Moses, Moses
Part
2 gods many
Who exercises the authority of the
civilized governments of men which they make for themselves? Those
who had the right to judge the people and enforce that judgment were
called ruling judges or “gods”.
“For
though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth,
(as there be gods many, and lords many,)” 1Corinthians 8:5
What is Paul talking about? Who are
“called gods” in
heaven and in earth? And why are there “gods
many”?
And
Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for [am] I in the place of God?
Genesis 50:19
How was
Joseph in the place of God? Is this blasphemy? He had the power of
judgment over the people. He literally administered the ownership
possessing the equitable title to their land, belongings and
labor.
Again, it
bears repeating that, in the Old and New Testament, the words “gods”
and “God” are translated from words defined as “rulers,
judges”, which includes the right to exercise authority,
power, and jurisdiction over other men. The words “God or god”
was “applied as deference to magistrates”and
“figuratively, a magistrate”
in both Israel and Rome.
To realize
that, at the time of Christ, you would address a judge in a Hebrew,
Roman, or Greek courts as “god”
should change the entire way you read your modern Bibles. This is why
there are “gods many”.
Another example of the word “god”
is found in Acts 7:19, 21: “In which time Moses was born, and
was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house
three months: And when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took
him up, and nourished him for her own son.”
What do they mean “exceeding
fair”? Fair is from the word, asteios,
which in the original form was astu (a city). Here, it is a
form that meant “of the city” or “civil
power”. The word is only used in reference to Moses in
the Bible.
The word “exceedingly”
offers some clarification. Of the over 1300 times it appears in the
New Testament, it is translated as “exceedingly”
only once. All of the other times, it is translated “God”
or “gods”.
Yes, Moses was a “god”
of the civil authority and had the power to rule over his brothers
with executorial judgment as a “god”.
He had become the son of the daughter of Pharaoh when he was three
months old. By that adoption into the house of Pharaoh, he was an
heir to the office of ruling judge in Egypt.
Moses had the right to judge and rule
over the people in this high office of Egyptian government. The power
wielded by persons in arbitrary civil jurisdictions can tempt and
change men. Moses feared what his soul was becoming and turned from
that ancient temptation and fled Egypt.
Moses showed this holy restraint many
times, as in the case of Dathan and Abiram, who could have been
judged by Moses as god of Israel. Instead, he left judgment to God
the Father for Moses knew “vengeance is mine saith the LORD”
Rom 12:19.
The God of
Heaven eventually arranged that Moses was able to redeem the people
and bring them out of this corvee’, or civil bondage,
of Egypt. They were given the gold and silver (an honest money
system), replacing their denominated scarabs issued by the
government through their usurious Egyptian banking temples. According
to Philo, when the people were led out of that system by Moses, they
received the title to their animals, possessions, and families
back. This was a parallel to Abram leaving Haran.
God brought the souls of Israel
out of Egypt where the people served strange gods. He then gave them
a specific command to guide them in this new governance:
“I
am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out
of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no
other gods before me.” Exodus 20:2-3.
The people knew what gods were.
They knew that the gods were not the statues, but the men and
jurisdictions they represented. Does anyone worship the flag or the
Capital Dome or the statue upon the top? Those are just the symbols
of the people's allegiance and service.
“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:” Ex. 20:4
Like the days of Abraham, Nimrod,
Daniel, and Rome, these images of lions, elephants, and eagles were
simply representations of the jurisdictions which accompanied them.
God goes on to clarify this simple truth:
“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; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep
my commandments.” Ex. 20:5-6
We cannot serve a statue like the one
on the top of the Capital Dome or the eagle above the American flag,
but we can serve the jurisdiction of that government and the men who
make its laws. As lawmakers, they have the power to appoint judges
over the people of their created civil society and execute judgment
upon those who dare disobey their will.
“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.” Ex. 20:5-6
The third office created by the Senate
of Rome and appointed at the election of Agustus as Emperator
was the office of the Apo Theos, the
appointor of gods. The duty of this office was to appoint
magistrates or judges throughout the Empire, who were called “theos”
or “gods”. There
were many gods exercising judgment over the people by way of the
thousands and thousands of laws passed by the Senate or Conscripti
Patres (conscripted fathers) and ratified by the elected
President of Rome, Augustus.
It should not be so strange to think
of the Roman Emperors as gods when you realize that George Washington
himself is deified in the ceiling of the Capitol Dome. “Across
the Dome’s eye, 180 feet above the floor, spreads a gigantic
allegorical painting by the Italian artist Constantino Brumidi. The
painting depicts the ‘Apotheosis,’ or glorification, of
George Washington.”
The Vatican painter, “Brumidi depicted George Washington rising
to the heavens in glory… The word ‘apotheosis’ in
the title means literally the raising of a person to the rank of a
god…”
“Jesus
answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?”
John 10:34
Why would Jesus say “ye
are gods”? If the people exercise freewill, they remain
the ruling judges of their own actions. They are gods, but
only over themselves, not over their neighbor. They, of course, are
answerable to the Laws of God, but no man or civil power stands
between them and their Father Creator. How was chaos avoided?
Moses found the authoritarian
centralized power of the Civil State to be in opposition to God’s
plan. Central powers decide what is good and what is evil. These
systems also grant power to government to define charity, hope, and
faith. A ruling elite can decide what is given or received and when.
This annihilates hope and robs the individual of the divine right of
choice and charity. Guaranteed entitlements entice men to trust in
the governments of men and lures them away from faith in God.
What form of Government could Moses
employ in managing those millions of souls that followed him out of
Egypt and into the wilderness?
“The
hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under
tribute.” Proverbs 12:24
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