One of the signs that Jesus gave for himself being the Christ was that the gospel of the kingdom was being preached to the poor.

Of all people? the poor?, didn’t he know there was good reason they were poor?

There is a reason that Jesus went to the poor, and it was much deeper that he was benevolent.

The poor don’t do well with our money system. Some of us see our money system as a measure of goodness, the rich often see their richness as a sign they are good. But our wealth and richness is not necessarily a sign we are good.

It is however a sign we know how to and are willing to function in Satan’s money-based (rat race) economy.

Jesus has an entirely different system altogether. His ecclesia (church) is not to be founded upon money. The church that has at its foundation a huge budget and fat portfolio, and an impressive benefits package is by definition a worldly thing. It’s way of organizing is more aligned with Satan than with Jesus Christ. They may love Jesus but for all practical purposes he is likely to essentially just be a mascot of the church.

The ecclesia of Jesus Christ is made up of the poor (being led of the spirit of Jesus) helping the poor and it crumbles the mightiest and richest empires on earth.

Rich churches of today are very often spiritually irrelevant, they have their reward already and it is their money, and the things, and the great people that their budget is buying them.