There are numerous reactions to the Making Millions By God symbols, wildly ranging from “What a georgeous graphic!” to “What does that mean?” and from “It helps me really see how God fits all things together!” to “I am suspicious those symbols have a hidden meaning and are promoting something, well, suspicious!”. People being people, allow me to clarify from what I believe is God’s perspective.

God is a God of Imagery & Beauty as well as Science & Fact

The Bible is full of references to facts, commandments, rewards, and punishments, but is also full of beautiful language generating imagery in the mind’s eye about love, hope, and faith. Exodus 20 is pretty clear about the basic legal rules of the Covenant made with Israel. The Psalms and Song of Solomon are poetic, describing matters of the heart. Christ spoke in very colorful language, including but not limited to parables, using symbology frequently to illustrate or obscure a point. The book of Revelation is so filled with symbology, it’s frankly hard to grasp it all, let alone understand a bit of it with certainty. Given this framework of example how God expresses Godly things, I followed suit with my Earthly things.

Why Symbols In The First Place?

As I came to understand what God was doing, and how all things fit together in ways I had never understood before, I realized the interconnect between the questions of life, the great themes of spiritual living, world class success, and the path of time spirialing through it all on a macro and micro level, all at once. Once I ‘got it’, I struggled how to explain it to others. When one looks at Paul’s life, he tells us that he reached out to different peoples in different ways, taking their differences into account. In modern times, Briggs-Meyers personality tests illustrate about 16 broad classifications of ways people balance thinking and feeling, and even then everyone is an individual. While I myself fall into the engineering classifications, others whom I am trying to help out fall into the artistic classifications. If I am truly to serve others, then I am required by God to love them ALL as myself. In practical terms, that means generating imagery which helps artists to grasp and better understand via artwork, and charts and diagrams for the engineering oriented, as an analogy. So in the end, the artwork and the charts are BOTH there to serve people, in love, as God would desire.

The Symbols Themselves

The background is the Bible, the living Word. From there radiates out a color wheel representing the spectrum of Truth which is the Word of the Father, and fills Eternity.

The HEART represents THE source of Love, which is God, for God is LOVE (I John 4:8).

The INFINITY represents the boundless riches of Christ as Creator (Eph 3:8).

The CANDLE represets God’s path lit for us indivually (Ps 119:105), as well as collectively as Christ’s bride to be (Rev 1:12,20).

The STAFF represents Christ’s healing (John 3:14) which gives strength.

The LIGHTNING represents Christ’s power (Dan 10:6, Rev 1:14) which He imparts to those with faith (Matt 17:20).

The SMILEYS represent the joy of collective service for Christ (John 13:13-15).

The TREASURE represents God’s rewards for diligent seeking Him (Heb 11:6).

The GLOBE is literally a picture of the Earth which is our training ground for now until the New Heavens and New Earth are made (Is 65:17, II Peter 3:13, Rev 20 & 21).

With these symbols in mind, one starts with the prayerful Vision of service in Love, prayerfully plans the path via the candle of Hope, and accomplishes service to Christ via prayers of Faith.

What About Criticism With Respect To Humanism / Mysticism / Etc. ?

The best quote I glean about all that is from the Apostle Paul, because some were of the mind that meat offered to idols tainted those who would eat it spiritually (Acts 15:29).

1 Corinthians 8

1: Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

2: And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

3: But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

4: As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

5: For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)

6: But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

7: Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

Basically, Paul said there is no such thing as other than God, despite being called ‘gods’ by some who are weak in the faith.

When it comes to the imagery I chose via prayer to help me explain God’s good works to others as He commands (I Chron 16:8, Ps 105:1), I know for a fact there is NO other God but GOD. It matters to me not that those who promote lesser ‘gods’ may use similar imagery to promote that which is NOT by mis-representing that which IS, for that IS Satan’s role in all of this as usurper. Satan and all that are with Satan will be cast out into outer darkness, in God’s due time.

Christ tells us ALL: “Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.” (Luke 6:37).

If you wear a wedding ring, you wear a pagan symbol, which to you is not anything but devotion to your spouse. If you drive certain makes of cars or buy gas from some stations, their brands contain pagan symbols, which you are supporting with your purchases. That goes for much of what is in our soceity, which you support whether you realize it or not!

If in your faith you give yourself space to allow for these things because in your heart you know you are not promoting evil, then in your heart cannot you give ME the same space, too? Or must you be my judge? Christ judge between you the critic, and me, in this matter, as I rest that particular case.

Fantasy & Reality

All that is out there finds it’s strength in God’s reality. Elisha waved a stick and levitated an axe head (2 Kings 6), Elijah called down fire (1 Kings 18), and flew through the air (2 Kings 2), while Christ walked on water (Matt 14), and raised the dead (John 5) and will so again, including us!

It’s easy to condemn people who are steeped in Satan’s ursurping of these things, and point a finger, but how exactly does that help the people themselves? The condemnation creates separation, and tears down opportunity for communication. It is the stronger person who will find common ground, and illustrate to those who do not know better that the only source of real power to do beyond human good in the world is from God, and God alone.

As Paul became all things to all men by all means in the hopes he might save some, it is better to help and serve sinners than stand back and simply condemn sinners, which usurps Christ’s responsibility as sole judge of all. And after all, are we not ALL sinners, the only difference the kinds of sins which we commit? We all need rescued, and we all need to be helping others be rescued, regardless of the kind of sins one finds themselves ensnared with. Selah.