As with the world today and throughout history, the material prosperity of the people in the Bible was often determined by the condition of the society around them more than anything else and/or by particularly exalted or abased circumstances which they would have been in anyways whether they were righteous or wicked.  Just because there are some notable exceptions, those are still exceptions.  And sometimes with those exceptions, being righteous actually caused a person to be cast down (at least for a time) rather than lifted up.

Joseph would not have endured as a faithful man if he had had been tainted by the Prosperity Gospel- and he is an exception whose faithfulness eventually led him to great material prosperity.  The Prosperity Gospel would have still destroyed him before he ever came to prosperity if he had let it affect him.

Moses’s faithfulness actually caused him to lose out on the exceptional material prosperity which he had been raised in.  He never fully gained that prosperity back either.  The Prosperity Gospel would have destroyed him if he had let it affect him.

Job would have cursed God on the day he lost everything if he had been tainted by the Prosperity Gospel.  It was Job’s misguided friends who tried to persuade him to acquire a Prosperity Gospel mentality.  They attempted to extract a false confession out of him that sinning had caused him to lose his wealth and his health after his calamities hit.  Job was misguided in some of his responses to them, yet he would have become a blatant liar if he had complied with their Prosperity Gospel mentality and given the confession which his friends were trying to get him to make.

David was another exception who was eventually led into great prosperity.  Yet the Prosperity Gospel would have also destroyed him spiritually and prevented him from ever even reigning as a king if he had believed it.  He was willing to suffer to do right when he was homeless as he fled from King Saul’s attempts to murder him- and he could not realistically expect better circumstances to come at any definite moment.

David’s son Solomon was born into great riches.  Solomon’s downfall actually came because he did not discipline and restrict his personal surplus like the law of God prescribed when Israel’s material prosperity was magnified under his reign (see Deuteronomy chapter 17:14-17 along with 1 Kings chapters 10 and 11).

We have an example in Solomon of how being tainted with the Prosperity Gospel even destroyed a king who was prospering as greatly as a man might ever prosper in God’s will.  No matter how rich or poor anyone is, being tainted with the Prosperity Gospel is a sure way to spiritual destruction and eternal damnation.

When the Bible talks about how wealth and riches shall be in the house of the righteous like it does in Psalm 112:3, it has to be considered that ultimately the true riches represent wisdom from God’s Word.  These lead to eternal treasure in heaven when applied faithfully and consistently to life.

Psalm 19:9-10: “The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.  More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.”

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