Christian Clarity Review

Obadiah 1:5 If thieves had come to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had had enough? If grape-gatherers had come to thee, would they not have left some gleanings?

Isaiah 42:22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and hidden in prison-houses; they are become a prey, and none delivereth, –a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

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Curtain opens revealing a pastoral scene. Or a city scene. Or an apartment in the worst side of New York or Tallahassee.

Satan is walking amongst men ( or knocking on doors ) and spies a victim; a sweating workman in the midst of his work.

Satan: Hello, Wannabe Popular Guy!

Wannabe Popular Guy: Who is that? My name is Earl.

( dubbed sit-com type laughter from offstage )

Satan: Why you are my good friend. I can see a guy like you wants to have women swooning in love with him and other men envious of him. To put it delicately, You wouldn’t have to sweat.

Wannabe Popular Guy throws down his work: I’m all ears, Friend.

Satan picks up a stick ( or a plastic spoon ) . “Take this stick, break it into pieces and say it is something called money.”

Wannabe Popular Guy: What is money?

Satan looks at the audience: It ain’t nothin’. But they don’t know that.

( dubbed laughter )

Wannabe Popular Guy: Why would they want a stick?

Satan: Because its money. And rare.

Wannabe Popular Guy: No it ain’t. ..I don’t understand. ( reaches for the work..)

Satan: ( takes the work out of Wannabe Popular Guy’s hand ): here’s what you do. You take this stick and a bunch more like it: you break ‘em up in pieces. Then you give a lot of pieces to some, a few pieces to others and none to all the ( waves his hand in disgust) ..other people. Then you speak and act toward those you gave the most pieces the nicest, the ones you gave the least pieces a little bit nice and you ignore them that ain’t got none. In fact, you always be sure and let ‘em know you think they’re stupid. After all, they ain’t got any of your stick. From then on, you’ll be Popular Guy and a Wannabe no more! The women will love you!

Wannabe popular guy: That’ll never work!

( uproarious laughter from offstage )

Burka clad ( woman?) walks across stage while Satan and Wannabe Popular Guy walk into a box that has been lowered on stage with a sign on it that says “Shadows of time”. The Burka person holds up a sign over her head toward the audience as she walks: “And the eons went by…” as a microphone echoes her footsteps…

Suddenly, Satan appears coming from offstage ( How’d he do that? ) as the “shadows of time” is lifted away.

We see a grave marker in its stead: “Popular Guy: Loved by women. Envied by men. Never sweated a drop. Had more money than anybody ever heard of.”

A young woman ( Burka baby ) in a burka is ( smirking?) at a young man who is standing beside a rack of overly large books that say variously: “Popular Guy’s Sticks: Fact or fiction?” and “Make poverty history: Money for everybody!” with a picture of Popular Guy with a shaved head, fu manchu in a T.D. Jake’s suit and gold cane.

Burka baby: Baby, if you ain’t got the money, you ain’t got me. You poor. Now if you wuz to get an education and learn how to be rich, I’d love you! Ain’t that holy? We can grow poppys with my daddy’s tractor and your daddy’s land. But you got to have somethin’ if’n you wanna be with me!

Curtain drops.

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It is good to recall at certain times what God Says in Scripture and what He does not say of the end times:

Rev 13:16,17 And it causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bondmen, that they should give them a mark upon their right hand or upon their forehead; and that no one should be able to buy or sell save he that had the mark, the name of the beast, or the number of its name.

Plainly, those who worship the beast ( as opposed to those that do not ) are deceived that without buying and selling, ( i.e. without money ) there can be no life or at least no life worth living and no government. The deceit of what money is is complete in them.

Plainly those who are called Christians by some that seek to make out that anti-Christ actually controls the world “because” he does and will control money and on that basis alone see a “one world government” mandated out of Scripture are just as deceived and part and parcel with those who seek to mandate the Empire of Money as the arbiter of all civilization and life.

