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 The Political Kingdom of God

  is

 Governmental Theodemocorcy

“Thus saith the Lord God who rules in the heavens above and in the earth beneath, I have introduced my Kingdom and my Government, even the Kingdom of God, that my servants have heretofore prophesied of and that I taught my disciples to pray for, saying ‘Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,' for the establishment of my rule, for the introduction of my law, for the protection of civil and religious liberty in this nation and throughout the world; and all men of every nation, color and creed shall yet be protected and shielded thereby; and every nation and kindred, and people, and tongue shall yet bow the knee to me, and acknowledge me to be Ahman Christ, to the glory of God the Father.”

Prophet John Taylor revelation, June 27, 1882, in Collier, Unpublished Revelations, 133, vv 4-8

The blending of religious belief and democracy

"Where God and the people hold the power to conduct the affairs of men in righteousness"

 Where peaceful people who love liberty and uprightness can gather before and during the coming calamities for survival and a little slice of heaven on what will otherwise be a hellish earth.

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Principles of Law    A New Constitution of Liberty   Citizen Compact   Citizenship    The Fundamental Rights of Man Philosophy of law and Government by Joel Skousen

"Such As Will Administer the Law in Equity and Justice Should be Sought for and upheld"

"Moreover, thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, and women such as fear God, men and women of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:" Exodus 11:21 

  "And it shall come to pass that I, the Lord God, will send one mighty and strong, holding the sceptre of power in his hand, clothed with light for a covering, whose mouth shall utter words, eternal words; while his bowels shall be a fountain of truth, to set in order the house of God, and to arrange by lot the inheritances of the saints (a Moses-like calling) whose names are found, and the names of their fathers, and of their children, enrolled in the book of the law of God". (D&C  85:7)

this is in work progress & will be updated, and corrected as I understand more. 

The three divisions of the House of God,

 THE GODHEAD

 Jesus Christ,  God The Father, The Holy Ghost

The Kingdom Of God On Earth

As Above So Below

Thy Kingdom Come as it is in Heaven

(1)

Head

Jesus Christ

 The High Priest

Who Holds the Keys to The Kingdom both Political & Ecclesiastical after the Order of Melchizedek

(3) 

  Custodian High Priest to hold this office in the Lords Abcence

Noah ( Is The  Arch Angel Gabriel)   Adam (Is The Arch Angel Michael)  Joseph Smith (Is The ArchAngel  Phanuel)  

                                                                   1st      Counsellor                               President                                  2nd  Counsellor  

(Note:- In his research, Dr John P. Pratt states that he, (Joseph Smith is identified as one of seven chief angels of God and the second counsellor to Adam in a "First Presidency" of the entire earth.) (See Note 2 below)

(3)

High Priests

over the kingdom

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob ( Peter, James, John)?

             Government                     Church                

(7)?

The Separation of State & Church

both

Governmental Theodemocorcy

The Structure & Levels of Government

There is no such thing as World Government in the Millennium?

We will have Institutions of Law and the organization of the Church in the Millennium.

God does not operate by Government. Government is compulsion, it is top-down force.

In Heaven there is only one law: Love.

Love is self control. If you love God with all your heart, might, mind and strength you are living by that one law, you are living by Love.

In the Millennium we will have the Institutions of Law and Love. 

[Law and Love come from the same Germanic word that we still use today "Lo," as in "Lo, there." Lo means to Look, it is the looking that we do with all three eyes, the physical eyes but mostly the minds eye.]

There will be order in the Millennium because of the Institutions of Law.

This is the true design and order that these institutions will follow.

10s 

50s

100s

1000s

Tribes

"The Twelve" Judges

The Chief Judge or "President" and the "Patriarch."

At all of these levels there are elections, order and procedure for the leaders, but never, never compulsion by a manager or a wise potentate. (D&C 121:34-37)

Hence no such thing as World Government, only the business of Christ. By us individually applying self-control, and working together by elections in the institutions that support and encourage self-control.

God Bless,

Darren

Note 2. a.  The Ach Angel  Phanuel is the fourth angel "set over repentance and those who hope to inherit eternal life" [Enoch, Chapter 40:9]

 b.  Phanuel's duties include bearing up God's throne, acting as a guardian angel to all who have inherited salvation in Jesus Christ, ministering Truth, and serving as an angel of judgement. 

W. Cleon Skousen has stated that the life and service of Joseph Smith in the pre-existence must have been monumental. this would be the only way  to account for the fact that he was given the tremendous responsibility and honor of ushering in the great dispensation of the "Fullness of Times" in our day. ((Treasures from the Book of Mormon, volume One page iii Preface.)

It is so very interesting that Dr. John P. Pratt identifies the Arch Angel Phanuel with Joseph Smith. The Characteristics and duties of this Angel fit Joseph  Smith perfectly.   It has been said of Joseph Smith that he has done more for the salvation of men, save Jesus Christ only.  

 3 Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it. In the short space of twenty years, he has brought forth the Book of Mormon, which he translated by the gift and power of God, and has been the means of publishing it on two continents; has sent the fulness of the everlasting gospel, which it contained, to the four quarters of the earth; has brought forth the revelations and commandments which compose this book of Doctrine and Covenants, and many other wise documents and instructions for the benefit of the children of men; gathered many thousands of the Latter-day Saints, founded a great city, and left a fame and name that cannot be slain. He lived great, and he died great in the eyes of God and his people; and like most of the Lord’s anointed in ancient times, has sealed his mission and his works with his own blood; and so has his brother Hyrum. In life they were not divided, and in death they were not separated! (Doctrine & Covenants 135: 3.)