When talking about material wealth, we live in a world of haves and have nots. That’s it – the middle-class myth is/was exactly that – a myth. I’ve known “upper middle class” folks who liked to be considered as being in the “haves” genre, but as a person I used to know once told me, if you think you might be one of the upper crusties then take this simple test: Take your private jet to Bermuda tomorrow, or better yet just do it this evening. What? You can’t take off work tomorrow? You don’t even have a private jet? What?!! If either or both answers is no, then like it or not you are simply a plebe, regardless of your occasional Friday night dinners with attorneys or doctors.

I’m writing about a class of people in this world who are separate, financially, socially, emotionally, but especially legally, from the rest of us. These folks do not answer to the same judicial, medical, or financial systems that plague us commoners. If any of these people were to happen to be driving their own vehicle and get a flat tire, under the right circumstances with no cell coverage, they would be totally lost and at the abhorrent mercy of unfamiliar elements where the ghastly working classes lurk! Not one of them could manage to replace a flashlight battery or unstick a clogged toilet if their life depended on it.

I’m speaking of people so susceptible to their esoteric programming that they are accustomed to making lavish financial outpourings simply based on what their peers do such as purchasing art from the same sources as other rich people precisely because other rich people do it and for no other superfluous reason such as whether or not they personally like it. In addition, the wealthy classes are purveyors of every sinful and covetous practice under the sun, always as though it were something novel – it is standard fare for the wealthy, the “elite”, with no thought of any ramifications that might be accounted – especially from a Higher Power. They engage in the most sordid, execrable behaviors imaginable, and this is primarily because their wealth came with a price tag, a ledger entry to which they paid no more attention when they entered into it than the price sticker on that new Lamborghini they bought yesterday on a whim. They – practically to the last sick social parasite – made a deal with the devil to get their apartment at the 432 Park Avenue posh skyscraper (turned-ghetto), and it’s a deal that requires total submission up to and including the most vile, horrid acts one could ever imagine. There’s absolutely no limit to the degree of evil of which they become capable, and if you think otherwise, I’ve got a couple of tall buildings in lower Manhattan to sell you – no wait – someone (rich) blew them up.

Among other abhorrent proclivities, these people routinely allow the allure of their perverse sensual natures to deprive them of any semblance of human decency, especially when it comes to their regard for children – even their own children, but isn’t that what the evil people in the Bible did in the old days – burning their own kids alive? The only thing to which any of these Cretins are loyal is their lust for more wealth, and there is no level of evil to which they will not stoop to gain it, nor is there any level of wealth that might obviate their desire for more. After a while, at some level which probably varies from one monster to another, wealth becomes power and then it turns into a whole new ball game with a whole new iteration of evil. They can buy anything, including human beings and their souls – and they do without a second thought. Those who sell their souls to them are equally as guilty – morally speaking.

For some reason which I’m inclined to believe is part and parcel of this human condition that we Christians are duty-bound to evolve away from, it seems that sexual immorality is the primary condition to which those with great wealth always gravitate. It seems that lewd and lascivious behavior is Satan’s most alluring temptation and when a person acquires whatever wealth it takes for him to become disenchanted, even bored, with the attendant posh lifestyle, he invariably turns – at Satan’s behest, of course – to morally irredeemable behavior. Then the acts grow into something far darker than (mere consensual) sexual immorality, acts and behaviors that include unspeakable conduct for a decent person to contemplate. But these are not decent people and their sexual immorality does not go unnoticed by the Almighty: [Revelation 18:9]: “The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her will weep and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning,” and [Revelation 18:3]: “For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.” It seems like wealth and immorality go hand in hand, and God does not like either.

[Luke 6;24]: “But woe to you who are rich, For you have received your consolation.” Jesus clearly condemned the wealthy here and He made no bones about His contempt for the rich – they will not fare well at the judgement, so do not waste your time coveting wealth or envying those who have great possessions – they will suffer eternal torment for their choice to be rich men during this short tenure on the earth. I fully believe they are all demon-possessed. Our forefathers of the Christian faith, indeed, our Savior Jesus Christ Himself, were materially poor men. There are examples in the Holy Scriptures of which this site has published articles about the financially destitute men of God – John the Baptist, the disciples Peter and John, and the prophets of old – no men of God were wealthy, (with the possible exception of King Solomon, but he had some issues) and they are our examples in the faith. Wealthy pastors in today’s megachurches are all hypocritical charlatans, every one of them, and if you are a member in such congregations, leave that organization and find a true church. [2 Corinthians 6:17]: “Therefore “Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you.”

If you find yourself feeling down because of financial lack, just remember that you – we – are the salt of the earth in our Savior’s eyes, and that is worth more than all the gold in all the banks and mountains of the whole earth! He favors the poor. Till that big day, be happy with what you have – we don’t need to be like them, for crying out loud, they’re trying to mesh their consciousness into computers because they erroneously think they can live forever – but we know there’s another – a better – Way. One that actually works. It’s true they run our countries for now, but that will not always be the case. [Luke 4:18,19]:

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
¹⁹ To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”

May the blessings of the Almighty Father find and keep us.

MK