EARTHLY IDOLS

My Dear Precious Child,
    Jesus Christ gave you a clear picture of earthly idols that My children make for themselves.  One is money.  He said do not seek after money, that it will fail you and you will begin to do illegal things to gain more and more money.  When you seek after money, you place yourself in the devil's family and he will eventually take it all away and leave you penniless and depressed.  That's the way the devil works.  Look at the rich and how they always seem to end up at the bottom rung of the ladder because of addiction, disease, gambling, imprisonment, family conflicts, perversions and others of satan's character identities.  Instead, Jesus said to seek Me, My kingdom and My righteousness and everything will be added to your life that you will ever need. In other words, make Me the source of your happiness instead of money and I will supply all of your needs, wants, dreams and desires.  Financial stability will be part of your blessings from Me because it will be accomplished according to My will of love instead of the will of the devil which brings emotional, spiritual and physical poverty. (Matthew 6:19-33)
      Another warning that Jesus Christ gave to you was to refuse to make your country and its government the source of your happiness.  He warned you against making governmental partisan politics your idols as has been done from the beginning of governments.  Jesus warned you about the Pharisees and the Sadducees, who were the conservative and liberal political parties of His day, and the scribes who were governmental officials.  He warned about the religious leaders of His day who were bound to the politicians, saying that they were all whited sepulchers, shutting up My kingdom from people.  He said that they emotionally seduce widows with long prayers.  He said that they make disciples of themselves which makes them more children of hell than they are.  He also said that political leaders and religious leaders pay their tithes but they neglect the most important things which are justice for all people, mercy for everyone and faith in Me instead of their having faith in their earthly government to meet their needs, the needs of which usually are wealth and control over people.  He identified the religious and political leaders as being full of extortion and excess yet they clean the outside of themselves so as to look virtuous.  He said that they favored building statues of men who had prophesied to them but they did not obey My warnings through them.  He also said that the political and religious leaders who are in collusion with one another build statues of men whose accolades were won with the spilled blood of other humans, which should not be so.  (Matthew 7:15; Matthew 16:6-12)
     In Jesus Christ's warnings about making your political and religious leaders idols, ones whom you have made responsible of your happiness, He identified that woes would come upon you if you place your faith in them instead of in Me and My heavenly kingdom.  He said that your allegiance cannot be to both.  (Matthew 23:13-29) Things never change because the devil never changes.  Using the same strategies has worked for him in every century since Adam so why should he change?  Woes will come into your life if you depend upon any form of earthly government to be the answers to your having happiness and prosperity.  If you place your faith in them, you will find yourself as the tail instead of the head.  (Deuteronomy 28:13) I make you the head; the political and religious leaders make you the tail.  
    Even in your day some of My very own children, ones who do not personally know Me but only know Me by hearing about Me from other people who also do not know Me, those people are like Job and when they become cursed in every area of their lives they wonder why their idols did not protect them from failures after losing everything that they had.  (Job 42:1-6) He had made his tithes his idols, looking to them to cover the sins of his children.  Job's fear that his children were going to sin is what caused him to make his tithes his idol, which attracted the devil's destruction into his life.(Job 1:4-5)  His fear formed a barrier between himself and Me.  (Job 3:25; Isaiah 59:1-8)
     The dangers that I warned you about are things that are earthly that you depend upon to save you from evil, death and destruction.  The devil entices you to place your faith in those things, your tithes, your offerings, your service to your church, your pastor or your prayer groups, anything that is tangible, rather than our having a one-on-one relationship which brings faith, joy and love into your life.
    I love all of My children.  I send people to warn you to be single minded with your dependency upon Me as your Father because I am the only God who brings absolute and perfect happiness into your life.
    Your Father of Benefits and Rewards