by
Jason Guenther
One of the most profound terms used by Jesus Christ to describe the nature
of our "kind".....HUMANS, is the term "mammon".
The very word itself incites that of a 'label' for a SPECIES when one glances at
it quickly, but there is something much more profound under the term when one
analyzes its use and meaning in scripture. The use of this term by Christ in
fact bolsters Christ's claim of divinity as Christ was a
MAN....."human", yet he uses this term as if standing outside that of
his human nature, to label that which he clearly is of from the perspective of CREATOR!!!.
The meaning of this term has been relegated down to meaning no more than "MONEY",
wealth, cash, doe, MATERIAL GAIN in its concept via its
translation, yet there is still something more underlying the text when
examined. The term itself is only used 4 times in scripture, and that in the new
testament. Two of the uses of the term are in fact repeats, while the other two
uses are embedded in a parable in Luke. We need to examine closely the literal
interpretation of this term via its definition in its original language.
MAMMON
| 3126 mammonas, mam-on-as; of
Chald. orig. (confidence, i.e. wealth, personified); mammonas, i.e. avarice
(DEIFIED):- mammon |
Now, modern interpretation of
this term can only see the "money" element, but according to its
literal translation, there's something more there and that being "DEIFIED".
This word used by Jesus Christ is telling us something more, and that more being
connected directly to the Gospel, and the "spiritual nature" of
natural FALLEN man towards it. What is being said by Christ when he uses
the term, is that man, by FALLEN NATURE has a insatiable desire to HORDE
WEALTH, both "material and......."SPIRITUAL"!!!. Also
illustrated is the word "confidence" and this is very strange for it
implies to have 'confidence' in the desire to horde wealth of both a
"material" and "spiritual" nature. There is inherent in the
nature of fallen man, a insatiable desire to "DEIFY ONES SELF",
and according to translation, an inherent CONFIDENCE in this fallen
nature. To get the gist of this "insatiable desire", we need to look
at the meaning of the word "avarice" which will give us an indicator
of the seriousness of this condition. Seeing how the word "avarice" is
not used directly in scripture, we'll have to look at common interpretation.
AVARICE
| Webster's Universal Collegiate Dictionary - avarice,
av-ar-ice; n. insatiable greed
for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and horde wealth. |
So then, when we add up
the meaning of the term "mammon" and its application, we find
something deeper that Christ was trying to get at. By the words very definition,
'man' or rather "MAMMON" has inherent within him because of his fallen
nature, an "insatiable desire to horde wealth both physically and
especially SPIRITUALLY", or rather, an intense greed to DEIFY ONES SELF!!!.
Now, this ladies and gentlemen fits right along with the bible message that
man's nature while in his fallen condition, will do or attempt to accomplish the
LIE promulgated by Satan at the "fall" such as "YOU
SHALL BE AS GODS", and should give you a little understanding as
to why the NARROW WAY and the "cross" is under such intense
opposition. The "FALSE GOSPEL" as I call it satisfies this very nature
of "mammon" according to its definition for it DEIFIES the
person blinded to it based upon its "false" parameters and
definitions. The very "sin" behind the nature of mammon is COVETOUSNESS
which in fact fuels this miserly desire to horde SPIRITUAL WEALTH (i.e. 'false
salvation'). With its connotation comes the inference of "STEALING"
said spiritual wealth via a "false gospel" which removes all the
parameters that leads one to authentic salvation. its very implication is that
of SELF-DEIFICATION!!!.Outward material "wealth"
is the PHYSICAL and material 'fruit" of mans fallen nature, while mans
desire to horde SPIRITUAL WEALTH, to "deify" himself via false
doctrine or the lies of hell, are the SPIRITUAL "fruit" of this fallen
nature waxed great. Now, lets look at the uses of this term by Christ to see
this application and meaning.
"No
man can SERVE TWO MASTERS: for
either he
will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will
hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye
C A N N
O T
serve God and
M A M M O N".
(Matthew 6:24)
"No servant can SERVE TWO MASTERS:
for either he will hate
the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one,
and despise the other. Ye
C A N N
O T
serve God and
M A M M O N".
