Rick the creation of wealth is the least way of measuring success in this world. Because God uses the creation of wealth to promote His purposes . The creation of wealth is best promoted by godless men because they spend the most time seeking it So in a sense the creation of wealth is done in order to increase the value of the curse. This is what the Psalms teach that all men are blind as to the reasons that God orders the success of His purposes. This is why He uses wicked men to promote His purposes because the wealth that they create is always in Gods hands. The Psalms teach just as a society is moved along by the creation of wealth so does evil increase. Because the principle is that the more evil men there are the more destructive society becomes.This is why God ordains wars. He does this in order to right the scales. In the end God takes the slave wealth of evil men and gives it to His people to promote His purposes. God looks at the transference of money in this world is a kind of extortion. Because He has made money an expression of the value that He places on the things in His creation. But because man is corrupt he miss represent the true value that God places on all forms of communication that are spoken in the corrupted language of value by men. We can trust that God will repay us for the problems we experience in this world in being devalued. It will be paid back by Gods judgement on evil men in this world and in the future world of our rewards. We do not need to be overly concerned about being cheated.

 Lapworth's comment.

All of Gods ideas are put into existence by creation. God orders all things according to His word both revealed and mysterious. When the scripture teaches that God gave Israel the law ,covenants, statutes, curses and promises it is teaching that Gods original creation was conceived in eternity past as God existed as the supreme being in eternity who works through these revealed gifts as supreme Governor of the creation. So when we look at the time sequence of His creation we are seeing the eternal purposes of God. He has given us a very small understanding of the whole knowledge of God in His revealed word. Our understanding of the revealed word is describing who God is and what His purposes are. If we are incorrect in what we are required to understand then we are describing someone is like God but it not God. Our clear doctrinal understanding is the only way that we can avoid idols. Ignorance is not bliss but because God has given us a way to approach Him without a good understanding we are blessed with His way of accepting us. He does not accept us based upon our understanding but upon Christ complete identity. Even tho we may fall short in our understanding we still are accepted in Christ. But our lack of understanding has consequences as to the rewards we will miss out on.

There is no one who believes something that he will not die for. Because knowledge cannot be pragmatic. Although there are pragmatic ideas in the world, it only exist because there remains ignorance due to the human inability to know all things. But this mixture of knowledge and mystery in ones view is predetermined by God. We can only escape what is harmful to us through revelation or illumination. So the defense of truth is more than just based upon our confidence that we know the truth. Whatever knowledge we have always rises up to the level of life and death. The bible is all that we need to live a life of Godliness. This means that the revealed knowledge is a shorten version of all the knowledge of God. In other words both the shortened version and the exhaustive version are going in the same direction. There is no such thing as two equal lines of truth. We have enough revealed knowledge to escape death and embrace life. But what we believe is always under the obligation of our survival in this world. We receive life or death by our doctrinal description. This is what the bible means when it makes a distinction between the righteous curse and the wicked curse. The bible teaches that if we belong to Christ we receive every pure description or doctrine as if it is defining the kingdom that we belong to. Even tho we are ignorant at some point yet the principle of Gods kingdom is that if we understand the smallest truth we understand the whole truth. Because the Spirit of one word contains all Gods ideas. We are able to be ignorant but fully able to express Gods curse to its fullest. And we are able to receive Gods absolute blessing. We must understand that a person believes truth about themselves in which the blindness that their ignorance represents is the inability for them to embrace life. And for us the ignorance represent our inability to embrace the curse.    " The cross is the symbol of the contrast of two worlds. It is the line between two realities. The former reality that we lived in had to die. Now we live in eternal life. Eternal life is the beginning of the reality of renewal. When Christ died , He destroyed the kingdom of darkness. Christ ended the reign of the curse of the law. We were slaves to sin and the curse. We were paupers who loved to be controlled by the corruption of the world. But that old life had to die. It was never rehabilitated. When Christ died He ended the hope of our being rehabilitated. We have no hope of trusting in our former image as paupers. Christ had to end the legal pronouncement of the law ...which was the power of the curse that was over us ...so that through His resurrection we might be legally justified to receive all that He has purchased. We went from being paupers to kings and priest of the Most High. We now stand on the other side of the curse of the law looking down at the kingdom of darkness. The curses are no longer against us but for us. We are already justified so that the new reality of our renewal is successful as the old is killed and the new reigns. We reign through word and Spirit. Now we simply pronounce the curses to kill the old image that represents our legal justification and we pronounce the blessing ...which is the kings language of word and Spirit ....as the new reality that is creating all our renewal.The cross is the line that we crossed from death to life. We look at the cross as the symbol that made all those past realities powerless to effect us as if when we look at any corruption that controls all those who belong to the former life that we killed and are killing those corruptions by word and Spirit. We run from those old identities in pronouncing cursing and blessing. This has no relationship to the effects of evil in society. It is a spiritual kingdom. Its all about escaping the control of what is controlling other people." me    The incarnation defines true value. It was the first time that a man was born who defined true blessing; He came for one purpose. To save His people from their sins. He was the walking reality of salvation. He fulfilled all righteousness. He overcame the power of the curse in being familiar with the true value of all things. Even tho He was God yet He was also the only real man. IF Christ had not become a man and lived a perfect life then there would be no hope of our being accepted by the Father. We would cease to understand the value of life. No one could be saved. There would be no existence of true hope, love , and blessing in this world. We would not have a standard of righteousness and blessing that we could trust. We could never have confidence in our relationship to corruption if there was no real man who overcame all the sinful causes of the curse so that we might be freed from the weight we experience from that curse. Everyone would be in complete darkness ...never being able to comprehend their own true self image. We all would be subject to the domination of the curse of sin. We all would be overcome by the weight of the sorrow and destructive potential of the full curse. Christ incarnation saved us from ourselves.