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The Money Has Failed (Part Four)
Commentary by Martin G. CollinsThe world's money is failing due to the gross theft of the common person's wealth through exploitation and greed by governments, banks, and corporations, sending the world into an economic tailspin. Inflation, a direct result and ongoing cause of this failure, has accelerated to its fastest pace in years, despite government claims of minimal cost-of-living increases. Everyday Americans face rising prices in necessities like healthcare, education, and food, while discretionary items deflate, masking the true impact of inflation. Food prices have surged dramatically over the past decade, with items like uncooked ground beef increasing by 46.3% and bread by 38.9%, making basic sustenance far more expensive. Evidence shows U.S. consumers are financially tapped out, with rising bankruptcies and tightening lending standards, while older Americans suffer from stagnant Social Security benefits amidst high price increases. Median income and government cost-of-living adjustments fail to keep pace with rising prices, leaving most Americans economically worse off. Additional factors assure the money's failure: a rigged and over-bloated stock market, a U.S. dollar with no real value beyond consumer confidence, currency wars destabilizing international trade, negative interest rates looming, and national debts surpassing gross national incomes. The push toward a cashless society by globalists aims to cover up this massive theft, establishing total control over buying and selling. Systemic economic problems persist beyond any political intervention, and decades of greedy, foolish financial decisions will inevitably lead to a major downturn. The immense debt bubble, fueled by the biggest debt binge in history, will burst, exacting a great price. In the not-too-distant future, people will have to admit the money has failed.
The Money Has Failed (Part Three)
Commentary by Martin G. CollinsThe war on cash is intensifying globally, driven by technological advances and generational shifts, signaling that cash's days may be numbered. This movement, fueled by globalists, aims to exploit massive debt collapses to outlaw cash and enforce electronic currencies, stripping away the freedom and anonymity cash provides. Governments relentlessly pursue control over wealth, using the elimination of cash to target drug dealers and tax evaders as justification, while disregarding the rights of honest citizens who prefer cash for convenience or necessity, especially the poor and unbanked. In the United States, policies by major banks like JP Morgan Chase restrict cash use, banning it for certain payments and storage in safe deposit boxes, marking a shift from rhetoric to action. Electronic currencies, promoted by globalists, will enable governments to track all transactions, freeze or confiscate money at will, impose confiscatory taxes automatically, and apply negative interest rates without fear of cash withdrawals. This system allows for wholesale confiscation of wealth through nationwide bail-ins, devaluing currency at a button's click, perpetuating government debt spending. The march toward a cashless society, evident since the 1950s with the advent of credit cards, has accelerated with smartphones and apps, raising concerns about privacy, overspending, and dependency on electronic devices for payments. Ultimately, the drive to digitize payments ensures total government control, aligning with prophecies that no one will buy or sell without approval from the powers that be.
The Money Has Failed! (Part One)
Commentary by Martin G. CollinsIn the context of economic scarcity and historical crises, the failure of money reveals its fragility as a medium of exchange. During the famine era in Egypt, as warned by Joseph to Pharaoh, the severe scarcity of food led to a collapse in the value of traditional money. When crops failed and starvation loomed, money became worthless compared to life-giving grain. People, desperate for sustenance, exhausted all their money to buy food, ultimately losing everything and even selling themselves into slavery for survival. Money failed because it held no value when everyone sought the same essential resource—grain—and no one was willing to trade it away except Pharaoh. This concept of failed money extends to modern scenarios where cash could lose its role as a marketable commodity. If cash were reduced or made illegal, it would cease to serve as a means of trade, forcing individuals to find alternative ways to acquire necessities. The push towards a cashless society, as seen in initiatives like India's abrupt demonetization of popular bank notes, creates chaos, scarcity of cash, and limits personal freedom. Such policies, driven by a desire for control over transactions and tax collection, mirror the historical failure of money by rendering it unmarketable. When money becomes unmarketable, whether through famine or governmental decree, it no longer functions as money, stripping individuals of choice and mobility in economic interactions.
The Money Has Failed! (Part Two)
Commentary by Martin G. CollinsThe motives of those who desire to create a cashless society are not pure; behind them lurks the sinister goal of controlling and stealing.
Economics in Prophecy
'Prophecy Watch' by Richard T. RitenbaughMany doubters think that the Bible is not sophisticated enough to comment on modern ideas, but God's Word factors economics into the end-time prophecies.
The Fear Has Shifted
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)A family, a company, or nation cannot keep spending beyond its means without consequences. It is illogical that we need to spend money to get out of debt.
Lacking Nothing (Part One)
Sermon by Martin G. CollinsScarcity seems to redefine the value of everything, including tools, food, or sentimental objects. Utility trumps every other consideration.
Water Scarcity
Commentary by Martin G. CollinsThere has been a tragic decline of clean drinking water around the world, caused by drought and pollution, causing an increase in water-borne diseases.
Lacking Nothing (Part Three)
Sermon by Martin G. CollinsWe should reduce expenses today in order to be free tomorrow. Debt is designed to bring people under subjection; the debtor is always the servant.
Breaking Israel's Pride
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)Modern Israel has not yet learned that 'there ain't no free lunch.' The reality of the depth of this crisis has not really hit the national psyche.
Lacking Nothing (Part Two)
Sermon by Martin G. CollinsDisobedience to God paves the road to scarcity and economic slavery. Moral debasement leads to debasement of currency, which leads to economic enslavement.
The Other Great Tribulation
'Prophecy Watch' by Charles WhitakerWe have anticipated the coming of the end-time Great Tribulation. However, there was a historical great tribulation, similar to what has happened in the U.S.
Why We Tithe (Part 1)
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughTithing both precedes and transcends the covenant, having a deep spiritual significance far beyond the letter of the law: learning to give as God gives.