Those Who Built On Sand Hate Those Offering Bedrock
Those Who Built On Sand Hate Those Offering Bedrock
Tim O’Connor – Center for the Preservation of Humanity – 3/28/2023
Israel has never been lacking in hardheaded people who want to live as their peers. Throughout the Bible there are stories about God’s people following God’s commands, and not following God’s commands. God gives Israel over to their neighbors many times because many times the Israeli’s refused to do as God asked. Prosperity and brotherhood are in the land of Israel when they do abide by God’s wishes. That is no less true today than it was in the times of Moses when God had them wander the desert for 40 years because of their lack of faith in Him.
But it shouldn’t be that hard for Israel’s to figure out how to formulate a government. The nuts and bolts regarding the formulation of the government is clearly laid out in Deuteronomy 17 (1), coupled with Exodus 18 (2), these two passages should make it really easy for the Israeli’s to figure out their judiciary system. In Exodus Moses found himself overwhelmed and was instructed to delegate his authority to those who are Godly and versed in the Torah. When this class of Torah keepers could not figure out what to do, then the case was to be taken to Moses (in Moses time) and later to the priests. It sets up a hierarchy of courts – every tier being versed in Torah and approved by God.
Modern Israel doesn’t do this whatsoever. They decided to reinvent their court system in the models of the world. The legal system of Israel is described as, “The judiciary acts as Israel's watchdog over the rule of law and individual rights, as do similar institutions in other countries.” The law referred to here is not the mitzvot (the laws in the Torah) they are the laws which make the nation of Israel. The basic laws which serve as the piecemeal constitution of Israel are wholly of this world. For example it took them until 2018 to codify, “The State of Israel is the nation state of the Jewish People in which it realizes its natural, cultural, religious and historical right to self-determination.” This is included here because prior to 2018 the judiciary did not have the idea clearly stated in law. How does one rule on the law when there is no law to judge against? The Torah fixes this problem but Israel has decided to forego the Torah.
A king was demanded by Israel as well. The qualifications of an Israeli king are also laid out in Deuteronomy 17 (3). The king is to be chosen by God and to not only follow the Torah but to read it daily and to write for himself a copy of it. The king is supposed to do the work of God. The king cannot do so if a) he doesn’t know what the law is; b) he is appointed by men, not chosen by God; and, c) turns his back on God and the laws he is there to adhere to. God was the king of Israel and He worked through the people He chose. But that did not satisfy the Israeli’s. When Samuel grew old and was close to death, the hardheaded people demanded a king in 1 Samuel 8 (4). Samuel was given Saul by God to make a king for Israel in 1 Samuel 10 (5). Some kings followed God, others did not.
What was not done was an election of candidates, the winner of which ruled the nation. God did not see fit to allow these hardhearted people to choose their own ruler. In other words, God rejected the idea of democracy. Allowing the people of the world to choose their favorite person in the world to rule them, when, in fact, God was to rule them, doesn’t make any sense. God used these kings to punish Israel for their disbelief in Him, much as God is doing with the leaders of many of the nations on earth now – especially the Western nations like France, the UK, and the United States.
Israel still hasn’t learned this lesson. As a secular state they reject religion being involved in governmental and social affairs. They hold elections in a parliamentary system of worldly governance. Their ‘king’ is a man chosen by the people to represent the people. He no longer needs to read the Torah daily, write a scroll, or follow the law of God – he is charged with following the will of the people. The people of Israel are still hardhearted and reject God just as they did throughout the Bible. The result is an Israel which lacks a mandate from God and is led by the edicts and perceptions of other men who also reject God. Some men are like David and Hezekiah – most are far closer to Ahab and Achaz.
To my knowledge there is no legislature discussed at all in the Bible. The Knesset is not in the Bible – the old testament nor the new. The parliamentary system is not only not mentioned in the Bible – it is a completely useless branch of government. At least it should be. God wrote the laws we need to survive in this world Himself. Having a parliament is, on it’s face, repugnant to the Torah. Was the Torah followed or was the Torah transgressed is a task for the Godly judges described in Deuteronomy 17. No additions nor subtractions needed to be made.
Yet, Israel, and almost all other governments, have a legislative body. The purpose of these bodies is to create new laws. I can see, from a secular perspective, the need for these bodies to create laws to uphold God’s laws and the rights afforded every all of us because of His mercy towards humanity. For example, is genetic engineering following the Torah or not? I say it is not, in any way, following the Torah and runs humanity in general afoul of the lessons we should have all learned in Genesis 6 (6). God gave us a rainbow to remind us we would never need to be flooded again. That flood was needed; however, because a big part of the regret God had was that mankind’s DNA was severely tainted and men were no longer men. Noah being pure meant his DNA was pure. The pointed command God gave to Noah about what to take on the ark was due to the need to remind us that like needs to breed like (species-wise) elephants after their kind, giraffes after their kind, humans after humans. We are not supposed to be meddling with what God made.
