THE LOVE OF THINGS
It is written, “For the love of money is the root of all
evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and
pierced themselves through with many sorrows” (1 Tim 6:10). That passage has much meaning when
deconstructed. A better translation of the Greek is “avarice” (Strong 1890) , meaning “extreme
greed for material gain” (Merriam-Webster 2003) . Thus, the love of material gain is the source
of all wickedness. Those who have coveted what others have, have wondered from
the faith… or failed to trust in Jesus for prosperity. That material gain is
harmful to the people’s well-being. The effect of greed for whatever belongs to
others results in sorrow. In other words, as the colloquialism goes, Money cannot
buy happiness. Indeed, no one will ever be content so long as others have
more wealth.
“Wealth” is nothing more than materialism. People desire to
fulfill their lives with things! Coveting the wealth that others have is
the basis of socialism. This next saying will be repeated until it is understood:
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” That is
the motto of socialism and corresponds well with Timothy’s warning that
coveting the wealth of others is not fulfilling. In fact, it is detrimental to
emotional and spiritual life. Why so? Because those who covet what others have
are not depending on God but on others for their prosperity.
The Jews never quite understood what God meant by “prosperity.”
They did understand usury quite well, however. “Usury” is “an unconscionable or
exorbitant rate or amount of interest” (ibid). Is it not understandable,
then, that the founders of socialism were Jewish? The concept of Jewish Marxism
is that both German and Russian Marxism was a Jewish device (Traverzo 2018) . German philosophers who were Jewish
developed practical socialism. Karl Marx was a secular Jew who influenced the Germans,
Russians, Chinese, and now the world, to accept violent, godless socialism —
the very philosophy through which those deceived by avarice pierce their own
sides, as Timothy wrote.
The preceding chapter was about the vinedressers who desired
the Father’s vineyard. Throughout history, land ownership has been a divine
right. By primogeniture, the eldest son inherited the land and property, and
through his purported generosity, the relatives were to be taken care of. That
parable was about extreme greed for material gain. In that situation, the
Father was the Lord Proprietor whose vineyard produced capital, and his sons
were His heirs. Marx would have considered the Lord’s family bourgeoisie.
They were the proprietors and others who made capital off the work of others.
Petite bourgeoisie (petty bourgeois) were the
servants who went to the vinedressers for the Father’s share. They were those
minor figures who serve the bourgeois. The vinedressers were the bureaucrats who
managed the proletariats — those who provided direct labor. When peasants moved
from the farm to the factory, they too became proletariats. Socialism is based
on class distinction, class jealousy, and class warfare. The vinedressers
loathed the Father and got to Him through the murder of the servants and finally
the Son. They persecuted and murdered the Capitalist, His Son, and their
servants who were faithful. Socialism, although they claim they are for the common
good, are after what is good for themselves. Generally, proletariats are
not socialists, but merely greedy people who covet the wealth that belongs to
others. They are as deceived by the dark forces of Marx as the vinedressers
were deceived by Satan.
When God promised land to Abraham as a reward for his
faithfulness, Abraham got it! The Hebrew people did not. Abraham
understood prosperity to mean eternal life in Paradise. He understood that New
Jerusalem would someday return to its foundation in Jerusalem. He understood
that the Kingdom of David was the Garden of Eden. [1]
Abraham looked to the Husbandman for prosperity, and socialists look to the
vinedressers. They are the party bureaucrats and public servants (not God’s
servants) who use the capital and land of God for their own purposes. We find
it to be for greed and not for charity!
Socialism is the philosophy of so many Jews because it is
usury. They were forbidden to charge interest to other Jews, but gullible
Gentiles were excepted. Hence, Jewish Marxism thrives off usury of the
peasants. In early Marxist days, it was Jewish leaders who profited and once Gentiles
learned their ways, it was an easy transition.
