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]

Why is this covetous make us merchandise?

We also know that in 2 Peter 2:14 we are told "Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:"

How do we curse our children with covetous practices?

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

The word Canaan in the Bible is from the Hebrew word Kanaan^[2] It could mean merchants but also merchant of men.

In James chapter 4 we find the same word emporeuomai is translated buy and sell in relationship to gain. ^[3]

In Proverbs 1 we are told to consent not in relationship to making gain at the expense of others. That consent makes the people have one purse. What they are really talking about is a system of Welfare where everyone pools their wealth under someone who can exercise authority, e.g. force their contributions. These systems like the Corban of the Pharisees is a snare and makes the word of God to none effect.

In Ezekiel it talks about building a civil structure where the people become the flesh in the caldron of that legal institution.^[4]

And as we see in Micah the people eat the flesh of one another by such civil structures we see mentioned in Ezekiel.^[5]

They same idea is mentioned in Galatians 5:15 as a warning that we do not do that in any way.^[6]

Is the World inhabited by Zombies that take a bite out of one another through socialist schemes and Welfare?

Matthew 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

People of the world have become very selfish. They believe that they can covet their neighbor's goods and go about and take from others so that they will have what they want.

Luke 12:15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Deuteronomy 24:6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.
Proverbs 1:19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

This is a snare in our thinking and that does not give life but deadens our hearts to the compassion needed in a free society. To set up systems that give men the power to take from our neighbors for our benefit is dead works and the work of the dead.

Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Everyman has a right to their labor and no one should take that away without his or her consent. We should not take from others without their freewill giving or we will be taken from until we cry out and no one hears us.

Ecclesiastes 5:18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.

We should take care of the real needs of our neighbors but in a way that gives life through a liberty of individual choice and does not weaken the poor nor strengthen the beast in us all and kills the soul.

Luke 20:38 For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

This was the message of all the prophets unto Jesus and the early Church. The message of sharing our life with others through a network of living souls caring for one another is a system grandfathered in by the blood of Jesus Christ.

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 ^[7]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"^[8] 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 you 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;"
↑ 03667 ^ןענכ^ Kᵉna‘an from 03665, Greek 5477 ~Ξανααν~; which is translated Canaan 89times, but also merchant, traffick, traffickers.
↑ 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."
↑ Ezekiel 11:3 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.
Ezekiel 11:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.

Ezekiel 11:11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:
↑ Micah 3:3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
↑ Galatians 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
↑ 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.

[1] 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;"

[2] 03667 ^ןענכ^ Kᵉna‘an from 03665, Greek 5477 ~Ξανααν~; which is translated Canaan 89times, but also merchant, traffick, traffickers.

[3] 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."

[4] Ezekiel 11:3 Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.
Ezekiel 11:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.

Ezekiel 11:11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:

[5] Micah 3:3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

[6] Galatians 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

[7] 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.

[8] 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.

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