Pagani have two main hobbies: Worshiping power, and acting. Thus, they love the cosplay of pretending to the most powerful office in the Kingdom of God: the office of Judge.
How do they do this?
To spot a counterfeit judge, first you must know a genuine one. The spiritual man judges all things and holds the keys to heaven and hell. A properly discerning man knows how to instruct a sinner how to avoid damnation and how to shine like a light in a dark place, putting to shame the ignorant talk of foolish people.
Kingdom history is filled with genuine judges, such as Abel, who judged his brother via superior worship, and Rebekah, who judged her son Esau through godly trickery. Other notable judges were John, who rebuked Herod (a descendant of Esau) and was killed for it, and Ambrose, who rebuked Theodosius by excommunicating him, and thereby succeeded in saving him.
The archetypical righteous judge was God’s blood avenger. To we moderns, he appeared as a loose cannon vigilante; but in fact he was not authorized by God’s law to take the life of anyone not found guilty by due process. He was no Judge Dredd.
The counterfeit judge is the man who arrogates to himself the power to convict upon false accusation, on his own authority without a conviction or examination of all the facts, or, on the other side of the coin, to free the justly convicted wicked person. The power to be a one-man marshall, judge, jury, and executioner is irresistible to the tyrant, both petty and great. We are infatuated with revenge fantasies which parody the biblical role of avenger.
This world of tyranny is the world which Christ referred to in his famous pronouncement “my kingdom is not of this world”. He was not being poetic, ethereal, or spiritual; he was stating that His rules were real, and Satan’s rules were fake. He was also granting a final, tragic legitimacy of the Sanhedrin to serve as law court. If those vipers and false witnesses were not allowed by Christ’s followers to chain him and condemn him, he would be unable to fulfill his mission to save his people and damn the Temple.
Satan’s world, which Christ overcame with his rules, is a dystopia, such as in the comic book, Judge Dredd. In Satan's world, revenge and vigilante justice fantasies are perennially popular. This is Satan pretending to the godly role of blood avenger, but failing, because he is impotent to provide due process and just judgments. All he can do is be the murdering cop, making up the rules as he goes along, and abusing people capriciously out of his twisted and Satanic sense of “justice”.
Because sinful men hate responsibility but love domination, they seek to avoid the difficult duty of actually adjudicating sins and prefer to skip straight to the degradation. All of the due process is unwieldy and boring and doesn’t always render the desired verdict.
This is why pagani love war. War is an enhanced police state; a time when men think they can do away with lawful conviction, and entire groups of people can be punished en masse, without having to use the Christly discipline of judgment. Therefore, pagani are constantly upgrading all human conflicts into war, because in war, violence is sanctioned and the pagan’s natural instincts can be let off the leash. They can act like animals instead of men, waging the “War on drugs”, “war on terror”, or fighting the “immigrant invasion”.
Rome was the quintessential power empire. She solved all of her justice problems by waging war. Things getting sketchy on the borders? Go conquer the pagani, put a bunch of them to the sword to put the fear of Caesar into them, then turn around and give them a nice court system, some aqueducts, and roads.
Police societies are also slave societies. What is the purpose of cops in such nations, other than to keep the jails full? In such lands, justice is a racket, and laws are written merely to feed the prison industry complex.
I’ve already spoken elsewhere about how modern incarceration is simply our replacement for black chattel slavery. It is the trade in man-flesh which even good, tidy, orthodox Christians approve of.
The US slave trade in supposed gang bangers is the latest example. The King confesses his own impotence by failing to duly convict many of the deportees. He can do this, of course, because it’s “war”. It’s about the theater, not the justice.
In contrast, in God’s original republic, criminals were tried on the spot, even if they hailed from far away. Strangers guilty of idolatry were executed right alongside natives. God, apparently, was no respecter of extradition treaties, and didn't sweep his problems under the carpet, or sell them as slaves to foreigners. And, if Trump had any evidence that these “gang bangers” had actually murdered, by simply selling them as slaves, he is actually justifying the wicked. Letting them off easy. If any of them are merely guilty of having tattoos, then he’s condemning the innocent. But, the point is, we’ll never know.
The reality-show American security state begins to resemble Rome. The Romans loved to display their impotence in all kinds of ways. Unwilling to channel their libido dominandi into the blessing of marriage, they erected phallus statues everywhere, to commemorate the paterfamilias’s power to rape girls, boys, wives, and slaves. Accordingly, their military triumphs featured trains of captured prisoners to satisfy the Emperor’s, and the people’s, lust.
He who sits in the heavens laughs. God found the Roman lust for domination so stupid, that he mocked it with this Psalm: You ascended on high, leading a host of captives in your train and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there. This was God’s parody of the Roman triumph. God had re-captured the slaves from the pagani. They were now no longer humiliated rape victims, but rather, God’s willing servants in a joyful procession. God would turn them back around to conquer Rome with the iron rod of Christian love, discipline, and, finally, just law courts.
Paul was a prototypical righteous judge of Rome, much like Rebekah was a judge of Esau. Roman justice was so perverted that Paul was executed by the state for preaching the gospel. The stoichea of Rome had gifted Paul with the bribery of citizenship which, as in all satanic nations, supposedly bequeaths unique rights to the lucky recipient, but frees the beast to treat the foreigner any way he wants.
But Paul, like the trickster Rebekah, used Rome’s statist bribe against Rome, invoking his privilege in order to armlock the hapless police state into ferrying him straight to the heart of the beast for two entire years, where he could deliver his masterstroke and implant the virus which would kill it.
The ultimate Judge, of course, is Christ. In Rebekah-like manner, He positioned himself exactly where Satan would have him murdered as an innocent victim, and where the people would, as one, convict themselves—without need of any additional testimony! By crying “give us Barabbas!”
Our Judge is a judo master. Satan, on the other hand, is just a green belt, kicking down on the helpless with his so-called “power”.
You disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you! -Peter
He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the LORD. -Proverbs