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In past history the concept of kingship has been taken to its extreme and shown to be very undesirable – people in extreme power use and abuse other people destructively. The solution offered to counter the problems produced by kingship was the supremacy of law. The Magna Carta demanded obedience from kings as well as others. We are now beginning to see the faultiness of the supreme system of law in the use and abuses perpetrated today. Relationships are meaningless compared to a legalistic observance of law. Arbitrary application of selections of millions of laws is used to subject others to the advantage of those in power. It is the abuses of kingship all over again except the power is diversified into many lawmakers and enforcers instead of a single person. This is even more effective to subvert any resistance for there is almost no one that can be held accountable. The system complexes itself to avoid accountability and has the appearance of virtue. It is so effective and attractive that it permeates both secular and religious thinking.
The reason the pope still resists this type of thinking is because he still craves the absolute power of kingship centered in himself and works to wrest control from lawmakers back into his religious dictatorship.
The third part of this unholy trinity, economy, is the lubricant and motivation for both of the other systems. All of todays laws in our legal system when examined carefully and understood correctly are based solely on economics and greed. Law and economics have developed a symbiotic relationship. We have deified the rule of law and politicians as well as religious people praise it publicly as their god. We scorn and attack cultures and countries that are so “backward” as to adhere to the old kingship model, either by corrupt dictators or religious dictators. We are fighting a war in Iraq to supposedly impose the supremacy of law above the rule of religion and corrupt politicians because we insist that our system (god) is superior to their system (god).
Judgment used to take place in the court of kings, either directly or vicariously. The will of the king or his representatives were the law. This became too subjective and unpredictable so laws came more and more into power. Finally law itself was elevated above kings and the world believed it had found the final solution to problems (sin). Democracy is the great experiment of the worship of law and for many years appeared to be highly successful. But as the evilness of men migrated more and more into the system, lawmaking has become more and more a tool of suppression and division. Morality has declined and religious people still cling to the notion that the solution lies in the system of law. They believe that every evil can be solved by just more rules and they believe that God operates by the same method. It is a strong addiction to an illusion that is fatally flawed at its roots.
All of these systems of the unholy trinity of economics, kingship and law are the counterfeit of God's true system rooted in the family model based on relationships and operated in love and the imparting of life. The counterfeits are based on fear, force and various applications of death. They are ultimately based on Satan's unholy trinity of motives – to steal, kill and destroy, though often masked in robes of righteousness. Jesus came to reestablish the model of heaven – to give life and to increase the imparting of life. He came to destroy the works of the Devil and fee the captives and reinstitute the operation of the relational family system.
Jesus pointed us forward to the final day of resolution when all of the counterfeit systems will be exposed and abolished (1 Cor. 15:24). Men will assume that they can defend themselves and retain life by appealing to the observance of law (Matt. 7:21-23). They assume they can justify themselves by argument of performance like we have always been taught to do in our false systems. However, they discover they are not really in a court of law as they are accustomed to thinking, or even a court of a king who can be manipulated as they have previously been. They are in the presence of a Father who is the essence of reality itself which they have used all their false systems to avoid since the beginning of sin. Arguments, falsehood and all the force of the false trinity are seen in the light of perfect reality to be just a sham, an alternative reality that was simply a fiction all along. Externalism had attempted to replace internal integrity, force had tried to replace joyful submission, economics had tried to replace love, kingship had tried to replace family relationships, and law had tried to imitate the indwelling presence of God Himself in all His creatures.
In that final day of revelation it will be seen that the cross of Jesus was not an achievement, it was a revelation of what God is on the inside.
