Why is it that Americans – Christians1 in particular – have such a love affair with the United States Constitution? Is it because we have been told repeatedly that it is one of the most important documents ever written by man? Is it because it was based upon biblical principles and is a great Christian document? Or is it because the victors in the culture war wrote our history the way they wanted us to perceive it?
Most Americans never wonder about these things. They believe what they have been taught about the founding of our government and are quite content to leave it at that (Proverbs 14:15). With this book, I hope, at the very least, to motivate people to think about the Constitution, a document which few Americans have read and to which fewer yet have given any serious thought. More importantly, I hope to inspire you to study Yahweh’s2 laws and to esteem them as did the Psalmist, who declared his love for the law seven times in Psalm 119. I also hope to create a vision for Yahweh’s kingdom here on earth as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:10).
If this is ever to be accomplished, Americans must first recognize and repent of their national idolatry – their love affair with the humanistic, pluralistic, polytheistic, and antichristian United States Constitution. To identify the Constitution in such a fashion will initially sound unpatriotically outlandish to many people reading this. How can I make such a statement, especially when so many people tout, and even seem to document, the Constitution as a Christian document? If you will continue reading you will find that what I have alleged is proven and documented from the Bible, the Constitution itself, and outside primary source documents. Like the Philistine god Dagon in 1 Samuel 5, WE THE PEOPLE and the Constitution will fall before Yahweh and His perfect laws (Psalm 19:7-9).
Although Christians expose and combat sin on many fronts, very few identify the U.S. Constitution as an idol of national prominence.
It is possible for an idol to become so entrenched in the fabric of society that even the people of God fail to recognize it for what it is and to take steps to get rid of it. Our modern idols are not always easy to detect. They often take the shape of ideas and institutions woven into the warp and woof of our culture. Like a piece of hologram art work, they escape the causal gaze. It takes a concentrated exercise of visual acuity to look beyond the surface veil and see the dragons lurking in the background.3
Because most Christians have yet to identify the Constitution as one of the prime contributors to America’s problems, the biblical solution to America’s problems has escaped them. As Henry David Thoreau put it, “There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” The Constitution is not the only root of evil in the American system of government, but it is one of the more consequential ones.
If you are a person who values truth above all else and who chooses to sacrifice doctrine on the altar of sacred truth – instead of sacrificing truth on the altar of sacred doctrine – your beliefs concerning the U.S. Constitution and the Holy Bible may be challenged and perhaps radically changed by what you read in the following pages.
This book is dedicated first to Yahweh, the one and only God, King, Judge, and Lawgiver and to Yeshua,4 (Jesus’ given Hebrew name) our one and only Lord and Savior. Secondly, it is dedicated to a future generation of our progeny, who will erect a theocracy based solely upon Yahweh’s perfect law. Lord willing, an irrepressible movement will one day sweep across the country in fulfillment of Matthew 6:10, 33:
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven…. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. (Matthew 6:10, 33)5
Chapter 1
The Perfect Law of Yahweh
Before examining the United States Constitution by Yahweh’s laws, it must first be demonstrated that those laws are the perfect standard by which the U.S. Constitution should be judged:
The law of YHWH6 is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of YHWH is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of YHWH are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of YHWH is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of YHWH is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of YHWH are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. (Psalm 19:7-11)
In all but a very few instances, I am certain that modern-day conservative, fundamental Christians would profess that Yahweh’s laws are perfect. Nevertheless, I am equally certain that few of them truly believe that these verses from Psalm 19 have any practical value today. For the most part, today’s Christians are antinomian, believing that Yahweh’s law have little relevance to the New Covenant Christian, or they believe the law has been abolished altogether.7
What irony! Many Christians identify themselves as New Testament or New Covenant Christians and yet they reject the foundation of the New Covenant:
Behold, the days come, saith YHWH, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith YHWH: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, saith YHWH, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. (Jeremiah 31:31-33)
According to the Prophet Jeremiah and the author of Hebrews, who quoted this prophecy in Hebrews 8:8-10, the New Covenant is Yahweh’s laws written on the hearts and minds of His New Covenant people,8 to the end that the same laws be put into daily practice. Therefore, it is impossible to be a New Covenant Christian without pursuing Yahweh’s laws individually and ultimately in society as a whole.
Antinomians quote select New Testament passages, which appear to abolish the laws of Yahweh, while completely ignoring the plethora of New Testament passages that declare Yahweh’s laws inherent to the New Covenant. The tragic consequences of this theology, which pits Scripture against Scripture, are found in the following list. If you believe the laws of Yahweh have been abolished under the New Covenant and you have consequently neglected to pursue His laws in your own life:
- You believe heaven and earth have passed away.
- You are, at best, least in the Kingdom of heaven.
- You are not accomplishing Yahweh’s will.
