# Collapse of Governments

When the rightful King ascended to the eternal throne, the scandal that is "government" was forced into the light of day.

We could no longer have a king, if Christ is King. We could no longer have a president, when Christ the High Priest presides over the eternal liturgy.

It is a reversal of the sin that happened when the people of Israel, in their desire to be like other nations, demanded a king.

"Tell us therefore what dost thou think, is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? But Jesus knowing their wickedness, said: Why do you tempt me, ye hypocrites? Shew me the coin of the tribute. And they offered him a penny. And Jesus saith to them: Whose image and inscription is this? They say to him: Caesar's. Then he saith to them: Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God, the things that are God's."

"Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn."

And there are many other places where Our King says that we need not be concerned by these pretenders and usurpers, the day of judgment will come for them just as it will come for you and me.

Suffer government as one of the many injustices of this world, but do not let it steal the peace God gives you.

Many in the Church have furthered this teaching throughout the ages, showing that even those who find themselves within the machinations of a governing structure can at least steer it in a better direction, by aligning themselves closely with Christ, and following His direction, so as to allow Him to govern through them.

But even better, do not ever begin a government, or help to further one.

Instead, do as Our King teaches: give food to the hungry, drink to the thirsty, welcome the stranger, clothe the naked, care for the sick, and visit the imprisoned.

Hence was born the study of how to limit power...but laws don't maintain themselves..."our form of government was meant for a moral people, it is not fit for any other" -- as we now see. Our foundations have been destroyed from within.

So now what?

How do we recover our moral foundations?

1 preach the gospel

2 push / propagate / argue for natural law

3 show the insanity of the alternative

4 ?

Are the politicians AI's or what?

Even if they are sensible about what they decide is safe to reanimate there's always the possibility of the tech getting hacked or even have some AI put on the case by enemy state or group who decide to unleash a bunch of Daeodon or Amphicyon on us.😄

The Israelites initially had an anarchy (rules but no ruler). Actually, their ruler was Jehovah - so no *human* ruler. The book of Judges records how that went over about 400 years. It went pretty much how other attempts went. As long as most people mostly kept the rules, it was great. (Disputes were settled via mutually agreeable judge. ) Capital punishment was public participation (stoning) after guilty verdict at the trial.

But every generation, most people would stop keeping the rules, and then recieved the Divine punishments promised in their contract/constitution. Usually, being conquered and forced to pay tribute to a foreign power got their attention, they would start to repent, and God would raise up a new leader.

Things kind of fell apart at the end over a capital punishment case. The accused was allegedly guilty of rape, murder, and "a man lying with a man as with a woman" (those were the rules their fathers voluntarily agreed to). But the town would not extradite the accused for trial, so 11 tribes sent soldiers to force extradition, but the tribe of Benjamin raised an army to oppose that - and it was full civil war over that extradition case.

Their constitution also provided an option for a constitutional monarchy (king had strict rules he was supposed to abide by). So we see how that sent for the next 490 years. (A few good kings, but mostly very bad ones.)

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And Moses is later identified as a type of Christ. Jesus fulfills the Exodus by leading us out of spiritual slavery to sin.

A good example is Moses' theophany in Exodus, where God passes by and let's Moses see His back. It's hard to say for sure, but personally I suspect Moses saw Jesus in anticipation of the Incarnation.