Kingdom Come

Both Hammurabi’s and Moses’ codes share the same claim to further the welfare, not just of one nation, but “for all of mankind”. The difference between the two codes – and this is huge – lies in the contractual nature of Hammurabi’s Law and the covenantal nature of the Mosaic Law. There is no consent of the governed in a contract – it is rule by a dictator by any title of king, president, etc., and human nature is such that the powerful rulers exploit the powerless masses.

The Greeks recognized this problem when they replaced their kings with new forms of government. First came Demo-cracy – People Power, as opposed to Aristo-cracy – rule by the aristocrates, or Theo-cracy – Rule by God or gods. In Athens, all male citizens were eligible to participate in the city’s governing assembly. Obviously, this only works in small city states, and most of all, worked because anyone who didn’t fit in was eliminated.

Ostracism was a democratic procedure in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years. It was used as a way of neutralizing someone thought to be a threat to the state though in many cases popular opinion often informed the expulsion. The word “ostracism” continues to be used for various cases of social shunning.

Execution was also used to keep the status quo, Socrates being a famous example.

Socrates’ student Plato conceived of the Republic – from Latin rēs (“thing”) + pūblica (“public”); hence literally “the public thing”, i.e. rule of the people using representatives.

The Republic, one of the most important dialogues of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, renowned for its detailed expositions of political and ethical justice and its account of the organization of the ideal state (or city-state)…what justice is and why it is in each person’s best interest to be just.

According to Plato, the ideal state comprises three social classes: rulers, guardians, and producers e.g., farmers and craftsmen. The rulers, who are philosophers, pursue the good of the entire state on the basis of their knowledge of the form of the Good and the form of the Just…Political justice, then, is the condition of a state in which each social class performs its own role properly, leaving aside the role of any other class.

Plato recognized that the individuals making up society must also be Good and Just for this system to work. Corresponding to the three social classes are the three parts of the individual soul:

1. reason desires truth and the good of the whole individual
2. spirit is preoccupied with honour and competitive values
3. and appetite has the traditional low tastes for food, drink, and sex.

Justice in the individual, or ethics, is analogous to that of political justice—a state of psychic harmony in which each part of the soul performs its role properly. 

This is baseline Humanism, the belief that humans have the power to overcome the essential hormonal and neurological drives of the human body and soul, inherent to the mortality that allows growth and development as well as ultimately death.

the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good…but I am carnal [flesh, hormonal and neurotransmitter-driven]…what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good…For to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not….O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death…?

God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but…[mind] the things of the Spirit [of God in us].” (Romans 7, 8:3-5)

Hammurabi’s and Moses’ codes both explicitly state that their purpose is “to bring about the rule of righteousness in the land.” Since mankind’s inherent life-sustaining nature is focused on personal growth and development, this requires a rule of law to prevent injustice.

And here is where the Mosaic Law – a covenant – absolutely did not plagiarize the Code of Hammurabi – a contract.

Hammurabi’s Laws assign socially approved / disallowed behaviors and punishments, while the Mosaic Law deals with the cause of destructive behavior, not just its effects, and prevents, not just punishes, social damage through its demands on personal and national holiness.

Most of all, Hammurabi or the Supreme Court of the United States or any other leadership forum can’t simply arbitrarily call into existence the rightness or wrongness of actions. Just like defying laws of physics will inevitably cause destruction, so too breaking laws of human nature will inevitably lead to destruction.

For example, Hammurabi’s code imposed a fine on anyone who caused a pregnant woman to lose her child, while the Book of the Covenant required a life for a life, not only recognizing but teaching the sanctity – and value – of life.

“After nearly thirty years, the data suggest that abortion has been anything but good for the United States.” The economic consequences alone are that abortion (the modern clinically approved manner of child sacrifice)

• reduced the size of the economy,
• undercut one main cause of the American economy’s current dynamism: innovation,
• reduced the standard of living of the average America household
• is single-handedly responsible for anticipated imbalances in the Social Security retirement system,
• is perhaps the single largest American economic event of the past century, more significant than the Great Depression or the Second World War.