- You are not known by Yahweh and will never live in His presence.
- You do not love Yeshua.
- You do not abide in Yeshua’s love.
- You do not believe the truth.
- You believe there is no such thing as sin.
- You fail to exhibit true faith.
- You do not believe in what is holy, just, and good.
- You do not believe in what is spiritual.
- You are not living righteously.
- You are not walking after the Spirit.
- You are carnal and at enmity with Yahweh.
- You are not pleasing to God.
- You do not believe in God’s goodness.
- You do not believe in the New Covenant.
- You are not a New Covenant Christian.
- You do not know Yahweh.
- You cannot sin, and, therefore, do not need Yeshua as your Savior.
- You do not love the children of Yahweh.
- You do not love Yahweh.
- You are not a part of Yahweh’s New Covenant remnant.
- You are not one of Yahweh’s saints.
- You have no right to the tree of life.
These conclusions are drawn from the following New Testament passages:
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (Mathew 5:18)
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:19)
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity [anomian – lawlessness]. (Matthew 7:21-23)
And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. (Luke 16:17)
If ye love me, keep my commandments. (John 14:15)
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love…. (John 15:10)
…truth [is] in the law. (Romans 2:20)
…by the law is the knowledge of sin. (Romans 3:20)
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. (Romans 3:31)
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. (Romans 7:7)
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. (Romans 7:12)
For we know that the law is spiritual…. (Romans 7:14)
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (Romans 8:4)
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. (Romans 8:7)
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. (1 Corinthians 7:19)
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully. (1 Timothy 1:8)
For this is the [New] covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith YHWH; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. (Hebrews 8:10)
And hereby we do know that we know him [Yahweh], if we keep his commandments. (1 John 2:3)
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. (1 John 3:4)
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. (1 John 5:2)
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. (1 John 5:3)
And this is love, that we walk after his commandments…. (2 John 1:6)
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. (Revelation 12:17)
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus. (Revelation 14:12)
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. (Revelation 22:14)
Under Law or Under Grace
None of this is to say that Christians are under the law as were the Israelites during the Old, or what is otherwise known as the Mosaic, Covenant. The Bible is very clear that New Covenant Christians are not under the law, but under grace (Romans 6:14). This simply means that we are no longer required to perfectly keep all of Yahweh’s moral laws for righteousness as were the Israelites living under the Mosaic Covenant:
And YHWH commanded us [Old Covenant Israelites] to do all these statutes, to fear YHWH our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before YHWH our God, as he hath commanded us. (Deuteronomy 6:24-25)
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. (Galatians 3:10)
It was particularly this aspect of the Mosaic Covenant that Yeshua fulfilled on our behalf and then abolished:
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. (Romans 10:4)
In Galatians 3:11, the Apostle Paul wrote that “no man is justified by the law in the sight of God…” and in Galatians 5:4 that “you [are] severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law, you have fallen from grace.” Justification (our legal standing before Yahweh) is what provides us our righteousness (our moral standing before Him). Justification, and thereby, righteousness, is only attainable through Yeshua’s propitiating sacrifice on our behalf.
Having fulfilled the Old Covenant requirement of perfect righteousness – perfect obedience to Yahweh’s laws, which equates with sinlessness – Yeshua became our righteousness (1 Corinthians 1:26-31). Consequently, “every one that believeth”9 is justified by the blood-atoning sacrifice and resurrection of Yeshua the Christ and is no longer under the law, but under grace.
This has been perverted to mean that Yahweh’s laws themselves have been abolished. If this were true, Yeshua would have put an end to Yahweh’s morality, which would mean that Yeshua would have put an end to Yahweh. What a horrific concept!
Because Yahweh does not change (Malachi 3:6), His morality, or righteousness, has not changed either:
The works of YHWH are great … and his righteousness endureth for ever. (Psalm 111:2-3)
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth. (Psalm 119:142)
Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law … my righteousness shall be for ever…. (Isaiah 51:7-8)
Because Yahweh’s laws reflect His unchanging morality, His laws cannot be abolished or altered. To put it another way, if Yahweh’s laws are imperfect, as some modern Christians seem to believe, then so is Yahweh’s morality. If Yahweh’s morality is imperfect so is Yahweh. And if Yahweh, His laws, and His morality are all imperfect then Yahweh is unrighteous. Not so:
…YHWH is upright … and there is no unrighteousness in him. (Psalm 92:15)
YHWH is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. (Psalm 145:17)
Yahweh is perpetually righteous and holy and, therefore, what He deemed sin formerly is still sin under the New Covenant.
