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Matthew 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth,
where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth
corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your
treasure is, there will your heart be also.
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Here on earth wealth is measured by the abundance of one’s
possessions whether it is property, commodities, land ,and resources from the
land, stocks and bonds, precious jewels, gold and silver. Men
practically worship the stock market as a god. Today there are apps
for new computer devices where one can check on stock prices any time of the
day. Speculators make bets on the availability and price of
commodities and drive prices of these things higher by their activities.
That is exactly what Wall Street barons and the BIG BANKS are doing to oil
prices even though they do not directly use the commodity to do business as
airlines, truckers, and sea-going shippers do. This kind of wealth
creation by these speculators is hurting the consuming public who do not have
lots of reserve cash to live on.
All modern news shows on TV and radio have a segment
broadcasting the latest up to the minute averages of most important markets
such as the DOW, S&P, and NYSE. On special business news shows
you can get the latest averages on all the world markets and trade directly
online. So men have a preoccupation with wealth creation and wealth
making. Here in the
Accumulating these things is not the best thing that a man can
do in this life. There is however, another spirit force that drives
men into doing these things.
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will
hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise
the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Revelation 18:2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice,
saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of
devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and
hateful bird. 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,
and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her
delicacies. 10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas,
alas, that great city
Ancient Tyrus is another target city where “
Ezekiel 27:2 Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for
Tyrus; 3 And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea,
which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O
Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty. 4 Thy borders are in the midst
of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty. 5 They have made all thy
ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from
A litany of ancient nations are listed along with their trade
arrangements, and then the following:
Ezekiel 27:27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy
mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise,
and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in
the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy
ruin. 28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. 29 And
all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall
come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; 30 And shall cause
their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up
dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: 31 And they
shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and
they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. 32 And in
their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee,
saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea? 33
When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou
didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy
merchandise. 34 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths
of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall
fall. 35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and
their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.
36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror,
and never shalt be any more.
I just want you to see the spirit source that causes men to
become like pack rats accumulating wealth and property all their life-time,
which they cannot personally use in their time on earth. Such
wealth is hoarded, collected and protected from the benefit and use of other
men, who live in abject poverty, hunger and need of all things.
This is what makes
Matthew 19:21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go
and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in
heaven: and come and follow me. 22 But when the young man heard that saying, he
went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions. 23 Then said Jesus unto his
disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the
kingdom of heaven. 24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the
James 5:1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your
miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your
garments are motheaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of
them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the
labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud,
crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of
the Lord of sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton;
ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. 6 Ye have condemned
and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
Now what God treasures more than anything are His sons and
daughters, more than the earth or anything else on it or in it. Of
course that is because we are His living immortal body cells that He calls, “my
children”, the images of His Life. The world and everything in it
including imprisoned devils shall be burned and destroyed out of
existence. Only that which can pass through the fire shall be saved
and preserved. That means only the spirits of men will avoid
annihilation when our world comes to an end.
Exodus 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and
keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people:
for all the earth is mine:
Malachi 3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall
prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to
his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he
shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. 2 But who may abide the day of his coming?
and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and
like fullers' soap: 3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and
he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they
may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. 4 Then shall the offering
of
Malachi
3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not
consumed. 17 And they shall be mine,
saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man
spareth his own son that serveth him.
Isaiah
13:12 I will make a man more precious
than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
You
do know that in the "parable of Lazarus and the rich man", the “devil
possessing his body became “a rich man” by refusing to let God's “jewel”,
(Lazarus) go free! Here Lazarus is stolen treasure! ALL MEN are God's human treasures. And He will not allow one to be stolen and
kept from Him.
Isaiah 43:2 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with
thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest
through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon
thee.
Deuteronomy 4:31 For the LORD thy God is a merciful God; he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor
forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
Psalm 110:3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power,
in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of
thy youth.
Isaiah 52:1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on
thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall
no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Revelation 19:8 And to her was granted that she should be
arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness
of saints.
God put us down here in the pit of hell with devils so that we
can learn the difference between good and evil, what is important and what is
trivial, what is “real treasure”, and what has less value.
Ecclesiastes_3:11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his
time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out
the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
Isaiah 24:1 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh
it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants
thereof. 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the
servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with
the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as
with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. 3 The land shall be
utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word. 17
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. 18
And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall
fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be
taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations
of the earth do shake. 19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean
dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly. 20 The earth shall reel to and fro
like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression
thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
Psalm 91:7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand
at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. 8 Only with thine eyes
shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
Psalm 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait
upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth. 10 For yet a little while, and the
wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it
shall not be.
To
the devil God says:
Ezekiel 28:17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty,
thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to
the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine
iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a
fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to
ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at
thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
Revelation 20:14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of
fire. This is the second death. 15 And whosoever was not found written in the
book of life was cast into the lake of fire. 20 And the beast was taken, and
with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he
deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped
his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with
brimstone.
Character is what is treasured by our Father. Angelic
Refiners will make certain that we are beautiful, full of righteousness and
holiness as becomes the royal children of the King of kings and Lord of lords,
our Father-God!
Will a man rob God? No,
he can’t, because God IS MEN!! 2
Corinthians 6:16. But devils have tried to take His entire
Family from Him as their “personal houses”!
This folly will never STAND! The
Creator gave all of humankind to Jesus as his personal possession and heritage.
Psalms 2:6 Yet
have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. 7 I will declare the decree: the
LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. 8 Ask
of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost
parts of the earth for thy possession.
John 12:32 And I,
if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
Isaiah 66:18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall
come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see
my glory. 21 And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith
the LORD. 22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall
remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain. 23
And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one
sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
All “rich men” are LOSERS!!
VICTORY BELONGS TO JESUS!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa78qxQCKgo
Glorify God!
God did it!
