Biblical Principles of Prosperity

It should be noted that the Jewish people in the United States represent only about 3% of the population. However, Jewish people hold about 65% of the positions on the Fortune 500 list – which is a roster of the top 500 most prosperous companies in the country. This means there is a disproportionate number of Jewish-owned businesses – which are some of the most successful and financially prosperous in the U.S..

See the link “Jewish Topics” for more details.

The common theme among all of these Jewish owned businesses is that they follow Torah principles. God has revealed the principles of his word within the Jewish Torah (which is also repeated within the Christian Old Testament of the Bible).

Genesis 18:18–19 (NASB95)
18 since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?
19 “For I have chosen him, so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken about him.”

God chose Abraham and multiplied Abraham into a great and mighty nation so that all nations of the earth would be blessed through Abraham and his descendants (through Isaac and Jacob) – the patriarchs of the Jewish race. God said that he specifically chose Abraham because Abraham could be trusted to command his children and household (and grandchildren) after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice. The United States was founded upon the biblical principles from the Jewish Torah (also found in the Christian Old Testament of the bible) so that their laws and economic system were all established upon God’s word given to Abraham and his descendants the Jews. In the United States for example, a person in debt can only file for bankruptcy once in seven years. This comes directly from the Jewish scriptures that permitted debt-cancelation once every seven years. There are numerous US civil laws that were based upon the principles of the bible – (as found in the Jewish Torah). It is the foundation of God’s word that has caused the United States to rise up to being the top of the nations – with only a relatively short 200-year history. In the United States the freedom of worship was also established and the two-day weekend was designed so that the Jewish people could have a day off work on Saturday to take a Sabbath Day of rest as commanded to them by God. Sunday was given as a day off from Christians to worship God on the first day of the week – to commemorate when their Jewish Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) rose from the dead. So having both Saturday and Sunday as a day of rest and worship was designed to benefit both Jews and Christians in the United States so that both groups would have one day a week free from work for the worship of the God of Israel.

Isaiah 48:17 (NASB95)
17 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, Who leads you in the way you should go.

This scripture from the Jewish Torah (Old Testament of the Bible) which says that the God of Israel will teach his people how to profit and how to prosper financially. God would also lead them in the way they should go (into a prosperous life).

This wisdom of God for prosperity is concealed for God’s people within the scriptures and those who have eyes to see and ears to hear (spiritually) will be able to see and apply the biblical secrets of prosperity. This biblical wisdom was hidden within God’s word for those who are spiritually discerning. In this manner, God can cause those who are godly (and who keep God’s commands) to prosper financially while those who are wicked and break God’s commands will suffer the curse of poverty.

See the link “Parable of Goat and Mother’s Milk” for more details.

Prosperity from Obeying God’s Commands

Deuteronomy 28:1–2 (NASB95)
1 “Now it shall be, if you diligently obey the LORD your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
2 “All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you obey the LORD your God:

God promised that those who diligently obey the Lord God by being careful to do all of his commands would be set high above all of the nations of the earth. This means that there is a reason for nations prospering and it is because they follow God’s commands. However the adverse is also true that to the extend that any nation forsakes God’s laws and breaks God’s commands they will experience a curse and poverty. The entire chapter of Deuteronomy 28 speaks of both the blessings of God for obedience to his commands and the curse of God that comes from breaking God’s commands.

Blessings from God

Deuteronomy 28:3–14 (NASB95)
3 “Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.
4 “Blessed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground and the offspring of your beasts, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.
5 “Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
6 “Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
7 “The LORD shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways.
8 “The LORD will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
9 “The LORD will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.
10 “So all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will be afraid of you.
11 “The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
12 “The LORD will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
13 “The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you only will be above, and you will not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I charge you today, to observe them carefully,
14 and do not turn aside from any of the words which I command you today, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

The scriptures above all speak of the many blessings that come from God upon those people who obey his commands. Among these blessings the promise for financial prosperity for God’s people is prevalent.

Deuteronomy 28:15 (NASB95)
15 “But it shall come about, if you do not obey the LORD your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Then the scriptures found in Deuteronomy 28 also speak about the various curses that will come upon people who break all of God’s laws. These curses will come upon any nation of people who forsake God’s commands and purposely break all of his laws.

