Rich Man, Poor Man... Blind Guide the Blind

What does it mean to be rich?

“Behold, how blessed is the man whom God reproves,

So do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.

— Job 5:17

What I share today is meant to help and not hurt anyone, but many times we know that the truth can hurt, and people take what I share very personal. With that said, I'd rather you hate me for sharing GOD'S TRUTH than to love me for spreading false teachings that tickle your ears. (2 Timothy 4:2-3) It is my hope that you don't remain complacent, stagnant, by holding on to what you want to believe verses waking up to what you should believe. (Isaiah 4:1; 32:9-11; Ezekiel 37:13-14)

This will be a reflection to all; teachers from every religious sect or denomination in the world, to those that attend and to any who claim to "believe". If you feel convicted, please don't get upset and dismiss it, that will be God's way of letting you know you are doing something wrong and you need to fix it.

• [Gal 6:3, 5 LSB] For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. ... For each one will bear his own load.

My posts can be long, but they are long because I don't just use a few verses to explain my teachings, I use God's word every chance I get to back what I teach. It's not about me and my words, it's about God, the Father and His words and what it truly means to be in Christ.

These posts are to help you do your homework. Stop being lazy and start studying God's word for yourself. Print this out, search the scriptures to see if these things are so. Stop relying on others to do it for you. Pray to the Most-High God Jehovah in the name of Jesus. You need to know what that means.

Let's get started...

• Have you ever wondered how people can look at a verse and see it completely different? 

It's explained in scripture. Yet, many don't comprehend how it could refer to them. One of the hardest things I've come to realize is that people have a very hard time admitting they can be wrong...that's pride. If one seeks truth, then they should be open to the possibility that a belief or understanding can change and that maybe it's been a false spirit, an UNHOLY SPIRIT that has been guiding them all along. One must test the spirits, if not, you become complacent and remain blind to God's Word. (Acts 17:11; 1 John 4:1)

One would have to agree it's not okay to make money off poor people, expecting them to sustain "your way of living" throughout life. 

Just imagine...

You have a healthy person (man or woman) capable of earning a living for themselves but deciding instead to seek money from poor people to make that living, using those who have very little to sustain themselves for their own (man/woman) way of life. After receiving that abundance, they (man/woman) first help themselves to it and others like them who earn that same kind of living (taking from the needy), then turn around and boast about how they're helping those in need with the very little they give back. 

Imagine that, first they take from the needy, fill their pockets and from the surplus, they then give little back to the needy...worse, they boast about it. If that's not bad enough, they (man/woman) then go on to seek free labor to help their business grow, so as to attract more poor people into doing the same thing of freely donating their time and/or money.

• Sound familiar?

Quite the racket...only one who is blind can't see how wrong that would be, yet all religions are guilty of this. (Matthew 6:1-2; James 3:1)

• What does it mean to be rich, to have an abundance?
• Is it about the "amount" of money you have and/or "how" you attain it?
• Could being "rich" mean you make money (earn a living) off the poor?
• Could those who sell (seeking donations) to teach God's word be the blind guiding the blind?

• [Pro 22:16 LSB] He who oppresses the poor 👉to make more for himself 👉Or who gives to the rich [will] only [come to] lack.👈

• Could the "rich" who are buying their knowledge (schooling) and selling it to the poor (church goers) be unaware that they are working for Satan?

In the following passage we learn that Apostle Paul strips food (God's Word) from other churches to bring it to the Corinthians. The reason...because the wolves always get in.

• [2Co 11:8, 12-14 LSB] I robbed other churches by taking wages [from them] to minister to you. ... But what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be found just as we are in the matter about which they are boasting. For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

• [Act 20:29-30 LSB] "I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

G4813 Robbed: from a derivative of σύλλω sýllō (to strip; probably akin to G138; compare G4661); to despoil:—rob.

Despoil: steal or violently remove valuable or attractive possessions from; plunder:

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

G3800 Wages: properly, whatever is bought to be eaten with bread, as fish, flesh, and the like (see ὀψάριον). And as grain, meat, fruits, salt, were given to soldiers instead of pay. 

