THE DAYS OF NOAH – IT’S THE ECONOMY STUPID
From Arlene
Let us get our noses off the feasts for a little
session about the economy, for it also has much to do with prophecy, and our
sure word of prophecy is a light, as in a dark place. What follows is my rant, long overdue, about
the state of our ECONOMY, and the relevance it has to prophecy. Pardon, please , the length of this diatribe,
because it makes me so angry, and will
help explain to some of the suffering brethren who are having job/financial problems
just what is going on.
My son, bless his soul, has a position very high in
the ranks of the finance department of General Motors, having been called to
that area a couple months ago, because of “the current distress of the
company”.
So he sees much that goes on in the “world” of
finance; he is also an avid watcher of all world markets, interest rates, etc.,
as he has to use these in his reports.
As you may all know this lad also studies the scriptures with me, giving
to God more than he gives to the company.
To him, any perplexity he sees in the world will have
a scriptural answer. One of his
greatest perplexities, is why this economy does not implode upon itself,
globally, for he sees the nations printing monumental mountains of worthless
money (dollars) , then taking that
computer-generated worthless “money”, (trillions and
trillions of dollars, in fact even hundreds of trillions of dollars) and
setting up various “derivatives”, which are bets on the direction of markets,
with “insiders” knowing what the central banks are up to, but not us peons who
labor in the world to feed our faces. The
ultimate result of this chicanery by the big money men of the world, is that
this new money introduced into our economy, causes “inflation”, the definition
of which is AN INCREASE IN THE MONEY SUPPLY, whereas most people think it is an
increase in PRICES, which is only the symptom, not the disease, like saying the
fever is the disease, when in point of fact it is the virus that is causing the
disease. Then the big powerful money
men think up ways to explain this increase in prices to the laborers who
cannot keep up with the increase in prices.
They say things like “because of OPEC”, etc. Well, if you were selling baseball caps at
$4.00 each to your neighbors, and you found out that all your neighbors were
printing dollars surrepticiously in their basements
and suddenly had 3 times the amount of money they had before, then WHAT WOULD
YOU DO? If you (or OPEC) had any brains
at all, you would INCREASE YOUR ASKING PRICE !
With
this as an introduction, what does this have to do with the scriptures? And prophecy?
First
of all, we know that our Lord told us that when He came that the times would be
like “the days of Noah”. And this is an
answer to my son’s perplexity as to why the economies of the world do not
implode, YET. You see, the Lord said
that this “buying and selling, planting and building, eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage) would continue until THE DAY THAT NOAH
ENTERED THE ARK. These would have been
prosperous times, albeit also evil times.
And we see this very thing happening today. Nothing but evil imaginations in the hearts
of man. Imaginations are “images” of our
minds. Take a look at the television
offerings. They are all “evil”
imaginations, images of evil constantly the world over. My son’s wonderment at the on-going and
seeming “magic” of these money men to keep this unsustainable series of bubbles
from imploding, can be explained by this “economic” lesson our Lord gave to
us.
Now,
this inflation is a happy thing to those powerful “elite” who know what is
going on, but to the common ordinary worker, which includes 98% of the people
of this world, they find that they cannot keep up on the ever-increasing speed
of the treadmill of price increases wrought by these constant additions to the
money supply. In fact, each time the
markets become weak, they have to add even more money the next time. A gigantic house of cards, and game of musical
chairs, which very soon God will judge.
When “Babylon” falls in one hour, all the “merchants” of the earth, will
bewail the loss of their funny-money game, and they will come to their ultimate
demise, as a judgment of God, who “hates an unfair balance”, or those who
tamper with the weights and balances in order to profit more from the un-wary
buyer. And, printing horrendous amounts
of new money each day, puts more and more stress on the ordinary hard-working
person, who cannot keep up. See – since
the l960’s all the wives have had to go out to work, children have had to have
jobs, and have also had to borrow heavily for their educations. See—people now have 30-year mortgages and
tons of credit-card debt, which they will never pay off, like the debt-slavery
of
Let’s
look at another scripture which relates to this money game of the big powerful
“merchants of the earth”. In fact the
following scripture will be “fulfilled” just before we see the Lord’s coming
for us, so it is an important prophetic message for us, and helps us to
understand what is going on, that perplexes us so much:
James 5:1
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Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. |
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Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. |
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Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. |
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Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. |
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Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. |
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Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. |
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Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. |
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Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. |
Let us first notice that these rich men have heaped up
their riches for “the last days” i.e.,
tribulation years. Their riches, and
silver and gold, will do them no good then, and in fact their riches will
themselves be a witness against them in the judgment. They have lived in luxury and wantonness,
and have grown “fat” like hogs before the slaughter.
