The Perfect Law of Yahweh

The law of YHWH1 is perfect, converting the soul:

the testimony of YHWH is sure, making wise the
simple. The statutes of YHWH are right, rejoicing
the heart: the commandment of YHWH is pure,
enlightening the eyes. The fear of YHWH is clean,
enduring for ever: the judgments of YHWH are true
and righteous altogether. More to be desired are
they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter
also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by
them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them
there is great reward. (Psalm 19:7-11)2
Most modern-day fundamental Christians3 profess that
Yahweh's4 law is perfect, but few of them believe these
verses from Psalm 19 have any practical value today.
Most of today's Christians are antinomian.5 They either
believe Yahweh's law has little relevance to the New
Covenant Christian or that it has been abolished
altogether.6 What irony! Many Christians identify
themselves as New Testament or New Covenant
Christians and yet they reject the foundation of the New
Covenant:
Behold, the days come, saith YHWH, that I will
make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and
with the house of Judah. ...this shall be the
covenant that I will make with the house of Israel;
after those days, saith YHWH, I will put my law in
their inward parts, and write it in their hearts;
and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
(Jeremiah 31:31-33)
According to Jeremiah (and the author of Hebrews, who
quoted this prophecy in Hebrews 8:8-10), the New
Covenant consists of Yahweh's laws written on the hearts
and minds of His people,7 for the purpose of putting them
into daily practice. It is impossible to be a New Covenant
Christian without pursuing Yahweh's laws both
individually and societally.
 Selective Hermeneutics
Antinomians quote select New Testament passages,
which appear to abolish the laws of Yahweh, while
completely ignoring the plethora of New Testament
passages that declare Yahweh's laws are inherent to the
New Covenant. The tragic consequences of this
theology, which pits Scripture against Scripture, are
found in the following list.
If you believe the laws of Yahweh have been abolished
under the New Covenant, and, as a result, you are not
pursuing His laws, you...
Believe heaven and earth have passed away.
"For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth
pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass
from the law, till all be fulfilled." (Mathew 5:18)
Are least in the kingdom of heaven.
"Whosoever therefore shall break one of these
least commandments, and shall teach men so, he
shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven:
but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same
shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."
(Matthew 5:19)
Are not accomplishing Yahweh's will, are not
known by Yahweh, and will never live in His
presence.
"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord,
shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that
doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have
we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name
have cast out devils? And in thy name done many
wonderful works? And then will I profess unto
them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that
work iniquity [anomian - lawlessness]." (Matthew
7:21-23)
Do not love Jesus.8
"If ye love me, keep my commandments." (John
14:15)
Do not abide in Jesus' love.
"If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in
my love...." (John 15:10)
Do not believe the truth.
"...truth [is] in the law." (Romans 2:20)
Are unable to identify sin.
"...by the law is the knowledge of sin." (Romans
3:20)
Fail to exhibit true faith.
"Do we then make void the law through faith? God
forbid: yea, we establish the law." (Romans 3:31)
Do not believe in what is holy, just, and good.
"Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment
holy, and just, and good." (Romans 7:12)
Do not believe in what is spiritual.
"For we know that the law is spiritual...." (Romans
7:14)
Are not living righteously nor walking after
the Spirit.
"That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled
in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the
Spirit." (Romans 8:4)
Are carnal and at enmity with Yahweh.
"Because the carnal mind is enmity against God:
for it is not subject to the law of God, neither
indeed can be." (Romans 8:7)
Are not pleasing to Yahweh.
"Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is
nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of
God." (1 Corinthians 7:19)
Do not believe in Yahweh's goodness.
"But we know that the law is good, if a man use it
lawfully." (1 Timothy 1:8)
Do not believe in the New Covenant.
"For this is the [New] covenant that I will make
with the house of Israel after those days, saith the
Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write
them in their hearts...." (Hebrews 8:10)
Do not know Yahweh.
"And hereby we do know that we know him, if we
keep his commandments." (1 John 2:3)
Believe you cannot sin, and, therefore, do not
need Jesus as your Savior.
"Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the
law: for sin is the transgression of the law." (1 John
3:4)
Do not love the children of Yahweh.
"By this we know that we love the children of
God, when we love God, and keep his
commandments." (1 John 5:2)
Do not love Yahweh.
"For this is the love of God, that we keep his
commandments: and his commandments are not
grievous." (1 John 5:3)
Are not a part of Yahweh's New Covenant
remnant.
"And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and
went to make war with the remnant of her seed,
which keep the commandments of God, and have
the testimony of Jesus Christ." (Revelation 12:17)
Are not one of Yahweh's saints.
"Here is the patience of the saints: here are they
that keep the commandments of God, and the faith
of Jesus." (Revelation 14:12)
Have no right to the tree of life.
"Blessed are they that do his commandments, that
they may have right to the tree of life, and may
enter in through the gates into the city." (Revelation
22:14)
 Under Law or Under Grace

None of this is to say that Christians are under the law as

were the Israelites during the Old (or Mosaic) Covenant.
The Bible is very clear that New Covenant Christians are
not under the law, but under grace (Romans 6:14). We
are no longer required to perfectly keep all of Yahweh's
moral laws for righteousness as were the Israelites under
the Mosaic Covenant:
And YHWH commanded us [Old Covenant
Israelites] to do all these statutes, to fear YHWH
our God, for our good always, that he might
preserve us alive, as it is at this day. And it shall be
our righteousness, if we observe to do all these
commandments before YHWH our God, as he hath
commanded us. (Deuteronomy 6:24-25)
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. (Galatians 3:10)
It was specifically this aspect of the Mosaic Covenant
that Jesus fulfilled on our behalf and then abolished:
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to
every one that believeth. (Romans 10:4)
In Galatians 3:11, the Apostle Paul wrote, "no man is
justified by the law in the sight of God" and in Galatians
5:4, "you [are] severed from Christ, you who are seeking
to be justified by law, you have fallen from grace."
Justification (our legal standing before Yahweh) is what
provides us our righteousness (our moral standing before
Him). Justification, and thereby righteousness, is only
attainable through Jesus' propitiating sacrifice on our
behalf.
Having fulfilled the Old Covenant requirement of perfect
righteousness - perfect obedience to Yahweh's laws,
which equates with sinlessness - Jesus became our
righteousness (1 Corinthians 1:26-31). Consequently,
"every one that believeth"9 is justified by the blood-
atoning sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus the Christ and
is no longer under the law, but under grace. That
Christians are not under the law has been perverted to
mean that Yahweh's laws have been abolished. If this
were true, Jesus would have put an end to Yahweh's
morality, which would mean an end to Yahweh. What a
horrific concept! Because Yahweh does not change
(Malachi 3:6), His morality, or righteousness, has not
changed either:
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,
and thy law is the truth. (Psalm 119:142)
Because Yahweh's law reflects His never-changing
morality, His law cannot be abolished or altered. If
Yahweh's law is imperfect, as some modern Christians
seem to believe, so is Yahweh's morality. If Yahweh's
morality is imperfect, so is Yahweh. And if Yahweh, His
law, and His morality are all imperfect, then Yahweh is
unrighteous. Not so:
 ...YHWH is upright ... and there is no
unrighteousness in him. (Psalm 92:15)
Because Yahweh is perpetually righteous and holy, what
He deemed sin formerly is still sin under the New
Covenant. This is not to say that changes have not
occurred between the Mosaic and Christian Covenants.
The Mosaic Covenant required perfect obedience to
obtain an imperfect justification. When the people fell
short, the priests sacrificed sheep and cattle. Not until
Jesus' blood-atoning sacrifice (Galatians 3:22-24,
Hebrews 9:13-15) did those living during the Mosaic
Covenant obtain perfect justification. The Mosaic
Covenant's Levitical priesthood and its sacrificial system
were fulfilled by Jesus and are no longer in effect.
