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Silver Stacking for Torah Keepers: Priorities

I've been thinking a lot about how to invest in real biblical money (silver and gold), without transgressing the Torah and without behaving outside of the will of God. These are some of the thoughts I have had concerning this:

1) Seek First the Reign of God and His Righteousness and all these will be added to you. The Most High knows what we need - cloths to wear and food to eat. But He also knows what can has value to be traded and what does not. If He desires for us to have the provision of biblical money (silver and gold), then He will provide it for us with little effort, if we seek Him and His Word first.

Lesson: Seek God first and discover your stack growing, seek to increase your stack, and your love for God will diminish.

2) Do not store up treasures on earth. This one has bothered me for some time, until I gained some better understanding. If we seek treasure on earth, before seeking treasure in Heaven FIRST, then our priorities are out of order. "Store up treasures in Heaven" means doing good deeds, worthy of recompense by the Most High, that will be granted to the faithful on the day of judgment. If we store up "Treasure in Heaven" as our first priority, then we will not seek the treasures of the earth and fill our hearts with desire towards them. The Most High is a jealous God and He does not want us to desire anything more than Him, so we must fill our hearts with the Treasures of His Torah, being rich with God, then we may fill our storehouse with treasures for HIS glory and HIS purpose. Otherwise, our earthly treasure will become corrupt and stand as a witness against us.

Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you]. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. James 5:1-3

"So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.” Luke 12:21

Lesson: Do not store up treasure, if you do not treasure the Word of God as more valuable. Being rich with God is the first priority, over being rich on earth.

3) Idolatry. I'm always concerned with images on coins and bullion. It's easy to become more interested in the images on the coins, than the metal value itself. And even now, I find myself challenged by this. We cannot become idolaters. The disciples of Yeshua handled coins with images on them, but I notice that Yeshua himself seemed to avoid touching them.

“Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” Luke 20:24 "Show Me the coin of the tribute." And they presented to Him a denarius. Matthew 22:19

I used to be a "coin collector", which is essentially an "image collector", but these days I have become a "bullion stacker". While the bullion has images, I'm not interested in collecting a set of images, but collecting by weight. If I had the opportunity to melt the images off the bullion, I would do that as a way to purify the stack.

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. Acts 17:29

Lesson: We cannot set our minds on the beauty of images on coins and bullion. We must seek the will of the Most High, who descended on Mount Sinai in no form or image. He made His presence known by His VOICE. To know His will, we must listen for His VOICE.

4) Twice in the New Testament, we are told to be "aphilarguros" not-fond-of-silver. Does this mean we shouldn't be interested in investing in biblical money? Let's investigate.

"A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous." 1 Timothy 3:3

The phrase "not covetous" is actually "aphilarguros" meaning "not-fond-of-silver".

"Keep your life free from love of money (aphilarguros), and be content with what you have, for he has said, I will never leave you nor forsake you. Hebrews 13:5

Our love is reserved exclusively towards the Most High God (love with all of our hearts) and our fondness is reserved exclusively for His Son whom He sent for our souls and those who walk in the Ancient Path of Torah. If we turn that love towards "money" (read silver), it's idolatry, if we turn our fondness towards silver (philarguria), it's the root of all kinds of evil.

For PHILARGURIA (fondness-for-silver) is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs. 1 Timothy 6:10

Lesson: We must prevent our hearts from going astray from God, not offering adoration towards bullion, instead of towards the Most High God.

LET THIS BE THE FOUNDATION FOR BIBLICAL BULLION STACKING, THAT THE PRIORITY IS TRUSTING IN GOD, OVER TRUSTING IN RICHES.

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· Reply · 1642519916

Excellent points and thoughts. I especially love your comments on 'images.' Indeed, I have recently been pondering how to trade for bullion to move away from certain 'images'.

· Reply · 1642639555

Hi Benjamin! : ) In the spirit of sharing points of view which God gives us all, I wish to share mine with you. : ) So here we go (for what it's worth!!). When you said, " If He desires for us to have the provision of biblical money (silver and gold), then He will provide it for us with little effort. I'm thinking [No]. Is that how things of value are distributed on earth?? So it also cannot be with God!

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