Every year at Christmas we are reminded of the remarkable prophecies concerning the birth death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and how they substantiate His deity and the faithfulness of God.

We’ve established here, here, here, and here that more than 2500 years ago, the prophets Jeremiah, Isaiah, Daniel, Ezekiel and others like them foretold many events that predict the coming of Jesus Christ and which are ultimately fulfilled by Him.

Jesus clearly reveals that Messianic prophecy points to Him. He said to the Jews, “You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These Scriptures testify about me, yet you refuse to come to Me to have life…if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me, (John 5:39, 46. See also: Matthew 5:17, 21:42; 21:41-45;26:24,31,56; Mark 12:10; 14:27,62; Luke 4:16-21; 18:31-33; 22:37).

Messianic prophecy is one of the many infallible proofs concerning the truth of the gospel and Christ’s claims within it. Messianic prophecy shows us, among other things, the kind of Person the Messiah was to be when He came. It also reveals when and where He would arrive, and how He would be born. Here is a list of twenty-nine prophecies occurring in twenty-four hours in the experiences of Jesus of Nazareth.

1. He was to be sold for thirty pieces of silver (Zechariah 11:12; Matthew 26:14-15).
2. He was to be betrayed by a friend (Psalms 55:12-14; Matthew 26:47-50; John 13:18).
3. The money obtained was to be cast to the Potter (Zechariah 11:13; Matthew 27:3-10).
4. His disciples were to forsake Him (Zechariah 13:7; Matthew 26:56; Mark 14:27).
5. He was to be accused by false witnesses (Psalms 55:11,109:2; Matthew 26:59, 60).
6. He would be struck on the cheek with a rod (Micah 5:1; Matthew 26:67).
7. He was to be beaten and spat upon (Isaiah 50:6; Luke 22:64).
8. His appearance was to be disfigured (Isaiah 42:14; Matthew 27:29,30).
9. He was to be silent before His accusers (Isaiah 53:7; Matthew 27:12-14; 1 Peter 1:23).
10. He was to be wounded and bruised (Isaiah 53:6; Matthew 27:26, 29).
11. His hands and feet were to be pierced (Psalms 22:16; Luke 23:33; John 20:25-27).
12. He was to be crucified with the wicked (Isaiah 53:12; Mark 15:27, 28).
13. The people were to ridicule Him (Psalms 22:8; Matthew 27:41, 43).
14. The people were to be astonished (Psalms 22:17; Isaiah 52:14; Luke 23:35).
15. He was to pray for His persecutors (Isaiah 53:12; Psalm1 109:4; Luke 23:34).
16. The people were to shake their heads (Psalms 109:25; Matthew 27:39).
17. His garments were parted/lots cast for clothing (Psalms 22:19; John 19:24).
18. He was to cry: ‘My God, My God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? (Psalm 22:1; Matthew 27:46).
19. He was to thirst (Psalm 69:3, 21; John 19:28).
20. They were to give Him gall and vinegar (Psalm 69:21; Matthew 27:34; John 19:28).
21. He was to commit Himself to God (Psalm 31:5; Luke 23:46).
22. His friends stood at a distance (Psalms 38:11; Luke 23:49).
23. His bones were not to be broken, yet were out of joint (Psalms 34:20; Exodus 12:46; Psalms 22:14, 17; John 19:31-36).
24. His side was to be pierced (Zechariah 12:10; John 19:34-37).
25. His heart was to be broken (Psalm 22:14; John 19:34).
26. Darkness was to cover the land (Amos 8:9; Matthew 27:45).
27. He was to be buried in a rich man’s tomb (Isaiah 53:9; John 10:11, 17-18, Galatians 2:20).
28. His death was to be voluntary (Isaiah 53:12; Psalm 40:6-8; John 10:11, 17).
29. His death was to be substitutionary (Isaiah 53:4-6,12; Daniel 9:26; Matthew 20:18; 1 Corinthians 15:3; 1 Peter 2:24; Revelation 1:5,6).

These events were all fulfilled in detail in 24 hours in the experience of Jesus of Nazareth. According to the law of compound probabilities, the chance that they all happened together by accident is 1 in 537,000,000.

