What is Materialism?
Materialism is the spirit of anti-Christ, turned to its plainest demonstration of powerlessness as a love and worship of scarcity, with the caveat of the scarcity held forth as an emotional positive as exclusivity/exceptionalism.
Anti-Christ ( Belial: worthless/rebel) , along with Mystery Babylon (the spirit of obscurity..) obscures that his powerlessness is complete and yet presents that very powerlessness as a supposed advantage as a non-interference principle ( thus his lie of free will ) and the supposed evidence of a supposed non-interfering total environment. After twisting his powerlessness to supposed human advantage once, he does it again; this time as a worship of scarcity ( scarcity is mandated as the lens and agenda of all of those in non-creating speech because the only mind and speech they have can create nothing, yet cannot stop speaking as merely manufacturing desires it is unable to satisfy) in the midst of plenty . Materialism is simply the worship of scarcity as a lie of exclusivity as owning the latest and best ‘thing’ that most people cannot own or are “too stupid” to realize the worth of having. Nothing can satisfy those within non-creating speech as the lie and they can only blame the supposed free willed actions of others for their own limitations of speech. The lie of free will combined with the reality of the false lens of scarcity in the midst of actual plenty ( God is always providing for the needs of the just and unjust despite the lies of the unjust in the only speech they have (anti-Christ) against Him ) is mandated “logically” by the mere inability to create specifically with acts of speech/spirit. Needing the latest widget is simply the false wisdom of the actual worship of scarcity under the name of exclusivity.
It is a simple compounding of anti-Christ’s non-creating character as the lie of the Greek “logic” ( as in “nothing is either created or destroyed, only changed” ) over and over.
Non-Creating speech cannot create anything. Thus the name: anti-Christ.
Because it cannot create and because it is hated when recognized for what it is, it hides itself by turning its non-creating character to supposed human advantage in the lie of human free will.
It uses a lie of the need for money as a supposed actual measure of freedom of will and as providing many types of money to have something to measure its own lies with as if any of them were true. To those in anti-Christ, the mere speed and frequency of the “choosing event” ( buying) is proof of not only individuality, even though they are all inevitably “choosing” the same things en mass ( otherwise stores would not be able to sell millions of units of the same items..) , but as supposed proof of freedom TO CHOOSE at all.
Buying is to one in anti-Christ, a materialist, the same as a pornographic picture is to a pornographer. After having reduced human beings to merely emotional images to be worshiped simply because they exist, and so far advanced in the lie of free will as to make of other people pawns and objects of “choice” in a worship of the LIE of free will, the pornographer simply holds up the picture or video as its own supposed no-brainer proof of the supposed efficacy of pornography to ‘do’ satisfaction within the lie of free will yet as a “natural” and supposed inescapable logic. The possession of merely “new” ( to them..) merchandise, is to the materialist the same supposed evidence of the reality of free will expressed. The mere spending of the money in any fashion to a materialist is the same.
Materialists, pornographers, gamblers, and corrupt politicians cannot be satisfied ( as in any supposed “non-free will area in the middle of having general free will” as so-called “addictions” ) simply because you cannot fill a hole that does not exist and yet you are deceived is very real. They serve a LIE, a DECEPTION that was never real, is not real and never will be real.
Materialism is a worship of scarcity presented as a supposed wisdom of valuing things into exclusivity in the midst of plenty. It is unthankfulness to and a hatred of the Creator as Creating Speech/Jesus Christ/Word of God. When God creates new things and holds each one of us in individuality/uniqueness with regard to everything else in total reality, both of what they know and don’t know, He does away with the “making common” aspect of the lie of free will as selling many units of the same thing; He does away with money as exchanging anything for one or many units of that same item because there is only one of that item. Thus He also does away with Luciferian / merchant’s exclusivity “as opposed to” commonness because commonness as the “opposite” on which the exclusive item’s value turns is done away. Exclusivity and thus its “value enhancing” character is done away when nothing can be the same by definition of having been created.
Yet even the apostles for a time were infected with materialism as a spirit. Who but a materialist and a non-understander of the Creating Word made Flesh would assume Jesus was talking about not having bread with them when He said beware the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod? He had just created plenty when ACTUAL scarcity was evident among the many and had food left over. And they didn’t get it. After having witnessed the power of creation, they fell immediately back into a supposed “pragmatic” mindset based on non-creation and scarcity which was in fact anti-Christ.
Mark 8:14-21 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf. And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod. And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread. And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened? Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember? When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve. And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven. And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?
Mark 8:31,33 And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and of the chief priests and of the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again . And he spoke the thing openly. And Peter, taking him to him , began to rebuke him. But he, turning round and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, saying, Get away behind me, Satan, for thy mind is not on the things that are of God, but on the things that are of men.
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Being born again out of a mindset of scarcity as God shows makes us understand the mindset of not-enough. Yet such a mindset is not permitted in the household of faith in Jesus Christ.
Hebrew 3:12-19 See, brethren, lest there be in any one of you a wicked heart of unbelief, in turning away from the living God. But encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called To-day, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we are become companions of the Christ if indeed we hold the beginning of the assurance firm to the end; in that it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation; (for who was it, who, having heard, provoked? but was it not all who came out of Egypt by Moses? And with whom was he wroth forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who had not hearkened to the word? And we see that they could not enter in on account of unbelief;)
Luke 12:15 And he said to them, Take heed and keep yourselves from all covetousness, for it is not because a man is in abundance that his life is in his possessions.
Ecc 5:10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen
Am I now come up without Jehovah against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it. 2 Kings 18:25
Anti-Christ tried the lie that God had sent him to conqueor Jerusalem through the Assyrians. But God says to the worshipers of demons who hate Jesus Christ and Israel: "But I know thine abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, And thy raging against me." 2 Kings 19:27