12 Wealth Will Not Help in Judgment

The wealth that they had accumulated will have no value to them in this time. They made idols out of silver and gold, which the Lord makes, reference to here as unclean things. Neither the idols nor the wealth can deliver them from God’s wrath in that day. They cannot satisfy their souls with false idols or gold and silver. Many have tried to replace a relationship with God with wealth. It never satisfies the deep inner longings for peace and security that only God can give. Now that they are in a famine the wealth will not buy food for their stomachs because it is not available at any cost. They will cast their previously thought valuables to the ground because they will despise their true worthlessness. It cannot save them in the Lord’s wrath. The Bible teaches us in the New Testament that similar conditions will exist during the end of the present age.