Prosperity: Dangers of

When you eat and are satisfied, you are to bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has given you. …

When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.

But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.

When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.