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Taxation, kings and the birth of Jesus. Mind blown 🤯

1 Samuel 8

- Israel rejects God as King, chooses to have a human king instead.

- God warns the people if they chose a human king they will become tax slaves to him.

- The People chose a human king anyways.

- God warns the people that if they and their king don't obey him they will both be swept away (1 Samuel 12:25)

1 2 Samuel, 1 2 Kings

- Israel gets human kings.

- God makes an everlasting covenant with David and his sons.

- Despite this, Israelite monarchy eventually splits into 2 because sinful men can't rule over sinful men.

- Israel and Judah both get exiled because of their rebellion and covenant breaking.

- During this period prophets come promising the coming of a savior King who would be born in Bethlehem to save Israel and the world from their rebellion. (Isaiah 53, Micah 5:2)

Luke 2

- The mother of Jesus, while pregnant with Jesus, is summoned to be counted for the census with Joseph her husband in Joseph's hometown, Bethlehem, AKA the City of DAVID.

- Census' were for registering people for TAXATION purposes.

- Israel was in their land but being occupied by a powerful foreign empire because of their sin and rebellion.

- Everything that God said would come upon Israel if they rejected Him as King for a human king, did and more.

- It was in this context that the King they rejected for a human, Jesus, the God-man, was born AS A HUMAN, to the house of David in fulfillment to His word, to save and redeem the entire world. 🤯

Isn’t it so appropriate that the God who warned Israel that if they chose a human king he would tax them, fulfilled His own prophecy to be born in Bethlehem because of a Roman census for tax purposes?

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The Bible is the operating manual for God’s most precious creation!

If a Slave is forced by the threat of violence to give 100% of the fruits of their labor to their master, what do you call people who are forced (also by the threat of violence) to give 40-75% of the fruits of their labor to their master?

You cannot opt out and you cannot leave your Master’s land without literally buying your freedom upon in order to exit, only to find yourself in the domain of a new Master no matter where you go.

If you refuse to give your Master the fruits of your labor, you will be imprisoned. If you fight back against your Master’s henchmen when they come to arrest you, they will end your life.

When you die, your Master will take a piece of whatever you pass to your children.

Your Master uses the stolen fruits of your labor to forcibly keep you in perpetual servitude.

Are you free, Anon? Or are you a Slave?

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