Aren't They ALL SCAMS?

You watch a TV program but you see more commercials than the program itself. Literally, sometimes its 10 percent show and 90 percent commercials. The water agency says water supply would be back at a certain hour but it doesn't. It comes back a week after. The fruit juicer advertised on FB is supposed to squeeze out all the juice from fruits but it doesn't. The fruits squeeze out all the juicer's spare parts. Photo above by Emma Simpson on Unsplash.

What really pissed me off was a WiFi company that promoted a speed of 5 Mbps but all I got was 2 or 3 Mbps when I subscribed. Sometimes, even 0.20 Mbps. Imagine that? So I called them up to ask why. They said they could give as much as 5 Mbps but not always, and it looked like our location was out of their reach.

"What?" I said. "Then why did you call me and offer me your Wifi service if my location was out of your reach?" The call agent just laughed lightly and apologized. That's all you get.

Aren't they all scams?

Oh yeah, there's also the staycation resorts that turn out to be haunted. How can you relax with white ladies walking around the place at midnight? It's a scam.

I hate to think what would happen if the vaccines all prove to be scams. I read somewhere that vaccines take 3 to 6 years to develop safe reliability. Anti-Covid vaccines today are haphazardly done and it's more like a race to get bigger slices of the market than a concern for the spread of Covid. It's all about profitability. 

I hope I'm wrong, but 2021 could turn out to be the year of scams.

Once we tried to order some items online and got a joke when the items were finally delivered to us. At another time, I ordered a pack of health juice from a company within QC but got it three months after. I asked why. "What planet does this juice product come from?" I asked. The company said not enough delivery people were available. It's another scam.

I tried some networking businesses this summer to make money during the lockdown but they all proved to be scams. They put out all the beautiful things in their FB ads but hid all the negatives of the business. After you've joined in, SURPRISE! They tell you about the downsides. Now they're talking. 

Finally, they invite you to church and put up a good show during the worship service. The special numbers were great, the choir was angelic, the praise and worship was intense, and the preaching was a marvel. They oversell their membership benefits and exaggerate the merits of joining their church. So you sign up for the membership. But then after, you find out the real problems of the church, and when you ask why, they finally tell you the truth--they say there's no perfect church.

Then you go, "Huh?" And all along they've been singing "Tis a glorious church without spot or wrinkle." What happened to all that? But that's all you can ever do--ask. They have no answers. Because if you say much more, they'd say you are judgmental and you don't know what they're going through. Sounds like the scam you hear from TV soaps or showbiz folks.

Only God's Kingdom remains scam-free. Well, a lot of people see it and the bible as scams and promote what man can do more than what God can. Worse, a lot of folks who claim to believe in Jesus do their best to make the bible look like a scam. And some of God's promises in it look like they don't work anymore so more people in church dismiss them and resort to what medical science can do--or how their theologies explain things. 

The promises look like "scam" to them, especially if they believe they have the "wisdom" to declare them so--just because these smart Alecks have the titles and degrees (and advanced seminary studies) to critic God's Word in the bible. Unknowingly, they promote the number one scam the bible prophesies would rise up in these last days.