For a long time I have believed the American culture has corrupted the church Jesus established on Pentecost.
We claim the Old Testament shows us examples of how God worked with his people. We do not believe it. We say God, who never changes, doesn't do the same sort of things today.
During the good years, under Joseph's instructions, the Egyptian IRS took a high percentage of the crops if not all of the abundance, the excess of normal harvest. Talk about a tax that was a big one. I figure the Egyptian version of John Boehner and the Tea Party had a collective hissy fit.
During the famine, the Egyptian IRS sold the food they had confiscated back to the people who had grown it. Nothing indicates the people had any voice in the price they were required to pay. When the people had spent all their money the Egyptian IRS took the people's livestock in exchange for food and eventually their land and finally the people themselves. The people became servants to the Egyptian IRS. The people were completely dependent on the government for survival. The record shows the Egyptian IRS owned all of Egypt minus the land of the priests. When the people sold themselves the Egyptian IRS gave them seed with instructions that they owed 20% of future crops to the Egyptian IRS. The once free farmers were tenant farmers, they owned no land, no animals, nothing except what the Egyptian IRS gave them.
What specifically is our current president doing with which the Bible suggests God would disagree?
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