Apocalyptic Hope

Below is an excellent summary of the economic situation we are in today. Arlene explains it well, and shows the Biblical application for these times.
The main theme is that things will continue with "business as usual" right up until cut-off day...
the day of reckoning. Then there will be a massive and forever change.
( Gold and silver will be worthless.)

It is in two parts, with commentaries.
Thank you Arlene.

  http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/june2005/arlene66.htm

  THE DAYS OF NOAH – IT’S THE ECONOMY S-----  --- From Arlene
Part ONE :

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 surreptitiously 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 Egypt
In the meantime, these big money men say, hey, look your house has gone up in value – aren’t you rich?
 NO – MY HOUSE HAS NOT GONE UP IN VALUE YOU TURKEY – THE DOLLAR I WORK FOR EACH DAY HAS GONE DOWN IN VALUE ! LOOK AT MY SAVINGS – SEE HOW MUCH LESS THE SAVINGS WILL BUY---SO WHAT IF MY HOUSE HAS GONE UP IN VALUE. So these creeps come out of the woodwork saying, hey you can RE-FINANCE that house and get some cash out of it.    Oh, my, what is going on here folks?

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:

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 DRAWS NIGH !

Let us 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:

" And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
and He saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.
And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:
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 "---Luke 21 : 1- 4


It is the generosity of the poor, who give even in their poverty, that He commends. 

We are told to “flee” this love of money.

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….

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

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

We look at so many things that are going on with Israel , the feasts, and other things,,,,,,butkeep in mind, the ECONOMY is something that is a very serious end-time issue.    And our suffering in it is part of our own refinement.
Also remember that the saints in the tribulation will not be able to buy or sell at all…..because these evil men or elite group, know that they can enslave and entrap all of humanity with their manipulations of the economy.   We are well headed well into that scenario as we speak.   It will become so bad that the ECONOMY and anyone’s participation in it, will be controlled by one’s WORSHIP OF THE ANTICHRIST OR HIS IMAGE. Disgusting. Appalling. 

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

PART TWO

MORE ON THE ECONOMY -- from Arlene

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/june2005/arlene68.htm

One more rant, with a couple more scriptures, and I will call it a day, and get back to the feasts, which are a much more fulfilling, and gentle, study……………but really, this stuff makes me so angry……..

Remember that “inflation” is not defined as an increase in prices; rather, it is an increase in the money supply.   An increase in the money supply can be accomplished by “printing” money, or you yourself can add to the money supply by “borrowing” – that is, when you take on a mortgage or credit card debt, you the money you borrow is created out of thin air, and added to the money supply.   This is why it is so important for the government to keep up the “housing bubble”.   Because once there is an actual contraction in the money supply, the economy will go into “deflation”, and that is when there is a DECREASE in the money supply, which leads to LOWER prices.   That is what the great depression was all about.   Houses and land are lost, jobs are lost, and prices plummet. 

This game has been promoted by governments since Cain went on to build cities.    You start out with gold and silver coins as money.  The government is constrained from issuing more money, because there simply is a limit to the amount of gold and silver available to make money out of.   So, the gold and silver coins  “keep” their value, and do not lose value.     Enter the con artists.   They say to the king, “hey, let’s just shave some of the edges off those coins, and we’ll have the extra metals to make new coins out of.   Each coin will be SMALLER, but the people won’t realize it if we do it gradually.    Well, the people catch on, because prices increase, and they become angry, and tell the government “don’t do that any more !  Our money is losing value !” 

So the people insist on the government minting office putting “ridges” at the edges of the coins, so that they can see and feel that their money has not been “shaved” and tampered with.    This happened in Rome, and we still have “ridges” on our coins, as if that conveys any comfort at all to those who handle our worthless coins.   So the con artist goes to the king again, and says, “hey, we can keep the ridges on the coins, but we can melt the coins down, and we’ll add some nickel and copper to the gold and silver, so that each coin will now have less of the “precious metal” in the coins.  Cool !   We’ll do that slowly so the people don’t notice the change in color of the coins; in fact, we can even add some “color” to them.       

 Next thing is that there are more of these “devalued” coins in the economy, and prices creep up.   The people (who were smart back then, not like today), say, “hey, who’s tampering with the money supply again?”   They go to the king and say, we want pure gold in the coins, not mixed metals.   So the king is forced to return to a pure-metal coin, and the money supply is REDUCED, and a depression follows, because the “funny money” was taken out of the economy.  (Look at our “coins” today – they are a mix of nickel, copper – alloys of no value – yet they have “ridges” on some of them!  LOL ! )    The people then clamor for help, because of the “depression”,  and the con men are ready and waiting to increase the money supply by whatever means, and the people are happy because they remember the “depression”.   So, they think “well, a little inflation is not bad”.    Enter Maynard Keynes, back in the first half of the l900’s, who conned the people of American with these very words.   