Messianic Jewish Testimony

During the last hundred years or so many Jewish people have been brought to believe in Jesus as their Messiah as the result of studying Messianic prophecy. Here is just one example:

Mordecai S. Bergmann was brought up in the strictest of Jewish religious sects, the Chassidism. When he was fourteen, he was sent to Breslau to study under the Chief Rabbi there. Returning later to Kalisch, he applied himself diligently to the study of the Talmund. Later in life, he came to live in London, where he organized a small synagogue, and in which he ministered for two years. Taken ill, he entered a German hospital where he remained for six weeks. While there he started to read a German Bible which was on a shelf in the ward.

As a reader in the Synagogue he knew the Pentateuch and portions of the prophecies by heart. The verses in Daniel chapter 9, which record in the first portion of it Daniel’s great prayer, were very familiar to him, for these verses are repeated every Monday and Tuesday by religious Jews; but the later part of the chapter which records the prophecy of the seventy weeks (of years) is never read; in fact, the rabbis pronounce a dreadful curse on anyone who investigates this prophecy. They say, ‘Their bones shall rot who compute the end of time.’

Remembering this anathema, it was with fear and trembling that he went on to read the prophecy. Coming to verse 26, and reading the words, ‘Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself’ he threw the Bible down, thinking it was a Christian Bible and altered from the Hebrew original to favor their view that Jesus of Nazareth was the Jewish Messiah.

But though he did so, he could not put the words out of his mind. They sank deeper and deeper into his soul, and wherever he looked he seemed to see them in flaming Hebrew characters. The result was he was greatly disturbed in mind and heart. After a time, he again took up the Bible, and without thinking of any particular passage opened it at Isaiah chapter fifty-three. He was arrested by the words: 

By oppression and judgment He was taken away; and as for His generation, who among them considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living (stricken to His death) for the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due? (Isaiah 53:8).

This seemed to be the answer to that question he had been asking himself ever since he had read the words, ’Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself, ‘and which seemed to be confronting him everywhere. For whom then, if not for Himself, was the Messiah to be cut off? Here the answer was plainly revealed to him: ‘For the transgressions of my people was He stricken.’

On leaving the hospital he went home, put on his phylacteries and tallith, in order to perform the prescribed prayers; but found he could not utter a single sentence of the prayer book. One message, found in Psalm 119:18 came to his mind, ‘Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law.’ He kept on repeating it for nearly two hours. Then he left the house and walked along the street, still praying the same prayer.

The Lord led him to the home of Dr Ewald, a Jewish believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. To him he unburdened his heart. Here, for the first time, he learned that the Messiah, who was to cut off for the transgression of His people, was the Lord Jesus whom the Christian Gospels proclaimed to be the incarnate Son of God, and only Savior of sinners, and whom the Jewish nation had rejected. After studying the Messianic prophecies diligently with the help of his friend, he accepted the Lord Jesus as his Messiah and personal Savior.

As a result, he suffered much persecution at the hands of his former Jewish friends, but was uncompromisingly steadfast in his new faith, and was greatly blessed and used to win other Jews for Christ.

For all classes, no matter how cultured, or how primitive, there is one Word of truth-the Cross-to the wise, to the barbarian, to Greek and Jew, to everyone. The gospel is the power of God. The gospel preacher is an ambassador demanding surrender to the kingdom of heaven. It is God’s ultimatum. He shows us the way things are. The gospel is neither theory nor an abstraction, but it is the reality behind everything. We either recognise it or perish.

Christ is our King, Advocate, Redeemer, Propitiation, Judge, Healer, Sorrow-bearer, Wisdom, Sanctification, Redemption, Prophet, High priest, Bread of Life,  Water of life, Bridegroom, Strength, Keeper, Friend, Hope, Salvation, and Passover.

He is not only all these things that I have mentioned: He is also our Mediator, our Sanctifier, our Justifier; in fact, it would take volumes to tell what He desires to be to every individual soul. I once read this wonderful description of Christ. I do not know where it originally came from, but it was so fresh to my soul that I would like to give it to you:

Christ is our Way; we walk in Him.

He is our Truth; we embrace Him.

He is our Life; we live in Him

He is our Lord; we choose Him to rule over us.

He is our master; we serve Him

He is our Teacher, instructing us in the way of salvation.

He is our Prophet, pointing out the future.

He is our Priest, having atoned for us.

He is our Advocate, ever living to make intercession for us.

He is our Saviour, saving to the uttermost.

He is our Root; we grow from Him.

He is our Shepherd, leading us into green pastures.

He is our true Vine; we abide in Him

He is the fairest among ten thousand; we admire him above all others.

