Luke 18:25-27 (NIV)
25 Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." 26 Those who heard this asked, "Who then can be saved?" 27 Jesus replied, "What is impossible with men is possible with God."

If you go back and reinvent or recalculate the trip out of Israel, they would have been better leaving their gold and most of their possessions and travel as lightly as possible knowing that the Promised Land contained more than they could have ever wanted anyway. But their insecurities, inadequacies and inferiorities plus all their belongings and demands for food along the way were humongous. The travelling was slow, it wasn't speedy and the very things that they took were the very things that they worshipped and cultivated into gods.

I've seen people try to make their ascension into the will of God with so many possessions and it is always so hard. What is the eye of the needle? The eye of the needle is the door within the door of a city that at a certain time of a night when the main gates were closed there was this little gate within the gate, it was called the 'eye of the needle', so when a merchant came with his camels to get into the city late at night, he was able to get in but he couldn't fit all his stuff through it so what he had to do was unload all his camels and the camels would get down and then get through the smaller gate and then he would have to bring his possessions in after that. He could get through but it was hard. A person travelling light can get through easier and Jesus is saying, "Learn by their mistakes."
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