Christians are not under the law as were the Mosaic
Israelites. Instead, we strive to keep the moral laws of
Yahweh out of our love for Him and our fellow man:
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love YHWH thy
God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy mind. This is the first and great
 commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou
shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two
commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
(Matthew 22:37-40)
To fulfill the law is to love Yahweh and our neighbor. An
antinomian (a lawless or law-rejecting) Christian is at best
an oxymoron. According to Jude, antinomians deny both
Yahweh and Jesus by their unscriptural theology:
Beloved, ... I ... write unto you, and exhort you that
ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was
once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain
men crept in unawares, who were before of old
ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning
the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and
denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus
Christ. (Jude 1:3-4)
Where the King James translated asélgeian as
"lasciviousness," the New American Standard Bible
translates it as "licentiousness." In his 1828 American
Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster
defined "licentiousness" as "excessive indulgence of
liberty; contempt of the just restraints of law...."10 By
their rejection of His law, antinomians turn Yahweh's
grace into licentiousness; they are humanists dressed in
Christian attire. Without Yahweh's moral compass, every
man is a law unto himself.
The antithesis of Yahweh's law is not grace, but
lawlessness and, therefore, sin. Yahweh's laws are meant
to keep us from sinning; grace is the solution after we
have sinned. Puritan minister Samuel Bolton (1606-
1654) wrote, "The law sends us to the gospel for our
justification; the gospel sends us to the law to frame our
way of life."11
 Galatians 3
Those who promote the idea that Yahweh's laws are no
longer pertinent under the New Covenant often refer to
Paul's epistle to the Galatians:
But before faith came, we were kept under the law,
shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be
revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster
to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by
faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer
under a schoolmaster. (Galatians 3:23-25)
Antinomians are quick to declare, "See, the law is no
longer valid today!" Which law? The Greek word
nomos, from which the New Testament word "law" is
translated, has a variety of New Testament applications:
1. Any law whatsoever.
2. The law of Jesus.
3. The entire Old Testament, including the Psalms,
Proverbs, and Prophets.
 4. The Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old
Testament).
5. The Mosaic Covenant, including its sacrificial and
ceremonial laws.
6. The moral laws of Yahweh as contained in His
commandments, statutes, and judgments.
Christians who teach Yahweh's laws are no longer
relevant usually choose some combination of 5 and 6.
Seldom do they consider the other options because, in
most instances, no one has taught them other options
exist.
 The Correct Choice
We must be careful to determine which law Paul is
referring to. Otherwise, it may appear that Paul
contradicts himself. For example, in Galatians 3, Paul
wrote that because faith had come, Christians are no
longer under the schoolmaster (the law). Then, in
Romans 3, he declares:
Do we then make void the law through faith? God
forbid: yea, we establish the law. (Romans 3:31)
Either Paul was talking about two different laws, or he
was not divinely inspired. If we do not correctly identify
the law to which Jesus put an end in Galatians 3, we
place Paul at odds, not only with himself, but also with
Jesus:
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth
pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from
the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall
break one of these least commandments, and shall
 teach men so, he shall be called the least in the
kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and
teach them, the same shall be called great in the
kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:18-19)
Either Paul was not referring to the commandments and
their respective statutes and judgments in Galatians 3, or
heaven and earth have passed away - or neither Jesus
and Paul knew what they were talking about. As we will
see, Galatians 3 is one of the keys to understanding what
was fulfilled and abolished under the New Covenant.
In Galatians 3:16-17, Paul identified the law that was
annulled as the law added four hundred and thirty years
after the promises were given to Abraham. This means
only what was added at Mt. Sinai was abolished under
the New Covenant. Any law in existence prior to the
Mosaic Covenant cannot be the law Jesus repealed.
Prior Existence of Yahweh's Law
Most Christians are unaware that Yahweh's moral laws
existed long before their codification at Mt. Sinai -
although this should be self-evident. Unlike man, Yahweh
is not fickle. Because His morality is the same yesterday,
today, and forever, His moral laws have not changed one
jot or one tittle. The Bible provides pre-Sinai evidence
that Yahweh's laws were in existence and, therefore,
could not have been added at Mt. Sinai. For example,
over 500 years prior to Moses, Abraham kept the
commandments, statutes, and laws later codified by
Moses:
...Abraham obeyed my [Yahweh's] voice, and kept
my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my
laws. (Genesis 26:5)
The book of Jasher12 expounds upon Abraham's law
observance:
...Abram served the Lord his God all the days of his
life, and he walked in His ways and followed His
law. (Jasher 12:42)
 ...He [Yahweh] said unto me [Abraham], to thy
seed I will give all these lands, and they shall inherit
them when they keep my commandments, my
statutes and my judgments that I have commanded
thee [Isaac], and which I shall command them.
Now therefore my son, hearken to my voice, and
keep the commandments of the Lord thy God ...
that it may be well with thee and thy children
forever. ...teach then thy children and thy seed the
instruction of the Lord and His commandments.
(Jasher 26:24-26)
This is very similar to what we find in Genesis 18:
For I know him [Abraham], that he will command
his children and his household after him, and they
shall keep the way of YHWH, to do justice and
judgment [righteousness and justice, NASB]; that
YHWH may bring upon Abraham that which he
hath spoken of him. (Genesis 18:19)
Righteousness and justice are only found in Yahweh's
morality as delineated in His commandments, statutes,
and judgments. The structuring of Yahweh's moral law in
Jasher 26 into three integral components -
commandments, statutes, and judgments - is the same
structure Moses later codified in the Pentateuch:
Now these are the commandments, the statutes,
and the judgments, which YHWH your God
commanded to teach you.... (Deuteronomy 6:1)
No written testimony of Yahweh's laws exists in its
entirety before Mt. Sinai, but they existed nonetheless.
After all, they reflect Yahweh's never-changing morality.
They were verbally imparted from generation to
generation, from Adam to Seth to Noah to Shem and on
to their progeny.
 Because of Transgressions
The Apostle John defines sin as a transgression of
Yahweh's law:
...whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the
law: for sin is the transgression of the law. (1 John
3:4)
When, in Galatians 3:19, Paul stated the law was "added
because of transgressions" committed during the pre-
Mosaic dispensation, he provided additional proof that
Yahweh's moral laws existed before Mt. Sinai. The sins
alluded to by Paul in Galatians 3 were transgressions of
Yahweh's commandments, statutes, and judgments
during the period between Adam and Moses. Where
there is no law, there can be no transgression; therefore,
Yahweh's moral laws existed before the exodus of the
Israelites from Egypt and could not have been the laws
that were added at Mt. Sinai. As a result, they also could
not have been the added law fulfilled and abolished by
Jesus.
 The Added Law
If Yahweh's commandments, statutes, and judgments
were not the law to which Paul alluded in Galatians 3, to
what law was he referring? Galatians 3:19 refers to two
different laws: one that existed before Mt. Sinai (the
commandments, statutes, and judgments that the
Hebrews transgressed) and the Covenant (containing
those same commandments, statutes, and judgments) that
was added and codified at Mt. Sinai. Hebrews 7:19-22
uses the words "covenant" and "law" interchangeably.
Although comprised of other components, a covenant is
a law in itself, only more comprehensive in its scope and
application. Galatians 3:19 is correctly interpreted in the
following fashion:
Wherefore then serveth the law [Mosaic
Covenant]? It was added because of
transgressions [of Yahweh's commandments,
statutes, and judgments during the Abrahamic
Covenant].... (Galatians 3:19)
Yahweh's commandments, statutes, and judgments were
already in existence. They were not the law added at Mt.
