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    Our Dual Citizenship
    Our Dual Citizenship
    Our Dual Citizenship
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    Our Dual Citizenship

    By David Roberts

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    David Steven Roberts, Best Selling author of “Preparing for the Coming Collapse of the US Dollar” has written a new book. “Our Dual Citizenship” explores the Christian’s citizenship in God’s Kingdom and in America. For too long, Christians have been passive in regard to the direction that America has taken. Churches feared to mention or study the Godly Foundations of America and the Godly Founders of the country as being too ‘political’ of an issue.

    Today, America is at a crossroads where in one direction is a godless Socialist agenda and in the other is the restoration and return to the principles that guided the founders and authors of the Constitution.

    Today, the Church is at a crossroads where in one direction lies the emphasis on Social Justice as Gospel and the other is the return to the principles written by the authors of the Scriptures. “Our Dual Citizenship” is a book that can be used in individual study or in a group setting as Bible study material.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Roberts
    Release dateJul 11, 2013
    ISBN9781301743353
    Our Dual Citizenship
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    David Roberts

    David Roberts (1943–2021) was the author of dozens of books on mountaineering, adventure, and the history of the American Southwest. His essays and articles have appeared in National Geographic, National Geographic Adventure, and The Atlantic Monthly, among other publications. 

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      Our Dual Citizenship - David Roberts

      CHAPTER ONE

      Citizenship in God’s Kingdom

      The word, citizen in both the original Hebrew and the Greek means: ‘resident, freeman, or a member of a state.’ In the Old Testament, to be a citizen of God’s Kingdom meant that one must be a Jew or a convert to Mosaism. You may be asking yourself, what is Mosaism? It’s not a term that you can Google successfully. Mosaism is a term used to differentiate the practices of the Jews of the Old Testament from today’s modern Judaism. Practicing the Old Testament laws of God today as a Jew is impossible since the sacrifices at the Temple of Jerusalem ceased after it was destroyed in 70 A.D.

      To practice the religion of the Old Testament, today’s Jews would have to:

      Rebuild the Jerusalem Temple.

      Offer regular burnt, meal, peace, sin and trespass offerings as presented in the Word of God.

      Offer the yearly sacrifice to atone for their sins during the Day of Atonement.

      Apply the blood of the sacrifices on the altar in repentance for sins they have committed.

      Today’s Judaism, built more on the tradition that survived the destruction of the Temple then it does on Scripture, does none of that and without the blood of the covenant, the old Mosaic covenant is null and void.i The blood of Jesus Christ (and later the subsequent destruction of the temple) put an end to all sacrifices in the Holy of Holies as foretold in Daniel 9:27.ii Without the blood of these sacrifices, there is no atonement. Without the atonement, there is no relationship with God. Without a relationship with God, there is no citizenship in His Kingdom.

      While all throughout the Old Testament, God makes it clear that the Jews are His chosen People, it led the Jews to the false belief that they were citizens based solely on their blood relationship with Abraham. Rahab and Ruth are just two examples of converts to Mosaism who were not only granted citizenship into God’s Kingdom, but also played an important part in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. Despite examples of converts to Mosaism from Jericho, Moab, Syria and other nations, some of the Jews still clung to the false belief of a citizenship in God’s Kingdom based on blood relations alone.

      What It Meant To Be A Citizen of God’s Kingdom in the OT

      King David was the great-grandson of Ruth and the great-great-great Grandson of Rahab, the Harlot. In Psalms 15, labeled in many Bibles as a Description of a Citizen of Zion, David gives a description of a citizen’s behavior, without ever mentioning a blood relationship to Abraham.

      "O LORD, who may abide in Thy tent? Who may dwell on Thy holy hill?

      He who walks with integrity, and works righteousness, And speaks truth in his heart.

      He does not slander with his tongue, Nor does evil to his neighbor, Nor takes up a reproach against his friend;

      In whose eyes a reprobate is despised,

      But who honors those who fear the LORD; He swears to his own hurt, and does not change;

      He does not put out his money at interest,

      Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent,

      He who does these things will never be shaken."

      David’s emphasis in describing a citizen of God’s Kingdom is on integrity, righteousness and truth. A citizen of God’s Kingdom in the Old Testament is true and right with both God and man. It is human nature to reduce religion to rituals performed, traditions kept and blood relationship to the ‘chosen’ people. But that has never been the way to gain the favor of God.

      Some Christians today read the OT with the belief that the covenant God made with His people revolved solely around rituals, sacrifices and blood relationship to Abraham until Jesus came and changed things. They make the same mistake that the Jews made, believing that God is more concerned with the physical or the ritual than He was with a person’s heart. These rituals are just one part of God’s covenant, it is not as if God changed His mind with the coming of Christ and was all of a sudden concerned with a person’s heart. Throughout the Psalms and the Prophets, God pleaded with His people to know Him, to return to Him and to be patient for the Messiah who was to come and make all things right.

      Between the establishment of the covenant with the Jews and the coming of the Messiah, God provided a series of laws to keep His chosen people separate from the pagan peoples of other nations. The entirety of God’s laws from Exodus to Deuteronomy is summed up in Exodus 20: 1-10 with the Ten Commandments. These laws told God’s people of the Old Covenant what He expected of His citizens.

      We have a tendency as Americans of the 21st Century to consider rules and laws as a negative thing. You have to understand, though, the culture into which these laws were introduced. In the world that existed when Moses descended Mount Sinai, the codes and laws that were written were exhaustive. The Code of Hammurabi is just one example of a set of laws that pre-dates the Exodus. People in this time period had hundreds of laws that had to be obeyed. Sometimes these laws conflicted with each other. Sometimes laws were added to the books that the people were unaware of. There were so many of them that in order to be a ‘citizen’ of one of these nations, you had to follow them all of them to avoid punishment, sometimes even, a death penalty.

      When Moses arrived in the camp with ten laws, it would have been the equivalent of today’s iPad, for laws. From each of those laws, more would follow to explain or specify what they meant, but the laws would not change. The Hebrews knew where these laws came from, not from a high priest on a whim, not from a king wanting to change things for his benefit, these laws were direct from God. Each Hebrew would know that citizenship as one of God’s chosen necessitated following these laws. Let’s look at those laws.iii

      1. "You shall have no other gods before Me.

      2. "You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing loving-kindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My

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