(Luke 16:13)
Now, this is the most
commonly used verse in use of this term. What is not taught about this verse is
the deeper aspects behind the term. Christ is very emphatic and he states
bluntly that you CANNOT serve God and mammon. If we are all 'mammon" than
the very allusion is that you cannot serve God and YOURSELF as well as
other mammon or rather mankind. Christ states that depending on which one your
serving, you will "hate" the one and love the other and vice versa.
Christ is making it plain that you cannot serve BOTH at the same time. The
inference in all of this is towards SALVATION as this is the Sermon on
the Mount, and Christ is talking about how to get SAVED but much more
specifically, BORN AGAIN!!!. So then, Christ is allocating ourselves in
retrospect to how to obtain authentic salvation, and says flat out that you
cannot serve yourself, or other "mammon" and serve God!. He doesn't
give a great explanation as to why you cant, nor does he elaborate on the
ramifications of doing so, but rather states it of conclusive FACT that must be
heeded. Now, seeing it is in direct connection to "salvation" and its
possession, what can be seen by the proper interpretation of the word
"mammon" with its PERSONIFIED DEIFICATION
and the "confidence" thereof, the allusion to a "false
gospel" becomes clear when one considers what Jesus also spoke of on TRADITIONS
OF MEN, FALSE DOCTRINE AND PROPHETS etc. and the 'privily bringing in of
DAMNABLE HERESIES'. Paul testifies that the root of these "heresies"
that are brought in is based upon MATERIAL GAIN, and Jesus Christ is showing the
"spirit" behind it in his use of the word "mammon". Though
you wont find it used in the bible, nor will you hear it taught or preached
about very much, I have coined a term called the "SPIRIT OF MAMMON"
which is in fact alluded to in many different ways in the scriptures. Even the
word "mammon" is a generic term which is used in a COLLECTIVE
sense. Christ did not use the term in a "personal" sense, yet the very
meaning of the word mammon carries in it the "personal" effect of the "NATURE"
of mammon.........DEIFIED and with "confidence". Now
folks, I don't know about you, but the perfect representation of this term
"mammon" and the SPIRIT behind it is found in all those who
have bought the "false gospel" and have REJECTED the real
"truth" of authentic salvation via the narrow way of DEATH unto
re-birth. The "false gospel" is fueled by mammon and its
"spirit" for the individual that has bought into the LYING GOSPEL,
"needs" mammon or others of his kind and in his LIE to
"power" and fuel his false belief!. Why, because he certainly cannot
get it from scripture as the scripture shows it quite plainly, thereby, he or
she grasps onto TRADITIONS OF MEN fueled by the "spirit of
mammon" which gives him his LYING "CONFIDENCE" in his false DEIFICATION
via a false gospel. One of Christ's parables which has been utterly
misinterpreted in its application, uses this very term "mammon" and we
should look at it now, cause I'll show you how its led to another totally
mis-interpretation of one of the 10 COMMANDMENTS!!!
"And
he said also unto his disciples, there was a certain rich man, which had a STEWARD;
and the same which was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. And he
called
him, and said unto him, how is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of
thy stewardship;
for thou mayest be NO LONGER STEWARD.
Then the steward said within himself, what
shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to
beg I am
ashamed. I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of stewardship, they
MAY RECEIVE ME into their houses. So
he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him,
and said unto the first, how much owest thou unto my lord? And he said, an
hundred measures of oil.
And he said unto him, take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write
fifty. Then said he to another,
and how much owest thou? and he said, an hundred measures of wheat. And he said
unto him, take
thy bill, and write fourscore. And the lord commanded the UNJUST
STEWARD, because he
had done wisely: for the
CHILDREN OF THIS WORLD
are in their generation
W I S E
R
than the
CHILDREN OF LIGHT.
And I say unto you, make to yourselves friends of the
M A M M
O N
OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS;
that when ye FAIL, they may RECEIVE
YOU into
EVERLASTING HABITATIONS
(hell)".
