Deported vs. Departed

Deported vs. Departed references excommunication from the world systems and why it has been desired in history and now.

Blessed is the Child of Light
Who doth build on earth
The Kingdom of Heaven,
for He shall dwell in both worlds.253

The civil law is what a people establishes for itself.254

And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city 255, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. Ge 4:17

From Cain to Lemech and Nimrod to the Pharaohs and the Caesars, men have been subjecting themselves to other men in exchange for the assumed peace and security of the city state and civil governments made by the hand of man.

And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD. (Ge 4:26 )

Enos did not call upon the names of the civil states of Cain through Lemech but upon the name of the LORD. Should we do less?

I will take the cup of salvation 256, and call upon the name of the LORD... For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. ( Ps 116:13... Ro 10:13)

We may imagine that thousands of years ago people lived primitive lives all over the world much like the aborigines of North America or Australia or Africa. Yet when the record is examined we find not only complex societies but societies that have many similar characteristics to our modern systems of economics, justice and government

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. (Ge 11:4)

Over four thousand years ago in the kingdom of Ur there were systematic methods and specified rules in courts of record. They settled, "disputes arising out of sales, inheritance, gifts, or divorce." There were different kinds of courts with different jurisdictional authority. "When the claim had been 'in the king's name' and rebutted, the case was settled by an oath either taken by one of the parties or by a witness."257

Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: (Mt. 5:33)

City states sprung up in answer to this fear, often creating fear in their neighbors. Those states inturn were bound together into allied oligarchies, constitutional confederations and desecrating empires. What appeared to be one man's salvation, often became another man's oppressive tyrant.

His vanity swelled him so vile and rank That he could hear no voices but his own... How often an entire country suffers On one man's account!258

By the time of the writing of the Code of Hammurabi the "king is already the source of justice; the judges are strictly supervised, and appeal to the king is allowed."259 With a contracted dominion by oath, appeals to God by individuals could not be heard over the authoritarian trumpeting of one man over his brothers.

Under Capitalism man exploits man; under Socialism the process is reversed.

These were not evolving legal systems but archetypes that grew naturally due to social constructions and moral choices or moral neglect by the people of God's earth in those times and now.

In the most corrupt state the most laws.260

In the days of Hamurabi's codes there were benefits and drawbacks to the centralized power and man made jurisdictions, as men were bound under oath.

And Haran died 261 before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. (Genesis 11: 28)

Haran died in Ur. Did he just die or was he put to death [muwth] by the legal authorities of Ur because he offended the state?

And Terah took 262 Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth 263 with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came 264 unto Haran, and dwelt there. (Genesis 11:31)

The word laqach can mean to take, lay hold of, seize even to buy. Together they exited and came out of Ur and its jurisdictions as well as the protection and subjection of that flourishing civilization. When they came unto (bow' - to go in, to be enumerated) the city, that they called Haran, they were simply in the same condition with a different ruler, but not yet by faith under the rulership of the LORD (YHWH) God.

Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get 265[depart] thee out of thy country,266 and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: (Genesis 12:5)

Avoid the reeking herd, Shun the polluted flock.267

Abram, with Lot departed, being led by faith, out from Haran, another city state, in which his father had settled.

Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. (Ga 3:7)

Therefore [it is] of faith, that [it might be] by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, (Ro 4:16)

Abraham was the father of all true Christians because true Christians put their faith in The LORD and His only begotten Son.

Moses and the people of Israel would also exit another civilized kingdom and again become Hebrew wanderers in the wilderness.

By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; (Heb 11:24, 25)

Both Abraham and Moses were very successful against the difficulties that confronted them. Lot living in Sodom under the protection of the king found his family corrupted and himself a captive of an invader and was saved by his Hebrew uncle and his invisible God more than once.

And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual. (Ex 12:39)

The Israelites first coming out of the corvee bondage of Egypt had to go through a process of change, reconversion, living under God's law in the desert for forty years to prepare them for the promised land. Having lived under the civil government of Egypt for four hundred years they had been changed or converted from the ways of their forefathers.

For hundreds of years following that exodus, God's people would have no king, no emperor and no president. In the affluence that God's way brought them came pride, vanity, sloth, apathy and foolishness.

Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; (1 Samuel 8:19)

The people had now departed from the ways of the LORD again. They chose to have another Ruler between them and God. Those rulers in turn acting like gods themselves counted the people as their own and required the people to tithe to them and to God.

And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly. (2 Sa 24:10)

The Israelites stumbled under kings like Saul, Absalom and Rehoboam, who like all demagogues appealed to the democratic whim of the people to empower themselves to supplant God and His prophets.

And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. (2 Sa 15:6)

Men had returned to the ways of the city state. No longer trusting in the prophets and judgment of the LORD, they built cities and temples of stone and trusted in the storehouse and the kings that they had chosen for themselves.

Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives. So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof. (Proverbs 1:14, 19)

. Why would people cast in their lots together, except to gain the use and benefit of each others' goods, possessions and wealth? How can someone gamble, putting their inheritance into a common pot, unless they are hoping and desiring and praying to get more out from their neighbors share, than they put in?

