Mat 6:19 Do not Lay up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break in and steal:
Mat 6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupts, and where thieves do not break in nor steal:

Again, a major connection with the previous verse is lost in translation. The terms that Christ used for "disfigure their faces" in the last verse, aphanizo, here becomes "corrupt." As we explained, this term really means to vanish or deprive of luster. And again, Christ makes the connection between the physical, the social, and the spiritual.

Here, earth becomes the residence for both the physical and the social. What is interesting here is that God and heaven are what is normally described by Christ as hidden, while the earth is the realm of the visible. Here, Christ completes the equation. Earth is visible, but everything here will vanish. Meanwhile, heaven is hidden, but everything there will persist. As the Lord's Prayer says, God's will is becoming real on earth and in heaven. Both heaven and earth are dynamic, but they are going in reverse directions. On earth, everything is temporary and fades awy. In heaven, everything persists and accumulates.

Again, this also works as a physical description of the universe if we discount the social and the spiritual. On earth, things may pass away, but all energy and matter are maintained in the universe as a whole. Christ is telling us however, that this rule also extends to the spiritual and social dimensions. The knowledge and experience that we accumulate on earth passes away on earth, but it is accumulated in heaven.