Free At Last
The time of the age is nearing for man as we ready ourselves for the return of Jesus.
Since the early ages of time, man has tried to unseat God in all ways, only to be put back in his place. Man has tried to build a tower to the Heavens, build a giant idol from gold, and create empires to show that man is superior to God.
Not all is lost for the time is soon coming that the final kingdom, the stone kingdom will be established and those of us who have overcome will be invited into this glorious kingdom.
Upon reading the Bible, glimpses of the kingdom are written to give us what the kingdom will be like when Jesus takes his seat as the King of this earth.
Folks, this is not a literal kingdom nor a kingdom in your mind, but a physical kingdom here on earth with Jesus as the head of the kingdom. How will this physical kingdom be run?
One would look no further than the books of Moses to read about the commandments, laws, statutes and judgments that will be implemented. Our present system of man’s laws is a complete failure in our society. Man has fallen dreadfully short when grasping the full meaning of God’s law.
But there is a second element which is to be included and that is men of character who execute God’s laws completely and without any type of sinful actions such as bribery, treating the rich in high esteem and treating the poor unjustly.
Man is out of balance with God because man is not following an ethical code of conduct thus creating a nonexistent relationship with God. Should we not as people wish to bring equity, justice and peace for all? This can only be done when we get right in our relationship with God.
What will Jesus’s economy look like in the kingdom? Each person will prosper for man shall build and inhabit houses, plant vineyards, eat and never be hungry. There will be no house repossessions, no house renting, no stealing of land and having your neighbors assist you in building your house and planting your vineyard.
People will not steal your food nor loot your house nor try to kill you because of what you own. In fact, man will actually enjoy his work and have a joyful attitude toward his family and his neighbor. Man will prosper and not labor in vain or try to “make ends meet”. How do I know this for this is taken from Isaiah 65:21-23.
Now think about this in today’s society where man fears the government due to bank’s confiscation of taxes and interest owed. Man is also faced with land, equipment and building foreclosures due to excessive usury by banks or the IRS.
Is this no different as to when the Israelites were in captivity and the Pharoah told them to make more bricks with less material and if they did not then were put to death. In today’s society, we call this “death by taxation” and the middle/poor class is facing a tsunami of taxes.
We will soon be “free at last” when we enter the kingdom with none of the above and the knowing that when we build our labors will be rewarded to seeing a continued prosperity.
Our creator gave us the tools to become more prosperous in our labors, but, many of us, became greedy for the love of money or mammon, others work for more physical possessions and power over their employees. As for the few, they labor to give God the thanks for what they have and what they can share with their fellow man.
The conclusion to man’s wealth is that most men strive to have a home and that their family can live without fear from evil aggression, increased taxation or a business or individual taking away their possessions.
From W.J. Cameron in The Economic Law of the Lord states:
“… this law which absolutely prohibits interest or the increase which is called USURY, comes from the same divine power which practices increase all the time! We make dead money artificially yield a paltry 3, 4, or 5 %– not that money yields it, the borrower does. But God’s increase—did you ever count that? The Lord Christ once touched upon it; speaking of God’s interest which He pays to men, Jesus said that in some instances it was ‘thirtyfold, some sixty, some a hundredfold.’ And that is not 30, 60 or 100%, but 3,000, 6,000 and 10,000 %. And because we reject the living system of 10,000% increase, for our dead system of 5%, here we are!”
Twenty-four times the use of the word USURY is used with 22 times found in the Old Testament and 2 times in the New Testament.
Biblically, here are a few verses for you to ponder on usury:
25 “If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest. Exodus 22:25
35 “‘If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among you. 36 Do not take interest or any profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you. 37 You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food at a profit. 38 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God. Leviticus 25: 35-38.
19 Do not charge a fellow Israelite interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest. 20 You may charge a foreigner interest, but not a fellow Israelite, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess. Deuteronomy 23: 19-20
In the kingdom, we will have no interest nor usury for here is the penalty found in Ezekiel 18:13: He lends at usury and takes excessive interest. Will such a man live? He will not! Because he has done all these detestable things, he is to be put to death; his blood will be on his own head.
God reiterates the above in Ezekiel 22:12 as a double witness for God knew that usury was evil to man and to place man as a slave with a yoke around his neck and a millstone not to prosper.
Thomas Jefferson sponsored a bill 87. A Bill against Usury, 18 June, 1779.
Mr. Jefferson knew that usury was sinful—Here are a couple of quotes from Whitlock on Thomas Jefferson—Money & Banking.
