Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God … and without law. (2 Chronicles 15:3)
Anarchy is defined, in part, as “a state of society without … law.”1 Therefore, to understand anarchy, we must first understand what constitutes law and who determines what is and what is not law.
For YHWH2 is our judge, YHWH is our lawgiver [legislator], YHWH is our king; he will save us. (Isaiah 33:22)
There is [only, NASB] one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy…. (James 4:12)
These Scriptures specify Yahweh as the exclusive lawmaker. As our Creator, only Yahweh can determine what is good and what is evil. Anything opposed to or not in harmony with Yahweh’s law is not law at all. It is instead a man-made edict by which man declares illegal what Yahweh has determined to be lawful or declares legal what Yahweh has determined to be unlawful.
Thus, America has been in a state of anarchy since 1787 when the framers formally and nationally rejected Yahweh’s immutable morality, as reflected in His perfect law (Psalm 19:7-11), as the standard for government and society.3 Anyone today who promotes the United States Constitution is promoting anarchy.
It’s this anarchy (constitutionalism) that is responsible for all the trouble America is presently experiencing. But, all is not lost; not if we will return to Yahweh as our King, Judge, and Lawgiver, and His law as the supreme law of the land:
But when they in their trouble did turn unto YHWH God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them…. And they entered into a covenant to seek YHWH God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul. (2 Chronicles 15:4, 12)
May God speed the day!
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1. Random House Webster’s College Dictionary, s.v. “anarchy” (New York, NY: Random House, Inc., 2000) p. 48.
2. YHWH, the English transliteration of the Tetragrammaton, is most often pronounced Yahweh. It is the principal Hebrew name of the God of the Bible and was inspired to appear nearly 7,000 times in the Old Testament. It was unlawfully deleted by the English translators. In obedience to the Third Commandment and the many Scriptures that charge us to proclaim, swear by, praise, extol, call upon, bless, glorify, and hold fast to His name, we have chosen to memorialize His name here in this document and in our lives. For a more thorough explanation concerning important reasons for using the sacred name of God, see “The Third Commandment.”
3. Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective
