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The biggest church group that is growing in the world is the prosperity gospel. It is not the gospel of Jesus but a gospel which calls poverty evil, and prosperity a blessing.
Only in a technological world where machines can change life for almost everybody could this gospel even exist, because it is the moving from rural communities which rely on farming to service societies which rely on providing technological support to each other does the wealth come. These false teachers link this prosperity to God and faith, when it is just modern technology. And where the societies are changing most, this message is being taken up, as a right. But it is foolishness, self delusion and sin.
The "believers" are not saved by faith and repentance, but by church membership and listening to worldly success preaching, and claiming a right to dominate and rule. Could this turn to war and violence? The words are there if you want to read it, but I do not think at present it is going that way, but with all this preaching about the spiritual realm, put Satan in with real spiritual fireworks, the world is ripe for the setting.
Only in a technological world where machines can change life for almost everybody could this gospel even exist, because it is the moving from rural communities which rely on farming to service societies which rely on providing technological support to each other does the wealth come. These false teachers link this prosperity to God and faith, when it is just modern technology. And where the societies are changing most, this message is being taken up, as a right. But it is foolishness, self delusion and sin.
The "believers" are not saved by faith and repentance, but by church membership and listening to worldly success preaching, and claiming a right to dominate and rule. Could this turn to war and violence? The words are there if you want to read it, but I do not think at present it is going that way, but with all this preaching about the spiritual realm, put Satan in with real spiritual fireworks, the world is ripe for the setting.
prosperity is the dynamic of God's economy. (the absence of lack)
deception would be, attacking a dimension of God's very own testimony.(abundance)