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour's. (Exodus 20:17)

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live.
It is asking others to live as one wishes to live.268

But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols,269 and to commit fornication.270 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans,271 which thing I hate. Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth [it]. (Rev 2:14, 17)

Will men repent of such associations? Can he stop serving the lusts of idols and contributing to rulers other than "The Ruler" of Heaven and Earth

If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth. (Nu 30:2)

Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth. (Pr 6: 2)

Just as important will men stop devouring the sweat and blood of those poor souls who are bound, by oath, to sacrifice their service to false gods.

But they cried out, Away with [him], away with [him], crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar. (Joh 19:15)

Those, who chose to follow the anointed king, Jesus, were cast out (excommunicated) from the temple and its benefits. They were also cast out from Rome and other city states and kingdoms for they would serve but one king only.

And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this [matter]. So Paul departed 272 from among them. Howbeit certain men clave 273 unto him, and believed 274 among the which [was] Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them. (Acts 17:32, 34)

After these things Paul departed 275 from Athens, and came to Corinth; And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them. And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers. (Acts 18:1,3)

There are three times a word is translated into depart or departed. The first is exerchomai which really means expelled or cast out or to go forth from one's power. The second and third times the word is chorizo meaning to separate or to separate one's self from. When people were deported by the command of Claudius were their badges of servitude changed or taken away so that officials could make sure that they did not come back? Why was it so important that all these people be deported? Were they also barred them from buying and selling in the Roman markets and practicing licensed professions?

In Gibbon's Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, he praised "the union and discipline of the Christian republic." He also pointed out that "it gradually formed an independent and increasing state in the heart of the Roman Empire."276 The early Christian ekklesia was a republic that was recognized by Rome through the proclamation nailed to the cross by order of the Proconsul of Rome, Pontius Pilate. When Jesus rose from the dead to stand again upon the earth, so did his Kingdom. His kingdom now lives in the hearts of those who follow His way.

All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power 277 of any. (1 Cor. 6:12)

Paul would not go under any authority but the highest power.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. (Ro 13:1)

Believers were cast out, excommunicated, deported and chose separation.

Jesus heard that they had cast him out 278; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee. And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him. (John 9:35, 38)

Early Christians were expelled from the welfare systems of the day run by the state churches of the world government of its time, the Roman Empire. They then appointed ministers to handle their tithes to the poor but not men to rule over them and their herediments.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. (Ga 5:1)