Our legislators don’t recognize this commandments of God. Israel is one of the leading nations in genetic engineering endeavors. They have produced one of the most evil men on the planet in this area – Yuval Noah Harari. The courts see no need to rule because the legislatures of the world (bodies which exist to ‘legally’ reject the laws of God and replace them with man’s version) see no reason to place any serious restrictions on genetic engineering. All of humanity should recognize the anti-God results of placing chimeric pig-human grown heart into the chest of a human being or Harari’s idea that humans are nothing but hackable animals. All sorts of other examples exist – it is why humanity in general is in such dire circumstances – the vast majority of the world rejects God on a daily basis. And it shows, Israel is no exception.
If legislatures decided, even on a secular basis, to enact laws reflecting in line with the Torah, I would have no issue with them. It seems that legislatures exist; however, to rewrite and invalidate the laws we are supposed to be following. Not just Israeli’s – all of us. The Torah was never meant to be sequestered and hidden – it was meant to be spread throughout the whole world. That was one of the missions of Jesus. He lived perfectly by the Torah and he told all of us to follow Him – He commanded us to follow the laws He lived to perfection. No legislature exists which seeks to issue laws in line with this because that way is the way of God and the way Jesus taught us to live. Israel consistently makes law against the Torah and Christian nations consistently legislate against the teachings of Jesus. Save for several Muslim nations (which is a reprobate belief system based on the demonic teachings of Mohammad), the way of the world is exalted while the way of Jesus is downplayed and ridiculed.
Somewhat unique to Israel’s government is the fact that they rely on basic laws being passed by their legislature which serve as their constitution. The people of God – the Jews – could not have come up with a more Godless manner to rule themselves than to reject the Torah in favor of the Knesset. They do not need a constitution because they already have a constitution. Their constitution is the Torah. The mechanisms and duties of government are clearly defined. The laws are clearly defined. The standards for weights and measures, money, worship, relationships between different people, and proper conduct is well established in the Torah. The creators of Christianity mutilated the Torah to get it to incorporate every pagan belief it encountered and derided the teachings in the first 5 books. Israel did the same thing to the new testament that the Christians did to the old. Israel decided to not apply the Torah to their own government. Like anyone who rejects God, the state of Israel is suffering.
Instead of wandering the desert, Israel is being rocked by protests both large and small. The people who are protesting are not the people following Torah. A small example from the God-hating in Israel are protests being staged at hospitals against the Godly celebration of Passover. During Passover leaven is not to be eaten. The Knesset is actually seeking to codify a law banning (but not enforcing) leavened foods from being served in public facilities such as hospitals over Passover. Activists plan on having leavened pizza in public on Passover and are quoted by the Times of Israel, ““We favor freedom of — and from — religion,” Gat and Glasner wrote on Facebook, on an event page advertising the pizza party. “The hametz law does the exact opposite. To protest it, we’ll have a pizza party on Passover this year in front of a hospital in the center.”
Not only have they rejected God, they have chosen to tempt God. They are playing a dangerous game which will not prosper themselves, Israel, nor anyone else in the world. Their augment also makes no sense – they want freedom of and freedom from religion at the same time. That’s impossible. When that type of logic is applied to anything all that is created is confusion, general lack of purpose and direction, and subservience to whoever does have a ‘plan’ usually enforced through coercion. Filling a nation full of Gat’s and Glasner’s results in the end of the civilizations that do it – history tells that lesson over and over again.
On a larger scale there have been massive protests over judicial reform in Israel. People living completely reprobate lives – homosexuals, transhumanists, and ‘democracy’ lovers – gathered in the hundreds of thousands to demand that Israel’s Prime Minister, Netanyahu, stop trying to weaken the judiciary system. The PM is seeking to allow Israel’s Supreme Court decisions to be overruled by the Knesset, have a far greater role in choosing Supreme Court members, and allow for ministers in the Israeli government to ignore legal advice from their advisors.
These reforms could move Israel towards the government defined in the Torah. It is highly unlikely this will be the outcome; however, because the reforms give an even more prominent role to the legislature at the judiciary’s expense. The reforms are wrong because they are not Biblical. The protests are uncalled for because they are not demanding Israel turn back to the Torah. The ways of the world have once more disrupted the harmony Israel should be living in under the Torah.
