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Our first parents were not a “Horatio Alger story.” They did not go from “rags to riches” but from “riches to rags.” Adam and Eve were born wealthy. They were created in wealth, with wealth, and with the power to produce wealth. Locked inside the mind of the original pair was Ore Wealth placed there by God. From this original ore, discovered in the Sabbath mine by Adam and Eve, all physical wealth would be created.

“Out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name” (Genesis 2:19). This was man’s first act of creating wealth. God now provided him with the opportunity to exercise this dominion responsibility in a way that established his authority and supremacy—in ancient times, it was an act of authority to impose names (cf. Daniel 1:7) and an act of submission to receive them. God-given ideas for the naming of the birds and animals was an act of placing value. God showed His value of man by giving him the privilege of naming (giving value to animals and birds). We all understand that when you name something, you are superior or of more value than the thing named. In all of mankind is Ore Wealth. God has given us the gift of creating value, naming the creation, therefore creating wealth. “As it is written, ‘I have made you the father of many nations’­–in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist” (Romans 4:17).