Episode 139 - Losing the Lottery A Blessing in Disguise

💰 Ever wondered why winning the lottery can lead to disaster? Here’s the real scoop:

Tag someone who’s ever dreamt of hitting the jackpot! 

Many think winning big is the ultimate success, but what if it’s a setup for failure? 

When one person gets a billion dollars, they’re not just winning; they’re risking everything they’ve built. Most can’t handle the weight of sudden wealth, leading to broken relationships and lost identities. 

The truth is, it’s not just about the money; it’s about the mindset and readiness to handle it. 

So next time you think about the lottery, remember: maybe it’s better to be grateful for what you have now. 

What’s your take on sudden wealth? 

Transcript

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You have too good of a life for me to destroy it for you right now by giving you tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. I'm not going to do it to you. Do you know what happens? I gave you the example of the individual that I know who ended up in his daughter's basement after having lost $50 million. I can show you people that I know personally today who have ruined their own relationships. They made their own money. It wasn't a witfall. They worked hard for it. They obviously risked morals and values in order to gain that money in many places, because often the two go hand in hand. But after having been victorious and successful in making hundreds of millions of dollars, they're no longer interested in their wives. They're no longer interested in their children. I've got all these young, beautiful women falling all over me. I've got people telling me yes at every turn. Everybody wants to be my friend. Suddenly I'm the most popular kid on campus. The Trust Factor is a ticket to a bed. The Trust Factor shows you how to get through the live. Yesterday, you might have thought that I was going to tell you that buying a lottery ticket was just as bad as going to a casino. But we understand now that there is a difference. Even within a casino, there is a difference. The question becomes two things. Number one, what game are you playing? Who are you playing against? Are you playing against a random large corporation or government? If that's the case, it's not as bad as playing against an individual who's sitting across the table from you. Somebody who you know is an individual with their own hard-earned money at risk. Somebody who's playing with the money that belongs not only to them, but to their wife and their children. Very different situation. That individual is not willing to let go of that money. He came to win and not to lose. That is a very large distinction that you need to make. But even the former, even walking into a casino and playing against a machine already demonstrates for yourself and for your creator that you lack the awareness of where your money is coming from, where your successes are coming from. And if you're only tying success to money, you already have a problem. But even if you understand that you're just going in there to make money, you don't understand that your money is coming from your creator. So it's sending a loud and clear message that your creator is listening to, he's watching, and he sees where you go and what you do with the money that he gives you. And he says, okay, I got it. You don't value the money that I give you. You think that you're going to make more of it somewhere else out of my control. And therefore, I'm going to put you at that mercy. It's not that he's going to actively take away your money, it's that he's going to leave you at the mercy of the systems that you want to put your faith in. You want to put your faith in a corrupt casino. Have at it, and you will see just how much you will suffer. You want to put your faith in corrupt lotteries, go right ahead. And I gave you a couple examples just yesterday of how these lotteries are corrupt. Just by the structure themselves, the fact that the number one prize, the big money, always goes to one individual. You can give one person a billion dollars and almost be guaranteed that you will destroy their lives because there are very few people on planet Earth who can go from having nothing to having a billion dollars. Most of you can't even fathom what a billion dollars really is. You're taking a guy who works nine to five, who makes 50K a year, and suddenly he's a billionaire overnight. You've just killed that individual and his entire family. You think they don't know that? That's the whole point. They want that money getting back into circulation, as opposed to taking it and splitting it up between 100 people and suddenly making a drastic change in so many people's lives, giving people $10 million, $100 million, a million dollars. That's life-changing money for somebody who's used to making $50 or $100K a year. But they don't do it. And they don't do it for good reason. Number one, they want to make sure that that person falls apart and that money gets back into the system ASAP. And number two, is oftentimes the reason why they don't publish the name of the big jackpot winner. Because they want privacy, not the winner. The winner is more than happy to say, you know what? I'm willing to trade my privacy for a billion dollars or for a hundred million dollars or for $50 million. Find me one who's going to play lottery and say, no, no, no, no. I'm not willing to win if it means that people are going to know that I've won. It just doesn't happen. Sell that to anybody else. The reality is if somebody's going without a disguise, I've never seen somebody wearing a disguise to go and buy a lottery ticket. If they're going to buy the lottery ticket, then they are fully and completely accepting of the fact that their name is going to be made public. And they're happy with that. It's a windfall. It's