He is “the brightness of the Father’s glory and the express image of His person”; we strive to reflect his likeness.

He is the upholder of all things; we rest upon Him.

He is our Wisdom; we are guided by Him.

He is our Righteousness; we cast all our imperfections upon Him.

He is our Healer, curing all our diseases.

He is our Friend, relieving us in all our necessities.

He is our Brother, cheering us in our difficulties.

Here is another beautiful excerpt from an old saint known as Gotthold:

For my part, my soul is like a hungry and thirsty child; I need His love and consolation for my refreshment.

I am a wandering and lost sheep, and I need Him as a good and faithful Shepherd.

My soul is like a frightened dove pursued by the hawk, and I need His cross to lay hold of and to wind myself about.

I am a sinner, and I need His righteousness,

I am naked and bare and I need His teaching: simple and foolish; and I need the guidance of His Holy Spirit.

In no situation, and at no time, can I do without Him.

Do I pray? He must prompt, and intercede for me.

Am I arraigned by Satan at the Divine tribunal? He must be my advocate.

Am I in affliction? He must be my Helper.

Am I persecuted by the world? He must defend me.

When I am forsaken. He must be my Support. When I am dying, He is my Life. When moldering in the grave, He will be my Resurrection.

Well then, I will rather part with all the world, and all that it contains, than with Thee, my Savior. And, God be thanked! I know that Thou too art neither able nor willing to do without me.

Thou art rich, and I am poor.

Thou hast abundance, and I am needy.

Thou hast righteousness, and I sins.

Thou hast wine and oil, and I wounds.

Thou hast cordials and refreshments, and I hunger and thirst,

Use me then, my Savior for whatever purpose, and in whatever way Thou mayest require.

Here is my poor heart, an empty vessel; fill it with Thy grace.

Here is my sinful and troubled soul, quicken and refresh it with Thy love.

Take my heart for Thine abode; my mouth to spread the glory of Thy name; my love and all my powers, for the advancement of Thy, believing people; and never suffer the steadfastness and confidence of my faith to abate—that so at all times I may be enabled from the heart to say, “Jesus needs me, and I need Him and so we suit each other.

His Sheep Hear His Voice

Christ says, “My sheep hear my voice … and they follow me” (John 10:27). A gentleman in the East heard of a shepherd who would call all his sheep to him by name. He went and asked if this was true. The shepherd took him to the pasture where they were and called one of them by some name.

One sheep looked up and answered the call, while the others went on feeding and paid no attention. In the same way, he called about a dozen of the sheep around him.

The stranger said, “How do you know one from the other? They all look perfectly alike.” “Well,” said he, “you see that sheep toes in a little; that other one has a squint; one has a little piece of wool off; another has a black spot and another has a piece out of its ear.”

The man knew all of his sheep but also their failings, for he did not have a perfect one in the whole flock. I suppose our Shepherd knows us in the same way.

Another Eastern shepherd was once telling a gentleman that his sheep knew his voice and that no stranger could deceive the. The gentleman thought he would like to put the statement to the test. So he put on the shepherd’s frock and turban, took his staff, and went to the flock.

He disguised his voice, and he tried to speak as much like the shepherd as he could, but he could not get a single sheep in the flock to follow him. He asked the shepherd if his sheep never followed a stranger. He was obliged to admit that if a sheep got sickly it would follow anyone.

So it with a good many professed Christians. When they get sickly and weak in the faith, they will follow any teacher that comes along; but when the soul is in health, a man will not be carried away by errors and heresies.

He will know whether the “voice” speaks the truth or not. He can soon tell that if he is really in communion with God. When God sends a true messenger, his words will find a ready response in the Christian heart.

Christ is Our Shepherd

In these dark times, Jesus Christ is our tender Shepherd. It is the work of the shepherd to care for the sheep, feed them, and protect them.

1. I am the good shepherd (John 10:11).
2. My sheep hear my voice (John 10:27).
3. I lay down My life for sheep (John 10:15).

In the wonderful tenth chapter of John, Christ uses the personal pronoun no less than twenty-eight times, in declaring what He is and what He will do.

In verse 28 He says ” They shall never perish; neither shall ANY man pluck them out of my hand” – no devil or man shall be able to it. In another place, the Scripture declares, “Your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3).

You may sometimes think He has not been a very tender Shepherd to you: you are passing under the rod.

