The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-13

Will you be crushed beneath the tread of
Jehovah's Theocratic King?
Kiss the Son NOW, lest He be angry and
you perish from the way yhen His wrath
is kindled.
There can be no Gospel of the Republic
of God; for there is no Republic of God
appointed of Heaven, any more than there
is an autocracy of God or confederacy
of God. All such combinations and terms
are of the Devil, the prince of the world
and the god of this age.
Christian ministers cannot and therefore
dare not, assert that there is any other
standard for men and women than the Bible
! - the Inspired Word of lions God.
1t is right and proper to submit Ca New
Testament teaching) to all human forms of
government so long as they do not violate
the liberty to obey Christ as Gods Supreme
Theocratic Lord and Coming King.
All Theocrats must protest all other rule
| than that of God, and work by all peaceable
and legitimate means for its complete over
throw. They must work only for the
speedy and full establishment of the Theo-
cratic Rule of God everywhere and over
all things.
Because of this principle, Armageddon
will be fought The Valley of Decision is
in sight.
All mankind is now entering into it.
Democracy is mighty foe of God
What is the Rule of the People in the
great cities but the rule of the Devil?
What are the now organizing confeder-
acies of peoples, nations and churches but
the work of the god of this age and the
prince of this wor1d-system?
1t cannot be otherwise; for the people
everywhere belong to him. They have sold
out to hirn-spirits, souls and bodies lodges,
churches and nations
The poor dupes of Satan everywhere are
full of alcohol tobacco, pork, drugs, sin,
disease. sickness and death.
The people everywhere are demon-pos-
sessed, money-rnad, revolutionary torn, an
archistically-inclined and hustled.
The Word of God is a seven-sea1ed book
in the courts, so far as any appeal to its
authority is concerned
In the Theocracy, the Bible would be the
one great BOOK OF LAW.
The judges of the courts would eagerly
quote the decisions of Jesus Christ and His
prophets and apostles.
In fact, under the Theocracy, all the
Judges would be apostles, the directly en-
powered representatives of the Great Su-
preme Theocratic Judge, Jesus the Christ.
No such program obtains on earth now
Therefore, this is the Devils world He
is in absolute and universal ownership and
control
Love would rule in Theocracy, and full
justice would be administered to one and all.
Men say not so, because force is needed
to defend life, liberty and property. They
who talk this way do not understand the
Theocracy.
It can be done and is done now in Zion.
In Zion, there are no drunkards and no
Monday morning police court with its usual
line of DRINKS for, in Zion there are no
saloons and beer shops
Were it not for the outside influences
beating against Zion with their waves of
| criminal tendencies, the matter of law en-
forcement would be easily solved for there
would be no law violators.
Zion needs to be in a position to exercise
full legal right and power to drive from
her midst all these foreign characters who
come into it from the Democracy, and to
properly protect herself from those destruc-
tive forces and persons which the rule of
the people creates
While Zion dwells in the midst of the
Devils world, surrounded by the Devils
cities and influences on every side, she must
control her own municipal government so
that she can carry out all the requirements
OF the Word of God, notwithstanding the
cost of the dehlement occasioned by the Cos
pei OF the Devil as itsis carried out in the
Ubiquitous, adulterous and wicked Rule of
the People
Zion would be able to prove that the
Eleven Commandments can be carried out
and prosperity and peace rule, and all Gods
people in Zion who would continue to dwell
in democratic cities would be able to find
comfort and help in their struggles against
the Devils rule in the Democracy.
Weary of association with the "world that
lieth in wickedness," and yet intensely in
terested in its redemption from the powers
OF Satan and sin and disease and death and
hell, Gods people are determined to avail
themselves of all the strength which their
association together in all departments of
life and cooperative industry makes DOS
sible
Zion in its largest conception can be sat-
ished with nothing less than all the earth
and all Heaven.
There is nothing that the liquor drinking,
tobacco-chewing and smoking, swine's flesh
eating, card-playing, theater-going dancing,
!novel-reading world" can do that Zion can
not do infinitely better.
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