The document outlines the evolution of Israel's government through four stages: 1) Led by Yahweh, Moses, and 12 tribal elders. 2) Added officers and marching units to the previous structure. 3) Added 70 empowered Shoterim to the previous structure. 4) Established a supreme court of priests and Shoterim and divided the country into cities each led by Shoterim and officers, all still under the overall leadership of Yahweh and Moses.

1. Israel s Government (stage #1)
Yahweh
Law
Moses
12 Tribes Elders

2. Israel s Government (stage #2)
Yahweh
Law
Moses
Officers ( sarim )
Marching Units

3. Israel s Government (stage #3)
Yahweh
Law
Moses
70 Empowered Shoterim
Officers (“sarim”)
Marching Units

4. Israel s Government (stage #4)
Yahweh
Law
Supreme Court (priests & shoter)
City 1 City 2 City 3
shoterim shoterim shoterim
sarim sarim sarim

5. Dilemma of Nurnberg
Nazi Defense Allied Prosecution
Our society made its own laws [You] should be tried on this
based upon its needs and basis, on a higher law, a higher
desires. law which rises above the
Our society commanded us to provincial and the transient.
exterminate the Jews. US Supreme Court Justice and
Therefore it would have been prosecutor Robert Jackson.
illegal for us to not exterminate
the Jews.
Laws of non-Nazi German
societies are irrelevant to this
case.

6. Law is
Chief Justice US Supreme Court 1902-1932, Oliver W Holmes:
only a prophecy of what the courts will do in fact
and nothing more.
There
Chief Justice US Supreme Court 1946-1953, Frederick Vinson:
is nothing more certain in modern society than the
principle there are no absolutes.
Implicit in [the
Barack Obama in Audacity of Hope:
Constitution s] structure. . .was a rejection of
absolute truth, the infallibility of any idea or
ideology or theology or ism, any tyrannical
consistency that might lock future generations into
a single, unalterable course.

7. Justice Lifts the
Nations
(1905) in old Supreme Court
Building, Lausanne,
Switzerland
Cited in Francis Schaeffer, How Shall We
Then Live? p107