure commanding them. The people specifically said they wanted to be “like all the nations.” I Sam. 8:5. Thus they willingly preferred a ruthless subjugation–even by their own hand, by their own kind.
Of course we are mindful of this Memorial Day weekend, when we honor those who have given their lives for our country. Alas, I fear the country they have died for is fast becoming unworthy of them. It is no longer representing that kind of individualism that can survive on God, rather than a central government. Our young military people are giving their lives for an oppressive central government, so it seems. Our people have become spiritually numb. We see an alien black African Communist Muslim parading in luxury and power, and we think we’re triumphant! Our military serves this kind of nefarious egotism?
Our forefathers designed a very, very limited government, which had little to do with shaping the society or the people. In those early days, most people were very serious Christians, and understood their responsibilities. They were truly independent. Today, however, people are very far out of tune with both the values of the Constitution and the Bible. Disbelief in the latter creates disrespect for the former. Unbelief, lack of trust, yea, disdain for the idea that a godly people can lead themselves–that is, they do not need to be led–this is the cause of America’s social implosion.
We have become a godless people, in that we do not believe or trust in the Lord. This means that we, as ancient Israel, will chose self-oppression. We will chose the grand central government, and grow it grander daily. America just elected the most oppressive ideologue in our presidential history. The party of oppression, of control, of unlimited taxation and debt–this is what America has chosen.
BadEagle.com has before attempted to identify the cause of the success of liberalism. A mental condition, an ideology, then a Freudian communal disorder–a latent male homosexual Oedipal complex on a national level, we thought perhaps a social application of psychiatry accounted for the otherwise obvious self-destruction. But now, we can see the real problem. It is disbelief in God that causes the success of Communism, of liberalism, of centralized government. It is that human nature craving dependence on man, and independence from God. It is called rebellion. That is the long and short of it. It is that simple. This is the Biblical view of man.
And as we should all know by now, independence from God yields a most slavish dependency on man.
And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day.
Thus spoke the elderly prophet of Israel, Samuel, whose name means “God hears.” I Sam. 8:18.
http://www.badeagle.com/2009/05/22/samuel-and-the-central-government/