This is not to say that no changes have occurred between the Mosaic and the Christian Covenants. The Mosaic Covenant required perfect obedience to obtain an imperfect justification. When the people fell short, the priests sacrificed sheep and cattle. It was not until Yeshua’s blood-atoning sacrifice (Galatians 3:22-24, Hebrews 9:13-15) that those living during the Mosaic Covenant, as well as those of us called under the New Covenant, could obtain perfect justification. Thus, the Mosaic Covenant’s Levitical priesthood and its sacrificial system have been fulfilled by Yeshua and are no longer in effect today.
Christians are not under the law as were the Mosaic Israelites. We strive to keep the moral laws of Yahweh out of our love for Him and our fellow man:
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love YHWH thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Matthew 22:37-40)
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. (Romans 13:8-10)
To fulfill the law is to love Yahweh and our neighbor. A lawless Christian (an antinomian) is at best an oxymoron. According to Jude, antinomians deny both Yahweh and Yeshua by their ungodly theology:
Beloved, … I … write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. (Jude 1:3-4)
Where the King James translated asélgeian “lasciviousness,” the New American Standard Bible translates it “licentiousness.” In his 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster defined “licentious” and “licentiousness”:
1. Using license; indulging freedom to excess; unrestrained by law…. 2. Exceeding the limits of law….10
1. Excessive indulgence of liberty; contempt of the just restraints of law….11
Those definitions perfectly describe antinomians. These people turn Yahweh’s grace into licentiousness through their disregard of His law. In reality, antinomians are humanists dressed in Christian attire. Without Yahweh’s moral compass, every man is a law unto himself.
The antithesis of Yahweh’s law is not grace, but instead lawlessness and, therefore, sin. Yahweh’s laws are the means to keep us from sinning; grace is the solution after we have sinned.
Galatians 3
Those who believe Yahweh’s laws are no longer applicable under the New Covenant often cite Paul’s epistle to the Galatians:
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. (Galatians 3:23-35)
Antinomians are quick to announce, “See, the law is no longer for today!” However, it must be asked, “Which law is no longer for today?” The Greek word nomos, from which the New Testament word “law” is translated, has a variety of New Testament applications that can only be determined by the context of each passage in which nomos appears:
- Any law whatsoever.
- The law of Yeshua the Christ.
- The entire Old Testament, including the Psalms and the Prophets.
- The Pentateuch, that is, the first five books of the Old Testament.
- The Mosaic Covenant, including its sacrificial and ceremonial laws.
- The sacrifices and/or ceremonial components of the Mosaic Covenant.
- The moral laws of Yahweh as contained in His commandments, statutes, and judgments.
- One of the three divisions of the laws of Yahweh – that is, the commandments or the statutes, or the judgments.
Antinomians usually believe Paul was referring to some combination of Numbers 6 and 7. They make the same application to most of the New Testament passages that, upon a cursory reading, appear to state that Yahweh’s law has been abolished. Most of these people have not been taught that other options exist.
The Correct Choice
We must be careful to determine which law the Apostle Paul is referring to, otherwise, it may appear that Paul is contradicting himself. For example, in Galatians 3, Paul wrote that because faith had come, Christians are no longer under the schoolmaster (the law). However, in Romans 3, Paul appears to contradict himself:
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law. (Romans 3:31)
Either Paul was talking about two different laws or He was uninspired, as some people have tragically concluded. If we do not correctly identify the law to which Yeshua put an end in Galatians 3, we may believe Paul to be odds not only with himself but with Yeshua:
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:18-19)
Either Paul was not referring to the commandments and their respective statutes and judgments in Galatians 3 or one must admit that heaven and earth have passed away – or that both Yeshua and Paul did not know what they were talking about. As we will see, Galatians 3 is one of the keys to correctly understanding what was and was not fulfilled and abolished under the New Covenant.
Does Galatians 3 declare that the commandments, statutes, and judgments have been abolished by faith in Yeshua? In verses 16 and 17, Paul identifies the law to which he was referring. He first referenced the promises given to Abraham and then contrasted them with “…the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after….” In verse19, Paul continued, “Wherefore then … the law? It was added because of transgressions….” Paul identified the law in Galatians 3 as a law that was added four hundred and thirty years after the promises were given to Abraham. Four hundred and thirty years after Abraham, the Israelites were camped at Mt. Sinai. Consequently, only that which was added at Mt. Sinai was abolished when faith came. In other words, anything in existence prior to the covenant consummated at Mt. Sinai cannot be that which was added at Mt. Sinai and later abolished by Yeshua.
Prior Existence of Yahweh’s Laws
Most Christians are unaware that Yahweh’s commandments, statutes, and judgments existed long before their codification at Mt. Sinai – although this should be self-evident. Unlike man, whose ethics change almost as often as the tides of the ocean, Yahweh is not fickle. His morality is constant and reliable, and because His morality is the same yesterday, today, and forever, His moral laws have not changed one iota.
