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THE LAWS OF GOD - #8.C.6
The Eighth Commandment and Related Scriptures
SPECIFIC PROVISIONS...CONTINUED
God has set forth HIS Laws in the Holy Scriptures for ALL Mankind to
know--and obey (Proverbs 14:34 and Isaiah 60:12)!
8. THOU (you) SHALL NOT STEAL (rob-theive)!
This issue of the 8th Commandment was covered previously. See at:
LAW-8.A, above.
.A COMMON PUNISHMNETS FOR GENERAL STEALING:
the general principle of the Law here is restitution--restoring as much as possible what
the victim lost by the theft (Exodus 22:5-6).
- To get COMMON PUNISHMENTS Article (Click
Here--on caps)!
.B GENERAL PROVISIONS AGAINST STEALING:
Some specific forms of stealing are directly banned by the Holy
Scriptures:
- To get GENERAL PROVISIONS Article (Click
Here--on caps)!
.C SPECIFIC PROVISIONS AGAINST STEALING...Continued:
Certain kinds of theft have very specific provisions in the Holy
Scriptures.
- ..1 LIABILITY:
- ..2 CONTRACTS (and Covenants):
- ..3 LABOR RELATIONS:
- ..4 CREDIT:
- ..5 INHERITANCE:
These above 5 topics are on the previous PAGE! Use the link
below:
To get PREVIOUS PROVISIONS (Click
Here--on caps)!
- ..6 REAL ESTATE:
No stealing from the Domain or Lands of others! (For, the
ownership of property or Real Estate is a privilege that is based
on the proper distribution of Land in Our Realm--WHICH IS DONE
BY GOD. (See also LAW-5.E.1 LAND RIGHTS
under Celestial Citizenship. Furthermore, consider the
HOLY PROVISIONS on stealing from God,
below.)
- ...a DIVINE DOMINION:
All the Land (and everything on them) belongs to God--for HE
created them all (Exodus 19:5; Deuteronomy 10:14; Leviticus
25:23-24; Psalms 24:1, 89:11). Therefore, Man only holds Land
as a temporary trust from God as HIS subordinate steward--a kind
of long-term land lease or fief, until the Savior Returns and
redistributes all the Land (Numbers 24:19: Job 25:1-6; Psalms
72:8-11; Daniel 4:2-3, 34; Matthew 21:33; Mark 12:1; Luke
19:13, 20:9: Ephesians 1:20-21).
- FEUDALISM--LOCAL DOMINION AND SOVEREIGNTY:
Each Nation and each Peoples has their borders set and
boundaries determined by God, Himself--their Lands being
Divinely appointed or allotted to them by HIM. Therefore, we
all should respect them for they are HIS Will and allow each
separate Country its own sovereignty (Genesis 13:14-18, 27:40,
37:8; Deuteronomy 32:8; Judges 5:13; I Kings 4:24, 9:19;
Isaiah 26:13; Jeremiah 34:1; Daniel 4:17, 22, 25, 7:27;
Acts 17:26).
- SUB-INFEUDATION AND PRIVATE DOMINION:
In turn, each Nobleman, and then each individual, has their own
lands allotted to them according to the just governments that
have rule over them--and these proper processes should be
respected by all (Genesis 1:26-28; Joshua 18:8-10; Job
24:2-4; Psalms 8:6; Daniel 6:26; Jude 1:8). Also,
justification for private property--and by extension,
capitalism (and private enterprize).
- ...b RESPECT BOUNDARY LINES:
The properly established boundary lines, land surveys, and
property markers are to be respected--no stealing by moving
boundary markers! (Deuteronomy 19:14, 27:17; Job 24:2-4;
Proverbs 22:28, 23:10).
- ...c CONVEYANCE OF LAND TITLE:
The proper procedures for giving or selling the title or right
to the temporary trust over your land(s) to another--various
regulations concerning (Genesis 33:19-20; Proverbs 36:16;
Jeremiah 32:6-14; Matthew 27:7; Luke 14:18).
- TRANSFERABLE:
The Right to Land or Title of Property is open and free to be
sold, purchased, or given away as the title holder may see fit
(Genesis 23:3-20, 33:18-19, 47:20; Ruth 4:1-9; II Samuel
24:24; Acts 4:34, 5:1)--hence, support for private property.
- INHERITABLE:
The Right to Land or Title of Property is inheritable--see
above LAW-8.C.5 INHERITANCE.
- DOCUMENTATION:
The transfer of title or other transactions involving Land or
Title of Property need to be properly documented, witnessesed,
and recorded (Ruth 4:9, Jeremiah 32:6-14).