It is written, “Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth” (Hebrews 12:6). Just because you are passing under the rod is no proof that Christ does not love you.

A story is told of a man who lost all his children. No man could ever have loved his family more; but scarlet fever took them away, one by one; and so the whole four or five, one after another, died.

The poor stricken parents went over to Great Britain, and wandered from one place to another, there and on the continent of Europe. At length, they found their way to Syria. One day they saw an Eastern shepherd come down to the brink and looked at the water, but they seemed to shrink from it, and he could not get them to respond to his call.

He then took a little lamb, and put it under one arm; he took another lamb and put it under the other arm, and thus passed into the stream. The old sheep no longer stood looking at the water. They plunged in after the shepherd, and in a few minutes the whole flock was on the other side, and they hurried away to newer and fresher pastures. The bereaved father and mother, as they looked at the scene, felt that it taught them a lesson.

They no longer murmured because the Great Shepherd had taken their lambs one by one into yonder world, and they began to look up and look forward to the time when they would follow the loved ones they had lost.

If you have loved ones gone before, remember that your shepherd is calling you to “set your affection on things above” (Colossians 3:2). Let us be faithful to Him, and follow Him, while we remain in this world. And if you have not taken Him to be your Shepherd do so this very day as we celebrate the Birth of our Wonderful and Gracious Saviour. Have a blessed and meaningful Christmas.

How do we select ten top stories of the year when, in reality, there were one hundred ten prominent happenings during the year as the last days wind down? Let me share some that I feel are worth discussing. All of them have prophetic implications.

1. The Rise of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Cabal and their Rush to Global Government

Ten years ago, had you heard of Klaus Schwab? How about Yuval Noah Harari? Were you tracking them even five years ago? Of course not. Today many are aware of this crowd and their one-world intentions. A lot of our readers understand this is the true shadow government. Revelation 13 outlines their scheme well.

2. The Stirring Up of the Spirit of the Antichrist

We all see the new lawlessness and rebellion in every aspect of society! Its current overdrive was sparked in my hometown, Minneapolis, in May, 2020 with the George Floyd ordeal. Now police forces are reduced, criminals face no bail, and prosecutors encourage more lawlessness. But the spirit of the Antichrist is everywhere–in our government, in our schools, and more. It is priming the pump for the real Antichrist.

3. Government Knows Best–Trust It

That has been the mantra in the Western world for almost three years. Trust the government for vaccines, to properly handle pandemics and other health issues, and to keep you well! Millions bought into it. Millions will now transition from trusting government to trusting the Antichrist.

4. The Rise of the Green Dragon: The Worship of Mother Earth

Entire continents have caved to the religion of climate change and environmentalism. They worship mother earth rather than loving Father God. Joe Biden wants to block the sun to fight global warming. In the name of saving energy, farmers in Europe are being put out of business, an action that is inviting a famine. Sane people know this is lunacy, but they are helpless when their governments mandate foolishness.

5. The Race Towards Digital Currency: Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

Why are we surprised when our authorities tell us cash is going away? A cashless system plays a prominent biblical end-time role. More than 100 nations are exploring CBDCs, according to the IMF. The Biden Administration is pushing this. It is being portrayed as the answer to many of the world’s problems! We could see it in 2023.

6. The Decline of America, Rise of Radical Liberalism, and Lack of a World Leader

Although it’s tough to watch, America is in decline. At the same time, name even one global leader. Leftists are trying to make America a liberal paradise like Venezuela. Sadly, the result is more like a banana republic. Progressives are attempting to accomplish what every other Socialist/Communist country has: Destroy the middle class, obtain unending power, create a permanent welfare state, and create total dependence. You can’t have a superpower when the goal is global government.

7. Christians Are Canceled; Jews are Under Attack

When Sam Brownbeck’s National Committee for Religious Freedom needed a bank account, they went to J.P. Morgan Chase. They quickly realized their account was closed! They are fighting back. At the same time, Jews are under attack in many countries. Assaults have increased over 100% in the last year. New York City attacks against Jews are up 125% in the last year. The “people of the book”, Jews and Christians, are hated as the Bible foretold.

8. The Rise of Strong Delusion and Global Deception

How else do you explain the rage that girls can become boys and boys can become girls? That men can join women’s sports and change clothes in the ladies’ locker rooms? And that all of this is totally normal and healthy? Trans-identifying kids in the U.S. have increased by almost 1,000% in the last two years. How do you explain the love of killing a baby in the womb, at any stage of life, with a torturous procedure? God will not tolerate this much longer!