The Bible provides pre-Sinai evidence that Yahweh’s commandments, statutes, and judgments were already in existence and, therefore, could not have been added at Mt. Sinai. For example, Abraham kept Yahweh’s commandments, statutes, and laws – which were later codified by Moses:
…Abraham obeyed my [Yahweh’s] voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. (Genesis 26:5)
The book of Jasher12 expounds upon Abraham’s law observance:
…Abram served the Lord his God all the days of his life, and he walked in His ways and followed His law. (Jasher 12:42)
Later in the same book, Abraham reminded his son Isaac of Yahweh’s law:
…He [Yahweh] said unto me, to thy seed I will give all these lands, and they shall inherit them when they keep my commandments, my statutes and my judgments that I have commanded thee [Isaac], and which I shall command them. Now therefore my son, hearken to my voice, and keep the commandments of the Lord thy God … that it may be well with thee and thy children forever. …teach then thy children and thy seed the instruction of the Lord and His commandments. (Jasher 26:24-26)
This is very similar to what we find in Genesis 18:
For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of YHWH, to do justice and judgment [righteousness and justice, NASB]; that YHWH may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. (Genesis 18:19)
Righteousness and justice are only found in Yahweh’s morality as delineated in His commandments, statutes, and laws (Genesis 26:5). The structure of Yahweh’s moral law as three integral components – commandments, statutes, and judgments, which Abraham admonished Isaac to keep over 500 years prior to Moses in Jasher 26:24 – is the same structure of Yahweh’s moral law that Moses provided in the Pentateuch:
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which YHWH your God commanded to teach you…. (Deuteronomy 6:1)
No written testimony of the commandments, statutes, and judgments in their entirety exists before Mt. Sinai, but they were nonetheless in existence.13 They were verbally imparted from generation to generation, from Adam to Seth to Noah to Shem and on to their progeny.
Because of Transgressions
Paul provides additional proof that Yahweh’s law was in existence prior to Mt. Sinai when he declared that the Mosaic Covenant was “added because of transgressions” that occurred during the previous pre-Mosaic dispensation. The Apostle John defines sin as a transgression of Yahweh’s law:
…whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. (1 John 3:4)
The sins alluded to by Paul in Galatians 3 were transgressions of Yahweh’s commandments, statutes, and judgments during the period between Adam and Moses. Where there is no law there can be no transgression; therefore, the moral laws of Yahweh had to have existed prior to Mt. Sinai:
Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (For until the law [as given and codified by Moses] sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression…. (Romans 5:12-14)
The Added Law
If Yahweh’s commandments, statutes, and judgments were not the law Paul alluded to in Galatians 3, then to what law was he referring? Hebrews 7:19-22 uses the words “covenant” and “law” interchangeably. Although made up of other individual laws, a covenant is a law itself, only more comprehensive in its scope and application.
Galatians 3:19 refers to two different laws: one that existed prior to Mt. Sinai (the one the Hebrews transgressed) and the one added at Mt. Sinai. Verse 19 is correctly interpreted in the following fashion:
Wherefore then serveth the law [Mosaic Covenant]? It was added because of transgressions [of Yahweh’s commandments, statutes, and judgments during the Abrahamic Covenant]…. (Galatians 3:19)
Because Yahweh’s commandments, statutes, and judgments were not the law that was added at Mt. Sinai, they could not have been abolished by Yeshua under the New Covenant. The Mosaic Covenant was the law that was added at Mt. Sinai. Thus, the Mosaic Covenant was the schoolmaster (mentioned in Galatians 3:24) that was abolished when Yeshua sacrificed Himself in payment for our sins:
The Old Covenant was a contract that was added and attached to YHWH’s law. YHWH’s law predated the Old Covenant, thus, the Old Covenant does not equate to YHWH’s law. The Old Covenant was added and attached to YHWH’s law that already existed. The Old covenant was a package that came and went on its own … without changing or altering YHWH’s law. When the Old Covenant came, it was not the start of YHWH’s law … and when the Old Covenant ended, it was not the end of YHWH’s law.
Do not confuse YHWH’s law with the several contracts (covenants) He made with Israel. YHWH made covenants with Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, and others. These covenants were contracts. Some came and went, and some are still in effect. YHWH’s law preceded the covenants He made with men. Covenants were added to YHWH’s law, and covenants were removed, but when the covenants were removed, YHWH’s original laws continue as always.
…He certainly did not do away with the law. He established a New Covenant (a new attachment) as an advanced and more efficient approach to fulfilling and obeying YHWH’s law.14
Many contemporary Christians have chosen to believe the Old Covenant law was superceded by a “higher” New Covenant law. Although the New Covenant did supercede the Old Covenant (Hebrews 7:22, 8:6-7), it does not supercede the Old Covenant canon because the laws are one and the same. There are two different covenants, and one replaced the other, but there is only one law.
What Exactly?
