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Back in the day when I was an undergraduate, my majors were English, Journalism and Communications, and my electives were business classes! Even then, it was obvious that salesmanship had become unethical and dishonest in nature, and was getting worse by the minute! This downward spiral from not really bad to worse is exactly what Christ makes note of in the Scriptures I quoted.

Notice if you will that in the John 2:16 verse, which Jesus speaks at the beginning of His 3½ years of ministry, that the moneychangers and merchants only had turned the Lord’s House of Prayer into a “marketplace,” but by the end of Jesus’ ministry, as seen in Matthew 21:12, the moneychangers and merchants had turned the Lord’s House of prayer into a “den of thieves.” Ouch…harsh words from our Savior!

Therefore, since we certainly are living in an Age in which the days are evil, we certainly must be about “redeeming the time” (making the most of EVERY opportunity) God gives us to edify and encourage one another to “…be careful how [we] live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise” (Ephesians 5:15, NLT).

PEACE….

Unfortunately, this kind of salesmanship is taught more and more. That's why we need to “redeems the times as it were” and show people what is true and what is not:)

But since you asked, no, I do not believe that ALL of the world's salesmen and businessmen are greedy, or dishonest. It just so happens that the Temple moneychangers and merchants in Christ's day were. That's why I believe that Christ REALLY is saying that their kind of salesmanship went well beyond the art of selling! Their kind of salesmanship had turned into a self-interest: I can put more money in my pocket if I fleece the flock kind of “art.” This kind of salesmanship apparently is what contaminated God's House of Prayer!