Dream 172

“Mammon has made you a little more than territorial animals.”

Gatherer’s voice reaches through the sound of a band of Chimpanzees ripping apart another band of chimpanzees to expand their territory. The scene before me is brutal. I look away, hoping to be transported back to the land beneath Michael’s calf but Gatherer has more to say.

Gatherer:
“The concept of ‘not enough to go around’ is a myth invented by greedy, territorial men to justify their dominance over their brothers. It is a lie from the father of lies and even believers buy into it.

You are so programmed to look after yourselves as individuals that you look down upon the poor and worship the rich. Your mistrust causes you to shy away from communal living.

You could have entire, prosperous cities where there is no lack among you but you insist on struggling along alone, not thinking as one but striving as individuals.

You are a kingdom under one king and this king desires that you live a life of abundance together. Yet the leaders among you live lives of excessive opulence while many of you starve and struggle.

And when those who live in luxury are asked to turn their attention to tue poor, they are saddened and angered. For their wealth is their territory and they will kill to protect it.
They may throw some crumbs to appease their conscience and call themselves righteous for it, but to have the power to save a brother yet not to save him is to spit upon grace!

Open the eyes of your spirit son of sorrow. Look to see the reality of the god of mammon. See how mankind is lulled by a succubus and weakened as a people by her greed.
See how the body starves its own lungs, kidneys and brain. One part cannot be strong if another part is weakened.”

The dominating band of Chimpanzees has now killed off the weaker band. The whole area is filled with dead and maimed Chimps.

Me:
“This is brutal!”

Gatherer:
“There is no difference between physically going to a territory to kill every child there and knowing that they are dying, having the power to save them, yet doing nothing.
Truly the rich among you will face judgement for their deeds. And they will be shocked, saying ‘did we not tithe?’. But the son will tell them to depart from Him. Their wickedness blinds them so much that they cannot tell the difference between giving to appease their own conscience and inflate their own ego, and having compassion upon the broken and lost.
The witnesses and angels stand and watch as money and manpower are diverted from areas of poverty to build opulent temples that stroke the ego of man in the name of God while children suffer in places where missionaries and resources are sorely needed.

They say ‘we do this for God’.
Hear this well son of sorrow:
They are like the Israelites who built a calf out of their Gold while Moses was receiving the ten commandments. Indeed, they are no better.
They may as well walk among hungry children and rip the clothes from their backs and steal the food out of their mouths. They may as well take a hammer to smash down their slums and schools.

Thus say the Lord:
“You have taken what I have sent for the poor, the captives, the widows, the blind and the lost and built for yourself lives of opulence. Is my grace not sufficient? Why do you lie to yourself and to my sheep? Why do you turn your backs on me? My people are to be the saviors of nations yet you have become a curse upon them, taking from them everything when they have nothing. I have shown you grace and compassion and you have turned your back upon the poor. Repent, turn from this wickedness, turn from this opulence! As long as there is lack among you while you have the power to release abundance, I am not your Lord and you are not filled with love. Repent, turn from this wickedness!”

Heed the word of the Lord son of sorrow!”

Me:
“With words like these, I am not going to have many friends left (I laugh). They protect the rich among them vehemently because even the crumbs that are thrown to them are a good income and to offend the rich is to starve their ministries of much needed resource.”

Gatherer:
“Do not sell your soul so cheaply. It is better to suffer under the strain of rejection than to forfeit your soul to please mammon. If you turn your back upon opulence and luxury, you will always have more than enough. Every need shall be met. But know that the judgement for those who stand by and do nothing when they have the power to feed and clothe children will be very harsh. They are as a doctor who watches a patient bleed to death dispassionately. Just as that doctor is a murderer, so are they murderers.
Grace is fair son of sorrow, but grace must beget grace. Do not be a wicked servant who has all his debts forgiven, only to persecute those who owe him money. Or the wicked servant who is rescued from poverty yet refuses to rescue others.

To gave the power to save a drowning man, yet leave him to drown. This is murder. You may as well have held his head below the waves yourself.
Do not be deceived, God is neither ignorant, not is He indifferent. We see all, we record all and all are held accountable for what they do with the grace given to them.

How can you say that you love God when you do not love your brother? You have been commanded to love one another! How can you allow people to go hungry and claim to be filled with love?
No, son of sorrow, heed these words.
If you do not love your brethren, you do not love God.

His kingdom is all and His kingdom is a kingdom of obedience so that it may be a kingdom of abundance.”

Me:
“His kingdom is all!”

I wake up.