"But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, "Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount."
--Luke 19:8
It is time for some serious restitution from the rich in America to oppressed groups throughout the world and manipulated workers in America.
"He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth
and he who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty." --Proverbs 22:16
God here speaks not in literal terms that eventually if we sit around long enough, this person will become poor in the tangible sense. It is a play upon words to undermine the conventional terms of what it means to be "wealthy" so that those that are wealthy and exploit the poor are actually morally bankrupt, and thus have come to poverty.
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