It is a commandment of God to flatten economical graphs, to bring prosperity and presence of God.
(Mat. 3) “3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. 4 And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.”
To make path straight means that economical graph to become straight: the amount of earned money should be proportional to the amount of work (no advantage for rich and no advantage for poor). God wants no economical barriers. John the Baptist lived as a beggar and demanded straight path for everybody including beggars. I want a free saving account for every beggar: the path should be straight.
This is especially applicable to our time of global warning: the Earth is mostly turning into a wilderness, people to eat insects because the old food is going to be gone.
This is a very ancient revelation, said yet by Isaiah.
Watch the sermon on Matthew 3:3
Extended sermon text — Matthew 3:3 — John the Baptist and Economic Justice
Victor Porton’s personal theological reading of Matthew 3:3; the views below are the author’s interpretation.
Full sermon text
A short sermon about God’s way of doing economic research.
Matthew chapter 3, verse 3.
“For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.”
It means that people need to make economical graphs straight. I do understood that making straight some graphs would make another ones curved. But the dependencies between most important economical parameters should be made straight. Particularly, poor should have the same abilities as rich ones, of course, divided by how less money they have. (For example, there should be no closed clubs for rich only.)
The quotation is from:
Isaiah chapter 40, verses 3-5:
3 The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: 5 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.
You see: When you do certain economical acts (here it’s not said about prayer or something spiritual), glory of God reveals. Also note, that this is about the coming desert of climate change. So, now it is especially important to make economy plain.