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[[File:eucharist2.jpg|300px|right|thumb|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> 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]]. 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.<Br>Does your [[Daily bread]] come by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]], or by [[force]]?]] | [[File:eucharist2.jpg|300px|right|thumb|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> 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]]. 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.<Br>Does your [[Daily bread]] come by [[faith]], [[hope]] and [[charity]], or by [[force]]? Is the [[feast]] of your [[Passover]] filled with the [[leaven]] of the [[Pharisees]].]] | ||
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* [[Luke 11]]:3 Give us day by day our daily bread. | * [[Luke 11]]:3 Give us day by day our daily bread. | ||
When Jesus talked about how to pray he spoke of "our daily bread". He said we should ask our [[Father]] in heave to provide for it and he told Peter and the apostles to feed his sheep<Ref>[[John 21]]:16 He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. 17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.</Ref> and not be like the [[Benefactors]] who [[exercise authority]] one over the other in the government of the other nations. | When Jesus talked about how to pray he spoke of "our daily bread". He said we should ask our [[Father]] in heave to provide for it and he told Peter and the apostles to feed his sheep<Ref>[[John 21]]:16 He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. 17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, [[Feed my sheep]].</Ref> and not be like the [[Benefactors]] who [[exercise authority]] one over the other in the government of the other nations. | ||
This reference to ''daily bread'' by ''[[Benefactors]]'' who did not exercise authority nor the [[Covetous Practices]] of the [[world]] but [[Love|love]] is a major theme of the [[Bible]]. [[Christ]] and [[Baptism|John the Baptist]] and all the [[apostles]] talked about [[Charity|charity]] as the source of our ''daily bread''. | Jesus spoke clearly to the people who knew [[Caesar]] and the Senate were the "[[conscripted Fathers]]" of the nation because they provided [[daily bread]] for the people at their civil [[tables]] of [[welfare]]. Jesus declared, "And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven." [[Matthew 23]]:9 | ||
This reference to ''[[daily bread]]'' by ''[[Benefactors]]'' who did not exercise authority nor the [[Covetous Practices]] of the [[world]] but [[Love|love]] is a major theme of the [[Bible]]. [[Christ]] and [[Baptism|John the Baptist]] and all the [[apostles]] talked about [[Charity|charity]] as the source of our ''daily bread''. | |||
Ezekiel 13 warns of vanity and lies that ''seduced'' and ''pollute'' my people with '''bread''' ''slaying souls'' that should not die so that souls that should die are able to live.<Ref>[[Ezekiel 13]]:19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear [your] lies?</Ref> | [[Ezekiel 13]] warns of vanity and lies that ''seduced'' and ''pollute'' my people with '''bread''' ''slaying souls'' that should not die so that souls that should die are able to live.<Ref>[[Ezekiel 13]]:19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear [your] lies?</Ref> | ||
The phrase ''"free [[Bread and circuses]]"'' (or bread and games) was used by [[Rome]] and many of those states who followed in the ways of [[Rome]]. ''[[Bread and circuses]]'' is from Latin: panem et circenses and is metonymic for a superficial means of appeasement. | The phrase ''"free [[Bread and circuses]]"'' (or bread and games) was used by [[Rome]] and many of those states who followed in the ways of [[Rome]]. ''[[Bread and circuses]]'' is from Latin: panem et circenses and is metonymic for a superficial means of appeasement. | ||
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In the case of politics, the phrase is used to describe the creation of public approval, not through exemplary or excellent public service or moral public policy, but through diversion; distraction; or the mere satisfaction of the immediate, shallow [[Wantonness|wantonness]] of a populace, as an offered "palliative". <Ref> Palliative ''relieving pain or alleviating a problem without dealing with the underlying cause.''</Ref> | In the case of politics, the phrase is used to describe the creation of public approval, not through exemplary or excellent public service or moral public policy, but through diversion; distraction; or the mere satisfaction of the immediate, shallow [[Wantonness|wantonness]] of a populace, as an offered "palliative". <Ref> Palliative ''relieving pain or alleviating a problem without dealing with the underlying cause.''</Ref> | ||