Curses for Not Obeying God’s Laws

Deuteronomy 28:16–68 (NASB95)
16 “Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.
17 “Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.
18 “Cursed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock.
19 “Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
20 “The LORD will send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke, in all you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me.
21 “The LORD will make the pestilence cling to you until He has consumed you from the land where you are entering to possess it.
22 “The LORD will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish.
23 “The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron.
24 “The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
25 “The LORD shall cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways before them, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
26 “Your carcasses will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
27 “The LORD will smite you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed.
28 “The LORD will smite you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart;
29 and you will grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed continually, with none to save you.
30 “You shall betroth a wife, but another man will violate her; you shall build a house, but you will not live in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but you will not use its fruit.
31 “Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat of it; your donkey shall be torn away from you, and will not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you will have none to save you.
32 “Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.
33 “A people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and crushed continually.
34 “You shall be driven mad by the sight of what you see.
35 “The LORD will strike you on the knees and legs with sore boils, from which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
36 “The LORD will bring you and your king, whom you set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.
37 “You shall become a horror, a proverb, and a taunt among all the people where the LORD drives you.
38 “You shall bring out much seed to the field but you will gather in little, for the locust will consume it.
39 “You shall plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm will devour them.
40 “You shall have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.
41 “You shall have sons and daughters but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.
42 “The cricket shall possess all your trees and the produce of your ground.
43 “The alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower.
44 “He shall lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you will be the tail.
45 “So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the LORD your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.
46 “They shall become a sign and a wonder on you and your descendants forever.
47 “Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things;
48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
49 “The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you shall not understand,
50 a nation of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.
51 “Moreover, it shall eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish.
52 “It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout your land which the LORD your God has given you.
53 “Then you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you.
54 “The man who is refined and very delicate among you shall be hostile toward his brother and toward the wife he cherishes and toward the rest of his children who remain,
55 so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing else left, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in all your towns.
56 “The refined and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and refinement, shall be hostile toward the husband she cherishes and toward her son and daughter,
57 and toward her afterbirth which issues from between her legs and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in your towns.
58 “If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honored and awesome name, the LORD your God,
59 then the LORD will bring extraordinary plagues on you and your descendants, even severe and lasting plagues, and miserable and chronic sicknesses.
60 “He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you.
61 “Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, the LORD will bring on you until you are destroyed.
62 “Then you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the LORD your God.
63 “It shall come about that as the LORD delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the LORD will delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be torn from the land where you are entering to possess it.
64 “Moreover, the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known.
65 “Among those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.
66 “So your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you will be in dread night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.
67 “In the morning you shall say, ‘Would that it were evening!’ And at evening you shall say, ‘Would that it were morning!’ because of the dread of your heart which you dread, and for the sight of your eyes which you will see.
68 “The LORD will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, ‘You will never see it again!’ And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”

Above is a long list of curses that will come upon any people or nation that breaks God’s laws. These curses include war and famine and plague and pestilence and slavery and dispersion and sickness and pain and affliction of all kinds. Herein is a spiritual principle that much of the suffering on earth is caused by breaking God’s laws (which opens the door to the adversary Satan to kill and steal and destroy and wreck havoc among the nations). It should be noted that prevalent among these curses is the curse of financial ruination and poverty. Their crops and businesses would fail and all of their wealth would be stolen and they would be reduced to slavery and suffer great poverty and lack and hunger. The bible teaches the reason why people suffer poverty and lack (which is part of the curse for disobeying God’s laws). The bible also teaches the converse that prosperity is a product of God’s blessing on those people who keep God’s laws and obey God’s commandments.

Nations rise and fall in accordance to how they either obey God’s laws and receive God’s blessing or how they forsake God’s laws and experience the resulting curse. The history of the nation of Israel is a testimony to this because when a godly king would seek God and obey God then he would experience God’s blessing and prosperity for his nation. But when any king forsook God’s laws then he would experience the curse and war and famine and pestilence that would wipe out large numbers of his population during these great disasters and curses that came upon them in result of their disobedience to God’s command.

Principle God Blesses the Obedient and Causes Them to Prosper

There exists as biblical principle that God blesses those who obey his commands. This is why the children of Israel (when they obeyed God) would be more prosperous than the pagan idol-worshipping nations that broke all of God’s laws. Only when Israel sinned and worshipped idols and forsook the God of Israel did they become financially cursed. This happened with “boring regularity” throughout the history of Israel. Whenever the Israelites broke God’s laws and worshipped idols then they would be cursed. When they repented and followed a strong godly leader – then the nation would become wealthy and prosperous as a result. King Asa and King Jehoshaphat and King Hezekiah and King David were just a few examples of men who were godly leaders and brought their people back to God again. In every case these men and the citizens of their nation prospered and become wealthy in proportion to how they chose to serve God and obey God. There are many other bad kings listed throughout the history of Israel – like Manasseh and Ahab who broke all of God’s laws and worshipped idols and thus they brought a curse upon themselves and a curse upon the citizens of their own nation. People languished in misery and poverty whenever the entire nation fell away from God by following the bad leadership decisions of evil and wicked civil leaders.

Four Kings -Two Bad and Two Good

Matthew 1:10 (NASB95)
10 Hezekiah was the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, and Amon the father of Josiah.