What exactly was added to the existing commandments, statutes, and judgments four-hundred and thirty years after the promises were given to Abraham? The Mosaic Covenant – including the Levitical priesthood, obligatory compliance to Yahweh’s already existing commandments, statutes, and judgments, and animal sacrifices for justification – was added at Mt. Sinai and abolished at the cross. Under the New Covenant, Yeshua is our high priest, our sacrifice, and our justification. He fulfilled all that was added at Mt. Sinai. But His perfect fulfillment does not mean we are now free to steal, rape, and murder. Nor does it absolve His subjects from pursuing His perfect laws in every aspect of society.
Compulsory vs. Voluntary Compliance
The major difference between the Mosaic and Abrahamic Covenants was compulsory versus voluntary compliance. Paul wrote to the Galatian Christians that the law – the Mosaic Covenant – was added because of Israel’s transgressions. Because the Israelites did not love Yahweh and their fellow man enough to freely comply with the moral laws in existence under the Adamic and Abrahamic Covenants, Yahweh put them under a compulsory compliance – that is, “in custody” (Galatians 3:23 NASB) – by way of the Mosaic Covenant. Under that Covenant, the Israelites were compelled to keep His laws in order to be justified before God. Moses explained it in the following fashion:
…it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before YHWH our God, as he hath commanded us. (Deuteronomy 6:25)
It was this compulsory compliance for righteousness that Yeshua abolished:
…Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. (Romans 10:4)
Paul did not say that Yeshua was the end of the law period, but rather that He was the end of the law (or covenant) for righteousness. This is the same as saying Yeshua was the end of the Mosaic Covenant.
Contrast Deuteronomy 4:13 with Hebrews 8:8-10:
And he [Yahweh] declared unto you [Israel] his [Mosaic] covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. (Deuteronomy 4:13)
…Behold, the days come, saith YHWH, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah…. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith YHWH; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts…. (Hebrews 8:8-10)
In these passages, stones represent compulsory compliance and hearts represent voluntary compliance. Under the Mosaic Covenant, the Israelites were compelled to keep the commandments, statutes, and judgments, which had been written on stone. Under the Abrahamic and Christian Covenants (which are essentially the same), those same commandments, statutes, and judgments, written on our hearts and minds, were and are obeyed voluntarily. In Romans 7:6, Paul described the difference as serving Yahweh in the spirit rather than the letter of the law. This does not mean that Yahweh’s perfect laws have been abolished. In fact, Yeshua’s Sermon on the Mount reveals that the spirit of the law demands an even higher standard.
Through Yeshua’s sacrifice and resurrection, the New Covenant reestablished Yahweh’s law as it was intended to have been observed under the Abrahamic Covenant. From the beginning, Yahweh’s intention has been for His people to voluntarily keep the commandments, statutes, and judgments. New Covenant Christians are empowered by Yahweh’s indwelling Spirit to do what was impossible under the Mosaic Covenant, without His indwelling Spirit:
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit…. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you…. (Romans 8:4-9)
Although obedience is voluntary under the New Covenant, anyone who does not obey Yahweh’s laws is nevertheless carnal and at enmity with Him. Such a person does not love Yahweh, as demonstrated by his refusal to obey His laws.
The Mosaic Covenant was added because of Israel’s transgressions “til the seed [Yeshua] should come.” He has come and the Mosaic Covenant – not Yahweh’s perfect law – has been abolished. Why, after all, would Yahweh abolish that which was perfect in the first place?
Perfection
Anyone who has studied Yahweh’s laws knows how perfect they truly are. Regrettably, few Christians today – having been persuaded by antinomian pastors that the laws are no longer applicable – have taken the time to do so.
