Preparing the Bride of Christ For His Return By Janet Van Hierdan
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Monday, July 29, 2013
Babylon is Falling Down, Part 10
July 7, 2013
Whewww!!!! Four days of temperatures reaching 111 degrees and our AC quitting on the first day with no repairman available until the fifth day makes sitting in the office and writing these Coffee Breaks just a tad difficult. Hence the delay in getting this week's post out.
By the time many of you get to read this post, the first stage of the Global Currency Reset will likely have taken place, and what seems almost like madness will prevail at many of the nation's banks as folks try to cash in on their newly-received wealth. Even before the first stages of the attending protocols kicked in as far as the public was aware, security has been tightened, thousands of new security personnel either hired or requested to work extended hours and banks across the country have been prepared for an onrush of new clients.
Wealth Management groups, such as Abbott-Downing, have known about and have been preparing for months to deal with huge investment requirements for tens -- and perhaps hundreds -- of thousands of new (and very uneducated) investors needing assistance in diversification.
Few if any of the wealth managers have had any concept of investing in the Kingdom of God, and their focus is almost exclusively Money, Money, Money, More, More, More -- for their clients, to be sure, but more so for their banking firms! Herein lies a double-edged sword for God's people.
Before I continue, let me build a fence around some of my commentary. There is absolutely nothing wrong with making money, and lots of it; and in fact, the power to get rich is a gift from God -- a covenant gift for those walking in covenant with Him.
For people who understand the covenant of wealth, there is a clear understanding that with great wealth comes great responsibility and answerability to the Lord. There are Kingdom priorities that are well established throughout God's Word -- the first and most important priority being to demonstrate to an onlooking world just what it means to walk in covenant with the Lord Jesus Christ; the second priority to allow Holy Spirit to work through you using that wealth so that "that he may establish (**qum) his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers."
This Hebrew word, qum, translated "establish," is pretty strong and it amplifies our understanding of what is required of God's people when this wealth is given. This word means: to cause to abide, to accomplish, to continue, to decree and to perform.
Now, let's continue. The double-edged sword for believers comes in the fact that we live in a "me-first" society which demands and encourages self-gratification on just about every level. The ease with which we are able to gratify the whims and desires (the Scripture calls it "the lusts") of our flesh makes it so easy to fall prey to something that Jeremiah, prophesying to Israel, describes like this, "Those who eat delicacies are desolate in the streets." (Lamentations 4:5 NASB)
Jeremiah 51 refers to the trap laid by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, when he writes that "he has filled his stomach with my delicacies." In case you think I'm kind of getting too oblique here, let's get down to the brass tacks.
The danger to believers is falling prey to the ease of self-gratification once they've been given great wealth, and not realizing that the enemy also uses money against God's people. Wealth is God's province! He is the enabler, the giver, the One who gives the power to gain wealth and to be rich.
Satan has gotten away with a lie for generation after generation after generation by promoting the idea that "to be rich is sinful. After all, money is the root of all evil. God wants people to be humble, and one can't be humble and have lots of money." Bah Humbug! It results in a poverty mindset that has beset the body of Christ and kept the wicked in power, ruling over the righteous.
One more time: "But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth, that He may establish his covenant which He sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day." (Deuteronomy 8:18)
I know many of you are wondering if I'm ever going to get to the point, so let's revisit a piece of John's prophecy against the spirit of Babylon.
"For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of [Babylon's] fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies."
Virtually all of the OT prophets lamented Israel's fornication. What God was addressing through Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, etc., was the spiritual fornication that had taken place among His people -- a people whom He had "betrothed" to Himself. They had gone chasing after other gods. They had co-mingled their families with the families of the accursed nations and contaminated the worship of God with the worship of false gods -- demons who had first sold them the bill of goods that wealth and riches were not a part of God's promise to His people, and then enticed them with "easy money" and "the abundance of Babylon's delicacies."