The scripture above describes one segment of a genealogy where there was a lineage of four kings given (half of them were bad and half of them were good). Hezekiah was a godly king but his reign was followed by two wicked kings and finally the last king of Israel (Josiah) was a godly king. It is interesting that King Hezekiah was a godly king but he apparently did not discipline his son or teach his son the fear of the Lord because his son Manasseh was the most wicked king in all the history of Israel. The son of Manasseh (Amon) was also wicked but the son of Amon (Josiah) turned out to be godly. Unlike his father and grandfather before him – Josiah loved the Lord and obeyed all of his commandments and led his people in the ways that were pleasing to God. Under the reign of the godly kings (both Hezekiah and Josiah) the nation prospered but under the reign of the wicked kings (Manasseh and Amon) the nation experienced curse and poverty and destruction. Throughout all of the history of Israel every wicked king brought curse upon his nation by breaking all of God’s laws. The only time that the nations was blessed and prosperous was when godly king reigned and lead the people to do what is right in the sight of God.

Either blessing or cursing can be triggered depending on if there is strong civil leadership leading the people toward godliness (which brings a blessing) or a curse if the civil leadership is bad and leads the people in an evil way to cause them to break all of God’s laws.

The son of Manasseh (Amon) was also wicked just like his father was. But then the son of Amon (Josiah) was the last godly king of Israel. Looking at this genealogy it shows that the nation of Israel was blessed and prospered under godly leadership (led by men who feared and obeyed God). The same nation was cursed and came to complete ruination when there was wicked men holding civil leadership positions.

Campaign to Anger God

2 Chronicles 32:33 (NASB95)
33 So Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the upper section of the tombs of the sons of David; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. And his son Manasseh became king in his place.

The godly King Hezekiah passed away and his evil son Manasseh succeeded him as king. Manasseh was extremely wicked and seemed to do everything possible to provoke the God of Israel to anger. It was as if Manasseh was engaged in a campaign anger God to the maximum by breaking every law and committing every kind of horrible abominations.

2 Chronicles 33:1–9 (NASB95)
1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
2 He did evil in the sight of the LORD according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel.
3 For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he also erected altars for the Baals and made Asherim, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
4 He built altars in the house of the LORD of which the LORD had said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”
5 For he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
6 He made his sons pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom; and he practiced witchcraft, used divination, practiced sorcery and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
7 Then he put the carved image of the idol which he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;
8 and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them according to all the law, the statutes and the ordinances given through Moses.”
9 Thus Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the sons of Israel.

The wicked things Manasseh did were an outrageous example of breaking every type of law that God given to his people Israel. He even placed idol worship altars within God’s temple and also carved images to provoke God to anger. He was more evil in behavior than the vile pagans God had destroyed before Israel – during the conquest of the Promised Land.

2 Chronicles 33:10–13 (NASB95)
10 The LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.
11 Therefore the LORD brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon.
12 When he was in distress, he entreated the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
13 When he prayed to Him, He was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.

God sent prophets to rebuke the madness of this wicked king Manasseh but he paid no attention to the warnings. God then caused the nation of Israel to be invaded by the army of the king of Assyria and Manasseh was dragged away with hooks and bronze chains and was imprisoned in Babylon. This wicked king then humbled himself and repented – so God permitted him to return to Israel once more.

War and famine and curse and poverty are all part of God’s judgment for sin. The kingdom of Manasseh was largely destroyed and came to ruin by foreign invasion and plundering. Again this is a stark example of how breaking God’s laws brings the curse (which includes financial collapse and poverty and misery and starvation).

Like Father Like Son

2 Chronicles 33:20 (NASB95)
20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. And Amon his son became king in his place.

When King Manasseh passed away then his own son Amon succeeded his father as king. But Amon was also wicked and did every type of evil thing that his father Manasseh previously had done (before the time that Manasseh repented).

2 Chronicles 33:21–25 (NASB95)
21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
22 He did evil in the sight of the LORD as Manasseh his father had done, and Amon sacrificed to all the carved images which his father Manasseh had made, and he served them.
23 Moreover, he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done, but Amon multiplied guilt.
24 Finally his servants conspired against him and put him to death in his own house.
25 But the people of the land killed all the conspirators against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

Amon reigned only two-short years. His own officials could see clearly that their nation was completely destroyed and came to poverty and starvation after King Manasseh did evil in God’s sight and brought a curse upon the nation because of his wicked behavior. The officials could see that the son of Manasseh (Amon) was going in the same direction as his evil father. Allowing this wicked king to continue would bring utter destruction upon their nation once again. Therefore, these officials conspired to assassinate King Amon and put an end to his wicked reign (cutting it off after only in operation for two-years). This officials ended up sacrificing themselves because they were put to death for the assassination. However, these officials actually did the nation a big favor to put an end to the reign of wicked King Amon before he caused the total extermination of the entire nation under God’s judgment.

