I have been in banking and finance for more that 10 years now.And one thing that drains a teller or any front line officer is someone blaming the bank for stealing from them especially concerning loan repayments and interest.
I have discovered that anyone troubled by debt is like those bitten by poisonous serpents.
You can tell by the level of bitterness they have.They are troubled by poisonous like rapid interest increase and related debt collection calls. The effect rises to the heart and can almost paralyze anyone and choke life out of marriages and businesses.
Now, isn't it interesting
that the same word in Hebrew used for deception is the word that is used for lending money at interest. Why are people flocking to sign up to purchase all kinds of things on credit? I believe that it is this same deceptive spirit working in peoples' lives today.
When people are in bondage to the
spirit of debt and works with the spirit called mammon, they don't think
before they act. Again, many people
never calculate how much something actually costs. They're just looking at the monthly payment,instead of the total
cost of the item.
Another very interesting
word in Hebrew relating to debt is the word "nashak,"2 (Strong's Concordance number 5391). This word literally means, "to strike with a sting (as a serpent).
Let's look at Genesis
3:13. This is the account of Adam and
Eve in the Garden of Eden. After the
man and woman had partaken of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, God confronted the woman, "And the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent beguiled me,
and I ate." (Genesis 3:13)
Let's take
a closer look at the Hebrew word
translated in this passage "beguiled" or "deceived." This is the Hebrew word "Nasha," which actually is a homonym in Hebrew. Nasha has two meanings. One meaning is to deceive or beguile, while the other meaning is to lend at interest. So, what in reality did the serpent do to Eve? He drew her into spiritual debt,in which the interest was running so rapidly, she could never catch up and
pay it off in a lifetime. It took God
Almighty, Himself, Incarnate in the Lord Jesus Christ, to pay Adam and Eve's debt. There was no way she or anyone else on planet Earth could pay the interest on the debt that she incurred through that deception, through that
beguilement.
So today we have loan sharks back then they had loan snakes! Believing that you are being educated will bring another piece so that we help each to come out of debt.
Let me hear what you think about this subject 
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