“Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants – but debt is the money of slaves.” - Norm Franz
"Debt — Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty." - Saul Alinsky, 'How to Create a Socialist State'
If you have ever driven on an expressway, you know that if your drive 70 (actual speed limit, for example) 99% of all vehicles will eventually pass you. If you want to drive in the left lane, the minimum speed is at least 80mph. Yet I seldom see any cops having stopped anyone.
I see a few of them along the road in waiting, but what are they waiting for? The guy doing 90mph? Remember speeders, the higher the over-the-limit the greater the fines and the more goes into government coffers.
Still the roads are as crappy as ever and the insurance companies love to charge you more for tickets every month.
Great post, Michael. Speaking of confiscation or lack of ownership, I suggest you read The Great Taking (TGT) by David Webb. You mistakenly may believe you own (in the sense of a property right) stocks in your brokerage account and cash in your checking and/or savings account at your bank. Arguably and practically you do until TGT. TGT is a real risk, albeit, hopefully, a very low one. It may be the Globalists trump card. Please check it out.
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.
Heavenly father warns us not to ever get into or live in debt. Obviously a mortgage is slightly different, but if you can't afford a car or certain items that are needs not greeds than to save up for it, not be applying for credit for things you can't as yet afford or that are completely unecessary. God knows what we need & will provide. Only recently my washing machine went kaput and then He arranged & provided for a second hand washing machine for nothing for me. We are not to love the world or the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live unto the ages. (1 John 2)
Jesus tells us we cannot serve two masters, for either we will hate the one & love the other. Or else he will hold fast to the one & despise the other. You cannot serve God & mammon or have a love for it. Mt 6:24
We are not to be slaves to mammon or making it as master or as a god over us, as Jesus sets all those his free, emancipates us from mental & physical slavery & from being lovers of pleasures & lovers of self, to no longer be under the lordship of greed, unrighteousness, unchastity, or lying. Confessing, declaring that Jesus Christ is Lord & King making him all in all. He tells us not to worry about our life, what we will eat, or what we will drink. Nor about our body what we will put on, for our life is more than food & the body more than clothing? Mt 6:25 & that the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Rom 14:17
Jesus want saying it's wrong to plan for the future or to budget our money well, God's money for all is from him & of him, we are but His stewards of all He blesses us with upon this realm & dimension. That our father in heaven will provide for our needs if we are putting & seeking, pursuing God's heavenly kingdom & His righteousness first in our lives & all these things will be added to us. Please see Matthew chapter 6, To not labour after food that perishes.
We are not promised that our wants will be provided for, but absolutely our needs. We have renounced the world & are crucified to it as it is to us, we have cast away it's riches & splendour and died to our carnal fleshly desires of covetousness & lusts of greediness in the faith of spiritual grace & are walking according to the spirit, finding our complete fulfilment & contentment in our holy intimacy of companionship & fellowship with Jesus & heavenly father, for the joy of the Lord is our strength. So we should only ask for food & clothing. For our beloved Jesus instructs us 'Whoever does not forsake all that he has cannot be my disciple' Lk 14:33 Jesus reminds us; Therefore for not worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow will worry about itself. Sufficient for each day is it's own trouble. Mt 6:34 Heavenly father knows what we need, but not to have anxious care over the things of this world let us adhere to the Father alone as in imitation of that if children & depends upon Him alone.
We are given spiritual vision of lenses in our eyes to see material things & life through God's eyes not the eyes of the fallen flesh. When people would rather die than to live without their riches or whom want to store & accumulate treasures upon this earth through more & more earthly posessions in earthly storehouses, but then plead their hearts are actually in heaven the eye of their soul is truly evil. These are all temporal & subject to decay, rust, fire, floods & thieves. We cannot take any of these earthly things with us when we die. 1 Tim 6:7
Because as Jesus warns us that is not how eternity works. "For where your heart is, there your treasure will be also." Mt 6:21; 19-20; Lk 12:22-34 We cannot be saved without loving obedience to Jesus dwelling in us and the holy spirits infiling as he himself teaches us. And in sharing & being a cheerful giver too as His holy spirit leads!
James 1:1Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. 4 Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5 You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.
Philippians 4: 11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 12I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
1 Timothy 6:6 Now godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8 And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Funny how so many of these same things are being said as well on so-called leftist forums. Culture war issues are mattering less and less as it becomes more and more difficult to live. There is great unrest coming. People who are secure and happy do not revolt. People who are desperate do. People voted for Trump because they are desperate, but he isn’t going to fix any of this. People will then not have anything else to turn to. It is not going to be pretty.
“Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants – but debt is the money of slaves.” - Norm Franz
"Debt — Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty." - Saul Alinsky, 'How to Create a Socialist State'
Keep an eye on if Europeans and UK get their finances confiscated to pay Perpetual War bills in Ukraine.
