``A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.'' (Proverbs 22:3)
In the previous two issues, we examined the tremendous problems that have gripped our nation. We examined the scriptures and found that they fit into a biblical model, or pattern, of judgment upon a nation. We discussed how increased natural disasters--flooding (with simultaneous drought), cheapening of a nation's products (exports) and deteriorating leadership--are all signs of judgment. We also discussed that spilling blood in the land (abortion) can also lead to God's judgment on a nation.
In the final installment of this three-part series, we will deal with the remaining signs which indicate that our own nation is under judgment.
This means that our money is not worth the paper it is printed on.
Clearly, we fulfill this sign of judgment. In the last ten years, the U.S. has gone from the world's greatest lender to the world's largest debtor nation. In addition, there is no longer any gold or silver backing our currency. It is only backed by the ``full faith and trust of the United States Government'' ... which is on the road to default. The collapse may be forestalled for several years, but many credible individuals now say it is inevitable.
In spite of all the rhetoric on deficit reduction, it is just that. We have not balanced the budget, we are still spending billions more then we take in. Deficit reduction is not deficit elimination. It is just a feeble attempt to slow the rate at which we are adding to the national deficit. The government has already implemented the largest tax cut in history in an attempt to keep things afloat. They will contrive other mechanisms to secure your personal wealth.
For example, consider the National Health Care issue. It is not just about health care; it is about cash flow and control. The government already controls 53% of the health care dollar spent in this nation through Medicare and Medicaid. The National Health Care system will bring the rest of the cash flow under government control. As currently proposed, the health care program will be funded by still another payroll tax, and the government will most likely be sure there is a surplus flowing into the plan (just like there is in the Social Security System). This way, the funds can be diverted into the ``General Fund'' to help keep our government afloat.
There are other dangers with the Health Care Plan. Of special concern is the possibility that surpluses will be generated by curtailing health care to the elderly and to those who are not politically correct. Under the plan, as currently proposed, you will not be able to elect surgery. This will be done for you by a panel. If you are 75 years old and living on government payouts, do you think you will get care over someone younger who is still a ``contributing member of society''? Is forced euthanasia, by denying services, on the table? Perhaps. In Canada, which already has a socialistic Health Care System, the average wait for a heart transplant is seven years. What does that tell you?
And by the way, if you have money and try to circumvent the U.S. plan by paying the doctor directly for the care you need, the penalty is up to 15 years in jail for both the doctor and yourself.
As part of this system, every American will be given a national identification card (a ``smart card'' containing a computer chip). This will set the stage for a cashless society and open the door for one-world government control (which will ultimately conclude with the ``mark of the beast'' required to buy and sell [Rev. 13]). Some have already suggested that the ``smart card'' will not be enough and that an implant might be necessary to guarantee the identity of the person requesting health care.
Treasury bills (the vehicle through which we finance our national debt) are no longer being gobbled up by the Japanese and other foreign investors. Foreign investments in the U.S. have steadily declined from 67.9 Billion in 1989, to 45.1 billion in 1990, to 11.5 billion in 1991, to 2.4 billion in 1992. And for the first three months of 1993, down 3.9 billion.
Since the treasury bill action is the primary vehicle by which the U.S. government finances the ever-growing deficit, how do they insure the treasuries are purchased? By working with the Federal Reserve (an independent non-governmental organization, made up of six or seven of the world's largest banks) to force a large spread between short-term interest rates and long-term rates. So the banks are now able to pay its depositors under three percent on their deposits and then take that money and purchase treasury notes paying over six percent. They make over 100% profit, with no perceived risk and very little administrative overhead. The end result is that banks are now the number one buyer of treasury notes, and, therefore, most of the national debt is now held by the American public.
This was a very opportunistic move by the government. It has not only bailed out the banks from default (``bad'' real estate investments precipitated the Savings and Loan crisis), but has also bailed out the government from the verge of financial collapse. This temporarily saved the banks and the government but has made the average American the fall guy for the coming economic meltdown.
In a March 17, 1992 ``Wall Street Journal'' article, it was reported that the Federal Reserve has assumed a bigger share of the U.S. debt. Whatever debt was not sold through the treasury bill action is being financed by the Federal Reserve. How? With the stroke of a pen, on paper, they create bank reserves out of the air. Thin air is what is backing our paper currency. We have been off the gold standard for decades. The Federal Reserve continues to dilute the value of the dollar. Thus ``Dross has been added to the silver''.