an easy trade-off. So when they tell you we're concerned about the privacy of the player, you know that it is a lie. The privacy that they're concerned about is their own. They want to make sure that you cannot trace where the money is going to. Think about it. Why wouldn't they promote it? Forget about privacy. We've already canceled that as an excuse. There is no other reason. In fact, it would benefit them to say, look at these regular jokes and how we've changed their lives. Again, they do do it for smaller winnings. And they'll even do it once in a while for a big winning. But always follow the money. The human desire, the evil inclination is simply too strong. It controls even the greatest minds in the world. The people at the highest levels of control and power have bigger evil inclinations than the rest of us. Why? Because it's at their fingertips. They can taste the money, they smell it, they control it. So if I control where hundreds of millions or billions of dollars is being moved, and I have friends and I have family and I have desires and I can make a determination, I can impact where that money goes. Do you know what kind of an evil inclination that is? You have no idea of the power behind that. People will sell out their best friends and their coworkers for a small raise in a business, in a corporation, to be able to get a small promotion. They will sell out anybody and everybody. That's just for a lousy few extra bucks a year. What do you think people will do to get life-changing money? And the answer is there is almost nothing that they will not do in order to get that, including the whole concept of gaining power and getting to that position of control, i.e., presidents and prime ministers. That's why you have to understand that always follow the money if you want to know what the truth is. Money and power go hand in hand. That's why they don't give these positions to just anybody. Look at the California elections. Look at almost every election that has ever happened in U.S. history, especially in recent days when things are starting to become more and more transparent. And you will see that there is always massive levels of controversy. And they don't care. They're going to cheat willfully. They're going to do it openly and in public. And then when they come to investigate, they'll say, no, no, no, no. We're not allowing you to investigate. And they get away with that's the worst part. They will get away with their corrupt electoral processes. My friends, things are not as they seem. This all comes just to solidify for you what the Torah has been telling you all along. It shouldn't come to you as a surprise. The Torah calls it Alama de Shikra in Aramaic, a world of lies in English. In Hebrew, it's Alama Shekhar. This is God telling you, I've created the world that way. I've given you an evil inclination that is going to force you to do things that you should not be doing. And you're going to want to cover up these things because they're not kosher. And so you're going to put on a presentation for everybody else to think that it's really one thing when it is something entirely different. That's the world that we live in, my friends. Two more examples from the lotteries. Yep. In the early 2000s, I remember this vividly. There were so many circumstances where the actual retailers, the people who were licensed to sell lottery tickets in Canada, were found to be committing fraud. What were they doing? They had tickets, lottery tickets that they'd already scanned and that they knew were losers. And they would keep them on the side. And then when you came with your ticket, they wouldn't scan your ticket. They would scan the losing ticket and they would tell you, sorry, you've lost. And most people, nine out of ten, wouldn't want their ticket back. So they would take the ticket and throw it in the garbage. Sorry, better luck next time. And then when that person left the store, they would go back into the garbage, pull out that ticket, and scan it. And they were found to have won tens of millions of dollars. Convenience store owners. There's no coincidence that at one point it became such a demand, high-demand business. People were coming in and fighting to buy convenience stores. Why? Is it that profitable? Doesn't make sense. You're selling gum and candy bars. But yet there was a hidden trick behind it. And that secret was the fact that they were rigging the lottery machines and they were taking away people's winnings. That's where the real money came from. And as a result of that, today in Canada, we have to sign our tickets. That's where it all changed. When you go to check your ticket, you're now required to sign your signature on that ticket so that when they check it, if you take it back, which you should always do, you will take back the one that has your signature on it. Or even if they go and they claim it and they win it and they try and pull that stunt that's got your signature on it, so they will know that it doesn't belong to that retailer. That came in as a result of the fraud. That was just one of many examples. Another example in the U.S., I don't know when it was. Also, probably 10 years ago. An IT manager in one of these multi-state lotteries was caught rigging these random selection machines. He went in and actually rigged the machine that's supposed to spit out numbers at random, and he programmed the numbers. And he and his cohorts made away with tens of millions of dollars. The systems are all rigged, my friends. And yet, despite the knowledge of all of these frauds and despite the knowledge of all of the ways that they can treat us, we still go in and give them our hard-earned money in the hopes that we're going to become the next winners. Absolutely, it's possible. But it is so difficult that forget the odds. The odds themselves are so difficult