Sinai, and therefore they could not have been abolished
under the New Covenant. The Mosaic Covenant was
added at Mt. Sinai. It was the schoolmaster (mentioned
in Galatians 3:24) that was abolished when Jesus
sacrificed Himself in payment for our sins:
The Old Covenant was a contract that was added
and attached to YHWH's law. YHWH's law
predated the Old Covenant, thus, the Old Covenant
does not equate to YHWH's law. The Old
Covenant was added and attached to YHWH's law
that already existed. The Old covenant was a
package that came and went on its own ... without
changing or altering YHWH's law. When the Old
Covenant came, it was not the start of YHWH's
law ... and when the Old Covenant ended, it was
not the end of YHWH's law.
...He [Jesus] certainly did not do away with the law.
He established a New Covenant (a new
 attachment) as an advanced and more efficient
approach to fulfilling and obeying YHWH's law.13
Many contemporary Christians believe a "higher" New
Covenant law superseded the Old Covenant law.
Although the New Covenant did supersede the Old
Covenant (Hebrews 7:22, 8:6-7), it does not supersede
the Old Covenant canon because Yahweh's moral laws
are the same under both Covenants. One covenant
replaced the other, but the moral law of Yahweh remains
the same under both covenants.
 What Exactly?
What exactly was added to the existing commandments,
statutes, and judgments four hundred and thirty years
after the promises were given to Abraham? The Mosaic
Covenant - including the Levitical priesthood, obligatory
compliance to Yahweh's already existing commandments,
statutes, and judgments, and animal sacrifices for
justification - was added at Mt. Sinai and abolished at the
cross. Under the New Covenant, Jesus is our high priest,
our sacrifice, and our justification. He fulfilled all that was
added at Mt. Sinai. His perfect fulfillment of the
requirements of the Mosaic Covenant does not mean we
are now free to steal, rape, and murder. Nor does it
absolve His subjects from pursuing His perfect laws at
every level of society.
 Compulsory vs. Voluntary Compliance
The major difference between the Abrahamic and
Mosaic Covenants was voluntary versus compulsory
compliance. Paul wrote to the Galatian Christians that the
law - the Mosaic Covenant - was added because of
Israel's transgressions. Because the Israelites did not love
Yahweh and their fellow man enough to freely comply
with the moral laws in existence from the beginning of
time, Yahweh put them under compulsory compliance -
"in custody" (Galatians 3:23 NASB) - by way of the
Mosaic Covenant. Under that Covenant, the Israelites
were compelled to keep His laws in order to be justified
before God. Moses explained it in the following fashion:
...it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do
all these commandments before YHWH our God,
as he hath commanded us. (Deuteronomy 6:25)
It was this compulsory compliance for righteousness that
Jesus abolished:
 ...Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to
every one that believeth. (Romans 10:4)
Paul did not say that Jesus was the end of the law period,
but rather that He was the end of the law (the Mosaic
Covenant) for righteousness. Jesus was the end of the
Mosaic Covenant, not Yahweh's commandments,
statutes, and judgments.
Under the Mosaic Covenant, the Israelites were
compelled to keep Yahweh's laws, which had been
written on stone. Under the Abrahamic and Christian
Covenants (which are essentially the same), those same
commandments, statutes, and judgments, written on our
hearts and minds, were and are obeyed voluntarily out of
love for Yahweh and our fellow man. Jesus' sacrifice and
resurrection did not abolish Yahweh's law but
reestablished it as Yahweh initially intended it to have
been observed from the beginning. Yahweh's intent has
always been for His people to voluntarily keep His
commandments. New Covenant Christians are
empowered by Yahweh's indwelling Spirit to do what
was impossible under the Mosaic Covenant:
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in
us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the
Spirit.... Because the carnal mind is enmity against
God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither
indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh
cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but
in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in
you.... (Romans 8:4-9)
Although obedience is voluntary under the New
Covenant, anyone who does not strive to obey Yahweh's
laws is nevertheless carnal and at enmity with Him. Such
a person does not love Him, as demonstrated by his
refusal to obey His laws, the transgression of which is sin.
 Perfection
These commandments, which, like a collection of
diamonds, bear testimony to their own intrinsic worth, in
themselves appeal to us as coming from a superhuman or
divine source, and no conscientious or reasonable man
has yet been able to find a flaw in them. Absolutely
flawless, negative in terms, but positive in meaning, they
easily stand at the head of our whole moral system, and
no nation or people can long continue a happy existence
in open violation of them.14
Christians today - persuaded by antinomian pastors that
Yahweh's laws are no longer applicable - rarely take the
time to study Yahweh's laws and appreciate their
perfection:
I have written to him the great things of my law, but
they were counted as a strange thing. (Hosea 8:12)
The rewards of meditating upon and observing His laws
are too vast to enumerate in this booklet, but consider
just the following:
O how love I thy law! It is my meditation all the
day. Thou through thy commandments hast made
me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with
me. I have more understanding than all my teachers:
for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand
more than the ancients, because I keep thy
precepts. (Psalm 119:97-100)
 Burdensome and Impractical?
Antinomian pastors, who often describe Yahweh's law as
burdensome and impractical, are obliged to explain why
King David and the Apostle Paul delighted in His law.
Teach me, O YHWH, the way of thy statutes; and I
shall keep it unto the end. Give me understanding,
and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with
my whole heart. Make me to go in the path of thy
commandments; for therein do I delight. (Psalm
119:33-35)
For I delight in the law of God after the inward
man.... So then with the mind I myself serve the law
of God.... (Romans 7:22, 25)
Both these men understood the perfection of Yahweh's
laws and the rewards gained by those who delight in
them. Today's Christians need to decide whom they are
going to believe: antinomians who preach that Yahweh's
laws are burdensome, or the Apostle John:
 By this we know that we love the children of God,
when we love God, and keep his commandments.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his
commandments: and his commandments are not
grievous [burdensome, NASB]. (1 John 5:2-3)
If America's federal regulations had been written on stone
at the time of Moses, he would have needed hundreds of
carts to haul them down Mt. Sinai. As King Solomon
wrote in Proverbs 13:15, it is not the law of Yahweh that
is difficult, but rather the way of the transgressor.
In John 8:36, Jesus informed us that "if the Son therefore
shall make [us] free, [we] shall be free indeed." This
freedom begins with salvation in Jesus and is developed
and preserved by His perfect law of liberty. It is a sad
commentary that the majority of Christianity, while giving
lip service to Psalm 19:7, do not really believe it at all. If
they did, they would relentlessly pursue Yahweh's perfect
laws in their personal lives, the lives of their families, their
churches, their immediate communities, and their nations.
 The Perfect Law of Liberty
...whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and
continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer,
but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in
his deed. (James 1:25)
The perfect law of liberty referred to by James is the
same law of liberty the Psalmist wrote about:
The law of YHWH is perfect, converting the soul....
(Psalm 19:7)
So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and
ever. And I will walk at liberty.... (Psalm 119:44-
45)
H.B. Clark points out that "the ​Law of Liberty' ... from
the context of the Epistle ... is the commandment to ​love
thy neighbor as thyself,'"15 from which, along with the
great commandment (loving Yahweh with all your heart,
soul, and mind), hangs all the moral law, as codified in
His commandments, statutes and judgments (Matthew
22:37-40).
Liberty must not be confused with freedom from our sins.
