Scripture: Luke 16:13
In Luke 16:13 we are told, “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one
and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve
God and mammon.” The chief difference in character between Eli’s priesthood and Samuel’s
priesthood was that Eli had totally given himself over to the spirit of mammon, as evidenced
by the invention of a “three-pronged fleshhook”. Jesus witnessed that spirit at work in the
temple. The Greek word for “despise” here is kat-af-ron-eh-o, meaning to continually
diminish until one despises or until we are slowly turned against God. Is it possible in making
choices based on a spirit of mammon that nearly an entire generation’s leadership can be
slowly turned against God so that the hand of the Lord is not against the enemy all their days?
It almost seems like we have the fruit of that in our nation now. Isn’t it time we made the
transition? Is it possible that the kairos of favor is God’s prophetic invitation to establish a
new level of integrity in the priesthood and restore the mish-pawt of God to the church? If it
is, then we have some choices to make and the future restoration of this nation depends on
those choices.