John, in the Revelation that the Lord Jesus Christ gives to him, identifies that same kind of fornication and adultery within the corporate body known worldwide as "Christians." Consider the way he begins his letter to the Ekklesia in Sardis (see Chapter 3): "I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead."
Paul, on the other hand in writing to Timothy, describes a people "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof." (See II Timothy 3:5)
Both are describing the same contamination in the body of Christ. There are many folks who call themselves "Christian" who profess to know the Lord, and in reality they are as dead as doornails when it comes to spiritual things. They couldn't lay hands on the sick and see them recover if their lives depended on it. They couldn't cast out demons without being attacked by those demons in the same way the seven sons of Sceva experienced. (Acts 19:14)
Then you have that group of people who by all outward appearances are real believers. They have all of the right words, they say the right phrases, they even claim to believe and walk by faith, but when it comes right down to it, they deny the power. Start talking to them about being "baptized in the Holy Spirit" or "being filled with the Spirit" and they get really defensive. The most common excuse is "Well, I'm willing to do it. If God wants me to have it, then He'll give it to me." It's a cheap cop-out to avoid the necessary yielding of their most contrary vessel -- the tongue -- to the complete control of Holy Spirit.
I don't want to just dwell on the negative, and that's not what this series is for. My objective is to sound a clarion call throughout the body of Christ to a people whose lives have been co-opted either consciously or unconsciously by the lusts of their flesh, by the attraction to the "delicacies" offered by Satan. Let's be clear. Satan offers these niceties and seemingly delicious things in such a way that people's eyes are blinded to the truth of the destruction that follows.
Because of the spirit of poverty that has so wound its way through the teachings and doctrines that pervade Christianity today, it has created a huge class of people who hate the poverty and will do almost anything to get ahead in life. As a result, they are ripe for schemes that will solve their money problems. It has resulted in a glaring contrast between the so-called "prosperity preachers" and those who preach tithing, giving, sowing of seed out of their own poverty mindset because of their own needs.
Let me pause here momentarily to give credit to folks like Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, Jesse Duplantis, Creflo Dollar, Bill Winston, Keith Moore and other brethren who have taken it on the chin for years while trying to lift the body of Christ out of its centuries-old mindset of poverty and false humility. They have suffered, and continue to suffer, attacks and slander, being defamed and reviled by false brethren whose eyes have been blinded by the god of this world.
Unfortunately, the body of Christ is filled with a lot of wanna-be prosperity preachers and teachers who have not yet been delivered from a spirit of poverty and wind up preaching and teaching a warped version of God's blessing while using the enticements of Babylon and the Babylonian system in order to seduce folks into giving, tithing, etc. This is -- again -- that double-edged sword that faces God's people today.
One edge is the blessing of the Lord in the form of the "power to get wealth" and with it, the recognition that with great wealth from the Lord comes great responsibility.
The opposite edge of the sword is the tendency to see money as "power" and to wind up in effect worshiping money.
Let's put it another way. Jesus said, "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." (Matthew 6:24)
If your Master is the Lord Jesus Christ, then you treat wealth as the empowerment from the Lord "that he may establish his covenant." If your Master is Mammon then you worship money, you put it first, you make it your priority in life, and you subject yourself to Babylon, its spirit, its psychology, its mindset and its mode of operation.
Babylon and its way of life, its system of operating, its enticements and seductions are not just the province of the world; Babylon -- the feminine spirit of Babylon we more frequently refer to as "the spirit of Jezebel" -- has so infiltrated the body of Christ with what we commonly and generically call "the church" that the two are almost indistinguishable from one another.
"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities."
THAT is the call of Holy Spirit in the body of Christ today to a people who will hear and respond. Twenty years ago while we were gathering at Trails End in Post Falls, Idaho with a fair number of folks in the midst of spontaneous prophetic praise and worship, Holy Spirit began to pour into us the prophetic call for God's people to come out of Babylon.
