I have made some negative posts about prosperity preachers, but I’m not totally against how they feel about things.  Well, I’m against greed and greedy preachers, but someone taking charge in their life, in a healthy way, is not greed.  In fact, it’s healthy and liberating, but that’s not saying that Jesus, himself, or the apostles (and many others) lived lives of poverty, perhaps to teach us a lesson.

Job 42:12

The LORD blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.

Anyway, though, think about it.  Would you want to deprive yourself a better life, especially when it could expand to a better life for your family?

(Leviticus 25:18–22)

1“Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. 2And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God:

3You will be blessed in the city

and blessed in the country.

4The fruit of your womb will be blessed,

as well as the produce of your land

and the offspring of your livestock—

the calves of your herds

and the lambs of your flocks.

5Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.

6You will be blessed when you come in

and blessed when you go out.

7The LORD will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven.

8The LORD will decree a blessing on your barns and on everything to which you put your hand; the LORD your God will bless you in the land He is giving you. 9The LORD will establish you as His holy people, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways. 10Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will stand in awe of you.

11The LORD will make you prosper abundantly—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land—in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.

12The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.

13The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today. 14Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from any of the words I command you today, and do not go after other gods to serve them.

Matthew 12:31-32

“Therefore I say to you, any sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven people, but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven. Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.

Some are worried about committing this seemingly unforgivable sin, and it is surely unforgivable, but only in this life, and the age to come (not counting ages after that).

Ephesians 2:7

so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

And what is this sin?   Well, it’s the sin where the heart is so hardened to spiritual truth, that nothing can break thru.  It’s the sin many of the Pharisees and Sadducees committed.  It’s the reason Jesus literally called some of them “Children of the Devil”

Because, in retrospect, the sin is so heinous, forgiveness cannot be even seen in the next age.  And it’s obvious why as such people would need serious purification to see spiritual truth.

 

Isaiah – 14:12-17

12How you have fallen from heaven,

O day star,c son of the dawn!

You have been cut down to the ground,

O destroyer of nations.

13You said in your heart:

“I will ascend to the heavens;

I will raise my throne

above the stars of God.

I will sit on the mount of assembly,

in the far reaches of the north.d

14I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;

I will make myself like the Most High.”

15But you will be brought down to Sheol,

to the lowest depths of the Pit.

16Those who see you will stare;

they will ponder your fate:

“Is this the man who shook the earth

and made the kingdoms tremble,

17who turned the world into a desert

and destroyed its cities,

who refused to let the captives

return to their homes?”

Why did Satan rebel against God and even convince 1/3 of the angels to join him?

Well, many people think it is pride, but what if my answer is correct, but I’m not claiming to know the truth on the matter.

Note, I think Satan’s big grudge against God stemmed from the fact he didn’t trust God’s creation, man, and honestly, many people couldn’t blame him.  I mean, let’s say Satan could have foreseen nuclear weapons and possible AI destruction. Given that fact, what could he say, other than man is a monster?