Ecclesiasticus 40:32 (Catholic Bible)
The life of him that looketh toward another man’ s table is not to be counted a life: for he feedeth his soul with another man’ s meat.
[31] But a man, well instructed and taught, will look to himself. [32] Begging will be sweet in the mouth of the unwise, but in his belly there shall burn a fire.
Luke 20
14“But when the tenants saw him, they talked the matter over. ‘This is the heir,’ they said. ‘Let’s kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ 15So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
“What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? 16He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.”
When the people heard this, they said, “God forbid!”
17Jesus looked directly at them and asked, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written:
“ ‘The stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone’a ?
18Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”
True Families Gateway to Heaven
Rev. Sun Myung Moon
p. 85
Noah had toiled 1.20 years to build the ark. But when the time came, God issued the command, “Call thee people to come into the ark, for the day of My judgment has come.” The people had only one brief moment to follow this order and receive the blessings of the eternal God. Those who did not were drowned in the deluge.
In Abraham’s case too, God’s promise that his descendants would be “as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sands on the seashore” was bestowed in just a single moment. Abraham’s sacrificial offering did not require decades but merely a day’s work. The time it took hill] to cut the animals for the offering and place them on the altar was not more than an hour. Yet the way he spent that single hour bore the seeds of life and death, blessing and curse, for subsequent history.
Today’s believers should not be anxious over the coming judgment in the Last Days. Rather, they should be anxious about how they can take each day that God has given them and devote it to the will of God. They should be anxious about how they can link their lives to God’s Will. (37-217,1970.12.27)