The news summary this morning, in terms of the economy, is right out of my posts over the last six months or more. I hate to say “I told you so” and now may not be a good time to say it. Gloating is not my aim or my point. I am actually trying to encourage and to build up. This is all very good news indeed.
In Hong Kong, as they usher in the Chinese New Year–a festival I myself have seen in San Francisco in years past–one can see photographs of people reaching out to a chap dressed as the idolatrous god of fortune, and you sit back and realize just how superstitious the human being can become, with a little coaxing and the wrong type of encouragement the list is as endless as it is unseemly. Most anyone, anywhere, if asked, would like to be wealthy. Reaching out for this is not what it seems, however, and even now, as the banks sway back and forth on the face of the entire planet earth, they still do not “get it.” Pay attention to a few simple realities below and gain a breathtaking panorama of what is coming at us like a runaway freight train.
Satan will try to stop it but he will not prove able to stop it and that thought is intended to tell you plainly that you better get yourself ready for the Great Tribulation and the sole and only possible means of escape–the glorious Right Hand of Jehovah God, by means of Jesus Christ. There is no other Deliverer or Savior for what is coming. As the Physician reminds us plainly by inspiration of God’s spirit:
(Acts 4:12) “Furthermore, there is no salvation in anyone else, for there is not another name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must get saved.”
The list of corporate failures will continue to mount like casualties of war. It will be like the body counts of the Viet Nam war, a daily tally of the incalculable loss of man’s inability to govern anyone rightly or well. (Ecclesiastes 8:9; Jeremiah 10:23-24; Daniel 2:44)
This morning, Caterpillar announced it would lay off 1 in every 10 workers. 10% of its workforce. Those who stayed on would have their salaries frozen. It is an amazing choice of words–frozen–because it arises right out of the prophets, a derivative of the term “congealed.” The entire global philosophy, brought on by the liar who is Satan the Devil and his earthly seed, of “unlimited economic growth” was the most significant earthly thought of the 20th Century. Everywhere, everyone in business and caught up by any aspect of the spirit of the world, believed in becoming richer and richer, or increasingly more comfortable, or an almost endless list of similar expressions that all posited the very same general philosophy. And it seemed to offer mankind what they wanted most, they were willing to work for that, to save for it, and even to borrow against the future for it. And so this giant machine was built and it was sent into motion and this Night Train of Darkness is now on its final ride because the track is about out of time and there is simply not going to be any more track for it to run on and this train will find itself–congealed. Then the fun really begins.
I am almost breathless with excitement at what this all likely means, and I am utterly chomping at the bit to not run ahead and forget to tell others what I see before I disappear over the wall. Nobody really knows me well and if they did and if they knew what my deepest hope was they would be utterly astounded at what Jehovah God does for those He claims from the midst of those the entire world throws away. I have no earthly good idea how to even begin to say what I am trying to say, for I am much like a young boy who seeing something momentous down the road rushes back to the village to try and explain what he intuitively grasps is enormous beyond words and yet then turns and tries to put words out to explain what can only be intuitively grasped if at all.
Jehovah of Armies is truly going to laugh His enemies into derision. Listen to this from the charmers of the East, a demonically inspired lot, and this is what they get from the source of their inspiration,, from –”Year Of The Oxe Is Looking Inauspicious,” NY Times.com
“The Chinese Lunar New Year began Monday, and projections for the Year of the Ox from astrologers, lawyers, bankers and fishmongers are anything but auspicious.
“The mood is confused and desperate,” said Kerby Kuek, a feng shui master and Chinese astrologer.”
The “mood” is another term for “spirit realm on the earth” and that it would be both ‘confused’–(2 Peter 2:4)–and ‘desperate’–(Revelation 12:12)–is something written right out of the scriptures and into the headlines of the day. It is just that the overwhelming vast majority of people truly do not understand the meaning of what they are reading. More … they will increasingly discover, if they seek the truth that truly sets them free, that the sole and only explanation for what is happening all around them originates in the Scriptures and that no other explanation, by anyone else, anywhere else, that points to God’s Word, is equal to that provided by the Faithful and Discreet Slave.
The entire Empire of Financial Intermediation is rocking back and forth, its skyscrapers in an earthquake, the likes of which the world has never seen before. Hear the latest buzz from the NY Times: “Nationalization Gets A New, Serious Look,” NY Times.com.
“Privately, most members of the Obama economic team concede that the rapid deterioration of the country’s biggest banks, notably Bank of America and Citigroup, is bound to require far larger investments of taxpayer money, atop the more than $300 billion of taxpayer money already poured into those two financial institutions and hundreds of others.”
The $300 Billion is an understatement as the second installment is being readied now and the banks are lining up for it like little pigs run after their mother pig’s teats. Insanity reigns in the skyscrapers as the likes of John Thain, the former CEO of Merrill Lynch used some $1.2 Million recently to decorate his lavish New York City office. And while people are getting very upset at reading about such things as his infamous $87,000.00 throw rug and $11,000.00 lamp shade, the real story is his paying $800,000.00 to hire famed interior designer Michael Smith to do the redesign. The insanity is so delicious because Barack and Michelle Obama just hired the same Michael Smith to redecorate the White House, for $100,000.00, plus whatever it is they need to buy. The “mood” is not only confused and desperate–it is “infectious” as well.