And the Federal Reserve bank.    “Hey, we can use paper instead of metals”.   But, we’ll start off by saying that the people can “redeem” the paper for actual gold in the bank if they want to.    We know that the people won’t actually do that, so we can print more dollars and they won’t even know it.       Ad nauseam.     

 In l971, President Nixon, said to all Americans “we will no longer redeem your dollars, which were “backed” by gold….but will just issue dollars that are printed on paper”.   No more gold backing.    Do you remember what happened to the price of gold during the ensuing money-printing party?   It went from $35 an ounce to over $800 an ounce by l980-l981.    The value of gold “spoke” to match the amount of paper dollars being issued.   

 Now, the problem for the governments is how to keep the price of gold from “speaking”, when they print mountains of dollars.   Simple.  They manipulate the price of gold.   Fraud.   Pure and simple.  Fraud. 

Since this l971 removal of “value” from backing our printed dollars, just look at the “party” these money-printers have had.   Today, there are so many trillions of dollars sloshing around in the world economy, that the entire world leaders know, and fear, that the “crash” will come, as certain as night follows day.  
They are living on borrowed time.

This is why the “economy” will be the central tent-post of “control” in the coming new world order.  

Back in the late l920’s, after the first world war, Germany was told to make “reparations”……What ?   Pay our good money out to the nations?   No way – we will “print” dollars.    That way we can
”cheat” those to whom we owe money, by giving them “devalued” deutchmarks.     Wow – read the history of what they did.    They printed so many worthless dollars, that it took wheel-barrows full of printed deutchmarks, just to buy a cup of coffee, and the price of the coffee would double right then and there when they were drinking it.   It totally collapsed the economy in Germany , and led to the people crying out for a “leader” to help them out of their “depression”.   Hitler waited in the wings to respond to the call, blaming the mess on the
“Jewish bankers." 

 Likewise, when this current global money-printing circus ends, the people of the world will say “someone help us!”  And those who have “planned” this will be ready with “their man”.   The book of Ecclesiastes says that what has happened before under the sun, will happen again ..... and God gave us a sneak preview of the coming tribulation years, in the events leading up to the “tribulation” of the Hitler years.  An economic collapse will be part of it. The “solution”, will be a world bank, world currency, that everyone who wants to partake of, will have to have the “mark”.  ( Revelation 13: 16--18 ; Rev. 14: 9--11 )

But, hey, here I go again.    If you want a hair-raising education on this huge con that has overtaken us in the last 100 years, I would recommend that you read the book “The Creature from Jekyll Island”……(you can get on E-Bay or Amazon.com).   It is the history of this secretive introduction of “central banks” into the world and the USA, and how they very much knew what they were doing, for they “implemented our federal reserve system with just a few legislators, while the majority of legislators were away for the Christmas holiday……they knew very well, these snakes, what they were doing………)   and how the great depression (reduction in the money supply) was even part of it…So many people have suffered so much at the hands of these devil-spawned liars.  

 Back to scripture:

What happens when “inflation” is created by governments?   You can all see, and know, that one of the effects of inflation, besides the increase in prices, is that there is a widening gulf between the “rich” and the “poor”.   You can see this happening today, in the on-going destruction of the middle class, and the poor just getting poorer and more desperate.   The “government’s” answer to this, just like Rome , is to provide “corn and circuses”.   Indeed, Rome built the amphitheaters, just to keep the masses “occupied”, while they ran their money-creating scam.    Should the people begin to “starve” during this process, well, give them “free corn”.   Hence in our days, “give them welfare”.   “give them television”…"hype the sports”….etc., etc.,    Must not have any wheels that squeak too loudly, or our game is done……..

The “elite” are the ones who benefit from all this new money, and they live a life of luxury…..that is why you see around you, the reduction in manufacturing jobs for the “poor”, but a huge increase in the “entertainment” and “travel / resort” industries.   Those industries which “serve” the rich, will be the ones that prosper.    Yes, some of the money finds its way to the poor, but the prices increase at a faster rate than the rate at which their wages grow.  

 In the verse from Revelation above, you can see that the rider on the horse has a pair of “balances” in his hand. First, let us see what the Word has to say about “balances” ... that is, the method of weighing weights for the purposes of trade……

Pr 11:1 -

A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

Pr 16:11 -

A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Pr 20:23 -

Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

God watches how the men of this world use “balances” in the carrying on of their trades.    A baker who measures flour with an “unjust” balance is cheating the customer.   A gas station that measures the gallons of gas unjustly for his own benefit is using an unjust balance.  