Of the 15 Supreme Court Justices in Israel, none are rabbis. One has taken some rabbinical classes. The Torah dictates the way judges are to be selected and Israel ignores it. It does not appear that Netanyahu has written the a Torah scroll as dictated by God. He has stated he reads the Torah daily; however, even though he was not selected by God, but through the votes of the Israeli parliamentary system.
If Israel, or any other nation on the face of the planet, wants to seek peace, we will seek God. If we seek prosperity, we will seek God. If we seek protection we will seek God. If we seek salvation, we will seek God. Where do the leaders of nations seek a return to God? Israel has one that is hated by the world. The United States had one who is hated by the world. The same is true in Italy and Russia. All of these leaders are flawed but they are truly despised by their peers in leadership because they have dared to state a belief in God as stated in the Bible. The way of the world is a path to first abandoning what it is people are supposed to be doing, codifying that temptation of God into law, and moving towards making God illegal per the dictates of man. This is the direction this world has been going in. Even Netanyahu’s feeble attempt to change the judiciary in Israel and the respondent protests which it has given rise to reflect this abandonment of the Torah. Christianity, sadly, has long ago decided the Torah has no relevant place in their theology to the point that some adherents reject the 10 Commandments (I haven’t found anyone brave and misguided enough to claim that the covenant made between God and Noah – giving us the rainbow – is something that is also no longer applicable, yet). Many others have never heard of the Torah, let alone what it says.
I do believe that the time is fast approaching where Christians will accept the Torah, Jews will accept their Messiah, and the ignorant of the world will be made aware. Choices will be made by Christians, Jews, and everyone else. That choice will be whether or not to accept the truth – we are all God’s children, under His rules in His house, and are expected to love Him with all of our strength as well as recognizing the incredible mercy he displayed to humanity through the sacrifice of His Son for our sake – or to believe in the lies made up by people who reject the truth. Israel is having massive protests because of their refusal to follow the Torah and it is a reflection of the rest of the world’s refusal to even acknowledge it.
Please take all of this to the Lord in prayer. Please, read your Bible and learn the truth. Once the truth is known to you, pass it along. If we build our societies on sand, they will crumble away. God is the bedrock which cannot crumble away. Israel should remember this and the rest of the world should adopt this idea as well. Civilizations start with individuals…. Do we build on sand or upon bedrock?
Bless God and God bless.
(1) Deuteronomy 17
8 “If a case comes before you at your city gate which is too difficult for you to judge, concerning bloodshed, civil suit, personal injury or any other controversial issue; you are to get up, go to the place which Adonai your God will choose, 9 and appear before the cohanim, who are L’vi’im, and the judge in office at the time. Seek their opinion, and they will render a verdict for you. 10 You will then act according to what they have told you there in that place which Adonai will choose; you are to take care to act according to all their instructions. 11 In accordance with the Torah they teach you, you are to carry out the judgment they render, not turning aside to the right or the left from the verdict they declare to you. 12 Anyone presumptuous enough not to pay attention to the cohen appointed there to serve Adonai your God or to the judge — that person must die. Thus you will exterminate such wickedness from Isra’el — 13 all the people will hear about it and be afraid to continue acting presumptuously.”
(2) Exodus 18
13 The following day Moshe sat to settle disputes for the people, while the people stood around Moshe from morning till evening. 14 When Moshe’s father-in-law saw all that he was doing to the people, he said, “What is this that you are doing to the people? Why do you sit there alone, with all the people standing around you from morning till evening?” 15 Moshe answered his father-in-law, “It’s because the people come to me seeking God’s guidance. 16 Whenever they have a dispute, it comes to me; I judge between one person and another, and I explain to them God’s laws and teachings.”
17 Moshe’s father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing isn’t good. 18 You will certainly wear yourself out — and not only yourself, but these people here with you as well. It’s too much for you — you can’t do it alone, by yourself. 19 So listen now to what I have to say. I will give you some advice, and God will be with you. You should represent the people before God, and you should bring their cases to God. 20 You should also teach them the laws and the teachings, and show them how to live their lives and what work they should do. 21 But you should choose from among all the people competent men who are God-fearing, honest and incorruptible to be their leaders, in charge of thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. 22 Normally, they will settle the people’s disputes. They should bring you the difficult cases; but ordinary matters they should decide themselves. In this way, they will make it easier for you and share the load with you. 23 If you do this — and God is directing you to do it — you will be able to endure; and all these people too will arrive at their destination peacefully.”
24 Moshe paid attention to his father-in-law’s counsel and did everything he said. 25 Moshe chose competent men from all Isra’el and made them heads over the people, in charge of thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. 26 As a general rule, they settled the people’s disputes — the difficult cases they brought to Moshe, but every simple matter they decided themselves.
