FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY
People will do about anything for money. The love
of money is both crony capitalism and practical socialism. “Practical” because
socialism is all about wealth, and who has it. People will accept any doctrine
for something that is essentially worthless. Money is not what people love but
the antennae for pleasure, prestige, and power. Those three attitudes are the
lusts of original sin, and money causes people to sin, and of course, sin has consequences,
as is written, “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some
people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves
with many griefs” (1 Tim 6:10).
Think on that. Poor people worry about their necessities and
health. Billionaires worry about death and economic catastrophe. The wealthy must
guard it at all times because if they do not, their wealth may evaporate and be
gone with the wind, so to speak. Solomon wrote that whatever his eyes beheld as
given to them (Ecc 2:10), but he soon realized that all is vanity (Ecc 2:15). Monetary
gain and grief are proportional. Wise men can have money, but cherishing
it is vanity. The love of money begets the sin of coveting because no amount of
money is enough; wealthy people must have the wealth that belongs to others.
That is crony capitalism and how socialism always works.
The masses (i.e. the people) must be used for others to
gain, and socialism is like a Ponzi scheme where the first to enlist are those
who gain, and it is on the backs of those who enter later when they see the gain
of those before them.
Note that money is not evil. It is nothing more than the
medium of exchange for goods and services. However, many seem to worship it
because it is a symbol of power and wealth, and those who have it are prestigious
in the eyes of the lesser. The love of money is the evil. The “Root” of
the Tree of Life is God. The “root” of the Tree of Knowledge is the love of
money. Money is not the physical root of the Wisdom Tree but the things it
represents.
According to Solomon, the one most wise, the root of the Wisdom
Tree would be vanity. Vain things are those of no account or negligible significance.
Money is insignificant. Think not? What if there was an economic collapse. Why would
anyone want money? Perhaps one would suppose that would never happen. It has
many times. Inflation was so bad in the Weimer Republic of Germany that any
amount of money could not buy things. It became worthless. Inflation at that time
was so bad that the value of money was no more than for fire kindling. People
paid before they ate at restaurants because the price increased as they ate the
meal!
Worthless money was the catalyst for National Socialism. Too
much capital in the wrong hands creates crises, and too little money in the
right hands as well. The Nazis never let that particularly serious crises go
to waste. The Third Reich was built on the crisis of the Weimer Republic.
Today, America is in an economic crisis and the time is ripe for a deeper
plunge into the socialist “swamp.”
Judas was the treasurer of the apostolic Church. Many church
treasurers in modern times have been seduced by easy access to money that is
not theirs. Money can lure even the most righteous person from God, and Satan
knows that. The ideology of socialism is built on the concept that capital does
not belong to the few but belongs to all without regard to the capacity of those
to whom it belongs. It is one of two ways: (1) Thieves are socialists, or (2) those
deceived by socialism become thieves without realizing it.
There exists in the world a deserving attitude. Adam
and Eve had their basic needs met, but their attitudes were, we deserve this
luscious good fruit and the wisdom it will bring. They ate and enjoyed the
good fruit, but what did it bring? Shame, grief, wandering from the faith, isolation
from God, and hard work. They got what they deserved. The world outside of
Paradise is what everyone deserves, and the world is the place of tribulation.
Why is death gain, according to Paul? To escape tribulation.
Socialism has always brought grief because it is the wrong
way for gain. Faith in government is as bad as faith in the Serpent. The Serpent
looked innocent and clever, but that was his evil persona. Inside, he was still
the Devil! It turned out that Adam and Eve traded their souls to the Devil for
a few bites of a fig. Marxism, not quite as cunning, uses the “carrot.” They do
provide, but the “fruit” is not what it seems.
For Adam and Eve, the luscious fruit was grief and death
because that was the consequence of their eating the fruit. In the case of the
Wisdom Tree, the fruits of it were merely the monetary standard of the day.
Adam and Eve bartered their eternal lives away for mere figs. Figs were the exchange
medium in the Garden of Eden, and when God said, “do not eat of that fruit,” He
meant don’t love what figs can buy because it is only death!
