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Pamphlet #4074
My Note: Ref. Scripture Haggai 1:6
Earn wages only to put them into a bag with holes.
Scripture: Haggai 1:6 ...and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Haggai 1:1 ¶In the second year of Darius
the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word
of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest,
saying,
2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying,
This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should
be built.
3 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai
the prophet, saying,
4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in
your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of
hosts; Consider your ways.
6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little;
ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink;
ye clothe you, but there is none warm;
and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider
your ways.
8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood,
and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,
saith the LORD.
9 Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came
to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith
the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every
man unto his own house.
10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed
from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
11 And I called for a drought upon the
land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine,
and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon
men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
Sounds like our American tax system.
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