JESUS SAID 'GO YE THEREFORE INTO THE WORLD.' NOT 'SIT YOU ON THE CHURCH PEW AND FOREVER STARE.'
In our capitalist society, a person travels the halls of the elementary, middle, and high school system for 12 years on a designed course to graduate into the world as a potentially productive citizen. A person can also choose to continue their quest for knowledge by entering the higher education system for 4 to 8 more years. That person is on a course designed by our capitalist society and is expected to graduate from the educational course into the world as a productive citizen.
In our religious society, a person is encouraged to travel to the traditional church house to be taught about becoming a child of God. In our religious society, a person continually enters the hallowed halls of the denominational church sanctuary to gain knowledge on becoming a more righteous and godly person. In our religious society, a person is urged to occupy a seat at various non-denominational religious convention centers seeking to understand the deepest wisdom from the mind of God for scores upon scores of years.
Yes, the organized religious system is a spiritual educational course designed by the God of Abraham. But we need to realize that the God of Abraham does expect a child of God to eventually graduate from this spiritual educational course and enter the world as a productive man or woman of God. Needless to say, the problem is the world’s capitalist ideology has infiltrated into the minds of our denominational and non-denominational church organizations. Needless to say, the organized religious society's acceptance and use of this capitalist abomination produced this great spiritual desolation that has enveloped the globe.
Yes, the capitalist ideology of the world allowed society’s religious organizations to flourish and experience unprecedented growth in membership, structure, and wealth. However, the underlying principle of capitalism is the love of money. More importantly and as it is written, God pronounced that particular guiding principle to be the root of evil. Therefore, the acceptance, embracement, and employment of the capitalist ideology of the world within the church of God cause a great spiritual desolation first within the religious communities themselves. More importantly, this great spiritual desolation eventually spawned the current season of anguish, poverty, misery, and unhappiness the world is experiencing.
Yes, pastors; we can grow the church of God. Yes, bishops; we should build large spiritual schoolhouses to teach and develop the children of God. Yes, prophets, teachers, and ministers chosen by the God of Abraham; we should aim to reach the unsaved masses across the globe. Yes, men and women chosen by God; we should be a force to be reckon with financially, politically, as well as spiritually. Nevertheless, during our current drive to conquer the world for God, because of capitalism; our guiding principle evolved from doing it because we loved God to doing it because we needed money. Nevertheless, as we set out across the globe to spread the message of God; we devised ways to produce worldly wealth from the messages God sent us to proclaim.
Yes, the guiding principle of capitalism misguided the world and this same principle will try to misguide the very church of God. Because of capitalism, pastors of our local churches worry more about how much money need to be raised instead of how the children God placed under their care are being raised. Because of capitalism, the leaders of our religious organizations vie for the eye of the elite, famous, and rich in hopes of increasing their worldly influences instead of vying for the heart of God in order to increase their influence over the world. Because of capitalism, the ministers of God and their ministries have become rich by teaching and encouraging the children of God to give and tithe to God’s spiritual schoolhouses and universities instead of teaching and encouraging their followers to tithe to the real storehouses of God by clothing the naked, feeding the hungry, praying for the sick, and taking care of the orphans, poor, and widows for themselves.
The American Way is built upon the principle of capitalism which is the love of money and that is root of evil. More importantly, the love of money is a God pronounced abomination. Just like the forbidden fruit hanging from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the way of capitalism is a God-forsaken pathway leading to the lake of fire. Just like sheep led astray, our organized religious communities are being herded for destruction by many false prophets and misguided shepherds. Just as foretold many eons ago by the prophet Daniel, the abomination that causes desolation has been set upon the holy alter of the God of Abraham. This abomination is none other than capitalistic ideology of the love of money. The holy alter of God is none other than the hearts of mankind because mankind is the temple of God. Needless to say, that well-meaning expression of “Money Cometh” is not the words Jesus, the Christ would have chosen to say.
Yes, the principle or the seed of capitalism produced worldly abundance, highly prized fame, material prosperity, political status, and uncountable wealth for the organized religious society. At the same time, the very first growth of this root of evil divided the people of the religious community into denominations and non-denominations. At the same time, this abomination drained the physical and spiritual substance from the masses as our religious leaders concentrated on building cathedrals, edifices, and temples instead of building and edifying the physical church of God. At the same time, the organized religious community’s celebrities and leaders followed and taught their followers to follow them instead of the way of Christ.
Yes, the principal of capitalism, a God cursed abomination, like the forbidden apple within the garden caused more harm to mankind than good. Yes, the seed of capitalism brought notoriety, prestige, and respect to the leaders of the organized religious society. Yet, this root of evil and a detestable sin sapped the authority of God from the people of the religious community. Yes, the seed of capitalism produced wonderful opportunities to reach masses of God’s children with the message of God. Yet, the love of money misled many of God’s shepherds to view God’s precious sheep as just someone to fleece. Yes, the principal of capitalism or the American way led our religious community toward the open door of worldly prosperity. Yet, because capitalism is the love of money, the people of the religious community lost the power of God.
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Daniel 12:1 - 13 At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered. Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever. But you, Daniel, roll up and seal the words of the scroll until the time of the end. Many will go here and there to increase knowledge.”
Then I, Daniel, looked, and there before me stood two others, one on this bank of the river and one on the opposite bank. One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long will it be before these astonishing things are fulfilled?”
The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, lifted his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, times and half a time. When the power of the holy people has been finally broken, all these things will be completed.”
I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, “My lord, what will the outcome of all this be?”
He replied, “Go your way, Daniel, because the words are rolled up and sealed until the time of the end. Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand. From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days. As for you, go your way till the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance.”
Matthew 24: 4 - 25 Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains. Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand— then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let no one on the housetop go down to take anything out of the house. Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak. How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you ahead of time.
Matthew 28:16 - 20 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”}