The music and the prophetic singing took on many forms -- some very sober and explicit in describing the spirit of Babylon, some a gentle call to those who would hear, and some of the music was rather humorous. One piece in particular had no words but drew a pretty good picture of folks "shuffling" out of Babylon. We called it, The Babylon Shuffle. Funny or not, it gave a good understanding that the Lord is using many avenues and types of prophetic messaging to convey the critical importance for people to get out of Babylon, and be delivered from its system of operating, its mindset and its enticements.
We've been talking about the Basel III Protocols, the Global Currency Reset and the Babylon II software created and put in motion to deal with the world's economic crises. Here's the problem. These are all man-made efforts to deal with Babylon's problems. The thinking and mindset of those who've labored so hard to effect these "repairs" to the world's rapidly dissolving economies is still contaminated by the spirit of Babylon.
The Lord has so orchestrated things in the midst of this that His people, His Bride, will be blessed in the midst and face of the fall of Babylon. This is a short window of opportunity for all of us to participate in one of the greatest Kingdom advancing events in all of history.
Here's the thing that God's people need to watch. First it is patently obvious that the governing power of this nation is going to undergo radical change -- at least in the short term. Let me explain.
It is a tragic commentary on the state of evangelical Christianity in America when we realize that 57% of so-called evangelical Christians (according to statisticians) voted to keep our current administration in power -- an administration quite possibly the most corrupt and evil administration in America's history. How could that be? Here's how the apostle Paul put it when writing to the Corinthians:
"The god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." (II Corinthians 4:4)
When people's minds, their thought patterns, and their supposed relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ get contaminated with the spirit of Babylon -- Jezebel -- who usurps and exalts herself above God and the things of God, they become blinded to the truth, insensitive to the Spirit of the Lord, and incapable of responding to spiritual crises in their lives and their surroundings.
Let's wrap up this Coffee Break with the prophetic word from Revelation 18:6-8:
Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her."
We're probably a couple weeks away from finishing this series, so stay with me. See you next week!
Blessings on you!
Regner
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Sunday, July 28, 2013
Babylon is Falling Down, Part 9
Hi, Everybody! Let's get this discussion on the road. Grab a cup of some Black Tiger. That stuff is stout! If you're not awake, I promise you will be! If you don't need waking up, there's a carafe of some Double-Roasted French. That will at least light up your taste buds!
For some folks, no doubt, it seems like I've slipped a cog somewhere in talking about a series of geopolitical and geoeconomic events as I began to do in the last Coffee Break, but it is important for you to see what John saw and prophesied in Revelation 18. I'll get back to the narrative I was sharing last week in a few minutes, but let me begin by showing you the first eight verses of chapter 18:
"And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her."
In earlier Coffee Breaks in this series, I've noted how we have this distinction between the "King of Babylon" and the feminine picture of the Spirit of Jezebel personified in "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." Notice again how John opens up this passage as he refers to Babylon strictly in a feminine gender.
I've noted how this Babylonian spirit is part and parcel of the structured church world with its systematized and canned dogmas and doctrines, as well as its two modes of governance -- (1) Hierarchical, with tiers of ascending leadership and authority eventually vested in one individual or a very small group of individuals; and (2) Congregational (or Democratic) with primary authority vested in the masses, making the "leadership" answerable to a voting process -- both of which subvert the plan of the Lord for Ekklesia and replace Theocratic leadership with Humanistic leadership veiled as the leadership of the Lord Jesus Christ. THIS is some of that harlotry to which John refers.
That's a mouthful, I know, but that's the essence of "the doctrine of the Nicolaitans" as described in Revelation 2. Within our "Charismatic" church world, we've come to recognize apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers (generally referred to as the "five-fold ministries") and yet, so much of the contamination of the Nicolaitan doctrine has still pervaded the Charismatic churches.