(3) Deuteronomy 17
14 “When you have entered the land Adonai your God is giving you, have taken possession of it and are living there, you may say, ‘I want to have a king over me, like all the other nations around me.’ 15 In that event, you must appoint as king the one whom Adonai your God will choose. He must be one of your kinsmen, this king you appoint over you — you are forbidden to appoint a foreigner over you who is not your kinsman. 16 However, he is not to acquire many horses for himself or have the people return to Egypt to obtain more horses, inasmuch as Adonai told you never to go back that way again. 17 Likewise, he is not to acquire many wives for himself, so that his heart will not turn away; and he is not to acquire excessive quantities of silver and gold.
18 “When he has come to occupy the throne of his kingdom, he is to write a copy of this Torah for himself in a scroll, from the one the cohanim and L’vi’im use. 19 It is to remain with him, and he is to read in it every day, as long as he lives; so that he will learn to fear Adonai his God and keep all the words of this Torah and these laws and obey them; 20 so that he will not think he is better than his kinsmen; and so that he will not turn aside either to the right or to the left from the mitzvah. In this way he will prolong his own reign and that of his children in Isra’el.
(4) Samuel 8
1 When Sh’mu’el grew old, he appointed his sons as judges over Isra’el. 2 His firstborn was named Yo’el, while his second son was named Aviyah; they were judges in Be’er-Sheva. 3 However, his sons did not follow his way of life; they turned off it to pursue riches, so that they would take bribes to distort justice. 4 All the leaders of Isra’el gathered themselves together, approached Sh’mu’el in Ramah 5 and said to him, “Look, you have grown old, and your sons are not following your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.” 6 Sh’mu’el was not pleased to hear them say, “Give us a king to judge us”; so he prayed to Adonai. 7 Adonai said to Sh’mu’el, “Listen to the people, to everything they say to you; for it is not you they are rejecting; they are rejecting me; they don’t want me to be king over them. 8 They are doing to you exactly what they have been doing to me, from the day I brought them out of Egypt until today, by abandoning me and serving other gods. 9 So do what they say, but give them a sober warning, telling them what kinds of rulings their king will make.”
10 Sh’mu’el reported everything Adonai had said to the people asking him for a king. 11 He said, “Here is the kind of rulings your king will make: he will draft your sons and assign them to take care of his chariots, be his horsemen and be bodyguards running ahead of his chariots. 12 He will appoint them to serve him as officers in charge of a thousand or of fifty, plowing his fields, gathering his harvest, and making his weapons and the equipment for his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters and have them be perfume-makers, cooks and bakers. 14 He will expropriate your fields, vineyards and olive groves — the very best of them! — and hand them over to his servants. 15 He will take the ten-percent tax of your crops and vineyards and give it to his officers and servants. 16 He will take your male and female servants, your best young men and your donkeys, and make them work for him. 17 He will take the ten-percent tax of your flocks, and you will become his servants. 18 When that happens, you will cry out on account of your king, whom you yourselves chose. But when that happens, Adonai will not answer you!”
19 However, the people refused to listen to what Sh’mu’el told them, and they said, “No! We want a king over us, 20 so that we can be like all the nations, with our king to judge us, lead us and fight our battles.” 21 Sh’mu’el heard everything the people said and repeated them for Adonai to hear. 22 Adonai said to Sh’mu’el, “Do what they ask, and set up a king for them.” So Sh’mu’el told the men of Isra’el, “Each of you, return to his city.”
(5) 1 Samuel 10
Then Sh’mu’el took a flask of oil he had prepared and poured it on Sha’ul’s head. He kissed him and said, “Adonai has anointed you to be prince over his inheritance. 2 After you leave me today, you will find two men by Rachel’s Tomb, in the territory of Binyamin at Tzeltzah. They will tell you that the donkeys you were searching for have been found, and that your father has stopped thinking about the donkeys and is anxious over you and asking, ‘What am I to do about my son?’” 3 Go on from there, and you will come to the Oak of Tavor. Three men will meet you there on their way up to God at Beit-El. One of them will be carrying three kids, another three loaves of bread and the third a skin of wine. 4 They will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you are to accept from them. 5 After that, you will come to Giv‘ah of God, where the P’lishtim are garrisoned. On arrival at the city there, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place, preceded by lutes, tambourines, flutes and lyres; and they will be prophesying. 6 Then the Spirit of Adonai will fall on you; you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man! 7 When these signs come over you, just do whatever you feel like doing, because God is with you. 8 Then you are to go down ahead of me to Gilgal, and there I will come down to you to offer burnt offerings and present sacrifices as peace offerings. Wait there seven days, until I come to you and tell you what to do.”