The rewards of meditating upon and observing His laws are too manifold to enumerate in this chapter,15 but consider the following:
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of YHWH; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. (Psalm 1:1-3)
O how love I thy law! It is my meditation all the day. Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. (Psalm 119:97-100)
Why would anyone in their right mind abandon the blessings mentioned in these two passages alone? Those who would do so are not in their right mind:
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. (Hosea 8:12)
The Perfect Law of Liberty
…whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. (James 1:25)
The law of liberty referred to by James is the same law of liberty the Psalmist wrote about:
The law of YHWH is perfect, converting the soul…. (Psalm 19:7)
So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever. And I will walk at liberty…. (Psalm 119:44-45)
If applied today, Yahweh’s law would set us at liberty. However, liberty must not be confused with freedom from our sins. Only Yeshua’s blood-atoning sacrifice can accomplish the latter. Nevertheless, the implementation of Yahweh’s perfect law of liberty would resolve every single problem facing America today. His law would liberate us from all of the following immoral and oppressive conditions:
- Unchecked crime and immorality
- Infanticide16
- Repressive government and crooked politicians
- A criminal justice system17
- Corrupt justices
- Crooked lawyers
- Rigged juries
- Election fraud
- Special interest groups
- Bureaucratic entanglements
- Licenses and permits
- Gun control18
- Prisons and their exorbitant costs and myriad problems19
- A fraudulent economic and banking system20
- The Federal Reserve
- Oppressive taxation
- The Internal Revenue Service
- Eminent domain
- A socialistic welfare system
- An unethical insurance system
- Unlawful immigration21
- Multiculturalism, pluralism, and polytheism
All of this and much more would be eradicated with the implementation of Yahweh’s laws:
Indeed, biblical laws deal with topics ranging from criminal and penal law to judicial procedure and the administration of justice, commercial law, torts and injuries, family law, property law, estate planning, martial law, and social welfare, in addition to the laws concerning divine sanctity, cultic sacrifice, and religious taboos that usually comes to mind when people first think of law in the Bible.22
The Psalmist informed us that “the law of Yahweh is perfect” and “in keeping [it] there is great reward” – Psalm 19:7-11. Why then do today’s Christians want to forfeit the perfect, never-changing, infallible law of Yahweh for man’s imperfect, ever-changing, fallible laws? For example, Pastor Chuck Baldwin (the Constitution Party’s 2008 presidential candidate) made the following appeal for a more pure Constitutionalism in his July 10, 2007, Internet commentary entitled “Can You Imagine This Country?”:
Can you imagine a nation without the I.R.S.? Can you imagine a nation with little crime and where children were free to pray in schools? Can you imagine a nation where the father’s income was able to adequately provide for his household? Can you imagine a country with low divorce rates and where virtually everyone with a high school diploma could both read and write and was capable of earning his or her way in society?
Can you imagine a nation without an A.C.L.U. or a N.E.A.? Can you imagine a country that did not legally murder its own unborn children and that would not pander to sexual deviants or criminals? Can you imagine a country that did not glorify, much less sponsor, gambling? Can you imagine a nation with strong state governments and a limited federal government?
Can you imagine a country where you could order a firearm through a catalog and where there was no such thing as a B.A.T.F.? Well, you might not be able to imagine such a country, but that was the kind of nation our founders dreamed about, fought for, and bequeathed to their posterity.
Unfortunately, since World War II, we Americans have seemed willing to squander the sacrifice and repudiate the principles of our ancestors. With the way things are going, can you imagine what this nation will look like in another 50 years?23
Why would we want to return to the document that created this mess? A document that Benjamin Franklin predicted (just before signing it on September 17, 1784, the last day of the Constitutional Convention) “[it] can only end in Despotism”?24
Other than Baldwin’s mention of public schools and state and national government, everything he offered is attainable through Yahweh’s law – and with no government interference.
Antinomian pastors are often heard describing Yahweh’s laws as burdensome and impractical. If this were true, why would King David and the Apostle Paul declare that they delighted in His laws?
Teach me, O YHWH, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end. Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight. (Psalm 119:33-35)
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man.… So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God…. (Romans 7:22, 25)
Were David, a man after Yahweh’s own heart, and Paul, who had been specially chosen and trained by Yahweh, out of touch with reality? Both of these men understood the perfection of Yahweh’s laws and the rewards gained by those who delight in them:
Blessed is the man that feareth YHWH, that delighteth greatly in his commandments. His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed. Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever. (Psalm 112:1-3)
Today’s Christians need to decide whom they are going to believe: antinomian prevaricators who preach that Yahweh’s laws are burdensome or the Apostle John:
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous [burdensome, NASB]. (1 John 5:2-3)
If America’s federal regulations had been issued on stone at the time of Moses, he would have needed beasts of burden and hundreds of carts to haul them down from Mt. Sinai. As King Solomon wrote in Proverbs 13:15, it is not the laws of Yahweh that are difficult, but rather the way of the transgressor.
In John 8:36, Yeshua informed us that “if the Son therefore shall make [us] free, [we] shall be free indeed.” This freedom begins with salvation in Yeshua and is developed and preserved by His perfect law of liberty.
It is a sad commentary that the majority of Christianity, while giving lip service to Psalm 19:7, do not really believe it at all. If they did, they would relentlessly pursue Yahweh’s perfect laws in their personal lives, the lives of their families, their churches, their immediate communities, and on a national level. This is not to say that I favor federal government. Instead, I am referring to a theocratic government on the local level throughout what is presently known as the United States of America. After this is accomplished, we can look to the entire North American continent and beyond.
