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In the time of Moses and the prophets, righteousness involved a leveled approach to clearing away the guilt; a leveled approach that started with the physician putting himself in a sterile environment: this is much like the preparation that a surgeon does before entering the operating theater. First, the spiritual preparations had to be completed; similar to laying out the surgical instruments, equipment, and materials (including the soap for scrubbing and the sterile gloves). Scripture describes such a period of preparation that involved the spiritual surgeon, Aaron, the high priest. The congregation, in general, and Aaron, specifically, suffered a trauma that required spiritual healing.

And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died; And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.

(Leviticus 16:1-2)

In Aaron’s period of emotional trauma, the LORD delivered the instructions on what preparations are required for remediation.

Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering. He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.

And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.

(Leviticus 16:3-5)

Then, there is the preparation for the cleansing of the spiritual surgeon, Aaron.

And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.

(Leviticus 16:6)

Also, there are preparations that are required for the healing of the patient.

And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat. And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD’S lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering. But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.

(Leviticus 16:7-10)

Once the preparation of the spiritual environment had been completed, then the spiritual physician needed to remove any spiritual impurities that could infect the congregation–which is the patient.

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Government of the people, 

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   Moses, Aaron and the priests were the institutional support for the care of the people; including, their physical, psychological and spiritual well-being. The workload of Moses, and Aaron and the priests was definitely not trivial; for, the people of the congregation of Israel were animated in their demand for public services. To give you an introduction to the mood of the people, here is an incident in the life of the congregation of Israel that incorporates at least two of their requirements for support: such as would be provided by a modern fire department, and public welfare–as in, food stamps in the cities of the United States of America.

And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp. And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the LORD, the fire was quenched.

   And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them.

And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

   And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium. And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

(Numbers 11:1-9)

   Of course, the LORD knew what the people needed. Of course, too, the LORD knew what the people wanted. However, to move the people to the end of their journey, the needs and the desires were kept apart from one another. This did not please the children of Israel; they wanted the desires to be meshed with the needs, and then fulfilled as if they were requirements. This is not a socialist thing to do; wherefore since God is a Socialist, this could not be done. Let us look at some of the real needs that can be satisfied under a socialist system, as was done in the wilderness days of the congregation of Israel.

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Ancient Egyptian Model (God the Socialist)

Group Dynamic

   It seems that there was a thirteen-part organization that was too big to fail. In this case, the main distributor showed an extreme amount of bias in the distribution of the bailout funds. The main distributor favored his family, over an entire world of people. This is pork barrel government at its finest; isn’t it?

And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live?   

   And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.

And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you.

   And they came near.

And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

   Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not: And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast: And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.

(Genesis 45:3-11)

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Part One 

Forging a Mold

We begin our study of God the Socialist with the example that he gave us in Jacob’s son, Joseph: let us set the authority for the example. First, please realize that natural phenomena are the sole territory of the LORD, so far; and, especially, in the day of Joseph. To give the example of Joseph its authority, the LORD set a natural phenomenon in the path of Joseph, in the kingdom of Pharaoh, in the land of Egypt. (The phenomenon was introduced as a part of a prophetic gift to Pharaoh.)

Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it. And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river: And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow: And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness: And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning.

So I awoke.

And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good: And, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them: And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears:

and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.

(Genesis 41:14-24)

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect theirSafety and Happiness.Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

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They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

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