Hebrews 13:14

For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after the city which is to come.

The temporary and ephemeral nature of all earthly possessions is in view here, focusing the mind of Christians upon the eternal city that cometh down from God out of heaven. For more on the "City Foursquare," see under Hebrews 11:10. The tendency of all people to view their earthly life and dwelling as all there is is materialism. It is the vision of the eternal things that provides the only safe antidote for the prevailing virus of materialism; and the spread of Communist ideology during the current century may be accounted for only upon the basis that people have a lack of faith in God and the things "unseen as yet." Communism is primarily a manifestation of that blind materialism which is the philosophical heart of their system, which reduces man to the level of a turnip, or a pig, makes him as expendable as a sack of potatoes, or a shovel full of coal, and which grants to the individual the right of life itself, only upon sufferance of the godless and fickle state. They have rejected the destiny of man as being a home with God beyond the stars and have anchored their dreams in the mud-flats of earth. Which should a man choose, the stars with God, or the mud-flats with Marx?