The use of oppression, robbery, and mistreatment of the poor and needy.

Ezekiel 22:29

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 “The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the stranger.” Ezekiel 22:29

Within the culture of the Israelites, there were those who wanted to dominate others to empower themselves above all others and to become rich in the process. The laws of God, like the Ten Commandments, stood in their way so they abandoned God and His will for the Israelites. They ignored the two greatest commandments to love God with all their heart, soul, and mind and to love their neighbor as themselves. Instead, they used physical force and intimidation to oppress other Israelites, to rob, to mistreat the poor and needy, and to wrongfully oppress the non-Jewish stranger. Those who use others like an ATM machine will also mistreat those who have nothing to offer.

The Jewish people of today use oppression to keep Jesus Christ from being part of their culture. By oppressing the New Testament and keeping the Gospel of Jesus Christ suppressed, the Jewish people are oppressed so they do not become followers of Jesus Christ. The leaders of the Jewish culture have committed robbery by thinking they can serve God without going through Jesus Christ, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber…Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.” John 10:1, 7 The Jewish culture mistreats those who are poor and in need of the Water of Life that Jesus Christ offers. They are mistreated in that everything that makes the spirit rich and fulfilled in the Holy Spirit is withheld from them. The Jewish culture wrongfully oppresses the non-Jewish culture by suppressing their inclusion as citizens in their society.

Today’s world system is empowered by an entity that oppresses anyone who does not live by the thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors given to them. The spirit, conscience, and soul are robbed of the belief in the Living God. The acknowledgement of the need for the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ is stolen, and the presence of the Holy Spirit is defrauded. The entity giving people what to think, feel, say, and do uses its power over physiology to enable the image of the beast to speak and live through people. The poor and needy who oppose its presence are mistreated as outcasts of today’s culture. The masses of the global culture are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do, everyone else are wrongfully oppressed as strangers. The poor and needy are considered a liability on the balance sheet of the society of the beast.

As followers of Jesus Christ, we want His Spirit to live in us, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” Luke 4:18-19

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”