Merchandise
2Pe 2:3 "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. [1] While we find the word Merchandise in the Bible numerous times the Greek work translated merchandise in Peter's second epistle only appears in one other verse of the Bible and then only as merchandise once.
It is from ~ἐμπορεύομαι~ emporeuomai [1710] from two words en meaning "in, by, with" and poreuomai meaning "to lead over, carry over, transfer"; ; v
- 1) to go a trading, to travel for business, to traffic, trade
- 2) of a thing, to import for sale
- 3) to deal in
- 4) to use a person or a thing for gain
In James chapter 4 we find the same word translated buy and sell. [2]
Is becoming a human resource the same as becoming merchandise?
Are we being told that we would become a mere commodity or property to be bought and sold through our own covetousness?
How does covetousness make us merchandise?
Ps 69:22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
Ro 11:9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence
“The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.” Plutarch
Is Proverbs 23:1 [3]telling us not to take benefits from men who can exercise authority one over the other?
If it is then that explains why Jesus said "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:" Lu 22:25
What it does not explain is why Churches say that is okay now?
Could they be teaching us a damnable heresy.
When Proverbs 1 talks about "one purse"[4] were they talking about socialism where everyone puts their hand in everyone else's purse through the exercising authority of men who call themselves benefactors but are just taking from your neighbor to satisfy your own desires, wantonness.
Isn't desiring those benefits a form of covetousness?
Is the right to collect those benefits the result of a contract where yo9u are also a surety for the debt of the provider?
Proverbs 22:26 “Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands, [or] of them that are sureties for debts.”
Romans 13:8 “Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.”
If we go back to 2 Peter Chapter 2 it sounds like people can loose their liberty and become collateral for debt simply by applying for benefits from a system of forced contributions. Have the people been conquered through covet means?
Read The Nicolaitan who God hates?
Because they covet their neighbor's goods
http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/nicolaity.php
Doom, Gloom, and Democracy
The real destroyer is our own covetousness
http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/doomdemocracy.php
Appeared first on NewsWithViews 4-30-09
The Covetous Prayers
From the book The Higher Liberty, Sec. 42
http://www.hisholychurch.org/media/books/THL/thecovetous.php
To Heal Our Land
The Hateful Connection, The Unrighteous Corban, The Indictment
http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/healland.php
To Enslave a Nation
How do you enslave a whole nation, even the whole world?
http://www.hisholychurch.org/sermon/enslave.php
1Sa 8:11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint [them] for himself, for his chariots, and [to be] his horsemen; and [some] shall run before his chariots.....1Sa 8:13 And he will take your daughters [to be] confectionaries, and [to be] cooks, and [to be] bakers.
Footnotes
- ↑ 2Pe 2:1 "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;"
- ↑ James 4:11 "Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of [his] brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell[emporeuomai], and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin."
- ↑ Proverbs 23:1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [is] before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat. Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
- ↑ Pr 1:10 "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.