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© 2000  Joe Griffin

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The Inscrutable Question: Establishment & Doctrinal Harnesses Produce Freedom & Prosperity; Breaking them Results in Anarchy or Tyranny

	10.	Adding to this tranquility is the willingness of the unbelieving population to put on the harness of establishment.
	11.	These are law-abiding citizens and although incapable of producing prosperity themselves they contribute to an ordered society so that the believers’ may do so.
	12.	The effects of both the believer and unbeliever putting on the harness has impact throughout the commonwealth and is reflected in social life, business, recreation, the arts, music, professions, as well as the spiritual life.
	13.	Such a society is very self-disciplined and thus enables freedom to be maintained with a minimum of governmental interference or legal overkill in attempts to control the unharnessed.
	14.	Thus no nation ever advances without its citizens agreeing to wear one or both of these two harnesses.
	15,	One of the greatest challenges to any society occurs when its citizens, by means of wearing these harnesses, reach a high level of collective prosperity.
	16.	Prosperity brings with it the temptation to throw off the harnesses.  This begins with anti-authority arrogance and the environment of freedom is slowly lost as a result.
17.	A Client Nation in decline is marked, first of all, by a barbarous population.  There is a gradual breakdown of law and order and public safety is threatened.
	18.	As a result, the government ignores the restrains placed upon it, such as the U.S. Constitution, and passes Draconian laws in an attempt to restore order.
	19.	From that point on there is an ongoing struggle for power between the people who demand unrestrained freedom and the government, which demands more and more authority and control.
	20.	This struggle continues in an ebb and flow between anarchy and tyranny until finally a critical point is reached.
	21.	That critical point can produce a national crisis in the form of (1) an internal revolution or (2) the imposition of a police state.
	22.	In such a crisis there are those who emerge in leadership positions on both sides.  The two who rise to the top are the ones who have, first, thrown off their harnesses and, second, have the charisma to gain a following.
	23.	Those involved in anarchy have thrown off the harness of the law.  Those involved in tyranny have thrown off the harness of the Constitution.
	24.	The anarchists claim that the government is tyrannical while the government claims that the people are anarchists.
	25.	In a struggle for power both sides are right in their accusations and thus the resultant conflict finds Evil One fighting against Evil Two.  No matter who wins the struggle, those who survive will never know true freedom again. 
26.	Principle: Freedom without authority results in anarchy.  Authority without freedom results in tyranny.
	27.	Whether the individuals involved are angels, apostles, or simply citizens of a client nation, no one can throw off the harnesses of establishment and doctrine and avoid the ramifications of divine discipline.

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