9. Running Amok: Apostasy in the Church

It would take a three-hundred-page book to summarize the current state of the church now. In the last two years, thousands have gone “woke”, seeker-sensitive, and more. Social justice has replaced salvation. Many teach that the church will make the world a better place–even perfect. The sheep are trying to find a solid church–and one that talks about issues of the day and Bible prophecy. Many churches want to tell people they can have their best life now.

10. The Staggering Rise of the Paranormal and Occult, Called Sorcery in the Bible

The world, and some in the church, are dancing with the devil. Social media encourages this and provides a platform. Even Christians dabble in things they know they shouldn’t. Then there is the blatant–the Commonwealth Games last summer that featured the re-creation of the Tower of Babel and a woman riding a beast–with many bowing down to the beast. This is all leading to rampant sorcery talked about in Revelation, and there it is combined with drugs.

What did you think the last days would look like? Believe the Bible when it calls our times perilous and filled with people possessing selfish, reckless motives. God is orchestrating events to wind up this amazing drama known as the Church Age. The last act may be on display. Expect a trumpet and a shout any day. (I Thess. 4:16)

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In Rwanda, Uganda or anywhere in the Great Lakes region ‘Jewish’ has mysteriously ended up becoming shorthand for ‘Tutsi’ and these people consider themselves to be Jews/Hebrews who came from Ethiopia (Cush). It’s really troubling, deceptive and hypocritical for these guys who call themselves the blood brothers of the Jewish Jesus to practice lawlessness and ignore the most basic moral behavioural standards that the Lord set for humanity.

In addition, they repeatedly abuse their power by torturing, jailing, and murdering those who disagree with them and still call themselves Jews, unless they belong to the Synagogue of Satan Jesus warned about in Revelation 2:9!!! These are people who believe in the concept of Karl Marx who believed communism would have to be imposed violently and that the proletarians would only come to power by revolution. This all is completely irreconcilable with the teachings of Jesus Christ.

The Tutsi, claim to share the story of their beginning with King Solomon who had an affair with the Queen of Sheba who converted to Judaism and was sent back with their child. However, there is absolutely no genealogical evidence of Tutsi descent from the Israelites apart from the supposed offspring of the union between Solomon and the Queen of Sheba which has become the subject of one of the most widespread and fertile cycles of legends in Africa and the Middle East.

Let’s now see what the Bible has to say about all this, starting with the Old Testament.

The Ethiopian history described in the Kebra Nagast relates that Ethiopians are descendants of Israelite tribes who came to Ethiopia with Menelik I, alleged to be the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.  The legend relates that Menelik, as an adult, returned to his father in Jerusalem, and later resettled in Ethiopia. He took with him the Ark of the Covenant. In 1 Kings 10-13 and 2 Chronicles 9:1–12, we have an account of the visit in which the queen of Sheba made a long journey not just to see his wealth but to hear his wisdom.

What was the purpose of Queen Sheba’s visit?

1. The queen of Sheba came to see for herself if everything she had heard about Solomon was true. In other words, to satisfy her curiosity; she had heard of his fame, especially his wisdom, and she came to prove him, whether he was so great a man as he was reported to be. For instance, we are told that Solomon’s fleet sailed near the coast of her country, and probably it might have been put in there for fresh water and therefore she would go herself and know the truth of the report.

2. To receive instruction from him. She came to hear his wisdom, and thereby to improve her own so that she might be better able to govern her own kingdom by his maxims of policy. Our Saviour calls her the queen of the south, for Sheba, lay south of Canaan. In his public ministry, Jesus said: ‘The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, but now One greater than Solomon had come (Matthew 12:42, Luke 11). Jesus was said to be ‘filled with wisdom’ as a child (Luke 2).

3. She was religiously inclined, and had heard not only of the fame of Solomon, but concerning the name of the Lord, the great name of that God whom Solomon worshipped and from whom he received his wisdom, and with this God, she desired to be better acquainted.

4. She came to bring a noble present to Solomon of gold and spices, In Psalms 72 15: David had foretold concerning Solomon that to him should be given of the gold of Sheba, ‘Long may he live! May gold from Sheba be given him. May people ever pray for him and bless him all day long.’ The present of gold and spices which the wise men of the east brought to Christ was signified by this in Matthew 2:11. Thus she paid for the wisdom she had learned and did not think she bought it dearly.