- ...d FEUDATORY AND TENURE:
The privilige of holding Land or property is dependant upon
maintaining certain conditions:
- USEAGE:
The ordained duty of holding Land or property is that it be
SUBDUED--occupied, improved, attended to, maintained, or put
to some use (Genesis 1:28, 26:17-18; Matthew 25:14-30; Luke
19:13).
- ....a WARNING:
because of the pressures of evil and the expansion of
wickedness, abandoned Land or unclaimed (or unused) property
may be claimed by another by them simply moving in on it or
just making use of it (I Samuel 16:14; Judges 11:26-27;
Matthew 12:43-45)!
- ....b MONITORING DUTY:
consequently, the need to diligently patrol your Land and
property is encumbant upon the landholder (Exodus 19:12-13;
Proverbs 27:23-24)!
- TITHING (Taxes):
As a fief, held in sub-infeudation, the Right to Land requires
the paying of proper Tithes (or Taxes) to God (see
LAW-8.D SACRILEGE, below) and HIS
proper authorities (see also taxation in
LAW-5.D.3.e ROYAL REVENUES AND COLLECTIONS under Powers of
the Monarch and Government).
- OBEDIANCE:
As under the Kingdom of God, the landholder is required to
obey and uphold the Laws of God--and its authorities of Our
Realm (Ezra 7:26).
- REST:
That farmland must be given a rest and lie fallow every seventh
year, to restore its fertility--as well as other conservation
measures of crop rotation, fertilizing, etc. to keep the Land
productive for future generations (Exodus 23:10-11; Leviticus
26:34-35, 25:3-7; Deuteronomy 20:19-20).
- ...e EMINENT DOMAIN:
As a distributor of fiefdoms, for individual landholders to own,
the government of Our Realm reserves the Right to condemn land
or private property and put it to its own use and governing
functions--provided that it supplies just compensation to the
owner (II Samuel 24:18-25). However, this Power may NOT be used
to extend the personal Land or individual property of the rulers,
themselves (I Kings 21:1-4). See also,
LAW-5.D MONARCHIAL POWERS under Authorities of Government.
- ..7 SLAVERY:
No stealing from slaves (thralls) nor their masters!
(Perhaps one of the more controversial issues about Our
Future Realm is that slavery is prophecied in the Scriptures to be
practiced again. However, not the economic slavery of Ancient
Egypt, Greece, and Rome--for most of the means of production and
manufacure will be taken over by robotics, giving us an Era of
Rest! Nor will it be the racist slavery, such as was experienced
in early America. Rather, it will be a patriarchial, extended
family type of slavery, where the slave is adopted into the family,
as an extended family member, much as we find in the Holy
Scriptures [and as Thralls among the early Vikings or Gahtsk].
Consequently, the provisions in this section are for Our Future
Days, as a Nation out among the Stars.)
- ...a ALLOWED SOURCES OF SLAVES:
- Slaves imported from foreign Lands or of strangers or aliens
within Our own Lands (Genesis 17:13, 27, 37:28, 36; Leviticus
25:44-45; Deuteronomy 28:68; I Kings 9:21; Esther 7:4;
Ezekiel 27:13; Joel 3:6; Revelations 18:12-13). However,
slaves may NOT be exported from Our Realm!
- Slaves won as spoils in war--see
LAW-6.C.8.b SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION OF SPOILS under Rules of
War, above.
- Slaves of natives or subjected or conquered Peoples of
Our Realm (Joshua 9:24-27; I Kings 9:21).
- Slaves born of other slaves in the household of a
slaveholder--these usually remain as slaves (Genesis 14:14,
17:12; Proverbs 29:21; Ecclesiastes 2:7).
- Slaves inherited as normal property by the heir(s) of a
deceased's estate (Leviticus 25:46).
- Slaves of the Brethren (or citizen-slaves)--though these
are only to serve for a temporary term, like an indenture:
- ....a Sold into slavery because of economic necessity,
family poverty, or unpaid debts (Exodus 21:2-4; II Kings
4:1; Nehemiah 5:5; Isaiah 50:1). For new limits, see
Bankruptcy.
- ....b Sold into slavery to pay the restitution for a
theft or crime that they had committed--as a voluntary
alternative to imprisonment or capital punishment. See
Punishments under BOTH Murder and Due Process.
- Slaves of Love, ians or bondsmen who serve out of loyalty
or personal favor and devotion (Exodus 21:5-6; Deuteronomy
15:16-17; Acts 11:26; I Corinthians 7:22; Galatians
4:22-23, 30-31).
