The Riches of Poverty
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| Jesus was taking the kingdom[1] from those Jews who had twisted the meaning of the Torah and created a socialist government that was a snare. Their system of welfare that was making the word of God into none effect was key to repentance. |
| He was setting up God's government as it was meant to be that would bear a righteous fruit worthy of repentance.[2] |
| He appointed seventy to the job of the Sanhedrin and His little flock of disciples to be His apostles. Together they were the beginning of one form of government which was based on faith not force, love not lasciviousness, tithes not taxes.. |
| These people were called out to be the The Poor Princes whose personal inheritance was the service they provided. They did not dress and keep the land beneath their feet but the living earth of the peculiar people of faith who would come into Christian conflict with the jealousy and envy of Rome. |
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| Proverbs 23:1-4 |
| The Riches of that one form of government composed of The Poor Princes of Jesus the Christ's appointed kingdom was found in bringing together and serving those peculiar people who would repent and who would seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness. |
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The Riches of Poverty
The Apostles and the 120 families, and men like Barnabas and Stephen, were the first born of the kingdom in the days of Christ. Moses and Jesus gave men an alternative to the world systems. They both knew that Lovers of soft things315 were not the ones to serve the kingdom well.
God is the same and Jesus had done the same for His called out as Moses did for his. He required His ministers to sell all their property and give to those in need, so that they also had no inheritance.316 Jesus clearly states to His called out disciples, in relation to the appointment of the kingdom in Luke 12:32, “Sell that ye have....” Jesus like Moses before him required that the servant ministers of His kingdom own no property [huparchonta meaning property] as a personal estate.
The Apostles required new ordained appointees to do the same as we see with the two ministers Joses, a Levite, who became Barnabas, and Ananias who held back. These ministers of Christ’s Kingdom were dependent upon the contributions of the people who only shared freewill offerings according to the service given by their ministers.
The services they provided in the kingdom were the health, education and welfare, emergency relief, and social security of a society based on the assurance of love, the fidelity of faith and the healing power of hope. In the kingdom there was no compelled offering or entitlements, only faith, hope, and charity.
God had warned us over and over that the slothful shall be under tribute and that:
“When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.” Proverbs 23:1-4
Such requirements by Moses and Jesus did much to keep the ministers of that kingdom honest and dedicated. Men desiring power, control, and riches did not seek such offices of service. But in centralized authorities, whether they were indirect democracies or a demonic dictators, the benefits laid on those tables of rulers became a snare for the people according to David and Paul.
“And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:” Romans 11:9 [Psalms 69:22].
The Church is not just to preach the kingdom, but be its servants, facilitating the daily ministration, setting the tables of the Lord, feeding His sheep, and bring in the ways of God’s salvation into the hearts and minds of the people by God’s grace in this world and the next. Again the ministers of God’s kingdom do not stand between men and God, but between men and the gods of the world who would ensnare the people by making covenants and contracts that include coveting their neighbors goods, making merchandise of them all.
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315This is a name given to ministers who applied and promoted benefactors who exercised authority, like Herod.
316Nu. 18:23-24, Deut. 14:27-29, Joshua 18:7. Luke 12:33, 14:33, & 18:22, Matthew 19:21, Mark 10:21, Acts 4:36-5:...
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- ↑ Matthew 21:43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
- ↑ Luke 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to [our] father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.