become poorer; inordinate and insatiable greed of the wealthy for more and more drives the poor into greater misery and hopelessness. Those who live in the United States or in other powerful nations in the world cannot afford to simply spiritualize the meaning of the oppression in this text (or many other biblical texts), but must reckon with the fact the nations of the emerging majority world actually see and experience the wealthy nations in the world much like the Israelites did Egypt. The text
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