The book of Judges...a Modern day account

In the Old testament book of Judges there is an interesting verse in 21:25 that says

"In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes."

That statement isn't an encuraging one, but less; a damning one. See if man thinks and does as he feels and it falls against Gods order then it isn't OK. You must be accountable to the King who will judge you on your deads.

Just because Israel didn't have have a "king" in place in the form of government didn't mean that they didn't have the Torah, which shows that God alone is King. This flows into the thrid commandment "that shall not take the Lord, thy God's name in Vain," but we will get to that in a second.

So in their eyes if they felt something was right they would compromise the laws of Moses. In doing this, it produced a whole new generation that was degenerate and full of misgiven information. The Israelites then began to live among idolaters and become contaminated by their culture.

So why is this important to us now???

Well, look at the Chruch and society today. Can you not see homosexuals preaching in churches. Can you not see how it has become a "don't judge me, I'll do as I please," society. The montra has changed from in God we trust to if it feels good, and makes you happy then go ahead and do it.

Yes, I know, we do have a government and a president in place that suspose to tell us right from wrong. The problem with this is that we no longer have Christian leadership within our government, and heck even in alot of professing Christian Churches.

So lets go back to the ten commandments. "Thou shall not take thy Lord your God's name in Vain." Most people percieve that as meaning don't cuss by God or Christ name (I.E. G-- Da-- it). I challenge you to look at that commandment from a different perspective. From this verse I see nothing about vulgar language and more about taking the King's name vain. If the King, (President) is in position to lead it's nation, then it needs to be in the direction that the King of Kings instructs them to follow. If they do not do this then by taking that leadership role is taking the Lords name in vain. Simply put if they are appointed to be a leader, but not anointed by God, then just calling themselves king doesn't make them a king.

Because of Christ, the Church is what Israel was. Since we curcified the rightful heir, and he has yet to lay clame to what He purchased in blood, we are still forced to rely on a human King. Obviously becasue of intentinal disobeadience of the third commandment every Generation since God has been cast out of our Government has become worse and worse. We played on the border of a slippery slope, and have fallen off the side. We can't correct the damage we've caused ourselves. At this point only God can annoint a King to correct this. That annointed King is the lion of the tribe of Juda, the decendent of David...Yeshua. Jesus the Christ.

We need to look to our King. No longer should we trust or support the governments of this world for they are corrupt and compromised. Christ, and only Christ, can correct the blinding inequities that are occuring in this world now in His holy name.

Bradley