I have been reading the Geneva Bible--the Bible the Pilgrims brought with them to America. The Geneva Bible was published in 1560. Much of the KJV traces back to the Geneva Bible--except that King James did not like the notes by the people who translated the Geneva Bible from the original languages and created the Geneva Bible. He didn't like the notes because to him the notes undermined the notion of worldly kings being ordained by God to rule the people via their "royal" bloodlines. The margin notes are an incredible addition to the text because we get to see the viewpoint of learned Christians and Biblical scholars of the 1500s.
Today I started reading Isaiah Chapter 43 and in the very first verse there are two margin notes. This is the Chapter after Isaiah is giving prophecy from God about Him sending Christ to the world. For context, Chapter 42: v. 6: "I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and I will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, & for a light of the Gentiles, 7. That thou may open the eyes of the blind, & bring out the prisoners from the prison: and them that sit in darkness, out of the prison house."
(This seems to me to be what Jesus came to do and it is happening right now in the Great Awakening.)
The Geneva Bible has short summaries in italics before each chapter. The summary for the first part of Chapter 43, which I was reading this morning: "The Lord comforteth his people.."
Halfway through the first verse there are two margin notes. I was surprised to see the word "conspiracies" in the second note. The note is for the second part of the verse: "Fear not: for I have redeemed thee: I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine."
The margin note to me feels like it was written 500 years ago for all of us right now:
"When thou seest dangers and conspiracies on all sides, remember this benefit and the love of thy God, and it shall encourage thee."
The Pilgrims came to America with the Geneva Bible in hand to get away from the bloodline families of Europe and their dark rule. And here we are 500 years later seeing "dangers and conspiracies on all sides" caused by those same bloodline families that our ancestors sought to leave behind when they came to America. We should take their advice to remember the love of God and let that encourage us so that we FEAR NOT."
We should fear not as we fight to take back our country and restore it to being a Godly nation. God is with us and just as Q said: It's going to be Biblical.
A blessed day to you all.
There is most certainly a long train of attempting to flee from tyrants in order to reestablish righteous sovereignty.
The interesting issue of our time is that there is nowhere left to flee, so what now?
Mystery Babylon seems to be to slowly wind ones’ way up a narrower and narrower hierarchy, till one has removed onesself from the wider proles to establish among the few elites who dwell in the high places. This is true both spiritually and physically, and always has been. Nothing wrong with monarchy per se, but a righteous monarch will serve, and an unrighteous one must eventually be deposed.
There are and will always be lenses through which scriptures are viewed, and likely different traditions of praise, but it seems that we aught to do all that we can to avoid “denominations”, per Jesus himself in Matthew 23:
It all makes sense, practically. If there is one point of failure, it is easy for the enemy to take control. If no one follows, no one leads, and it becomes much more difficult for them to assume their thrones of power.
One body. One head. All divided houses will be brought to desolation (Matthew 12:25).
Colossians 3:11-15
Moses provided a great example. When men would come against him, he would throw himself on the ground and make intercession - not even to them, but to God, for they were overriding the Will of the true King.