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with questions, such as: “Why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?Why is it that you have conceived this deed in your heart? (Acts 5:3,4). It was following Elisha’s questions that Gehazi received his resulting retribution. Due to his ill-gotten gain and lies, he received the leprosy that had been removed from Naaman.

“Then Gehazi went from Elisha’s presence and his skin was leprous-it

had become white as snow” (2 Kings 5:27).

As a result of his deeds and lies, Cain was cursed and banished to the Land of Nod, doomed to a life of vagrancy and wandering.Ananias and Sapphira weren’t as fortunate, with both experiencing immediate death. On March 12, 2009, after decades of fraudulent practices, Madoff pleaded guilty to 11 federal felonies. He died at a North Carolina prison on April 14, 2021 at the age of 82. Preceding him in death were his sons. Mark committed suicide in 2010 and Andrew died of cancer in 2014. His wife Ruth is still alive at the time of this writing. I read recently about a man who laid a small circle of poison around a hill of stinging ants. Mistaking the poison for food, the ants began picking up the granules and taking them throughout the colony. Returning later, he noticed hundreds of stinging ants car rying the deadly material down into their hill. Interestingly, some of the poison was moving in the opposite direction, as a colony of non-stinging ants had discovered this “food” and were stealing it from their neighbors.Thinking they were getting the other ants’ treasure, they unknowingly poisoned themselves.

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