There are so many wanna-be apostles (who freely refer to themselves as "Apostle so and so") and wanna-be prophets (who also take the label unto themselves as a title of honor) who easily, and without discernment, mix some real prophetic utterances with false prophecies that tickle the ears of the listeners.
I grew up watching the true apostolic realm manifested in my father, but to all the religious world, he was nothing more than "a missionary." Dad would have been horrified at the thought of being referred to as an apostle. Even his denominational brethren cringed when I described his ministry in that manner at his funeral where folks came from all over the world.
Folks, there is a real separation going on in the body of Christ -- a separation between those who walk in real apostolic and prophetic anointing, and those who may sincerely desire and aspire to those ministries but have never been anointed for it, who wind up doing damage to the body. There is a clear -- and growing clearer -- distinction between those whom God has approved and sent forth with His authority and anointing, and those who lack His approval and simply go forth spouting doctrines, dogmas, and formulas pretending to be the servants and representatives of the Kingdom. In fact, they don't have a clue what Kingdom living is all about!
Then of course, there are people who've been shoved into evangelistic ministry because they're "supposed to lead souls to Christ" almost immediately after they've been "saved" themselves. They are babes in the Lord who are supposed to be bringing more babies into the Kingdom, and as a result the body of Christ has been weak, lacking in true authority, and spiritually sickly, still living off the milk bottle and pabulum. What you see in the church reflects our society as well -- kids producing more kids, little more than babies themselves emotionally, psychologically and spiritually, creating a society so immature that it is falling into ruin without spiritual and moral compass.
Isaiah put it even more succinctly as he prophesied of the day in which we live.
"The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him. As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." (See Isaiah 3:9-12) And HERE we have a picture of some of the abominations to which John refers.
[Now, PLEASE! Just because I've quoted from Isaiah's prophecy, don't someone get the nutty idea that I'm opposed to women in places of leadership, or that I have some bone to pick with women in ministry. Della is about the clearest evidence I can present against that! She has both the anointing and a command of the kind of authority that can only come from Father God. I'm talking about the anointing that comes when one is commissioned and sent forth in the authority and power of God to accomplish His rhema to them! What Isaiah was prophesying against was the spirit of Jezebel which had pervaded and contaminated the nation.]
One more example, and I'll get off this. Several years ago I was introduced to a rather prominent evangelical pastor and church leader who had a sizeable congregation. We sat at lunch one day and I asked him how the Lord called him into the ministry. He looked blankly at me for a minute, and then responded, "When I was in high school, I knew I needed to pick some kind of career. I looked at the pastor of the church we attended and decided that would be a good thing to do. When I graduated from high school, I picked what seemed like a good seminary (he named it) and went there. After graduating, the denomination thought I was a good fit for this church and sent me here."
There was absolutely no concept of being called, anointed or commissioned by Holy Spirit. It was nothing more than an intellectual decision that put him there. That experience, unfortunately, is not the exception. Over the years Della and I have both run into ministers of virtually every stripe who could tell us a very similar reason for being "in the ministry." We both have stories that would make you ill, were they to be repeated, and it isn't worth repeating, other than to amplify my earlier comment about the clear line of delineation taking place in the body of Christ between those who are simply "religious" and those who walk in true relationship with the Lord.
I've already quoted this statement from Isaiah in an earlier Coffee Break, but it is worth repeating here: "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee." (Isaiah 60:1-2)
That's precisely how this clear separation between the people of God and those who simply name the name of Jesus Christ ("Having a form of Godliness, but deny the power thereof." -- II Timothy 3:5)
I've taken more time with this than I expected to, so let's see how far along I can get in finishing the narrative from last week.
When we were ending last week's discussion, I mentioned that the United Nations Security Council was expected to end the sanctions against Iraq this week. That took place on Thursday, the 27th. A unanimous vote by the Security Council initiated a process that will unfold during the coming months. Expected early this next week will be the release of the reinstated value of the IQD (now the IQN), and from all indicators we should see something on the order of a value similar to that which existed just before sanctions were imposed over 20 years ago. It's value is expected to rise over the coming months to an even greater level, and for those folks who hang onto a good percentage of their currency, the returns will be even better.
