Today: [Ezekiel 45] Just Civil Principles Under Theocratic Rule. Have you ever wondered what God’s heart is toward the issue of taxes and the character of local or national government? In chapter 45 Ezekiel receives very exact instructions about the layout of the land, the specific areas to be set aside for each municipality, and how much the princes of the land were allowed to exact upon the people in taxation and other responsibilities. In this we see an exact percentage specified by God himself that government is allowed under a just administration to extract from the people in terms of taxes. What is the percentage? It might surprise and in fact shock you.
