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|[[Image:altarfoot.jpg|link=Altars|250px|center|thumb|A [[Footstool]] was the foundation of Altars of God. [[Altars]] were not piles of ''dead stones'' but [[Lively Stones of a Living Altar]]. They were voluntary institutions of [[Charity]] built according to the design of God to maintain the [[social bonds]] of [[righteousness]] and strengthen a free society.]]
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|  These [[Seven men]] were to serve [[tables]] but that did not mean to run a food kitchen. What it had to do with managing funds that might be needed to provide aid in distant lands especially during the [[dearth]]s that were coming as [[Rome]] declined. Philip<Ref name="Philip"></Ref> lived in Caesarea as we see in [[Acts 21]]. 
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| Stephen<Ref name="Stephen"></Ref>, Philip<Ref name="Philip"></Ref>,Prochorus<Ref name="Prochorus"></Ref>, Nicanor<Ref name="Nicanor"></Ref>, Timon<Ref name="Timon"></Ref>, Parmenas<Ref name="Parmenas"></Ref>, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch<Ref name="Nicolas"></Ref> were not just delivering bread to local Greek widows but were a critical part of a vast [[network]] of [[Charity]] we see being essential to the lives of [[early Christians]] throughout the [[world]]. The [[Modern Church]] who rides the [[Mark of the Beast|beast]] of [[Revelation]] with the ''[[Harlot]] and her daughters'' eat at the [[tables]] of rulers which is the [[snare]] that has returned them to the [[bondage of Egypt]], made them [[merchandise]] and [[curse children|curses their children with debt]].
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| In the book "Temple Cleansing and Temple Bank" by Neill Q. Hamilton, explains the "function of the Jerusalem temple as a bank.<Ref>'''Mark 11''':15-19, [[Luke 19]]:48-49, [[Matthew 21]]:12,13</Ref> A brief history of banking in [[temples]] in the ancient [[world]] will prepare us for an understanding of the [[Temple in Jerusalem|Jerusalem temple bank]]." The word [[Corban]], meaning ''[[sacrifice]]'',  is also translated ''[[treasury]]'' which suggests the sacrifices of the people were kept in a vault like the function of the [[Golden calf]] which was a common form of protecting the '''[[Reserve fund]]s''' required in many banking and welfare systems and seen in so many of the [[Temples]] throughout history like those at [[Ephesus]] and [[Rome]].
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| The Quarom as well as Jesus and the [[early Church]] called for a temple made without hands but constructed of living stones. The Essenes call that community a "temple of men" or the ''miqdash adam''. [[Moses]] appears that the people keep their gold in their own purse and Proverbs tells us not to have a [[One Purse|common purse]]  while [[Jesus]] also seemed to agree.<Ref>[[Matthew 6]]:19  Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 6:20  But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."</Ref>
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| While the [[seven men]] in [[Acts 6]] formed a sort of bank to handle funds they were a nonprofit bank more like decentralized private [[Credit unions]] today. Everything about the [[Kingdom of God]] is decentralized because it is delivering a ''power of choice'' or ''liberty'' to individuals rather than to a central power.<Ref>[[Matthew 6]]:19  Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20  But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal::21  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.</Ref>
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| The [[Daily bread]] which was rightly "divided from house to house" was provide in the [[early Christian]] community by a [[Corbanus]] of [[fervent Charity]]. This practice of "[[Pure Religion]]" by the [[early Church]] was a part of the "[[daily ministration]]" we see in [[Acts 6]] and could include "food, clothing, and support" translated "meat" in [[Acts 2]]:46<Ref name="acts2">"And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart," [[Acts 2]]:46 The word in the text translated "meat" is the Greek word  "trophé " [[5160]] Commonly translated food, nourishment, and support. And accepted literally and figuratively by implication, rations (wages), food, meals, and meat.</Ref>
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|  As [[commanded]] by Christ it was not by way of the [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]] nor the "[[legal charity]]" of the [[world]] of [[Rome]], [[FDR]], nor [[LBJ]] which all make the [[Corban|word of God to none effect]] because they were [[covetous practices]] dependent upon "men who [[exercise authority]] one over the other" forbidden by [[Christ]]. [[Early Christians]] did not have an [[appetite]] for [[free bread]] of the "[[temples]] of the Roman State" and the habit of receiving those [[Plutarch|gifts,  gratuities]], and [[benefits]] at the expense of others, which as [[covetous practices]] will [[Polybius|degenerate society]]. 
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| Throughout God's word, from the [[Ten Commandments]] to [[Knife|Proverbs]], from the [[Prophets]] to the [[Apostles]] we have been [[warnings|warned]] but the [[Modern Church]] and their "[[Strong delusion|blind guides]]" have returned to the "[[bondage of Egypt]]", become [[merchandise|human resources]], and [[curse children]] with debt with their [[appetite]] for the "[[legal charity]]" of the [[welfare]] state.
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| Does your [[Daily bread]] come by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]], or by [[force]]?
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== Acts 6 ==


=== The election and appointment of [[Seven Men]]  ===

1 ¶  And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the [[daily ministration]].

2  Then the twelve called the multitude of the [[disciples]] unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve [[tables]].

3  Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you [[seven men]] of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may [[appoint]] over this [[Welfare|business]].

4  But we will give ourselves continually<Ref name="Persevereq">{{Persevereq}}</Ref> to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

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6  Whom they set before the [[apostles]]: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

7  And the word of God increased; and the number of the [[disciples]] multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the [[priests]] were obedient to the [[faith]].


=== The first of the [[Seven Men]] to be martyred ===


8 ¶  And Stephen<Ref name="Stephen"></Ref>, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.

9  Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.

10  And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.

11  Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against [[Moses]], and against God.

12  And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,

13  And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

14  For we have heard him say, that this [[Jesus]] of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which [[Moses]] delivered us.

15  And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.



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