13.2 ｜The Man Who Had Everything

The Man Who Had Everything

6.King Solomon: A Man of "Total Success"

King Solomon was the sovereign of Israel’s golden age, the son of King David. When he stood before God, he didn't ask for mountains of gold or absolute political power. He asked for Wisdom.

God granted his request, but He also added everything Solomon hadn't asked for—wealth, honor, and peace:

"Since you have asked for this... I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart... Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for—both wealth and honor." > — 1 Kings 3:11–13

Solomon went on to build the Great Temple, established a powerhouse kingdom, and lived a life that was almost entirely void of failure. By any secular standard, his life was a Total Victory.

But in his old age, he sat down and wrote the Book of Ecclesiastes:

"Meaningless! Meaningless! Everything is meaningless!" > — Ecclesiastes 1:2

His final conclusion? After a hard day's work, being able to eat, drink, and find satisfaction in your labor—that is the greatest gift a human can have (Ecclesiastes 3:13).

This whole story proves something incredibly important:

A human being often has to get it before they can see through it.

7. Why Must We Get What We Want Before We Can Truly Turn?

Why would Jesus promise to grant "whatever" anyone asks—"Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours"?

The reason is simple, yet it’s incredibly profound:

Human nature is wired so that we must possess something before we can realize that it isn't what we truly wanted.

You have to experience the first level of success before you can even catch a glimpse of the "Success above success." Why is most of the world living in anxiety and unhappiness today? It’s because:

• By the time your "Self" was formed, your subconscious had already been fed the wrong data.
• A Scarcity Mentality was hard-coded into your internal system from the very beginning.
• If you don't experience success first, you will never, ever be able to touch true Abundance.

If a person doesn't believe in Jesus, and their subconscious is deeply rooted in scarcity, they will spend their entire life trapped in a cycle of:

• "Not enough"
• "I’m not worthy"
• "It’s impossible"
• "I’m not safe"

A person like that gets neither success nor abundance. Even worse, they can never truly recognize their own Destiny. In that state of scarcity and anxiety, they will keep falling into sin—because Scarcity itself is the Original Sin, and the Ego is just the operating structure of that sin.

Of course, getting what you want doesn't guarantee you'll see through the illusion.

• King Solomon got it all, and he saw through it.
• But many people get it and only become more greedy.

For those people, judgment isn't absent—it’s just Delayed. They will absolutely face judgment after they die. But even in this life, they often experience a much more hidden form of judgment:

• Loneliness
• Terror
• Anxiety
• Restlessness
• A loss of meaning
• A deep, hollow void of "never enough"

A person like that might own the whole world, but they are already living in Hell.

And as for those who neither believe in Jesus nor have the opportunity to succeed:

Because of the deep resistance and scarcity in their subconscious, they live their whole lives in a cage of anxiety. This is just another form of shackles. They can't enter Abundance, and fundamentally, they can't be saved.

Why? Because:

Ego-Consciousness + A Sense of Scarcity = The Double Chains of Original Sin.