{"id":13748,"date":"2024-03-05T02:34:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T02:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesushn.life\/?p=13748"},"modified":"2024-03-18T09:58:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T09:58:13","slug":"money-used-against-oneself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesushn.life\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/money-used-against-oneself\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Money Against Oneself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-44a72271bddb52d0de6142fc5da81435\" style=\"color:#856f1f;background-color:#fff989\"><strong>\u201cFor the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the LORD Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>-2 Thessalonians 2:7<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When government uses tax money (i.e. a tax is a compulsory financial charge) against one\u2019s belief, it clearly reveals evil versus good and evidences the reality of spiritual warfare upon the people. Government, then, no longer is a true reflection and administrator of the will of people. This is a common problem which occurs in perpetuity (lasting forever) in&nbsp;multicultural\/pluralistic&nbsp;nations like America. \u201cUnity\u201d of people is, therefore, merely a word and not reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-fb551865accda254503103fde3aac4a6\" style=\"color:#856f1f;background-color:#fff989\"><strong>\u201cDo&nbsp;not&nbsp;be&nbsp;yoked&nbsp;together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>-2 Corinthians 6:14<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/jesushn.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/silhouette-politicians.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jesushn.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/silhouette-politicians.jpg 612w, https:\/\/jesushn.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/silhouette-politicians-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Crowd of people demonstrating silhouette. Oratory art, politics, revolution, takeover. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Example 1<\/strong>. <strong>Abortion.<\/strong> \u201c<strong>So what happens when the government tells you that the money you pay for your health insurance could be used to fund the killing of an innocent child?&nbsp;<\/strong>That\u2019s the situation that employees of March for Life found themselves in following the passage of the&nbsp;<strong>Affordable Care Act (ACA) by the Obama administration in 2010<\/strong>. Through the ACA, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) created an abortion pill mandate attempting to force many employers to provide employees with abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization, and contraception through their health plans.&nbsp;<strong>If they refused, they faced heavy financial penalties.\u201d<\/strong> (Source&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adflegal.org\/\">ADF)<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Example 2.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/bae1456be55955aab379a3541391f93b?fbclid=IwAR1CCMUdSpdLcgBekuK9PrlmP0sBp0YBJcuQxFkGVFBp4ArTFWJMIyJ4UFk\">Federal tax money used for sex change <\/a>operati<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/bae1456be55955aab379a3541391f93b?fbclid=IwAR1CCMUdSpdLcgBekuK9PrlmP0sBp0YBJcuQxFkGVFBp4ArTFWJMIyJ4UFk\">ons<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Example 3.<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>War.<\/strong> Secular people often accept war as a normal reality, just live with it-accept it, while true Christians are adamantly opposed to war, and, therefore, are commanded by God to be solely peacemakers. Tax money is used to make guns and bombs instead of growing food or making drinking wells. History makes clear that there are&nbsp;war economies&nbsp;and peace economies:&nbsp;\u201cAll of the dictatorships glorified force. Compelling the people to work for \u2018bullets rather than butter,&nbsp;<strong>they converted their industries to war production<\/strong>. Their major efforts were devoted to building powerful military machines.\u201d&nbsp;<em><u>-Rise of the American Nation<\/u>, HBJ; 1982; This was recently in Otter Valley High School, Brandon, Vermont (USA)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Example 4.<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Moral relativism.<\/strong> Secular people often believe there are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jesushn.life\/index.php\/2021\/02\/19\/people-must-come-to-recognize-sin-for-what-it-is-and-how-it-plays-out-in-real-time-life-that-is-mans-evil-side\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/jesushn.life\/index.php\/2021\/02\/19\/people-must-come-to-recognize-sin-for-what-it-is-and-how-it-plays-out-in-real-time-life-that-is-mans-evil-side\/\">no absolute moral truths<\/a>&nbsp;to live by while true Christians adhere to Biblical righteousness; that is, those actions which produce loving relationships. So the money taken through public taxes to fund prisons are used either for punishment or for restoration of the individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;<strong>Declaration of Independence:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cThat, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"postBodyCss":"","postBodyMargin":[],"postBodyPadding":[],"postBodyBackground":{"backgroundType":"classic","gradient":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesushn.life\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesushn.life\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesushn.life\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesushn.life\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesushn.life\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13748"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jesushn.life\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13935,"href":"https:\/\/jesushn.life\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13748\/revisions\/13935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesushn.life\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesushn.life\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesushn.life\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesushn.life\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}