“the analysis warns that if it continues unchecked, legal abortion will progressively erode both America’s relative economic importance and her average absolute standard of living.”

Another example of the impossibility of reversing a law of nature by decree is the massive numbers of innocent deaths by AIDS caused by unlimited political support of homosexuality. See relevant post for details. 

The Melchizedekian Covenant, defined in great detail in the Mosaic Law, protects the disenfranchised members of society, regardless of their place or rank in society, while the Code of Hammurabi is interested only in the free men class and gives special protection to the middle and higher social classes of Babylon…the lower classes, the wardu (slaves) and the mushkenu (free person of low estate) have no such protection. Taking the life of your own slave was no-one’s business but your own, and taking the life of another man’s slave might only bring a fine.

The superiority of God’s Laws is that obedience (and holiness) is the desired outcome, so that a relationship with God is made possible, but the Law of Hammurabi’s goal is for longevity of the king and prosperity for the nation’s elite class, regardless of who gets hurt.

As much as irreligious people like to fault the laws of Moses, objectively speaking the Mosaic Covenant provides well for the quality of life of its subjects in the kingdom.

• There is one day out of seven free from labor as opposed to the Egyptian and Roman one day out of ten,
• as well as one full year’s vacation out of seven,
• redistribution of resources to those unable to provide for themselves via a low  ~22% income tax,
• and periodic elimination of debt.
• ensuring equal distribution of resources to all subjects, with no wealthy elite gaining power over the impoverished.

There is a sharp contrast between contractual laws simply cursing the unrighteousness and covenant blessings giving second chances.

The presumption here is not that loans are made to exploit commercial opportunity, but rather to avert disaster. Indeed the Mosaic law encourages such lending: “If there is a poor man among your brothers in any of the towns of the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother. Rather be openhanded and freely lend him what he needs.” (Deut. 15: 7-8, NIV)

Compare the assurances of debt relief in the Mosaic Covenant with the Mesopotamian reactionary debt release practices during crises.

In Hammurabi’s time…The peasantry was provided with land…tools, draught animals, livestock, and water for irrigation, so that they could grow food…they had to pay to the State as rent…When the harvest was poor, they accumulated debts. If peasants were unable to pay off their debts, they could also find themselves reduced to the condition of serfs or slaves…after 1400 BC; inequality increased and intensified. Land was taken over by big private land-owners and debt enslavement became commonplace. The ensuing centuries…have evidence of violent social struggles between creditors and debtors.”

Contrast with the oversight and restrictions placed on leaders in God’s kingdom.

“Now the sons of Eli [chief priest and judge over the kingdom of Israel] were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD. And there came a man of God unto Eli and said unto him… Wherefore…  honourest thy sons above me, …thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.” (I Samuel 2:12-36)

“And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the Lord have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever. But now thy kingdom shall not continue:” (I Samuel 13:13-14, Acts 13:22)

The common feature between the two types of agreements is the eternal condition of the spiritual life of the ruler.

• In contractual paganism, the ruler obeyed the demands of the god who experienced “life” by indwelling him – in short, demon possession – maximizing the quality of life of the god by plundering the lives of his worshippers. Can we not recognize this down through the ages by the exorbitant lifestyles of the rich and famous extracted by extortionate policies against the masses?
• But under YHVH’s covenant, Melchizedek Adam lived on in the DNA of the Order of Melchizedek through a dynasty of heirs culminating in The Seed of the Woman who achieved eternal life through union with God for ALL kings AND subjects in his kingdom by gathering the people in, not an insurrection, but a resurrection.

To determine the type of any nation, we only need to measure the morality of the ruler and the welfare of the people in action, not words. What is America in 2025?

The Sargonid dynasty was the final ruling dynasty of Assyria during the apex of its power when the borders of the empire grow to encompass the entire Ancient Near East, the East Mediterranean, Asia Minor, the Caucasus and parts of the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa, subjugating Babylonia, Elam, Persia, Urartu, Lydia, the Medes, Phrygians, Cimmerians, Israel, Judah, Phoenicia, Chaldea, Canaan, the Kushite Empire, the Arabs, and Egypt. They either personally ruled as, or installed, the kings of Babylon,  

Sennacherib is one of the most famous Assyrian kings for the role he plays in the Hebrew Bible, destroying the city of Babylon in 689 BC which his son Esarhaddon (681-669 BCE) promptly rebuilt, while also renovating and expanding the great Assyrian capital, Nineveh.