that in Canada, they just made them even harder. They just changed regulations and the rules of the game to make it even harder for you to win. They didn't tell you about it. They just did it in the fine print. So the odds of winning are astronomically low, where you're more likely to get hit by lightning twice in the same place. And still add to that all of the cheating and corruption and fraud, and your odds become almost impossible of winning. But it can happen. So what do you do? You do what I told you. I do. Yesterday, I said that when I'd buy lottery tickets, I'd buy one line, the absolute minimum. I don't buy it often. Once in a while I'll go and I'll buy. Months pass by and I don't buy. Once in a while I'll go and I'll buy one. What's the idea? What's the logic? Let's read it from the book because I noticed that it's exactly where we left off. It says that if a person does desire to purchase a lottery ticket, he or she should purchase a single lottery ticket only. It's exactly where we left off yesterday. If the creator wants them to win the lottery, he'll arrange that their ticket bears the winning number. A person need not assist the creator in purchasing more than one ticket. The idea is that you're giving God just another outlet, just another route through which He can give you this fortune. Now, if you win, congratulations. Wonderful. You've now become a multimillionaire. Great. If you don't win, it's not, oh well, better luck next time. Do you know what the response is? Congratulations. You didn't win. Why is it congratulations? Why is losing the lottery the same as winning the lottery? And the answer, my friends, is because God is the one who controls the outcome. And if he gave you the winning, it's because you are primed to receive it. It's because now you have an opportunity to utilize that money in a way that could benefit you and those around you. Doesn't guarantee success, not at all. But you've been around long enough, you've reached a stage in your life where God is going to give it to you. And now you have the opportunity to prove that you can do the right thing with that money. It's a test. It is a massive test, but it's one that He's now entrusted you with. Whether you win or lose is entirely up to you and the decisions that you make. If you didn't win the lottery, it's congratulations. Why is it congratulations? Because it would have destroyed your life. It would have brought you down. You weren't ready for it. And God said, no, you have too good of a life for me to destroy it for you right now by giving you tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. I'm not going to do it to you. Do you know what happens? I gave you the example of the individual that I know who ended up in his daughter's basement after having lost $50 million. I can show you people that I know personally today who have ruined their own relationships. They made their own money. It wasn't a wigfall. They worked hard for it. They obviously risked morals and values in order to gain that money in many places. But, because often the two go hand in hand, but after having been victorious and successful in making hundreds of millions of dollars, they're no longer interested in their wives. They're no longer interested in their children. Why? I've got all these young, beautiful women falling all over me. I've got people telling me yes at every turn. Everybody wants to be my friend. Suddenly I'm the most popular kid on campus. Do you know what that does to somebody's head? There are very few people in the world who know how to manage that kind of attention. And so they get drawn into all these self-serving individuals who are only in it for themselves. They want to take from this person all day long. That's the reason that they followed them around. That's why you see wealthy people often have an entourage, because those people are there to take as much as will fall off out of their pockets, they're there to pick up. And usually very little ever falls out of their pockets because they love their money so much. They love the time and attention. They'll only spend as much as it takes to keep that time and attention around. The rest stays locked tightly in their bank accounts. But in the meantime, they've lost a relationship with their spouse. They've divorced. Their kids no longer want anything to do with them. Their family no longer wants anything to do with them. People no longer want to transact with them and do business with them. Why? Because the money itself that they chased as the Holy Grail corrupted them, turned them into the individual that they are today, which is not the person that they were before they had the money. Money has the power to corrupt. And that's why when God doesn't give it to you, you have to say thank you. Thank you, Hashem, for allowing me to continue to have this wonderful life that I have today, where there's money in the bank, there's food in the fridge, there's cars in the driveway, there's clothes on my back, there's a roof over my head, my kids are educated. I have everything that I need and many of the things that I want. Thank you. Because now I can maintain a good quality lifestyle. We should all be striving for that. Have an amazing day, my friends. Until tomorrow. Thank you for spending time with us on the Trust Factor Podcast. If you've heard something today that moved you, save this episode and share it with someone who might need to hear it. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss upcoming conversations that challenge, empower, and uplift. And if you're on social media, connect with us. Leave your thoughts, drop a quote that resonated with you. Hashtag the TrustFactor Podcast. Until next time, keep growing in your trust and keep living with purpose. I'm Jesse Revivo, and this has been the Trust Factor Podcast. Thanks for listening.