2 Chronicles 34:1–2 (NASB95)
1 Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
2 He did right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of his father David and did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

It is amazing that a wicked king like Amon actually had a son (Josiah) who was a godly king who feared God and kept God’s commandments. So under the godly leadership of King Josiah the nation was blessed by God and prospered financially.

2 Chronicles 34:3–5 (NASB95)
3 For in the eighth year of his reign while he was still a youth, he began to seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, the carved images and the molten images.
4 They tore down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and the incense altars that were high above them he chopped down; also the Asherim, the carved images and the molten images he broke in pieces and ground to powder and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
5 Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

Josiah wisely set about on a campaign to purge all of Judah and Jerusalem of all idol worship. This purge was necessary in order to turn the wrath of God away from the nation and to reverse the curse that had come due to breaking God’s laws. During the reign of Josiah (the last godly king found in the history of Israel) God was able to bless the nation once more.

Disobedience Brings a Curse and Obedience Brings a Blessing

It should be obvious from this short segment of the history of Israel that two kings were godly and brought financial prosperity and blessing to their nation. But two kings were wicked and broke all of God’s laws and the nation was destroyed by war and famine and pestilence as the judgment of God came due to idol worship and breaking all of God’s laws. Therefore the curse of God and the blessing of God can be turned off and one in accordance with what the people do as they follow a good civil leader or a bad civil leader.

God has not changed and until today if any nation or group of people choose to serve God and keep God’s commands then God will bless them and cause them to prosper. But if any nation or group of people chose to live in wickedness and choose to break all of God’s laws then they will live under the curse of poverty and misery.

See the link “Idolatry – Curse of a Nation” for more details.

The bottom line of all of these matters is that humans have been given a human freewill. They are free to choose to do whatever they want. They can become like Manasseh and Amon and they can choose to do evil in God’s sight. People are also free to chose to do what is good in God’s sight and behave in righteous manner (as in the case of both King Hezekiah and King Josiah). Both of these good men utilized their human freewill to choose to obey and serve God. Under their godly leadership, their entire nation began to prosper. Therefore, whether people experience financial prosperity or the curse is largely based upon a free choice to either obey or disobey God’s commands. Throughout the history of Israel whenever they chose to obey God they would have peace and prosperity. Whenever the people chose to disobey God then they had the curse of poverty and war and pestilence and famine.

Women in Civil Leadership Seek to Force Equality for All

Since the time that western women were given the right to vote and hold public office they have sought to promote equality-for-all. These women leaders will typically try to tax those who are blessed in order to hand it out to those who are poor and cursed. This will only result in a curse of a nation because no one can bless those whom God has cursed. Why are these people cursed? It is because they break God’s laws.

Under the Biden Administration the women-run liberal Democrat party has opened the borders and flooded the nation with millions of pagan people who do not worship the God of Israel and do not keep God’s laws. This results in a curse as they overrun the country and they destroy the Judeo/Christian culture – that once made America great. Women leadership brings a curse for this reason as they try to force equality-for-all against what God has said.

See the link “Women Destroy Civilization” for more details

Curse of Women Leadership

Isaiah 3:12 (NASB95)
12 O My people! Their oppressors are children, And women rule over them. O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray And confuse the direction of your paths.

This scripture speaks of people being oppressed by children and having women rule over them. This description of “oppressor children” is a vivid portrayal of liberal beta male enablers (which behave like children). These dysfunctional liberal males never grew up and continue to follow women (just as they did when being raised by a single parent divorced working mothers within a broken home). The bible describes having a woman rule the people as a curse. This can be seen clearly in all “women-led” western nations which are destroying themselves by their own foolish decisions – as are being dictated by women civil leaders. These women civil leaders (who guide these nations) are leading them astray and confusing the direction of their paths. These women seek to enforce equality-for-all and import godless pagans and force those who worship the God of Israel to redistribute their national wealth to support these alien pagans. This brings a curse to everyone involved and brings their nations into complete ruination.

See the video link “Women Destroy Civilization” for more details.

The point is that worshipping the God of Israel will bring blessing and financial blessing to a nation. Women leading western nations away from God and toward paganism causes the people to break God’s laws and the worship of idols will bring a curse to any nation. This can be seen throughout the entire history of the nation of Israel. Every time they worshipped idols and broke God’s laws then they experience every type of curse that could be imagined (including a financial curse and poverty).

Turning To God Brings a Blessing

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV)
14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

But every time the people repented of their sin and turned to God (and forsook idol worship) then they experienced God’s blessing. God promises that if they would turn from their wicked ways then God would hear from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land. Over and over again this was seen in the history of Israel as they forsook God and served idols and were cursed and when they repented and turned to God and obeyed God then they were blessed and prospered.

