Where our treasures are stored, there our hearts will be, too. Because I’m sure Christians being persecuted in Rome and Germany weren’t going around saying, “You know, I’m going to have that Millstone I always wanted.” Lol.

It’s really the cruelest part of the modern Christian faith, to throw verses like this at people. Making them think they have to accumulate a life now, when that’s just not possible for some people. In fact, most people.

Not to mention, most cultures are so poor they don’t have anything to really want.

Linking fortune with belief… that’s just not how it works. God’s in control, He’ll bestow fortune on whom He does, and ruin on whom He does. Belief is a non sequitur.

But mountains do move by faith… but generally, it’s different than you’d understand. The real stuff is knowledge of God, and knowing Him. It’s God Who moves the mountain, and makes things real. As the point isn’t, “God moves the mountain” but God establishes the mountain, and removes it by our belief. We are removed from this mountain—Mount Horeb—to mount Zion.

Oh, but they did. They established Churches in Persia, and Syria, and India, and Africa. The ones we don’t hear about were evangelists, who went abroad, and established many of the oldest churches. As it says, the least are the greatest, and the greatest are the least. I’d assume the Apostles we didn't hear about did some mighty things. The apostles we do hear about, like Matthew Levi Alphaeus—wrote a gospel being the only one literate—James Son of Thunder died immediately, and was among the first martyrs. But Judas Thaddeus Lebbeus Son of James and Simon the Zealot were evangelists in Persia and Syria, and planted churches there. Philip we know evangelized in Israel from Acts, but they say went as far as Anatolia and Greece and lived in Caesarea Philippi. John was the eldest apostle, dying at a ripe old age, and dictated the book of John through Papias around 90AD. Nathan Bartholomew established churches in Armenia, some of the oldest churches in the world. Doubting Thomas was an evangelist in Asia and India—and was killed by a Pagan King, same with Jude and Simon in Persia. Peter was stationed in Jerusalem and Rome, and was the Rock which kept the church solvent—they say the first bishop of Rome—and the source for the Gospel of Mark. Andrew ministered the churches in Turkey, which are some of the most famous in Christianity, being mentioned by John. Paul and Matthais were the two half tribes, and Matthais ministered all around the world, but seemed to plant Ethiopian Churches which again are among the eldest. James the Son of Alphaeus—or James the Less—was Bishop of Jerusalem, and the source, along with Mary the Lord’s Mother, of the Gospel of Luke. But from reading about all the Apostles, they planted hundreds of churches, in dozens of locations, each around the known world. They travelled everywhere planting churches, each one might have visited about a dozen locations, within a 700 mile radius.

Israel is not God’s Begotten Son. The Son of God is God’s Son. Who is Christ Jesus. It even names [H]im in Zechariah 3 and 6. Zechariah named “Joshua” Priest and King, which as you know Uzziah tried to do, and was stricken with a curse for attempting to do, so it was highly unlawful. Yet, Joshua represents a Priesthood that would come from the King, who is Christ, a Priesthood ordained from the Order of Melchizedek.