Just a quick reminder, per the "socialism" discussion, of a quotation that is parallel to my understanding of how the current working definition of socialism is anti-thetical to the a Biblical view:

The term “Socialism” becomes a common label for the various theories of attack upon the principle of property, the various policies of communal control at the expense of the family and individual freedom. Belloc, Hilaire.   [The Crisis of Civilization, Being the Matter of a Course of Lectures Delivered at Fordham University, 1937. Rockford, Illinois: Tan Books and Publishers, Inc., 1991, p. 153.]

That behind the tendency to focus on the freedom of sinful human beings, the real concern should be the acknowledgement of everyman's stewardship responsibility to the Owner, Jesus Christ.

The message of the Old Testament is: He is. He owns by ex nihilo creation.

The message of the New Testament is: Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ of God, the Prophet, Priest, and King who has come to fulfill all those old testament pictures of how men can be saviors, warriors, husbands, fathers, and sons, lovers, soldiers, and famer/husbandmen, Dominators of the earth and her resources. This is what it looks like when the Spirit of the Triune God fills a human being to live out the purpose for which he was created and redeemed.

The Prophet project is mostly complete, as Jesus proclaimed perfectly everything He heard from His Father so that we heard the full message intended to us.

Now the saints of the church function as lower-case messiahs in that they herald the good news/gospel of the ascension of the savior/king to the sovereign throne of the universe, and whatsoever He has commanded us, so that the nations are discipled under Him as well.

The Priest Project is mostly complete, as Jesus accomplished perfectly everything pictured by the Levitical Temple servants, the Aaronic Priesthood, the funcitions of the earthly tabernacle and temple of Solomon, in the lessons from the furniture, the propitiation of the alter, the fellowship of the table of showbread, the illumination of the lampstand, the sweet savor before God of the prayers/incense of the saints, and the communion inside the Holy of Holies as the veil has been ripped wide open, because the blood on the mercy seat has covered forever our willful and unwitting sin and sins.

Now the saints of the church function as lower-case priests in that they

continue being the conveyors of God's instruction, God's forgiveness, judging and counselling those inside and those outside the covenant, cleaning people up and preparing them to function as faithful servants of the Great King in His court, and accomplishing His commissions.

The Priest Project is mostly complete, as Jesus accomplished perfectly everything pictured by the Levitical Temple servants, the Aaronic Priesthood, the funcitions of the earthly tabernacle and temple of Solomon, in the lessons from the furniture, the propitiation of the alter, the fellowship of the table of showbread, the illumination of the lampstand, the sweet savor before God of the prayers/incense of the saints, and the communion inside the Holy of Holies as the veil has been ripped wide open, because the blood on the mercy seat has covered forever our willful and unwitting sin and sins.

Now the saints of the church function as lower-case priests in that they

continue being the conveyors of God's instruction, God's forgiveness, judging and counselling those inside and those outside the covenant, cleaning people up and preparing them to function as faithful servants of the Great King in His court, and accomplishing His commissions.

The King Project remains the primary focus during this age. The Prophet has Sat Down, after all his walking around heralding to people what He has heard in the Council of the Most High. The Priest has sat down (he who never sat down under the Old Administration) because His proptitiatory work is finished. Sitting down is what kings do on their thrones. As they sit, they dispatch their deputies, their ambassadors, their generals, their counselors, and their magistrates to administer the kingdom in a way that pleases Him and highlights the appropriate fame of His goodness, His justice, His love, and His wisdom.

Now the saints of the church function as lower-case kings, Daniel 7 tells us, in that they have "received the kingdom" which will never be taken away, expire, or be displaced by another kingdom. The saints admonish the magistrates of the Earth to be wise "kiss the Son" and show respect and honor for His dispatches, lest He send out his Enforcers to correct them and teach them justice as He brings down temporal and eternal curses on those to ignore and defy His authority.

Thus the primary Victim in the group-ownership Property crimes of Socialism (be they in stewardship of life, land, money, stuff, and the value of men's labor) is that the Kings assignment of stewardship is unjustly perverted to the control of someone other than He has directed. 

Picture how you would feel as a landlord who had hired a Property Management agency to maintain your properties, promote faithful payment plans among the tenants, add the net income from the Properties you own into your bank account. Imagine the "breaking point" where you finally face the reality that the money is not showing up on the deposit records and you go out and inquire what is going on. You find that your previous steward has "sold" the "rights" of controlling and managing the property for you, to your bitter enemy, for some measly benefits far below what You had been paying them, and this Enemy is continually raising the rents on the poor tenants, afflicting them unnecessarily and blaming it on Your mean and grasping, unjust character, and letting the houses and lands grow over and decay into ruins and blackberry thickets.

What would you do? Would you not judge a nation such as this? In the same we Jesus has been judging the Church in our country. He has taken away their common sense, so that they are finding themselves oppressed by their enemies and are clueless that they are the ones who defected and surrendered. He has taken away their stewardship of property and empowered the enemies with it, to their own hurt. We find ourselves in the quartermaster battalion of our own enemy, serving and supplying them with the means to kill and enslave our own people as they surround them and subjugate them and remove even more of their stewardship rights.

You can never restore the lost rights of sinful human beings by championing their rights directly. The more America does that, the more they find themselves enslaved.

It is only by concerning yourself with the freedom and human rights of the First Human, that you put human rights first - and then you will see the fortunes of the average man restored.

If the church or the nation seeks first the kingdom (think: sovereign, civil authority Jesus has always had, has been given, has earned, and has won in an (un)fair fight with His enemy) -- then all these things will be added unto hers.

When you advocate that the Family redirect their stewardship over resources and labor from the Lord Jesus Christ, to the group-ownership construct of civil government (or any other configuration); or you participate in coercing that control away from the Family -- the Landlord will take appropriate action.

There is a Book that shows you how to be a good property manager. He never intended you to reconstruct with no blueprints.