Let's continue this scenario a bit further. The banks were bailed out but, with few exceptions, are apparently not investing in productive business loans. ``Time'' reported in its June 28, 1993 issue, in an article entitled ``Are the Banks Obsolete?'' that ``Not a single new dollar has been lent to businesses by banks in the last 27 months.''
Without capital, corporations cannot expand. Layoffs in the tens of thousands from companies like IBM, AT&T, NYNEX, Dupont, Proctor and Gamble, etc. are just the beginning. Where feasible, foreign markets will be exploited for cheap labor in an attempt to stay competitive. NAFTA set the stage for plant expansion not only in Mexico, but eventually in Brazil and other South American countries. This trend will not benefit indigenous U.S. companies.
The stock market has also benefited from the interest rate climate. Retirees and people who have never invested in the market before are now investing in droves. This allows the smart money, the big money, to manipulate the market and reap huge gains by methodically investing in one sector after another. That sector starts to rally, the new investment funds jump on the bandwagon, this sector goes up in price and the big money jumps out at a huge profit and plays the game all over again. This is possible because of the huge influx of money into the stock market.
Sooner or later, this cash inflow will stop. Investments will be liquidated as unemployment soars (now estimated at over eleven percent by independent analysis firms -- the number reported by the government does not include those who are no longer receiving unemployment). Individuals may also be scared out of the market due to the recent volatility caused by rising interest rates, international instability or falling corporate profits. In any event, when the market finally crashes, it is the average American who will be left holding the bag.
The Fed also realizes that this ``national debt funding vehicle'' can't last forever. So the question becomes: How are you going to finance the national debt when savings are coming out of the banks, foreign governments are no longer investing in the debt instruments of the U.S. government, and falling corporate earnings precipitate a financial crisis? Surely there must be a way out.
Well, as was mentioned earlier, the Federal Reserve is in essence printing more money to finance the treasury action shortfall. But this is inflationary. If inflation gets out of control, then the debt service on the national debt will likewise increase, causing the government to default. So the Federal Reserve will aggressively seek to keep inflation from getting worse by raising interest rates. However, if interest rates continue to increase, the money will flow out of the stock market and back into the banks, which will continue to buy up the national debt. This will, at the very least, bring about a so-called market correction (or crash).
But, if the stock market crashes, then the companies' access to capital through stock offerings is severely curtailed. If the banks won't lend them money, and they can't float successful stock issues, they can't get capital to expand and improve profitability. Lower profits mean less taxes to the government. The government has recently implemented the largest tax increase in the history of America. There will be more tax increases coming, but it can't go on forever. There is a limit.
If the government continues to raise taxes, then the taxpayers have less money to buy corporate goods. Corporations faced with less demand for product and increasing taxes will be forced to seek tax relief off-shores or cut their profit margins on goods sold in the U.S. This will escalate unemployment and reduce the tax revenue from corporations. It appears that there is a hard road ahead. If something is not done soon, we may be heading into the largest depression in U.S. history.
The Fed has already begun to ease up interest rates, ostensibly to curtail inflation before it starts its upward spiral. However, recognize that inflation figures quoted on the nightly news are truly bogus. They do not include income tax increases, property tax increases, increased new car costs, etc. Independent firms are currently reporting an annual inflation rate of nine percent.
If the government continues to print money, but at the same time adds to the national debt, the U.S. is most likely in for a period of hyperinflation. Interestingly, the book of Revelation talks about a time of hyperinflation where a whole day's wage will be required just to buy food for one person. According to the biblical account, based on one interpretation, this occurs around the time there is a tampering with the ``oil and the wine''. This author notes that last year the U.S. government tried to impose French import tariffs on primarily oil and wine.
Regardless of the scenario, circumstance or mechanism that judgment brings, it is clear that America is being impoverished. And if the government recognizes that financial collapse is impending (although it doesn't recognize the real reason for America's problems--Gods judgment), then it also must realize that anarchy is just ahead. It then becomes easier to understand the real reason for the big push to disarm America.
