I'm sorry did you say Prosperity Gospel? Because Church History and Scripture make it sound more like, Those whom the Lord loves, He chastises; everyone whom He acknowledges as a son, He scourges.
When you (sinner) call on God, you will not find Him listening; the wicked will not find Him, because they hate wisdom (or fear/respect for the Lord); they would not listen to His advise, but mocked His reproof. Therefore they shall have the fruits of their own to eat, and be filled full with their own ungodliness. The examination of the Ungodly shall spell their own destruction.
Then let us show ourselves (Christians) obedient to His all-holy and glorious Name, so that we may escape the doom that was pronounced of old by Wisdom upon the Ungodly. This is true, as surely as God lives, as Christ Jesus lives, and the Holy Ghost also on whom are set the Faith and Hope of God's Elect. For our part we will take care to be innocent of any such offense; and we will entreat the sum of His Elect, as it has been numbered throughout all the world, may ever be preserved intact through His beloved Son Christ Jesus, by whom He has Called us out of darkness to light, and from ignorance to the clear knowledge of the glory of His Name.
Let all the nations of the Earth know that thou art God alone, that Jesus Christ is thy child, and that we are thy people and the sheep of thy pasture. Direct our goings, O Lord, and make us obedient both to thine own almighty and glorious Name - causing or granting belief, repentance, true Christian love, self-discipline, discretion, perseverance.
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