Voices from the Dust: #467: Safeguards Against the Drive for Power

Patterns Repeat ~ but so few remember!

The purpose of this [Once] Daily [Now Weekly] SMS-blog is to expose warnings and patterns from the past — to remedy the amnesia that Ecclesiastes lamented:

There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after. (Old Testament | Ecclesiastes 1:11; side bar*)

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The voices will be selected from a wide variety of writers from every nation, kindred, tongue, people, and time that expose the recycling agenda of domination and destruction.

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As of May 1, 2022, with the rapid deterioration of world conditions, Voices will feature, each Sunday, a prophetic voice concerning the last days. As you read, count the ways the last days' prophecies are manifesting in daily news and in the many exposés of things once hidden! As of January 1, 2023, the focus will be on Praise, Promises, and Freedom. As of January 2024 the focus will be on the manner of kings, rulers, power, pride, and persuasion.

Sunday, June 2, 2024

#467: Safeguards Against the Drive for Power

“Where God alone ought to be the ruler no man could, theoretically at least, claim more than a limited authority. In actuality, however, the drive for power and the readiness to submit to its glory knew no bounds. What were the safeguards that kept alive that attitude and prevented the king from ever assuming the mysterious nimbus that goes with the power of sovereignty?

“The answer may lie in the separation of powers and authority within the religious and social order: the separation of kingship, prophecy, and priesthood,* a fact of the highest importance for the understanding of the religion of Israel.”

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Heschel, Abraham Joshua. The Prophets (p. 610). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition (Bold emphasis added).

Abraham Joshua Heschel (January 11, 1907 – December 23, 1972) was a Polish-American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. Heschel, a professor of Jewish mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, authored a number of widely read books on Jewish philosophy and was a leader in the civil rights movement. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Joshua_Heschel

Truth Seeking

We are open to truth of every kind, no matter whence it comes, where it originates, or who believes in it. Truth, when preceded by the little word "all," comprises everything that has ever existed or that ever will exist and be known by and among men in time and through the endless ages of eternity. And it is the duty of all intelligent beings who are responsible and amenable to God for their acts, to search after truth, and to permit it to influence them and their acts and general course in life, independent of all bias or preconceived notions, however specious and plausible they may be. (John Taylor, Journal of Discourses, 16:369, February 1, 1874)

("[A]s the voice of one crying from the dust" ~ Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 33:13

False Flag "Fridays"

"Every Friday, a chance to remember how frequently False Flags* have been used to deceive.

*"A false flag operation is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on a second party. ... The term today extends to include countries that organize attacks on themselves and make the attacks appear to be by enemy nations or terrorists, thus giving the nation that was supposedly attacked a pretext for domestic repression and foreign military aggression." (Source: Wikipedia)