Very few people know the real origin of America’s government. It is the origin of the Pilgrim’s Compact and the origin of the Colonial pastors sermons from which our Constitution was patterned. I really want you to know it. So, if you will read the following, you will for sure know: Ron
Hartford’s Traveler’s Square has a bronze statue of Connecticut’s first settlers and a plaque which reads: “In June of 1635, about one hundred members of Thomas Hooker’s congregation arrived safely in this vicinity with one hundred and sixty cattle. They followed old Indian trails from Massachusetts Bay Colony to the Connecticut River to build a community. Here they established the form of government upon which the present Constitution of the United States is modeled.”
This is a significant acknowledgment, that their “covenant” congregational church government became their colonial government, which then became the model for the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Constitution was completely modeled on the sermon preached by the pastor of this church.
As explained by the famous historian Dr. Charles Wolfe in his writings in 1989: “The pastor of this church, Rev. Hooker preached a scholarly sermon that guided the men of Connecticut in framing the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut in 1639, commonly called ‘the world’s first complete written constitution’. And this document became the exact model of the America’s constitution”
In New England, instead of separation of church and state, it was pastors and churches that created the state. How could someone say, “Pastor, do not preach on politics” when it is a pastor’s sermon that became their constitution? How could someone say “Church members should not be involved in politics” when all there was in Hartford at that time was the church members?
President Calvin Coolidge stated at the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia, July 5, 1926: “The principles which went into the Declaration of Independence are found in the sermons of the early colonial clergy who were earnestly undertaking to instruct their congregations in the great mystery of how to live. They preached equality because they believed in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. They justified freedom by the text that we are all created in the divine image, placing every man on a plane where he acknowledged no superiors, where no one possessed any right to rule over him, he must inevitably choose his own rulers through a system of self-government.
In other countries the authority was the king or ruler, a Mullah, a Potentate, a Czar……always, one supreme arthority. However, when the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth instead of way south where they were supposed to land where they had a governing charter, they had no governing instrument. So, they devised what they called a Charter. It was a form of government that was controlled completely by the people. This became an example for our Constitution. And as President Coolidge stated above, the Pastors of the Colonies that were formed in early America preached a form of self government that also became an examplr for our Constitution.
But where did they get those those revoutionary ideas for self government? The answer to that is what I have written all of this to finally explain.
Since the Pilgrims and the Colonial pastors were so very steeped in the Bible, it is only logical that their ideas about government came from the bible. In early and even most all later times, governments were ruled by a king or some other similar authority. The first government where the people ruled was the four hundred years that the “Children of Israel” had a republican government where the people were the rulers. It was the four hundred years where their government was the one they had when they finally lived in their Promised Land together.
During those first four hundred years in the Promised Land they had peace, prosperity, and they multiplied greatly. For all those years, they lived under a covenant with God. Their laws were those that God himself had set up and were given to the people by Moses on Mount Sinai directly from God. For all those years they strictly kept those laws out of reverence to God.
Eventually they most all decided that they wanted a king, like the other nations surrounding them had. God did not want them to have a king, but He finally let them have a king such as they were clamoring for. He warned them through his prophets that such a government was not nearly as good as the republican one with just the people ruling which they had prospered under since arriving in the Promised Land.
The got their king, King Saul; and sure enough he immediately executed over one thousand priests and prophets to solidify his authority. They were not nearly as well off as they had been during those four hundred years, but it was too late now.
Where did America’s founders get this idea of people ruling themselves?
They did draw some ideas from the Roman Republic and the Athenian city states. Ultimately, though, America’s New England founders looked back to Ancient Israel, that four hundred years where they prospered upon finally arriving in the Promised Land.
Harvard President Samuel Langdon gave an address, June 5, 1788, titled “The Republic of the Israelites an Example to the American States stating: The ISRAELITES may be considered as a pattern to the world in all ages. Government on republican principles, required laws; without which it would have degenerated immediately into absolute monarchy. How unexampled was this quick progress of the ISRAELITES, from abject slavery, ignorance, and almost total want of order, to a national establishment perfected in all its parts far beyond all other kingdoms and states! From a mere mob, to a well regulated nation, under a government and laws far superior to what any other nation could boast!”