At the height of government [[welfare]] in [[Rome]] where the public [[temples]] provided food and money to the poor [[Plutarch]] warned that these [[benefits]] reduce liberty<Ref>“The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” Plutarch </Ref> and would destroy the Roman people.<Ref>"That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities" Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.)</Ref> | At the height of government [[welfare]] in [[Rome]] where the public [[temples]] provided food and money to the poor [[Plutarch]] warned that these [[benefits]] reduce liberty<Ref>“The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” [[Plutarch]] </Ref> and would destroy the Roman people.<Ref>"That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities." [[Plutarch]]'s Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.)</Ref> | ||
Over two hundred years earlier [[Polybius]] warned the Roman people that an [[appetite]] for | Over two hundred years earlier [[Polybius]] warned the Roman people that when, "The [[masses]] continue with an [[appetite]] for [[benefits]] and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of [[force]] and ... accustomed to feed at the expense of others... they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master..." | ||
Of course the Bible warns us about these [[covetous practices]] through rulers from Exodus<Ref>[[Exodus 20]]:17 Thou shalt not [[covet]] thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. | Of course the Bible warns us about these [[covetous practices]] through rulers from Exodus<Ref>[[Exodus 20]]:17 Thou shalt not [[covet]] thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not [[covet]] thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. | ||
: [[Deuteronomy 5]]:21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou [[covet]] thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s. </Ref> to Proverbs<Ref>[[Proverbs 23]]:1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee: 2 And put a [[knife]] to thy throat, if thou be a man given to [[appetite]]. 3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.</Ref>. | : [[Deuteronomy 5]]:21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou [[covet]] thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s. </Ref> to Proverbs<Ref>[[Proverbs 23]]:1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee: 2 And put a [[knife]] to thy throat, if thou be a man given to [[appetite]]. 3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.</Ref>. | ||
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== Righteous bread of our Father == | == Righteous bread of our Father == | ||
Christians obtained their [[Daily ministration|''daily bread'']] through there own system of charitable welfare as prescribed by Christ<Ref>Matthew 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: | Christians obtained their [[Daily ministration|''daily bread'']] through there own system of charitable welfare as prescribed by Christ<Ref>[[Matthew 25]]:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: | ||
36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. | 36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. | ||
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? | 37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? | ||
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39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? | 39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? | ||
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. | 40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. | ||
: [[John 21]]:17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.</Ref> and John the Baptist.<Ref>Luke 3:11 He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.</Ref> | : [[John 21]]:17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.</Ref> and John the Baptist.<Ref>[[Luke 3]]:11 He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.</Ref> | ||
Of course the [[Apostles]] and eventually Paul, provided [[Daily ministration|''daily bread'']]<Ref>Acts 2:42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in '''breaking of bread''', and in prayers. | Of course the [[Apostles]] and eventually Paul, provided [[Daily ministration|''daily bread'']]<Ref>[[Acts 2]]:42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in '''breaking of bread''', and in prayers. | ||
: Acts 2:46 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 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 20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. | : Acts 20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. | ||
: Acts 20:11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed. | : Acts 20:11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed. | ||
: [[Acts 27]]:35 And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat.</Ref> by | : [[Acts 27]]:35 And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat.</Ref> by [[appoint]]ing men elected by the people to handle the charitable contributions of the people under the overseer-ship of the Apostles and other ministers of the Church. | ||
The [[Eucharist]] of Christ was not merely a ''magical wafer'' but the bread of sharing with one another in love.<Ref>[[1 Corinthians 10]]:17 For we [being] many are one bread, [and] one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.</Ref> Bread was both the symbol and the staff of life. Sharing it represented the [[social welfare]] of the Christian society. | |||
== Tables that are a snare == | |||
This [[Private welfare]] would eventually produced the [[Christian conflict]] that became the fuel for [[persecution]] with the outlaw of [[private religion]]. | |||