Customs change with time, and so does the economy. In
apostolic times, the exchange medium was no longer free things, but a thing
(silver) accumulated in one of three ways: (1) Hard work and sweat, or (2)
charity, or (3) usury. Judas was deceived by the cunning Beast, now out of the
snake and the tree, but in him. Judas could have worked or be satisfied with
the charity from the disciples. After all, he had the treasurer’s sack, and
none were starving. Judas, unsatisfied with ample, wanted more. That
is how socialism works as well. Where was he to get more? Along came those with
money, and he saw the opportunity.
Judas was not the usurer, but the victim. The Jewish leaders
used Judas’s love of money to captivate him. They held out the bag and all
Judas saw was money that would require no work. It was his for the taking. There
was one provision, though — he would be required to turn on his friend and
Savior. Jesus was the King of the Jews and mankind. He was Supreme to Caesar. Jesus
was the most valuable Asset to ever exist. The Jewish leaders were paying only
thirty pieces of silver and the return-on-investment was terrific. Jesus was
the interest on the Jewish money, and they were the worst usurers ever. Ezekiel
saw that crisis. Whoever does the abomination of usury deserves death and
his blood shall be on himself (Ezek 18:3).
The Jewish leaders had the greater sin than Pilate. Their
sin was usury, and the penalty for that was death. Their gain was the death of
Jesus at the mere cost of a little silver. Socialism accepts the “death” of God
for a mere minimum wage! Socialism is another extreme case of usury. Judas saw
the light too late, and grief overwhelmed him. Like Adam long before, he had
traded his soul for what “money” can buy. (Adam was redeemed; Judas was not). Godless socialism works the same way. Dependence
on evil men is diminishing God, and Marx diminished Him out of existence. The philosopher
Nietzche made God dead in the eyes of liberalism, and Marx struck the fatal
blow. The acceptance of socialism is making God as dead and the
government as God.
Who is it? asked John. It was one of the twelve who
supped with Jesus, which of course, was to be done in remembrance of Him. It
may be that each apostle expected it to be himself. They all knew the calamity
inside. They had left everything to bear their crosses for Jesus. Was it worth
it? Perhaps each and everyone questioned their motives. It turned out that the
most trusted one of them, and the most frugal turned on Jesus. Judas had hidden
his love of money based on charity when the woman wasted expensive ointment to
ready Jesus for His death. Judas, in his heart was saying, That oil could
have been sold for money and used for my
purposes rather than for Jesus’s feet!
The masses are taught that the money of capitalism is better
used for themselves than its rightful owners. Who “owned” the thirty pieces of
silver? Not by Caesar as his likeness was not on it. God made the silver, and His
Face was there at its creation. It was Jesus who turned nothing into silver, and
here it was. Judas used what belonged to God for his own desires. Judas as well
struck Jesus in the face with His own silver.
As treasurer, Judas carried the “vault” so to speak. It was
a heavy burden to bear, and rather than he who leaned on Jesus, it was probably
John. His “cross” was the money bag, and John’s the Cross of Jesus. Oftentimes,
it is a friend who will betray. It was Judas who Jesus and the others trusted
with finances that betrayed Him. Beware, those who betray the most are those
you may trust the most! Nearly everyone has ulterior motives. It turned out
that Judas died much like Jesus and many Muslims accept his death as propitiation,
not for mankind, but for his own grieve. Judas got more than he wanted for his
sedition, and the silver meant nothing to him any longer because he had lost
his soul.
With that grief, Judas tried to pay for his own sin by his
own effort. He remained a Jew in his heart to the last dying breath. He totally
had misunderstood what Purpose Jesus would serve. Islam is a religion of works,
and many believe that Judas is the Muslim “Jesus” (Isa). It seems that during
the Great Tribulation that socialism will be the government and Islam its religion,
especially since the Beast, the Antichrist, will arise from the Euphrates (the Middle
East; Rev 13:1).
The one who was the most trusted turned on Jesus. Beware in
whom you trust.
(picture credit: Look and Learn)
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