Chapter 34
God said: When a man has young children, he makes just laws, in order to teach them discretion, justice, harmony and consideration, in regard to one another.
But when his children attain to be men and women, man no longer holds a law over them, for they have become his equals, as brothers and sisters.
Similarly, in the ancient times I had provided you, O man, with governments and laws for different nations and peoples.
Nevertheless, I said to you: Let your government be like a father over the people, and not as a separate matter against them.
But you have disobeyed my commandments; your government is as one thing, and your people as another thing. That which should be one entity, you have made into two.
Your government has become a separate self from the people; and the people are like servants, supporting the lawmakers, who trade in projects and schemes for their own profit and glory.
Since the earliest days all the governments of man have drifted into this.
When a government no longer fills the grade, according to the advancement of the people, behold, your God withdraws his heavenly protection from that government. And the people run immediately into anarchy.
Do not lay the blame of anarchy, revolution and assassinations on the people; my judgment is against the government in all cases. These conditions of vengeance are only the fruit resulting from the government’s divergence from the will of Jehovih, and the march of His light.
For example, as the offspring of inharmonious parents, or of parents wrapped up in selfishness, are lower in grade than their predecessors, even so do the subjects of a king decline in grade in proportion to the prevention of liberty and the neglect of general instruction.
Judgment is rendered against government where it does not provide liberty to the people, and where it neglects providing means for the development of the talents created with all.
In those respects, O man, governments are measured and graded by your God. And whenever a government sets itself up to enforce and strengthen itself by violence against justice for the multitude, behold, I turn away from that government; and I call away my Lords and holy angels.
And with that, drujas come upon those people, and the people fall upon their government, and destroy it.
If a government is a king only, and he has no holy council [parliament –Ed.], then the responsibility of the shortness is wholly his.
But if the king has a holy council, then the responsibility for shortness lies partly with the king and partly with the council.
Judgment is rendered against them, not only in this world, but in the es world. And each and every member of such a council shall be bound in the first resurrection until he has made amends to all his people for the shortness he manifested on the earth.
Hear the wisdom of your God, O man, and consider the way of righteousness in the governments of mortals:
The nearer the two are to being one, that is, the government and the people, the nearer they are like my heavenly kingdoms.
The more alienated the government is from the people, the further it is from the kingdom of your God.
Let this be a guide to you, O man, in prophesying the change and the overthrow of governments: According to the square of the distance a government is from Jehovih (which is Righteousness) so is accelerated the pace of its coming change or destruction.
Do not think these matters are governed by chance or accident: Jehovih is Perfect Righteousness; the all Everlasting.
He is All One. For a people and their government to attain to be all one with each other, this is great strength, with a long existence and internal peace.
You shall also consider this, O man: All governments are tending toward oneness with one another. This is the march of Jehovih. None can stop Him.
Consider, then, what wisdom is between governments: To make themselves reciprocal toward one another.
A government that sets itself up for itself, and against other governments, is a selfish government. And your God rates it the same as a selfish man, being disparate from Jehovih and His kingdoms.
Judgment is rendered against such a government. Neither my Lords nor my holy angels shall bless that government.
Governments that practice affiliation, to bring about reciprocal brotherhoods between governments, are on the right road toward the Father’s everlasting kingdoms.
Do not flatter yourself O man, that these matters can escape the observation of your God. The affairs, legislations, laws, treaties, and all things that governments accomplish directly or indirectly, good or bad, are known and recorded in the heavens of the earth. And the leaders, kings, and councils, shall, sooner or later, face them; and they shall judge their own fullness or shortness in serving Jehovih in righteousness and wisdom.