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Return 253 The Essene Gospel of Peace Book two p.71 trans Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
Return 254 Jus civile est quod sibi populus constituit.1 Johns. N.Y.424, 426.
Return 255 Strong's No. 5892 `iyr {eer} or (in the plural) `ar {awr} or `ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'} from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch)... n m 1) excitement, anguish 1a) of terror 2) city, town (a place of waking, guarded) 2a) city, town
Return 256 Strong's No. 3444 y@shuw`ah {yesh-oo'-aw} feminine passive participle of 3467; n f 1) salvation, deliverance 1a) welfare, prosperity 1b) deliverance 1c) salvation..
Return 257 Encyclopedia Britanica Vol II p. 862 1957.
Return 258 Beowulf v910.; v3075. Burton Raffel
Return 259 Encyclopedia Britanica Vol II p. 862 1957.
Return 260 Corruptissima republica plurimae leges. Tacitus.
Return 261 Strong's No. 4191 muwth {mooth} a primitive root; v 1) to die, kill, have one executed 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to die 1a2) to die (as penalty), be put to death 1a3) to die, perish (of a nation) 1a4) to die prematurely... 1b) (Po) to kill, put to death, dispatch 1c) (Hiph) to kill, put to death 1d) (Hoph) 1d1) to be killed, be put to death 1d...
Return 262 Strong's No. 3947 laqach {law-kakh'} a primitive root; v 1) to take, get, fetch, lay hold of, seize, receive, acquire, buy, bring, marry, take a wife, snatch, take away 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to take...1a4) to take to/for a person, procure, get, take possession of, select, choose, take in marriage, ...
Return 263 Strong's No. 3318 yatsa' {yaw-tsaw'}a primitive root; v 1) to go out, come out, exit, go forth 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to go/come out/forth, depart...
Return 264 Strong'sNo.0935 bow' {bo} a primitive root; 1) to go in, enter, come, go, come in 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to enter, come in 1a... 1a3) to attain to 1a4) to be enumerated ...
Return 265 Strong's No. 3212 yalak {yaw-lak'} a primitive root [compare 1980]; v 1) to go, walk, come 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to go, walk, come, depart, proceed, move, go away 1a2) to die, live, manner of life (figurative) 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to walk 1b2) to walk (figurative of life) ...
Return 266 Strong's No. 0776 'erets {eh'-rets} from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; n f 1) land, earth 1a) earth1a1) whole earth (as opposed to a part) 1a2) earth (as opposed to heaven)1a3) earth (inhabitants) 1b) land 1b1) country, territory 1b2) district, region 1b3) tribal territory 1b4) piece of ground 1b5) land of Canaan, Israel 1b6) inhabitants of land 1b7) Sheol, land without return, (under) world 1b8) city (-state) ...
Return 267 Elenor Wylie [1885-1928]
Return 268 Oscar Wilde 1856 1900
Return 269 Strong's No. 1494 eidolothuton {i-do-loth'-oo-ton} neuter of a compound of 1497 and a presumed derivative of 2380; adj AV - things offered unto idols (4) things offered in sacrifice to idols (3) - things sacrificed unto idols (2) - meats offered to idols (1) [10] 1) sacrificed to idols, the flesh left over from the heathen sacrifices; it was either eaten at the feasts or sold (by the poor and the miserly) in the market
Return 270 Strong's No. 4203 porneuo {porn-yoo'-o}from 4204; vb AV - commit fornication (7) - commit (1) [8] 1) to prostitute one's body to the lust of another 2) to give one's self to unlawful sexual intercourse; to commit fornication 3) metaph. to be given to idolatry, to worship idols; to permit one's self to be drawn away by another into idolatry
Return 271 Strong's No. 3531 Nikolaites {nik-ol-ah-ee'-tace} from 3532; n pr m AV Nicolaitane (2) 1) Nicolaitans meaning "followers of Nicolas" is a sect mentioned in Rev. 2:6,15, whose deeds were strongly condemned. They may have been identical with those who held the doctrine of Balaam. ... In the time of persecution, when the eating or not eating of things sacrificed to idols was more than a crucial test of faithfulness, they persuaded men more than ever that it was a thing indifferent. Rev. 2:13,14. this was bad enough, but there was yet a worse evil. Mingling themselves in the orgies of idolatrous feasts, they brought the impurities of those feasts into the meetings of the Christian Church. And all this was done, it must be remembered, not simply as an indulgence of appetite, but as part of a system, supported by a "doctrine", accompanied by the boast of prophetic illumination. 2 Pet. 2:1. ...the "deeds" of the Nicolaitans. To hate these deeds is a sign of life in a Church that otherwise is weak and faithless. Rev. 2:6. To tolerate them is well nigh to forfeit the glory of having been faithful under persecution. Rev. 2:14,15.
Return 272 Strong's No. 1831 exerchomai {ex-er'-khom-ahee} from 1537 and 2064; vb AV - go out (60) - come (34) - depart (28) - go (25) go forth (25) - come out (23) - come forth (9)- misc (18) [222] 1) to go or come forth of 1a) with mention of the place out of which one goes,... of those who are expelled or cast out 2a) to go out of an assembly, i.e. forsake it 2b) to come forth from physically, arise from, to be born of 2c) to go forth from one's power, escape from it in safety ...
Return 273 Strong's No. 2853 kollao {kol-lah'-o} from kolla ("glue"); vbAV - join (one's) self (4)- cleave (3) - be joined (2) - keep company (1) [10] 1) to glue, to glue together, cement, fasten together; hence to join or fasten firmly together; to join one's self to, cleave to
Return 274 Strong's No. 4100 pisteuo {pist-yoo'-o} from 4102; vb AV - believe (239) - commit unto (4) - commit to (one's) trust (1) - be committed unto (1) be put in trust with (1) - be commit to one's trust (1) believer (1) [248] 1) to think to be true; to be persuaded of; to credit, place confidence in 1a) of the thing believed; to credit, have confidence ...
Return 275 Strong's No. 5563 chorizo {kho-rid'-zo} from 5561; vb AV - depart (8) - separate (3) - put asunder (2) [13] 1) to separate, divide, part, put asunder, to separate one's self from, to depart 1a) to leave a husband or wife: of divorce 1b) to depart, go away
Return 276 Rousseau and Revolution, Will et Ariel Durant p.801. fn 83 Heiseler, 85.
Return 277 Strong's No. 1850 exousiazo {ex-oo-see-ad'-zo} from 1849; vb AV - have power of (2) - exercise authority upon (1) - bring under power (1) [4] 1) to have power or authority, use power: to be master of any one, exercise authority over one, to be master of the body i.e. to have full and entire authority over the body, to hold the body subject to one's will; to be brought under the power of anyone
Return 278 Strong's No. 1544 ekballo {ek-bal'-lo} from 1537 and 906; vb AV - cast out (45) - cast (11) - bring forth (3) - pull out (3) - send forth (3) - misc. (17) [82] I) to cast out; drive out; to send out 1) with notion of violence 1a) to drive out (cast out) 1b) to cast out: of the world, i.e. be deprived of the power and influence he exercises in the world; a thing: excrement from the belly into the sink 1c) to expel a person from a society: to banish from a family 1d) to compel one to depart; to bid one depart, in stern though not violent language...[They were not cast out of the planet but out of the kosmos, the worlds of man's civil systems.]
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