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God’s Earthly Government During Old Testament Times

God’s Earthly Government During Old Testament Times.

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God’s Earthly Government During Old Testament Times

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  1. God’s Earthly Government During Old Testament Times

  2. Joseph Smith taught: “It has been the design of Jehovah, from the commencement of the world, and is His purpose now, to regulate the affairs of the world in His own time, to stand as a head of the universe, and take the reins of government in His own hand. When that is done, judgment will be administered in righteousness; anarchy and confusion will be destroyed, and ‘nations will learn war no more.’ It is for want of this great governing principle, that all this confusion has existed. … The Lord has at various times commenced this kind of government, and tendered His services to the human family.” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith [1974] 250-51; emphasis added) • The Lord has at various times commenced this kind of government, and tendered His services to the human family

  3. Adam was given dominion over all the earth. (Moses 2:26-28) Under the direction of God he established a theocratic government often referred to as the patriarchal order. (Moses 6: 1-22; D&C 107:40-52) The Adamic Theocracy Joseph Smith Statement Bruce R. McConkie Statement

  4. False and Imitation Theocracies • Cain established an imitation theocracy (Moses 5: 18-42) • “And thus the pattern was set. Ever thereafter, when evil and carnal men set up governments of compulsion, governments in which the secular arm imposed a way of worship upon men, such governments were not of God and such ways of worship had no divine approval.” (Bruce R. McConkie, A New Witness for the Articles Faith [1985] 658) Bruce R. McConkie Statement

  5. Enoch to Moses • Enoch’s Theocracy (Moses 7) • Government after the flood Bruce R. McConkie Statement Bruce R. McConkie Statement

  6. Government of Ancient Israel The Lord reestablished his theocracy through Moses Joseph Smith Statement Bruce R. McConkie Statement

  7. The Law of Moses Ancient Israel’sTheocracy God • Religious Offices • High Priest (Urim & Thummim) • 1 Samuel 28:6 • Priests & Levites: • Residence: Num. 25:1-8 • Levitical Cities • Responsibilities: • Teaching Law • Lev. 10:11, Deut 33:10 • Ceremonies & Ordinances • Civil Offices • Joshua 24:1 • General: • Chief Judge Deut. 17:8-13 • Local: • Elders Deut. 19:12 • Judges & Officers Deut 16:18 • Prophetic Offices • Deut. 18:9-22 • Prophets, Men of God (and Angels) • Duties • Seers & Revelators (1 Sam 28:6) • Preaching (2 Chron. 15:1-13) • Warning (1 Sam. 2:27-36)

  8. The Law of Moses • Religious Offices • High Priest (Urim & Thumim) • Priests & Levites: • Residence: • Levitical Cities • Responsibilities: • Teaching Law • Ceremonies & Ordinances • Civil Offices • General: • Chief Judge • Local: • Elders • Judges & Officers • Prophetic Offices • Prophets and Men of God Monarchy andTheocracy God King Royal Court Officials State Officials

  9. In Days of Wickedness Elder Bruce R. McConkie wrote: What happened in the days of wicked and rebellious kings? They simply instituted their own ways of worship, appointed their own priests, and, when it pleased them so to do, commanded the worship of Baal, or Ashtoreth, or Molech, or whatever deity pleased their fancy. The religions of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and all the nations that inhabited the land before Israel, were state religions. The worship in Assyria, Babylonia, Egypt, and all the nations of the Gentiles was by government edict. People were not free to choose their own gods and to worship according to the dictates of their own conscience. In the minds of the credulous and superstitious Gentiles, the issues of war and peace, life and death, national survival or defeat were all tied in to the proposition of whose god was the greatest – Baal or Jehovah; the god of the Assyrians or the God of Jacob; the gods of the Canaanites or the Lord of Hosts who camped with Joshua; the god of whatever nation or the God of Israel. (A New Witness for the Articles Faith [1985] 661)

  10. In Days of Wickedness The Law of Moses In Days of Wickedness Ashtoreth God Jehovah Ba'al Amorite Gods Hivite Gods Egyptian Gods Assyrian Gods Molech Babylonian Gods Canaanite Gods Perizzite Gods Jebusite Gods Hittite Gods King Royal Court Officials State Officials • Religious Offices • High Priest (Urim & Thumim) • Priests & Levites: • Residence: • Levitical Cities • Responsibilities: • Teaching Law • Ceremonies & Ordinances • Civil Offices • General: • Chief Judge • Local: • Elders • Judges & Officers • Prophetic Offices • Prophets and Men of God • False Prophets

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