Yahweh’s All-Sufficient Laws
People who do not believe Psalm 19:7 do not believe in 2 Timothy 3:16-17 either:
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
Many Christians believe the first half of verse 16, but they do not believe the second half and especially not verse 17. It is important to note that when Paul wrote “all scripture is given by inspiration of God,” very little of the New Testament had yet been written. Paul was referring to the Old Testament. The inspired laws of Yahweh, in particular, are profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness so that a man of God or a society of godly men might be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works:
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest [instructs, NKJV], O YHWH, and teachest him out of thy law. (Psalm 94:12)
Only a perfect God, through a perfect Savior, and by perfect laws, can produce perfect men. Why would we need or want a man-made constitution governing our people – especially one that is so often found to contradict Yahweh’s Constitution – His commandments, statutes, and judgments?
I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him. (Ecclesiastes 3:14)
Yahweh’s law is all-sufficient both for us as individuals and for our entire government. A society is but a group of individuals. What is all-sufficient for us as individuals is also all-sufficient for us as a group of individuals. This is what is often known as Sola Scriptura, which is Latin for “by Scripture alone,” meaning that the Scriptures provide everything necessary for salvation, faith, and life in general.
Yahweh’s perfect laws are our means of implementing His Kingdom here on earth as it is in heaven. To reject Yahweh’s law as inapplicable to any facet of society is equivalent to rejecting not only Yahweh’s Kingdom, but Yahweh Himself as Sovereign and King. R.J. Rushdoony pointed out “God cannot be robbed of sovereignty at one point without soon being denied sovereignty at all points.”25
To seek Yahweh is to seek His Kingdom, and to seek His Kingdom is to seek His law:
…should not a people seek unto their God? …To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. (Isaiah 8:19-20)
Only Yahweh’s laws are perfect. Consequently, everything – including the United States Constitution – must be measured by this standard. Anything to the contrary is imperfect.
Most Constitutionalists base their Christian appraisal of the Constitution on the framers’ well-worn quotations (which often lack primary source documentation) and from a few Supreme Court declarations made years later. Many Constitutionalists claim that the Constitution reflects the teaching of Scripture, but never have I read or heard anyone provide anything from the Constitution itself to demonstrate that it is a Christian or biblical document. In fact, it is quite the opposite. Furthermore, the fruits of the Constitution reflect its full measure.
While there may not be many at this time who share these sentiments, more and more people are recognizing the rotten fruit of the Constitution and speaking out. After I had preached several messages in the audio series that inspired this book, Yahweh led me to the book Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism by Gary North. This book extensively documents much of the true history of America’s foundations, including the little-known religious and social beliefs of the Constitutional framers at the time of the Constitutional Convention. North proves that the framers had neither Christianity nor the Kingdom of Yahweh in mind when they crafted the Constitution:
There is no escape from this conclusion: the United States Constitution is an atheistic, humanistic covenant…. The Constitution is not a Christian covenant document…. While there have been many attempts over the years by Christians to evade this conclusion, they have all been unsupported with primary source documents….26
What the framers, at any given time, said regarding their beliefs or lack thereof, is irrelevant. Their legacy – the Constitution – speaks for itself. What historians and politicians have said about the Constitution over the past two hundred years proves nothing. The Constitution must be assessed by the perfect laws of Yahweh; on this standard alone, it stand or falls as a Christian document.
For anyone claiming to be both a Christian and a Constitutionalist, it is incumbent upon him to demonstrate that the Constitution is compatible with the Yahweh’s laws. I have challenged Constitutionalists to provide me with evidence from the Constitution demonstrating it is a biblically based document. To date, no one has offered any citations from the Constitution that are biblically compatible. Actually, there are some, very few, but mostly minor issues, where the Constitution is harmonious with Yahweh’s law. However, for every insignificant issue in which the two agree, there are at least dozen significant issues where they are antithetical to each other.
In some of the ensuing chapters, we will be examining the United States Constitution article by article and amendment by amendment in light of the Yahweh’s perfect laws. Lord willing, it should prove unique in determining the biblical legitimacy of the United States Constitution.
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End Notes
1. Not everyone claiming to be a Christian has been properly instructed in the biblical plan of salvation. Mark 16:15-16; Acts 2:36-41, 22:1-16; Romans 6:3-4; Galatians 3:26-27; Colossians 2:11-13; and 1 Peter 3:21 should be studied to understand what is required to be covered by the blood of Yeshua and forgiven of your sins. For a more thorough explanation concerning baptism and its relationship to salvation, “Baptism by the Scriptures” and “Fifty Objections to Baptism Answered” may be read online, or the book Baptism: All You Wanted to Know and More may be ordered from Mission to Israel Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for free.
2. YHWH (most often pronounced Yahweh) is the English transliteration of the Tetragrammaton, the principal Hebrew name of the God of the Bible. For a more thorough explanation concerning the use of the names of God, “The Third Commandment” may be read online, or the book Thou shalt not take the name of YHWH thy God in vain may be ordered from Mission to Israel Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska, 69363, for a suggested $4 donation.*
3. Dennis Woods, Discipling the Nations: The Government Upon His Shoulder (Franklin, TN: Legacy Communications, 1996) p. 82.
