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Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
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The world we live in has effectively convinced most, if not all, its inhabitants that the only thing that can supply everything that you want, all your needs and desires, is money—riches, wealth.

Satan famously tried to tempt Jesus Himself by offering Him the riches of the world. The Lord responded by saying, ‘Begone Satan!’ {Mat.4:8-10} That is an excellent example for us if and when we think that silver and gold is the answer. That would hopefully recall to our minds the wonderful promise God made through the apostle Paul in his letter to the believers in Philippi (and everywhere else): “And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” {Php.4:19}

The world says that ‘money talks’ and interestingly Jesus Christ agreed with that proclamation. The thing that we have to remember is that He said that while it talks, it just lies! Telling the parable of the sower and the seed, Jesus said that the deceitfulness, the lies of riches, if believed will choke the Word of God and make it unfruitful in our lives. {Mat.13:22}

God had spoken long before through the prophet Isaiah saying that a day of reckoning was coming and in that day men will throw away their silver and gold to the moles and the bats. {Is.2:20} We should invest wisely now and as Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount store up our treasures in heaven for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. {Mat.6:20-21} The gold will finally be used for its intended purpose, building material and pavement for the street in heaven. {Rev.21:18,21}

Since every word is confirmed by two or three witnesses {2Cor.13:1}, the Lord then spoke through Ezekiel and said: “They shall fling their silver into the streets, and their gold shall become an abhorrent thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their appetite, nor can they fill their stomachs, for their iniquity has become an occasion of stumbling.” {Ezekiel 7:19}

It will all boil down to desire—what do you desire? Remember that, even in the day of wrath, all your needs are guaranteed to be met. His Word promises that. {Php.4:19} We all must choose what we will desire. Choose well and “then the Almighty will be your gold and choice silver to you.” {Job 22:25} He will, give us the desire of our hearts but He will BE the desire of our hearts as promised through David, a man after God’s own heart! {Ps.37:4} And as the psalm of Asaph says:

“Whom have I in heaven but Thee? And besides Thee, I desire nothing on earth.” (Psalms 73:25)

TEST EVERYTHING BY THE WORD OF GOD