The last great ancient Assyrian king, Ashurbanipal (668-627 BCE), is best known for the vast library he collected of literary works from all nations in Mesopotamia. When in 612 BCE Nineveh was sacked and burned by a coalition of their enemies the flaming walls falling down on the library of Ashurbanipal baked the clay tablets, preserving the history of Mesopotamia and burying them away from looters to the edification of archeologists and anthropologists thousands of years later.

Two hundred years later in 400 BC Xenophon’s Ten Thousand Greek mercenary soldiers marched across Anatolia in a famously unexpectedly successful retreat from a failed war with Persia.

In his memoire (Anabasis) certain ruins described by Xenophon have been identified beyond a doubt as Nineveh, surrounded by 8 miles of walls 50 feet thick and up to 100 feet high. The evidence of sacking is particularly gruesome.

When the Greek empire under Alexander the Great defeated the mighty Persian Empire he was welcomed through the gate of Babylon as a savior, not a conqueror, because he commanded the rebuilding of all the temples which had been destroyed by Xerxes. Babylon remained in the possession of successive Persian Empires for nine centuries, but as the West grew in importance Babylon’s significance declined, the population significantly decreased, the city itself fell into ruins. Babylon is notable at this time only for Trajan taking a side trip during his Second Mesopotamian Campaign in 116 AD, and finding, as at Ninevah, merely mounds and stones and ruins. 

The Adversary’s religious center had been moved to Seleucid Greek territory to the city of “Pergamos…where Satan’s seat is…where Satan dwelleth.” (Revelation 2:12-15)

Therefore Peter’s reference to the church at “Babylon” (I Peter 5:13) is not the actual Chaldean Babylon, but like the number 666, a veiled reference to an evil entity whose name is best not spoken aloud. Within the text we can determine that Peter is referring to Rome. (I Peter 1:1), which corresponds historically with the Roman Empire’s replacement of the Greek, and leading opposition to YHVH’s Savior at this time.

In 650 AD the Muslim Empire incorporated the province of Babylon, overturning paganism while permitting freedom of monotheism found in the Babylonian Talmud, the Gnostic Mandaean religion, Eastern Rite Christianity and the religion of the philosopher Mani, and fighting the Byzantine Christians at Constantinople as heretics to monotheism, which they were. 

in 1921 the British Empire created the modern Iraqi state from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, building a replica of the Ishtar Gate and a reconstruction of Ninmakh Temple on site. We can deduce from this action that the British were pawns of the Adversary.

In 1978 Saddam Hussein, began the “Archaeological Restoration of Babylon Project” including the Southern Palace of Nebuchadnezzar, with 250 rooms and five courtyards. Copying Nebuchadnezzar’s practice of inscribing each brick with his name as an everlasting memorial. One frequent inscription reads: “This was built by Saddam Hussein, son of Nebuchadnezzar.  

When United States forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they constructed a military base on top of the ruins of Babylon.

Doesn’t planting a flag always proclaim ownership?

 

 

The reality is that we will always blend in with whatever group with which we associate.

“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ / The Promised Seed with Belial / Satan? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?

for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.” (II Corinthians 6:14-18)

Interestingly, the phrase “come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord” is not found verbatim elsewhere in scripture. The closest quote is what the LORD said to Abram.

“Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation.” (Genesis 12:1-2)

Continue reading “116) Come Out From Among Them And Be Ye Separate”

When Nimrod’s tower enterprise fell apart at Babel in the land of Shinar, and Asshur, a rebel son of Shem, hunts down the scattering nations to corral them back, Shem as “the father of all the children of Eber”, ordains Eber to go out into the world to minister to the fleeing refugees.

That’s just a bit confusing. How is Shem the father of all the children of Eber?

In the same sense of spiritual authority, exactly what the more familiar Abraham “the father of all them that believe”, inherited as his Melchizedekian role.