Paul talks about [[tables]] being a [[snare]], and a trap, and a [[stumblingblock]] quoting David<Ref name="snare">[[Psalms 69]]:22 '''"Let their table become a [[snare]] before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] [[welfare]], [let it become] a trap."'''<Br>Paul said, [[Romans 11]]:9 '''"And David saith, Let their table be made a [[snare]], and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompence unto them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway."''' </Ref> and the people's eyes would be darkened so that they would not see. | |||
How can a table be a [[snare]]? | |||
What are the [[tables]] which are filled with things sacrificed to "devils"?<Ref name-"devils"> [[1 Corinthians 10]]:17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. 18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the alter? 19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to [[idols]] is any thing? 20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they [[sacrifice]] to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. 22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? </Ref> | |||
[[File:Jesusfeeds.jpg|right|200px|thumb|[[Abraham]], [[Moses]], John the [[Baptism|Baptist]] and Jesus and the | |||
[[File:Jesusfeeds.jpg|right|200px|thumb|[[Abraham]], [[Moses]], John the [[Baptism|Baptist]] and [[Jesus]] and the [[early Church]] advocated a we get our [[daily bread]] by way of a [[Daily ministration]] that was dependent on [[fervent charity]] rather or only and it was not like the system of [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]] and [[Rome]].]] | |||
== Fervent and legal charity == | |||
The [[Modern Christians|Modern Christian]] does not provide a [[Daily ministration]], the [[Daily bread]] for the needy of the Churches they establish. Instead he is willing to covet his neighbors goods through his elected [[Benefactors]] who help you take a ''[[One_purse#Bite_one_another|bite out of one another]]''.<Ref>[[Galatians 5]] tells us 13 "For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the [[flesh]], but by [[love]] serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt [[love]] thy neighbour as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the [[flesh]]." </Ref> | The [[Modern Christians|Modern Christian]] does not provide a [[Daily ministration]], the [[Daily bread]] for the needy of the Churches they establish. Instead he is willing to covet his neighbors goods through his elected [[Benefactors]] who help you take a ''[[One_purse#Bite_one_another|bite out of one another]]''.<Ref>[[Galatians 5]] tells us 13 "For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the [[flesh]], but by [[love]] serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt [[love]] thy neighbour as thyself. 15 But if ye [[bite]] and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the [[flesh]]." </Ref> | ||
This is | This [[legal charity]] does not only weaken the [[masses]] it is a [[covetous practices]] that makes the people [[Merchandise]] and [[curse children|curse their children]]. They have need of [[Repent]]ance. The [[Eucharist]] of Christ was not just a wafer but [[Daily bread]] provided through a [[Daily ministration]] of [[faith]], [[hope]], and [[charity]]. | ||
Real Christians did not eat the [[free bread]] of [[Rome]] but the [[Flesh and blood]] of [[Christ]] provided by [[charity]] and [[love]]. The [[Christian conflict]] with [[Rome]] determined if the were desiring to be [[Doers of the Word|doers of the word]] and not hearers only. They are [[seek]]ing the kingdom by attending to the {{Template:Weightier matters}} | Real Christians did not eat the [[free bread]] of [[Rome]] but the [[Flesh and blood]] of [[Christ]] provided by [[charity]] and [[love]]. The [[Christian conflict]] with [[Rome]] determined if the were desiring to be [[Doers of the Word|doers of the word]] and not hearers only. They are [[seek]]ing the kingdom by attending to the {{Template:Weightier matters}} | ||
Bread and blood | == Bread and blood == | ||
: "Have all the [[workers of iniquity]] no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat [[bread]], and call not upon the LORD." [[Psalms 14]]:4; [[Psalms 53]]:4 | |||
: "O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? 5 Thou feedest them with the [[bread]] of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. 6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves. 7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.8 ¶ Thou hast brought a vine out of [[Egypt]]: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it." [[Psalms 80]]:4 | |||
: "For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. 18 But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. 19 The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. 20 ¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 22 For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh." [[Proverbs 4]]:17 | |||
: "If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:" Proverbs 1:11 | |||
Latest revision as of 20:46, 20 August 2023
Does your Daily bread come by faith, hope and charity, or by force? Is the feast of your Passover filled with the leaven of the Pharisees.