4. Yeshua is the English transliteration of our Savior’s given Hebrew name. For a more thorough explanation concerning the use of the names of God, “The Third Commandment” may be read online, or the book Thou shalt not take the name of YHWH thy God in vain may be ordered from Mission to Israel Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for a suggested $4 donation.*
5. All Scripture is quoted from the King James Version unless otherwise noted. Portions of Scripture have been omitted for brevity’s sake. If there are questions regarding any passage, please open your Bible and study the text to ensure it has been properly used.
6. Where the Tetragrammaton (YHWH) – the four Hebrew characters that represent the personal name of God – has been unlawfully rendered the LORD or GOD in English translations, I have taken the liberty to correct this error by inserting YHWH where appropriate. For a more thorough explanation concerning the use of the names of God, “The Third Commandment” may be read online, or the book Thou shalt not take the name of YHWH thy God in vain may be ordered from Mission to Israel Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska, 69363, for a suggested $4 donation.*
7. Even many alleged pronomians are, at best, two-thirds pronomian – that is, they are interested in restoring Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, but not His judgments.
8. Not only do most “New Testament Christians” reject the law component of the New Covenant, they also either ignore or dismiss the importance of whom Yahweh declared He would make His New Covenant with. For a more thorough explanation on the “who” of the New Covenant, the book The Mystery of the Gentiles: Who Are They and Where Are They Now? may be read online or ordered from Mission to Israel Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska, 69363, for a suggested $10 donation.*
9. Belief alone does not make justification in Yeshua a reality. Biblical faith is all encompassing and entails more than simply belief. Mark 16:15-16; Acts 2:36-41, 22:1-16; Romans 6:3-4; Galatians 3:26-27; Colossians 2:11-13; and 1 Peter 3:21 should be studied in order to understand what is required to be covered by the blood of Yeshua and forgiven of your sins. For a more thorough explanation concerning baptism and its relationship to salvation, “Baptism by the Scriptures” and “Fifty Objections to Baptism Answered” may be read online, or the book Baptism: All You Wanted to Know and More may be ordered from Mission to Israel Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for free.
10. Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language, s.v. “Licentious” (1828; reprint ed. San Francisco, CA: The Foundation for American Christian Education, 1967).
11. Webster, “Licentiousness.”
12. Although Jasher is not a part of canonized Scripture, it is cited in Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18 and referenced in 2 Timothy 3:8.
13. See Appendix 1 for a list of specific pre-Sinai citations of Yahweh’s law.
14. “Romans 13 (Part 2),” The Voice of the Promised, April 2010, Special Edition, p. 1.
15. See Appendix 2 for a more exhaustive list of Scriptures enumerating the blessings resulting from Yahweh’s law.
16. For more regarding infanticide, “The Sixth Commandment” may be read online, or the book Thou shalt not kill may be ordered from Mission to Israel Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for a suggested $4 donation.*
17. For more regarding the United States criminal justice system, “The Eighth Commandment” may be read online, or the book Thou shalt not steal may be ordered from Mission to Israel Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for a suggested $4 donation.*
18. By employing the term “assault weapons,” the anti-gun lobby deceptively attempts to associate all gun owners with criminal behavior. “Firearms: Scripturally Defended,” a treatise on the biblical mandate to be armed, may be read online.
19. The book Prisons: Shut Them All Down! may be read online or ordered from Mission to Israel Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for a suggested $3 donation.*
20. For more on the fraudulent economic and banking system, oppressive taxation, government-controlled welfare, eminent domain, and the unethical insurance system, “The Eighth Commandment” may be read online, or the book Thou shalt not steal may be ordered from Mission to Israel Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for a suggested $4 donation.*
21. For more on unlawful immigration and multiculturalism, “The Seventh Commandment” and “The Eighth Commandment” may be read online, or the books Thou shalt not commit adultery and Thou shalt not steal may be ordered from Mission to Israel Ministries, PO Box 248, Scottsbluff, Nebraska 69363, for a suggested $6 donation each.*
22. John W. Welch, “Biblical Law in America: Historical Perspectives and Potentials for Reform,” Brigham Young University Law Review (2002), p. 613, <http://www.contra-mundum.org/essays/theonomy/WEL1.pdf>.
23 Chuck Baldwin, “Can You Imagine This Country?” Chuck-Wagon Email Commentary, July 10, 2007, <http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com>.
24. Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey, ed., “Speech in the Constitutional Convention at the Conclusion of it Deliberations,” Autobiography and Other Writings (Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 1998) p. 350.
25. Rousas John Rushdoony, Sovereignty (Vallecito, CA: Ross House Books, 2007) p. v.
26. Gary North, Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, 1989) pp. 403-04.
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