Judgement is coming

Judgement is coming

“Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming upon you.  
Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.  
Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.  
Look! The wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.  
You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.  
You have condemned and murdered innocent men, who were not opposing you.” 
                                                                                                    James 5:1-6
I am a firm believer that the oppressors of this world will one day be held to account. They will be punished for every wrong they have done.
I look around at mankind today and I see a world slowly falling apart. I see the poor of many countries oppressed. Not just in the third world but in the west.
I see politicians doing nothing to substantially help the poor. That in itself is oppression by omission.
These people will also I believe stand before God one day and be held to account.
I watched in utter amazement from my perch here in Canada at American politicians fighting against a national health care program for all its citizens. Something considered a basic human right in almost all other western countries.
To make it I think worse many of these politicians called themselves Christians. Isn’t affordable universal healthcare a good way to spend the peoples tax money?
Jesus said,
“The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’ 
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.  
For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,” 
Matthew 25:40-42.
There is a quote from the Talmud that goes like this,
“Rabbi Akiba was asked by a Roman general, “Why does your God who loves the needy not provide for their support Himself?”  He answered, “God the Father of both the rich and poor, wants the one to help the other so as to make the world a household of love.”
These words are not just for Christians they are for our all of us. It’s just basic humanitarianism. We need to help our fellow man.
We as individuals l need to look at what we and our leaders are doing for the individuals in this world.
Are we helping our fellow man or are we oppressing them.
Think about it.