Financial prosperity is largely a result of obedience to God. When a majority of people worship the God of Israel then they will bring financial blessing upon the entire nation. But if any nation is flooded with idol worshipping pagans then that nation will come to complete ruination (as seen in the western nations today whose women-led governments import pagans to their own national ruination.

Riches and Honor come from God

1 Chronicles 29:12 (NASB95)
12 “Both riches and honor come from You, and You rule over all, and in Your hand is power and might; and it lies in Your hand to make great and to strengthen everyone.

People must realize that there is a God in heaven and he has control over the affairs of humans on earth and can bless and prosper those who obey his commands and God can also curse and bring to poverty and ruination those who break God’s laws.

Idol worship is one example of a sin that angers the jealous God who has promised to bring a curse upon those who worship idols. There are countries which have great natural resources but at the same time languish in poverty and misery and have many reoccurring natural disasters because of their idol worship culture.

See the link “Idolatry – Curse of a Nation” for more details.

King Hezekiah Sought God and God Prospered Him

King Hezekiah purged his nation from idol worship during his reign and this pleased the God of Israel and so God brought great blessings upon King Hezekiah and caused his nation to prosper.

2 Kings 18:1–7 (NASB95)
1 Now it came about in the third year of Hoshea, the son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah became king.
2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.
3 He did right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father David had done.
4 He removed the high places and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel burned incense to it; and it was called Nehushtan.
5 He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel; so that after him there was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among those who were before him.
6 For he clung to the LORD; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the LORD had commanded Moses.
7 And the LORD was with him; wherever he went he prospered. And he rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.

King Hezekiah did what was right in the sight of God just as King David had also done. King Hezekiah purged the nation from idol worship and pagan religion. Hezekiah did not depart from following the Lord but clung to the Lord wholeheartedly and kept God’s commandments. So the Lord was with King Hezekiah and God caused Hezekiah to prosper. Prosperity comes from God upon those who keep his commandments.

2 Chronicles 32:27–29 (NASB95)
27 Now Hezekiah had immense riches and honor; and he made for himself treasuries for silver, gold, precious stones, spices, shields and all kinds of valuable articles,
28 storehouses also for the produce of grain, wine and oil, pens for all kinds of cattle and sheepfolds for the flocks.
29 He made cities for himself and acquired flocks and herds in abundance, for God had given him very great wealth.

This scripture says that King Hezekiah had immense riches and honor and maintained treasuries to store the abundance of silver and gold and precious stones and spices and shields and all kinds of valuable articles. He also had storehouses to keep the grain and wine and oil and had livestock pens to keep all kinds of cattle and sheepfolds for the flocks. He had acquired flocks and herds in abundance because God had given him great wealth. This wealth came from God because God was pleased with King Hezekiah (who followed God’s commandments wholeheartedly). He purged his nation from idol worship – which is a sin that angers the living God!

Hezekiah’s People Prospered Under His Godly Leadership

2 Chronicles 31:5–10 (NASB95)
5 As soon as the order spread, the sons of Israel provided in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, oil, honey and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of all.
6 The sons of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of sacred gifts which were consecrated to the LORD their God, and placed them in heaps.
7 In the third month they began to make the heaps, and finished them by the seventh month.
8 When Hezekiah and the rulers came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD and His people Israel.
9 Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
10 Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok said to him, “Since the contributions began to be brought into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat with plenty left over, for the LORD has blessed His people, and this great quantity is left over.”

The people were commanded to pay a tithe to the Lord (ten percent) of their increase. This was an act of worship to acknowledge that all they have was given to them by the God of Israel so the people gave God back a tenth part as a form of worship and thanksgiving for their increase. The people had so much tithes that the grain was piled into great heaps like mountains and they also brought in large numbers of livestock. This produce was given to the Levites and Priests for their service in God’s temple so they could focus full-time on teaching God’s word. But the point to understand is that this great store of produce and livestock represented only 10% of the income of the people. This means that these same people kept 90% at home. So as much as was given as tithes there was nine-parts more remaining at the homes of these givers. This shows that God had blessed these people tremendously and God had caused them to multiply financially. A entire nation of people can be prospered and blessed by keeping God’s commands and paying God a tithe of their increase.

See the link “Giving and Kingdom Finances” for more details.

Abraham was blessed by God

Genesis 24:35 (NASB95)
35 “The LORD has greatly blessed my master, so that he has become rich; and He has given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and servants and maids, and camels and donkeys.

Abraham was blessed financially by God and God made him rich. Abraham owned large flocks and herds and much silver and gold and had many people working for him as well as large numbers of camels and donkeys. All of this blessing and financial increase came because Abraham obeyed God’s laws and kept God’s commandments and therefore God caused him to prosper.

Genesis 13:2 (NASB95)
2 Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver and in gold.

Again, the scripture says that Abram was very rich in livestock and in silver and gold.

