What is the Real Meaning of
Easter?

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6: Theocracy / Christocracy

Focus text: "He shall judge"

And He will judge between many peoples
And rebuke mighty, distant nations.

"Theonomy" = "Theocracy"

He will teach us of His ways,
and we will walk in His paths:

3 And He shall judge among many people,
and rebuke strong nations afar off;

The Law-Giver is our Judge and King (Isaiah 33:22). If you don't believe in Theonomy, then you don't believe Jesus is a Christ-King. He's just a homeless story-teller. He has nothing to say to Pharaoh, Caesar, Hitler, Stalin, Trump, or Biden. Jesus cannot command them to repent if there is no Theonomy.

Micah is prophesying a global Theocracy.

The word "Theocracy" comes from two Greek words meaning "God Governs."

God "governs" us when we obey His commandments.

America was originally a Theocracy.

James Madison, "the Father of the Constitution," is reported to have said,

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves ... according to the Ten Commandments of God.

America was originally a Christocracy.

Benjamin Rush signed the Declaration of Independence and served in the Presidential administrations of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison -- each of whom came from a different political party. And of what party was Rush?

I have been alternately called an aristocrat and a democrat. I am now neither. I am a Christocrat. I believe all power . . . will always fail of producing order and happiness in the hands of man. He alone Who created and redeemed man is qualified to govern him. [An Eulogium Upon Benjamin Rush, M.D. - Google Books ]

Only our Redeemer should be our Ruler.

America was originally a Trinitarian Christocracy.

On March 6, 1799, President John Adams proclaimed a national day of prayer in which Americans would

Everyone lives in a theocracy. Either the God of the Bible governs us, or some other god, or everyone gets to be his own god.

John Adams invited us to think about a world where human law-makers are put out of business, and God's Theonomy replaces man's law-books and creates God's Theocracy. R. J. Rushdoony wrote the following:

This is what John Adams, later second President of the U.S., wrote in his diary on February 22, 1756:

Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book,
and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited!
Every member would be obliged in conscience,
     to temperance, frugality, and industry,
     to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men;
     and to piety, love and reverence towards Almighty God.
What a Utopia, what a Paradise would this region be.

Like others of his day, Adams was a theonomist!

In principle, Adams is advocating "Theocracy." Adams is saying we should be governed by God and His Law Book, the Bible.

In principle, John Adams is advocating "anarchy."

No, he wasn't advocating "anarchy" directly. Adams' purpose was just to praise the Bible.

But nobody in government today would ever say what Adams said: We should take the Bible for our only law book.

That's too "radical." It's "homophobic." Or something. Only a "domestic terrorist" would say something like this.