Cultural historians confirm the biblical account that righteous Shem’s great-grandson Eber is the namesake founder of the Hebrews of whom Abraham “our father” is the first person identified as such.

“Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah, Eber, Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nahor, Terah, Abram; the same is Abraham.” (I Chronicles 1:24-17)

“Little is known about the oldest eras of ancient Hebrew civilization because the culture was nomadic.”

And that would be because they were running for their lives. Continue reading “117) Covenantal Monotheism Available In All The Nations Of The World”

“Jerusalem…the city which I have chosen me to put my name there…for all the earth is mine.“ (Ezekiel 24:2, I Kings 11:36, Exodus 19:5)

“I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem…to give thanks unto the name of the LORD…Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee…because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.: (Psalm 122)

The garden of Eden is not found on earth today, no doubt it was flooded under the Mediterranean Sea at the time of Noah’s flood.

However the entrance to the garden of Eden, being “eastward in Eden” (Genesis 2:8), must still be above water on “the mountain of the LORD” since the gateway to the garden is where the Adams would have continued making the blood sacrifice for sin as taught by YHVH.

This is where Abel’s blood sacrifice was accepted over Cain’s vegan offering, for obvious reasons. Cain did not engage in activities designed to achieve peace, undividedness-unity, alliance with God through respecting his ways. Not even – notably – with his brother. Cain was either competing with his brother to be the favorite, or competing to be an equal with God directly. In any case, unity / peace with God requires unity / peace with his family.

“Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.” (Genesis 4:3-5)

How did God show respect to one and not the other? Standard MO is fire from heaven,

Continue reading “118) Jerusalem Is YHVH’s Worship Center For Monotheism”

“And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him…thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee… and kings shall come out of thee.” (Genesis 17:1-5)

The easiest way to explain Abraham’s designation as “Father” is to compare his role to his current counterpart.

“Pope”  (Latin: papa, from Greek: πάππας, romanized: páppas, lit. ‘father’), AKA “Holy” Father, is

1. head priest of the worldwide Catholic Church,
2. and also head of state or sovereign of the Holy See.

The word “see” comes from the Latin word sedes, meaning ‘seat’, which refers to the throne (cathedra) used in the Catholic Church to refer specifically to The Apostolic See, the throne of the Bishop of Rome, whom that Church sees as the successor of Saint Peter at the cathedral of the Holy See, the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in the city of Rome.

The Holy See / Throne. like the State of Israel proclaimed in 1948, is a politically sovereign entity recognized by international law. Housed within Vatican City, a geographical enclave within the separate city of Rome. As a political state, it brings its power to bear within international organizations and by means of its diplomatic relations and political accords with other much larger countries.

Continue reading “SECTION XXII:The Hebrew Commonwealth Of Nations”

The Exodus has reverberated through world history”, and is such a significant biblical event, perhaps second only to creation, that it is as vehemently denied by Bible critics as creation itself.

There is no question that belief in the Exodus requires faith in an infinitely omnipotent Creator including the ability to control the triggering, timing and intensity of what could very likely have been a cascade of natural events comprising the plagues on Egypt. 

The Exodus takes up four entire books for a reason. It is the seminal redemption event that drives all the rest of human history. The circumstances proved that

• invoking the name does establish a relationship,
• and that believing in the name does grant access to power over humanly insolvable problems and even death,
• which must be acted upon in faith to achieve salvation.

For the persons who are at the least willing to consider the biblical narrative, the point I would like to drive home in this post is that the Exodus occurred to the international Commonwealth of Nations called the Hebrews, founded by Eber, Abram’s forefather, NOT the  genetic offspring of Jacob AKA Israel, nor the Nation of Israel founded by Moses at Mount Sinai after the Exodus had occurred.