The Bible says: ‘Now King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all she desired, whatever she asked, much more than she had brought to the king. So, she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants’ (1 Kings 10:13).

The Tutsi, claim Solomon had a sexual relationship with the Queen which resulted in having a baby and even the Christians in Ethiopia, to this day are confident that she came from their country, and that Candace was her successor, who is mentioned in Acts 8:27.

However, in the Bible, there is NO mention that the Queen of Sheba either married or had any sexual relations with King Solomon (although some identify her with the “black and beautiful” in Song of Songs 1:5). Rather, the narrative records that she was impressed with Solomon’s wealth and wisdom, and they exchanged royal gifts, and then she returned to rule her people in Kush. However, the “royal gifts” are interpreted by some as sexual contact. The loss of the Ark is also not mentioned in the Bible. Hezekiah later makes reference to the Ark in 2 Kings 19:15.

When she realised the extent of his riches and wisdom, she was overwhelmed and no longer questioned his power or wisdom. No longer a competitor, she became an admirer. In fact, her experience was repeated by many kings and foreign dignitaries who paid honour to Solomon. And kings from every nation sent their ambassadors to listen to the wisdom of Solomon (1 Kings 4:34 2 Chronicles 9:23).

What about the theory of being part of the lost ten tribes and the Ark of the Covenant thus making the Tutsi; Jews, Levites and Danites? The current tribes of Israel are Judah and Benjamin. The 10 lost tribes: Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Manasseh and Ephraim were deported from the Kingdom of Israel by the Neo-Assyrians around 722 BCE.

According to some historians, Jewish beginnings in Ethiopia started in the 15^th century which is why they claim to have descended from Israel. There are also a number of claims of descent from the ‘lost’ ten tribes by many groups including the Tutsi who trace the lineage back to the tribe of Dan which was the first of the ‘lost’ ten tribes of Israel. These ten tribes whether lost or not are NOT in any way related to the Tutsi people. Genealogical proof of Tutsi descent from the Israelites is therefore impossible to find.

Furthermore, the prophet Ezekiel was told to take two sticks and hold them in one hand, side by side. God told him to write ‘Ephraim’ on one stick (the popular name for the northern ten tribes) and ‘Judah’ on the other (the name for the two tribes in the south). Then he was instructed to hold them together in his hand so that they became one stick. This was like the miracle of Moses’ rod in Egypt. God was saying, ‘I’m going to make the two kingdoms into one people again, and I’ll be their shepherd.’ This is echoed by Jesus’ words: ‘I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also.’Egypt, Libya, Sudan and Ethiopia are all mentioned in the Bible as distinct nations with different roles in God’s redemption plan for the nations.

The Bible tells us that during one of the bleakest moments in Jeremiah’s life, God demonstrated His power by providing help from a high-ranking African Ethiopian official known as Ebed-Melech who was working Zedekiah’s court. He risked his position and perhaps his life to rescue Jeremiah from a muddy cistern when the king had heard the advice of his officials that Jeremiah must die because he was saying, the city of Jerusalem will certainly be handed over to the army of the king of Babylon:

Here is the account as recorded in Jeremiah 38:6-11:

So, the officials took Jeremiah from his cell and lowered him by ropes into an empty cistern in the prison yard. It belonged to Malkijah, a member of the royal family. There was no water in the cistern, but there was a thick layer of mud at the bottom, and Jeremiah sank down into it. But Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, an important court official, heard that Jeremiah was in the cistern. At that time the king was holding court at the Benjamin Gate, so Ebed-Melech rushed from the palace to speak with him.“My lord the king,” he said, “these men have done a very evil thing in putting Jeremiah the prophet into the cistern. He will soon die of hunger, for almost all the bread in the city is gone. “So, the king told Ebed-Melech, “Take thirty of my men with you, and pull Jeremiah out of the cistern before he dies.” So Ebed-Melech took the men with him and went to a room in the palace beneath the treasury, where he found some old rags and discarded clothing. He carried these to the cistern and lowered them to Jeremiah on a rope. Ebed-Melech called down to Jeremiah, “Put these rags under your armpits to protect you from the ropes.” Then when Jeremiah was ready, they pulled him out. So, Jeremiah was returned to the courtyard of the guard—the palace prison—where he remained.

