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I'm Keith Simon.

In 79 AD, the city of Pompeii, which is just south of Naples, Italy, was buried under volcanic ash

when nearby Mount Vesuvius erupted.

My wife and I had a chance to spend a few hours there about a year ago.

I wish we would have had more time because I was blown away by how much of the first century

Roman life was preserved by the way the city was destroyed.

And that probably explains why Pompeii is one of Italy's most popular attractions.

It has almost 3 million annual visitors.

A couple of months before we were in Pompeii, archaeologists had made an incredible discovery.

It was of skeletal remains of a man and woman who were trapped in their house.

Based on what the archaeologists found, they believed the couple had tried to

gather their valuables before the ash from the volcano destroyed them. The archaeologists believe

it's possible that gathering those pearls and gold coins cost this couple their life. Greed, or

the insatiable desire for more, has long-plugged humanity and led to many deaths,

both physical and spiritual. In Genesis, we read about Adam and Eve, who weren't content with

paradise, but instead coveted the forbidden fruit on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

That greed brought sin and death into the world. Or consider Aiken in Joshua chapter 6.

He coveted the silver and gold of Israel's defeated enemies, and in the process brought

death on himself and his family.

Or think about King Ahab.

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