NOTE: It's important to understand Jesus preached against the religious leaders and the apostles visited churches to do the same thing. The preaching wasn't with the churches it was AGAINST the churches.

• [Mat 13:13 LSB] "Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

• [Isa 6:9-10 LSB] He said, "Go, and tell this people: 'Keep on hearing, but do not understand; Keep on seeing, but do not know.' "Render the hearts of this people insensitive, Their ears dull, And their eyes dim, Lest they see with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their hearts, And return and be healed."

• How does one's heart become fat (insensitive)?
• Is one's voice limited by these churches?
• Is it really about God's Word? or... 
• Is it about partiality: their own words, core beliefs and creed?

• [Deu 16:19 LSB] "You shall not distort justice;👉 you shall not be partial, and you shall not take a bribe, for a 👉bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and 👉perverts the words of the righteous.

• What does it mean to take a bribe?

H7810 Bribe: a donation (venal or redemptive):—bribe(-ry), gift, present, reward

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

H5557 Perverts: twist, prevert, overturn 

• What do the churches do?

They take bribes (donations) from the poor, doing it for themselves not God, their business; man-made church buildings; for an income.... all the while deceiving the poor into believing it's for God. They acquire money from the poor to keep their business afloat, the poor sustaining their living. As it is written; deceiving to gain disciples for themselves.

(Acts 29:30)

G1291 Perverse: from G1223 and G4762; to distort, i.e. (figuratively) misinterpret, or (morally) corrupt:—perverse(-rt), turn away.

G3101 Disciples: from G3129; a learner, i.e. pupil:—disciple.

• [Jer 5:28 LSB] 'They are fat, they are sleek; They also excel in deeds of evil; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the orphan, that they may succeed; And they do not render justice for the poor.

• [Jas 1:27 LSB] Pure and undefiled religion before [our] God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon

H8080 Fat: (prosperous and arrogant)

Precious knowledge (crown) lost at a cost...for a false god: idolatry; the antichrist.

Who and what is the Most-High God referring to here?

Psalm 127:1-5 — 

Verse 1: A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon.

Unless Jehovah builds the house, They labor in vain who build it;

Unless Jehovah watches the city, The watchman keeps awake in vain.

H8104 Watchman: guard; generally, to protect, 👉attend to

H7723 Vain: from the same as H7722 in the sense of desolating; evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain):—false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.

Verse 2: It is in vain that you rise up early, That you sit out late,

O you who eat the bread of painful labors; For in this manner, He gives sleep to His beloved.

H3899 Bread: from H3898; See also H1036 food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it):—(shew-) bread, × eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.

• [Mat 15:8-9 RSV] 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.'" 

• [1Th 5:3 LSB] While they are saying, "Peace and safety!" then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman who is pregnant, and they will never escape.

Verse 3: Behold, children are an inheritance of Jehovah,

The fruit of the womb is a reward.

H6529 Fruit: from H6509; fruit (literally or figuratively):—bough, (first-)fruit(-ful), reward.

• [1Co 15:23 LSB] But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ's at His coming.

H990 Womb: from an unused root probably meaning to be hollow; the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything:—belly, body, as they be born, within, womb.

Who, not what, is Wisdom?

• [Isa 66:7 LSB] "Before she was in labor pains, she gave birth; Before her pangs came, she delivered a male [child].

• [1Co 2:7 LSB] But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the [wisdom] which has been hidden, which God predestined before the ages to our glory,

• [Col 3:3 LSB] For you died and your life has been hidden with Christ in God.

• [Rev 3:10 LSB] 'Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also keep you from the hour of testing, which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

• [2Co 12:3-4 LSB] And I know how such a man--whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows-- was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which a man is not permitted to speak.

• [1Ti 2:15 ASV] but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

G444 Man: from G435 and ὤψ ṓps (the countenance; from G3700); man-faced, i.e. a human being:—certain, man.

• [Luk 7:35 LSB] "Yet wisdom is vindicated by all her children."