It is not difficult to see the real purpose for the ``national police force'' that was established with the passage of the Brady Bill. Control of the masses will be required if they are to surrender national sovereignty and become part of the ``new world order''. Why else the emphasis on outcome-based education to create politically correct individuals and the attempt by the administration to abolish home-schooling? Reading, writing and arithmetic are not important. What is important is having a proper world-view, accepting homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle, becoming politically correct. And a proper world-view rejects Christianity, with its belief that there is only one way to God -- that being through Jesus the Son.
We are under the chastening rod of judgment, and there is only one way to lift it from us. ``Return to me saith the Lord and I will return to you.''
If you are still not convinced, please read Deuteronomy 28 from the perspective of the United States of America. It is amazing how well we fit that biblical account. For example, verses 1-14 contain God's promises to a nation that is careful to fully obey God. Among other things, God promises that such a nation will lend to many nations, but will borrow from none. The LORD will make that nation the head and not the tail; they will always be at the top, never at the bottom.
These have always been the blessings of God upon the United States of America. A nation whose laws and constitution were based on the Bible, whose founding fathers were Christians who wrote religious tracts. A country who just 50 years ago taught religion in the public schools. In 1949, the Dallas public schools were using a text entitled The Lordship and Divinity of Jesus Christ.
We were indeed the head, lifted high above all nations. But we have erased God from public education. And now the leadership of this country has started an assault to erase God from every tenet of society. God will not stand for it. He will bring judgment, and only the true Christians will be protected through it.
In the second part of Deuteronomy 28, God says ``If you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.'' These include confusion and rebuke in everything we put our hand to, sudden ruin because of the evil done in forsaking him, incurable diseases (including tumors and festering sores, which sounds like AIDS and which is now running rampant through the college campuses of America and through the younger generation), scorching heat and drought, blight, mildew, the alien who lives among us rising above us higher and higher, while we are sinking lower and lower. The alien will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, but you will be the tail.
God goes on to say that because we did not serve the Lord our God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, we will serve the enemies the LORD sends against us. He will put an iron yoke on our neck until we are destroyed. And He closes by saying that if we ``..do not revere this glorious and awesome name--the LORD your God--the LORD will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses .... until you are destroyed.''
America is rapidly becoming a country that is playing the Harlot. We have turned from our godly heritage and have embraced a hedonistic lifestyle. Not only do we not revere the name of God, but we are trying to erase Him from everyday life. Consider God's words in the book of Hosea (4:1ff): ``Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the Land.''
Does this sound like the United States today? The removal of God from the midst of Israel yielded a sensual and merciless society. There was swearing, lying, killing, stealing, the committing of adultery, and bloodletting. God increased Israel's blessings while they obeyed Him, but the people turned from God. And God said: ``As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.'' (Hosea 4:7)
Will God do any less to the United States of America? As we were blessed by God and increased, we turned from Him and sinned; and now, as a result, God will bring all our glories to shame. No longer can we boast of having the best educational system, being the greatest economic power, having the best medical system, and so on. God is changing our glories into shame.
It is clear from the book of Isaiah, and elsewhere in the Bible, that God often uses one country to execute judgment on another. For example, He used Babylon (under the leadership of Nebuchadnezzar) to conquer Israel.
Today, because so many in the United States have rejected God, the nation is laboring under a strong delusion. We can no longer discern the truth (2 Thes 2:10-12). With the fall of communism and the breaking up of the USSR, many are convinced that Russia is our friend. We have shut down our early-warning radar systems, grounded our strategic bombers, closed our bases, and reduced troop strength. Everyone is crying ``Peace, Peace, but there is no peace.''
Russia continues to build its military machine at unprecedented rates. Intelligence reports indicate that Russia is building Typhoon class submarines (``Red Octobers'') at the rate of one every three weeks. Russia today is more dangerous then ever. Practically overnight the U.S. has dropped its defenses, inviting a preemptive first-strike by the sleeping Russian bear which will soon ``awake and devour much flesh.''
We seem to be living in an unprecedented time. The Berlin wall has come down and communism appears to be dead. It is almost too good to be true. And so it is. We are being deceived. To understand the basis of the deception, you need to understand the Soviet Dialectic Philosophy of deception, designed to get their adversary to drop their guard. Think not?
Anatoli Goletsin wrote a book in 1984 called New Lies for Old. He was a KGB Major who defected to the USA. He documented the Russian plans to deceive the West. They include:
1) False liberalization will be introduced in Eastern Europe & USSR. Auspicious independence will be exhibited by Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Poland.