(Luke 16:1-9)
Now folks, I've heard an
awful lot of sermons on this parable, have read a lot of commentary's on it, and
I'm tellin you there full of SKUBALLON!!!. Read this parable
closely and keep two things in mind, nothing "unjust" is gonna enter
into the kingdom, nor is anything "UN-RIGHTEOUS". Now, the
false doctrines of Babylon along with its FALSE GOSPEL will tell you via
GNOSIS that the un-righteous and the un-just will enter the kingdom. Brothers
and sisters, the "certain rich man" in this verse is JESUS CHRIST and
the "steward" is any and all believers who profess Jesus Christ as
Lord. Jesus tells this "steward" that he's taking away his
"stewardship", the steward who is UNJUST knows that its being
taken away. The steward, knowing this, goes to those of the WORLD and attempts
to get on there side. The "gestalt" of the parable is that it is
better to be HOT OR COLD cause lukewarm is gonna still get spued out!.
Christ tells the steward, and all of us, that if we FAIL then its better
to be "received" by the inhabitants of the other
destination.....HELL!!!. This 'steward does not make the cut folks, he's not
going to enter heaven, he knows it, and he decides to make friends with the
WORLD which is "enmity to God"!. Christ says that this is the
"WISDOM" of the CHILDREN OF THIS WORLD. This is what
they do via their "false gospel", doctrines of men and DEMONS, and so
on and so forth. Only the MAMMON OF "RIGHTEOUSNESS" is gonna
enter heaven folks, nothing "un-righteous" enters heaven, but the
FALSE GOSPEL will tell you that it does!. Paul claimed that he was a STEWARD OF
THE GOSPEL. This was his primary office above all else and so it is with every
"believer". Said steward must "know" what that gospel is and
know "how" to be saved. This is what the inference to the steward in Luke
16 FAILING is all about. He did not fulfill his 'stewardship" because he
did not COMPLETE THE "WAY" TO BE REGENERATED INTO
RIGHTEOUSNESS......PERSONALLY!!!. modern day christianity utterly REJECTS
the narrow way of the cross unto soul death to be rebirth. They have accepted a
"false gospel" that gives them a false hope of salvation via what
could not be better termed GNOSTIC THEOLOGY. To emphasize this point, let
me rip the mask off of an interpretation upheld today on one of the 10
commandments and what it really means.
"Thou
shalt not
TAKE
the name of the Lord
IN VAIN;
for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that
TAKETH
his name
IN VAIN".
(Exodus 20:7)
TAKE
| 270 achaz, aw-khaz; a prim. root; to seize
(often with the idea of holding in possession):-+ be affrighted, bar,
(catch, lay, take) hold (back), come upon, fasten, handle, portion, (to
get, have) posses (-ion). |
VAIN
| 7723 shav, shav; in the sense of desolating;
evil (as destructive), lit. (ruin) or mor. (espe. guile); fig. idolatry
(as false, subj.) uselessness (as deceptive, obj.; also
adv. in vain):- false(ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity. |
Ladies and gentlemen, how
in the world do you get speaking the Lord's name in a "cursive" manner
in application to this 4th commandment? Where does it say to "swear"
using the Lord's name in this commandment? Also, if the ten commandments are a
summarization of ALL the law wrapped up into ten, what other applications can
you assign to "swearing" using the Lords name if HARMONY?.
Seeing how Jesus Christ himself said that "ALL manner of
sin and BLASPHEMY shall be forgiven against the Father and Son.....",
just how do you perhaps get this commandment to mean to curse or swear using the
Lords "name". YOU CANNOT because that is not what it in
fact means. No folks, this means something akin to what Christ told the
"unjust steward" about FAILING. It is also akin to what
Christ said about "counting the cost", and "any soul that
shrinketh back, I shall have no pleasure in him"!!!. This 4th commandment
ladies and gentlemen means taking the name of the Lord and NOT OBEYING UNTO
REGENERATION!!!. Only "traditions of men" place the interpretation
that is upheld en-masse in the Church of Babylon today, and it is utterly FALSE.
