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I believe that the Bible canon we have today is the inspired and true word of God, his revelation to mankind. I believe that prophecy in the Bible is there to be decoded and understood.
I sincerely hope that this blog will open the interest of many in the deeper layers of the Bible.
In biblical terms political empires are pictured as “beasts”. We can find such identifications in Isaiah30:6, Daniel7:12, 17 or Revelation13.
Now history shows us that every empire has an own currency and so every beast has coinage with its image upon it so really the image of the beast is the financial system it creates. Indeed the purpose of military conquest has in the past been to gain an unfair financial advantage, over your opponent, to make his a slave of your financial system, to make him worship your image.
Jesus asked the temple tax collectors: Whose image and inscription is this? But he might as well have said: Whose image and engraving (mark) is this. He is giving us a vital clue to the meaning of Revelation13.
Now the financial system has actually received a death stroke from either the huge mountain of securitized mortgage derivatives or actually from Hank Paulson when he dropped Lehman brothers which destroyed interbank lending and caused the credit crunch.
But just as the UK/US 7th world power has been militarily conquered by the UN 8th world power through the UNICC, which has the power to arrest the Commander in Chief of the US, so the image of the 7th power, the Dollar and the Pound, in fact the whole dollar based banking system must be replaced with a UN image, a financial system bearing the image of the UN, a UN financial system. This will be a new financial world order since every beast gets a financial system, its image.
So we know that the dollar and the pound will collapse and then the UN will be used to make a new world currency or currencies. The 2 horned beast of the UK/US will breathe political life into this new financial order.
Today people worship money not political entities like the UN.
The fascinating thing here is that the sword stroke/death stroke is a deliberate act. So the credit crunch was deliberately triggered. The present financial system has deliberately been given a death stroke 7 years after the controlled demolition of the World Trade Centres!
Well, November3/4 came and went, the Democratic canditate Barack Obama was elected President of the USA and there was no event that stopped that from occuring and no event that kept George W. Bush in power by using "martial law".
The conclusion from a prophetic standpoint must be that the prophecy of the fall of the "towers" (plural) in Isaiah30 was only referring to the towers of the World Trade Centre and not to a different kind of 'fall' of another so called "Tower" one lunar month later on October11, 2001.
This does still not mean that the association of the organisation with the United Nations for over 10 years was okay from God's point of view, it just means that Isaiah30 was not speaking about this abomination.
While there are still plenty of reasons to expect a big terror/war event against the United States in the immediate future from a Biblical perspective, I have to admit that it now looks less likely from a secular perspective.
But then again, Joe Bidens remarks about a "generated crisis" that President Obama will have to face to "test his mettle" soon after he is elected still ring powerful in the ears of many.
I here on this blog and together with Emmanuel on www.2008-2012.org, will keep researching Bible prophecy and chronology and will continue to base our interpretations and warnings solely on the Bible.
November15
So our focus is now on the events that will surround the global financial summit President Bush called for in Washington on November15, 2008. As we have pointed out, the last 1335 days before the "happiness" or "blessedness" of the faithful according to Daniel12, began on September29/30 2008, the day the Dow Jones dropped 777 points. 1335 days later is the festival of Pentecost 2012.
Now if we take the same end date for the 1290 days also mentioned in Daniel12, we see that these must start 45 days later. Interestingly, this takes us exactly to November15, the day of the summit. This is Heshvan17 according to the Jewish calendar which was the day Noah's fllod started and the rebbelion of the Northern Kingdom of Israel occured.
I thus predict that a "global financial authority" that governs the financial system of the future will be installed on that summit. This new entity will wield great power and authority and will probably be backed by the United Nations.
I also deduce that this organisation will be used to bring about the so called "mark of the beast" according to Revelation13.
If we are to believe the Washington Post, French president and current EU leader Nicolas Sarkozy has pledged to save us from nameless “freewheeling bankers and traders” who get the blame for the current economic crisis.
Sarkozy, Gordon Brown, and EU honcho José Manuel Barroso are talking up an international summit to discuss an “urgent overhaul of the world’s financial architecture,” that is to say a new Bretton Woods to establish a brand spanking new international economic order. Sarkozy has managed to grab George Bush’s ear and he will travel to Washington on Saturday to lay the groundwork for a conference.