Notice carefully that they have kept back the ordinary
workers’ wages “by fraud”. THIS IS
THEIR GAME OF MONEY PRINTING THAT MAKES THE WAGES OF THE WORKER GO DOWN IN
VALUE, (AND PRICES UP…..) WHILE THEY
TELL THESE WORKERS THEY ARE “RICHER”.
How vile ! IT
IS FRAUD !!!
James goes on to say that these rich men have
“condemned” and “killed” the just man, and the just man (worker) does not
resist. That is because the just man,
the hard-working population, do not know what is going on ! They cannot resist when they do not know what
the central banks are doing with the money supply, for they work hard and do
not understand these types of
things. And yes, it is a condemnation and death which
is dealt to these workers, for their livelihood is taken away bit by bit, and
they work harder and harder (like the pharaoh made the Israelites “now you will
make bricks without straw”), and their lives are destroyed for want of trying
to support their families. When one
fails economically it is truly like “death”, for part of our lives here on this
planet involves our ability to feed ourselves and our families.
Now,
looking further into what James says, for he fore-sees the financial suffering
of the last days before the Lord comes.
He says “be patient” brethren for the coming of the Lord. And that, in these financial difficulties,
while the Lord waits for the precious fruit of the rapture to develop, we are
to KNOW that “THE COMING OF THE LORD DRAWETH NIGH
!
Let is see if the Lord has more to say about the
“rich” – this is a class of people He doesn’t really hold out much admiration
for:
Luke 21:1
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And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. |
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And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. |
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And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: |
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For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had. |
It is the generousity of the
poor, who give even in their poverty, that He commends.
1st Tim 6:9
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But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. |
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For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. |
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But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. |
We are told to “flee” this love of money.
James 2:5
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Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? |
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But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats? |
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Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called? |
Note: it is the
“poor” of this world, who are rich in faith, and who love Him, who will inherit
the promises of God. But the rich are
the ones who “oppress” the poor. God
sees all and waits…..and then judges…..
Rev. 6:12
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And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; |
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And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. |
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And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. |
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And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; |
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And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: |
Notice here the (dens) bunkers are heavily populated
by the rich men, whereas the poor (tribulation saints) have to head for the caves. They also can clearly see that this event is
bringing on the “wrath of Christ”.
I don’t know if it is true, but I have read that the
rich men of the world are indeed building massive and heavily-guarded and
supplied “bunkers”. That is another
trail to go down which I am not qualified to comment upon.
So,
while the carnival goes on out there, keep these things in mind. In my own neighborhood within four blocks I
have huge, massive mansions being built upon lots where the pre-existing houses
were torn down. This is all
debt-financed speculation, which will not end happily when it all comes
down.
And,
while the brethren suffer in their attempts to keep up with this carnival,
causing stress, illness, loss of jobs and marriages, etc., James comes forth to
tell us that these conditions are to be “expected” right before the Lord
comes. Our Lord said it would go on
right up until the very day we “enter the ark” (the rapture). We are told to have “patience” unto His
coming (that is pretty hard when you are failing economically), but if we keep
these things in mind, it does soothe the everyday hurt somewhat, knowing that
He knows, and He cares, and then when the day comes up and we can look up and
see Him coming, and hear the sound of the trumpet,,,,,,none
of it will matter anymore. We will be
with Him ever after.
We look
at so many things that are going on with
But there it is.
Hey,
thanks for listening. Had to get all
that off my chest, and delighted to have a long-suffering audience to hear
it………
All the
very best, beloved Doves, all of you.
May we all stay under His greater wing, and be preserved until that
wonderful day……
Your
sister in Christ,,,,Arlene