Friday, March 23, 2012

(in part) Why Capitalism and Communism Must and Will Surrender to God

We live in the world and on the earth; we are spiritual beings and we are material beings. We all start out from birth poor in each case. If we are born again from above according to Jesus (John Ch. 3), we are given and taught His Truth and it sets and makes us free. This is the wealth of the Gospel that enriches us spiritually. We are warned by the Lord and the Apostles and by Solomon not to become servants of mammon. But we are not forbidden to have material wealth. We are instructed to use mammon to serve others.

Luke 16:8-10
The Message (MSG)

8-9 "Now here's a surprise: The master praised the crooked manager! And why? Because he knew how to look after himself. Streetwise people are smarter in this regard than law-abiding citizens. They are on constant alert, looking for angles, surviving by their wits. I want you to be smart in the same way—but for what is right—using every adversity to stimulate you to creative survival, to concentrate your attention on the bare essentials, so you'll live, really live, and not complacently just get by on good behavior."

God Sees Behind Appearances
10-13 Jesus went on to make these comments:

If you're honest in small things,
you'll be honest in big things;
If you're a crook in small things,
you'll be a crook in big things.
If you're not honest in small jobs,
who will put you in charge of the store?
No worker can serve two bosses:
He'll either hate the first and love the second
Or adore the first and despise the second.
You can't serve both God and the Bank.

But we can't help others materially if we don't have material to help them with.

All this is to say that a healthy national economy will help the church do her righteous duty if she is wise and innocent.

Luke 17
7 But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?
8 And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?
9 Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.

10 So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

So why are things becoming so chaotic economically and financially? IMHO because we have lost our moral compass in the church and we have lost our unity in the Lord Jesus. In fact it was lost by the 4th century as the gentile church rejected the Jews and the Jewish covenants.

If we want to be of the nations of the earth which are blessed by God we ought to heed the Lord who told Abram:

Genesis 12:1-3
The Message (MSG)

1 God told Abram: "Leave your country, your family, and your father's home for a land that I will show you.

2-3 I'll make you a great nation
and bless you.
I'll make you famous;
you'll be a blessing.
I'll bless those who bless you;
those who curse you I'll curse.
All the families of the Earth
will be blessed through you."

And his beloved psalmist who wrote:

Psalm 122
5 For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.

6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.

7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.
8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
9Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.

The Lord prophesies many times in the Tanakh that Israel's end will be blessed beyond anything she has yet known. Some people fear a Jewish conspiracy! They should read the Book and they will see that it is God who has planned the end from before the beginning.

Deuteronomy 7
9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.

Amos 9
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.

13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.

"THEY SHALL NO MORE BE PULLED OUT OF THEIR LAND WHICH I HAVE GIVEN THEM," saith the LORD thy God.

R U E 2 C Jesus the Jewish Messiah?

spirit led bravery

Moral cowards run from God. The Morally courageous run to Him and learn Charity and generosity. The Lord loves a cheerful giver (a courageous and generous giver). No man good ever praised the tax man for doing his charity for him. Tyrants love to tax you to do their chosen "charities" and skim a bit for themselves. The goodness of America still remains in some of her living saints. Yet

Matthew 24:12
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. (the words of Jesus).

The Word comes to pass and today!

Let us who will love His appearing still now love our neighbor! He who endures to the end shall be saved!