In 1944, 44 allied nations met at a resort in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to fiddle with monetary standards, fix exchange rates, and create the IMF and World Bank. “Launching a remake of this old model — particularly in such a short time, with so many new participants — would represent a daunting challenge at any time, but particularly during the twilight of the Bush presidency and the crisis that is still jolting banks and stock markets around the world,” reports the Post.
Sarkozy and the EU leaders would have us believe this new Bretton Woods will call for “globally coordinated regulation of the financial industry, elimination of tax havens and a compensation system in which traders are not rewarded for dangerous risk-taking,” among other things.
It was the demise of Bretton Woods in 1971, insists European Central Bank president Jean- Claude Trichet, that led to the abandonment of regulation and subsequent market turmoil. “The explosion of the first Bretton Woods in a way could be interpreted as a rejection of discipline,” said Trichet, reports Bloomberg.
Gordon Brown, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, wants to fix that turmoil with a new spate of regulations aimed at international finance. On October 13 in London, Brown said “we must devise new rules for a world of global capital flows” just as the founders of Bretton Woods “devised rules for a world of limited capital flows.”
“We now have global financial markets but what we do not have is anything other than national and regional regulation and supervision,” Brown lamented from Brussels.
All of this is nonsense. It should be obvious by now the bankers engineered the current crisis in order to consolidate their hold on the global economy and all the talk about rogue traders, tax havens, and over-compensated executives is merely that — talk, or more specifically a sales pitch, a slick parlor trick devised to fool the commoners.
Glossed over in all the corporate media coverage is the global elite demand that a global currency be established. “Europe wants to present a blueprint for a new worldwide currency system,” reports the AFP in the video here.
“Another subject in tomorrow’s world is that of the great currencies,” Reuters reported Sarkozy musing on October 16. “How many should there be? What should the agreement between these great currencies be?
Should we organize a discussion?”
Any discussion would be purely academic, as the ruling elite long ago decided to force a global currency down our throats. In fact, a global currency is at the very core of their plan to dominate the world. Control money and you control the destiny of states, you eliminate national sovereignty. “The control of money and credit strikes at the very heart of national sovereignty,” A.W. Clausen, president of Bank of America once observed.
As Georgetown professor and CFR historian Carroll Quigley noted, the goal of the banking families and their minions consists of “nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole… controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences.”
It remains to be seen if the EU will realize its “solution” to the world economic crisis. In 2007, Robert Mundell, “the father of the euro,” noted that “international monetary reform usually becomes possible only in response to a felt need and the threat of a global crisis.”
Certainly, the elite cooked up an appropriate global crisis, now they will engage in a full court press to establish a global currency and eventually a global government.
I post two news articles, that show and proof that we are going toward a totally controlled monetary system. These events are a preparation for introducin what the Revelation calls "the mark of the beast". Nobody will be able to buy or sell without signing an agreement to take this "mark".
World events are moving quickly. Now that basically all goverments have given guarantees and have huge liabilities on their accounts, we will see an even worse breakdown of the markets. But this time it will not be banks that need to be "bailed out" because of bankruptcy, it will be states and goverments. Only the UN will be able to do that on this advanced level. Total control will be the result...
BRUSSELS, Oct 15 (Reuters) - President Nicolas Sarkozy called at a European Union summit on Wednesday for a clamp-down on hedge funds and offshore centres as part of efforts to better regulate the world financial system.
"I would propose a simple principle, that no financial institution should escape regulation and supervision," he said according to a copy of a speech to the EU summit in Brussels.
"I am thinking, for example, of the regulation that we must apply to the rating agencies, and of the necessary supervision of hedge funds...We must also work to eliminate the grey areas that undermine our efforts at coordination, in this case the offshore centres," he said. (Reporting by Francois Murphy; writing by Mark John)
European Union leaders are set to call Thursday for the creation of international boards to oversee at least the world's 30 biggest banks and financial institutions.
The latest effort to step up regulation to address the global financial crisis is based on a proposal by U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and comes as Mr. Brown and the EU have taken the lead in responding to the crisis.The proposed supervisory body would consist of regulatory officials from big countries and financial centers, EU officials said.