What is taking place with the Iraqi Dinar, however, is a drop in the bucket when compared to the overall picture of what is taking place. While the IQD/IQN may be the pivot currency for the events to follow, on Sunday night, June 30th, if reports are accurate, some 66 currencies will change significantly in value. This could easily result in chaos in some parts of the world, while in others -- like our Canadian friends to the north -- will experience significant gains in the value of their money against the U.S. Dollar and other worldwide currencies.
Because of the chaos within the European Union, and the fact that various central banks within the EU countries have simply reached their limits in bailing out countries like Greece, Italy, and others who are in absolute crisis, the expectation (and prediction from several prominent bankers who are part of the Basel III, Global Currency Reset) is that the Euro will be dissolved and replaced with a new currency entirely -- a currency which has true asset backing, be that gold, silver, platinum, diamonds, oil, natural gas, or whatever mix they choose.
By mid-October of this year, if all goes according to plan, 198 currencies representing the overwhelming majority of the nations of the world will have been restructured/revalued/devalued/realigned against one another based on their respective asset backing.
There is more than a little uncertainty as to what will happen within the U.S. economy when the U.S. Dollar is devalued by 50% -- a two stage event expected to be completed by October 8th. But the U.S. Dollar is not the only currency taking a hit of this magnitude. Many other currencies are going to suffer similarly. The world is going to experience an economic shaking the likes of which has never happened before in history.
There is both danger and benefit in the events to unfold. The danger comes in the form of people who are unprepared for the losses they are likely to suffer, and the panic that ensues. The benefit will be to those believers, especially those within the Bride of Christ, who have been forewarned and have prepared themselves against this day. Not since the children of Israel departed Egypt carrying Egypt's wealth with it has there been such a transfer of wealth into the hands of God's people.
The events taking place are going to result in more than a few billionaires within the body of Christ -- billionaires who have both a commission from the Lord and an anointing to help fund this last great harvest prior to the return of the Lord Jesus Christ -- even perhaps a half-dozen trillionaires, and literally millions of new millionaires. If these numbers stagger you, one only has to remember that more than $47 Trillion gets traded daily on the FOREX exchanges around the world.
But, folks, here's where things get serious! Those people who experience this newly-acquired wealth, who do not put the Kingdom of God FIRST, who forget that this blessing is from the Lord, who neglect to sow their first fruits, will before long be in worse shape than they were before the transfer took place.
I remind you of exactly what God said about it:
"But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth, that He may establish his covenant which He sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God." (Deuteronomy 8:18-20)
This is a once-in-history event tailor made by Holy Spirit to fund what God is about to do. It has already happened, but there is a shift in the realm of the Spirit in the atmosphere. A new era among God's people is unfolding. It's a new day! It's a new season!
Over the years I've discovered that when God's people don't have the nagging of unpaid bills, debt, mortgage payments to make, automobile payments, the weight of credit card payments, etc., all weighing them down subconsciously, they walk in a liberty in God that just doesn't exist otherwise. When people see the marvelous provision of God that frees them once and for all from financial bondage, they discover an ability to believe God's Word in a dimension they've never walked in before.
Whether there is a direct correlation between total financial freedom, coupled with the ability to obey God at a moment's notice without any concern as to monetary costs and the ability to walk in the midst of the kinds of signs and wonders that draw people like a magnet to know the God of this kind of liberty, it is my conviction that God is doing this NOW so as to free those who will be on the cutting edge of the "greater works" that Jesus promised from all financial constraints.
What I've just described, however, is only one side of this Global Currency Reset, the Basel III Protocols and the Babylon II software. There's more to come, and that's where we'll go next week.
Blessings on you!