The rider on this horse above has a pair of balances in his hand….therefore, this horse speaks more of the ECONOMY, and weights and measures, than that of famine, which many conclude.   Notice that the common man has to work all day for just one loaf of bread “a measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny”, whereas the oil and the wine are not to be touched.   This verse shows the ever-widening gulf that will exist between the “elite”, who are able to indulge in their oil and wine (luxury goods), while the poor worker, works all day long just for one loaf of bread. Thus, the third horse, the black horse, shows that from the entrance of the antichrist onto the scene (the first horse), the powers that be, will indulge their ravenous hunger for “funny money” ever more, resulting in this poor man’s plight.  

We can see this process well under way at this time.   Jesus said, “when you BEGIN to see these things, look up, for your redemption draws nigh….”.    

Now, you can understand why I mentioned the verses I did in my letter of a couple days ago……go back and read it ‘IT’S THE ECONOMY, S------” if you did not read it.    Our Lord said that it would be more difficult for a ‘rich” man to enter the Kingdom, than for a camel to go through the eye of the needle.   The “Needle’s Eye”, was a gate in Jerusalem, where traders would enter the city with their camels…..it was often too narrow, for the camels laden with the goods, so they had to un-load the goods before getting the camel through, and then load them up again on the other side.    What Jesus meant was that any rich man would have to “unload” his riches, in order to get into the Kingdom.  

Now, can you see why the church of Laodicea is so repugnant to the Lord?   These complacent, rich, “Christians”, listening to the “prosperity” gospel, yet giving lip service to Christ, who had no home to lay His head, who took on poverty so that we might be rich (spiritually).   The Lord sees all these evil men fooling with our economy, and HE HATES IT.   He will judge them…..James says, “your gold and silver, will be cankered (rusted), and will burn your skin…

Do you see here how the gold and silver itself will be a “witness” against them?    The gold and silver is “rusted” – made useless.    This they also do by fraud.    This tampering with the precious-metal backing of currencies, will be the very witness against these people, that will cause them to “weep and howl”…….

 Brothers and sisters,  I pray for all of us, that He preserve us unto His coming, WHICH IS NEAR.    I can hear the rustling noises of that black horse, behind the gate. If you are currently suffering financial problems, have been (purposely) been relegated to the masses who are in “debt slavery”……..who have to work longer and longer, for less and less...be comforted, for this is a huge issue with our Lord, and about to be judged.    
I hope this helps some of you to understand what is going on.  

The economy is on the verge of the most monumental collapse that the world has ever seen in it’s history, globally.     When it does, the money printers will be right there with their “answer”.    Do you think it will be a “fair” solution to the masses? God knows, and we know, what they will do.     

Until then, be in as much peace as possible, while we wait for Him...
Your sister in Christ, Arlene 

Commentaries:

As Seinfeld would say "I think you've got something here!"  Everything you said is scripturally sound.  I've never taken the economic admonitions of the Bible and applied them to the economy in this way before.  There are so many "strange" things happening in the US and World economy today that none of our economists can explain so they make any sense, that all become crystal clear when your scriptural examination is applied.  Of course, we all know that God is in control of everything.  But it becomes really clear that God is now
quickly winding up things in the Church Era when one views our economy using your economic analysis. Thanks Arlene for giving us another perspective.  Get ready 'cause we're all gonna meet him in the air really soon.
YBIC
Jim O'Riley

Arlene has found a truth

It was evident shortly after the 2000 national elections that [ the Administration ] was intent on pursuing domestic and international policies that have the net result of removing dollars from poor and middle class Americans and giving them to wealthy individuals and large multinational corporations. As [ this ] behavior continued in this manner, I found it unbelievable that Christians in general do not realize that [ the Administration ] places more value on money than on human life and does not understand the biblical perspective on wealth as so well catalogued by Arlene.

Think well on [ the Administration's ] economic moves and policies... as it becomes harder for you pay bills; as your children face the real possibility that their economic condition might never match-- let alone exceed-- their parents, for the first time in America's history. Now that bankruptcy rules have changed to practically eliminate it, ponder what will happen to those that do not own their home free and clear, when the housing bubble bursts and interest rates soar to keep up with the money printing presses. As an example, compare maximum credit card interest rates from 1995-1998 with those on the next statement you get in the mail. Do the math, and pray for the rapture to come sooner rather than later!
-- John Keebaugh