Today we continue to talk about doing business with the Jews: (Exodus 30:13) This they shall give, every one that passth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD. ~When you read this scripture, you will definitely think: Am I going to tell you: Jews often steal catties and lose money when doing business! In fact, not only do business with Jews, Jews will steal weight and lose some, but when doing business with everyone, it is very difficult for us to meet a real person with real feet of scale! Of course every businessman hopes to "take advantage of it"! Therefore, we must know that God is absolutely righteous! God wanted the Israelites to use the scales of the sanctuary, and the scales of the sanctuary were the only standard! But today I am not sharing with you "stealing catties and losing two"!
Let's talk about "human value" today! Why is our world becoming more and more chaotic? Because we all accept wrong "values"! What are wrong values? The life of the rich is life! The life of the poor is not life! Only those who are rich and powerful are qualified to live in the world, while those children from poor families are "bad lives" when they are born! I don't know when India's "caste system" began to rule the world? "Untouchables" are "untouchables" life after life. Isn't this the "slavery" that has gone back to the past? It seems that not only the Israelites did not leave Egypt, but people all over the world are living under the rule of Pharaoh! Is there any difference between people in the eyes of God? Is there any difference in human value in the eyes of God? There is indeed a difference between people in the eyes of God! People do make a difference in the eyes of God!
God asked the Israelites to redeem themselves, because God brought them out of Egypt! God never told the Israelites: You can take advantage of everything! There is no free lunch in this world! And why are Christians in our generation becoming more and more wicked? Because they thought Jesus was a fool! Jesus is the idiot for them to use! Due to if Christians sin, Jesus will surely forgive us! I have always emphasized that we must pay the "sins' price"! How many sins we commit, we must pay the price of sin! God never said: Christians have a free lunch! Those who work get paid! People who don't do evil, don't have to pay! "Grace" is not wages! God brought the Israelites out of Egypt, and they also had to pay the price of their lives! 5 shekels for boys from 1 month to 5 years old, 3 shekels for girls! From 5 to 20 years old, 20 shekels for men and 10 shekels for women! 50 shekels for men aged 20-60, 30 shekels for women! 15 shekels for men over 60 years old and 10 shekels for women! This is the ransom price for the people God brought out of Egypt! Finally, people over the age of 20 should give Jehovah a gift of half a shekel! Why did God demand a ransom? Because God wanted the Israelites to know that they must pay the price for their freedom and their lives!
Why are there different values in the eyes of God? God set different ransom silver according to different ages, why? This is the Israelites redeeming themselves for their labor! We see that the highest value for men aged 20-60 is 50 shekels, and for women 30 shekels! Why? Because if God doesn't bring the Israelites out of Egypt, the value of their labor goes to the Egyptians! The Israelites paid the price because they got the value of their labor! That's why the ransom price is especially low for children and the elderly! And people over the age of 20, regardless of gender, need to give half a shekel to God as a gift, because they can pay God to protect them! So, is there a gap between rich and poor in the eyes of God? Is there a gap in power and power in the eyes of God? of course not! In the eyes of God, there is only an "age" gap! The gap in "age" causes the "gap" in "labor force". "Gap between rich and poor" and "caste system" must be what God hates most!
We modern people have made too many "gap"! If there is a "gap", there must be "comparison", if there is "comparison", there must be "competition", if there is "competition", there must be "fight" and "crime"! All "gap" is the source of "evil"! We have good schools and bad schools! We have good jobs, bad jobs! We even have a gap in energy! People are really really "stupid"! The rice and wheat we eat, the milk and water we drink are worthless than petrol, gas and electricity! Isn't this ignorant and ridiculous? We'd rather work hard to make money than have a gas guzzling car and a useless computer! How much money do we earn in our lifetime and really spend on ourselves? We don't care what we eat? We care what we wear! Because we care what other people think of us! What we drink doesn't matter, but what our cars drink does! Because others will look down on us because of the car! Our life is always ~ live for others to see! We can't see the true value of our own life at all! Congratulations everyone! We have been tricked by the Israelites again!
Jews are good at doing business! What is the reason why Jews really know how to do business? They will sell "garbage"! Too much "garbage" in our life! And these "garbage" were invented by the Jews! The most powerful "garbage" of the Jews is "insurance"! Why don't the Jews have a state? Because the Jews are too treacherous, it is impossible for God to give them a country! In the short decades of our lives, how much of our energy and physical strength is devoted to garbage? What value does real high technology and real innovation bring to our lives? Are we worthy of toiling and wasting our lives on these "garbage"? The "garbage" in our lives brings pollution and damage to the environment! Our life is worth working hard for a car for decades? Spend gas money to maintain a car? You know that the most powerful marketing is selling "toilet paper"! "Toilet paper" is "insurance"! These are all "false needs" created by professional training, so that we will be "poor employees" and buy "garbage" for whole life and work for whole life to buy garbage!