Genesis 14:23 (NASB95)
23 that I will not take a thread or a sandal thong or anything that is yours, for fear you would say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’

Abraham gave full credit to God for all of the wealth and riches which God has blessed him with. Abraham did not want any humans to say that they made him rich because all of his wealth came from God’s blessings. Riches are a result of God’s blessing upon the obedient.

1 Samuel 2:7 (NASB95)
7 “The LORD makes poor and rich; He brings low, He also exalts.

God makes people poor who break his commands and God can exalt people and make them rich if they obey God’s commands. There are spiritual reasons for why some nations are cursed and poor and why some prosper under the blessing that comes from God.

King Solomon Made Rich by God

1 Kings 3:11–13 (NASB95)
11 God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself discernment to understand justice,
12 behold, I have done according to your words. Behold, I have given you a wise and discerning heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, nor shall one like you arise after you.
13 “I have also given you what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you all your days.

Solomon was made rich by God because he pleased the Lord as a civil leader. God was pleased that Solomon asked for wisdom to govern the people and because God was pleased then God gave Solomon great wealth and riches. King Solomon was the richest king that ever lived and no one in the history of the nations has gained the amount of wealth that Solomon once had. This wealth remained with Solomon as long as he served God but later when Solomon was old he disobeyed God by marrying pagan wives who turned his heart away from God toward idol worship. When his life came to an end, his wealth was all lost during the reign of Solomon’s son Rehoboam.

1 Kings 10:23 (NASB95)
23 So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.

But during the time that Solomon sought God, he was greater in wealth than any of the kings on earth and had immense riches and wisdom.

1 Samuel 18:14 (NASB95)
14 David was prospering in all his ways for the LORD was with him.

King David was prospered in all his ways because God was with him. King David was careful to keep God’s commands and never directly offended God (other than his fall into immorality with Bathsheba). The righteous David did in seeking God caused God’s blessing to be upon him.

2 Chronicles 31:20–21 (NASB95)
20 Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah; and he did what was good, right and true before the LORD his God.
21 Every work which he began in the service of the house of God in law and in commandment, seeking his God, he did with all his heart and prospered.

King Hezekiah sought the Lord and kept God’s commandments and God caused him to prosper as a result.

2 Chronicles 32:30 (NASB95)
30 It was Hezekiah who stopped the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all that he did.

Hezekiah prospered in all that he did and the reason for this was because Hezekiah obeyed God and God prospered him and gave him success in all that he did.

2 Kings 18:5–7 (NASB95)
5 He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel; so that after him there was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among those who were before him.
6 For he clung to the LORD; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the LORD had commanded Moses.
7 And the LORD was with him; wherever he went he prospered. And he rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.

King Hezekiah trusted in the God of Israel and clung to the Lord with all of his heart and did not depart from God by breaking any of God’s commandments. It was because of his godly behavior that God was able to prosper King Hezekiah greatly.

2 Chronicles 26:3–5 (NASB95)
3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Jechiliah of Jerusalem.
4 He did right in the sight of the LORD according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
5 He continued to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding through the vision of God; and as long as he sought the LORD, God prospered him.

King Uzziah was also another king that did right in the sight of God and continued to seek the God of Israel. As long as Uzziah sought the Lord, then God prospered him.

Psalm 37:11 (NASB95)
11 But the humble will inherit the land And will delight themselves in abundant prosperity.

Those who are humble are those who submit themselves to God’s commands and they will be blessed by God and they find abundant prosperity. So lasting prosperity is a gift from God and it comes as God’s reward for those who keep God’s laws.

Prosperity of the Wicked

Psalm 73:3–20 (NASB95)
3 For I was envious of the arrogant As I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 For there are no pains in their death, And their body is fat.
5 They are not in trouble as other men, Nor are they plagued like mankind.
6 Therefore pride is their necklace; The garment of violence covers them.
7 Their eye bulges from fatness; The imaginations of their heart run riot.
8 They mock and wickedly speak of oppression; They speak from on high.
9 They have set their mouth against the heavens, And their tongue parades through the earth.
10 Therefore his people return to this place, And waters of abundance are drunk by them.
11 They say, “How does God know? And is there knowledge with the Most High?”
12 Behold, these are the wicked; And always at ease, they have increased in wealth.
13 Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure And washed my hands in innocence;
14 For I have been stricken all day long And chastened every morning.
15 If I had said, “I will speak thus,” Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.
16 When I pondered to understand this, It was troublesome in my sight
17 Until I came into the sanctuary of God; Then I perceived their end.
18 Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction.
19 How they are destroyed in a moment! They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors!
20 Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when aroused, You will despise their form.

It should be noted that there are two types of rich men on earth and one type are the wicked rich men and other type are the godly rich men. Wicked rich men often get their wealth by evil means related to exploitation and corruption and theft and stealing and traffic of drugs.

