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MOUNT SINAI

And the Giving of the Law to Moses and Humanity




 

 

Moses had been raised in the courts of the Pharaoh of Egypt.

Archaeologists have learned that the Egyptians had an amazing list of medications used by their doctors. Some of them worked so well that alternative medicine today uses some of their discoveries. But, they also have some insane cures. The cures for head lice was to rub donkey dung into you hair.

Now, while there may have actually been something to this, it certainly seems to me that modern people will have a bit of trouble getting used to that. For one thing, how are you going to explain this to the boss when you go to work looking and smelling like the south end of a donkey?

The Egyptians also were amazing builders. The Egyptian builders of the great pyramids, with their precision in carving stone, and with their using old world technology to pile up huge blocks of stone, still puzzle modern observers.

But, Moses, and the other Hebrew descendents of Jacob and Joseph, had become heavily affected by the ways of Egypt. They had learned to keep laws regarding every day activities, and in regard to who God really is-- they lived under laws which were degraded, filthy, and even dangerous to their health. God, once he got the Hebrew people out of Egypt and into the wilderness, called for a great assembly of the people. He was going to totally change their notions of good law and good religion, AND he would even give them a new calender. All of this would result in the Hebrew people knowing for sure who their God was. His law would illustrate his nature and his glory like no other revelation berfore or since, except the person of Jesus Christ himself.

When God changes a sinner to a saint, the Bible tells us, 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

What did God give Moses on Mount Sinai?  The history of the peninsula of Sinai was treacherous, and the setting of the mountain and its name are powerful reminders that man is in trouble and needs help to live godly.

Please recall that Ham, if he went to Africa during those first days after the Flood, was not redirected by God even up until our day. Home for all Hamites has been Africa since the Flood ended. Only a handful of tribal groups did not go to Africa where God wanted them. They stopped in the Middle East near the Red Sea.  In Palestine, there were the Canaanites and the Jebusites, along with the Sodomites. They all were destroyed by God's command in order to drive them off the turf of Shem. In what we now call Sinai, there was a tribe of Hamites called the Sin.  Light weight preachers imagine that the name Sin has something to do with the English word "sin." Not so-- it is only a tribal name.

The tribe of the Sin worshipped the god Sin, and they called him Elohim at times, AND they assigned him a wife.  This was the old Nimrod cult at work again which had started in Shinar soon after the Genesis flood.  Mohammed at first adapted some thoughts to Sin in the original version of the Koran in which he included the "Satanic Verses" with the three goddesses or "daughters of Allah." Later he dropped them when he saw that he had compromised his monotheism.

The Sin tribe were very pagan.  Jehovah sent Moses up their mountain so that the single holy law code could be handed down to man.  This law code was a monumental turning point in earth's history. It was then, and still is,  in direct proportion to man's use of this law code that man has peace and prosperity.  We are not only interested in the Ten Commandments.  We must look at ALL of the codes given to Moses, for in them are the ONLY ways of living the good life on earth.

We cannot avoid putting the whole context of the Sinai law in this study.  You need to read it ALL, not just the "Ten." But, there are said to be over 300 individual laws and ordinanves in Moses' law, so we present a samplying.

There are still Jews today who observe the law of Moses strictly. They do not obey them all of course, but they try. There are also Christian groups who claim to be Messianic and who observe some of Moses Law. They too fail to keep them all. I have never found a Jew, Hebrew Roots groupie, of a Seventh Day Adventits carrying a feces paddle, which Moses required of the Hebrews at God's command:

Deuteronomy 23:12 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:
13 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:

Any Hebrew Roots member who fails to carry a feces paddle when he goes away from home is in for judgment from God, THAT IS, if God still wants us Christians to keep all the law of Moses:

James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

Offend in one law of the 300 Moses gave, and you go to hell. I suggest we be quite content and delighted to live by faith:

Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

One more thing needs to be discussed. Recently, we in the USA have had a real war of wills between God fearing Americans on one hand, and the heathen in Congress, The White House, and Liberal circles in general. The Liberal mind is highly offended by any mention of God in public. Jesus Christ is even more hated unless his name is used in blasphemy. Did you ever hear a Liberal say, "For Budha's sake," or, "For Maitraia's sake?" Not a chance. Liberals and atheists use God and Jesus Christ blasphemously because they inately know that these are the true deities of the universe, and they want to go straight to the top when they cuss in public.

