{"id":1803,"date":"2012-11-24T06:13:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T14:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2014-08-23T15:53:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T22:53:35","slug":"are-you-really-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/24\/are-you-really-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Really Free?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Genesis 31:43<\/strong>, <strong><em>These daughters are my daughters. <\/em><\/strong>Laban claims that Jacob\u2019s wives\u00a0belonged to him.\u00a0He was also steeped in the idolatry of Babylon having in his possession idols or images called <em>teraphim<\/em> (Gen 31:19, 34\u201335).<\/p>\n<p>Is there a modern counterpart to this? Does modern Babylon want to control and possess wives and children of redeemed Israel, indoctrinate them in its pagan religious system, and keep Jacob\u2019s modern descendants from returning to their spiritual and physical homeland and birthright inheritance, and from returning to the Torah-faith of their fathers?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/24\/are-you-really-free\/slavery-14560739-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1804\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1804\" title=\"Slavery 14560739-2\" src=\"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Slavery-14560739-2-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Slavery-14560739-2-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Slavery-14560739-2-1024x1001.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Slavery-14560739-2-306x300.jpg 306w, https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Slavery-14560739-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are modern governments (e.g., public education and Child Protective Services, welfare programs, various government regulations that have greatly diminished or eliminated many of our freedoms) and socio-political organizations (e.g. ACLU, UN) modern-day Labans? Revelation 18:13 says that Babylon the Great traffics in the souls of men. This speaks at some level of the modern day enslavement of men\u2014of their religious expression, freedom of thought and action.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemory\"><a href=\"javascript:\" onclick=\"Evernote.doClip({title: 'Are You Really Free?',url: 'https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/24\/are-you-really-free\/',contentID: 'post-1803',suggestTags: 'Genesis,Jacob,Laban,Slavery',providerName: 'Hoshana Rabbah Blog',styling: 'text' });return false\" class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryLink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.evernote.com\/article-clipper.png\" \nclass=\"evernoteSiteMemoryButton\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"evernoteSiteMemoryClear\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis 31:43, These daughters are my daughters. Laban claims that Jacob\u2019s wives\u00a0belonged to him.\u00a0He was also steeped in the idolatry of Babylon having in his possession idols or images called teraphim (Gen 31:19, 34\u201335). Is there a modern counterpart to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/24\/are-you-really-free\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64],"tags":[21,19,316,180],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-readings","tag-genesis","tag-jacob","tag-laban","tag-slavery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Are You Really Free? | Hoshana Rabbah Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/24\/are-you-really-free\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Are You Really Free? | Hoshana Rabbah Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Genesis 31:43, These daughters are my daughters. 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