Daily bread
When Jesus talked about how to pray he spoke of "our daily bread". He said we should ask our Father in heave to provide for it and he told Peter and the apostles to feed his sheep[2] and not be like the Benefactors who exercise authority one over the other in the government of the other nations.
Jesus spoke clearly to the people who knew Caesar and the Senate were the "conscripted Fathers" of the nation because they provided daily bread for the people at their civil tables of welfare. Jesus declared, "And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven." Matthew 23:9
This reference to daily bread by Benefactors who did not exercise authority nor the Covetous Practices of the world but love is a major theme of the Bible. Christ and John the Baptist and all the apostles talked about charity as the source of our daily bread.
Ezekiel 13 warns of vanity and lies that seduced and pollute my people with bread slaying souls that should not die so that souls that should die are able to live.[3]
The phrase "free Bread and circuses" (or bread and games) was used by Rome and many of those states who followed in the ways of Rome. Bread and circuses is from Latin: panem et circenses and is metonymic for a superficial means of appeasement.
In the case of politics, the phrase is used to describe the creation of public approval, not through exemplary or excellent public service or moral public policy, but through diversion; distraction; or the mere satisfaction of the immediate, shallow wantonness of a populace, as an offered "palliative". [4]
At the height of government welfare in Rome where the public temples provided food and money to the poor Plutarch warned that these benefits reduce liberty[5] and would destroy the Roman people.[6]
Over two hundred years earlier Polybius warned the Roman people that when, "The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and ... accustomed to feed at the expense of others... they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master..."
Of course the Bible warns us about these covetous practices through rulers from Exodus[7] to Proverbs[8].
Peter and Paul and all the apostles gave us many warnings about coveting those benefits provided by the authority of government and who it would turn us into merchandise and curse children.
There is always a need for some form of social welfare to hold society in good health. There are two types of welfare used to provide for the needs of society.
Juvenal decried one of them as a simplistic motivation of common people with a disregard to the consequences to others.
"… Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses."[9]
The phrase also implies the erosion or ignorance of civic duty amongst the concerns of the commoner to provide for the needy through a personal choice and sacrifice.
Basically, "bread and circuses" or free bread or government benefits describes the system of religious or public welfare of the Roman State which was run through the Temples.
Public religion has always been at the Roots of the Welfare State. It from time to time included all social welfare provided by the Patronus, e.g. Our Father, of Rome from free bread and general food supplies including wine and surplus cheese to actual cash or even health care provisions and education.
The funds collected were legislated as a tax to the members who signed up for these systems of qorban in Rome or Corban in Judea. Members were required to contribute. The Baptism of Herod set up a similar system through the Temple he built. The funds collected were public but considered sacred. But they were not the result of charity and love but enforced by exercising authority of the state.
The funds were held in a treasury also called by some Corban and administered by the public system of welfare through the synagogues. Rome of course was doing the same through their own temples and to satisfy other people within his government Herod also bill the temple of Roma. Because they were not dependent upon charity but upon contract they were called the unrighteous mammon by Christ. Eventually that system showed decay and corruption that ate up the funds of the treasury and the entrusted contribution to that system until it was bankrupt.
The same has proved true for the modern systems which followed these principles of social welfare which have proven not to be secure. FDRs New Deal and LBJs war on on poverty or Great Society were a turning away from what was once the American ideal.
Righteous bread of our Father
Christians obtained their daily bread through there own system of charitable welfare as prescribed by Christ[10] and John the Baptist.[11]
Of course the Apostles and eventually Paul, provided daily bread[12] by appointing men elected by the people to handle the charitable contributions of the people under the overseer-ship of the Apostles and other ministers of the Church.
The Eucharist of Christ was not merely a magical wafer but the bread of sharing with one another in love.[13] Bread was both the symbol and the staff of life. Sharing it represented the social welfare of the Christian society.