If you have ever driven on an expressway, you know that if your drive 70 (actual speed limit, for example) 99% of all vehicles will eventually pass you. If you want to drive in the left lane, the minimum speed is at least 80mph. Yet I seldom see any cops having stopped anyone.
I see a few of them along the road in waiting, but what are they waiting for? The guy doing 90mph? Remember speeders, the higher the over-the-limit the greater the fines and the more goes into government coffers.
Still the roads are as crappy as ever and the insurance companies love to charge you more for tickets every month.
Great post, Michael. Speaking of confiscation or lack of ownership, I suggest you read The Great Taking (TGT) by David Webb. You mistakenly may believe you own (in the sense of a property right) stocks in your brokerage account and cash in your checking and/or savings account at your bank. Arguably and practically you do until TGT. TGT is a real risk, albeit, hopefully, a very low one. It may be the Globalists trump card. Please check it out.
So thankful I am not in many of the situations listed above. Thank goodness Biden forgave my student loan. That was my only snag.
Revelation 6:6
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.
In the end, the people will lie at the feet of the rulers and say:
"Make us your slaves, but feed us"
The slaves will love their servitude.
Heavenly father warns us not to ever get into or live in debt. Obviously a mortgage is slightly different, but if you can't afford a car or certain items that are needs not greeds than to save up for it, not be applying for credit for things you can't as yet afford or that are completely unecessary. God knows what we need & will provide. Only recently my washing machine went kaput and then He arranged & provided for a second hand washing machine for nothing for me. We are not to love the world or the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live unto the ages. (1 John 2)
Jesus tells us we cannot serve two masters, for either we will hate the one & love the other. Or else he will hold fast to the one & despise the other. You cannot serve God & mammon or have a love for it. Mt 6:24
We are not to be slaves to mammon or making it as master or as a god over us, as Jesus sets all those his free, emancipates us from mental & physical slavery & from being lovers of pleasures & lovers of self, to no longer be under the lordship of greed, unrighteousness, unchastity, or lying. Confessing, declaring that Jesus Christ is Lord & King making him all in all. He tells us not to worry about our life, what we will eat, or what we will drink. Nor about our body what we will put on, for our life is more than food & the body more than clothing? Mt 6:25 & that the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Rom 14:17
Jesus want saying it's wrong to plan for the future or to budget our money well, God's money for all is from him & of him, we are but His stewards of all He blesses us with upon this realm & dimension. That our father in heaven will provide for our needs if we are putting & seeking, pursuing God's heavenly kingdom & His righteousness first in our lives & all these things will be added to us. Please see Matthew chapter 6, To not labour after food that perishes.
We are not promised that our wants will be provided for, but absolutely our needs. We have renounced the world & are crucified to it as it is to us, we have cast away it's riches & splendour and died to our carnal fleshly desires of covetousness & lusts of greediness in the faith of spiritual grace & are walking according to the spirit, finding our complete fulfilment & contentment in our holy intimacy of companionship & fellowship with Jesus & heavenly father, for the joy of the Lord is our strength. So we should only ask for food & clothing. For our beloved Jesus instructs us 'Whoever does not forsake all that he has cannot be my disciple' Lk 14:33 Jesus reminds us; Therefore for not worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow will worry about itself. Sufficient for each day is it's own trouble. Mt 6:34 Heavenly father knows what we need, but not to have anxious care over the things of this world let us adhere to the Father alone as in imitation of that if children & depends upon Him alone.
We are given spiritual vision of lenses in our eyes to see material things & life through God's eyes not the eyes of the fallen flesh. When people would rather die than to live without their riches or whom want to store & accumulate treasures upon this earth through more & more earthly posessions in earthly storehouses, but then plead their hearts are actually in heaven the eye of their soul is truly evil. These are all temporal & subject to decay, rust, fire, floods & thieves. We cannot take any of these earthly things with us when we die. 1 Tim 6:7
Because as Jesus warns us that is not how eternity works. "For where your heart is, there your treasure will be also." Mt 6:21; 19-20; Lk 12:22-34 We cannot be saved without loving obedience to Jesus dwelling in us and the holy spirits infiling as he himself teaches us. And in sharing & being a cheerful giver too as His holy spirit leads!
James 1:1Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. 4 Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5 You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.
Philippians 4: 11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 12I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
1 Timothy 6:6 Now godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8 And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
James 5:1-6; James 1:1-27; James 2:14-17; 1 John 3:16-18
Funny how so many of these same things are being said as well on so-called leftist forums. Culture war issues are mattering less and less as it becomes more and more difficult to live. There is great unrest coming. People who are secure and happy do not revolt. People who are desperate do. People voted for Trump because they are desperate, but he isn’t going to fix any of this. People will then not have anything else to turn to. It is not going to be pretty.
55 ways you consent to be raped.
Really good. At least the US does not have VAT like other countries. Yet.
Great article, Michael. Linking it tomorrow @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/