The goal would be to enhance communication and response plans for bank operations world-wide, they said.That would face the significant challenge of getting the U.S. and others to cooperate.
"These are the kinds of issues that have been discussed at the Financial Stability Forum and the IMF. We will have an opportunity to discuss these -- and the ideas of others -- at the appropriate time," said White House spokesman Tony Fratto.EU leaders backed the idea of a supervisory body at the start of a two-day summit Wednesday, according to diplomats from three countries.
The summit comes days after the EU's biggest economies agreed on a coordinated €2 trillion ($2.7 trillion) plan to prop up their biggest banks by buying equity stakes and guaranteeing debt. That move, which echoed a call by the Group of Seven leading nations, was rapidly followed by the U.S. All 27 EU members voted Wednesday to approve the bailout plan.
Mr. Brown said the world needs a "new Bretton Woods," a reference to the 1944 conference in New Hampshire that set up the basic rules for international banking, finance and monetary policy, and established the International Monetary Fund, which bails out countries in crisis. Mr. Brown began pushing for such a body in 1998 after the Asian financial crisis, when he was U.K. Treasury chief. The proposals are expected to be included in the summit's conclusions Thursday.Mr. Brown wants new and stricter international standards for the amount of capital reserves banks should hold and rules forcing financial markets to open their books, U.K. diplomats said.
The White House released a joint statement from the Group of Eight leading nations -- four EU countries and Japan, Canada, Russia and the U.S. -- promising to meet "at an appropriate time in the near future" to discuss ways of reforming regulation of the world's financial sectors.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and other European leaders claimed credit for imposing calm on financial markets. "For the first time Europeans showed their ability to act in an emergency in a coordinated way," said Mr. Sarkozy. "The reform can't stop at Europe. The economy is global."EU leaders have no option but to take their campaign for tighter supervision of international banks beyond Europe's borders, Mr. Sarkozy said, "because it doesn't work if you regulate one half of the world lightly, and ignore the other half."
The French president said he was confident he could win over China and the U.S. He said he will visit both countries in the next two weeks.EU diplomats dismissed concerns that even with U.S. backing, they might have a hard time selling their plan to the rest of the world, considering that the Doha Round of world trade talks collapsed this summer because the world's biggest economic powers -- the EU, U.S., China, Japan, India and Brazil -- couldn't find common ground.
Any move to create supervisory agencies would build on an existing EU proposal for regulators from the countries in which a bank operates to share information on the bank and coordinate a response if it gets into trouble.EU countries could also end up bickering among themselves about the fine print. The U.K. is unlikely to agree with Mr. Sarkozy's call for financial supervision to be extended to hedge funds, or to eliminate offshore financial centers. London is a big center for hedge funds, and on the European stage the U.K. represents the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, which are large offshore financial centers.
The talks on finance overshadowed other items on the EU summit's agenda: Georgia's conflict with Russia, EU carbon-emissions targets and Ireland's referendum vote to block a treaty that would give the EU its first permanent president.—John D. McKinnon in Washington contributed to this article.
This is part of a reply to a question asked by one of my readers from Africa about the mark of the beast and 666.
To start with, I have to say that certain ancient manuscripts have ‘616’ in the text. So there is some uncertainty about the real “number of the beast”. But the number 666 is mentioned elsewhere in the Bible, in connection with the “wise” King Solomon. He had 666 talents of gold…
14 And the weight of the gold that came to Sol´o·mon in one year amounted up to six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, 15 apart from the men of travel and the profit from the traders and all the kings of the Arabs and the governors of the land. (1Kings10)
So 666 is possible, this might not be a coincidence. Another aspect is the language. I know Greek and while not many Bible translators actually took the following reasoning into the text (the KJV has), from a linguistical standpoint, even the following is possible…
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (KJV)
18 Here is where wisdom comes in: Let the one that has intelligence calculate the number of the wild beast, for it is a man’s number; and its number is six hundred and sixty-six. (NWT)
In this case wisdom is needed: Let the person who has understanding calculate the total number of the beast, because it is a human total number, and its the sum of the number is 666. (ISV)
In this situation wisdom is needed. Let the person who has insight figure out the number of the beast, because it is a human number. The beast's number is 666. (GWT)
The word translated “its” or “his” is “autou” a reflexive pronoun which can refer to the noun “beast” or to the noun “man”. You see the point; it does not make too much sense to ask as to “calculate” the number and then telling us the result of this calculation as “666”. So maybe the number of the beast is something else and the one who has intelligence and does this calculation has the number 616 or 666... In any event there is ambiguity here and God always uses ambiguos statements to tell us more than one thing or even different fulfillments for different times.
