Messiah taught His disciples (Matthew 5:1-2) to NOT LAY UP EARTHLY RICHES which are SUBJECT TO CORRUPTION and also
are VULNERABLE TO THEFT (Matthew 6:19 cf.Luke 12:33)
The PROPHET asked, "WHEREFORE do ye spend money for
that which is not bread? and your LABOUR FOR THAT WHICH SATISFIETH NOT?" (Isaiah 55:2)
MESSIAH declared, "a man's LIFE CONSISTETH NOT IN
the ABUNDANCE OF the THINGS which he possesseth" (Luke 12:15)
The APOSTLE cautioned, "we BROUGHT NOTHING INTO THIS
WORLD, and it is certain we CAN CARRY NOTHING OUT" (I Timothy 6:7)
Messiah taught His disciples (Matthew 5:1-2) to DO LAY UP HEAVENLY RICHES which are NOT SUBJECT TO CORRUPTION and
also are NOT VULNERABLE TO THEFT (Matthew 6:20 cf.Luke 12:33)
The PROPHET declared, "... EAT that which is GOOD,
and let your SOUL delight itself in FATNESS" (Isaiah 55:2)
MESSIAH when PHYSICALLY TEMPTED (TRIED) by the Adversary
(Luke 4:2-3)
- responded, "It is written, that man shall NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD OF GOD" (Luke 4:4 cf.Deuteronomy 8:3)
The APOSTLE exhorted, "CHARGE them that are RICH
IN THIS WORLD, that they ... TRUST NOT IN UNCERTAIN RICHES, BUT IN THE LIVING GOD ... that they be RICH IN GOOD
WORKS" (I Timothy 6:17-18)
Messiah taught His disciples (Matthew 5:1-2) that "WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS, THERE WILL YOUR HEART BE ALSO"
(Matthew 6:21)
Messiah taught that if one's EYE is "SINGLE (CLEAR)"
then one's BODY shall SHINE forth in RESURRECTION GLORY (Matthew 6:22 cf.Daniel 12:2-3;Matthew 13:43)
The "SURE WORD OF PROPHECY" will be the LIGHT
that SHINES in the DARKNESS of the TRIBULATION NIGHT to GUIDE Messiah's people unto the APPEARING of the "DAY
STAR", i.e. unto the RETURN of the MESSIAH (II Peter 1:19 cf.Daniel 2:44-45;Revelation 22:16,20)
The TRIBULATION OVERCOMER whose EYE is FOCUSED on "TREASURES
IN HEAVEN" (Matthew 6:20) will REFUSE the FALSE Messiah's EARTHLY "BUYING AND SELLING"
(Revelation 13:16-17) in order to RECEIVE the TRUE Messiah's "INHERITANCE ... RESERVED
IN HEAVEN" (I Peter 1:4)
In "THE DAY OF THE LORD" - the TRIBULATION "church
of the LAODICEANS" (Revelation 3:14 cf. Revelation 1:9-11) whose EYES are FOCUSED on "TREASURES UPON EARTH" (Matthew 6:19)
are described as "WRETCHED, and MISERABLE, and POOR, and BLIND, and NAKED" (Revelation 3:17)
They are COUNSELED TO BUY "GOLD TRIED IN THE FIRE"
to CLOTHE their NAKEDNESS with "WHITE RAIMENT" (Revelation 3:18), i.e. to be CLOTHED with the "GARMENTS OF SALVATION" (Isaiah 61:10)
PURCHASED by "the BLOOD of the LAMB" (Revelation 7:13-14) and FAITHFULLY PROCLAIMED by the TRIBULATION OVERCOMER (Revelation 12:11)
Messiah taught that one CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS and,
therefore, one must make a CHOICE - to SERVE EITHER GOD OR MAMMON (WEALTH) - Matthew 6:24
One who is WAVERING and DOUBLE MINDED "is UNSTABLE
in all his ways" (James 1:8)
In the "TIME OF JACOB'S TROUBLE" (Jeremiah 30:7),
ISRAELITES (James 1:1)
will face the SAME CHOICE concerning their NEEDY BRETHREN (James 2:14-17) as that of MOSES' CHOICE in the LAND OF EGYPT concerning his SUFFERING
BRETHREN (Hebrews 11:24-26)
In those days - MESSIAH'S PROMISE is that "WHOSOEVER
SHALL GIVE a CUP OF WATER to drink IN MY NAME ... SHALL NOT LOSE HIS REWARD" (Mark 9:41)