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In an ecclesiastical nutshell: the LORD’S ways are the standard; all other ways are derivatives of these ways. Some of the derivatives are pure extracts, and others are crude adulterations, but all of man’s ways are derivative from the ways of the LORD. Moreover, the extracts are produced with little understanding, by man, of that from which they are making the extract; for, the LORD’S way is as Scripture (quoting the LORD) tells us.
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
(Isaiah 55:6-9)
Wherefore before you criticize the LORD for using (gasp) socialist techniques, remember that these techniques were not just, good enough, they were also essential for the development of the worlds of earth; especially, for the survival of the example people of God in the congregation of Israel. Among these techniques is this one:
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
(Exodus 12:1-4)
The socialist activity at the Passover was not temporary; for, the Passover is perpetual, and the LORD has not changed the requirement.
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