BIG Government!!

Today - Oct. 13th is the first day (a holy day) of the wonderful Feast of Tabernacles. which in the plan of God for salvation on this earth, pictures the time of the 1,000 year reign of Christ from Jerusalem, on this earth, as He established the Kingdom of God, upon His personal literal bodily return to this planet.

My message today is about Government, and BIG Government.

First we shall hear from Mark Steyn from his new book "After America" and his thoughts on Big government.

These days, the Number One example of the Curse of Bigness is
government. It doesn't just create "gross inequalities" against
existing or putative competitors, it passes laws and drives them
out, as it's done to everything from genuinely private
health-care arrangements to non-state-licensed kids' lemonade
stands. In Justice Marshall's words, it's a "social menace"
because of its "control of prices."
How does it control them? Michael Fleischer, the owner of a small
company in New Jersey, explained to readers of the Wall Street
journal that in order to put $44,000 in his employee's pocket and
give her an additional $12,000 worth of benefits he has to pay
$74,000: Big Government imposes a 30 percent surcharge on the
cost of providing employment to Sally. It "controls the price" of
hiring Sally, and it massively distorts it. Which is one reason
the unemployment rate is stuck where it is.

How else does it control prices? In 2009, something called the
State Council of Higher Education in Virginia decided that
studios offering yoga teacher instruction had to be "certified."
So what else is new? Everything's certified these days. Why not
yoga? It's just a $2,500 certification fee, plus annual charges of at least
$500, plus state audits, plus a ton of paperwork. But don't worry, with a
bit of practice, you can multitask and fill in all the forms in the lotus position. In the
Fifties, one in twenty members of the workforce needed government
permission in order to do his job. Today, it's one in three. So
Big Government "controls the price" of your yoga lesson. Look on
it as a twofer: all the purifying benefits of yoga, now with the
dead weights of Big Government.

Government today has a monopoly of monopoly. If you were to
update the board game of the same name to reflect reality, every
square you land on would require you to pay a fee to government
before you can do any thing-occupational license, commercial-use
permit, processing fee for a license to permit you to collect
sales tax. You'd go straight to jail without passing "Go" for
putting up a yoga studio on Atlantic Avenue and being delinquent
in your meditation-accreditation application, but the government
would let you plea-bargain it down to a $3,000 fine. If you land
on "Go," you'd have to pass a "Go" impact-study inspection before
being allowed to go.

There's your Curse of Bigness, and the only one beyond the
jurisdiction of the Antitrust Division.
Alas, the monopolizers don't see it as a curse. Before he became
Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner (by his own admission)
failed to pay the United States Treasury the taxes he owed
because he couldn't follow the yes/no prompts of elementary
TurboTax software. Undaunted, by early 2009, he and President
Obama, two men with no business management experience whatsoever,
who have never created a nickel of wealth between them, were
"managing" more money than any individuals anywhere on the planet
have ever done. Fans of Big Government take it for granted that
Obama, Geithner, and a handful of other guys can "run" the
financial sector, and the auto industry, and the insurance
industry, and the property market, and health care, and even the
very climate of the planet. The Barackracy assume that a few
clever people in Washington can direct trillions of dollars more
productively than the companies and individuals from whom they
confiscated it. There are many people who can run businesses
worth a million dollars. The ability to run a billion-dollar
corporation is the province of very few individuals. The
skill-set required to run a multi-trillion-dollar enterprise is
unknown to human history.

In Justice Marshall's words:

Industrial power should be decentralized. It should be scattered
into many hands so that the fortunes of the people will not be
dependent on the whim or caprice, the political prejudices, the
emotional stability of a few self-appointed men. The fact that
they are not vicious men but respectable and social minded is
irrelevant.

In 1948 Marshall was worried about steel. But the dominant
industrial power of our time is government. And it is because of
the government monopoly that "the fortunes of the people" are
dependent on "the whim or caprice" (not to mention "the emotional
stability") of a small number of all too like-minded individuals.
You can see where power lies in the very landscape: go to a steel
town six decades after Marshall's warning. The burg's shot to
hell. The handsome Victorian homes on the tree-lined avenues are
worn and crumbling, with cracked clapboards and sagging porches,
and cheaply partitioned into low-rent apartments. The railroad
halts that sent the products of American industry across the
nation and around the world are dead, their depots converted into
laundromats and pizza joints or, worse, "community centers," with
the track removed and its weed-strewn path redesignated as a
"heritage trail:' Where do wealth and power gravitate today? In
2009 Reuters reported:

Washington, D.C., has become the favorite area for wealthy young
adults, with the nation's highest percentage of 25-34 year-olds
making more than $100,000 a year.'

You don't say! Now I wonder why that would be. Of the fifty
counties with the biggest percentage of young high earners,
sixteen were in the D.C. area. Of the top ten, only two were not
near either Washington or a state capital. Reuters filed this
revealing analysis in its "lifestyle" section. Which makes sense.
The easiest way to a "lifestyle" is a government job. The
following year, another survey (from Newsweek) found that seven
of the ten wealthiest counties in the United States were in the
Washington commuter belt. What matters in the America of the
twenty-first century is proximity not to industry or to wealth
creation but to government.

