The failure of the unrighteous Mammon

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24

Mammon is not money although money may represent a form of mammon. Mammon is entrusted wealth.¹ We have seen that the corporate state and its enfranchised citizenry are part of the corpus of the state. Like the camp of the golden calf all wealth is bound in the civil state.

Jesus compares God and mammon as two masters, both requiring service.

And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. Luke 16:9

If you are bound to the mammon or corpus of the modern civil state you are given a similar alternative today. Jesus tells us to be friends with the unrighteous mammon for when it fails we will be received into everlasting tabernacles or tents. In other words if you are a selfish disobedient cheat under the system of unrighteous mammon you will probably do the same with God.

There is another clue to mammon in this statement. He speaks of it 'failing' as a sure thing that will happen. For this reason as much as any other we should seek the kingdom and its righteousness. Rather than seeking the Truth of God's kingdom on earth, men heed not his prophetic warnings and follow after their own pernicious ways. If they knew that these systems of Mammon have plagued the history of man since before the Corban and Quarban of Herod and Caesar or the flesh pots of Egypt they might have pursued another path.

Rather than seeking the Truth of God's kingdom on earth, men heed not his prophetic warnings and follow after their own pernicious ways.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou [be] a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat. Proverbs 23

From the beginning many have faltered in the path of righteousness and by the voice of the people they have cried out for someone to stand in the place of God as a ruling judge. They have looked to systems of compulsion and prayed for the benefits they offer rather than simply follow God in faith, hope and charity.

...voice of the people... Nay; but we will have a king over us; 1 Sa. 8

Warnings of the prophets and the sayings of the wise fill volumes of books, often unread or misunderstood in today's modern society. The land, the lives, the gold and silver, wealth or inheritance of each man and woman and their children have been entrusted to others. The people no longer own the beneficial interest of their lands and labors. They must pay tribute annually for their 'use'. Men and women are in the service of governments who exercise authority and compel the taking of a portion of their labor each year as it was in the days of the bondage of Egypt. People desire the apparent benefit from this gain and usury. They apply, beseeching the common purse modern City State, for the civil and social security supplied by the compelled contributions of their neighbor.

According to the 1995 "Who pays what and when?"² report of the Congressional Budget Office there has been a steady rise in the Estimated Lifetime Net Tax Rates during the 20th century.³ Actual tax rates are higher since net tax rate is the actual tax rate less "government payments, such as those for Social Security or welfare".

The net tax rate was 24 percent in 1900 with an actual tax rate of 28 percent but Social Security and many other public entitlements were non existent at that time and therefore were not yet being subtracted. Also during the early part of that century there was no income tax on wages and salaries. Wages and salaries were not income but compensation.⁴ To tax the labor of an individual was unconstitutional without his consent but with the offer of Social Security and other tax funded lucrative entitlements this all began to change.⁵

When government transfers in the form of paid benefits began to increase⁶ the net tax rate continued to rise. In 1980 even with the subtraction of benefit payments, which were at an all time high, the net tax rate had reached 37 percent. The actual tax rate on labor income alone was an unprecedented 51 percent. "But to enjoy the now-prevailing rate of purchases in relation to income, future generations would have to pay lifetime net taxes at a rate of 78 percent. That is more than twice the rate for today's newborns."⁷

If benefit payments remained the same at 13 percent and government expenditures did not increase the actual tax rates would exceed 90 percent over the life of the taxpayer. But the report goes on to say, "the General Accounting Office estimates that with no change in policy, the federal deficit would exceed 20 percent of gross domestic output in 2025, and the federal debt would exceed 200 percent. (The corresponding figures in 1994 were 2 percent and 53 percent.) Similarly, the Social Security and Health Care Financing Administrations project that current policy would exhaust the trust funds for Social Security and Medicare."⁸

The use of phrases like Policy changes, tough choice and fiscal responsibility have been heard through the centuries. The Budget Office suggests, "Most people expect Policy makers to make the tough choices needed to put the nation's fiscal house in order." This rhetoric is not new. Millenniums of repetitious history have shown this to be a false hope and a vain dream. When you offer men appointments of power then men who desire power seek those offices. When you maintain the responsibility of dominion and only offer offices of service the seats of governance remain occupied by servants.

The houses that men construct for themselves depends on either the love of charity in its contributors or upon the covetous nature of their own hearts. Each man makes his choice and then plays or pays his part. Every man loves his neighbor as himself or covets his neighbor goods by application and participation. That which is needed to fulfill the hopes and desires of the citizenry is given freely or taken by the agents of the people. Though many cry LORD, LORD in the vestibule of their religious institutions their deeds betray the repository of their true faith and homage.⁹ The people do not love their neighbor but covet their goods of their house. The name of the Lord is but vanity in their mouths.

Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned [against] thy soul. For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity! Behold, [is it] not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity? Habakkuk 2:9-13

People are looking everywhere but to God. The most powerful governments in the world are the ones that offer insecure, faithless people social security at a vain and usurious price. People do not trust in God but in the governments that they make for themselves.

Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up; Jer 18:15

Over and over it is vanity, pride and arrogance that turns men from the path of our Father in heaven. They claim they pray to God in Heaven while they apply to the gods men have chosen for themselves. The gods of the gentiles distribute the grace of their benefits amongst proud people but those benefactors guarantee their treasury's bounty ultimately at the point of a gun, contrary to the sayings of Jesus.

...testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Eph 4:17

The ruling elite and the powers behind them cause millions to labor as human resources and send millions of their sons to fight and die in the name of patriotism, where the State is your Father. The voice of the people has chosen a new benefactor¹⁰, a new father¹¹ and new gods¹². The people become weaker and the powers of the world grow hungry for more authority and control. The masses become more frightened and are assured that they cannot afford freedom and liberty is a danger. They are told they need stronger and stronger governments to maintain their safety and comforts.

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FOOTNOTES:

² "Who pays what and when?" An Assessment of General Accounting November 1995 by the Congressional Budget Office.

³ "a. A lifetime net tax rate is the present value at birth of lifetime net taxes as a percentage of the present value at birth of lifetime labor income. Net taxes are taxes less transfers." "figures include net taxes at all levels of government--federal, state, and local--" Actual tax rates are generally higher since net taxes are calculated less "government payments, such as those for Social Security or welfare"

⁴ "Compensation for labor can not be regarded as profit within the meaning of the law. The word profit, as ordinarily used, means the gain made upon any business or investments. It is a different thing altogether from compensation for labor." Commercial League Asso. of Am. v. People ex net Needles Aud. 90 Ill. 166.

⁵ See Employ vs. Enslave in The Covenants of the gods.

⁶ They increased more than 330% percent in 90 years from 3% in 1900 to 13% in 1990.

⁷ SOURCE: Congressional Budget Office, using a computer program and data provided by the authors as described in Alan J. Auerbach, Jagadeesh Gokhale, and Laurence J. Kotlikoff, "Generational Accounts: A Meaningful Alternative to Deficit Accounting," in David Bradford, ed., Tax Policy and the Economy, vol. 5 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991), pp. 55-110.

⁸ Ibid. Results of Generational Accounts

⁹ Appendix 3 Worship and homage.

¹⁰ And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: Matthew 22:25-26

¹¹ Matthew 23:9 And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

¹² Elohiym and theos were common titles of "magistrates and judges".

1 Corinthians 8:5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)