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PASTOR'S REPORT, Culy 11, 1979
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Take time to UNDERSTAND your position in relation to the GOVERNMENT OF
MAN and also your relationship to the GOVERNMENT OF GOD!
The government of GOD did once rule the earth. This was before Adam
was created! God placed a super archangel, the Cherub LUCIFER on the throne
of the whole world, then inhabited by angels! How long GOD'S GOVERNMENT was
administered we do not know. But this Lucifer, the highest, most powerful
and mighty being God could create, next to Himself, was PERFECT in- all his
ways, UNTIL iniquity (LAW TRANSGRESSION) was found in him (Ezek. 28:15).
Now he is SATAN the DEVIL! And he is deceiving some of God's simple and
trusting people on this very matter of GOVERNMENT!
Many times recently I have mentioned that if you tune in your TV set
on a movie that is two-thirds over, not knowing what went before and led up
to the point you tuned in, you do not really understand what you are seeing.
had
Eve.
and
God
So take time to get this exceedingly brief BACKGROUND. After Lucifer
become SATAN the arch-deceiver, God created the first humans--Adam and
They rejected the GOVERNMENT OF GOD, and God drove them out of Eden,
barred them and all humans to be born from and after them from access to
(Gen. 3:22-24), except the VERY FEW God has specially called.
For some 6,000 years mankind has lived under GOVERNMENTS OF MAN in
f1 uenced by SAT Ai"'J and CUT OFF FROM GOD!
Yet, even so, man, in his personal life is commanded to BE SUBJECT TO
(not always to OBEY) the government of man. It is true that the New Testa
ment tells us that, in the regular course of each person's life, he is to be
SUBJECT TO the human civil laws and governmental powers over him. The Church
o� God has always taught that.
3ut being "subject to" does not of itself mean "OBEY." When it comes
to reilling in war, a drafted man may be "SUBJECT TO" man's law by submitting
to the ?EN1''..LTY of man's law! Thus he
may
"BE SUBJECT TO" the law of man,
while OBEYING GOD rather than man.
New look co the e�ample set and the teaching of Jesus. He said (Matt.
22:2l, "?,enL:e.:::- : . mto Caesar the things that ARE Caesar's, and unto God the
"C.l1i:-:q s �ha� are God's.
n
::T'AN GOVERN�1ENT has ALWAYS persecuted God and those who follow God's
,,:3ys.
-::n Jesus' day, Judea was part of the Roman Empire. Althoug11 the
Ro�an government kept a small contingent of soldiers there, and a Roman
::-:J·Jernor or local king, they delegated all the more minor administration of
Ro�in government to the sects of the Pharisees and Sadducees. So the Phari
sees actually were the government of MAN.
'.·Then they sought to take Jesus and put Him to death, He escaped among
t,:e s::rcwd--becac.se His time to be crucified had not yet come.
Jesus did
not r:ceekl.y t0.rr:. the other cheek, and say, "Here I am. Take me and destroy
r.:
e." ·:ou read in Matthew 12:14, "Then the Pharisees went out, and held a
coc.ncil against him, HOW THEY MIGHT DESTROY HIM"!
This is precisely what happened on January 2nd, this year, 1979, in
secret in the chambers of Judge Pacht in Los Angeles. It was a secret
council on HOW HUMA.'\ GOVERNMENT COULD D E S T R O Y the very-Church of
the li\·ing GOD!