Kingdom Principles

Kingdom Principles

some form of governmental structure. The need for government and order is inherent in the human spirit and is a manifestation of a divine mandate given to mankind by the Creator. Man was created to be a governor and ruler, and therefore, it is his nature to seek some authority mechanism that would bring order to his private and social world. Government is necessary, desirable, and essential to man’s social context no matter how primitive or modern. This is why man continues to search for an effective way to govern himself. Man’s need for some formal government structure is an out growth of his need for social order and relationship management. This need begins in the smallest prototype of society, the family, and extends all the way to the manifestation of national expressions of constitutional order. Nations need government. The first Book of Moses, Genesis, reveals that the first prototype of government was introduced by the Creator Himself long before the first humans existed on the earth. In fact, it gives evidence of a government structure that preexisted earth and the physical uni verse itself. This expression of government structure was a result of a desire to bring order to chaos and productivity to emptiness. Now the earth was formless [no order] and empty [chaot ic emptiness] , darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light (Genesis 1:2-3). Here we see that the impact of a divine, invisible, supernatural government was necessary because of disorder and chaos. Thus, the purpose for government is to maintain productive order and man agement. Furthermore, the creation of mankind was also a result of disorder and the need for management. A little later in Genesis we find evidence of this as one of God’s motives for creating man.

When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens— and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth

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