America was built with luxury interwoven into her framework. 

Ezekiel 27:6b

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“The company of Ashurites have inlaid your planks with ivory from the coasts of Cyprus.” Ezekiel 27:6b.

The builders of America have built her with economic luxury in every plank, filled with wealth and prosperity. That has been ingrained into the fiber of America. America is known worldwide as a land of excesses, luxurious living, with plentiful resources, and the finest of merchandise.

America has abandoned the riches found in Jesus Christ, but Jesus calls us to focus our heart on the treasures in Heaven, not on the treasures of this earth, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:19-21

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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.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11