Funding the Kingdom of Heaven
Christians are fond of saying that 'Jesus' died to end all sacrifice, but that is false.
All Kingdoms are funded by sacrifices, commonly called 'taxes.'
BABYLON'S FUNDING
The Kingdom of Babylon is funded by the contributions of the people to a central treasury.
As in the Exodus story in the Bible, the people remove their gold jewelry, give the gold to the leader, and the leader melts it all together into the shape of a giant golden bull, or whatever.
The wealth of the people is thus protected from the stupidity of the people and saved for later disbursement for welfare or war. Everywhere in antiquity the pagans erected giant statues of various 'gods', notably Nike (from whom we get the name 'Nicolaiatans.')
These statues were the centerpieces of the central treasuries (banks) of their Kingdoms.
The statues were called 'gods' because thieves and vandals will tend to be wary of pillaging a statue supposedly inhabited by a fierce god.
Babylon thus has a brilliant system with a fatal flaw: the central treasury can be manipulated by the elite who control it.
Babylon is as corrupt as it is large, because the further away from the central authority the citizens dwell, the less they can watch over what is done with their 'tax' contributions.
Yahshuah himself criticized the Pharisees for employing such a pyramid-scheme instead of using the Lawful method, wherein children take care of parents and the Levites take care of those who fall through the cracks, as explained below:
HEAVEN'S FUNDING
The Kingdom of YHWH on earth differs from 'Babylon' in that there is no central treasury or central human authority.
All earthly wealth and power is totally decentralized and held by private individuals who live, ideally, in small interlocking groups of families.
Ideally, parents take care of their children who in turn take care of the parents.
For those who fall through the cracks (widows, orphans, aliens, etc.), in each group of about 10 families or about 150 people, there can be appointed one special family, designated as 'point-man' for the needy.
If the traditional Hebrew model is used, this 'Levite' family owns no property and lives off of the tithes (10%) of the other 9 families.
The Levite is a social-service worker who is 100% devoted to attending to the spiritual, health and welfare needs of the poor among the 10-family group for which he is responsible.
The Levite has no authority over the other families.
He is not their leader.
His authority extends merely over the gifts which are entrusted to him by the other 9 families.
His control over these gifts is absolute, which some have said explains why the offerings are described as being 'burnt offerings'; the giver of the gift loses all control over the gift, as if it had been burnt.
This structure is not mandatory; it is just the way the needy have been successfully taken care of by Hebrews and plain people (Amish, for example) for millennia.
