And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build, and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full, then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. It is the Lord your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear. You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you— for the Lord your God in your midst is a jealous God—lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
God is at this very moment using the hands and creativity of unbelievers to build infrastructures and to develop technologies to be inherited by His covenant children. They are making things which they will have to surrender. Their productivity is being kept for someone else, God's people. We will drink water from wells we've never seen the bottom of and eat fruit from trees we'll never see the top of.
The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein (Ps. 24:1) and God has promised to give all of it as an inheritance to the meek (Matt. 5:5).
God gave the Egyptians a penchant for storing up gold only to prompt them to give it to Israel on their way out of town. God is right now building His kingdom here on earth and His people will inherit everything that survives the refining fire of God's final judgment. That doesn't mean the destruction of everything, but rather the improvement of that which was gold or silver and the extinction of that which was stubble or hay. The Refiner's fire will melt the bad intentions right off the innovations of the godless, but the advances, if there were any, which He inspired will be saved for the sake of His sons.
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