Only Jesus' blood-atoning sacrifice can accomplish the
latter. Nevertheless, the implementation of Yahweh's
perfect law of liberty would resolve every problem facing
America today. It would liberate us from:
Unchecked crime and immorality
Infanticide16
Repressive government and crooked politicians
Corrupt juridical system
Corrupt justices
Crooked lawyers
Rigged juries
Election fraud
Special interest groups
Bureaucratic entanglements
Licenses and permits
Gun control17
Prisons and their exorbitant costs and myriad
 problems18
A fraudulent economic and banking system19
The Federal Reserve
The Internal Revenue Service
Oppressive taxation
Eminent domain
Socialistic welfare system
Unethical insurance system
Unlawful immigration
Multiculturalism, pluralism, and polytheism
All of this and much more would disappear with the
implementation of Yahweh's law:
Indeed, Biblical laws deal with topics ranging from
criminal and penal law to judicial procedure and the
administration of justice, commercial law, torts and
injuries, family law, property law, estate planning,
martial law, and social welfare, in addition to the
laws concerning divine sanctity, cultic sacrifice, and
religious taboos that usually comes to mind when
people first think of law in the Bible.20
Why do today's Christians want to forfeit the perfect,
never-changing, infallible law of Yahweh for imperfect,
ever-changing, fallible laws such as the United States
Constitution? For example, Pastor Chuck Baldwin (the
Constitution Party's 2008 presidential candidate) made
the following appeal for a purer constitutionalism in his
July 10, 2007, Internet commentary "Can You Imagine
This Country?":
Can you imagine a nation without the I.R.S.? Can
you imagine a nation with little crime and where
children were free to pray in schools? Can you
imagine a nation where the father's income was able
to adequately provide for his household? Can you
imagine a country with low divorce rates and where
virtually everyone with a high school diploma could
both read and write and was capable of earning his
or her way in society?
Can you imagine a nation without an A.C.L.U. or a
N.E.A.? Can you imagine a country that did not legally
murder its own unborn children and that would not
pander to sexual deviants or criminals? Can you imagine
a country that did not glorify, much less sponsor,
gambling? Can you imagine a nation with strong state
governments and a limited federal government?
Can you imagine a country where you could order a
firearm through a catalog and where there was no such
thing as a B.A.T.F.?21
Why would we want to return to the document that
created this mess - a document Benjamin Franklin
predicted "can only end in Despotism"?22 Other than
public schools and state and national government,
everything Baldwin offered is attainable through
Yahweh's law without government intervention.
Because the Constitution does not address such things as
infanticide and sodomy, a return to a purer
constitutionalism will do nothing to change these and
similar abominations. A return to Yahweh's morality, as
found in His law, will put an end to all of them.
 Yahweh's All-Sufficient Law
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,
for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God
may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good
works. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
Many Christians believe the first half of verse 16, but not
the second half and especially not verse 17. When Paul
wrote "all scripture is given by inspiration of God," very
little of the New Testament had yet been written. He was
referring to the Old Testament. The inspired laws of
Yahweh, in particular, are profitable for doctrine, for
reproof, for correction, and for instruction in
righteousness so that a man of God or a society of godly
men might be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good
works. Only a perfect God, through a perfect Savior,
and by perfect laws, can produce perfect men. Why
would we need or want a man-made constitution
governing our people - especially one that so often
contradicts Yahweh's Constitution?23
 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for
ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken
from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear
before him. (Ecclesiastes 3:14)
What is all-sufficient for us as individuals is also all-
sufficient for us as a society. This is what is often known
as sola scriptura, Latin for "by Scripture alone," meaning
that the Scriptures provide everything necessary for
salvation, faith, and life in general. Yahweh's perfect laws
are our means of implementing His kingdom here on
earth as it is in heaven. To reject Yahweh's law as
inapplicable to any facet of society is equivalent to
rejecting not only Yahweh's kingdom, but Yahweh
Himself as Sovereign. "God cannot be robbed of
sovereignty at one point without soon being denied
sovereignty at all points."24 To seek Yahweh is to seek
His kingdom, and to seek His kingdom is to seek His
law:
...should not a people seek unto their God? ...To
the law and to the testimony: if they speak not
 according to this word, it is because there is no light
in them. (Isaiah 8:19-20)
Because Yahweh's moral laws are perfect, they are as
applicable today under the New Covenant as they were
under the Old Covenant:
Generally it will be seen that Biblical Law is no less
sound and useable today than when it first was
written. And one who will carefully examine its rules
and attempt to trace their workings will be
astonished to find how completely they cover the
entire field of civil, domestic, and even social life.25
Everything must be measured by this standard. Anything
to the contrary is imperfect:
Every course of life is to be tried by this test and
judged by this standard - the Bible alone.26
Since all true, legitimate law is based on God's laws,
no human laws can be valid if they contradict this
higher law.... Any law contrary to God's law is
considered void or invalid.27
 The Kingdom:
Yesterday, Today, and Forever
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it
is in heaven.... But seek ye first the kingdom of
God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall
be added unto you. (Matthew 6:10, 33)
Fulfilling these verses was a prime objective of the 17th-
century Puritans:
Their exodus [from England] was that of a chosen
people who were at length to lay the everlasting
foundations of God's kingdom here upon earth....
This steadfast faith in an unseen ruler and guide was
to them a pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night.
It was of great moral value. It gave them clearness
of purpose and concentration of strength, and
contributed towards making them, like the children
of Israel, a people of indestructible vitality and
aggressive energy.28
To promote Yahweh's law in all facets of society is to
contribute to restoring Yahweh's kingdom, His
government here on earth. If this is to be accomplished, it
must first be scripturally demonstrated that Yahweh's
kingdom exists both in heaven and here on earth, and that
Yahweh intends His kingdom to fill the entire earth, with
His people ruling now and forever.
 Yahweh's Eternal Kingdom
Yahweh's kingdom is eternal: it exists yesterday, today,
and forever. It is definitive in that it has always been and
always will be in existence (Psalm 145:13). It is
progressive in that He intends it to fill the entire earth
(Isaiah 9:6-7, Daniel 2:35, Zechariah 9:9-10, Matthew
13:31-33). It is final in that it will be established fully at
some point in the future (Revelation 21:1-2).
Because Yahweh is the creator of the universe, He is
sovereign over the universe, time without end:
...his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his
dominion is from generation to generation. ...the
most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth
it to whomsoever he will.... (Daniel 4:3, 17)
Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the
only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and
ever. Amen. (1 Timothy 1:17)
Yahweh never abdicated His throne. He is as much King
now as He was at the beginning of creation. As perpetual
King, the kingdom He rules over is perpetual.
Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy
dominion endureth throughout all generations.
(Psalm 145:13)
To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and
majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever.
Amen. (Jude 1:25)
Many Christians reject these inescapable facts of
Yahweh's sovereignty, believing He has no kingdom at
present or that His kingdom is limited to heaven. They lift
their favorite proof text from John 18:
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if
my kingdom were of this world, then would my
servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the
Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. (John
18:36)
The exact same Greek phrase ek toú kósmou, translated
"not of this world," is used several times and is explained
in the preceding chapter:
I have given them thy word; and the world hath
hated them, because they are not of the world, even
as I am not of the world. I pray not that thou
shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou
shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of
the world, even as I am not of the world.... As thou
hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent
them into the world. (John 17:14-18)
Clearly ek toú kósmou does not mean Yahweh's
kingdom exists only in heaven. Although it is certainly true
that His kingdom is not of this world, this does not mean
that He does not intend for it to be in this world. His
statement in John 18 is better understood to mean that
His kingdom is nothing like the other kingdoms in this
world. As someone once said, "The only kingdom that
will prevail in this world is the kingdom that is not of this
world." Martin Luther correctly taught John 18:36:
 ...Christ came in order to begin the kingdom of God
and to establish it in the world. This is why he said
before Pilate: "My kingdom is not of this world, but
whoever belongs to the truth hears my voice," and
why throughout the Gospel he announces the
kingdom of God, saying: "Repent, for the kingdom
of God is at hand;" and again: "Seek first the
kingdom of God and its righteousness." And indeed
he calls the Gospel a gospel of the kingdom of God,
in that it teaches, governs and preserves the
kingdom of God.29
The teaching that Yahweh's kingdom does not exist on
earth or that Yahweh has abandoned the earth to His
enemies is not new to this age:
...Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of
the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the
chambers of his imagery? For they say, YHWH
seest us not; YHWH hath forsaken the earth.
