Most assuredly, the wealth and gain from the coronavirus pandemic situation exploits and from the gain from war in Ukraine will not be blessed.

Moreover, while wars have been fought since the dawn of time, the spoils of pandemic and death are clearly the blood money. And this is not just pharmaceutical's profit, but all gain from using the emergency situation with lockdown and corona subsidies.

This is not the first time in history that men gain riches through sin.

The Holy Bible is clear about this in Septuagint:

Hosea 12:9
And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment to myself. None of his labours shall be found available to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.

in the Lord
Amen

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They say that there are three sure things in life: taxes, government debt and death.

Even Jesus said: "Render what is Caesar's to Caesar, and what is God's to God!"

Karl Marx said that this was wrong, but historically even the most left communist states collected and still collect taxes: inevitably roads, infrastructure, hospitals, schools and kindergartens had to be built. We know the examples of the states where
taxes are not collected to built sewers and the sanitary water infrastructure, but it doesn't bring anyone good or better quality of life, but it can take up to 30 years from the average lifespan and life expectancy at birth.

There are no such thing as the Financial Ten Commandments known to me, but as I hold first 10 Euros since Croatia entered the Euro zone last midnight, I feel anxious knowing how much easier it is to spend i.e. 10 € than the equivalent 75 kunas online.

Maybe when I learn that I also earn less than 1,000 units of money I will also come to instinctively stop spending more than I earn?

Now I have no option but to recommend the moderation in my spending to your prayers.

Money is no longer worth its equivalent in gold and now it will be printed somewhere else, out of our control, by centres of power that were more profligate in printing and digital emissions of money than the Croatian National Bank was even under corona
but with strict monitoring.

However, global inflation has taken its toll on Croatian prices as well.

The inflation arises when some centre of power out of our sight and democratic control uses fresh printed or emitted money to buy gold, silver, oil, real estate, assets and commodities.

As this is an invisible tax of 30% to 50% a year on our salaries and savings that rise at most 6% a year, this will have an obvious impact on the purchase power of the common citizen that works for a monthly wage.

The power of the common citizen is to refuse to go into debt to buy necessities and go into debt slavery, but go into austerity mode instead.

In other words, one should not spend one's money before it's earned.

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Yes, some say that I have sold from spirituality because I talk of money and wealth, but between 1/3rd and 2/3rd of Jesus' parables are about money and talents and increasing wealth.

Also, Malachi 3:10-12 is speaking of the way in which man's earnings are blessed by tithes to God's faithful servants, services and ministries, so both secular and sanctified duty can be performed.

King Solomon in Proverbs said that quickly and dishonestly gained money will not be blessed. So printed & digitally emitted money and assets and commodities both thereof will bring no blessing to anyone.

Ben Sirach the wise said that the sacrifice from dishonest gain is a mocking of gift to Jehovah and thereof not accepted just like Cain's sacrifice, harlot's wage and blood money ...

The real wealth remains in the hands of people who earned it. The corporate system can only try to convince them to spend more than they earn on essentially worthless things they do not need: the Versace dresses, fashion, entertainment, the latest most
expensive cars and technology gadgets rather than good and solid ones, luxury, "living on a high heel", overeating with junk and unhealthy foods, drinking drinks w/o nutrient value and loaded with sugars and artificial sweeteners ...

Indeed, while inevitable for the countries in growth, the debt is one of the ways that real value is replaced with worthless emission money: when you raise a loan, you get a score in your bank account, while you pay back the rates of hard earned currency.
When governments decide to turn to the emission of money without coverage in assets, it only gets worse: the experience is that it devalues salaries and savings, while increasing prices on the market, compound interest, and inflation.

But only truly blessed wealth can bring happiness.

Eventually, wrong energies in the money we gain and spend lead to physical change in man's appearance, by activating repressed DNA from normally inactive chains. These qualities need not contribute to world harmony, as they are activating territorial and
reptilian ancient centres in the brain and suppressing frontal neocortex centres and areas responsible for higher brain functions like conscience, social responsibility and faith.

OPTIONAL:

Hindus would discern this for they know that money can have karma associated with spending it. Money is not flat: it is not the same how we have earned it or not earned it. Eventually, the spiritual laws of karma cannot be cheated - dishonest gain and
wealth brings misery in this life or in the next (if the Spirit stopped trying about our salvation).

The good news is that the laws of karma cannot be twisted even by priests. God is not mocked: everyone reaps what he sows!

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