Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
There is an interesting word in the Bible description of the second coming of Jesus: “The kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, and EVERY SLAVE and every free man, hid themselves in the caves.... and said.... ‘Hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne’” (Rev. 6:15, 16).
True, there is still slavery in some parts of the
Well, the Lord impressed James to write a scathing rebuke to “rich” people especially in “the last days” where in we live: “Come now, you rich weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you!.... You have heaped up treasure in the last days. Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out..... You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury..... You have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter..... The just.... does not resist you” (5:1-6). The gaps between the incomes of the rich and the poor in the world have widened alarmingly, especially in the developed nations. Electronics has given enterprising teens multi-million dollar wealth. In a post-Christian culture, materialist idolatry has run wild.
I remember hearing a godly minister declare one day long ago that we will have to give an account to God for every dollar that we have wasted on the love of self. (At that time, a dollar was the wage of a laboring man for a day). Each of us should ask God a straight question: in Heaven’s plan of economics, am I expending more than the just portion of this world’s wealth than I deserve? Do the angel economists write me down as someone who is unknowingly oppressing poor people? Am I strengthening what Heaven sees as slavery still continuing, as revealed there in Revelation 6?
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