Moses, of course, took up his role as deliverer at 80. And Caleb s strength was undiminished at 85. He said, Now then, just as the LORD promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the desert. Not the words of one speaking at his retirement dinner. People generally retire at 65 today because their new lord, the State, tells them to.
Lords always reserve the right to define all things pertaining to their vassals.
Thus, the Lord Federal Government has defined the normal age of retirement, fully in keeping with its socialist presuppositions, its efforts to control labor pools, and its desire to replace the family with itself. A primary method by which our governments have usurped filial responsibilities and filial loyalties has been to provide, through taxation and redistribution, care for our loved ones, care which God demands that we ourselves provide. Those are some of the strongest words of denunciation found in any context in the New Testament. A man who does not provide for his own is not merely an infidel, but worse than an infidel. And they are perfectly in keeping with Old Testament Law.