• [Psa 51:6 LSB] Behold, You delight in truth in the innermost being, And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.

Verse 4: Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,

So are the children of one’s youth.

H3027 Hand: a primitive word; a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.]

• (Psalms 119:73-80)
• [Psa 119:73 LSB] YODH Your hands made me and established me; Give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.

See post: Two Witnesses

Verse 5: How blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them;

They will not be ashamed When they speak with enemies in the gate.

— Psalm 127:1-5 

• [Pro 8:3, 13, 22 ASV] Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:  ... The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.  ... Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old.  

• [Rev 22:14, 17 LSB] Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the authority to the tree of life and may enter by the gates into the city. ... And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come." And let the one who hears say, "Come." And let the one who is thirsty come. Let the one who wishes receive the water of life without cost.

Do not covet what does not belong to you...

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

— 2 Corinthians 4:3-4

G2572 Veiled: akin to G2813 and G2928; to cover up (literally or figuratively):—cover, hide.

Here's just one of many reasons why God doesn't dwell in man-made buildings...

• [Mat 6:24 LSB] "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

How much a person makes will vary from church to church, from denomination to denomination. It doesn't really matter because even if you make $1 off someone in need, earning your living off of them, it's wrong...worse even, is using God to do it.

If you receive any kind of payment to teach God's word, you've already become fat, rich... because you did it off the back of another who was in need, who was poor, putting yourself, your knowledge, ABOVE them. (Luke 18:14) Never realizing just how poor you are; exalted, thinking somehow that you are worthy of it, never realizing you make yourself fat/rich for the god of this world.

You chose your master...mammon, wealth, money, Ceasar. (Matthew 22:21) You're just too blind to see it, always finding excuses for it.

• [1Ti 6:10 LSB] For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evils, and some by aspiring to it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

END POINT: 

Churches take from the needy, the poor, those who don't know better or who don't have much money and fill their pockets, putting endless burdens (free labor) on people that attend, while claiming it's for GOD. 

They LITERALLY live off many who could barely support themselves. I know elderly who hop from church to church just to get a "free" meal, I've been told by another they eat one or two meals in a day...just to later see them donate; time and/or money of what little they have to the church.

• Why?

So, the one's running the churches can have three meals a day, pay their bills, mortgages, cars, go on vacations, and so on. How blind one has to be to not see how incredibly wrong that is.

• Is that what God would want?

They (man/woman) are very capable of holding a regular job, but instead they have others who work tirelessly, or who are retired and/or disabled pay THEIR WAY through life...on top of that, deceiving them by claiming it's for God, USING GOD to fill their pockets...getting fat, rich off the poor. (Acts 8:4-24)

Now I ask... 

• Is it really any wonder why they can't see scripture properly?
• If God is not partial, why do we have religious sects, denominations?
• If he doesn't dwell with religious sects, then how could it be for God?

It's not for God, it's for THEM and THEIR CHURCH, their paycheck: Cathedral, Chapel, Kingdom Hall, Synagogue, Mosque, etc., all guilty of the same thing. 

Out of ABUNDANCE; meaning... taking from the poor, paying themselves first, then giving from what's leftover, never having the power of God, the power of truth. Then they go on to deceive, teaching commandments of men.

• [Luk 21:4 LSB] "For they all put in their gifts out of their abundance; but she, out of what she lacked, put in all that she had for living."

You give to Caesar, not God. Putting money (Caesar) a false god, before the Most-High God, then you teach the WORD as if somehow you have the holy spirit...many of you claiming it but knowing you don't have it, while others are deceived into believing they have it, but never test the spirits...both following the un-holy spirit. 

• If God's temple is to dwell within, where does the false god dwell?
• Would it not be within too?

• [2Th 2:3-4 LSB] Let no one in any way deceive you, for [it has not come] unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the sanctuary of God, exhibiting himself as being God.

• [1Co 3:16 LSB] Do you not know that you are a sanctuary of God and [that] the Spirit of God dwells in you?

Testing the Spirits is very important...