Regner
Regner A. Capener
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Babylon is Falling Down, Part 8
Howdy! How're Y'all doin'?
Oops. Guess I'm not back in Texas, but I was just
reminiscing with folks in our fellowship this past weekend how the coffee motif
came about for these articles. Thought
maybe I'd share it with you briefly before we get back into today's discussion.
The
whole coffee thing goes back to my early youth.
My mother was nearly full blood Finnish (her folks emigrated from
Finland) -- and everyone knows how the Finns like their coffee. Mom used to kid me about the fact that as a
four- and five-year-old I would go around the table after she had entertained
guests and drink up all the coffee left in the coffee cups. Anyway, my "appreciation" for
coffee has been a standing joke.
The
coffee motif really began to take hold, however, in 1983. I was pastoring The House of Praise in
Fairbanks, and heading up operations for the Christian Broadcasting Network in
Alaska. The ten-year-old (at that time)
vision for a modern-day Tabernacle of David (which I've shared on several
occasions throughout the years in these Coffee Breaks) seemed to really be
taking hold in our fellowship, and I'd begun to think it was going to really
come to fruition.
One
morning a black lady from South Carolina comes walking into my office at
CBN-Alaska. "I was driving the
highway and coming to Alaska for a vacation," she begins, "when the
Lord speaks your name to me and tells me where to find you." My curiosity was really piqued, to say the
least. I'd never had anything like this
happen to me, and I really came to attention in my chair.
"The
Lord gave me a Word that I'm supposed to deliver to you," she continues,
and sets a gift-wrapped box in front of me on my desk. I looked at the box in surprise and she says,
"Open it. That's part of the
message I'm supposed to deliver to you."
OK. This is really getting
different! To my surprise it was a
coffee mug. What made this interesting
was the inscription: "For the vision is yet for an appointed time...."
The
lady didn't really have to say anything more.
I knew where this was going.
Nevertheless she continued. "Write
the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth
it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall
speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come,
it will not tarry." It was a quote from
Habakkuk 2:2-3. Without a further word,
she turned and walked out of my office.
I never saw her again.
That
simple prophetic message marked a major turning point in my life. The inscribed coffee cup was constant
reminder that there was an appointed time for the vision to be fulfilled. The coffee theme has pretty much been with me
through the years ever since.
OK. Time to get back to our discussion on
Babylon.
When
we left off last week, we were talking about the gold that was found under the
streets of Baghdad in 2003. Let me back
up 20 years before that event to a vision that Ronald Reagan had of seeing
America debt free and operating for at least a generation to come without being
under the heavy tax burden this nation has suffered. It bears directly on where I'm going with
this discussion.
In
1983, Reagan saw the ongoing cold war with the Soviet Union as a blight on the
world, and a continuous threat to America's safety and stability. He called on a close friend and confidante,
Leo Wanta, (who was a financial whiz) to devise a plan to bring the Soviet
Union to its knees. Wanta's plan was to
utilize seed money from the U.S. Treasury to begin buying up the Russian Ruble
and then manipulate it in the currency markets to devalue it, thereby severely
crippling the Russian (and Soviet) economy.
The
plan worked. Lots of conspiracy stories
and theories abound regarding the events that transpired, but very simply over
a period of several years, Wanta's endeavors created a fund of an estimated $25
Trillion. Reagan was out of office by
the time Wanta's labors were finished, but we indeed saw the breakup of the
Soviet Union. George H.W. Bush succeeded
Reagan and the plan was to use Wanta's fund to pay off the national debt and
create a surplus that would have eliminated virtually all federal taxes.
Wanta's
efforts, however, were sabotaged and his life threatened. The fund he created was subsequently hidden
and he fled the country. His whereabouts
were discovered unfortunately and he was seized and imprisoned for some seven
years before friends helped him to escape.
