Poverty exists solely through conscious choices in every single instance that it exists...bad people decide to leave others without. The abundance is so immense on earth today this is absolutely only possible through restrictions and not the choice of the poor.
In the Old Testament...God could send Angels to your town to destroy it for punishment in response to your treatment of the needy, poor, and hungry. Look in the old laws...the treatment of others that involved being selfish/not sharing everything you had with others was among the greatest crimes you could commit. Conveniently pushed aside, forgotten, and taught to do the exact opposite of God's laws...Satan in operation.