A parable for our time, inspired by Jesus and Ezra.

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There was a rich and greedy family that had two sons. The first son was a money lender and he looked at his brothers servants with envy and went to his brother a merchant and said "look how well you have treated your servants and they respect us not at all". "You should give the work to others and when they need money I will loan it to them and we will split the profits". So they started on their way and made more money than before. Eventually their greed grew and they decided to give as much of the work to others as was possible so that the servants would be further in debt to them. Eventually the servant came to them and begged for help and they told him "Isn't it the law not to borrow what you can not pay back, this is your own sin not ours". Than they took everything the servant had and left him with nothing. When they had done this as much as they could they turned to the king and said "Lord we need help the servants of the land will not pay can you raise their taxes and pay us that way" The foolish king did so. Than they said to each other "look we now own all in our land and most in the surrounding areas let us do this to every nation until we own everything than we will decide who is king and what laws should be". Now than if the people raise up in violence because they have been cheated they will be called criminals and locked up, who is to be their redeemer now that the laws have been changed to by the greedy brothers?