The Satanic leadership worldwide is always seeking for its own glory, its own advancement, its own aggrandizement. It knows nothing better because this is the mindset of demonic entitlement. It is so much like the spiritual “disease” that psychiatrists try to explain and fail to treat known as malignant narcissism. That is the very spirit of this world.
As the financial contagion continues its incurable viral work on a very, very sick world-economy patient, businesses are doing what everyone knew they would and have been afraid of, and here’s the latest reports of this growing epidemic, in addition to Caterpillar, mentioned above. “Major U.S. Companies To Slash Jobs,” WashingtonPost.com
“As companies begin announcing their financial results for the end of 2008, they are also moving fast to cut costs in response to poor results and a diminished outlook for the coming year.”
“The job cuts announced so far today include … 8,000 at the Sprint Nextel telecommunications company, 7,000 at Home Depot, and 8,000 anticipated from the pending merger of the Pfizer and Wyeth pharmaceutical companies.”
The news of losing jobs is now deemed to be so regular and routine the mass media harlot is developing news articles to make positive spin out of even all that, a good news come-what-may philosophy that arises out of making lemonade out of the lemons life gives. “Making It,” WashingtonPost.com:
“Tya Bolton used to manage outplacement services for laid-off people. Then she was downsized herself. And she says it’s the best thing that ever happened to her.”
The mass media allowed by the wild beast to continue will increasingly sound the propagandistic note for society.
We can simply decide to have a positive outlook, it is all of it purely a state of mind, and nobody needs to change, nobody needs to reject the failed American ‘Way of Life,’ it is still valid, it is just that you have to get more creative now, you have to somehow adjust, to become flexible. You have to overcome. This is not really adversity after all but merely a change in environment such that the flexible and the creative will still flourish, proving that there was nothing wrong with the American “Way of Life” after all.
Nonsense. And everyone is going to know that it is nonsense. Nobody will have to take my word for it, it will be so plain as day as to truly make everyone wonder aloud–what WAS I THINKING? The answer, of course, is whatever Satan wants them to think and the true fight left for anyone and everyone is to break free of that grip and to come into the light and there to stay. Time is fast running out.
From amidst the skyscrapers of the world’s collapsing economies and failed political institutions, from the failures of academia and science, from the failed philosophies that instead of producing bounty and happiness produce poverty and despair anyone desirous of knowing the truth can and will hear this plainly:
(Revelation 18:4-24) “Get out of her, my people, if YOU do not want to share with her in her sins, and if YOU do not want to receive part of her plagues. 5 For her sins have massed together clear up to heaven, and God has called her acts of injustice to mind. 6 Render to her even as she herself rendered, and do to her twice as much, yes, twice the number of the things she did; in the cup in which she put a mixture put twice as much of the mixture for her. 7 To the extent that she glorified herself and lived in shameless luxury, to that extent give her torment and mourning. For in her heart she keeps saying, ‘I sit a queen, and I am no widow, and I shall never see mourning.’ 8 That is why in one day her plagues will come, death and mourning and famine, and she will be completely burned with fire, because Jehovah God, who judged her, is strong. 9 “And the kings of the earth who committed fornication with her and lived in shameless luxury will weep and beat themselves in grief over her, when they look at the smoke from the burning of her, 10 while they stand at a distance because of their fear of her torment and say, ‘Too bad, too bad, you great city, Babylon you strong city, because in one hour your judgment has arrived!’ 11 “Also, the traveling merchants of the earth are weeping and mourning over her, because there is no one to buy their full stock anymore, 12 a full stock of gold and silver and precious stone and pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet; and everything in scented wood and every sort of ivory object and every sort of object out of most precious wood and of copper and of iron and of marble; 13 also cinnamon and Indian spice and incense and perfumed oil and frankincense and wine and olive oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep, and horses and coaches and slaves and human souls. 14 Yes, the fine fruit that your soul desired has departed from you, and all the dainty things and the gorgeous things have perished from you, and never again will people find them. 15 “The traveling merchants of these things, who became rich from her, will stand at a distance because of [their] fear of her torment and will weep and mourn, 16 saying, ‘Too bad, too bad—the great city, clothed with fine linen and purple and scarlet, and richly adorned with gold ornament and precious stone and pearl, 17 because in one hour such great riches have been devastated!’ “And every ship captain and every man that voyages anywhere, and sailors and all those who make a living by the sea, stood at a distance 18 and cried out as they looked at the smoke from the burning of her and said, ‘What city is like the great city?’ 19 And they threw dust upon their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning, and said, ‘Too bad, too bad—the great city, in which all those having boats at sea became rich by reason of her costliness, because in one hour she has been devastated!’ 20 “Be glad over her, O heaven, also YOU holy ones and YOU apostles and YOU prophets, because God has judicially exacted punishment for YOU from her!” 21 And a strong angel lifted up a stone like a great millstone and hurled it into the sea, saying: “Thus with a swift pitch will Babylon the great city be hurled down, and she will never be found again. 22 And the sound of singers who accompany themselves on the harp and of musicians and of flutists and of trumpeters will never be heard in you again, and no craftsman of any trade will ever be found in you again, and no sound of a millstone will ever be heard in you again, 23 and no light of a lamp will ever shine in you again, and no voice of a bridegroom and of a bride will ever be heard in you again; because your traveling merchants were the top-ranking men of the earth, for by your spiritistic practice all the nations were misled. 24 Yes, in her was found the blood of prophets and of holy ones and of all those who have been slaughtered on the earth.”
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