- Slavegirls (Thrella or Ianessa) as wives or bondswomen in a
marriage by usage (Exodus 21:7-11; Deuteronomy 21:10-14;
Ruth 3:4).
- Slaves of children sold by families or parents who did not
want them, to those who do--see Adoption in Tolerands.
- ...b WORK OF SLAVES (Thralls, Threllas):
- Slavework may NOT be used in commerce or in business, and
especially NOT in any Trade or Skilled Labor that is protected
by Craft Guilds or Trade Unions--see Labor Relations. However,
slaves may be used for common labor, farmwork, grounds keeping,
domestic services, or other skills for the benefit of the
master's household, only.
- Slaves are required to give good service and be obedient
to their masters (I Corinthians 7:20-21; Ephesians 6:5-8;
Colossians 3:22; I Timothy 6:1-3; Titus 2:9-10).
- ...c PROTECTION OF SLAVES:
- Slaves may NOT be unlawfully harmed, nor abused, nor forced
to participate in a crime against God's Laws--the granting of
manumission is to be ordered by Our Courts if they have been
(Exodus 21:20-21, 26-27; Numbers 15:15-16; Leviticus
24:17-22, 19:15; Deuteronomy 1:16).
- Slaves are even allowed to run away to another slaveholder,
if they feel that their own master is too abusive or oppressive
(Genesis 16:6; Deuteronomy 23:15-16; Philemon 1:10-18).
- Slaves MUST be allowed to take part and participate in the
Holy Days and Scriptural Festivals, as well as fulfill their
duties to God and to HIS Law (Exodus 12:43-44; Deuteronomy
12:17-18, 16:9-12).
- Slaves MUST be given fair, just, and humane treatment by
their masters (Leviticus 25:39-40, 43; Ephesians 6:9;
Colossians 4:1). Therefore, slaves, like Man, must be given
the choice to obey or not (Joshua 24:15)--and in the light of
rising mind control technologies, these may NOT be used on
slaves! In addition, mind alterning drugs may NOT be used on
slaves to keep them compliant or subdued, as this is to be
considered sorcery.
- While slaves may be commanded to marry (to their slaveholder
or someone he designates), their condition of seritude being
an implied consent to the union, once they have been
consumated they may NOT be shared or given to anyone else for
intimate purposes--as this would break the Adultery
Commandment, resulting in the slave being granted their freedom
because of the abuse of their defilement (Deuteronomy
21:10-14).
- ...d MANUMISSION, EMANCIPATION, and the granting of freedom
to slaves
- By expiration of the term of servitude or indenture--thus
term manumission:
- ....a For citizen-slaves, they may serve up to 7 years
for another citizen--though they may serve up to the Year
of Jubilee for foreigners or strangers in Our Land (Exodus
21:2; Leviticus 25:47, 54; Deuteronomy 15:12-15, 17;
II Chronicles 28:10-11; Jeremiah 34:13-15).
- ....b For convict-slaves, they are to serve out their
whole sentence in place of imprisonment--or for their whole
life if they have committed a capital crime. See also
Punishments for Violent Crimes under Murder.
- By redemption or the payment of a sum of money or some
compensation to the slavemaster for his slave (Leviticus
25:25-27; Psalms 31:4, 111:9, 130:7-8; Isaiah 43:1; Luke
1:68-69, 2:38; I Corinthians 6:20, 7:23; II Peter 2:1)
- By the slavemaster's word or decision--either written down
in a document or bill, OR testified to before witnesses
(Jeremiah 34:8-10).
- By the Law, because of abuse or mistreatment (or getting the
slave involved in a crime)--decided by Our Courts (Exodus
21:26-27).
- ...e Slaves obtained by kidnapping, menstealing, shanghai,
or impressment are NOT allowed and are to be considered illegal.
See LAW-6.a.2.L KIDNAPPING under Murder.
- ..8 MONOPOLY:
No stealing by use of unfair economic advantage or power!
(Provisions concerning unjust restricted trade or abuse of
commercial privilege.)
- ...a ANTI-TRUST:
No stealing by unfairly squeezing out the competition or by
unjustly blocking others from entering the competition for
business (Isaiah 5:8).
- ...b HOARDING:
No stealing from consumers by withholding from market those
goods or services in your commercial possession which they need
as necessities for survival, such as the basics of food, water,
clothing, shelter, fuel or energy, air, etc. (Proverbs 11:24,
28:27; Ecclesiastes 5:13).