The Ethiopian Ebed-Melech risked his life to save God’s prophet, Jeremiah. When Babylon conquered Jerusalem just as Jeremiah had prophesied, God protected Ebed-Melech from the Babylonians:

The Lord had given the following message to Jeremiah while he was still in prison: “Say to Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, ‘This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: I will do to this city everything I have threatened. I will send disaster, not prosperity. You will see its destruction, but I will rescue you from those you fear so much. Because you trusted me, I will give you your life as a reward. I will rescue you and keep you safe. I, the Lord, have spoken!’ (Jeremiah 39:15-18).

The New Testament

In the New Testament, we are reminded that God does not limit His Kingdom to any race or group of people. He offers salvation to all people without regard to nationality. In Acts 1:8 we read, ‘You shall be my witnesses beginning in Jerusalem, Judaea and Samaria and to the uttermost parts of the earth.’ The witness for Christ starts in Jerusalem, in Chapters 1–7. Chapters 8 -10 take the witness further into Judaea and Samaria, and then finally it spreads from there to Europe and the heart of the Roman empire.

Thus, Luke is seen to be demonstrating how Jesus’ words at the beginning had been fulfilled by the end of the book, as the gospel reaches Rome with Paul, the witness of Christ to the Emperor himself. The only hint of expansion to the south is the conversion of the Ethiopian on his way home when Philip was transported to preach to him. He was reading the book of Isaiah 53 when Philip met him and it would seem a curious incident to include, were it not for Luke’s purpose of showing how the gospel spread. This is how the gospel first came to Ethiopia, brought by that Ethiopian eunuch, the first African convert.

Ethiopia known as Cush was located in Africa south of Egypt. As we’ve mentioned above through the story of Ebed-Melech, the Jews had had contact with Ethiopia in ancient days. The Psalmist says: Let Egypt come with gifts of precious metals; let Ethiopia bring tribute to God (Psalm 68:31; Jeremiah 38:7), so this Eunuch may have been a Gentile convert to Judaism and that’s why he was reading aloud from the Book of Isaiah. Because he was in charge of the treasury of Ethiopia, his conversion brought Christianity into the power structures of another government. This is the beginning of the witness ‘to the ends of the earth’ (Acts 1:8).

The Jews were and are still proud of the fact that their heritage came from Isaac whose mother was Sarah (Abraham’s legitimate wife), rather than Ishmael, whose mother was Hagar (Sarah’s servant). Nevertheless, Paul asserts that no one claim to be chosen by God because of his or her heritage or good deeds. God freely chooses to offer salvation by His sovereign goodness and mercy, and not because of our own merit.

Paul tells us that NOT everyone who claims to be a Jew is truly so before God. The upshot of this quote (Rom. 2:25-29) is quite simple: A true Jew according to Apostle Paul is one who has both the circumcision of the flesh and the circumcision of the heart, commanded in Deuteronomy 10:16. Not of the flesh only and conversely not of the heart only! Both are needed simultaneously. The other nations, if obedient to all the teachings of Jesus designed for non-Israelites, are considered just as righteous as Jews obedient to their covenant before God. Paul repeats the same argument later in Romans 9, where he will argue that not all descendants of Israel constitute the true Israel:

Not all who are descended from Israel are the true Israel, and they are not all the children of Abraham because they are his descendants by blood, but the promise was: “Your descendants will be named through Isaac” That is, it is not the children of the body Abraham’s natural descendants who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are counted as Abraham’s true descendants (Romans 9: 6-8).

God is not the God of the Jews only, but the God of the entire world. God’s justice, like everything else, applies to both Jews and Gentiles alike. The law has been made known to all, including Gentiles, either by external providence or by internal conscience, and, as a result, God shall judge each person’s sinfulness against the law, the example and standard for which has been set in Jesus Christ (Romans 2:12-16).

Understand that God shows no partiality and is no respecter of persons, but in every nation, he who venerates and has a reverential fear for God, treating Him with worshipful obedience and living uprightly, is acceptable to Him and sure of being received and welcomed by Him (Acts10:34-35). He asserts that salvation for both the Jew and Gentile is through faith in Jesus Christ and as far His descent is concerned Jesus Christ, was not just a Hebrew descendant of Abraham but a Judean in the direct royal line of David!

While many points could be offered to refute the idea that the Tutsi are part of the lost tribes, the Bible teaches that descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who are scattered all over the earth, will be regathered in their ancient homeland in the end-times.

