Like many people, I went through a period of youthful rebellion, during which I questioned a number of things that I had been taught – including many things that were supposedly “Biblical”.<\/p>\n
I still recognize that a great many people will do everything possible to deny that the Bible contains Truth<\/em>, but\u00a0will somehow listen when that understanding directly affects their wallet.\u00a0 And somehow that is particularly poignant now that it has become increasingly obvious that we are heading into a genuine Depression – and those who know what the Bible has to say about economics saw something years ago that Fed chairmen and Treasury Secretaries still try to deny:<\/p>\n we reap what we sow.<\/strong><\/p>\n And there really IS “nothing new under the sun<\/em>“.\u00a0\u00a0 The deadly seeds of debt that are now rooted so deeply have been repeated many times in the past, although arguably never so extensively.\u00a0 Even those who admit to Biblical illiteracy somehow seem to know\u00a0that “the debtor is slave to the lender<\/em>” (from Proverbs 22:7).\u00a0 I submit that we are beginning to understand why…but ONLY just beginning.<\/p>\n The biggest, and perhaps most important, element of what the Bible teaches directly about economics is repeated many times, including Deuteronomy 25:13, 14, and 15.\u00a0 Remember as well that He repeats something for a reason!\u00a0 Those verses say that we are to have honest or “just” weights and measures.\u00a0 We are not, in other words, to defraud one another by having “diverse” measures – a BIG one for when I measure out my part of the deal, and a small one for the “other side” of the trade.<\/p>\n Most importantly, perhaps, is what now passes for money<\/em> itself — a debt “note” that is redeemable for nothing, and which is denominated in a unit of measure that no longer has any meaning..\u00a0 As such, it is the ultimate example of a “dishonest weight”.\u00a0 The Book of Proverbs alone actually calls such dishonesty an “abomination” before God no less than a half dozen times.\u00a0 (Take a look at places like v. 11:1, 20:10, 20:23, \u00a0just for starters.)<\/p>\n Many people, too, can quote the famous line that “the love of money is the root of all evil<\/em>” — although some tend to misquote the verse, and leave out the key words “love of<\/em>“!\u00a0 Still more problematic, however, is the fact that what passes for “money” today would have been recognized as a fraud by all those who read Paul’s original letter!<\/p>\n Everything our Savior taught is EXPLICITLY consistent with what He said when He Wrote it to begin with.\u00a0 But because we are told that those who had already taken it upon themselves to perform forbidden “additions” to His Word were trying to trick or entrap Him, some of those subtle distinctions He made are thus VERY interesting.<\/p>\n There has never been a fully “fiat” money (meaning “faith based”\u00a0– in man) \u00a0which has survived for very long.\u00a0 Once fallen men\u00a0begin to rely on the power to print “money\u00a0from nothing”, the (generally inflationary) collapse becomes inevitable, even though extraordinary measures are being used to prolong the inevitable.\u00a0 “Quantitave easing” amounts to little more than the purchase of\u00a0US debt with newly-printed money.\u00a0\u00a0Official figures\u00a0that purport to show “green shoots” are lies based on twisted statistics.\u00a0 (See John William’s\u00a0fine work\u00a0at www.shadowstats.com<\/a> for details.)\u00a0 From “hedonic” adjustments, rent ‘equivalents’,\u00a0and open\u00a0fraud like removing\u00a0prices for\u00a0food and fuel — used to hide real inflation — to unemployment data manipulation, all such “false witness” is ulitimately nothing but an attempt to cover up one type of fraud (dishonest weights and measures)\u00a0with others.<\/p>\n Eventually even the most maniputlated markets, and gullible participants, will no longer be able to deny the truth.<\/p>\n It is important to remember that the prudent man sees danger and takes warning.\u00a0 Whether that includes such simple measures as coming out of debt, or trading fiat paper for gold and\u00a0pre-1964 silver coins, it is time to “come out of her<\/em>“.\u00a0Those who seek to follow Him, and be obedient to His Word, must\u00a0begin to learn to deal honestly with one another again as the corrupt system is judged, and collapses.\u00a0 What will replace it is something about which we have already been warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like many people, I went through a period of youthful rebellion, during which I questioned a number of things that I had been taught – including many things that were supposedly “Biblical”. I still recognize that a great many people … Continue reading