{"id":1593,"date":"2018-01-18T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T06:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bibleplan.us\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2017-12-27T15:28:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T21:28:06","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr-day-3rd-monday-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bibleplan.us\/?p=1593","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: 3rd Monday in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The People&#8217;s Obligation to obey the Civil Authorities is conditional upon the Civil Authorities obeying the Higher Law. *<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bible shows that civil government is a covenant between God, the King and the People.\u00a0 God makes the Laws; the king promises to obey and apply those Laws; and the people pledge themselves to the Covenant.\u00a0 Out of this relationship between God, the king and the people arises the people&#8217;s obligation to protest lawlessness on the part of the king.\u00a0 If they don&#8217;t protest, God punishes the people because of the misdeeds of the their kings &#8211; the people will suffer if they go along with the unlawful acts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>God sent a 3 year famine because Saul put the Gibeonites to death (2 Sam 21).<\/li>\n<li>God sent a pestilence which killed 70, 000 Israelites because David took the census (1 Chronicles 21 and 2 Samuel 24).<\/li>\n<li>God (via Elijah) sent a famine because Ahab and his house forsook the commandments of the Lord (1 Kings 16:29-33, 17:1, 18:1, 18:17-19).<\/li>\n<li>God struck a heavy blow at Joram&#8217;s people because of Joram&#8217;s wickedness (2 Chronicles 21:1-14)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>God visited 4 dooms upon Jerusalem and the southern Kingdom because of the sins of Manasseh (2 Kings 21:10-17 and Jeremiah 15:3-4).<\/p>\n<p>*from a document &#8220;The Biblical Foundation of Our Constitution&#8221; prepared by\u00a0 Publius Huldah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The People&#8217;s Obligation to obey the Civil Authorities is conditional upon the Civil Authorities obeying the Higher Law. * The Bible shows that civil government is a covenant between God, the King and the People.\u00a0 God makes the Laws; 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