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THE WAGE WORKER.

A WARNING.

THOSE ACTING FRAUDULENTLY WITH THE WAGES OF A WAGE WORKER.
The unchangeable law of God is that: "You must not defraud a hired labourer who is in trouble and poor… In his day you should give him his wages, and the sun should not set upon them" (that day must not pass before his wages are paid). (From Deut 24:14,15).

Sadly today, wicked men contrive "harmful regulations... in order to push away the lowly ones from a legal case and to wrest away justice from the afflicted ones of My people". (Isaiah 10:1). Most employers delay the wages of their employees for inordinate periods of time, regardless of their needs. Whatever the excuses they may express publicly to salve their consciences, employers who use the enactment of harmful regulations to delay or withhold wages are "acting fraudulently with the wages of a wage worker" in contravention of the Law of God. The Judgement of God upon an offender warned of his wicked way but who has no fear of God and continues sinning, is that he must die for his error.* (See Ezek 3:19).

""And I will come near to you people for the Judgement, and I will become a speedy witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against those swearing falsely, and against those acting fraudulently with the wages of a wage worker, with the widow and with the fatherless boy, and those turning away the alien resident, while they have not feared Me," Jehovah of armies has said." (Malachi 3:5).

"You must not defraud a hired labourer who is in trouble and poor, whether of your brothers or of your alien residents who are in your land, within your gates. In his day you should give him his wages, and the sun should not set upon them, because he is in trouble and is lifting up his soul to his wages; that he may not cry out to Jehovah against you, and it must become sin on your part." (Deut 24:14,15).

"You shall not keep back the wages of a man who is poor and needy, whether a fellow-countryman or an alien living in your country in one of your settlements. Pay him his wages on the same day before sunset, for he is poor and his heart is set on them: he may appeal to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin." (Deut 24:14,15 NEB).

"Woe to those who are enacting harmful regulations and those who, constantly writing, have written out sheer trouble, in order to push away the lowly ones from a legal case and to wrest away justice from the afflicted ones of My people, for the widows to become their spoil, and that they may plunder even the fatherless boys! And what will you men do at the day of being given attention and at the ruin, when it comes from far away? Toward whom will you flee for assistance, and where will you leave your glory?" (Isaiah 10:1-3).

A WARNING FROM A WATCHMAN OF GOD.
"Son of man, a watchman is what I have made you to the house of Israel, and you must hear from My mouth speech and you must warn them from Me... But as for you, in case you have warned someone wicked and he does not actually turn back from his wickedness and from his wicked way, he himself for his error* will die; but as for you, you will have delivered your own soul." (From Ezek 3:17-21).

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