(Ezekiel 8:12)
Christians who reject Yahweh's extant kingdom here on
earth are looking for a future king and a future kingdom.
This erroneous theology has all but destroyed Yahweh's
kingdom, at least in practice, here on earth. It is certainly
one of the principal reasons why the antichrists and non-
Christians rule today. This anti-kingdom theology has
also been one of the prime contributors to today's
fulfillment of Jesus' warning in Matthew 5:
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost
his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is
thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and
to be trodden under foot of men. (Matthew 5:13)
This is a fulfillment of Yahweh's curse in Deuteronomy
28:
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken
unto the voice of YHWH thy God, to observe to do
all his commandments and his statutes which I
command thee this day; that all these curses shall
come upon thee.... The stranger that is within thee
 shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt
come down very low.... Therefore shalt thou serve
thine enemies which YHWH shall send against
thee.... (Deuteronomy 28:15, 43-48)
One cannot get any lower than beneath the feet of those
who rule over you. Rejecting Yahweh, His kingdom, and
His laws has always been prime cause of His people's
calamities. By rejecting Yahweh's laws, Christians
abdicate dominion and relinquish Yahweh's earthly
kingdom to His enemies:
And from the days of John the Baptist until now the
kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the
violent take it by force. (Matthew 11:12)
Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his
disciples, Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit
in Moses' seat.... But woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye shut up the kingdom
of heaven against men: for ye neither go in
yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering
 to go in. (Matthew 23:1-13)
Neither of these passages can be referring to the
kingdom in heaven. Instead, they refer to the kingdom of
heaven here on earth. The only difference between what
was occurring in Jesus' day and what has occurred in
modern times is that Yahweh's enemies have not needed
to take the kingdom by force. Because Christianity is
glutted with doctrines proclaiming that Yahweh's laws are
irrelevant under the New Covenant, that Christians are
obligated to keep all of man's laws,30 and that the
kingdom is yet to come or that it is found exclusively in
heaven, the kingdom has been handed over to Yahweh's
enemies without a struggle. Most pastors have colluded
with the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for their
501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, turning over the jurisdiction
and ultimate control of even their churches and ministries
to the government.31 When Yahweh's subjects are
diligent to observe His law, Yahweh promises His people
dominion rather than servitude:
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken
diligently unto the voice of YHWH thy God, to
observe and to do all his commandments which I
command thee this day, that YHWH thy God will
set thee on high above all nations of the earth.
(Deuteronomy 28:1)
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests:
and we shall reign on the earth. (Revelation 5:10)
 Yahweh's Kingdom Relationship with
Israel
Although it is true that the Old Testament contains many
prophecies regarding a future Messianic kingdom, this in
no way detracts from the fact that Yahweh was, is, and
always will be King. The prophecies in question concern
Yahweh's special New Covenant kingdom relationship
with a remnant of Israel. This kingdom relationship is
indicative of His marital relationship with Israelites, which
originally existed between Him and the entire nation of
Israel:
And YHWH said unto ... Israel ... I am married
unto you.... (Jeremiah 3:11-14)
Exodus records Yahweh's marriage proposal to all
twelve tribes of Israel:
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and
keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar
treasure unto me above all people.... And ye shall
 be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy
nation.... (Exodus 19:5-6)
This is the first time a reference to Yahweh's kingdom
appears in the Bible. Yahweh established a kingdom
relationship with the nation of Israel when He married her
at Mt. Sinai. Ezekiel 16 provides a second witness to the
affinity between His marriage to Israel and His kingdom:
Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee,
behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread
my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea,
I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant
with thee, saith the Lord YHWH, and thou
becamest mine ... and thou didst prosper into a
kingdom. (Ezekiel 16:8-13)
King David commented upon this kingdom relationship:
....God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth.
(Psalm 59:13)
While wrestling with an angel, Jacob was given the name
"Israel." This name means "power" or "ruling with El"
(Genesis 32:28). El, translated "God," is the abbreviated
form of the Hebrew Elohiym. Yahweh Elohiym married
the twelve tribes of Israel, making her His helpmeet. As
both His wife and His queen, she ruled with El over His
kingdom and was thus named Isra El - "ruling with God."
Later, because the ten-tribed house of Israel worshiped
other gods, an act Yahweh identified as adultery, he
divorced and put her away:
And I saw, when for all the causes whereby
backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her
away, and given her a bill of divorce.... (Jeremiah
3:8)
Yahweh declared to Hosea that, as a result of His
divorcing the house of Israel, she would no longer be His
people (His wife). He stripped that house of her name
(His name), and her kingdom relationship with Him
ceased to exist:
And YHWH said unto him, ... I will ... cause to
 cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.... Then
said God, ... ye are not my people, and I will not be
your God. (Hosea 1:4-9)
Yahweh's eventual divorce of the remaining two-tribed
house of Judah in 70 A.D. was prophesied in 2 Kings 23:
And YHWH said, I will remove Judah also out of
my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off
this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the
house of which I said, My name shall be there. (2
Kings 23:27)
Just as in Hosea 1, the removal of the kingdom was
equivalent to Judah's divorce:
Therefore say I unto you [religious leaders
representing the house of Judah], The kingdom of
God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation
bringing forth the fruits thereof. (Matthew 21:43)
The Apostle Peter identified the nation to whom the
kingdom was given as the elect (a remnant) of the
Israelites, those sanctified by the blood of Jesus - with
whom, according to Hebrew 8:8, the New Covenant
was made:
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers
scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia,
Asia, and Bithynia, elect according to the
foreknowledge of God the Father, through
sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and
sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.... (1 Peter
1:1-2)
The English word "scattered" is translated from the Greek
word diaspora:
...dispersion, i.e. (spec.[ially] and conc.[retely]) the
converted Isr[aelite]. resident in Gentile countries.