- ...c REGULATED MONOPOLIES APPROVED:
a monopoly may be fair if it is justly controlled or fairly
regulated by Our government--such as a commercial privilege
grant, usually to Nobles (Matthew 25:14-30).
- WAR INDUSTRIES:
Our Government is accorded the Power to develop, produce,
manufacture, and distribute weaponry or other equipment (and
supplies) that it may need in providing adaquate defense to
Our Realm (I Samuel 8:12). See also,
LAW-5.D.3.c WAR INDUSTRIES under Powers of the Monarch.
- UTILITIES AND NATURAL MONOPOLIES:
Our Government is accorded the Power to control, run, or
regulate those natural monopolies, such as utilities, lines of
communication, etc., that supply Our citizenry with modern and
technological conviences (I Samuel 8:11b).
- RESOURCE MONOPOLIES:
Our Government is accorded the Power to control, run, or
regulate those precious metals and other scarce natural
resources that may be found on the Lands of Our Realm
(Deuteronomy 8:13-14; I Kings 10:27).
- COATS OF ARMS AND NOBLE BEARINGS:
Along with the award of honorary title, the Noblemen of Our
Realm are granted exclusive right to control of their own
armorial bearings, coats of arms, surcoats, badges, and
devises that no other be allowed to use nor display any such
likeness of them (except, perhaps, in general listings with
other Nobles, such as for reference)--yet in accordance with
the rules and regulations for Heraldry set up by Our Government
(Genesis 49:3-27; Exodus 28:17-20, 39:10-13; Deuteronomy
33:6-25).
- PATENTS, Inventions, Innovations, new manufacturing
processes, formulas:
Our government is accorded the Power to grant and uphold trade
certain restrictions and or special commercial privilege to
those who originate new technologies, for the life-time of
the orginator (or to his heirs 40 years after his death if he
should not live at least 20 years after its origination)--
PROVIDED, that license is offered to others to use it for a fee
or percentage, so as to allow them to reasonably continue
competitive business (Exodus 30:31-33; I Corinthians 9:7-10;
I Timothy 5:8). Moreover, even if the originator works for a
company to produce originations, the orginator (as an
individual citizen) MUST be given a share or percentage in the
profits that his origination produces (above his normal
salary)--thus, no stealing from those so gifted by God to
produce invention and innovation in Our Realm!
(And, if it is a team origination, then ALL involved must
be given some share in its profits.)
- COPYRIGHTS, Compositions, Artforms, Merchant Marks,
Trademarks, Seals:
Our Government is accorded the Power to grant and uphold
certain trade restrictions and commercial privilege to those
who originate (author, compose, etc.) new works, for the
life-time of the originator (or to his heirs for 40 years
after his death, if he should not live 20 years after the
origination) that new works of artisans be protected from
theft and unathorized use or alteration (I Kings 21:8;
Matthew 5:17-18; Revelations 22:18-19). Moreover, even if
the originator works for a company to produce such orginations,
the originator (as an individual citizen) MUST be paid or
given a share (percentage) of the profits from his
origination (above his normal salary)--thus, no stealing from
those that have been so gifted by God for such creativity!
(And, if it is a team origination, then ALL who shared in
the creative work shall have some share in its profits.)
- FOOD AND DRUG STANDARDS:
In the interest of proper health, sanitation, and safety of
Our People, Our Government is accorded the Power to regulate
the production and distribution of foods (Deuteronomy 22:9)
and medicines (drugs)--and especially on luxury foods (Exodus
30:31-33) or vice items, such as:
- ....a SALT and Salted Foods Industries--because of its
association with ill health and potential heart problems
(Leviticus 2:13; Ezra 6:9; Matthew 5:13; Luke 14:34-35).
- ....b SUGAR and Sugared Foods Industries--because of the
dramatic and disasterous effects that Sugar may have on
some individuals (I Samuel 14:43; Proverbs 25:16, 27;
Revelations 10:9-10).
- ....c ALCOHOL and Alcoholic Beverages Industries--because
of the powerful addictive effects that over use of such items
may have upon Our People (Deuteronomy 29:17; Ecclesiastes
10:17; Ezekiel 23:33; Romans 13:13; Galatians 5:21;
Ephesians 5:18).
- CLOTHING STANDARDS:
In the interest of proper health, public modesty, and safety
of Our People, Our Government is accorded the Power to regulate
the production and distribution of fabrics (Leviticus 19:19;
Deuteronomy 22:11) as well as the distribution and sale of
clothing (Deuteronomy 22:5).
.D HOLY PROVISIONS AGAINST STEALING (Sacrilege)
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