“God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses…I am the God of

• thy father / Authority / Priest-King Melichizek of the children of Israel / Hebrews (Exodus 2:12-16)
• the God of Abraham “the Hebrew” (Genesis 14:13)
• the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob [from] “the land of the Hebrews” (Genesis 40:15)

I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt…the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me. I will send thee…Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning…And thou shalt say unto him,

The LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me. (Exodus 3, 9:1,13, 10:3)

Continue reading “119) Melchizedek Heads The Hebrew Commonwealth Of Nations”

“Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get…unto a land that I will shew thee [the land of Canaan]: And I will make of thee a great nation, and…in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” (Genesis 12:1-5)

And I will establish [NOT MAKE] my [existing] covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant,to be a God / Life-Giver unto thee, and to thy seed after thee…Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.” (Genesis 13:14-15,15:18-21, 17:7-9)

This is the continuation of the existing covenant of having dominion over the whole earth through redemption from sin and death by the Seed of the Woman, explicitly stated about YHVH’s Savior to the Jews at Jerusalem by the apostle Peter.

“Ye are the children of the…covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed…God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.” (Acts 3:24-26)

But taking dominion involves so much more than personally talking the talk and walking the walk thinking we’re “shining a light”. It requires confronting iniquity face to face in whatever domain of life we make choices to stand up for what is right instead of allowing evil to flourish. That often means our homes become battlefields, we lose jobs because we won’t go along with illegal, immoral, or harmful practices.

When Abram was sent to the land “of Canaan” to replace Melchizedek Shem at his beleaguered fortress of [Jeru]Salem it was like being sent into Mogadishu.

“the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield [during battle], and thy exceeding great reward [upon guaranteed victory]…this land to inherit it…

In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates [once you take dominion over]: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims. And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.” (Genesis 15:1,18-21)

Abram and his seed are being assigned the dangerous task of protecting generations of the promised Seed of the Woman from the Seed of the Serpent, who at this time is Nimrod, engaged in procreating nations of hybrid giants.

“For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder…The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.” (Isaiah 9:5-7}

Continue reading “120) Melchizedeks Are On The Front Line Of Spiritual Battle: Abram”

At the time of the Land Grant to unnamed seed in chapter 13, Abram had no seed.

His first seed is Ishmael, whose mother was Egyptian, i.e. from the line of Cush.

^“And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife…I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her…And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!” (Genesis 17)

Understand what Abraham is requesting when he uses the formulaic phrase “live before thee / be accepted permanently in thy presence as a ruler of your kingdom.”

Many of the old Babylonian letters…include a greetings formula in which one or two deities are invoked and the hope is expressed that they will give long life to the recipient.

Abraham is clearly following the same formula, also used towards kings in expressing good wishes for the extension of their life / genetics / ongoing rule over the kingdom through their heirs. The contrary condition helps define this blessing. 

“whosoever, whether man or women, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live:” (Esther 4:11)

“When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory…Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:” (Matthew 25:31,34)

Abram is asking that his descent / dynasty also be counted from Ishmael who would therefore also be an heir of the land grant made 15 years earlier.

And God grants Abram’s request.

Continue reading “121) Melchizedeks Share God’s Blessings: Isaac”

Archaeological evidence shows a plethora of ancient curses…such beliefs and practices have continued to the present day…sometimes called jinx, hex, or black magic…The aim is to see harm befall the recipient – bad luck may dog them, death may take them, or any number of dire (or annoying) fates may plague them. In antiquity a curse was a powerful phenomenon, the presence of evil forces.

Jacob wins the sibling tug of war for the appointment because he values it so much he risks multiple curses on his life, beginning with the risk of being severely cursed by his own father,

Then Jacob was forced to flee his home and inheritance when he was cursed by his brother.

“And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and…he lighted upon a certain place…And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth,  and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep / guard / provide for thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land…

And Jacob vowed a vow, saying,

• If [this] God [of the many gods known to men at that time] will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father’s house in peace;
• then shall the LORD be my God: And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.” (Genesis 28)

Jacob is being rational, checking out the faithfulness of the other party before committing to a disaster of being bound to a cruel master. And Jacob was living in highly unreliable and dangerous Wild West times.

And YHVH obliges Jacob by providing proof after proof of his faithfulness to rescue Jacob from curse after curse. Will Jacob prove to be faithful to YHVH?

Continue reading “122) Melchizedeks Are Cursed And Broken: Jacob”