Change is easy to recognize when it happens but not as easy to understand in real time. Hindsight can make those changes easier to understand and put them in perspective. The hard truth about the changes we are experiencing is…it IS different this time.
The entire world is struggling with the degree and rapidity of change we have been subjected to the past year and a half. For decades we’ve been told how the coming climate change will kill people and destroy the environment. Then, we were told our work and social norms would change due to a pandemic that would kill millions. Now, rising food prices are changing what we eat and many foods are disappearing from grocery shelves. This winter, the availability and price of energy will change heating and cooling in homes and offices across the planet. Next, are changes with hard cash that will make things completely different this time.
To what degree you have been effected by changes the past year or so is correlated to your money. Many people can ‘afford’ to lose their job for not wearing a mask because their bank account can absorb the shock. Stock values have increased, real estate prices have gone up and there is more money circulating (Money Is A Fast Talker, February 2021 blog). Be prepared for the coming change in the new world economic system that will be ushered in with a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). This change with money will make everything VERY different this time.
I’d like to write another small book (Jesus…Or Money, was my first), but I’ll stick with a short blog for now. Christians AND non-believers have all heard about the ‘mark of the beast’ in the book of Revelation. The mark of the beast is implemented by the antichrist at the ‘end times’ on earth. This person ‘makes everyone–small and great, rich and poor, free and slave–to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark; the beast’s name or the number of it’s name….because it is the number of a person. It’s number is 666.’ Revelation 13:16-18. According to the Bible (verse 17), centralized, governmental control of trade is the economics of the antichrist. Economics are the language of money so watch for changes to centralize and control money. The day is coming when you can’t work, shop or go about your business unless you are part of this system. Fast forward to October 2021.
Last week, the current administration nominated a new Comptroller of the Currency. This nominee wants to radically change your money, the banking system, availability of credit, your retirement accounts and the management of all things based on money. How do we KNOW this? She has written a thesis based on Karl Marx’s economic theories when she was a graduate student at Moscow State University…while she was on the Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship. In addition, she has written and spoken on the need to cut off credit to those considered ‘socially sub-optimal’ (think social credit score like in China). The nominee is calling for the “Federal Reserve to allocate both public and private capital”, and is pushing for a new bureaucracy called the National Investment Authority (NIA). The NIA will “actively participate in financial markets not only as a lender, guarantor and market maker but also as an active asset manager and venture capital investor”. The Comptroller of the Currency is the primary regulator for banks but she wants to nationalize all banks. In simple terms, the Federal Government would own and control all banking. Banking is money.
If economic jargon causes your eyes to roll back in your head, keep it simple…they’re coming for ALL the money. Social Security, 401k’s and private pensions would be centrally controlled. Investment capital will be invested by bureaucrats and have to pass “their” litmus tests, not yours. Once CBDC’s are the currency, a government agency can make it expire, charge any positive or negative interest rate they decide and spend it as they deem appropriate. After the blasphemy of the New York Governor and other politicians saying the vaccine is from God, it won’t surprise me to hear someone use Christ’s words when He said, “so give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and give to God what is God’s”. Money will belong to the government, not the people who own the bank account.
Many of the changes that are different this time started with freedom of choice regarding your health care and the vaccine. Next was the freedom of speech to express your thoughts on social media or in public places. Changes in your freedom of assembly, worship, travel and movement in and out of cities is taking place right now. Next on the tee box of change is the biggest god of this world, the comfort food that Americans love to gorge on…money.
Jesus said money competed directly against the God of Creation. Jesus said money was a master, not a tool for us to use or a means to a better lifestyle. HE said, “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” Matthew 6:24. Many believers don’t relate to the competition for your soul that Christ said money was. I’m afraid we’re about to wake up in the middle of the competition He described between hard cash and God.
Jesus talked so much about money and our love for it. Through the Bible, He tells us the future of money lies at the heart of a worldwide economic system that belongs to the antichrist…to the unholy trinity who will use it to control and manipulate us for their agenda. We don’t want to believe money competes directly with our faith in God, but it easily can.
There was a very successful young guy that lived during the time of Christ who confronted Jesus and claimed that money took a backseat to his generosity and living a pious life. Jesus challenged the guy when He said, “You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor….Then come, follow me.” Luke 18:22. The rubber meets the road when we have to choose between hard cash and God. The young guy in the story turned his back on Jesus and walked away. With the changes coming, we may face the same dilemma.
I am NOT saying money is evil. I am NOT saying a CBDC is the mark of the beast and I am NOT saying a vaccine passport will be the mark of the beast. I AM saying when it comes to money, don’t be fooled into thinking the coming changes are all about convenience and stopping black market transactions. Don’t think gold and silver or Bitcoin is a safe haven from the reaches of an economic system that can be used to separate you from God.
If the mark of the beast involves making a public profession of following the economic system of the antichrist by receiving a mark to work or buy groceries, what WILL you do? A ‘mark’ is becoming very commonplace these days to prove you’ve been vaccinated. Where this leads is above my paygrade. I DO know, a lot of the change these days IS different this time. The only way to know and see this is through reading God’s Word and an active relationship with the Holy Spirit.
Money doesn’t serve you and it doesn’t belong to you….but do we really need this reminder about cold, hard cash? It’s all in the Book. Jesus put it bluntly…”I have told you these things, so that in me you will have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world” John 16:33. Hard cash is definitely OF this world.