This commandment states that the Lord will not hold that "steward"
GUILTLESS, meaning, the Lord is not gonna show any favor because he could not
FULFILL his obligation unto "regeneration". No regeneration means no
entrance.......period!!!......."Now the
JUST shall live by faith: but if any man DRAW BACK, my soul shall have no
pleasure in him"....(Heb.10:38). A favorite verse by the
apostate false gospel "cult" and a favorite of the
"word-faith" movement to promote there version of doctrinal
SORCERY!!!. The "faith" that the JUST live by is the faith to WALK
THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH......the "narrow way",
the "cross", down to the "lowest room" where Christ said he
would meet those whom "overcame". If its so easy to just
"believe" your saved by "grace" THROUGH FAITH (lest
ANY MAN should boast), why then would God place such a defined emphasize on DRAWING
BACK? What?.....I'm to believe that if I decide to believe the
"truth" that God said you must FIND HIM.......EXPERIENTIALLY,
I've now DRAWN BACK and risk "hell-fire" because I now "see"
I'm only saved "in truth" once I have had my VISITATION and
have laid hold of DIVINE AGAPE LOVE? NNNnnnnoooooo this is exactly the type of
intellectual BLACKMAIL that the freemasons and lucifereans have
incorporated via a THEOLOGY to keep you in FEAR and SUBMISSION
to the DOCTRINES OF "MAMMON" which is
fueled "collectively" by its SPIRIT!. This 'spirit" of mammon is
alluded to in many places in scripture, but no more so than by Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ at one point turned over and said to his disciples "ye know
not what MANNER of spirit ye are.....". The imperative emphasize
of the "TRIAL" of the "walk" and the harsh reality of
'endurance" and 'patience' needed to OVERCOME is found throughout the bible
and especially in the New testament. Its still beyond me how the 'name it and
claim it' crowd is able to stand upon their interpretation of the scriptures for
their lying theology. Paul states all over the place otherwise.
"For
ye have need of PATIENCE, that,
AFTER
YE HAVE DONE THE WILL OF GOD,
YE MIGHT
RECEIVE THE PROMISE.
For yet a LITTLE WHILE, and he that
shall
come will come, and will not tarry".
(Hebrews 10:36-38)
Well now, if we need
"patience" to RECEIVE the "promise", how in the heck
can you just "believe" and.....(according to modern theology).....IT
IS, and even more than that, its done immediately already in HEAVEN!!!. Paul
says right here that only AFTER you have done the will of God will
you...."MAYBE".....receive the promise!. Then he heralds that "yet
a LITTLE WHILE...." and him who will come, JESUS,
WILL COME AND WILL NOT TARRY!!!. What is Paul talking about here?
well he must be talking about the HOUR OF VISITATION for every believer
that fulfills the will of the father!. Listen folks, to automatically believe
that your translated into heavens gate once you make a CONFESSION &
PROFESSION is right out of the pit and there's loads of scripture that
denies this FALSE GOSPEL. Now, what is the "promise" here folks but
the SEAL that translates one into the kingdom. It is the seal of a
"re-birth" into Gods kingdom with the evidence of a BIBLICAL
TESTIMONY WITH ITS "MARKS". Those "marks" folks are
the testimony of a "death" AND the testimony and marks of LIFE!!!.
This is NOT the promise of the Holy Spirit in the context of
"Pentecost" as that had already happened!. These types of statements
totally nullify the "false gospel" and all its different
"flavors". In fact the couple of verses that surround the false gospel
proponents 'anthem" verse (Heb.10:38) totally make a mockery of the
ideology of the "false faith gospel". The verse above and the verse
after 38 utterly and totally "annihilate" the gnostic concept of
"blab it and grab it" theology perpetuated everywhere.
"But
we are not of them who
DRAW BACK UNTO PERDITION;
but of them that believe to the
SAVING OF THE SOUL".