“If the debt which the banking companies owe be a blessing to anybody, it is to themselves alone, who are realizing a solid interest of eight or ten per cent on it. As to the public, these companies have banished all our gold and silver medium, which, before their institution, we had without interest, which never could have perished in our hands, and would have been our salvation now in the hour of war; instead of which they have given us two hundred million of froth and bubble, on which we are to pay them heavy interest, until it shall vanish into air… We are warranted, then, in affirming that this parody on the principle of ‘a public debt being a public blessing,’ and its mutation into the blessing of private instead of public debts, is as ridiculous as the original principle itself. In both cases, the truth is, that capital may be produced by industry, and accumulated by economy; but jugglers only will propose to create it by legerdemain tricks with paper.”
–Thomas Jefferson to John W. Eppes, 1813. ME 13:423
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”
“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
–Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23
“I owe it to be my opinion, that good will arise from the destruction of our credit. I see nothing else which can restrain our disposition to luxury, and to the change of those manners which alone can preserve republican government. As it is impossible to prevent credit, the best way would be to cure its ill effects by giving an instantaneous recovery to the creditor. This would be reducing purchases on credit to purchases for ready money. A man would then see a prison painted on everything he wished, but had not ready money to pay for.”
–Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 1786. ME 5:259
Various American presidents spoke about the use of usury and exorbitant interest levied upon American residents. These men knew of the harm of scheming people to take full advantage of the middle and poor classes as they looked to grow their personal financial goals at the expense of those trying to grow their small businesses.
James 5 verses 1-5 tells of the rich oppressors who failed to pay their workmen and cries from harvesters who were treated very poorly. Verse 5 sums up the rich oppressors by saying 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.
Is this not what is happening today? Do not fear for the day of reckoning cometh and the kingdom will be established. We have men and women who have been blessed with wealth and will assist the community, the poor and those in need.
Wealth is given by God and can be taken by God—wealth is not the total possessions that you have, but the gift to give to those who need and to give in the spirit of love and stewardship.
Are you sick and tired of being tired and sick? Doctor bills, hospital bills, prescription bills and health insurance all have one thing in common—a draining of the paycheck.
No, one must have health insurance in this day and age, but the time is coming in the kingdom age where the Lord will take away from thee all sickness—Deuteronomy 7:15.
God says in a double witness in Exodus 15:26 that God promised if the people obeyed him, they would be free from the diseases that plagued the Egyptians.
The Bible tells one how to eat in the Old Testament and gives us what we should not eat, but we are no different that Adam for we crave the things that we should not eat and wonder why we get sick.
The kingdom age will be a wonderful time where man will prosper, love his fellow neighbor, plant and be fruitful, be friends with all animals, and have no sickness.
But what about crime? What about stealing, larceny, murder, or violence?
Let me provide the explanation to these questions via Howard Rand and The Coming King and his Kingdom:
Under our present system of jurisprudence, a crime has to be committed before a man is considered guilty and then the law seeks to apprehend the criminal. The victim, attacked by the criminal, has suffered and now the one responsible is brought to justice, but this in no way eliminates the results of his attack. This is because a man today is not guilty, no matter what he may be thinking or planning to do, until, through an overt act, he has broken the law. Jesus gave us the rule under which the criminal will be judged guilty before he will have an opportunity to commit a crime. He said that the law written upon the tables of stone were to be written into the hearts of the people and He declared that in the sight of God the heart’s desire, when evil, made a man guilty even though the opportunity had not been presented for him to carry out his intentions. In the kingdom age, judgment will be meted out to those who in their hearts desire to do evil and are only prevented from doing so through lack of opportunity.
The men and women, those who have immortality and reign and rule with Him in the kingdom, will have such mental perception that the moment a man thinks to do evil he will be apprehended before he has the opportunity to carry out his intentions. Thus it will be impossible for anyone to be hurt or harmed in the kingdom by the acts of those who might criminally inclined.
Turn to Isaiah 11:3-4 to read about those men in office who are above all temptation and bribery and are gifted with the ability to know the thoughts and intents of the hearts of the people. The end result is that righteousness will be established.
In the kingdom age, their will be no need to have locks and bars for stealing, no petty larceny, no robbery and no burglary. People will come and go in the kingdom with no need to lock up their belongings.
The earth, climate change, smog, polluted waters, the desert, and desolated cities—what will happen in the kingdom age?
Turn to Isaiah 61: 4 (KJV) 4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations. As a double witness, look at Ezekiel 36:33-36 for God goes into great detail on his plan to rebuild the desolate cities to create a rising tide in prosperity.
Isaiah 61:11(KJV) 11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
God will heal the land, make the desert bloom and crops will be in abundance. Look no further than Amos 9:13 as proof that such an abundance of crops will be provided that the kingdom people will not be able to harvest them all.
Before we conclude, how nice would be not experience stress, sorrow, mourning and suffering in our lifetime? Turn to Revelation 21:4 for a wonderful answer—(KJV) 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Biblically, God has laid out what things will be like in the kingdom and how glorious the time will be when we meet Jesus’ face to face.
Like sands in the hour glass, time is getting so much closer and we must be prepared for the day. And how do we prepare? Turn to Luke 21:28 (KJV) 28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
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