Then I have to say that the “mark of the beast” and “666” are two different things. The one is the mark of the beast; the other is the “number of its/his name”.
So while I do not know how this mark will “technically” look like (micro chip, tattoo, ID card…), we do know from the Scriptures that no one will be able to buy and sell without that mark. We also know that true believers will not be able to accept the mark. We read…
16 And it puts under compulsion all persons, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, that they should give these a mark in their right hand or upon their forehead, 17 and that nobody might be able to buy or sell except a person having the mark, the name of the wild beast or the number of its name. (Revelation13)
9 And another angel, a third, followed them, saying in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the wild beast and its image, and receives a mark on his forehead or upon his hand, 10 he will also drink of the wine of the anger of God that is poured out undiluted into the cup of his wrath, and he shall be tormented with fire and sulphur in the sight of the holy angels and in the sight of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever, and day and night they have no rest, those who worship the wild beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name. 12 Here is where it means endurance for the holy ones, those who observe the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” (Revelation14)
So we see that we cannot either take this mark (maybe an ID card), nor accept the name of the beast (probably signing an agreement), nor accept the number of it (maybe a PIN, an authorization number). Why? Most likely because the agreement that needs to be signed in order to get any of these three things, will have some idolatrous clauses in it. We cannot do obeisance to that “beast”, swear our alliance to it or trust in it as saving the world.
Please read the news carefully nowadays! All major politicians and bankers use phrases like “economic global governance” or “new global financial order (or system)”. We are seeing in real time the preparations for total control, probably through what Revelation calls “the mark of the beast”…
16 And it puts under compulsion all persons, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, that they should give these a mark in their right hand or upon their forehead, 17 and that nobody might be able to buy or sell except a person having the mark, the name of the wild beast or the number of its name. 18 Here is where wisdom comes in: Let the one that has intelligence calculate the number of the wild beast, for it is a man’s number; and its number is six hundred and sixty-six. (Revelation13)
The world’s central bankers are gathering this week at the IMF-World Bank conference in Washington DC and are expected to grease the skids for the creation of a machinery of world economic governance under the pretext of preventing a repeat of the financial crisis, a global economic policeman to patrol a de-facto financial dictatorship.
Bilderberg member and recently appointed UK Business Secretary Peter Mandelson (pictured above) argued last week that new global solutions are needed because “the machinery of global economic governance barely exists”, adding: “It is time for a Bretton Woods for this century,” reports the Telegraph, noting that “Opinion is now hardening around the case for a new global architecture to enforce rules that ensure lessons are learnt.”
This followed the proposal to create a new EU body to regulate banks across the entire European financial market.
Top EU officials, including economy commissioner Joaquin Almunia, have stated that the EU should have greater powers to regulate and intervene in the operations of financial institutions across Europe.
Influential media giants like the Wall Street Journal are pushing a “new world order” to solve the crisis, while British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for a “a new global financial order” to supersede the institutions created after World War II.
The elite are up to their old tricks again, after all, a leopard never changes its spots.
They created the problem of wildly irresponsible fractional reserve banking, the debt bubble and the credit crunch by ceaselessly inflating the money supply and now they are going to offer their solution to the crisis - the further centralization of global economic power into fewer hands.
Appointing the former CEO of Goldman Sachs to oversee the bailout and ensure the bankers divvy up the spoils of the greatest stick-up heist in history amongst themselves was not enough for these fascists - they want to go full board and exploit the crisis they caused to advance the stuttering agenda for world government that has been in the works for the best part of 100 years at least.
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I again advice my readers to take out their money and buy tools, goods, containers, batteries, transistors, motors, tins & cans etc. now, as long as money has any value and as long as it is possible to buy and sell without this mark.