(Hebrews 10:39)
So, if you can just
confess and obtain immediately from simply "believing", why does Paul
here say 'them that believe to the SAVING OF THE SOUL"? There
is obviously a time element involved here as testified by Paul, and he keeps
saying it over and over and all over the place!!!. Paul also confirms the fact
that there is an "overcoming" element to salvation and that
"they" or TRUE BELIEVERS are not of them that DRAW BACK
unto "perdition or HELLFIRE basically!. Now, your trying to tell me that
"drawing back" here is to say maybe I'm not saved by my CONFESSION
in Christ? I DOUBT IT!!!. Paul said it was a "race", Job said it was a
"trial", David said it was a "battle", and Jesus said it was
TO THE DEATH!!!. Sorry, but all the
"belief" in the world is not gonna be REALITY and the scriptures
testify to that fact most severe but the GNOSTIC BODY OF CHRIST cannot
"see" the scriptures nor do they "hear" them for they have
accepted ANOTHER GOSPEL which brings with it ANOTHER CHRIST, and that even a
very real in the flesh FALSE CHRIST, ANTI-MESSIAH, ANTI-CHRIST!!!. A
truly regenerated christian will have every "mark" of every parameter
FULFILLED in his "testimony". There will have within it a testimony of
a DEATH and a testimony of a LIFE......."PERSONALLY" GIVEN BY THE
LIFE GIVER......JESUS CHRIST. They will show all the "fruits" of
the spirit and also the 7 SPIRITS OF GOD (Rev.5:6, Isa.11:2). The 'spirit of
mammon' folks is the spirit that will bring about and uphold the coming KINGDOM
OF LUCIFER which will last but a short time. The fuel that will propel
it will be PHILEO LOVE for the 'principals" behind the coming NWO
including the utter detestment of all who believe in the God of the bible, and
moreso, THE TRUE "FEW". Many of the sayings of Jesus Christ directly
referred to this "spirit" and its effects and stated bluntly in many
ways the necessity to REMOVE ONESELF FROM MAMMON AND ALL ITS TRAPPINGS in
order to be "saved" folks because the very "spirit" of it is
destined for HELLFIRE!!!. You cannot serve God and mammon and make no mistake
about it. Do not be confused for the translation sure in that "MAMMON"
means more than just "the LOVE of money" but is the literal FALLEN
NATURE of mans heart, and he will attempt to come up some OTHER
"WAY"!!!. The very 'spirit" of mammon desperately desires SELF-DEIFICATION
as well as a faint inherent knowledge to know that he must be SAVED, yet the
mammon spirit and its power will DECEIVE in order to "steal" because
of the INSATIABLE DESIRE TO HORDE SPIRITUAL WEALTH........SALVATION
(false)!. There are so many scripture verses to utterly defy the precepts of
the "false gospel", that I'm mortified that people cannot
"see" when they read them for themselves. Jesus was telling his
disciples in many different ways, the nature of "mammon" and even the
fact that mammon doesn't know its MAMMON nor does it know what it does:
"And
when his disciples James and John saw this,
they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command
FIRE TO COME DOWN FROM
HEAVEN,
and CONSUME THEM, even as Elias did?
But he
turned, and REBUKED them, and said,
YE KNOW NOT WHAT
"M A N
N E R"
OF
S P I R I T
ye are of".
(Luke 9:54-55)
If your a false gospel
proponent, wouldn't you expect the disciples above to be
"SAVED"?.....huh?. Then what's Jesus saying here then? If they didn't
know what "manner of spirit" they were, then they obviously did not
have the spirit of Christ now would they? the disciples wanted to play
"Elijah" and Christ rebuked them and basically said that they were in
utter DECEPTION!. This "spirit" Christ is talking
about is man's FALLEN NATURE, the nature and spirit of MAMMON!!!.
Inherent "lust" for POWER is inherent in mammon's fallen nature, and
goes right along with the "lie" from the garden....."ye shall be
as gods...". The apostles thought that by hangin around and listenin to
Christ for 3 1/2 yrs.......his "buddy", they were kingdom bound and on
the way without.........FOLLOWING CHRIST TO THE CALVARY!!!.
Jesus was subtly telling them constantly that they were not "getting
it". One of the questions I'm asked allot is if Christ had to DIE THE
DEATH.......SOUL DEATH seeing he was son of God. Well folks, its just as
blasphemous to deny Jesus Christ's HUMANITY as it is to deny his DIVINITY!. You
had best do a long study on the garden of Gethsemene for absolutely, not only
did Jesus Christ walk the NARROW WAY to the "lowest room", but he also
did it in the PHYSICAL for you and I as a propitiation for our sins. The
fallen sin nature of man must be KILLED via the narrow way of TRUTH unto
death and judgment and RE-BIRTH for there is no other "way" to
enter the kingdom folks. Jesus Christ and his SEAL of approval lies at the END
of the narrow way "RACE"!!!. Listen carefully to what Christ says and
let it sink deep down into your spirit for he was the ensample, and the WAY,
and the LIGHT, and the TRUTH!!!....
...YE
SERPENTS, YE
GENERATION OF VIPERS...