One in Messiah Congregation
A few simple questions:
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Where does it say
in scripture to finance or support people that are breaking the commandments of
the God of Israel?
IT DOES
NOT SAY THIS!
Where does it say
in scripture to live with people not of the God of Israel?
IT DOES
NOT SAY THIS!
Where does it say
in scripture to go to people not of the God of Israel, for support, or to save
you financially?
IT DOES
NOT SAY THIS!
Where does it say
in scripture to be in debt to people not of the God of Israel?
IT DOES
NOT SAY THIS!
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Prov. 22 [7]... the borrower is servant to the
lender
Rom. 13 [8] Owe no man any thing...
ARE YOU KINDER, MORE CARING OR MORE GENEROUS THEN
GOD?
This reasoning is fake Christianity!
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This
study is pertaining to borrowing from the
heathen, people not of the Israel of God, not
your brother or sister.
Borrowing
from your brother or sister is a different story.
We are commanded by Yehovah:
Thou shalt lend unto many nations (the
heathen), and thou shalt not borrow.
Deut. 15 [6] For Yehovah
thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many
nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and
thou shalt reign over many nations,but they shall not reign over thee.
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Deut. 28 [12] Yehovah
shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy
land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not
borrow.
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Deut. 28 [1] And it shall come to pass, if thou
shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Yehovah thy God, to observe and to
do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that Yehovah thy God
will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
[2] And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if
thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Yehovah thy God.
[3] Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the
field.
[4] Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground,
and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy
sheep.
[5] Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
[6] Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be
when thou goest out.
[7] Yehovah shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be
smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee
before thee seven ways.
[8] Yehovah shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and
in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land
which Yehovah thy God giveth thee.
[9] Yehovah shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath
sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of Yehovah thy God, and
walk in his ways.
[10] And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the
name of Yehovah; and they shall be afraid of thee.
[11] And Yehovah shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy
body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the
land which Yehovah sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
[12] Yehovah shall open unto thee his
good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to
bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and
thou shalt not borrow.
[13] And Yehovah shall make thee the
head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be
beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of Yehovah thy God, which I
command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
[14] And thou shalt not go aside from any
of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left,
to go after other gods to serve them.
[15] But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice
of Yehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes
which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and
overtake thee:
[16] Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the
field.
[17] Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
[18] Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land,
the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
[19] Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be
when thou goest out.
[20] Yehovah shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all
that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until
thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast
forsaken me.
[21] Yehovah shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have
consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
[22] Yehovah shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and
with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with
blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
[23] And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth
that is under thee shall be iron.
[24] Yehovah shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from
heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
[25] Yehovah shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou
shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt
be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
[26] And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto
the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
[27] Yehovah will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the
emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be
healed.
[28] Yehovah shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and
astonishment of heart:
[29] And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness,
and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and
spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
[30] Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou
shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a
vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
[31] Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat
thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and
shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and
thou shalt have none to rescue them.
[32] Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and
thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and
there shall be no might in thine hand.
[33] The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which
thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
[34] So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou
shalt see.
[35] Yehovah shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore
botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy
head.
[36] Yehovah shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over
thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there
shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
[37] And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword,
among all nations whither Yehovah shall lead thee.
[38] Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but
little in; for the locust shall consume it.
[39] Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink
of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
[40] Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou
shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.
[41] Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them;
for they shall go into captivity.
[42] All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
[43] The stranger that is within thee shall get up
above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
[44] He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the
head, and thou shalt be the tail.
(These
curses)
[45] Moreover all these curses shall
come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be
destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of Yehovah thy God, to
keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
[46] And they shall be upon thee for a
sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
[47] Because thou servedst not Yehovah thy God with joyfulness, and with
gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
[48] Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which Yehovah shall send
against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all
things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed
thee.
[49] Yehovah shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of
the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not
understand;
[50] A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person
of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
[51] And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy
land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn,
wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he
have destroyed thee.
[52] And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and
fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he
shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which Yehovah thy
God hath given thee.
[53] And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy
sons and of thy daughters, which Yehovah thy God hath given thee, in the siege,
and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:
[54] So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his
eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and
toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
[55] So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his
children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and
in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy
gates.
[56] The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure
to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness,
her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and
toward her daughter,
[57] And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and
toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of
all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall
distress thee in thy gates.
[58] If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are
written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, YEHOVAH
THY GOD;
[59] Then Yehovah will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of
thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and
of long continuance.
[60] Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which
thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
[61] Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the
book of this law, them will Yehovah bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
[62] And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of
heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of Yehovah thy
God.
[63] And it shall come to pass, that as Yehovah rejoiced over you to do
you good, and to multiply you; so Yehovah will rejoice over you to destroy you,
and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither
thou goest to possess it.
[64] And Yehovah shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end
of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which
neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
[65] And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the
sole of thy foot have rest: but Yehovah shall give thee there a trembling
heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
[66] And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear
day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
[67] In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even
thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart
wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt
see.
[68] And Yehovah shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the
way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye
shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy
you.
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Neh. 5 [1] And there
was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their
brethren the Jews.
[2] For there were that said, We, our sons, and
our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat,
and live. (Very sad)
[3] Some also there were that said, We
have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn,
because of the dearth.
[4] There were also that said, We have borrowed
money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
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Pss. 37 [21] The
wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy,
and giveth.
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Prov. 22 [7] The rich
ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
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Prov. 22 [26] Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or
of them that are sureties for debts
[27] If thou hast nothing to pay, why
should he take away thy bed from under thee?
The way we were brought up, (without the God of Israel)
makes this another hard study to understand and receive.
Shalom