But, what about these people who post the Ten Commandments in their front yard to prove a point? Are they telling us they live by them, or are they just as likely to run a stop light as the Atheist? Are these defenders of the icon, the talisman, of the Ten Commandments in a constant state of submission to the God of those commandments?

Matthew 15:8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

I am not impressed. Nowhere in Church History do we read of the true Bride of Christ posting the Ten Commandments in the town square. Oh, you will read about old Mother Whore, the Roman Catholic Church, making public display of Christian precepts, and then their Pope ( John XIII ) went up to the Vatican and crowned himself with his bastard sons standing around in cute period costumes.

 


Exodus chapter 20

Exodus 20:1 And God spake all these words, saying,
2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

So, modern man learns this thousands of years later that many toys of civilization become gods which destroy faith in God and Jesus Christ. Other gods bring to mind some moldy wooden carved idol sitting in the back of an African but in 1920 long ago, Let me illustrate how the most seemingly holy thing can become and idol. There are people who are totally obsessed with the Bible doctrine of the sovereignty of God. I had a friend in the US Army long ago who worked with me. He was Dutch Reformed, and he liked to start conversations about Calvinism and the sovereignty of God. He was not particularly cruel in the thing since we were really friends, but he worried constantly that I might not understand the most tiny and precise detail of Calvin's Institutes, and he would try to explain it to me in minute detail.

The pitiful thing was that I never had any confidence that he was really born again. His salvation seemed to have come to him by osmosis from his parents and his local church Domini. I fear he will spend eternity with John Calvin, the murderer of a Bible believer long ago. My friend always ended our discussions by declaring me pure in doctrine, but where was he? You see, he had made an idol of one of the most precious doctrines in the Bible-- the reality of the totality of the sovereignty of God. How sad. Get doctrine right, but to to hell?

4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

Islam takes this literally. They have no pictures of any kind in mosques and the homes of committed Muslims. For this we cannot fault them.

The Roman Catholic church has thousands of images and devices which men reverence instead of God.  Rome tries desperately to justify this blasphemy. They have this law written in their consciences, so they have highly developed apologetics to explain that they do not worship their idols, they simply use them to help them remember who God and Mary are. BAH! What rubbish. They are idols.

So, look at all the images in your life and your living area. Do any of them have a spiritual mystique about them? If so, they are idols which speak to your mind spiritually. Why do you have a cross in your home. That is a symbol of shame and crime. Would you hand an electric chair on your wall if Christ came today and was killed by wicked men? Would you hang the cross up there if you could die for doing that? Hmmmm Jesus Christ and the Christian faith is not enhanced one whit by turning reality into art. Maybe you need to discuss this with your pastor.

5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Roman Catholics in many countries give birth to children who duplicate their parents' sins of image reverence. This can go on for many generations without anyone being truly born again. If you had parents who were idol worshippers in any way, I suggest you confess the sins of you fathers with your family to be sure you do not have your parents' devils hanging around hoping to bring the idol collection back.

7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

Those who use "God" and "Jesus Christ" with blasphemous intent are doomed to hell.  God has no tolerance for this. I have posted an article in the journal on WORDS WE USE. I suggest you take a look and cleanse your soul and mouth if there is offense there. 

8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

While the "Lord's Day" is now observed rather than the sixth day, the Sabbath, the principle of taking a day in every week to rest is unavoidable. Those who ignore this, die early. If you think the whole Sabbath principle was tossed out at the cross, you are wrong. You were made to rest one day out of seven. The day you pick is not legalized in the Church Age, but you must rest and worship God. If you think the day of rest was invented by God only to make sure he could get your attention one day in seven, tell me, why did God rest on the seventh day of creation. That day of rest was part of the whole picture. If not, there would only be six days in the creation account.

Furthermore, why did God rest anyway? Was he tired? Was his creative work exhausting? Did flop on his throne and pant for breath for a day? Who is your God anyway? Get this straight. Rest is not about sin, not about ritual, not about being there every time the doors are open, and not about Moses' law. The reason we must rest is that, in rest, we learn something priceless about the nature of God and being in his presence. Some of you are cross-eyed by now. Sorry about that :-)

9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

The Seventh Day Adventists insist that those who rest and worship on Sunday are worshiping the Sun god and are taking the Mark of the Beast. Well, Saturday is the day of the god Saturn in the Greek religion of the past.  Monday the day of the moon, and Sunday the day of the sun. So what?

The Mark of the Beast is a mark, not a day.  Ellen G. White was a mad hatter hag with many tricks to threaten SDAs into submission to here Mother Goose religion. Finally, Jesus was first seen on the "first day of the week" and the early Church observed that as the day of the Church meeting. That the SDAs make such a fuss over this shows how utterly stupid they are.  The Church of true believers met on the First Day of the week from the earliest Apostolic days. None of the New Testament writers told anyone when to meet to worship.

11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Resting for one day in seven with a view to worshipping God is an act of obedience first and foremost.  

12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

This law is not observed very well in this day. Elsewhere in Moses' law, if parents saw that their son was cheeky and a glutton, they could take him to the elders, and if they found the parents to be true, they stoned the kid. It would be a very pleasant world today if every kid had a holy terror of disobeying his parents, AND if every young adult felt morally obligated to see to it that his parents never came into want. Is this not an alien notion today?

13 Thou shalt not kill.

This includes war for gain and conquest, as in the United States of America where war is said to be to keep the peace, but it is really for the purpose of getting oil contracts and dominating the Middle East. America's war are murder, and no young man in America should consider a career in the US Military-- he will be considered a murderer before God. The facilitating of abortion, purposely infecting Africa with AIDS through the United Nations small pox vaccination program, and helping ANYONE to kill themselves-- these are murder. Voting to prohibit natural God-given natural cures while protecting Monsanto and Pfizer as they maim and murder millions with drugs that cure nothing-- this is murder also. If you are a doctor, are you not helping murder these people when you try to force them to get another vaccination which is laces with mercury as a preservative? The Mercury accumulates and never goes away, and it is proven that this shortens life and caused horrible physical sorrow. It is murder.

14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.

This included the kings and the people-- all Jews were to be under this law.  Americans elected a man, Bill Clinton, whom they KNEW to be an adulterer. They WANTED a filthy man to lead them. So, God will soon destroy America. You can count on it-- You voted for your own destruction if you voted for Bill Clinton, and God will not forget. Some of you dim bulbs think that the attack on your gun collection is the worst thing that ever happened to America. Think again. If you are a Bible believer you need to start looking at this world in the light of God's holiness instead of, "I HAVE MY RIGHTS."

I will show you another very strange hypocrisy in America and all of the White Race. The Church, missionaries long ago, and the US Federal Law Code has made polygamy a sin and illegal. But, most alleged churches, and the White Race governments worldwide have made sodomy and adultery civil rights and cool. Under Moses' law adulterers and sodomites were stoned summarily, no parole, no bail, no mercy. And the sentence was carried out regularly in Israel. On the other hand, God made no complaint that his servants in the Old Testament era had more than one wife. He never judged them outright for that sin alone, NEVER. Do you ever wonder what God thinks of a church that mocks at Mormons for their plurality of wives, yet they almost eagerly sweep adultery under the carpet?

The polygamy hating Southern Baptist Convention rehabilitated Charles Stanley who was divorced. Many churches joyfully exalt their pastor when he gets divorced and remarries. Is God some jolly old uncle who just gives us all a pat on the head and sends us on down the road to practice our progressive polygamy?

Here is is bluntly-- polygamy is not adultery in the Bible, divorce and remarriage is adultery according to Jesus. But then, what would Jesus know about our difficult times today, right?

15 Thou shalt not steal.

Stealing is endemic worldwide. God is not mocked.  This world will soon pay up. As modern times roll on, and as wealth increases, virtually every Western nation has leadership that drives inflation for the express purpose of robbing the working man of his earnings. It is normal to have taxation. Whether high of limited, it is needed to pay for the functions of governing a nation. But inflation is simply a way bankers use to rob the citizens in a way that no one can see, and there is no law against it. This is why Jesus Christ must return to this world to destroy world government as we know it today, all of it.

16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Gossip and story telling is part of this.  Many people tell all sorts of stories exposing their friends and neighbors.  The media lusts for a filthy word on our leaders. National leaders lie and lie and lie, and the media of the world helps them. The payback is that these people share power over the people to whom they lie. This is so pervasive in modern society that people have come to the point where they do not believe the truth when they hear it.

17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

Coveting is a very great sin of world culture today.  Advertising and marketing have made people all over the world to covet the things they see with their eyes.  Few if any cultures today are satisfied with what they have.  In the deepest Ituri Rain Forest of Congo, Pygmies lust to get a new radio, in the back streets of Gondor, Ethiopia, men scheme to get the gongs and trinkets of Western civilization. "Shopping" is so obsessive in America that it is sometimes impossible to walk from the front door to the back door in Wal-Mart in the USA because of the mob in the way.  Indeed, sociologists are amazed to find, in the end days of American culture, that department stores are becoming the social centers of our

Western life. Museums and theaters are slowly dying. The theme of the West is, "Shop til you drop." Richardo Mantalban told us in the 70s, "You deserve a Cordoba." Well the Cordoba is now in the junk yard, so we lust for a Lincoln or a BMW. God is watching friends-- and He is about to trash ALL of our gongs and trinkets. Moses' law is still in fashion in the Glory!

The TED video at the right does not fit the right wing lust for wealth, and it does not fit the New Age notion that you rape the rich to make everyone happy. I think it is interesting that the world is driven by nightmares while technology and general wealth rise higher and higher for the few. This is not, in case you did not read your Bible describing the Messianic Kingdom, the divine ideal. The rape of the Middle East by the US Military is all about oil contracts. God must and will destroy the USA. The nightmare principle seems to be fed by antagonism from the governments of the Western world, and nightmares multiple exponentially.

Why?

Answer: The richer men get, the more they want. The word "Enough" is a hated word at all levels of society. Ask the average Fundamental Baptist preacher what he wants most. He will say, "I want to see souls saved." That is not because he wants to depopulate hell. It is because more souls mean more members, and more members mean more cash flow, and more cash flow means that new Navigator (Lincoln automobile).

Sadly, the speaker at the TED Conference will not see his dream. The Bible tells us that the present war between the Nicolaitans (rulers at the top), and the Laodiceans (greedy mob at the bottom), will not stop. It will indeed end in a nightmare motivated by nothing better than raw human greed-- greed to rule the world. This is called Armageddon.

Now, saint, why do YOU need to participate? Please sit still and ask the Lord to search your heart and show you how you are a greedy slob. This is what David said,

Psalms 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Only a damned to hell Cain would pass on by this challenge and slay Abel.


Exodus chapter 21

1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

Slavery was permitted in Israel. But, our attitude toward slavery is colored by the barbarian slavery practiced in the Southern States of the USA before the Civil War. The world's most primitive slavery was that of the USA.  In Israel, the slaves had rights, and the following is an example of how God required restraint by masters.  

3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4 If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

Bond service was a choice of the slave, and many chose it. This is because poverty had no sponsor as in the USA where the poor are made slaves of the Federal Government. In Israel, a man could choose to avoid poverty for the rest of his life by binding himself for life to another man. That is socialism of the highest order. Both master and slave are sold out to one another.

12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

The only just penalty for murder is the death penalty. The USA has a horrible crime problem at this time because criminals are allowed to live. Prisons did not exist in Israel.  A man either was found innocent and released, or he paid restitution, or he was stoned. Period, full stop. There was no country club where he could serve time and then go do the same crime again. As long as the USA courts disaster in this modern blasphemy of justice, this nation will go on down into the abyss of terror on the streets.

13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

There was a provision for accidents, but still the man who killed another by accident was to move to a city AWAY from the victims area.  Killing a man was NOT a small thing to God. There was no one totally innocent when a man killed another man. There were no accidents. There was responsibility in every case. This caused all people in ancient Israel to be very careful as they moved around and worked. What would our modern world be like with such laws?

15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

These brat kids who pull out pipe and beat their parents ARE responsible-- they should be stoned in the street in front of their house so that other kids know the penalty for playing the fool.

16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

Kidnapping for ANY reason is worthy of stoning. This also seems to include stealing a slave. To God a slave was a fully qualified human being. I realize you Americans cannot understand this because if the bestial picture of slavery you have in US history. 

17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

What would this world be like if any kid who cussed out his parents was stoned? It would be be very peaceful. Jesse unruh, State School Superintendant of California in the 70s, got a law passed that if a school kid attacked a teacher or verbally accosted them even off the school ground, that the teacher could file suit in criminal court, and the kid would pay the penalty. The last I heard, no teacher would use the law. This shows how the minds of teachers have been ruined by guilt, as if it is cruel to hold a child responsible. A mouthy arrogant brat who attacks adults verbally should be stoned according to Moses' law. 

18 And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

Wounding a man in a battle or fight is to be the responsibility of the man causing the injury, no matter "who started it." Our society has no such consideration. Indeed, the White race is so unrestrained that the vast majority of us carry liability insurance so that we can injure anyone we choose and let another agency pay the bill. This is cheap law according to Jehovah.

22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

This is not abortion, which is murder in the first degree. This is an accident. The problem is that the one wounding was fighting and causing trouble, so he gets to pay for the life lost.

