Leaving Egypt Ministries, Obadiah D. Morris
This first article covers how statist societies, especially imperialistic ones as the American Empire, are able to obtain some level of apparent prosperity for some time, but points out how this is a fleeting prosperity that is more so the result of these societies’ status as an empire than it is actual productivity and real wealth generation. The dominant political powers of the world are able to enrich themselves with monetary inflation without immediately paying the price for it. But these political societies are still plunderous ones that ultimately destroy wealth and bring the people down with them.
This second installment uses the first article to show this fleeting prosperity is able to entice men into accepting the alleged benefits, privileges, and “prosperity” that comes with these systems. Building upon the Biblical examples of the men who reminisced in the desert of all the great things they had during their Egyptian bondage, it shows how the false prosperity of these systems is able to trick men into accepting the temporary “prosperity” of ultimately bankrupt socialist societies, rather than leading them to seek the Kingdom of God, which is the only society of sustainable and lasting prosperity. The false prosperity that statist systems like the credit-producing American empire have been able to create for the time being is able to tempt men out of trusting in God’s provision in a free society. They reason that since they have mortgages for big homes and trucks that they otherwise can’t afford, that Egyptian societies are a blessing rather than a curse, and that it may well be true that tax-bondage is an acceptable burden to tolerate in light of all the perceived prosperity, goods, and services received under these systems.
This article is more or less a continuation of the last, showing how the false prosperity of statist societies tricks men into believing that the systems of human civil government that plunder them are actually the source of wealth rather than eventual impoverishment, which they then trust in rather than God. But since this “prosperity” of worldly empires, which always fail, is an artificial one, men will eventually realize that it is better to trust in the Lord than to trust in princes.
This article explains that while the those who posses the devil’s money printer may launch their crony economies ahead of others for some time, the prosperity of the Kingdom of God is a steady and smooth one that actually lasts over time and is not subject to being reversed in the endless cycles of recession and empire collapse that is always a feature of the plunderous kingdoms of the world.
As the title implies, this article demonstrates how it is always, of course, better in the long run to seek the type of prosperity that comes from keeping with God’s Law, which forbids men from setting up the type of political plunder systems that deceive men into trusting in worldly political systems that appear for some time to generate wealth but which always end in destruction.
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