Trade is the voluntary exchange of goods , gifts, talents and services, also known as barter exchange.

A process through which exchanging of gifts talents and service takes place among people, being a symbol of acknowledgement and honouring of each other’s strength.

The act of exchanging one thing for another.

Trade also means to be employed (The exchanging of strength or physical work for payment-money), or to be an employer, (the one  who hires people, and pays them a salary). 

History of trade:

The very first trading among human beings in history was considered as a form of communication.

Through trading people were able to draw closer to each, solve each other’s needs, and problems, and also be able to create a bond of relationship which enabled the participants to overcome their weaknesses.

Genesis 14:18-20 says: Abraham gave or traded his tithe to Melchezedek, and in return Melchzedk pronounced a blessing over him, and He also gave Him bread and wine (Holy Communion).

Genesis 29:15-21 …says; Jacob exchanged (traded) his service, talent and strength to Laban, and in return Laban gave him his daughter as his wife.

Genesis 2:22 says: that Adam traded his white rib to God, and in return God gave Him a wife.

How trade is done in this present time:

In the present time that we are living in, the word “trading or to trade” means to exchange goods for money.

Today one can not trade with out money, simply meaning that; “you can not trade with out informing the ones who made the system of paying taxing and going into debt“.

Today’s way of Trading is a mechanism that is used to advance and profit the economic system of money making, which is contrary to the ancient way of trading called “barter trade“, which looked after the people’s interests.

Article written by Ap Ngabo Alex

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