23 And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

This means that if the wife dies, stone the killer.

24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Does this sound brutal?  If so, this is because YOU are a wimp. YOU do not want to be held responsible for your actions. YOU want to booze it up and then drive around and kill people. YOU want to drive like a perfect jerk and take life and run people into the ditch and go free. YOU should be stoned.

28 If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.
29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

This means that there are such things as the unknown. But, if you have a pit bull, and if it bit once and you don't kill it, the next time it bites, you get the whip and pay the damage.

30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

No one went to jail or prison. Either they were executed or they paid restitution.  Can you imagine what life in the USA would be like if we practiced Moses' law? There would be VERY little crime. And, the soft headed wimps who love to hug criminals would also have to start restraining their brat kids and start driving like civilized people. There would be no "temporary insanity", and the most ignorant and retarded killer would be stoned along with Mr. Kavorkian. What a glorious world this would be, AND we would NOT have to provide these prisons at tremendous cost to the tax payer. There would be no need for rehabilitation centers and Juvenile Delinquent centers-- these devils would simply be stoned and removed from civilization.

Under the law of Moses, there would be a stoning at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue if Kenneth Starr proved that Bill Clinton was with Monica in adultery. Of course, Bill's earlier promotion of Sodomy would have caused his death a long time ago. Can you imagine what kind of Presidential candidates we would have if they all knew they had to live up to Moses' law? What if every gluttonous Baptist preacher were to be stoned?  Wouldn't some preachers be more careful at the church dinners? What if anyone who got AIDS had to live "in a several house" under quarantine for the rest of their life as in the law of lepers in Moses' day.  AIDS would be all gone by now.

33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
34 The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.

There were no such things as accidents in Israel. All things were held as someone's responsibility. If you made the problem, even unconsciously, YOU paid up.

 

Exodus chapter 22

1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

The state of Israel did not put the man in prison or fine him and put the cash in the state treasury. Rather, restitution was swift, to the victim, and 500% over the loss. This standard, if used in the USA, would probably wipe out 70 to 85% of all theft.

2 If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.

This is the case in Turkey and Islamic countries to this day, and they have almost no theft. The thief is open season to be killed in the act. This, if practiced by the USA and alleged "civilized" nations, would wipe out theft 100%.

3 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

Slavery for thieves is a God honoring solution. Is it inhumane? NO! It is a great solution.

6 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

This law would solve arson and roadside fires lit by mindless cigarette suckers, of which about 99% are mindless and irresponsible.  They should pay to the last cent for all fires they start or be made slaves until they pay up.

7 If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.
8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.

No one is innocent because he was ignorant. All men are responsible for their choices and causes.

9 For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.

Again, there is no jail or prison. The accused is either found innocent and goes free, or guilty and pays up, or he becomes a slave to the victim.  This is the kind of law that preserves society best.

10 If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:
11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
12 And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.

Again, a man is responsible for his acts and causes. "Circumstances" are NOT a cause for innocence.

14 And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.
15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

Millions of people borrow things and return them defective or damaged. This should be a criminal offense in a truly civilized nation.

16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

This would take care of Bill Clinton's affairs. He would end up with 200 wives I dare say.  If Clinton laid with Monica, he should have to marry her. That would certainly put some caution into Hillary's tricks with the ladies.  Also, every buck stud, Black or White, who hustles ANY maid should HAVE to endow her as a wife, even if he does not live with her. Losing her virginity MUST be her free ticket to perpetual support by the hustler. Only this severe law will ever stop fornication in a nation.

17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.
 

Based on other laws, if he is flat broke of cash, he should be a slave to the father until he pays up.

18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

Cotton Mather was 100% right and righteous. Witches must be killed.

19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

No questions or mercy-- No prison time-- kill the bums.

20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

Kill those who do sacrifice to any god or to Lucifer or to Satan. That would also include those who try to kill Jesus Christ and sacrifice Him anew to themselves in the Mass.

21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Those traveling through your land who are without nation or people are to be HELPED.

22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
 Orphans and widows are to be sustained by the nation 100%.

25 If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.  

Anyone who came to poverty in employment or service to you can borrow from you WITHOUT paying interest.

26 If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

You cannot keep a man 's down payment  or earnest money for more than one day. 

28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.

The small "g" in gods means the judges of Israel, not Jehovah GOD. This means that civil authority must be respected.

29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

The first born son could be redeemed if not needed in temple service.  The principle is that the best of all we have goes to God. Greedy USA and other nations suffer crashes and disasters in their economies and their empires collapse because they hold back and keep what is God's.