Plainly real Christians can eat and drink, be clothed, have shelter, sleep and be prosperous without the need to buy or sell anything, exactly as all men did before money ever came into existence. We know that God Says very distinctly that there will be independent nations at the end of days that are deceived but live through that deception by the grace of God:

Rev 18:2-24 And he cried with a strong voice, saying, Great Babylon has fallen, has fallen, and has become the habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hated bird; because all the nations have drunk of the wine of the fury of her fornication; and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have been enriched through the might of her luxury. And I heard another voice out of the heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye have not fellowship in her sins, and that ye do not receive of her plagues: for her sins have been heaped on one another up to the heaven, and God has remembered her unrighteousnesses. Recompense her even as she has recompensed; and double to her double, according to her works. In the cup which she has mixed, mix to her double. So much as she has glorified herself and lived luxuriously, so much torment and grief give to her. Because she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and I am not a widow; and I shall in no wise see grief: for this reason in one day shall her plagues come, death and grief and famine, and she shall be burnt with fire; for strong is the Lord God who has judged her. And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication, and lived luxuriously with her, shall weep and wail over her, when they see the smoke of her burning, standing afar off, through fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour thy judgment is come. And the merchants of the earth weep and grieve over her, because no one buys their lading any more; lading of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and pearl, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet dye, and all thyine wood, and every article in ivory, and every article in most precious wood, and in brass, and in iron, and in marble, and cinnamon, and amomum, and incense, and unguent, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and cattle, and sheep, and of horses, and of chariots, and of bodies, and souls of men. And the ripe fruits which were the lust of thy soul have departed from thee, and all fair and splendid things have perished from thee, and they shall not find them any more at all. The merchants of these things, who had been enriched through her, shall stand afar off through fear of her torment, weeping and grieving, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, which was clothed with fine linen and purple and scarlet, and had ornaments of gold and precious stones and pearls! for in one hour so great riches has been made desolate. And every steersman, and every one who sailed to any place, and sailors, and all who exercise their calling on the sea, stood afar off, and cried, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like to the great city? and cast dust upon their heads, and cried, weeping and grieving, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, in which all that had ships in the sea were enriched through her costliness! for in one hour she has been made desolate. Rejoice over her, heaven, and ye saints and apostles and prophets; for God has judged your judgment upon her. And a strong angel took up a stone, as a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall Babylon the great city be cast down, and shall be found no more at all; and voice of harp-singers and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters shall not be heard any more at all in thee, and no artificer of any art shall be found any more at all in thee, and voice of millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee, and light of lamp shall shine no more at all in thee, and voice of bridegroom and bride shall be heard no more at all in thee; for thy merchants were the great ones of the earth; for by thy sorcery have all the nations been deceived. And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all the slain upon the earth.

And

Revelation 21:22-27 And I saw no temple in it; for the Lord God Almighty is its temple, and the Lamb. And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon, that they should shine for it; for the glory of God has enlightened it, and the lamp thereof is the Lamb. And the nations shall walk by its light; and the kings of the earth bring their glory to it. And its gates shall not be shut at all by day, for night shall not be there. And they shall bring the glory and the honour of the nations to it. And nothing common, nor that maketh an abomination and a lie, shall at all enter into it; but those only who are written in the book of life of the Lamb.

The “one world government” is no “inevitability” as both Satan and those who say they oppose Satan but that “the bible speaks of one world government” pretend. A mass conspiracy of nations against God? Yes. They will be deceived. The demise of independent nations? No. God Says they will be here even at the end and beyond.

Gal 5:22-26 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, meekness, self-control: against such things there is no law. But they that are of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts. If we live by the Spirit, let us walk also by the Spirit. Let us not become vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

What we do see is an end of money:

Luke 16:8,9 And the lord praised the unrighteous steward because he had done prudently. For the sons of this world are, for their own generation, more prudent than the sons of light. And *I* say to you, Make to yourselves friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, that when it fails ye may be received into the eternal tabernacles.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen