11 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Should Be Abolished

If the American people truly understood how the Federal Reserve system works and what it has done to us, they would be screaming for it to be abolished immediately.  It is a system that was designed by international bankers for the benefit of international bankers, and it is systematically impoverishing the American people.  The Federal Reserve system is the primary reason why our currency has declined in value by well over 95 percent and our national debt has gotten more than 5000 times larger over the past 100 years.  The Fed creates our “booms” and our “busts”, and they have done an absolutely miserable job of managing our economy.  But why do we need a bunch of unelected private bankers to manage our economy and print our money for us in the first place?  Wouldn’t our economy function much more efficiently if we allowed the free market to set interest rates?  And according to Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, the U.S. Congress is the one that is supposed to have the authority to “coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures”.  So why is the Federal Reserve doing it?  Sadly, this is the way it works all over the globe today.  In fact, all 187 nations that belong to the IMF have a central bank.  But the truth is that there are much better alternatives.  We just need to get people educated. (Read More….)

20 Signs That The Next Great Economic Depression Has Already Started In Europe

By Michael, on April 29th, 2013

The next Great Depression is already happening – it just hasn’t reached the United States yet.  Things in Europe just continue to get worse and worse, and yet most people in the United States still don’t get it.  All the time I have people ask me when the “economic collapse” is going to happen.  Well, for ages I have been warning that the next major wave of the ongoing economic collapse would begin in Europe, and that is exactly what is happening.  In fact, both Greece and Spain already have levels of unemployment that are greater than anything the U.S. experienced during the Great Depression of the 1930s.  Pay close attention to what is happening over there, because it is coming here too.  You see, the truth is that Europe is a lot like the United States.  We are both drowning in unprecedented levels of debt, and we both have overleveraged banking systems that resemble a house of cards.  The reason why the U.S. does not look like Europe yet is because we have thrown all caution to the wind.  The Federal Reserve is printing money as if there is no tomorrow and the U.S. government is savagely destroying the future that our children and our grandchildren were supposed to have by stealing more than 100 million dollars from them every single hour of every single day.  We have gone “all in” on kicking the can down the road even though it means destroying the future of America.  But the alternative scares the living daylights out of our politicians.  When nations such as Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy tried to slow down the rate at which their debts were rising, the results were absolutely devastating.  A full-blown economic depression is raging across southern Europe and it is rapidly spreading into northern Europe.  Eventually it will spread to the rest of the globe as well.

The following are 20 signs that the next Great Depression has already started in Europe…

#1 The unemployment rate in France has surged to 10.6 percent, and the number of jobless claims in that country recently set a new all-time record.

#2 Unemployment in the eurozone as a whole is sitting at an all-time record of 12 percent.

#3 Two years ago, Portugal’s unemployment rate was about 12 percent.  Today, it is about 17 percent.

#4 The unemployment rate in Spain has set a new all-time record of 27 percent.  Even during the Great Depression of the 1930s the United States never had unemployment that high.

#5 The unemployment rate among those under the age of 25 in Spain is an astounding 57.2 percent.

#6 The unemployment rate in Greece has set a new all-time record of 27.2 percent.  Even during the Great Depression of the 1930s the United States never had unemployment that high.

#7 The unemployment rate among those under the age of 25 in Greece is a whopping 59.3 percent.

#8 French car sales in March were 16 percent lower than they were one year earlier.

#9 German car sales in March were 17 percent lower than they were one year earlier.

#10 In the Netherlands, consumer debt is now up to about 250 percent of available income.

#11 Industrial production in Italy has fallen by an astounding 25 percent over the past five years.

#12 The number of Spanish firms filing for bankruptcy is 45 percent higher than it was a year ago.

#13 Since 2007, the value of non-performing loans in Europe has increased by 150 percent.

#14 Bank withdrawals in Cyprus during the month of March were double what they were in February even though the banks were closed for half the month.

#15 Due to an absolutely crippling housing crash, there are approximately 3 million vacant homes in Spain today.

#16 Things have gotten so bad in Spain that entire apartment buildings are being overwhelmed by squatters…

A 285-unit apartment complex in Parla, less than half an hour’s drive from Madrid, should be an ideal target for investors seeking cheap property in Spain. Unfortunately, two thirds of the building generates zero revenue because it’s overrun by squatters.

“This is happening all over the country,” said Jose Maria Fraile, the town’s mayor, who estimates only 100 apartments in the block built for the council have rental contracts, and not all of those tenants are paying either. “People lost their jobs, they can’t pay mortgages or rent so they lost their homes and this has produced a tide of squatters.”

#17 As I wrote about the other day, child hunger has become so rampant in Greece that teachers are reporting that hungry children are begging their classmates for food.

#18 The debt to GDP ratio in Italy is now up to 136 percent.

#19 25 percent of all banking assets in the UK are in banks that are leveraged at least 40 to 1.

#20 German banking giant Deutsche Bank has more than 55 trillion euros (which is more than 72 trillion dollars) of exposure to derivatives.  But the GDP of Germany for an entire year is only about 2.7 trillion euros.

Yes, U.S. stocks have been doing great so far this year, but the truth is that the stock market has become completely and totally divorced from economic reality.  When it does catch up with the economic fundamentals, it will probably happen very rapidly like we saw back in 2008.

Our politicians can try to kick the can down the road for as long as they can, but at some point the consequences of our foolish decisions will hunt us down and overtake us.  The following is what Peter Schiff had to say about this coming crisis the other day…

“The crisis is imminent,” Schiff said.  ”I don’t think Obama is going to finish his second term without the bottom dropping out. And stock market investors are oblivious to the problems.”

“We’re broke, Schiff added.  ”We owe trillions. Look at our budget deficit; look at the debt to GDP ratio, the unfunded liabilities. If we were in the Eurozone, they would kick us out.”

Schiff points out that the market gains experienced recently, with the Dow first topping 14,000 on its way to setting record highs, are giving investors a false sense of security.

“It’s not that the stock market is gaining value… it’s that our money is losing value. And so if you have a debased currency… a devalued currency, the price of everything goes up. Stocks are no exception,” he said.

“The Fed knows that the U.S. economy is not recovering,” he noted. “It simply is being kept from collapse by artificially low interest rates and quantitative easing. As that support goes, the economy will implode.”

So please don’t think that we are any different from Europe.

If the United States government started only spending the money that it brings in, we would descend into an economic depression tomorrow.

The only way that we can continue to live out the economic fantasy that we see all around us is by financially abusing our children and our grandchildren.

The U.S. economy has become a miserable junkie that is completely and totally addicted to reckless money printing and gigantic mountains of debt.

If we stop printing money and going into unprecedented amounts of debt we are finished.

If we continue printing money and going into unprecedented amounts of debt we are finished.

Either way, this is all going to end very, very badly.

 The Economic Collapse

The Second Reason To Firmly Believe In A Pre Trib Rapture – God’s Wrath {Video}

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  Scott Hull

In Revelation 6:15-17 we learn the Tribulation is a time of God’s wrath being poured out on the “earth-dwellers.”[1]
15And the kings of the earth, the great men, £the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, 16and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”

Yet 1Thessalonians 5:9-11 we read,
9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. 11 Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.

Those who’ve been born again are not appointed to God’s wrath yet that is precisely what the Tribulation is – the hour [time-period] of God’s wrath, testing the hearts of the earth-dwellers.

God’s wrath against sin was fully satisfied in the Cross of Jesus Christ. When Jesus declared, “It is finished” He meant the holy demands of God’s justice were completely satisfied.

Jesus took our place on the Cross as the object of God’s wrath. Therefore, it would be unjust for God to inflict His wrath on us. Christians won’t be here for the Tribulation because it is the hour of God’s wrath we’ve already been saved from!

This week on ‘The Hal Lindsey Report’ April 5th, 2013 {Video}

By Hal Lindsey 

Cyprus is a small island in the Mediterranean Sea. It lies just 200 miles off the coast of Israel. According to scripture, Barnabas hailed from Cyprus. It was there that Paul began his first missionary journey.

At various times, Cyprus has been in the news because it is claimed by both the Greeks and the Turks. In fact, the Turkish Cypriots live in the northern part of the island and the Greek Cypriots in the south. They even have a UN-supervised line of demarcation that separates the two.

In the last few years, large gas and oil reserves have been discovered off the coast of Cyprus. This has focused international attention on the tiny republic and caused a great deal of internal strife over the distribution of the new found revenues.

Recently, Cyprus has been in the news for quite another reason. One that will have repercussions that may one day be felt here in America.

As a nation, Cyprus, and more particularly its banking sector, have fallen on hard times. So hard, in fact, that without a bailout loan of many billions, the nation faces bankruptcy.

To make a long and painful story short, a group of money powers known as “The Troika,” which consists of the European Union, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, agreed to help the island nation.

But, unlike their bailouts of other European nations like Spain or Greece, this time the Troika demanded more than a tightening of the belt or an increase in income tax revenues or the addition of a national value-added tax. This time, they demanded that Cyprus arbitrarily invade the bank accounts of ordinary citizens and confiscate 7 to 10% in order to help repay the debt.

Cyprus is as an offshore financial shelter for many Russians, like the Caymans for many Americans. Russian president Vladimir Putin was furious over the demand. He protested loudly and angrily. So did the Cypriots themselves.

In fact, their House of Representatives voted to reject the imposition of a tax on smaller accounts, but faced with impending default, acquiesced to a tax on larger accounts. Strangely, so did Putin. In fact, for some reason he agreed to keep his mouth shut when the dust settled and up to 60% of savings accounts in excess of 100,000 Euros was confiscated by the government.

To prevent a run on the banks that would collapse the system, the government abruptly closed Cyprus’s banks. What was supposed to be 24 hours turned into two weeks!

What if — without warning — you were told you couldn’t withdraw money from your bank for two weeks?

Can you think of any action the world powers could take that would send a greater chill through the world banking and financial sectors than arbitrary confiscation of private funds to pay debts run up by socialist politicians? And we’ve all seen what can happen when there are crises in the banking and financial markets!

Will that happen here? To paraphrase our nation’s founders, what Big Brother gives, Big Brother can take away! Unfortunately, it’s already happening, but through cleverly disguised “fees” and “account charges.” Even more subtly, the same thing is happening to us when the Federal Reserve System prints money backed by nothing and floods the markets. Every dollar printed causes the value of every dollar in your wallet to decrease. The Treasury agents might as well show up at your house and demand that you give them your wallet!

You may be asking yourself, “How does this concern me?” Well, even though the economy of Cyprus is smaller than the smallest state in our union, it’s conceivable that a collapse there could trigger other collapses in the Eurozone and spark a complete meltdown. If nothing else, the whole affair is undermining already shaky confidence in European banks and financial markets.

All it takes is a trigger, a lead domino to fall and start the whole chain collapsing. This crisis illustrates just how close we may be to the final meltdown that will open the door to the Antichrist.

President Obama’s recent trip to the Middle East proved to be nothing more than a PR tour comprised of photo-ops and displays of “feel good” statesmanship. He made some admirable pronouncements about the strength of the friendship between Israel and the United States. He also issued some stern warnings to Iran, but nothing we’ve not heard before.

Probably the most important incidents that occurred during the trip were largely ignored by the media. The President’s visit to a display of the Dead Sea Scrolls seemed to prompt an admission that the Jews’ ties to Israel extend into ancient history. This is something of a significant development for the President. He has previously seemed to believe that the Jews are in Israel as the world’s sympathetic response to the Holocaust.

Second, in a rather awkwardly contrived moment, the President apparently forced Prime Minister Netanyahu into issuing an apology of sorts to Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan for the Mavi Mamara incident during the 2010 Egyptian-Israeli blockade of Gaza. It caused the deaths of nine Turkish militants. But maybe some good will come of it if it eases tensions between the two former allies.

Finally, last week the Supreme Court held hearings on the constitutionality of two cases related to same-sex marriage. Proposition 8 is an amendment to California’s constitution, duly passed by its citizens, that restricts marriage to a man and a woman. The second is a federal statute overwhelmingly passed by both houses of Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996. It’s known as the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA. It effectively requires inter-state recognition of marriages only between a man and a woman. It also limits federal benefits only to opposite-sex marriages.

The factor that makes these two cases unique is that both governments who are charged with enforcing these laws — California and the federal government — refuse to defend them in court. And some of the justices on the highest court believe that the citizens themselves have no “standing” to defend them.

Though we probably won’t know the Court’s rulings for several months, this could be a watershed moment in our nation’s history. Obviously, if they strike down both of those laws, it will mean that same-sex marriage will be legal throughout the nation. But even if they decline to rule for “technical” reasons, and allow the current lower court ruling voiding Proposition 8 to stand, it will mean that every law passed by a majority of citizens of any state can be annulled simply by the elected officials refusing to defend them in court.

That means that we may be on the verge of a complete takeover of the legislative and electoral process by the US court system — and unscrupulous politicians. God help us if that happens.

I believe this issue — the obliteration of the divine institution of marriage between a man and a woman (which has been practiced by all civilizations for thousands of years) and the subsequent acceptance and celebration of same-sex marriage — may well be the issue that finally brings physical persecution to Christians in the United States. We are fast approaching the moment when we must decide to stand up and speak the truth of the Bible, and bear the consequences, or pointedly deny God’s Word and accept a concept that is, as Justice Alito noted, “newer than cell phones or the internet.”

Are you ready to stand up and be counted? I’ll begin that discussion this week and continue it in greater depth next week.

Don’t miss this week’s Report on TBN, Daystar, CPM Network, The Word Network, various local stations, www.hallindsey.com or www.hischannel.com. Check your local listings.

God Bless,

Hal Lindsey
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Why Is The World Economy Doomed? The Global Financial Pyramid Scheme By The Numbers

By Michael

Why is the global economy in so much trouble?  How can so many people be so absolutely certain that the world financial system is going to crash?  Well, the truth is that when you take a look at the cold, hard numbers it is not difficult to see why the global financial pyramid scheme is destined to fail.  In the United States today, there is approximately 56 trillion dollars of total debt in our financial system, but there is only about 9 trillion dollars in our bank accounts.  So you could take every single penny out of the banks, multiply it by six, and you still would not have enough money to pay off all of our debts.  Overall, there is about 190 trillion dollars of total debt on the planet.  But global GDP is only about 70 trillion dollars.  And the total notional value of all derivatives around the globe is somewhere between 600 trillion and 1500 trillion dollars.  So we have a gigantic problem on our hands.  The global financial system is a very shaky house of cards that has been constructed on a foundation of debt, leverage and incredibly risky derivatives.  We are living in the greatest financial bubble in world history, and it isn’t going to take much to topple the entire thing.  And when it falls, it is going to be the largest financial disaster in the history of the planet.

The global financial system is more interconnected today than ever before, and a crisis at one major bank or in one area of the world can spread at lightning speed.  As I wrote about yesterday, the entire European banking system is leveraged 26 to 1 at this point.  A decline in asset values of just 4 percent would totally wipe out the equity of many of those banks, and once a financial panic begins we could potentially see major financial institutions start to go down like dominoes.

We got a small taste of what that is like back in 2008, and it is inevitable that it will happen again.

Anyone that would tell you that the current global financial system is sustainable does not know what they are talking about.  Just look at the numbers that I have posted below.

The following is the global financial pyramid scheme by the numbers…

-$9,283,000,000,000 – The total amount of all bank deposits in the United States.  The FDIC has just 25 billion dollars in the deposit insurance fund that is supposed to “guarantee” those deposits.  In other words, the ratio of total bank deposits to insurance fund money is more than 371 to 1.

-$10,012,800,000,000 – The total amount of mortgage debt in the United States.  As you can see, you could take every penny out of every bank account in America and it still would not cover it.

-$10,409,500,000,000 – The M2 money supply in the United States.  This is probably the most commonly used measure of the total amount of money in the U.S. economy.

-$15,094,000,000,000 – U.S. GDP.  It is a measure of all economic activity in the United States for a single year.

-$16,749,269,587,407.53 – The size of the U.S. national debt.  It has grown by more than 10 trillion dollars over the past ten years.

-$32,000,000,000,000 – The total amount of money that the global elite have stashed in offshore banks (that we know about).

-$50,230,844,000,000 – The total amount of government debt in the world.

-$56,280,790,000,000 – The total amount of debt (government, corporate, consumer, etc.) in the U.S. financial system.

-$61,000,000,000,000 – The combined total assets of the 50 largest banks in the world.

-$70,000,000,000,000 – The approximate size of total world GDP.

-$190,000,000,000,000 – The approximate size of the total amount of debt in the entire world.  It has nearly doubled in size over the past decade.

-$212,525,587,000,000 – According to the U.S. government, this is the notional value of the derivatives that are being held by the top 25 banks in the United States.  But those banks only have total assets of about 8.9 trillion dollars combined.  In other words, the exposure of our largest banks to derivatives outweighs their total assets by a ratio of about 24 to 1.

-$600,000,000,000,000 to $1,500,000,000,000,000 – The estimates of the total notional value of all global derivatives generally fall within this range.  At the high end of the range, the ratio of derivatives to global GDP is more than 21 to 1.

Are you starting to get the picture?

Every single day, the total amount of debt will continue to grow faster than the total amount of money until the day that this bubble bursts.

What we witnessed back in 2008 was just a little “hiccup” in the system.  It caused the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, but global financial authorities were able to get things stabilized.

Next time it won’t be so easy.

The next wave of the economic collapse is quickly approaching.  A full-blown economic depression has already started in southern Europe.  Unemployment is at record highs and economic activity is contracting rapidly.

The major offshore banking centers in Cyprus are on the verge of collapsing.  It was just announced that they will now be closed until Tuesday, but nobody really knows for sure when they will be allowed to reopen.  And there is already talk that when they do reopen that there will be strict limits on how much money people can take out.

And now the IMF is warning that the three biggest banks in Slovenia are failing and that a billion euros will be needed to bail them out.

The dominoes are starting to tumble, and the United States won’t be immune.  In fact, the greatest financial problems that the United States has ever seen are on the horizon.

But you can just have faith that Ben Bernanke, Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress know exactly what they are doing and will be able to save us from the coming financial collapse if you want.

The mainstream media will provide you with all of the positive economic news that you could possibly want.  They are giddy about the fact that the Dow keeps hitting all-time highs and they would have us all believe that we are in the midst of a robust economic recovery.  You can listen to them if you want to.

But when you are tempted to believe that everything is going to be “okay” somehow, just go back and look at the numbers there were posted above one more time.

There is no way that the global financial pyramid scheme is going to be able to hold up for too much longer.  At some point it is going to totally collapse.  When that happens, will you be ready?

Engineered Economic Collapse, Martial Law, Dictatorship {IMPORTANT VIDEO}

                                             “Marxism in America”

Special Forces Lt. Gen. W.G. Boykin Warns of Engineered Economic Collapse, Martial Law, Dictatorship

By Lt. General Jerry Boykin

In this video entitled “Marxism in America” General Jerry Boykin discusses his background and training in understanding Marxist insurgencies and how current government actions parallel Marxist tactics.

YOU DON’T BELIEVE WE ARE LIVING IN THE LATTER DAYS JUST AS THE BIBLE FORETOLD? {VIDEO}

                          THE END OF THE AGE OF GRACE

“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.” 2Peter 3:3-4

  EARTH CHANGES

“And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.” Luke 21:11

SOCIAL DECAY & DECADENCE

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” 2Timothy 3:1-5

THE NEGATIVE SPIRITUAL SIGNS

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” 2Timothy 4:3-4

THE WORLD IN TURMOIL

“And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.” Matthew 24:6-7

  RAPID ADVANCES IN TECHNOLOGY

“Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.”              Luke 21:26

WHAT IS YOUR ETERNAL DESTINY? HEAVEN?

“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” John 14:1-3

            OR CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE?

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”                          Revelation 20:12-15

                  ARE YOU READY?

“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:” 1Thessalonians 4:16

FOR THE LORD TO GET HIS BRIDE?

“Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”                                1Thessalonians 4:17-18  Maranatha!

Encroaching Times

By Ron Graham

“And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.” Revelation 13:1. As planet earth takes on the appearance of what the Word of God plainly teaches us about the days of Noah and Lot, it seems many in the Christian community become more astonished at world events. The Bible gives us every reason to believe there will be an all encompassing world government in place in the last days which will be managed by the antichrist. The book of Daniel and the book of Revelation are our guides in learning what the antichrist has in store for planet earth.

Commerce has so fully connected all the nations of this planet, that what is emerging is a massive blending of earth’s cultures – for better or for worse. Most people don’t see the significant prophetic ramifications of such merging and blending. This mergence is all the design of the evil one to set up his all encompassing government. As we here in America watch our leaders reframe our nation into a Marxist socialistic society we can be assured these are the plans set down by Satan himself. Take a look around the nations of this world and you will see this same phenomenon occurring simultaneously wherever you set your gaze.

Many today are concerned about America’s economy yet see little to no significance that the worldwide economy is actually what’s in the enemy’s crosshairs. A huge majority of folks simply won’t see the big picture. They refuse to believe that one foreign nation’s economic downfall could bring chaos to the shores of America. Since many people these days have no use for God and scoff at His word they won’t know what’s coming until it hits them head on. That fact alone should give the rest of us cause to pause and reflect on biblical prophecy. Many simply shrug off the fact that Greece’s economy has flat lined. Greece’s economic problems have begun a ripple affect across Europe. What’s that all about? What does Greece have to do with the economy in the rest of Europe’s capitals? Or America for that matter? It’s simple really. We are now so connected financially to each other that as a world community every time a nation’s economy collapses the entire world economy will be adversely affected. Just as Greece has begun to scrape rock bottom, many other nations have begun their own decent into financial ruin. This, of course, will be miniscule in comparison to what will happen when the US economy finally gives way to all the false prosperity in which we have been immersed, especially within just the last four years. Certainly humanity is experiencing very strange times, some are quite fearful at what they see approaching.

If you are a Christian and you are fearful of the events currently shaping this world then you are falling for the enemy’s deceptive antics. Fear mongering is a goal of the evil one (Satan) as he attempts to gear up in his anticipation of the Rapture. Satan’s most debilitating tool is fear and he uses it quite efficiently. Many people fall for Satan’s lies, even Christians. This allows Satan to build strongholds that become huge stumbling blocks in a person’s life. When a Christian becomes overwhelmed with the fearful situations confronting them, it means they’ve lost sight of God. Who is it that gets us through our day by day struggles? Here’s a clue, His name is Jesus and He is our God and Saviour.

For many years contentment has been very high here in America. For the most part we’ve placated ourselves with a sense of false prosperity which led to a false security. This all occurred when we as a nation decided to leave behind the God of all creation and His precepts. In our world today many have journeyed into the realm of self-importance, self-reliance, self, self, self, which ultimately leads to self-destruction. When “self” becomes the overwhelming factor, thus power in a person’s life, they stop helping others as they stop relying on others for help. Here in America the majority of people now believe it is the government’s responsibility to take care of them, such as a parent would take care of their little child. In many of those cases these Americans believe it’s their right to live off the government dole – self-impotence.

Apparently some folks are waking up to the fact that America is not immune to the upheavals which occur in other nations. It has become obvious to some that we are no longer separated from the chaos that occurs on the other side of the globe. This is becoming a frightening fact that the self-absorbed in America have no concept of how to face. There are more than a few who have shrugged off America’s impending financial collapse, not to mention the very obvious truth that America herself has been transformed while moving “FORWARD” into the realm of the one world government/currency/ecumenical system which will be headed up by Satan himself.

“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;” Luke 21:25. Now that we can see the one world everything gathering steam we’ll begin to move into the arena Luke speaks about, that of distress of nations – perplexity. It’s the idea that we might actually feel some heat from all the current distress of nations that perplexes American’s. We can see the US is being destroyed from within and yet we are clueless and helpless as to how to stop the approaching disaster. A large number of manufacturing jobs have been relocated to other nations around the world leaving the American worker to try and survive on minimum wage incomes and/or handouts from the Federal and State governments. In the meantime, the cost of everything soars. Perplexing? Most assuredly.

“…there shall come in the last days scoffers…” 2 Peter 3:3. The Greek word “eschatos” is translated into our English word “last” and it actually means extreme or uttermost. I believe we are living in those extreme last days of which the Apostle Peter speaks. Being one who is continually confronted by scoffers I can tell you they have become quite common in these last days. Surely we must be very close to that “uttermost” time. If so, should we be all that surprised in regards to the strange even extreme worldwide events currently unfolding before us? Bible prophecy is God’s way of telling us what will occur in the future. Are we not now moving into exciting times in regards to how close the Rapture must be? Certainly to those who are lost the future that is approaching is one which will cause much anxiety and perplexity. Yet Christians should be comforted by the current state of worldwide affairs.

The conclusion we come to as we view our current state of worldwide events (nation against nation, kingdom against kingdom – wars, and rumors of wars, famines, earthquakes, pestilence – in divers places) is that the birth pangs Jesus speaks of in Matthew 24 are obviously upon us. Sadly, as this world moves ever closer to destruction, the majority of folks will turn to someone who has already convinced them that he can bring about a utopian existence to this crazy, seemingly out of control world.

I’ve read that many people are beginning to emigrate from the US in search of greener pastures. This is an exercise in futility. This world is going to be equally and adversely affected by the severity of a major economic, thus societal, collapse; no one nation will be better off than any other. You can run but you can’t hide.

Numerous websites are promoting preparedness in regards to what they see as an approaching collapse of our economy and the possibility of civil unrest. Preparedness is not a bad thing, in many cases being prepared for calamities, unforeseen circumstances, or even impending droughts will help those who are prepared make it through such events. Remember, the most important preparedness is being prepared for eternity. At this “eschatos” (extreme) point in time our eternal destiny should already be settled.

Being prepared for an eventual economic collapse will take a lot more than just a little food set aside. Preparing for civil unrest is going to be even more difficult, especially if the Feds are allowed to confiscate all the guns. Don’t forget about the Homeland Security and their recent purchase of enough hollow point ammo to shoot every American at least six times. Something evil this way comes – and he is the destroyer.

“And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.” Revelation 6:5-6. In the last days a full day’s wages will be necessary to purchase one meal, not everyone will be blessed with work and wages. Many see usefulness in stocking up on silver and gold as a solid and reliable form of currency in these last days. There is a line in the old song, “I Wish We’d All Been Ready” by the late Larry Norman, which says “a piece of bread will buy a bag of gold”. Well, that certainly sums up the usefulness of gold in the last days. No, what we should be stocking up on is treasures that will last for an eternity. What are those treasures? They are whatever the Holy Spirit leads you to be involved in during your life on earth.

The republic on which the US was founded is gone, probably forever. But the born again see a glorious future with the King of kings at the helm. Those who remain lost will never understand what awesome godly living is all about. Those who are born again will see glorious times on earth when the Lord returns with His saints and His Kingdom is ultimately established.

“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.” James 1:22. As we, the followers of Jesus Christ allow the Holy Spirit to work in our lives He moves us into the realm of establishing ourselves as doers of the word and not just hearers. As we are focused on doing God’s will for our lives, the many antics of the enemy cannot overcome us, and fear will not take seed in us. “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7. Therefore, fear not my brethren, Jesus is at the door.

God bless you all,

Ron Graham

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http://www.straitandnarrowministry.com

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ECONOMIC PROSPERITY IN 2013? …PART III …

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Before, we were the only ones saying this, but in recent years, several other organizations have become aware that this is the reality toward which the country is headed, to NAFTA. (Pr.David’bay)

Today, a great effort is being made to unite the U.S., Canada and Mexico in NAFTA, to create the North American Union and the economic plan “AMERO”, a plan they call “Prosperity Plan”.

  In the previous article, we showed some spots where the Global Elite is working towards a global transformation, where governments want a comprehensive peace, both in politics, as in economics and how religion. Check out the link here: https://www.facebook.com/RaptureIsImminent/posts/325515220885767

This week something happened that was already provided for in the plan Illuminati. It is no wonder that the immigration plan OBAMA vai open borders and unite Mexico with the U.S. and Canada. Vej there the news: http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/us-mexico-border-unmanned-border-crossing/story%3Fid%3D18115620

Comment: While America is surrendering its sovereignty to a regional government (NAU-NAFTA), we realize that this plan is exactly the plan “PROJECT:CLUB-OF-ROME”, which will fulfill the prophecy of Daniel 7:24. This prophecy says that ten kings shall arise, and after the ten kings, the next to rise will be the antichrist. We believe that each block of government represents a king, then the logic is:

1 – union North American = King is the president of the U.S.
2 – union European = King is the president of Western Europe
3 – union Russian = King is President of Eastern Europe
4 – union South American = King is the President of Brazil or Venezuela
5 – union African = King will chair North Africa
6 – union South African = King is the president of South Africa or Australia
7 – union Asian = King is the president of Indonesia or other
8 – union of the Pacific (Middle East) = the king will be the President of India and Persian
9 – union Japoness = King is the President of JAPAN
10-union China = the king will be the president of CHINA

So are ten blocks of government with regional economic blocs, led by a king specific. When the ten kings are ready, the next king will be the antichrist, who will join the blocks into a single block, and call the GLOBAL GOVERNMENT (NWO). Recalling that the regional economy (AMERO will be based on SDR’s in conjunction with the other currencies) will be protectionist, meaning that there will be war between the blocks because of this economic policy that will benefit America more than other blocks. We believe that this war is WW3, which will erupt soon after a peace agreement between the economically religious blocs. The Arab world will not accept this kind of government “prosperous”.

So when they say peace and safety, sudden destruction comes here.

According to the prophecy of Daniel 7:24, the Bible says:
Shortly after the ten kings, the next to rise is the antichrist. So when the ten kings are ready (peace and economic prosperity safety), something will happen, so that the antichrist will have to stand up to save the blocks that were once created, ie there will be war between the Arabs and Israel who will not agree with the policy of regional blocs, and the antichrist will save the world this war will spread between blocks, joining these blocks in a single block, in the middle of that war will be dissolving. He will do signs and wonders, and the whole world will deliver the power to he govern.

Starting hence the NWO (the pact) will be established, and, the prophecy of Daniel 9:27, will be fulfill.

If you doubt of the plans of the Global Elite, visit this link below here, where OBAMA says it will open the borders of NAFTA after November 2012. See here: http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/04/02/romney_campaign_embraces_radical_transparency

As you see, OBAMA made a promise: he said he would open the borders. Now, watch the news above, it says the same thing. OBAMA is trying to open the borders of Mexico and Canada.

We are approaching the hour, when the world will declare the world economic peace, and you already know what will happen next (1 Thessalonians 5:3)

“For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”

This is another sign that JESUS CHRIST IS COMING!!!

Maranatha!

AMERO…Conspiracy Theories About Money

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You’ve heard of the euro — now get ready for the Amero. Because the European Union’s single currency has been such a success (ahem), there are rumors that a single currency for North America, the Amero, is being prepped for circulation. Proponents argue that the Amero would be good for the economy because it would make trade easier and cheaper, as well as eliminate companies from taking jobs to Mexico because of its cheap labor. Detractors counter that the Amero would make the U.S. reliant on Mexico and Canada for monetary decisions.

http://www.costaricantimes.com/conspiracy-theories-about-money/10090

Conspiracy Theories About Money

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These are some fun conspiracy theories about money and currency in the United States.

MODERN SLAVERY

Slavery still exists, unseen, in modern day America. Thanks to student loans and mortgages, many people are hounded by creditors, losing their livelihood and finding it impossible to save for the future. Forced to work within the system, trading labor for bank notes, sending those bank notes back into the pockets of our lifelong lenders, Americans are slaves to their debt.

THE FEDERAL RESERVE

Its name implies that the country’s richest institution is run with federal oversight. But according to author David Graeber’s book Debt, “The Federal Reserve — despite its name — is technically not part of the government but a consortium of privately owned banks which otherwise operates without public oversight.” The Fed’s only government oversight is that the fact that the President appoints its Chairman.

ALL THE GOLD IN FORT KNOX

How many times have we heard the phrase “all the gold in Fort Knox”? While the adage about the United States Bullion Depository is probably true, there are some who think that Ft. Knox might actually be empty. Though it is widely believed that Knox holds about 3% of every refined piece of gold to have ever been made, there has not been a comprehensive audit of the facility’s wealth since 1953. So, no one really knows if all the shiny bars in there are real gold or just lead and paint.

ARE THE CHINESE MANIPULATING THEIR CURRENCY?

It depends on who you ask. Many small countries peg their currency to the euro or the dollar as a way to better manage their foreign exchange, which China technically doesn’t do with the renminbi. However, they take steps to ensure their currency holds less value than the dollar by buying U.S. Treasury notes with renminbi printed, thus also not incurring any debt. It also raises the demand (and the price) of dollars on the Chinese market. So why hasn’t Washington complained? Big business. Many of the companies that export from a China with an artificially low currency are run by Americans.

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT CAN’T PRINT ITS OWN CURRENCY

Amazingly, this is true. The most powerful nation on the planet doesn’t have the power to print its own debt-free money. Instead, it needs to order money from the Federal Reserve by swapping Treasury bonds for cash. The bonds are held by the Fed and make up most of the country’s debt, which means any debt problems the government faces come from their relationship with the Fed.

PRESIDENTIAL ASSASSINS INFLUENCE POLICY

If government debt is such a huge problem, why can’t Presidents create a debt-free currency? Actually, they have. Andrew Jackson abolished the Second Bank of the United States and withdrew all federal money. Lincoln issued “greenbacks” to Union soldiers to help defray the cost of the Civil War and Kennedy issued U.S. Bank Notes backed by the country’s silver reserves. Why didn’t these policies stick? Possibly because these men didn’t remain alive long enough to lobby for permanent change. Lincoln and Kennedy were assassinated and Jackson would have been as well, if his would-be assassin’s guns hadn’t misfired.

HIGHER EDUCATION: ANOTHER BUBBLE

Many think that the next financial bubble is higher ed. According to Peter Thiel, the bubble of higher education is going to burst and lead to economic collapse. The founder of PayPal (and Facebook’s angel investor) says education is “basically extremely overpriced. People are not getting their money’s worth, objectively, when you do the math.” Thiel believes that underemployed graduates who can’t make their loan payments will eventually strain the banking system to its breaking point.

INCOME TAXES ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL

The IRS says no, but vocal tax protestors say yes, using a variety of arguments to back up their “willful failure” to pay income tax. Tax deniers claim the sixteenth amendment was never properly ratified because Ohio wasn’t officially a state until 1953. Or that some of the statues written to enforce the amendment indicate the payment of income tax is voluntary. Taxes, they claim, are nothing more than “government sanctioned extortion.”

THE ROTHSCHILDS CONTROL THE WORLD’S MONEY SUPPLY
Arguably, the Rothschilds, one of the world’s wealthiest banking families, once controlled the flow of money, but they certainly aren’t at the peak of their power any longer. The empire had its glory days in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with their coup de grace coming in the form of a loan to the Bank of England to help defeat Napoleon. But today, with the rise of the World Bank, IMF, and WTO the Rothschilds no longer have enough assets to have a “controlling interest” in the world’s money supply. That conspiracy theory doesn’t pass muster.

THE ILLUMINATI AND THE DOLLAR BILL

If you believe that the Illuminati secretly control every aspect of society, you are probably aware they have put their stamp on the U.S. dollar bill. According to the Treasury, “The eye and triangular glory symbolize an all-seeing Deity. The pyramid is the symbol of strength and its unfinished condition denoted the belief… that there was still work to be done.” This may allude to the Illuminati and their all-seeing surveillance net. Illuminati references also show up in the Latin surrounding the pyramid, including this (translated from Latin): “announcing the birth of a new secular order.”

TOO BIG TO FAIL

After the financial markets imploded in 2008, the U.S. government bailed out insolvent banks that were judged “too big to fail.” While we’ll never know what would have happened to the economy without those bailouts, we do know that many financial institutions instead used the money to boost the salaries of their highest earners. “Too big to fail” really means huge corporations operate with the government’s guarantee on their assets, meaning they can access capital easier and cheaper, thus garnering more profits for themselves and their shareholders.

SUBPRIME MORTGAGES

One of the main scapegoats of the 2008 recession was all those homeowners who took out subprime mortgages on houses they couldn’t afford. While it is up to individuals to make smart decisions about how much house they can afford, banks should have also been more responsible about their lending practices and should not have tricked people into signing up for loans with artificially low interest rates.

THE AMERO

You’ve heard of the euro — now get ready for the amero. Because the European Union’s single currency has been such a success (ahem), there are rumors that a single currency for North America, the amero, is being prepped for circulation. Proponents argue that the amero would be good for the economy because it would make trade easier and cheaper, as well as eliminate companies from taking jobs to Mexico because of its cheap labor. Detractors counter that the amero would make the U.S. reliant on Mexico and Canada for monetary decisions. But while the idea of the amero is very real, it’s no closer to being implemented than a colony on the moon or water-powered cars