AMERICAN DREAM? PROSPERITY DOCTRINE?

The American Dream is tanked with positivity and bravado, pregnant with pride and folly. It is the name of an idol, not unique to this country or this generation. It is the love of money, and yields the Nightmare.
 
Prosperity can be, indeed, a blessing of God, and He sometimes gives it here in the temporal through the medium of resources. Other times He does not. Material prosperity is also in the 'tool box' of the Devil, something he can and does use for his ends. So to prosper materially can be something God has given, a blessing indeed, or something the Devil has given, a curse indeed. It can also ride along somewhere in the middle, still on spiritual ground, proverbially, incidentally.
 
This is the simple, pervading truth regarding material prosperity from beginning to end of the Bible. This is not a deep insight, nor a radical theory or theology. It is simply what is portrayed in the Scriptures. But not many reference the Scriptures on this topic. Some do pull out one or two Scriptures here and there to support their agenda - as did the devil to Jesus (Mt 4:1-11) - but rarely in their picture of prosperity do they speak of Moses' suffering, Jacob's limping, the poverty and abuse of the prophets, the wandering of the faithful (Heb 11), the hunger and thirst of the apostles (1 Cor 4), the impoverished churches (Rev 2:9), the insecurity and destruction of Christ Himself as the portal to salvation.