Fast
forward now to 2002. George W. Bush is
in office. He is aware of Reagan's plan
and vision to free America from its burden of debt, and he is on board with
it. Bush, however, devises a plan that
will not only help this nation get out of debt but also assist other nations in
gaining some economic stability and recover (at least for the immediate future)
from their financial crises. At the same
time, Bush wants Americans to individually prosper and be set on a course for
prosperity for many years to come.
Meeting
with the economists and the leading bankers of the world who make up the
International Monetary Fund a set of protocols gets created with an expected
ten-year period in which to enact these plans.
The protocols get a name: Basel III.
It has come to be known as the Global Currency Reset (GCR).
Now,
we come to 2003 and the events which unfold with the Iraqi war, the deposing of
Saddam Hussein, the discovery of all the gold that Iraq possesses (that
seemingly no one knew about), and the fact that Iraq -- until Saddam was
deposed -- had the most valuable currency in the world. With the imposition of UN sanctions and a
freeze on the tradability on FOREX markets of the IQD (the designation for the
Iraqi Dinar), the US-led war in Iraq opened up a whole new arena for the Bush
administration, the IMF, and the Basel III Protocols.
An
Iraqi national -- Dr. Sinan al Shabibi -- working with the United Nations as an
economist, and famed in international monetary circles for his financial
prowess, was selected to take over the Iraqi Central Bank and brought in from
his post in London to oversee the repair and restructuring of the Iraqi
economy, AND the Iraqi currency. By this
time the Iraqi Dinar had sunk from its high of $3.32 against the U.S. Dollar to
a low of 4,000 to the USD. A promissory
note which was based on the compliance with each of the sanctions previously
imposed by both the UN and the IMF was signed off by Dr. Shabibi and the
then-Deputy Governor of the Central Bank.
President
Bush appeared on national television that year to inform the American public
that the war was fully paid for, and that the nation would incur no
indebtedness as a result of the Iraq War.
He was roundly criticized and attacked by many for making that
statement, but it wasn't possible at the time to explain to the world what was
taking place behind the scenes.
The
Bush administration then seeded Dr. Shabibi some $400 Billion in order to kick
start the repair of Iraq's economy, and in exchange the U.S. Treasury received
something on the order of 16 Trillion Dinars to hold towards the day when that
currency would be restructured and revalued.
Without understanding some of the tenets of the Basel III Protocols,
however, this would seem to have been a foolish move without any end in sight
for the revaluation and restructuring of the Iraqi currency.
I
don't want to get into any of the minutiae of the Basel III Protocols, but let
me identify a few items of immense importance.
1. A total of some
200+ currencies exist worldwide. 198 of
those currencies were selected for restructuring, revaluation, realignment with
the rest of the world currencies, and/or devaluation, depending on the next
part of the procedures laid out.
2. It became
important to identify for each nation a list of its assets on hand, as well as
future usable assets. Prior to the U.S.
Dollar going off what was left of the gold standard in 1973, currencies
worldwide were generally pegged to the U.S. Dollar, which in turn was pegged
fractionally to the amount of gold being held on reserve at Fort Knox. By 2002, it was already clear that there
wasn't near enough available gold in the world to back all of the world's
currencies, so a new asset mix had to be developed by which the value of each
nation's money supply could be backed.
3. Each nation had
its own individual asset mix, and a value had to be assigned to each
asset. The U.S. Dollar had been so
watered down by the continual printing of "fiat money" (what I've
come to call "funny money") without any real backing that even by
combining available gold supplies with silver, platinum and other precious
metals, along with oil, natural gas and agricultural products, American money
was going to take a hit against other currencies, and a serious one at that.
(**see note following this list.)
4. Iraq was the only nation
capable of fully backing its currency 100% by gold, never mind the fact that
the nation is rich in silver, platinum, oil, natural gas, various minerals and
water -- a huge asset in the middle east!