32

Diaspora is the Greek word used in James 1:1 in the

phrase "to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad,"
and by the translators of the Septuagint Old Testament in
Deuteronomy 28:25, 30:4; Nehemiah 1:8; and Psalm
147:2, in describing the dispersion of the Old Testament
Israelites. The Greek word parepideémois, translated
"strangers" in 1 Peter 1:1, conveys a similar thought:
...one who comes from a foreign country into a city
or land to reside there by the side of the natives;
hence stranger; sojourning in a strange place, a
foreigner.... 33
Peter wrote his first epistle to Israelite foreigners living in
Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia - the
precise locations to which the house of Israel had been
dispersed after Yahweh divorced them. Peter wrote the
following to these Christian Israelites:
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood,
an holy nation, a peculiar people.... Which in time
past were not a people, but are now the people of
God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have
obtained mercy. (1 Peter 2:9-10)
The first phrase in verse 9 is a quotation from Exodus
19:5-6, in which Yahweh first proposed marriage to the
nation of Israel. The last two phrases in verse 10 are
quotations from Hosea 1:9 and 2:23, in which He
promised to remarry Israel and ultimately restore His
kingdom relationship with a remnant of Israelites from
both the house of Israel and the house of Judah under the
New Covenant. It is this remnant that forms the nation
prophesied by Jesus in Matthew 21:43 and to whom the
kingdom was given. 34
The prophets foretold this special New Covenant
kingdom relationship between Yahweh and Israel:
I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the
Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and
came to the Ancient of days.... And there was given
him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all
people, nations, and languages, should serve him:
his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall
not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not
be destroyed.... But the saints of the most High
 shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom
for ever, even for ever and ever.... Until the Ancient
of days came, and judgment was given to the
saints of the most High; and the time came that
the saints possessed the kingdom.... And the
kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the
kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to
the people of the saints of the most High, whose
kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all
dominions shall serve and obey him. (Daniel 7:13-
27)
In Psalm 148, the saints of the Most High are identified
as Israelites:
He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of
all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people
near unto him. Praise ye YHWH. (Psalm 148:14)
The Apostles also understood the saints in Daniel 7 to be
Israelites. In anticipation of the fulfillment of numerous
Old Testament prophesies concerning the restoration of
the kingdom to Israel, they questioned Jesus about the
specific timing of the restoration - which they knew, from
the Prophet Daniel, was to occur sometime during the
days of the Roman Empire (Daniel 2:36-44, 7:13-27):
Then they therefore were come together, they
asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time
restore again the kingdom to Israel? (Acts 1:6)
Because many people have misidentified today's Jews 35
as Israelites, and because the Jews have rejected Jesus
and His kingdom, much of Christianity has come to the
erroneous conclusion that this restored kingdom
relationship with Israel has yet to occur. However, the
New Testament declares that this kingdom relationship
has existed since the second chapter of Acts when the
first Judahite Israelites, in faith and repentance, were
immersed into Christ. Before this event in the book of
Acts, John the Baptist, Jesus, and the Apostles all
preached that the kingdom of God was at hand:
In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in
 the wilderness of Judaea, and saying, Repent ye: for
the kingdom of heaven 36 is at hand. (Matthew 3:1-
2)
From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say,
Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
(Matthew 4:17)
These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded
them, saying, ...But go rather to the lost sheep of the
house of Israel. And as ye go, preach, saying, The
kingdom of heaven is at hand. (Matthew 10:5-7)
...if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the
kingdom of God is come unto you. (Matthew
12:28)
Either the kingdom was literally at hand when Jesus made
this last statement, or He was casting out demons by
Beelzebub, just as the Pharisees accused. In Mark 1:15,
the kingdom is described as being at hand because its
preparation time was fulfilled:
 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came
into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of
God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the
kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe
the gospel. (Mark 1:14-15)
Perhaps the most potent proof that the kingdom of Christ
has already been established is that the Apostles were
told that some of them would live to see the kingdom
restored:
And he [Jesus] said unto them [His disciples],
Verily I say unto you, That there be some of them
that stand here, which shall not taste of death, till
they have seen the kingdom of God come with
power. (Mark 9:1)
In Acts 1, the Apostles anticipated the restored kingdom
in their lifetime, and, in Acts 2, it was indeed restored
with power on the day of Pentecost. The renowned
18th-century commentator Matthew Henry agreed:
 ...the kingdom of Christ began ... immediately after
his ascension, and will continue in the doing till the
mystery of God be finished. 37
Following the events in Acts 2, the 1st-century Christians
proclaimed Jesus to be a reigning King and themselves to
be citizens of His kingdom - not sometime yet future or
merely in heaven, but then and there:
But the Jews which believed not ... set all the city on
an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason ...
crying, These that have turned the world upside
down are come hither also; whom Jason hath
received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of
Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.
(Acts 17:5-7)
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us
meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints
in light: Who hath delivered us from the power of
darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of
his dear Son. In whom we have redemption through
 his blood, even the forgiveness of sins....
(Colossians 1:12-14)
As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and
charged every one of you, as a father doth his
children, that ye would walk worthy of God, who
hath called you unto his kingdom and glory. (1
Thessalonians 2:11-12)
I John, who also am your brother, and companion
[fellow partaker, NASB] in tribulation, and in the
kingdom.... (Revelation 1:9)
Redemption through Jesus' blood results in deliverance
from the power of darkness. Because we are delivered
from the power of darkness into the kingdom, the
Colossians' demands that if the kingdom is not in
existence now, then redemption and forgiveness of sins
are not yet valid. If the kingdom is yet future, no one has
been delivered from the power of darkness, nor partaken
of the inheritance of the saints. In short, no one has yet
become a Christian.
In Acts 17:7, the disciples were described as already
serving Jesus as their King on earth, according to His
laws. The very fact that Rome persecuted, imprisoned,
and murdered Christians demonstrates the Romans
understood that the kingdom the Christians preached and
lived was an extant rival kingdom. Had Christianity been
merely a religion, Rome would not have concerned itself
with Christianity anymore than it did with the other
religions in its realm. Christendom's King, His kingdom,
and His laws posed a threat to the Roman Empire, just as
Daniel prophesied.
And in the days of these kings shall the God of
heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be
destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other
people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all
these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. (Daniel
2:44)
The kingdom is currently under the rule of non-Christians,
not because it has yet to be established, but because
Christians have bought into the lie that the kingdom
doesn't exist on earth at this time. They have
consequently abdicated leadership of society. The church
has become governmentally and culturally impotent
because Christians have been convinced that everything
outside the four walls of their church buildings is off-limits
to them as Christians.
 Pursuing the Kingdom
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" appear 146 times in the New Testament
alone.
Because the kingdom of God is in existence today, our
principal objective as ambassadors of the King of kings
(2 Corinthians 5:20), should be to please our King and
advance His kingdom. We should be pursuing His
kingdom - taking dominion and implementing His perfect
laws - everywhere we possibly can, including
government:
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness [found in His perfect laws, Isaiah
51:7-8].... (Matthew 6:33)
Seek His kingdom where?
...Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy
name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in
earth, as it is in heaven. (Matthew 6:9-10)
All the petitions in the Lord's Prayer refer to earthly
present benefits. Some of the aspects of the
kingdom are that God provides our "daily bread,"
that He "forgives our debts," and that He "delivers
us from temptation." ...It is a kingdom prayer, and
we are in the kingdom!38
Christians understood this in 1643 when the colonies of
New Plymouth, Massachusetts and New Haven,
Connecticut formed the New England Confederation
with the goal of advancing the kingdom of Christ here in
America:
...we all came into these parts of America with one
and the same end and aim, namely to advance the
kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. 39
Christians who understand the present reality of
Yahweh's kingdom here on earth seldom see its
relevance beyond the four walls of their homes or church
buildings. "We have secularized everything not illuminated
by stained glass windows." 40 This limited vision is usually
the consequence of antinomianism. However, Yahweh's
will is that His kingdom, operating by His moral laws, be
established here on earth as it is in heaven. There is
nowhere in heaven Yahweh does not reign, nowhere His
kingdom cannot be found, and nowhere His laws are not
intact. This is His will for earth as well, but He has left to
His subjects the task of fully establishing His kingdom on
earth:
Ye are blessed of YHWH which made heaven and
earth. The heaven, even the heavens, are YHWH's:
but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
(Psalm 115:15-16)
Although it is true that the earth was made for all of
mankind to inhabit, no Christian in his right mind would
maintain that Yahweh intends non-Christians to reign
over His children, except as judgment. The dominion
mandate was given to Adam and his descendants,
particularly Christians under the New Covenant:
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war
after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are
not carnal, but mighty through God to pulling down
of strong holds;) casting down imaginations, and
every high thing that exalteth itself against the
knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every
thought to the obedience of Christ; and having in
readiness to revenge all disobedience.... (2
Corinthians 10:3-6)
Yahweh intends His subjects to inherit the earth:
The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein
for ever.... Wait on YHWH, and keep his way, and
he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the
wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. (Psalm 37:29-
34)
 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
(Matthew 5:5)
These promises are conditional. If we expect Yahweh to
fulfill His promises, we must return to Him and His laws.
