Marxist Communism in the Bible: Article 1 - Land, Slavery, and Rent

In February of 1848, Moses Mordecai Marx Levy (a.k.a. Karl Marx) and friend Friedrich Engels, published Manifest der Kommumistischen Partei, also known as the Communist Manifesto.

Link to the Communist Manifesto: https://www.marxists.org/admin/books/manifesto/Manifesto.pdf

Here's the very first and most fundamental article of the Communist Manifesto from page 48 (PDF page 52) at the link above:

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.

In other words, Communism does away with the private ownership of land. All land is owned by the government, and the government then rents it out.

Karl Marx was a Jew, and there's a good possibility that Moses Mordecai Marx Levy's most fundamental idea for Communism came directly from the bible, specifically the section of the bible known as the Torah (Hebrew - Instructions) (Genesis through Deuteronomy).

Ancient Egyptian Communism

Most of us know the basic content of the bible passage from Genesis 47 listed further below, but few realize the similarity of the situation in ancient Egypt with modern day Communism.

All the land of ancient Egypt was ceded to the Egyptian government, along with all the people of the land becoming slaves to the government, under YaHuWaH 's plan.

YaHuWaH Elohim's plan was to ordain 7 good years of plenty of food and then 7 years of dire famine in Egypt and the Middle East region.

YaHuWaH then gave Pharaoh, ruler of Egypt, advance warning of the execution of His plan via cryptic dreams that required interpretation.

Prior to that, YaHuWaH had prepared Joseph by giving him the ability to interpret encrypted dreams in order to provide accurate advance warning to Pharaoh so that he could prepare Egypt to survive the coming planned calamity.

YaHuWaH Elohim promoted Joseph's rank from that of a jailed prisoner to that of a high government official.

In the scriptures below we see that our heavenly Father removed the private ownership of land in ancient Egypt and transferred ownership to the Egyptian government. He then demoted the free citizenry of Egypt into being slaves of the government. The Egyptian government then rented the land back to the slaves.

Genesis 47:13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.
16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants [slaves] unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s [no private property].
21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
22 Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh [rent], and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.
25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.
26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh’s.

Modern Day Marxist Communism

Here are all 10 of the articles of the Communist manifesto from Pages 48 and 49 (PDF pages 52 and 53 at the link provided further above):

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. Chapter II: Proletarians and Communists
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc, etc.

Most of the above 10 items are currently in existence and operating in the government of the United States of America, some to greater or lesser extents than others. It just takes time to eventually and completely execute all of the above articles.

Unfortunately modern communism brings with it a recent history of mass murder (tens of millions of people purged).

May YaHuWaH Elohim have mercy on us all.