Langdon concluded:
“It was a long time after the law of Moses was given before the rest of the world knew any thing of government by law. It was six hundred years after Moses before Grecian republics received a very imperfect code of laws from Lycurgus. It was about five hundred years from the first founding of the celebrated Roman empire before the first laws of that empire.”
Dr. Pat Robertson wrote in America’s Dates with Destiny, 1986: “What was happening in America had no real precedent, even as far back as the city-states of Greece. The only real precedent was established thousands of years before by THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL in the covenant with God and with each other.”
What was the Republic of the Israelites? Around 1,400 BC, the Children of Israel left Egypt and entered the Promised Land.
As explained in detail in the book “Rise of the Tyrant: Volume Two of Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Global Control”:
*Ancient Israel was the first well-recorded instance of an entire nation ruled without a king, that first 400 year period in the Promised Land.
*Ancient Israel taught that everyone, male and females, was made in the image of the Creator who was not a respecter of persons, commanding judges to treat everyone equally before the law. This was the beginning of the concept of equality on planet earth. There was no royal family to curry favor with for the 400 year period prior to King Saul.
*Ancient Israel had a system of honesty, as God hates unjust weights and measures. This provided a basis for commerce.
*Ancient Israel had the land divided up and permanently titled to each individual family. This prevented a dictator from gathering up the land and putting the people back into slavery. If someone owned land, they could accumulate possessions: the Bible called this being blessed. And you could give away some of your possessions: the Bible called this “charity.” Karl Marx wanted the exact opposite, as he wrote in his Communist Manifesto, 1848: “The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”
*Ancient Israel had a bureaucracy-free welfare system. When someone harvested their field, they left the gleanings for the poor.
*Ancient Israel was the first nation where everyone was taught to read.
*Ancient Israel had no police, as the people were not only taught the Law, they were accountable to enforce it.
Albert Einstein stated: “The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are constitutional rights secure.”
*Ancient Israel had no prisons, as the Law required swift justice at the city gates and a “city of refuge” where fugitives could flee to await a trial.
*Ancient Israel had no standing army, as every man was in the militia, armed, and ready at a moment’s notice to defend his community.
*Ancient Israel had the people of every town gather in the meeting house — synagogue — where they were taught the Law and where they chose their elders who would sit in the gates:
- Deuteronomy 1:3-13: “How can I myself alone bear … your burden? … TAKE YOU wise men, and understanding, and KNOWN AMONG YOUR TRIBES, and I will make them rulers over you.”
- Deuteronomy 16:18–19 “Judges and officers SHALT THOU MAKE THEE IN ALL THY GATES which the Lord thy God giveth thee throughout thy tribes.”
- Exodus 18:21 “Moreover thou shalt provide OUT OF ALL THE PEOPLE able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.”
But why would a person obey internal morals? Ancient Israel had the key ingredients: 1) God is watching everyone; 2) God wants you to be fair; and 3) God will hold you accountable in the future.
If you had the opportunity to steal and not get caught, you might considered it.
But if you remember God is watching, that He wants you to be fair, and that He will hold you accountable in the future, you would hesitate.
This is called having a “conscience.
Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan stated in 1908: “There is a powerful restraining influence in the belief that an All-seeing eye scrutinizes every thought and word and act of the individual.”
This only works, though, with the God of the Bible. An Islamic Allah permits lying, stealing, and raping infidel kafir non-Muslims. Only the God of the Bible declares that all men and women are equal, made in the image of the Creator, and to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
E.C. Wines wrote in Commentaries on the Laws of the Ancient Hebrews, with an Introductory Essay on Civil Society & Government (NY: Geo. P. Putnam & Co., 1853): “Another of those great ideas, which constituted the basis of the Hebrew state, was liberty. The Hebrew people enjoyed as great a degree of personal liberty, as can ever be combined with an efficient and stable government. There is a powerful restraining influence in the belief that an All-seeing eye scrutinizes every thought and word and act of the individual.”
Ancient Israel’s unique system was dependent upon the Levites and priests teaching the Law.
Noah Webster wrote in the preface of his 1828 Webster’s Dictionary: “The Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed. No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.”
(So, if you have been patient to follow along with these words and the history that they represent, now you know the real origin of America’s government.)
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