Idolatry in 2019

Acts 15:29
You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.
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Colossians 3:5
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
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Ephesians 5:5
For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person--such a person is an idolater--has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
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Food sacrificed to idols is one of the few things that Gentiles like us are warned against. I want to elaborate on this in today's letter. As in our generations, food sacrificed to idols is indeed very active.

Idolatry is consistent with evil desires and greed.  A greedy person is one who resorts to any means necessary to gain, even at cost to others. So in terms of food sacrificed to idols, these greedy people are using food to gain in immoral or impure ways.

In the wealthier nations, we have chains of eateries and food and drink outlets that are called franchises. They supply food and drink that is convenient and served for a price. They have become much like an authority, as some have incredible buying power. They have processing plants and storage warehouses, logistics, and great multitudes of workers and professional administraitors. They are an entire industry, all based of their desire to gain profit off the food that grows from creation. They sell shares to their idolatry and those who placed their confidence in them, gain wealth.

So the food that comes from them is fully born from greed. This makes the purchasing of this food, a sacrifice to such idolatry. And just like anything else worldly, what you place confidence in, there is where your heart resides.
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1 Corinthans 6:10
nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
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Those who are among these idolaters, are not acting out of love, but are gaining out of greed. They do not recieve from the Holy Conscience of God, they do not know the Kingdom. And when we support them, we acknowledge this idolatry over the sufferance that we should be carrying to honor our master, Christ Jesus.
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The following is not from me. I found it during my research on this website: http://www.ecclesia.org/truth/money.html

Capitalism is a license to steal; the government simply regulates who steals and how much. Most of the governmental codes, rules, regulations, ordinances, statutes, public policies, etc., are designed to regulate those partaking of the ways of the lex mercatoria, the Law Merchant. That law, as distinguished from God's Law, is a private law.

The law recognizes the fact that men will naturally overstate the value and qualities of the articles which they have to sell. Kimball v. Bangs, 141 Mass. 323, Morton. C.J. ; Mooney v. Miller, 102 id. 220; Gordon v. Butler, 105 U.S. 557, Southern Development Co. v. Silva, 125 id. 256.

The world continually encourages everyone to join with and obey the Law Merchant. It continually offers the benefits of the world. When you look to man for your benefits, a duty attaches to you and man becomes your lord, lording over you. The "bait and switch" of the crafty serpent is this: the resulting duty greatly outweighs the benefit received! They can only give you a portion of that which they take from you to begin with! So you end up with less, and you give them more power because they're keeping a large percentage of it. And remember, the beast has no power except that which it is given by its obedient servants.
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I encourage you to consider what has been shared here. I live in a consumer driven economy, and the confidence(faith), placed in this system is nearly 100%. This nation is lost to idolatry, and its people are born into enslavement of it, yet celebrate it. And what is worse, is developing countries seek to conform to it, believing this pattern of existence is progress. The body of Christ is surrounded by darkness, many consider this darkness as light.

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