See the link “Bible Translation Mistakes” and the topic “Distinguish Worldly Rich Men” for more details

Satanic Reservoirs

2 Corinthians 4:4 (NASB95)
4 in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Satan is the called the “god of this world” and he became god when Adam committed high treason in the Garden of Eden and sold-out his God-given dominion to the devil. It is Satan who causes evil rich men to hoard great pools of wealth and keep it out of the economy and keep it out of the hands of honest citizens. These men serve as “satanic reservoirs” to cause poverty and oppression on earth. There are also evil men of this type who hold positions as dictators over entire nations. These men live in luxury and spend the wealth of the entire nation on weapons and causing terror and wars like the dictator of Iran who funds terror worldwide. Also the dictator of North Korea spends the wealth on nukes to keep himself in power to keep outsiders from dethroning him. The citizens under the control of these dictators languish in poverty – while their national wealth is wasted on that which is evil in causing wars and unrest on earth. These dictators are rich and lack nothing while the general population of the countries they rule – languish in poverty and misery. Such men are part of the group of so-called “satanic reservoirs” who only serve to hold the wealth and keep the prosperity from getting to the people. These men serve the purposes of Satan to cause wars and great human suffering and poverty and misery on earth. These evil men also have large military and police forces but these are not used to protect their own citizens. The police and military are only used to oppress their own citizens so that no one dares to overthrow the dictator.

Matthew 4:8–10 (NASB95)
8 Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory;
9 and he said to Him, “All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me.”
10 Then Jesus said to him, “Go, Satan! For it is written, ‘YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND SERVE HIM ONLY.’ ”

The reason that Satan could offer Jesus all of the kingdoms of the world is because Satan is the god of this world’s system. Satan usurped the dominion God gave to Adam over the earth and become god of this world. Therefore evil and wicked men serve Satan and fulfill the agenda of Satan to kill and steal and destroy and to create poverty and misery and suffering for humans on earth. The earth is a mess because of satanic men using their human freewill to fulfill evil satanic agenda upon earth.

Wicked Men and Dictators Are Arrogant

Proverbs 28:25 (NASB95)
25 An arrogant man stirs up strife, But he who trusts in the LORD will prosper.

The arrogant man will stir up strife as he tries to seize everything for himself (with all of his insatiable greed). This describes all wicked men and dictators who are motivated only by their own greed. They cause trouble everywhere they go. But the godly man (who trusts in the Lord) will prosper as God will cause him to prosper (not of his own human self-effort) but the prosperity that comes from the blessing of the Lord.

Proverbs 11:25 (NASB95)
25 The generous man will be prosperous, And he who waters will himself be watered.

Those who are godly are generous and cause blessing to come to those around them. Such men are prospered by God because they do good for humanity. Those who water others will themselves be watered -meaning that if they bless others they will be blessed by God. Godly people build farms and business and industry and create jobs and cause others to prosper. Those who are evil are contrasted because they only seize wealth by means of extortion or theft or vices and embezzlement. Nations run by wicked men typically cause great human suffering and poverty regardless of if their nations may possess great natural resources. Poverty is a product of evil and greedy men fulfilling satanic agenda to create poverty.

3 John 2 (NASB95)
2 Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers.

Financial prosperity and good health are related to a person prospering spiritually in their soul and pleasing God by obeying his commands. These people will be prospered by God just like the godly men of the Old Testament era who all prospered in whatever they did because God blessed them.

Self-Sufficiency People are Cursed

Jeremiah 17:5–6 (NASB95)
5 Thus says the LORD, “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind And makes flesh his strength, And whose heart turns away from the LORD.
6 “For he will be like a bush in the desert And will not see when prosperity comes, But will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, A land of salt without inhabitant.

Those who are self-sufficient are the ones who falsely imagine that they have no need for God’s help. So they set about to cause their own prosperity and end up being a failure instead. Those godly people who prosper are those who depend on the Lord in everything that they do and honor God with the first fruits of their increase.

Those who Trust in God are Prospered by God

Jeremiah 17:7–8 (NASB95)
7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD And whose trust is the LORD.
8 “For he will be like a tree planted by the water, That extends its roots by a stream And will not fear when the heat comes; But its leaves will be green, And it will not be anxious in a year of drought Nor cease to yield fruit.

Those who trust in the Lord will be prospered just as all those in past Israeli history who trusted in the Lord to prosper them.

Jehoshaphat was prospered by God

2 Chronicles 17:5 (NASB95)
5 So the LORD established the kingdom in his control, and all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had great riches and honor.

Jehoshaphat was prospered by God and had great riches and honor because he obeyed God’s word and kept God’s commandments and did that which was pleasing in the sight of God. Prosperity that comes from God is a result of God’s blessing.

Jacob was Prospered by God

Genesis 30:43 (NASB95)
43 So the man became exceedingly prosperous, and had large flocks and female and male servants and camels and donkeys.

