Video of some of the wealthiest people in the world HERE! The Bible does not condemn wealth, although Jesus comments to His disciples that it is difficult for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of GOD. The reason is a an order of priorities. If you violate the First Commandment by placing money, material wealth, ahead of GOD, then you don’t make it into Heaven.

So, for this purpose, let’s examine the temporal (here and now) world and how wealth affects things. As an aside, in the Bible, Abraham was very wealthy, and he is considered the Father of the Jews/Israel, Christians, and Muslims. Joseph of Arimathea was wealthy, and he provided the grave for Jesus and risked his well being by going to Pontius Pilate for Jesus’ body.

Seeking “wealth” (definition subjective) for the purpose of glorifying GOD is quite permissable and o.k.! Seeking wealth to provide for your family is good and o.k.! Seeking wealth in order to do good for others is good and o.k.! Doing good for others would include helping people obtain and utilize the necessities of life – air, water, food, shelter, medical care, personal safety, preservation of their own wealth and material possessions, and helping to further protect and preserve the individual liberty necessary to enjoy all of these things unencumbered.

The reality of things is that man is inherently corrupt (sinful), and therefore contention arises constantly. Believe it or not, there are a lot of people out there who think that someone (the world) owes them a living so to speak. They want a free ride and stealing doesn’t bother them. They’re lazy and uninspired. They enjoy making others suffer or pay them tribute. They enjoy destruction and violence. They enjoy the struggle and overcoming their opposition. Who knows what all goes on in people’s minds?

What you then have is; the have nots pursuing what the haves have! Now there are different ways to accomplish that objective. The most base and obvious is brute force. The less obvious and much more subtle is through deception and manipulaton. Brute force would include burglarly, robbery and war. Within the subtle, deception would always require lying. Lying could encompass fraud, and borrowing without the intent to pay back. Manipulation would be voting for legislators who would make laws to defraud and or rob people of their wealth through the use of a middleman (politician/bureaucrat). Better yet, if you have “wealth”, you can finance, or if you have enough “wealth”, own a politician or many politicians. Then they will pass legislation to manipulate people from their wealth.

Of course, the manipulation may not always be voluntary, so the threat of, or actual use of, brute force may then be necessary. Under this circumstance the “brute force” is manifested with the use of 3rd parties such as regulations and regulators, armed I.R.S. agents, intelligence agencies, spying (data) etc. Brute force eliminates any sense of voluntary compliance or any sense of good.

There are two most pronounced, most subtley engineered forms of manipulation that are able, for the most part, to avoid “brute force”. They are as follows:: fiat currency and debt. Central banksters print currency at will with no backing i.e. “fiat“. This devalues the currency making it exceedingly more difficult for people to meet their financial obligations. As such, they then become obligated to borrow money to survive. Now they are in debt (voluntarily, although reluctantly). Above individual borrowing, there is collective borrowing. This is even more insidious, because many do not see it as a tax (debt) or a burden.

We’re talking about BONDS! All bonds are debt. The banksters promote, orchestrate, facilitate and engineer the bonds so they are presentable by the government leaders for a vote of the people. The other form of bonds is U.S. Treasuries for which the people have no say whatsoever. In fact only the banksters have any real control over Treasury bonds.

Today, Americans have personal credit card debt (various estimates exist – this one is conservative $6434.00). Then there is automobile loans averaging $24,297.00, and there are over 100 million auto loans in America today, many of which are in default. Then we have mortgages on homes which on average are over $300,000 with an average monthly payment of at least $2,000.00. On top of that, you have people who have to make payment to some vendor for an HVAC unit, or new windows, carpet, draperies, appliances or a patio addition, or who knows what else. All of that on top of the property taxes which finance the bonds, income taxes to pay for Treasury bonds, and so on and so on.

The last this writer read, well over 70% of all income generated by Americans goes to taxes. The U.S. debt currently exceeds the GDP with a ratio of 121%. What does that mean? It means that if we could liquidate (sell) all of the goods and services Americans produce in one year, we would still owe another 21% in order to break even! If you take off budget items like Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security etc., we’re more like 550%!

Are you getting the picture?

Wealthy people don’t pay taxes for the most part, and certainly not the kind of percentages that the average American pays, because the wealthy own the politicians, make legislation that protects their wealth, and as such, are doing what comes naturally although is not good. Meanwhile, we, along with our neighbors, whom we, as Christians, are to love, are suffering immensely, and do not have the money or free time to rectify the situation!

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