Buying and selling (2)

Some biblical transactions

The first recorded transaction

Ge 23:3–4 Many other transactions had obviously taken place before this, from the earliest times.

Here, Abram was looking for a burial spot for Sarah his wife

Transactions in land

See also Ge 47:20–22; Ru 4:3; Pr 31:16; Je 32:9–10; Mt 27:7; Lk 14:18; Ac 4:34

The buying and selling trade has been going on for a long time and also has been used as leverage to get your evil desires accomplishedBuying animals

Buying food and drink

Ge 41:57; Dt 2:28; Jn 6:5; Jn 13:29; Re 6:6

Lets face it, world powers holding the carat in front of the horse ‘humanity’ can have an effect on the direction people will travel

Transactions in other goods

Revelation 18:11–13 NASB95PARA

“And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargoes any more— cargoes of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet, and every kind of citron wood and every article of ivory and every article made from very costly wood and bronze and iron and marble, and cinnamon and spice and incense and perfume and frankincense and wine and olive oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep, and cargoes of horses and chariots and slaves and human lives.

The After Effect Rev 18:9-20

This is what happens to humanity when they are so deceived into believing the False Prophet Rev 13:16-17 into receiving the Mark of the Beast

We are conditioned

2 Thess 3:10, 1 Thess 4:11, Gen 3:19, Prov 13:4, 20:4, 21:25, 24:30,

These are but examples of how easily Satan can use what we take for granted our need to obey God through our work

The labor market

Le 25:39–40; Mt 20:1–2

Who is in control of the Labor Market today? The Bible says it’s the False Prophet

God’s standards in buying and selling

Ge 23:5–13; 2 Sa 24:24

Honesty

Leviticus 19:35–36 NASB95PARA

‘You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measurement of weight, or capacity. You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin; I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.

See also Ge 23:14–16; Dt 25:13–16; Pr 11:1; Pr 16:11; Pr 20:10; Pr 20:23

Sins to avoid in buying and selling

Dishonesty

Pr 20:14; Am 8:5; Mic 6:10–11

Greed

Proverbs 11:26 NASB95PARA

He who withholds grain, the people will curse him, But blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

Exploitation

Leviticus 25:14 NASB95PARA

If you make a sale, moreover, to your friend or buy from your friend’s hand, you shall not wrong one another.

See also La 5:4; Am 8:6

Extravagance

Luke 15:13 NASB95PARA

And not many days later, the younger son gathered everything together and went on a journey into a distant country, and there he squandered his estate with loose living.

Desecration of the Sabbath

Ne 10:31; Ne 13:15–22; Am 8:5

Desecration of the temple

Mt 21:12–13 The merchants were operating within the outer court of the temple, itself consecrated as a place of prayer and worship.

See also Jn 2:14–16

Worldliness

Eze 7:12; 1 Co 7:29–31; Jas 4:13

Oppression through the control of buying and selling

Revelation 13:16–17 NASB95PARA

And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name.

Spiritual transactions

Sinners sold to sin

See also 1 Ki 21:20; Ro 7:14

Israel sold and redeemed

Jdg 2:14; Ps 44:12; Is 43:1; Is 50:1; Is 52:3

Jesus Christ has bought his people

Acts 20:28 NASB95PARA

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

See also 1 Co 6:20; 1 Co 7:23; 1 Pe 1:18–19; 2 Pe 2:1

Spiritual wealth to be bought

Proverbs 23:23 NASB95PARA

Buy truth, and do not sell it, Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.

See also Is 55:1; Mt 13:44–46; Mt 25:9; Re 3:18

Gifts money cannot buy

Job 28:12–19; Ps 49:7–8; Mk 8:37; Ac 8:20