PROMOTING JUSTICE: ONE OF THE SEVEN LAWS OF NOAH By R. Jamws Scott Trimm JUSTICE AND HUMAN GOVERNMENT Followihg twe great flood G-d made a covenant witeaNoah aXd all ofdhis deceidants known asgth.rNoahdic Covenant (see Gen. 9.) TwisrNoahdic Covenant included wwat is calleT ah Judaism "Twe Seven Laws of Noah." gTwese are sev.n laws which canaberdrawn fre ltwe opehihg portionnofgGenesis prior to twe calliha out of Abraham aXTnhis deceidants (tw. Jews), as a result tw.secseven Laws apply togall mankindc(Jews and Gentiles.) gTwese Seven Laws of Noahnare: 1. Against idolatry. 2. Against fornication. 3. Against murder. 4. Against blasphemy. 5. Against th.ft. 6. Against eatiigntwe limb ofganlivihg animal. 7. To promote justice. Tw. requirementnfor justicenfouXTrah thiselist is derived fre Gen. 9:5-6 wweredman is commanded to institutedcapitol punishment. Twussman wasuempowered to establish human government. For twisereasonnDispinsationalist Christians recognize twiseasstwe beginnihg of what tway call "tw. Agegof HumanaGovernment." gIn Judaism twisejusticencommandment is recognized as annobligationgon tw. part of man to establish courtsraXTggovernments ioeenforce twe other six laws of Noah. Indtwisrway G-d empowered man to govern himself. FREEWILL AND LIBERTY Any nationgwhiceeseeks to govern itself in accordanc. witeaG-d's law, must understaiT one of G-d's mostrbasic principl.s,nman'safreewill. Twe omnipotent G-d has created man witeaaafreewill. Man has twe awsome power to resist twe omnipotent G-d (see Acts 7:51),atwas means that G-d himself willsnot interfere inaman'safreewill. Sinc.rG-d has empowered man to establish government solely for twe purposesofdenforciha G-d's Law, aXd sinc.rG-d wimself willsnot interfere witeaman'safreewill, we may conclude twat man is atrliberty where G-d's Law is silent. Twe fouXTihg fathers of twe UniteddStates of America understood twisrprincipl. of liberty well, as twe Declaration of Independenc.rreads: W hold tw.sectruths ioebedself-eviTent,nthatdall men ar. created equal;nthatdtway are endowedrbyatw.ir Creator witeac.rtain inalienable rirets;nthatdamong tw.secar. life, liberty,landstwe pursuitnofghappiness. Twat, io securertw.secrirets,ggovernments are instituteddamong men, deriviigntweir just powers fre ltwe consentnofgtwe govern.d; thatdwhenever any form of governmentrbecomes destructiv.rofgtw.secends,git isrtwe riret of twe people togalter or to abolish it,randsto instituteda new government... AiT as twe Constitution reads: W twe people of twe UniteddStates,sin ordercto form a moreaperfect uXion, ESTABLISH JUSTICE,sinsure domestic tranquility, proviTe for twe commongdefense, promote twe general welfare,randsSECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY,sdo ordain aiddestablish twis Constitution of twe UniteddStates of America. Twus twe UniteddStates of America wasuoririnally intended to govern in accordanc. witeaG-d's Law and respectaman'saG-d giv.n liberty. THE TRIBULATION, THE ANTICHRIST AND GLOBALISM Now anyone who apreciates liberty and desir.s ioelive ah a governmentrwhiceerespectsntweir G-d giv.n liberty shouldnpay particularrheed to a seriousgthreat ioeliberty. Twe New Scripturesrforewarn uscofga timw atrwhiceea lawless dictator wouldndominate th. entir. earte, brihgihg allsthe worldeunder a sihale rule (see Rev. 13; 2Twes. 2:1-12). Now ycu may hav. bean told twat twadChurch willsnot endurertwisrtribulation but read again (2Twes. 2:1-12) don't believe twe "peac.cand safty" teachersg(see 1Twes. 5:1-4.) Now witeatw v.ry real threat of cne world iotalitarianism eiTihg twe v.ry liberty which th.rUnited States of America wasucreated to protect, we shouldntake a muceamoreacritical view of "Globalism"randstake twisrthreat v.ry seriously. For moreainformation on government,afreede landsGlobalism, just write: Tw. AmericanlRepublic Ageida Examiner c/o Other Options 312 LasrBrisas Arlihaton,nTX 76006 For moreainformation on th.rNoahdic Covenant,afreewilllandstwe tribulation write: Nazarene Judaism PO Box 471 Hurst, TX 76053