Inherent in the dominion mandate is Yahweh's
expectation for His people to maintain, protect, and
increase their holdings in furtherance of His kingdom.
That Yahweh expects this of His kingdom ambassadors
is evident in that His stone kingdom is depicted as
becoming a great mountain (Daniel 2:35), a mustard seed
that is to grow into a great tree (Matthew 13:31), and
leaven that leavens the entire world (Matthew 13:33).
Pretribulation dispensationalist Dave Hunt believes this is
not only impossible for Christians to accomplish, but that
it is even impossible for Yahweh:
In fact, dominion - taking dominion and setting up
the kingdom for Christ - is an impossibility, even for
God. The millennial reign of Christ, far from being
the kingdom, is actually the final proof of the
incorrigible nature of the human heart, because
 Christ Himself can't do what these people
[dominionists] say they are going to do.... 41
No wonder Christianity has lost control of the kingdom.
Modern Christians have squandered the kingdom and
handed it over to Yahweh's enemies. This abdication
occurred for two reasons: 1) Christians' belief that
Yahweh's law has been abolished under the New
Covenant, and 2) their teachings that the kingdom will
manifest itself only in the future or exclusively in heaven.
Non-Christians and antichrists have been delighted to fill
the void with their gods' laws and governments.
 If This Is the Kingdom. . .
Some people respond to the idea of a present kingdom
by declaring that if this is Yahweh's kingdom, who wants
it? The culpability for the deplorable state of the kingdom
belongs, not to God, but to Christians who are so
heavenly minded that they are of no earthly good.
Christianity is full of savorless salt that is good for nothing
but to be trampled under the foot of man. Christians
today are the "trampled" rather than the "tramplers."
What used to be known as Christendom (short for
Christ's or Christian dominion) is now simply Christianity,
or worse Judeo-Christianity. 42 That Yahweh expects
His people to be the tramplers is evident not only in
Matthew 5, but also in Revelation 5:
...Thou ... hast redeemed us to God by thy blood
out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and
nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and
priests: and we shall reign on the earth. (Revelation
5:9-10)
Paul wrote to the Corinthian Christians that "I would to
God ye did reign...." (1 Corinthians 4:8). To reign means
to rule, and to rule means to establish the law of the land:
For YHWH will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet
choose Israel ... and they shall rule over their
oppressors. (Isaiah 14:1-2)
"Government" has become a dirty word to most
Christians. But this thinking is an aberration from that of
the Christians who first came here from Europe. They
looked upon government as an ordinance of God for the
purpose of advancing His kingdom and furthering
Christianity:
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....
Charter to William Penn, 1682 43
Many Christians are peering into heaven and wondering
when Yahweh is going to clean up this mess. Could it be
Yahweh is looking down upon us and wondering when
we are going to clean it up? Yahweh is not responsible
for our making a mess of things. He has given us the tools
by which to right society, if we would only believe in Him
and implement His perfect laws. Every generation that
rejects Yahweh's plan for the kingdom is another
generation destined to live under the heel of non-Christian
dominion.
Restoration of the kingdom will not happen overnight.
The few today who understand the kingdom of Yahweh
are beginning to prepare the ground for a future
generation. This preparation begins with convincing
modern Christianity that they are supposed to be ruling
instead of serving the non-Christians and antichrists.
Eventually, Christendom will be able to establish and
prosper as the kingdom Yahweh intends us to be.
 Dominion for Our Posterity
My ultimate objective in this book is to awaken today's
Christians to the perfection of Yahweh, His kingdom, and
His laws, in order to prepare tomorrow's Christians to
take dominion of Yahweh's kingdom. If I cannot change
the eschatology of those Christians who believe
Yahweh's kingdom has yet to appear - and have
therefore trapped themselves in cultural paralysis - then
let me at least appeal to your common sense. In the time
between now and forever, would you not rather live by
Yahweh's perfect laws of liberty than by man's laws of
bondage?
Although many Christians may not be politically active,
they are nonetheless always hoping, praying, and voting
for those they trust will improve their standard of living.
However, a higher standard of living will never be
achieved through man's laws. Neither can man's law
deliver us from the oppression of ever-encroaching
government. I am asking that we set aside our
eschatological differences (Yahweh will take care of the
eschatological future) and work together for liberty and
justice through the only means possible - Yahweh's
kingdom and His laws - so that, at the very least, we can
help make His kingdom on earth a reality for our
posterity.
All thy works shall praise thee, O YHWH; and thy
saints shall bless thee. They shall speak of the glory
of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power; to make
known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the
glorious majesty of his kingdom. (Psalm 145:10-12)
Pursuing Yahweh's kingdom begins by speaking of its
glory and power to the sons of men. This is the very least
we can do as Yahweh's ambassadors, and it is something
we can all do. May Yahweh open our eyes to the
possibilities of His kingdom and His perfect laws. May
He grant us the same fervor for Him and His kingdom as
the liberals have for their democracy and the
Constitutionalists have for their republic:
And YHWH stirred up the spirit of ... all the
remnant of the people; and they came and did work
in the house of YHWH of hosts, their God. (Haggai
1:14)
 End Notes
1. Where the Tetragrammaton (YHWH) - the four
Hebrew characters that represent the personal name of
God - has been unlawfully rendered the LORD or GOD
in English translations, I have taken the liberty to correct
this error by inserting YHWH where appropriate. For a
more thorough explanation concerning the use of the
names of God, "The Third Commandment" may be read
online, or the book Thou shalt not take the name of
YHWH thy God in vain may be ordered from Mission
to Israel Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska,
69363, for a suggested $4 donation.*
2. All Scripture is quoted from the King James Version,
unless otherwise noted. Portions of Scripture have been
omitted for brevity. If you have questions regarding any
passage, please study the text to ensure it has been
properly used.
3. Not everyone claiming to be a Christian has been
properly instructed in the Biblical plan of salvation. Mark
16:15-16; Acts 2:36-41, 22:1-16; Romans 6:3-4;
Galatians 3:26-27; Colossians 2:11-13; and 1 Peter 3:21
should be studied to understand what is required to be
covered by the blood of Jesus and forgiven of your sins.
For a more thorough explanation concerning baptism and
its relationship to salvation, the book Baptism: All You
Wanted to Know and More may be requested from
Mission to Israel Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff,
Nebraska 69363, for free.
4. YHWH (most often pronounced Yahweh) is the
English transliteration of the Tetragrammaton, the
principal Hebrew name of the God of the Bible. For a
more thorough explanation concerning the sacred names
of God, "The Third Commandment" may be read online,
or the book Thou shalt not take the name of YHWH
thy God in vain may be ordered from Mission to Israel
Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363,
for a suggested $4 donation.*
5. "antinomian ... a person who maintains that Christians
are freed from the moral law by virtue of grace and faith."
Random House Webster's College Dictionary (New
York, NY: Random House, 2000) p. 59.
6. Even many alleged pronomians are, at best, only two-
thirds pronomian. They are interested in restoring
Yahweh's commandments and statutes, but not His
judgments.
7. Not only do most "New Testament Christians" reject
the law component of the New Covenant, they also
either ignore or dismiss the importance of whom Yahweh
declared He would make His New Covenant with. For a
more thorough explanation regarding the "who" of the
New Covenant, The Mystery of the Gentiles: Who Are
They and Where Are They Now? may be read online,
or the book may be ordered from Mission to Israel
Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska, 69363,
for a suggested $10 donation.*
8. Yeshua is the English transliteration of our Savior's
given Hebrew name, with which He introduced Himself
to the Apostle Paul in Acts 26:14-15. (Jesus is the
English transliteration of the Greek Iesous, which is the
Greek transliteration of the Hebrew Yeshua.) Because
many people are unfamiliar or uncomfortable with
Yeshua, I have chosen to use the more familiar Jesus in
this book in order to remove what might otherwise be a
stumbling block. For a more thorough explanation
concerning the use of the sacred names of God, "The
Third Commandment" may be read online, or the book
Thou shalt not take the name of YHWH thy God in
vain may be ordered from Mission to Israel Ministries,
PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for a
suggested $4 donation.*
9. Biblical faith entails more than simply belief. Belief
alone does not justify us. Mark 16:15-16; Acts 2:36-41,
22:1-16; Romans 6:3-4; Galatians 3:26-27; Colossians
2:11-13; and 1 Peter 3:21 should be studied in order to
understand what is required to be covered by the blood
of Jesus and forgiven of your sins. For a more thorough
explanation concerning baptism and its relationship to
salvation, Baptism: All You Wanted to Know and More
may be requested from Mission to Israel Ministries, PO
Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for free.
10. Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the
English Language, s.v. "licentiousness" (1828; reprint
ed. San Francisco, CA: The Foundation for American
Christian Education, 1967).
11. Samuel Bolton, The Moral Law: A Rule of
Obedience, <http://www.the-
highway.com/articleFeb00.html>.
12. Although Jasher is not a part of canonized Scripture,
it is cited in Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18 and
referenced in 2 Timothy 3:8.
13. "Romans 13 (Part 2)," The Voice of the Promised,
April 2010, Special Edition, p. 1.
14. Moore v. Strickling (1899) 46 W.Va. 515, 33 SE
274, 50 LRA 279, 282.
15. H.B. Clark, Clark's Biblical Law, Second Edition
(Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, 1943) p. 12.
16. For additional information regarding Yahweh's
condemnation of infanticide, The Sixth Commandment
may be read online, or the book Thou shalt not kill may
be ordered from Mission to Israel Ministries, PO Box
248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for a suggested $4
donation.*
17. For additional information regarding the Biblical
responsibility to protect ourselves and others, "Firearms:
Scripturally Defended" may be read online, or the tract
may be ordered from Mission to Israel Ministries, PO
Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363.*
18. For additional information regarding today's non-
Biblical prison system, Prisons: Shut Them All Down
may be read online, or the book may be ordered from
Mission to Israel Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff,
Nebraska 69363, for a suggested $3 donation.*
19. For additional information regarding the numerous
ways by which the government steals from its citizens,
The Eight Commandment may be read online, or Thou
shalt not steal by be ordered from Mission to Israel
Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363,
for a suggested $6 donation.*
20. John W. Welch, "Biblical Law in America: Historical
Perspectives and Potentials for Reform," Brigham
Young University Law Review (2002), p. 613,
<http://www.contra-
mundum.org/essays/theonomy/WEL1.pdf\>.
21. Chuck Baldwin, "Can You Imagine This Country?"
Chuck-Wagon Email Commentary, 10 July 2007,
<http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/a>>.
22. Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey, ed., "Speech in
the Constitutional Convention at the Conclusion of it
Deliberations," Autobiography and Other Writings
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) p. 350.
23. For additional information regarding the superiority of
Yahweh's law over the United States Constitution, Bible
Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian
Perspective may be read online.
24. Rousas John Rushdoony, Sovereignty (Vallecito,
CA: Ross House Books, 2007) p. v.
25. Clark, p. vii.
26. Hale v. Everett (1868) 53 NH 9, 16 AR 82, 191.
27. Mark A. Beliles and Douglas S. Anderson,
Contending for the Constitution: Recalling the
Christian Influence on the Writing of the Constitution
and the Biblical Basis of American Law and Liberty
(Charlottesville, VA: Providence Foundation, 2005) p.
99.
28. John Fiske, The Historical Writings of John Fiske,
12 vols. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company,
1889) vol. 6, pp. 304-05.
29. Martin Luther, On Secular Authority: how far does
the Obedience owed to it extend?, quoted in Harro
Hopfl, trans., Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority
(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991,
1993) pp. 8-9.
30. For additional information regarding the erroneous
teaching that Christians are obligated to obey all
government laws, Christian Duty Under Corrupt
Government: A Revolutionary Commentary on
Romans 13:1-7, may be ordered from Mission to Israel
Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363,
for a suggested $7 donation.*
31. For additional information on the idolatrous
implications of the 501(c)(3) tax exempt status, "The
Second Commandment" may be read online, or the book
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image may
be ordered from Mission to Israel Ministries, PO Box
248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for a suggested $4
donation.*
32. James Strong, "Dictionary of the Greek Testament,"
The New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the
Bible, s.v. "diaspora" (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson
Publishers, 1990) p. 23.
33. Joseph Henry Thayer, The New Thayer's Greek-
English Lexicon, s.v. "parepideemos" (Peabody, MA:
Hendrickson Publishers, 1981) p. 488.
34. For a more exhaustive study demonstrating that the
Apostle Peter wrote his epistles to Christian Israelites,
and for more concerning Yahweh's New Covenant
marital relationship with Christian Israel, The Mystery of
the Gentiles: Who Are They and Where Are They
Now? may be read online, or the book may be ordered
from Mission to Israel Ministries, PO Box 248,
Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for a suggested $10
donation.*
35. God's Covenant People: Yesterday, Today and
Forever provides a documented dissertation contrasting
today's Jews with today's genetic Israelites, the Anglo-
Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, Celtic, and kindred
peoples. God's Covenant People may be read online,
or the book may be ordered from Mission to Israel
Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363,
for a suggested $14 donation.*
36. That the kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven
are one and the same is demonstrated when comparing
Matthew 4:17 with Mark 1:15; Matthew 5:3, 10 with
Luke 6:20, 22; Matthew 8:11 with Luke 13:28; Matthew
10:7 with Luke 9:60; Matthew 11:11 with Luke 7:28;
Matthew 11:12 with Luke 16:16; Matthew 13:11 with
Mark 4:11; Matthew 13:31 with Mark 4:30-31;
Matthew 13:33 with Luke 13:20-21; Matthew 19:14
with Mark 10:14; Matthew 19:23 with Mark 10:23; and
Matthew 25:14 with Luke 19:11-13.
37. Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible:
Genesis to Malachi, 3 vols. (Brattleboro: Brattleboro'
Typographic Company, 1837 [orig. publ. 1708-1710])
vol. 3, p. 60.
38. Gary DeMar and Peter Leithart, The Reduction of
Christianity: A Biblical Response to Dave Hunt (Ft.
Worth, TX: Dominion Press and Atlanta, GA: American
Vision Press, 1988) p. 323n.
39. Ebenezer Hazard, ed., Historical Collections:
Consisting of State Papers and other Authentic
Documents: Intended as Materials for an History of
the United States of America, 2 vols. (Philadelphia,
PA: T. Dobson, 1792) vol. 2, p. 1.
40. Dennis Woods, Discipling the Nations: The
Government Upon His Shoulder (Franklin, TN: Legacy
Communications, 1996) p. 184.
41. Dave Hunt, interviewed by Peter LaLonde,
Dominion: A Dangerous New Theology, Tape #2 of
Dominion: The Word and New World Order.
42. The term "Judeo-Christianity" refers to the vast
segment of Christianity that has been heavily influenced,
often unknowingly, by the Talmudic religion of Judaism.
The religions of Judaism and Christianity are wholly
incompatible, as demonstrated by their respective books
of faith - the Talmud and the Bible. The term "Judeo-
Christianity" is an oxymoron. This incongruity is
addressed in detail in God's Covenant People:
Yesterday, Today and Forever. God's Covenant
People may be read online, or the book may be ordered
from Mission to Israel Ministries, PO Box 248,
Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for a suggested $14
donation.*
43. Charter to William Penn, 17 December 1682,
<http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?
Itemid=264&id=1044&option=com_content&task=view
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