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Who benefits from the great wealth transfer?

There are two areas of study that Christians ought to pursue. Many remain unbalanced, because they pursue just one of these.

The first is one’s personal relationship with Christ, which is crucial in one’s salvation. To do this, it is helpful to study the feast days and to understand that there are three levels of salvation, each one being attached to a specific feast day. Passover is about our spirit’s justification by faith in the blood of the Lamb; Pentecost is about our soul’s sanctification by the power of the Spirit; Tabernacles is about our body’s glorification as overcomers.

The second area of study is prophecy, which teaches us the divine plan for the world as a whole. Jesus told His disciples in John 15:15,

¹⁵ No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

Do we want to remain slaves, or do we want to be Jesus’ friends? Both are genuine relationships with Christ; both sets of people are believers in their own way. The difference is that the slave does what he is told without necessarily understanding the intent of his master, or even being in agreement, while the friend understands the command and is in agreement with it. One cannot be in agreement without first understanding the plan.

Prophecy is designed to reveal the plan ahead of time. To know His plan is to understand prophecy.

These two areas of study blend together in many ways. The three levels of salvation (spirit, soul, and body) are prophesied and revealed in the three main feast days. Christ was revealed throughout the Old Testament through prophecy. But I am speaking mostly about the divine plan as a whole for the nations and the earth, rather than personal salvation.

I have observed that the poor tend to focus on personal salvation—and often on the daily struggle to put food on the table. Their daily needs seem to require spending most of their spiritual life on basic survival, especially in so-called third world countries. In Western countries, the focus in recent decades has shifted to the great wealth transfer prophesied in Proverbs 13:22,

²² A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.

Today this verse appears to be the most well known other than John 3:16. Whatever we believe about this, it is clear that this was one of Solomon’s prophecies. Solomon was the richest man in the world at the time. But in the last half of his reign, he was not one of “the righteous.” That part of the prophecy has remained unfulfilled until the latter days.

Though Solomon proved to be an unrighteous king in spite of his wisdom, his reign itself prophesied of the millennial reign of Christ. Solomon’s name means Peaceful, being derived from Shalom, “peace.” He was the son of King David. Therefore, he was the original “Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6). Yet Jesus Christ Himself is the righteous Prince of Peace who will fulfill the will of the Father in every way. He will succeed where Solomon failed.

The only way to partake of “the wealth of the sinner” (in fulfillment of this prophecy) is to be a co-heir with the Prince of Peace. When Christ rules the earth, the wealth of nations will be brought to Him, and Christ’s “children” will be partakers of that wealth in order to carry out their responsibilities in building His Kingdom.

Christ’s slaves will partake of this wealth only insofar as it meets their personal needs. Christ’s friends, on the other hand, will have authority to direct that wealth to build His Kingdom in the earth. This goes far beyond personal needs. It is about the Kingdom itself, and it is about doing the will of the Father joyously, being of one mind with the Father and His plan.

A slave-believer has an Old Covenant relationship with God, because the Old Covenant produces slaves. Paul says that Hagar-Jerusalem is a slave and produces children of slavery (Galatians 4:24, 25). Those who claim the earthly Jerusalem as the mother of the Kingdom consider themselves to be among “the righteous,” but in fact, they cannot be inheritors with “Isaac.” The Scriptures tell us to “cast out the bondwoman [Jerusalem] and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be an heir with the son of the free woman” (Galatians 4:30).

I have long been amazed at the desire of so many Christians to identify with the earthly Jerusalem and to support and promote her children as God’s chosen people. Such believers do not understand the divine plan in prophecy, even though it was clearly set forth in the writings of the apostle Paul. This one mistake could make the difference between being a slave-believer and a friend-believer.

I suggest that the wealth of the sinner will not be entrusted to slave-believers, even if they benefit from it on a secondary level. The reason is obvious. They would misappropriate that wealth by promoting Hagar-Jerusalem and its interests, rather than the New Jerusalem (Sarah) and her interests. These are two different visions of the Kingdom. One promotes bondage, the other freedom.

The Jewish Talmud says, “When the Messiah comes, every Jew will have 2,800 slaves.”

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This is the slavery that Christians are promoting by teaching that the Jews are God’s chosen people who are destined to rule the world. Paul contradicts this in Galatians 4 and again in Romans 11:7, where he tells us that the remnant of grace is chosen, and the rest are blinded. In other words, in the days of Elijah, out of millions of Israelites, only 7,000 men were actually God’s chosen people.

The overcomers in every generation are the remnant of grace, based on their faith, not on their genealogy. John tells us in Revelation 5:9, 10,

⁹ And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. ¹⁰ You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth.”

Again, Revelation 20:6 says, “they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.” These priests are no longer of Levi but are of the order of Melchizedek (Hebrews 5:6). The priesthood has been changed (Hebrews 7:12) to one that no longer requires genealogical descent from Aaron. Hence, Jesus Himself, who was born of the tribe of Judah, is able to be the High Priest of the Melchizedek Order (Hebrews 7:14, 15).

In spite of these clear teachings from Scripture, many believers continue to promote the old order that the Jews themselves are setting up. They have trained their own priests of Levi to offer animal sacrifices in a temple in Jerusalem, and countless slave-Christians support this, not realizing that they support a system that is diametrically opposed to Christ and His Kingdom.

Will God transfer “the wealth of the sinner” to these slave-believers? I do not believe so. They may think of themselves as “the righteous,” but prophecy presents the overcoming remnant of grace as the inheritors. Slaves can be citizens of the Kingdom, but not rulers or inheritors, and they will not be given the key of David that unlocks God’s treasury.

The remnant of grace is a collective steward of God’s treasury. Isaiah 22:15 speaks of an unfaithful steward named Shebna, who was replaced by a faithful steward named Eliakim (Isaiah 22:20). Eliakim was given the key of David. Ultimately, this prophesies of Jesus Christ Himself, but it also speaks secondarily of the body of Christ—the remnant of grace. The story shows us that there are two types of stewards.

Let us be Eliakims and not Shebnas. Yet to be an Eliakim requires knowing the will of the King and being in agreement with His will, so as not to misappropriate His resources. Here is where a study of prophecy becomes vital. One must know the will of our Father and King, because He will not empower slave-believers who have no understanding of proper stewardship. He will not empower stewards who spend His resources to support a Jewish kingdom of world slavery. The world has already had its share of slave systems. It is time to set the world free in a great Jubilee.

The idea of a Jubilee has gained acceptance among many believers in recent years. But most of them have a rather limited view of the Jubilee, because it has been ignored throughout most of church history. Neither the Israelites nor the Jews ever kept a Jubilee, and the church itself followed their example.

Our readers, of course, are quite well schooled in the Jubilee principles, as this is one of the main teachings of God’s Kingdom Ministries. I began studying the Jubilee in the late 1970’s while studying the law as a whole. I began to understand the Jubilee in the 1980’s, and when I returned to the ministry in 1991, my first project was to write Creation’s Jubilee.

So unless you are new, most of you probably have a good grasp of the Jubilee. You know the divine plan for the world. You have a clear vision of God’s will, so you are equipped to promote the interests of His New Covenant Kingdom. I thank God for giving you ears to hear and eyes to see, so that you can qualify as part of the remnant of grace that is not blind (Romans 11:7).