Once the changes had taken place in Iraq's government, a new provisional
government put in place, and a path established for bringing the nation back to
some kind of local, regional and world stability, the Basel III Protocols had a
new asset available to them for stabilizing other major currencies.
5. A process and a
timetable were put in place to activate these protocols. Central Banks would be initially required to
have no less than 10% of their outstanding currency backed by the nation's
asset mix. That ratio of 1:10 would
increase correspondingly as the nation's economy revived. 2012 was established as a target to
accomplish things. The IQD (now to
become the IQN) would become the pivot currency and the new reserve currency
for many nations. (That ratio of 1:10 is
what was in force back in the 80's when I was in international banking.)
6. Because Iraq had
become such an important lynchpin in this whole process, new banking software
was created for the world's banks which would allow for the variable asset
backing of each currency and its shifts from time to time as the respective
values of each currency's backing assets changed. That software was named appropriately
"Babylon I" (and the confusion in all the currency changes certainly
rooted it in "Babel.")
7. Babylon I just
didn't cut it and the IMF had to start all over again. The new currency -- and this is the software
which was implemented earlier this year and currently runs in all banks
worldwide -- was renamed, "Babylon II." There were lots of glitches still when this
software was first installed, and many trials filled with error finally brought
them to a solution that worked for everyone.
**
Because the Iraqi currency is the only fully gold-backed currency in the world
(and I am told that Iraq could support a rate of $4.40+ against the USD and
still be 100% gold-backed) it became clear years ago that the United States
Treasury would need to hang onto a substantial amount of the IQD/IQN in its
reserves in order to provide sufficient gold-backing -- in addition to the
nation's other assets -- to support the new U.S. Dollar. Nevertheless, there was still more than an
ample supply of Dinars to exchange at an agreed-upon schedule and rate in order
to pay off the war debt in Iraq and Afghanistan (totaling some $5 Trillion) in
accordance with Bush's promise, and still be able to move the nation forward
towards debt-freedom.
Ongoing
corruption within Iraq and its elected leaders delayed things until 2013. Threats against Dr. Shabibi's life forced him
to leave Iraq and operate outside the country under heavy security in order to
complete the implementation of the revaluation.
That process has been completed.
The Chapter VII sanctions which have kept Iraq operating under very
strict supervision financially had many parts to fulfill including a payback to
Kuwait for Saddam's 1991 invasion and subsequent destruction of their oil
infrastructure.
As
of this writing, those requirements have been met and an agreement has been
made for the lifting of the Chapter VII sanctions in a formal ceremony later
this coming week.
I'm
not here to promote rates for the new IQN as it is released, but suffice it to
say that some 28 million Americans -- mostly conservative Christians -- have
invested varying amounts of U.S. Dollars in the purchase of the currency. Under Shabibi's guidance, the currency had
gradually been brought up in value from its low of 4000:1 to (most recently)
1166:1.
The
international auditing firm of Ernst & Young did an audit of the Central
Bank of Iraq (CBI) and the nation’s economy at the end of 2010 and recommended
a new rate at that time of $1.30.
Investors who bought in several years ago have already seen a 300%+
increase. Even if all they did initially
in order to come out at a 1:1, folks would see a multiplication of over a
thousand percent.
That's
the kind of multiplication that God does, and we have seen this coming for a
very long time. You'll recall that David
wrote in Psalm 105:37-38,
"He brought them
forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person
among their tribes. Egypt was glad when
they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them."
The
last great transfer of wealth into the hands of God's people occurred when the
children of Israel left Egypt with the wealth of Egypt. For many years we have known that there was
going to be a repeat of this event according to the prophecy of Isaiah (see
chapter 60) and it is unfolding upon the body of Christ as we speak.
I
still have a lot of ground to cover with this in spite of cutting out a lot of
details that I might have otherwise included, and I need to talk about this
great transfer of wealth before we wrap up the fall of Babylon. That said, let's stop here and pick this up
next week.
Blessings on you!
Regner
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