The favor god granted His creatures by creating them on the 4th or 5th day?

I hit the buzzer first. Do I win?

...was referring to, I'm more interested in the implications of driving around in an apparently very expensive car.

So, if you don't have an expensive car, that means you don't have "Hiz" favor?

or, if you like, 'favor'

...I observed it's immediate destination.

The lord's favor means you are blessed because god likes you better. Note it's a Mercedes.

who thinks the Mercedes and his/her tacky McMansion (I'm guessing) came into their possession by earning God's favor.

...which caused much of my confusion...

That this is where it was going, the immediate destination:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wende_Correctional_Facility


The Mercedes pulled into the main (i.e. visitors section, not employee) parking lot of a NYS Maximum Security Correctional Facility (Wende).


Many possible explanations come to mind but the first one that came to mine, is what caused my confusion...

Did I win?

But seriously. "His favor" ...

Maybe it's God's favor that keeps the world going? Like the "daily bread" being a metaphor for God's mercy that surrounds us all the time?

No wait.... that's baba ghannouj....

And "Hiz Favr" is actually getting shafted when compared to a REAL favorite of Gawd, Rush Limbaugh. A Mercedes? Pfft! Getouttahere! Limbaugh has a garage full of Maybach 57-S sedans. That's the uber-Mercedes. They cost $450,000 each.

Couldn't find anything about that license plate. Did find a cheerful story about one of Wende's former inmates...

hall monitor? Unless it happened while he was a middle school hall monitor it doesn't seem like a telling, relevant, or even mildly interesting fact. I guess they are trying for the angle of good guy goes bad but middle school hall monitor really stretching that attempted narrative.

No clue why. Maybe just the usual "amp up the scare factor" BS so prominent in the media. "SCARY KILLER WORKED AT YOUR LOCAL SCHOOL!!!" Bugga-bugga. Even though, as you say, his job didn't obviously have anything to do with the murders.

Now speaking of the Prosperity Gospel - how the mighty art fallen! Back in the 1980's, Jim Bakker was a multi-millionaire with his own TV satellite empire, an air-conditioned doghouse and a nauseatingly perky raccoon-faced wife. And Heritage USA, for a while the third most popular tourist attraction in the USA (after Disneyland and -World).

These days, Bakker is reduced to hawking overpriced "survival kits" on his web site. Because Jesus Is Coming Back Soon and you'll need this stuff to get thru the Tribulation. See below.

Long as I'm here - I gotta say, Jim Bakker must be one of the worst judges of character in the world:

--His friend and fellow pastor in Florida introduced him to Jessica Hahn, to make Tammy Faye jealous. That sure backfired. Hahn blackmailed his church into a $1 million payout. The American public may not have really understood his troubles with the Feds over timeshare sales. But they certainly understood "canoodling with church secretary and trying to keep it quiet."

--Bakker's really good friend Jerry Falwell offered to "temporarily" be the caretaker of Bakker's satellite empire. Only during Jim's "time of trouble." Soon as the ink was dry on that contract, Falwell tossed Bakker under the bus, publicly denounced him and took over complete control of Bakker's network. Falwell had been wanting to do that for years, so it's amazing Bakker fell for that one.

--When he went to prison, Bakker turned to his best friend Roe Messner. Asked him to watch over Tammy Faye. Messner certainly succeeded at that. While Bakker was in prison, Tammy Faye divorced him. And married Messner. (Messner later went to Federal prison himself, for bankruptcy fraud.)