What are the merchants and money men of this world concerned about according to Les?
The merchants and money men of this world are concerned about generating wealth, not the welfare of the poor on the street. They focus on where they can create wealth and never lose sight of that, while Scripture shows their wealth generation often comes down on God's people.
Les explains that the merchants and money men of this world are not concerned about the welfare of the poor individual on the street; they are concerned about where they can generate wealth and never lose sight of that. He says Scripture makes plain that as they generated wealth, they also came down for the most part on God's people. He cites massive loss of life—fifty million in World War II, fifty million during seventy years of Communist Russia, and fifty million believers martyred during the Dark Ages—showing people lost their lives at the discretion of those who could have controlled it. He adds that Christ's Second Coming events are cataclysmic and judgmental, bringing down everything smacking of materialism, technology, and man's efforts. Behind this world system is Satan, its god.