Deuteronomy 16:18-20 (ESV Strong's)
“You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.
Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Truth: God is a God of Justice and demands that from His leaders.
We live in a world were justice is perverted. Those in leadership have determined, based upon their own agendas, what is just and what is not just. The Supreme Court of our land has been given power, by our Constitution, to determine what is just and what is unjust. The world calls this, "The rule of Law." Those in power love to state that something was following the "rule of law." However, man's "rule of law" today is a far, far version from God's Rule of Law. In the above passage God is warning the leadership of Israel to remember that when they reach the land God is giving them they are to follow "justice" and "only justice." This is not man's rule of law, but God's justice. If a rule of law is not according to God's character and God's commands, the rule of law is a sham and lacks the protection God provides. God wants us to judge according to His character and His version of justice. The nation of Israel would have blessings, IF, when they reach the land of Israel they will follow God's form of Justice, not the form of the world of the nations they were disposing. The same is true today. The real rule of law is the justice is the law that follows God's character and God's Word.
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