Tables that are a snare
This Private welfare would eventually produced the Christian conflict that became the fuel for persecution with the outlaw of private religion.
Paul talks about tables being a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock quoting David[14] and the people's eyes would be darkened so that they would not see.
How can a table be a snare?
What are the tables which are filled with things sacrificed to "devils"?[15]
Fervent and legal charity
The Modern Christian does not provide a Daily ministration, the Daily bread for the needy of the Churches they establish. Instead he is willing to covet his neighbors goods through his elected Benefactors who help you take a bite out of one another.[16]
This legal charity does not only weaken the masses it is a covetous practices that makes the people Merchandise and curse their children. They have need of Repentance. The Eucharist of Christ was not just a wafer but Daily bread provided through a Daily ministration of faith, hope, and charity.
Real Christians did not eat the free bread of Rome but the Flesh and blood of Christ provided by charity and love. The Christian conflict with Rome determined if the were desiring to be doers of the word and not hearers only. They are seeking the kingdom by attending to the Weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith which include caring for the needs of our neighbors and the widows and orphans of our society through Pure Religion in matters of health, education, and welfare. We are NOT to provide for the needy of society through the Covetous Practices and the men who call themselves benefactors but who exercise authority one over the other like the socialists do.
The Way of Christ was like neither the way of the world of Rome nor the governments of the gentiles who depend on those fathers of the earth through force, fear and fealty who deliver the people back in bondage again like they were in Egypt. Christ's ministers and true Christians do not depend upon systems of social welfare that force the contributions of the people like the corban of the Pharisees which made the word of God to none effect. Many people have been deceived to go the way of Balaam and the Nicolaitan and out of The Way of Christ and have become workers of iniquity.
The Christian conflict with Rome in the first century Church appointed by Christ was because they would not apply to the fathers of the earth for their free bread but instead relied upon a voluntary network providing a daily ministration to the needy of society through Faith, Hope, and Charity by way of freewill offerings of the people, for the people, and by the people through the perfect law of liberty in Free Assemblies according to the ancient pattern of Tuns or Tens as He commanded.
The modern Christians are in need of repentance.
"Follow me!" —Jesus the Christ.
- One of the most important things to do is to become involved in a network of Charitable Practices. Everyone should want to join a Living Network of Love and Charity.
- If you think you have a calling to be a Minister of God or you might want to dedicate your life to Christ as an Ordained Minister of His Holy Church, contact us to start the process of discipleship and become the benefactors who exercise only love, NOT authority.[17]
Bread and blood
- "Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD." Psalms 14:4; Psalms 53:4
- "O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? 5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. 6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves. 7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.8 ¶ Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it." Psalms 80:4
- "For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. 18 But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. 19 The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. 20 ¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 22 For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh." Proverbs 4:17
- "If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:" Proverbs 1:11
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ John 21:16 He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. 17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
- ↑ Ezekiel 13:19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear [your] lies?
- ↑ Palliative relieving pain or alleviating a problem without dealing with the underlying cause.
- ↑ “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” Plutarch
- ↑ "That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities." Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.)
- ↑ Exodus 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
- Deuteronomy 5:21 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
- ↑ Proverbs 23:1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee: 2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. 3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
- ↑ Leisure and Ancient Rome, By J. P. Toner full quote at p.69.
- ↑ Matthew 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
- John 21:17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, [son] of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
- ↑ Luke 3:11 He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
- ↑ Acts 2:42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
- Acts 2:46 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 20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
- Acts 20:11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
- Acts 27:35 And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat.
- ↑ 1 Corinthians 10:17 For we [being] many are one bread, [and] one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
- ↑ Psalms 69:22 "Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap."
Paul said, Romans 11:9 "And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompence unto them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway." - ↑ 1 Corinthians 10:17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. 18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the alter? 19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? 20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils. 22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
- ↑ Galatians 5 tells us 13 "For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh."
- ↑ Matthew 20:25-26 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
Mark 10:42-43 But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:
Luke 22:25-26 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.