Abrahamic Covenant? God giving abundance to his people

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Evmur

Evmur

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Pilgrimshope said:
“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 cannot serve God and mammon.

And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom:


the rich man also died, and was buried; and in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.”
‭‭Luke‬ ‭16:13-15, 19-23‬ ‭KJV‬‬

“If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
‭‭Colossians‬ ‭3:1-4
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Evmur

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You can't see it can you

It was not right that the rich man lived luxuriously in gorgeous apparel and the beggar die in utter poverty. It was not wrong that the beggar desired for even a few crumbs to fall from the rich man's table. The beggar was not evil for desiring that.

The things that are above are justice, love, omnipotence, wealth, equity, blessing.

... there is no poverty in heaven.
 
Nehemiah6

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Evmur said:
.. there is no poverty in heaven.
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How can there be poverty in Heaven when the streets of the New Jerusalem are made of heavenly gold, and in fact the entire heavenly city is made up of gold and jewels (no doubt all heavenly, therefore cannot even be compared to those on earth)? In addition to that God has reserved an inheritance in Heaven for each of His children.
 
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