31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

This is a simple sanitation law to assure that diseased animals are not eaten. We observe this law in principle in civilized natins.

 

Exodus chapter 23

1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

The whole world now honors this law in rejecting false reports, and those who make them are mocked in the media.

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

All over the "civilized world" we find Moses' law observed as courts and civil rulers will condemn and even prosecute those who were accomplices in rebellion and insurrection.

3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

The world now hates a man who will reject and interfere with the justice due a poor person. Only the greedy, Hindus, and a handful of pagans will see the troubling of the poor as something good and helpful. The Hindus see the troubling of the poor as a way for the poor to be helped to work off Karma in this life. This is seen as profane and wicked in most civilized nations. Mother Teresa would not make her victims too comfortable because she thought she was helping them to work off sin. This is still found in a few twisted sickos in the Roman Catholic Church.

4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

Thousands of "lost and found" departments exist in many kinds of institutions. The civilized world recognizes that just because an item is lost does not mean it automatically becomes public property. Those who seek to return the lost item are seen as noble, and some very touching stories are exalted in our day in this pattern. This was NOT found in the world until Moses' law was given by God.

5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

This means the enemy is due help just as the friend. Thus, after war, Christian nations rebuild the nation they defeated. Some will complain. But, the rebuilding of Japan and Germany by Great Britain and the USA was in the tradition of Moses' law. Other religions, such as the Roman Catholic tradition, would leave the defeated enemy to starve. This law was trashed when the North in the USA tried to keep the South starved after the Civil War, and we suffered much hate and terror in the South and the nation as race problems resulted.

6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

Again, we see that a man is not to receive justice based upon how much wealth he has. This law was not present in Europe during the Dark Ages of Roman Catholic terror and Inquisition. It took a Bible believing Reformation, and later the American Church, to force the world to receive this law.

7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

Spiritual people will not hang around when false things go down. Plotting to wrest wealth from any source by violence is still seen as wicked.  Bill and Hillary Clinton are on a perpetual defensive to try to escape from a scam in Arkansas in which innocent people were ripped off.

8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Bribery is considered an insult to good rulers, and in many Christian nations a bribe will get a far worse punishment than the original offense.

9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

The tolerance of Christian nations which received the Reformation and the ethic of the Anabaptists is tolerant to a fault with those who intrude into their lands. The USA is now allowing many Mexicans to slip through into the country with very little concern. Why? Answer: We all came here to escape some terror, so we find it hard to hate a man looking for a break.

10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

Farmers are actually PAID by their governments to let the land rest. It is seen as logical and essential to good production. Man did not know this until Moses' law was enforced.

12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

Neither Christ nor the Apostles brought forward the enforced Sabbath from the law of Moses, regardless how hard the Seventh Day Adventists try to ram it down our throats. Nevertheless, the spirit of the law, and common sense, tell us the working seven days straight, year after year, will kill you a lot sooner. Also, you do not get fellowship that you would when you have a day to rest, pray, and worship with God's people. Do not turn liberty into lunacy.

Tin pan salesmen in London long ago found that they could drive their donkeys farther in a six day week than if they went seven days straight.  Doctors will tell patients who refuse to rest one day a week to do so or die early. It is a law that works even for the Atheists who observe it.

13 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, 16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Ecumenism has broken down this law, but in any civilized Christian nation of the recent past, men who were not even churched would not show tolerance and sympathy for pagan gods. This is why Cotton Mather burnt witches, and this is why the folks in Illinois ran the Mormons out of town.

19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God.

To this day, many Christians around the world bring the first fruits to the Lord's House or to other saints.

32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
33 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.

Regarding the heathen around the righteous, as in our day, the Bible believer is NOT to give of take "fellowship" or companionship.  This is now a broken law in our day as alleged Christians mix daily with false religion. The end of it is the approval of pagan gods, as in the case of Billy Graham saying that Buddhists will be received by God on their own terms.

 

CONCLUSION

This is only a fraction of the many laws of Moses as given by Jehovah God.  Even sanitation and sickness laws of our day are based on the laws God gave to Moses.  Men may mock God and laugh at Moses, but they keep Moses' laws or they suffer for their rebellion. If the world will not treat AIDS as Moses did in his day with leprosy, then AIDS will take out possibly half the world's population before it runs its course.

This is why we call the giving of the law a great turning point in history.  It is this law that justifies or condemns the works of man in all ages.

 



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