As George Harrison warned, "the government's monopolizing": it
has a monopoly of law, of licensing, of regulation, and when it
abuses that monopoly then eventually you can't move without
encountering govern ment at every turn. Even before the Obama
spendaholics got to work supersizing the state, all levels of
government, federal to local, were already sucking up over 40
cents of every dollar American workers generate. (European
nations were able to go beyond even that dismal figure only
because the United States has relieved them of the responsibility
for their own defense.) The assumed rationale for an ever more
intrusive superstate is that, thanks to technology and
globalization, the world is far more complex and interconnected
than in the days when hardscrabble farmers in New England
townships could be trusted to run their own affairs. There is
little objective evidence to support this argument, but it
conveniently bolsters the political class's belief in its own
indispensability. Willie Whitelaw, the genial old buffer who
served as Margaret Thatcher's deputy for many years, once accused
the Labour Party of going around Britain stirring up apathy.
Viscount Whitelaw's apparent paradox is, in fact, a shrewd
political insight, and all the sharper for being accidental. Big
Government depends on going around the country stirring up
apathy - creating the sense that problems are so big, so complex,
so intractable that even attempting to think about them for
yourself gives you such a splitting headache it's easier to shrug
and accept as given the proposition that only government can deal
with them.

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Now of course Steyn is correct .... BIG government in the hands of carnal
people without God or the Bible, is corrupt, inept, and has no clue how to
manage and govern wisely, justly, and righteously correct.
BUT with that said, BIG government is coming to this earth!!
The government to come is the BIGGEST government in the entire universe!
It will be the government of God! And it will be BIG, universal, it will govern
every facet of human life, from health care to business, to sports, to wage earning,
to city planning, to highway-building, to entertainment, to magazine publishing,
to the use of TV, the Internet, and etc. and etc. AND IT WILL WORK! IT
WILL PRODUCE PEACE AND JOY AND HAPPINESS!

Yes it will have laws for all people and all nations to follow and obey. When people
will want to go astray from those laws, there will be a voice that will say to them:
"This is the way, walk you in it." Yes an instant police force to ensure this BIG
government is obeyed.

So you may be saying, "This is communism; this is dictatorship!" Well yes I guess you
could put it that way. For sure it will be indeed dictatorship! BUT it will be holy and
righteous dictatorship, the only dictatorship that will work, for it will be set by the
holy and perfect and righteous God of this universe.

There is nothing wrong with BIG government (which would shock Mark Steyn I think)
IF it's the righteous government of the Eternal God. When the Almighty chose the people
of Israel to be the light of the world (see Deut.4), they would be the light and the envy
of all other nations on earth, BECAUSE they would be living by the laws of God, and
they would be so blessed, other nations would want to know from them, the God they
served and worshipped. You talk about BIG government, ruling every part of life, well
ancient Israel had it, laws for everything.....well not quite, for God told them to establish
JUDGES that would judge righteously between man and man, where laws per se were
not there. God established a working of "the spirit of the law" and judges who would
administer that spirit of the law. You can read all about it in places like Deuteronomy
17:8-11.

So there is nothing wrong with BIG government.....as long as it is government FROM GOD!!

Too many today think that true freedom is being free from law and government, but God tells us
in His word that true freedom is NOT being free from law, but freedom is being UNDER law!
But that law must be the law of the Lord, for He only knows best, like the old TV series
"Father Knows Best" - so the Eternal knows best, how mankind should live, and what
laws should rule the land and people.

Israel did well, they were blessed and they prospered, they had health and equality, there was
one law for everyone, there was no favoritism, no "one law for the rich and another law for the
poor" - all their society lived equal under the laws of God.

Then came the day when Israel as a whole, wanted to be like the nations around them. Now
it was God's intent that the nations around Israel were to be like Israel, but Israel got it
backwards, they wanted to be like the other nations - and have an earthly king or president or
prime minister. You can read about it all in 1 Samuel 8. The bottom line was that Israel had
REJECTED God and His government over them. Israel wanted to be like other carnal
nations and have THEIR government. God ALLOWED it! But He did tell them what would
happen, more taxation, and more of the wrong things, the wrong laws, the wrong ways
to govern would be their lot, if they rejected the government of the Eternal God.

So it is today. So Mark Steyn can see the evil of and wrong ways of our governments, and
he writes about it, and in many ways he is quite correct, for our governments of the West
have thrown God out of the window, thrown His word the Bible and His laws, on the
trash pile. Why you have ministers of the Christian religion telling you that you are not
under law but under grace, which to them means you have no laws to live by, but a sort
of love in your heart towards God and towards man, which anyone can then interpret for
themselves. No wonder our governments and our people are messed up and mixed up
and we are in the thorn bushes and wonder why it hurts so much.

BIG government is coming to this earth; the holy righteous government of God. When Jesus
returns He will bring with Him BIG government, but the most holy and perfect big government
in the entire universe.

YOU can have a part in administering that perfect government. You can have a part in that
government IF you will NOW acknowledge what SIN IS, and REPENT of being a sinner;
accept Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, and be converted to have a mind-set that
is willing to live by every word of God (Matt.4:4).

The correct way to SALVATION and your part in the Kingdom of God can be found in
many in-depth studies on my website: keithhunt.com

So make this Feast of Tabernacles time a true blessing by making sure you are on the pathway
to salvation and the Kingdom of God. If you've never done, or it's been a while since you did,
go and study my study called "Saved by Grace" and know THE way to being saved into the
Kingdom of God.
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