9 As it happened, as soon as he had turned his back to leave Sh’mu’el, God gave him another heart; and all those signs took place that day. 10 When they arrived at the hill, and there in front of him was a group of prophets, the Spirit of God fell on him and he prophesied along with them. 11 When those who knew him from before saw him there, prophesying with the prophets, they asked each other, “What’s happened to Kish’s son? Is Sha’ul a prophet, too?” 12 Someone in the crowd answered, “Must prophets’ fathers be special?” So it became an expression — “Is Sha’ul a prophet, too?”
13 When he had finished prophesying, he arrived at the high place. 14 Sha’ul’s uncle said to him and his servant, “Where did you go?” He answered, “To look for the donkeys. When we saw that they hadn’t been found, we went to Sh’mu’el.” 15 “Tell me, please,” said Sha’ul’s uncle, “what Sh’mu’el said to you.” 16 Sha’ul answered his uncle, “He told us that the donkeys had been found,” but said nothing to him about the matter of his being made king.
17 Sh’mu’el summoned the people to Adonai in Mitzpah. 18 He said to the people of Isra’el, “Here is what Adonai the God of Isra’el says: ‘I brought Isra’el up from Egypt. I rescued you from the power of the Egyptians and from the power of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’ 19 But today you have rejected your God, who himself saves you from all your disasters and distress. You have said to him, ‘No! Put a king over us!’ So now, present yourselves before Adonai by your tribes and families.” 20 So Sh’mu’el had all the tribes come forward, and the tribe of Binyamin was chosen. 21 He had the tribe of Binyamin come forward by families, and the family of the Matri was chosen, and Sha’ul the son of Kish was chosen. But when they looked for him, he couldn’t be found. 22 They asked Adonai, “Has the man come here?” Adonai answered, “There he is, hiding, in among the equipment.” 23 They ran and brought him from there, and when he stood among the people he was head and shoulders taller than anyone around. 24 Sh’mu’el said to all the people, “Do you see the man Adonai has chosen, that there is no one like him among all the people?” Then all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”
25 Sh’mu’el told the people what kinds of rulings should be made in the kingdom, then wrote it on a scroll and set it down before Adonai. After that, he sent all the people away, everyone to his own home. 26 Sha’ul too went home to Giv‘ah, accompanied by warriors whose hearts God had touched. 27 True, there were some scoundrels who said, “How can this man save us?” They showed him no respect and brought him no gift, but he held his peace.
(6) Genesis 6
1 In time, when men began to multiply on earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were attractive; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. 3 Adonai said, “My Spirit will not live in human beings forever, for they too are flesh; therefore their life span is to be 120 years.” 4 The N’filim were on the earth in those days, and also afterwards, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; these were the ancient heroes, men of renown.
5 Adonai saw that the people on earth were very wicked, that all the imaginings of their hearts were always of evil only. 6 Adonai regretted that he had made humankind on the earth; it grieved his heart. 7 Adonai said, “I will wipe out humankind, whom I have created, from the whole earth; and not only human beings, but animals, creeping things and birds in the air; for I regret that I ever made them.” 8 But Noach found grace in the sight of Adonai.
9 Here is the history of Noach. In his generation, Noach was a man righteous and wholehearted; Noach walked with God. 10 Noach fathered three sons, Shem, Ham and Yefet. 11 The earth was corrupt before God, the earth was filled with violence. 12 God saw the earth, and, yes, it was corrupt; for all living beings had corrupted their ways on the earth.
13 God said to Noach, “The end of all living beings has come before me, for because of them the earth is filled with violence. I will destroy them along with the earth. 14 Make yourself an ark of gofer-wood; you are to make the ark with rooms and cover it with pitch both outside and inside. 15 Here is how you are to build it: the length of the ark is to be 450 feet, its width seventy-five feet and its height forty-five feet. 16 You are to make an opening for daylight in the ark eighteen inches below its roof. Put a door in its side; and build it with lower, second and third decks.
17 “Then I myself will bring the flood of water over the earth to destroy from under heaven every living thing that breathes; everything on earth will be destroyed. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you; you will come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife and your sons’ wives with you.
19 “From everything living, from each kind of living being, you are to bring two into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they are to be male and female. 20 Of each kind of bird, each kind of livestock, and each kind of animal creeping on the ground, two are to come to you, so that they can be kept alive. 21 Also take from all the kinds of food that are eaten, and collect it for yourself; it is to be food for you and for them.” 22 This is what Noach did; he did all that God ordered him to do.