Jacob became exceedingly prosperous and had large flocks and female and male servants and camels and donkeys. This was all measures of wealth in this day.

Genesis 32:9 (NASB95)
9 Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will prosper you,’

Genesis 32:12 (NASB95)
12 “For You said, ‘I will surely prosper you and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be numbered.’ ”

God promosied to prosper Jacob because Jacob was the desciencqant of abraham and he taught his children Isaac and jacob how to fear god and keep his comands and jacob tuagh this twelves sons to fear God and keep his comands and these twelve son become th twelever tribes of ISrael a ntion that feared Gold

Joseph was Prospered by God

Genesis 39:3–5 (NASB95)
3 Now his master saw that the LORD was with him and how the LORD caused all that he did to prosper in his hand.
4 So Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal servant; and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he owned he put in his charge.
5 It came about that from the time he made him overseer in his house and over all that he owned, the LORD blessed the Egyptian’s house on account of Joseph; thus the LORD’S blessing was upon all that he owned, in the house and in the field.

Joseph was the son of Jacob and he also followed the priniciples taught to him by his father Jacob. Jacob learned these principles form his father Isaac and Isaac learned these prinicples form his father Abraham and Abraham recived these princkples form God. untile today teh jewish race is prospering by following these principles handed own throughout their generations from thier fathers Abraham and Isaac adn Jacob the forefathers of the jewish race.

Genesis 39:23 (NASB95)
23 The chief jailer did not supervise anything under Joseph’s charge because the LORD was with him; and whatever he did, the LORD made to prosper.

even as a prisoner in Jail jospeh would follow God’s commands and God made him to prosper even as he did as a slave in the house of Potiphar.

Later God promoted Jospeh out of the prison dungeon and he become the prime minister of the land in direct authority under Pharoah himself.

Again you see the Jewish wisdom of god as Joseph stored grain for the coming famine. He stored it in cities with the fields surrounding it. When the famine came then he sold to the people. (He did not hand out food for free like a socialist or a communist knowing that is not sustainable). He charged for the food and then traded grain for livestock and then land and then labor. All of the people were saved because he did this. Joseph was following Jewish principles. This is part of Jewish principles that teaches income must be reinvested back into business for business expansion.

Jewish Financial Principle Reinvest Profits into Business Expansion

Genesis 26:12–14 (NASB95)
12 Now Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,
13 and the man became rich, and continued to grow richer until he became very wealthy;
14 for he had possessions of flocks and herds and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him.

Isaac increased steadily invested in more plows and more oxen and hire more workers to run the plows. Thus he was able to increase the amount of land in cultivation every year. His wealth grew constantly and he become increasingly more prosperous over time. Jewish people today do not typically buy exotic sports cars and expensive watches because that does not make them any more money. Instead they will live a frugal life and then invest profits into business expansion. This enables them to produce generational wealth that their children and grandchildren after them can use to build a financial base of prosperity. Jewish people also teach biblical principles of prosperity to their descendants so that the future generations do not squander all of their money like the Gentiles typically do and then come to financial ruination.

see also the links at “Financial Topics“

Blessing can turn into a curse

Deuteronomy 28:63 (NASB95)
63 “It shall come about that as the LORD delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the LORD will delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be torn from the land where you are entering to possess it.

Just as God prospers those who obey him so God can also reverse the blessing and bring a curse upon those breaking God’s laws. Breaking God’s laws is sin and sin brings a curse.

Malachi 3:8–9 (NASB95)
8 “Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings.
9 “You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you!

Not obeying God’s command to pay a tithe will bring a curse because this failure to obey God’s word makes those who without the tithe into a robber of God. Thus all they do will be cursed for robbing God.

Also idol worship brings a curse and this is evident in nations where idol worship is rampant.

See the link “Idolatry – Curse of a Nation” for more details.

Theme Bad Civil Leaders are God’s Judgment

Zechariah 11:16 (NASB95)
16 “For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or sustain the one standing, but will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs.

Having useless civil leaders who only serve themselves and devour their citizens (sheep) is a judgment from God. Having a good leader like David (who cared for his people) was a blessing from God. When nations have bad civil leaders and women ruling over them then this is a judgment from God to bring a curse and financial ruination upon them.

See the link “Women Destroy Civilization” for more details.

Repentance can Restore God’s Blessing

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NASB95)
14 and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

God is no respector of persons so if people will humble themselves and repent of their evil ways then God will hear from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land. Thus repentance can reverse the curse upon any nation if the people will turn from their evil ways and seek the God of Israel.

Throughout Jewish history whenever the people humbled themselves and repented of sin then God would restore them to his favor and blessing. But if they resisted and fought the prophets sent to warn them – there there was no remedy and God would eventually destroy them after they persisted in their own way and broke all of God’s laws and disdained God’s commands.