Judas Iscariot was a socialist-type. The love of thirty
pieces of silver for the love of wealth caused him to turn on the Son. Just as Timothy
wrote, Judas was pierced with many sorrows (Mat 27:3). Why did the vinedressers
want wealth? For prestige, and certainly not “needs?” People still confuse needs
and wants. Modern socialism is not even true Marxism; but From each
according to his wealth, to each according to his wants or desires, as
written before. Within that statement, there is much missing. In the case of
the Husbandman in the parable, the Father was generous already. He provided work
for the vinedressers. They wanted more than their fair share. They wanted the Son’s
share as well. That was greed for the gain of others. How would they obtain the
gain? Would they ask the Father for more? No, they resulted to stoning the
servants and plotted to kill the Son.
Is that not what the rioters are doing this moment? Do they
depend on violence and not God? The mob always castigates the faithful and seek
to murder those who have things. Silly, foolish hooligans tried to steal from
the Lord what was His, and they still do that today. Mob violence is not of God,
and the foolish protestors are much like the Russian peasants who thought the
communists were on their side. What happened to the Russian peasants? Holodomor…
the Russian version of the holocaust.
Attempting to trip-up Jesus, the Jews asked Him if they
should pay taxes, or pay tribute to Caesar. The spiritual “Deep State,” the chief
priests and scribes, “Watched Him, and sent forth spies, which should feign
themselves just men, that they might take hold of His words, that so they might
deliver Him unto the power and authority of the governor” (Luke 20:20). During the
Russian Hoax, the intent of the Deep State was for the President to be questioned
under oath. For what purpose? That he trip-up on his own words. Mr. Trump must
have known that tactic and Jesus did too… and was prepared. “He said unto them,
‘Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the
things which be God's’” (Luke 20:25).
In effect, Jesus was saying to pay tribute to Caesar for
taxation, but to God for prosperity. Caesar was proclaimed another “god” in the
Roman pantheon. He was, however, not God. They paid one coin, one that was
provided by God. People must remember that God is the Creator and source of all
material things. He paid tribute to those who would even kill him because the
centurions who nailed and pierced him were paid assassins. And what is more,
like the mob, they did not even know what they were doing, according to Jesus. The
Roman Empire was much like communism just as Russian socialism is much like
Russian tsarism. Stalin was just another brutal “Peter the Great,” the only
difference being that Peter was his “god” and Stalin was his. [2]
The taxes for Caesar was for Caesar’s prosperity. What God wanted
for Himself was nothing more than trust and of course love. Those two things
belong to God, and socialism espouses neither. At best, socialism claims
secular humanism as their theology. When they say, for the “common good” that
is to deceive those who have greed for wealth. No mention of the planters and
cultivators were mentioned in the parable; only those who would process the
finished produce. They were not worried about the proles, only themselves. That
is socialism!
Christianity is based on love. Those who love Christ are to
be charitable. Indeed, early Christians set up a charitable organization to
support the Jews in Jerusalem, elderly widows, and orphans. It was not by
taxation. That belonged to Caesar. Christianity provides to those with needs.
Notice that the servants did not offer charity to the mob. The servants knew that
they could work for the vinedressers had demonstrated the product of their sweat.
What the vinedressers had were wants, and not for the wants of
the actual workers, but for themselves who desired to be like God. That is how
the socialist bureaucrats operate as well. In the end, although Jesus was
pierce by such people (the mob), it was them who were ultimately pierced with
sorrow. Jesus will tell them someday, “I never knew you: depart from me, ye
that work iniquity” (Mat 723). Jesus will never know socialists because they
only trust “Caesar” and not God for prosperity.
[1]
The author has written much on the biblical evidence that the Garden of Eden
was not in Iraq but was the Kingdom of David. Without regard to modern geography,
for it has changed significantly with continental drift, all the evidence from
the Bible points to the Holy Land. The author believes that Paradise coincides
with the Holy Land presently, and at the end, Paradise will be on Earth, and at
that time, the meek shall inherit the earth. Thus, it is not the belligerent
that are heirs to the “Vineyard” but the meek.
[2] In
my book, A Day on the Democrat Plantation, I compare the similarities between
socialism in practice and brutal autocracies. In the end, there is little
difference. The “farmers” are just replaced by the “pigs” as George Orwell
wrote in Animal Farm.
(picture credit: McQuarrie University)
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