🥖🔥 FEED THE HUNGRY — NOT THE GODS OF GOLD A Call to Remember Who We Really Are
🥖🔥 FEED THE HUNGRY — NOT THE GODS OF GOLD
A Call to Remember Who We Really Are
There was a time when nations offered up human lives to appease their gods — burned on altars, buried in stone, or cast to the waves to “keep the balance.”
We shake our heads and say, “Thank heaven we’re past that.”
But are we?
Because today, human sacrifice has just learned new words — and wears a suit instead of a robe.
Today it’s called austerity, budget discipline, deficit reduction, and market confidence.
The altars are marble halls and Senate floors.
And the victims are the poor, the elderly, and the children whose SNAP cards now read “insufficient funds.”
💰 THE NEW GODS OF THE AGE
The “gods” of our day don’t have names like Baal or Molech.
They’re called The Economy, The Market, and Fiscal Responsibility.
And when those gods grow angry, the high priests of politics cry out:
“We must cut spending! We must tighten belts! We must sacrifice!”
But they never mean their belts.
They mean the stomachs of the hungry.
They mean mothers who skip meals so their kids can eat.
They mean the fathers who lost their jobs and pray for a bag of groceries to get them through the week.
And somehow, this is called virtue.
⚖️ THE DISEASE OF FALSE PROSPERITY
This sickness runs deep in America — what Jonathan Landis calls the prosperity gospel.
It’s the lie that wealth equals righteousness and poverty equals sin.
It’s the idea that if you’re blessed, you’ll be rich; and if you’re poor, you must be cursed.
But the Nemenhah Records tore that lie apart two thousand years ago.
In the First Book of Tsi Muhayl, Chapter Two, the prophet writes:
“As soon as they begin to prosper, men are filled with pride.
They judge their neighbor by his abundance.
If I have riches, I must be righteous — if you are poor, you must be wicked.”
And so the proud man stays his hand.
Even though he has food enough for three, he says in his heart:
“They suffer because of their wickedness.”
That is how wars begin — not just with armies, but with hearts that stop caring.
🕊️ A WARNING FROM THE ANCIENT PROPHETS
In the Second Book of Tsi Muhayl, Chapter Twelve, the Peacemaker’s warning echoes down the ages:
“Do your rulers buy their seats of power?
Do the rich withhold their substance?
Behold, I see your day, and I know the conditions in which you labor.”
That was written for us.
For this very hour.
While we worship the economy, children go hungry.
While we build temples of stone, the true temple — the body of our neighbor — suffers.
The Lord said, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto Me.”
(Matthew 25:40)
And the Book of Mormon adds:
“If ye turn away the needy, and impart not of your substance, ye are condemned.”
(Mosiah 4:16–18)
🍞 ZION FEEDS THE HUNGRY — BABYLON FEEDS ON THEM
Zion is not built with gold — it’s built with bread shared.
It’s the hand that offers instead of the hand that hoards.
Babylon says, “There is not enough.”
Zion says, “We have enough — and to spare.”
Babylon guards its vaults.
Zion opens its pantries.
When a nation stops feeding the poor, it stops being great.
You can fly your flag, sing your anthem, and thump your scriptures —
but if one child goes hungry while the rich feast, you’re not honoring God.
You’re feeding Molech again.
💗 THE TRUE TEST OF OUR DAY
It’s not how many temples we build.
It’s not how big our 401(k) grows.
It’s whether we can look a hungry mother in the eyes and say,
“Here, take and eat.”
The Savior didn’t multiply gold — He multiplied loaves.
He didn’t tell the widow to “get a better job” — He praised her two mites.
He didn’t justify inequality — He shattered it.
🌾 A CALL TO ACTION
Now is the time to live the Doctrine of Christ.
To rise up against the gods of greed.
To feed the hungry and lift the fallen.
Donate to your local food pantry.
Check on your neighbors.
Bring light to the lonely.
And remember:
“No nation wherein a single child goes hungry for even one day
has the right to call itself great.” — Jonathan Landis
Let us walk today in sacred remembrance that Zion is not a place we build —
it’s a people we become.
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