2) The West will accept Solidarity in Poland as a spontaneous occurrence, compatible with the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 which will portend the demise of communism in Poland.
3) If the liberalization is extended to East Germany, the demolition of the Berlin wall might even be contemplated.
4) If the cosmetic liberalization is accepted as genuine by the West, it will trigger the reunification and neutralization of Germany and bring about the collapse of NATO.
5) Political liberalization and democratization will be introduced in the USSR. The liberalization will be spectacular and impressive. Formal pronouncements will be made about a reduction in the communist party roll. Its monopoly will apparently be curtailed and an obtrusive separation of powers between legislative, executive and judiciary introduced.
6) An extraordinary display of the fictional struggle for power will take place in the Soviet leadership. The KGB will be reformed. Dissidents will be repatriated, and those in exile will be allowed to return. Some will be allowed to take up leadership positions. Sokarnov might even be included in the government in some capacity.
7) The Brezhnev regime and its neo-Stalin actions against the dissidents will be condemned.
8) Censorship will be replaced; controversial plays, books and art will be published, performed and displayed.
9) Citizens will have greater freedom to travel.
10) The party control over the Soviet economy will apparently be diminished. Economy will seemingly move into line with the western socialist models. Control will be more decentralized. Individual self-managing firms might be created. Material incentives will be increased, but in spite of being less conspicuous, the party will continue to control the economy from behind the scenes.
11) A deliberately-painted picture of stagnation, deficiencies in the Soviet economy as a part of the preparation for deceptive innovations will be introduced. It is intended to make a greater impact in the West. Liberalization will stimulate disarmament, and the massive U.S. defense budget will no longer be justified.
How could the West be so susceptible to such a communist dupe when these plans to deceive us were documented as long ago as 1984? The communist party is following this script to the letter.
The Soviet Union is not destitute. The poverty in the streets is Russian theater. And it is working. They are asking for, and receiving, billions of dollars of aid from the West while engaging in the biggest military buildup in the history of the world. In 1990, the USSR built nine Typhoon Class Submarines. These are double-hulled, quiet-drive systems which are undetectable to sonar. (And even worse, it has been reported that our nuclear subs are now detectable by Russian satellites using laser and particle beam technology, effectively neutralizing our retaliatory deterrent.)
Now, if the Russian government is broke and can't even supply bread for its people, then how could it spend 18 billion dollars on strictly first-strike offensive weapons designed to launch a sneak attack on an unsuspecting enemy? Today, according to intelligence sources, they are producing these subs at the rate of one every three weeks.
For those who have not been faithful to Jesus' command to watch the signs, this seems beyond belief. They are not only blind to the truth but don't even want to hear such negative things.
It is also interesting that according to Goletsin, the USSR's strategic deception plays on the American public's desire ``to not want to know.'' They've done a psychological profile on us and say we really do not want to know the truth. Jean Kirkpatrick, the former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. calls it ``the will to disbelieve the horrible''. We don't want to hear about or believe that Russia is deceiving us in order to soften us up, so we'll let down our guard and Russia can destroy us. We choose to believe the lie of peace, when the Bible clearly teaches there will be no peace until the Prince of Peace comes again.
The facts are in. The United States is vulnerable to a surprise nuclear attack by Russia. And we are unilaterally disarming. Will Russia be the instrument in God's hands that brings cataclysmic judgment upon this country? Or, to avoid annihilation, will we just be philosophically held hostage to the Russian will? Perhaps. It is still not too late to pray in accordance with 2 Chronicles 7:14: ``If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.''
The United States is not exempt from God's wrath. We will reap what we sow. Judgment is at hand. Be sure your trust is in the Lord and not in the things of this world, for soon, everything that can be shaken will be shaken. Only those that have truly built their house upon The Rock will survive.
In closing, remember two things: 1) God is in control. ``He changes times and seasons; He sets up kings and deposes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.'' (Dan 2:21) God is in control, not Russia or any other nation. And 2) God knows how to preserve His people while reserving sinners for judgment.
KEEP THE FAITH. On a daily basis, pray and heed Luke 21:36 which says: ``Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.''
In the next issue, we will start a series dealing with the nation of Israel and the soon-coming ``Russian invasion'' as it relates to current events.
Maranatha!
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