• [1Co 2:2, 5 LSB] For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. ... so that your faith would not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

ALL RELIGIONS stem from houses built with hands, it is DECEPTION...heed the warning. When she goes down, any attending will go down with her.

• [Rev 18:4, 24 LSB] And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, 👉"Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues; ... "And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all who have been slain on the earth."

• [Act 7:47-48 LSB] "But Solomon built a house for Him. "However, the Most High does not dwell in [houses] made by [human] hands, as the prophet says:

• [2Ch 6:18 ASV] But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have builded!

• [Isa 66:1 ASV] Thus saith Jehovah, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will ye build unto me? and what place shall be my rest?

Claiming that the unnecessary burdens put on those who attend (free labor to exalt your church) is for God is an ABOMINATION.

• [Eze 11:21 ASV] But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.

It's a spiritual church and those truly awakened by the spirit will understand this. Jesus is the head (Father/Master) of the new covenant.

• [Pro 28:6 LSB] Better is the poor who walks in his integrity Than he who is crooked--double dealing--though he be rich.

I didn't learn the Bible by going to any church or school, the last thing I wanted was to be around hypocritical people, teaching things they did not understand or teachings they did not practice themselves. I learned to read and write in Portuguese using the Portuguese Bible, a beneficial skill that the Father put in my hands as a 5-year-old girl. Putting it away at the start of my teen years to never to pick it up again until the SPIRIT came upon me in early 2019. 

I am taught directly from God, the Father, Jehovah.

My knowledge comes from HIM, not man or a false spirit. (Acts 5:29; 1 John 2:26-27) He brought me back to my childhood; HE reminded me of certain important teachings. (1 Timothy 4:1) I knew him, the Father as a child, and Jesus Christ, I remembered who HE was then, same as who HE is now. 

I am in Christ and have no need for any to validate it for me. It's my story and I know what the Father has revealed to me. (Luke 8:10) Anointed by the HOLY SPIRIT (first/last, hip/thigh, arm/hand). 

I may be smart, but I'm not so smart that I could understand the scriptures the way that I do on my own, especially only learning them on the last few years of my life. (John 7:15-17) I spent most of my life staying away from the Bible, from God because of religion (many religions, not just JW's). I felt unworthy and had no clue how to go to him. 

Knowing religion was the last place I would find God; I became lost and turned to the world. Little did I know God had a plan, not one like those so-called "learned" teach. It's a beautiful plan as it is to save mankind, but it's hard and it comes with much suffering.

I do believe some try to be genuine, but most that I've encountered, it's sits on the surface. They believe they're genuine, but God reveals the truth and without them realizing it, he has them expose themselves.

The churches are filled with false teachers who get paid by Caesar, a false god, Satan. As I shared in God's words above...they will take you down with them. The money blinds them, most never realizing they are deceived and deceiving you. 

• [2Ti 3:13 LSB] But evil men and impostors will proceed [from bad] to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

God's Word is NOT to be taken lightly. I highly recommend those of you who think you got this in the bag to rethink your future, as what you do and who you go to will reflect on what will happen to you.

• [Jas 2:5 LSB] Listen, my beloved brothers: did not God choose the POOR of this world [to be] rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

• [Jas 4:3 LSB] You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend [it] on your pleasures.

It's selfish to live off the poor, only a self-righteous person will think that's okay. Most believers I know rely on religion, not God. Most of you have no clue who HE is because your church has become your idol, your God.

• How can you say you love God, the Most-High, the Almighty Jehovah, when you don't even know who HE is?

God doesn't need your money and unwarranted burdens to give you what you need. He just needs you to believe in HIM not a church or "belief system". Jesus has a Father, his name is Jehovah. Please pray to HIM.

 Trust in Jehovah with all your heart

And do not lean on your own understanding.

In all your ways acknowledge Him,

And He will make your paths straight.

— Proverbs 3:5-6

Praying for all mankind...

Splendor and majesty are before Him,

Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.

— Psalm 96:6

 

~ Peace, Love and Joy ~