Moreover, in Revelation 7:4-7, we see 144,000 Jewish men singled out for special ministry and protection, 12,000 from each of the twelve tribes, including the so-called ten lost tribes. While many have tried to spiritualize this prophecy and make it a reference to the church, the clear and literal meaning in its context is that these are literally the twelve tribal bloodlines of Israel.

The ten tribes are not in any way related to the Tutsi people, or part of the ten lost tribes of Israel, nor the tribe of Dan or Manasseh. Israel is still Israel and will fulfil its central role in the events of the end times, just as the Bible predicts. Having said that, Paul urged us to avoid foolish and ill-informed and stupid controversies and genealogies and dissensions and quarrels about the Law, for they are unprofitable and useless (Titus 3:9).

There can be no doubt that our Constitutional Republic exists in name only, having been replaced by Communist Rule by force (The Enemy). I am convinced that we will win back the Republic, but at great cost, because the Parasitic Super Rich Ruing Class (PSRRC) and their Communist minions (THE ENEMY) will not go down without a fight. To hell with abstract terms, the Enemy of the people is the Enemy. Period. Remember, they have been attempting to take over our country for more than 200 years.

To address the problem we must make the following assumptions:

1.The Enemy has taken over total control of the government and is ruling by the barrel of a gun in complete contravention of the Constitution, without any legality whatsoever.

2. Equal Justice does not exist in the faux federal government. There is no safety or justice in large Democrat/Communist cities or states.

3. The Majority of all federal legislation is unconstitutional, as it does not comport with the Enumerated Powers in our Constitution.

4. More than half the population is dependent directly or indirectly on income from the federal government. This of course is a big plus for the Enemy. But this advantage will be short-lived, because the printed money will soon be worthless and people will turn on the government. (It is impossible to change this situation without returning to Constitutional gold money, which the Enemy does not want to do because they would lose control.)

5. About half of our population supports the Enemy because of handouts, brainwashing by teachers and media, and just plain ignorance. But mostly its just the free money. The fools don’t know that this is economically impossible in the long run. Remember the fall of Rome.

6.The people of this country live in fear of the FBI and other rogue federal agencies acting under “the color of law”. The people know their Constitutional Rights and that the Enemy has none, which is a disaster waiting to happen. This could and likely will trigger a massive upheaval.

7.At the present time the Enemy (Parasitic Super Rich Ruling Class, wealthy families, elites, big money, corporations, government officials, etc) control everything and everybody with money and the barrel of a gun.

8. Leaders of both political parties are subservient minions of the Enemy for money and power.

9. It is impossible to win national elections due to corruption, fraud and a complicit Supreme Court. In the short run, you can’t inform the brainwashed, but you must live in the short run. With cowardly and corrupt governors, complicit courts and a compromised Department of Justice, you have no remedy about unfair elections.

We are going to suffer for years, through many levels, before we regain our freedom. I predict that some levels will be fraught with destruction and bloodshed. I am predicting the following levels:

1. We are at the starting gate, where everyone is hoping that the recent election will result in a slowdown in the destruction of the country. But when faced with the barrels of guns by totally corrupt usurpers, little or no progress will be made. We can’t forget that long-term elected officials are under control of the Enemy (Parasitic Super Rich Ruling Class, Elites, Big Money, Establishment, Wealthy Families, etc). Please note, I just call them what they are: The Enemy!

2. We could experience some real hell in the period before the next election, if borders are not closed, inflation continues unabated, open-ended funding of the Ukraine War continues, FBI continues “Color of Law” attacks, etc. The real danger comes from citizen resistance to unlawful attacks by government. If the feds then respond even harder, it will precipitate severe and escalating blowback. Frankly, it will be a miracle if we get to the 2024 elections without a major confrontation and over-reaction on both sides.

3. The 2024 elections are our last, best chance to prevent a civil war. The “America First Republicans”, a minority of the Republican legislators, must force fair and Constitutional elections. If they fail, the people will lose their only opportunity to regain their Constitutional Republic without destruction and bloodshed, resulting in a civil war (not my recommendation, but a reality).

Our only hope is President Trump, who has demonstrated his patriotism and capability in the face of The Enemy to do the right things. I don’t care how many crooked politicians he calls pigs or worse, because they are pigs. The Enemy hates his guts because he interfered with their theft and degradation of the American people and our Constitution. Every major media outlet, including Fox News, will smear and vilify him because his election would result in a return to prosperity of the People at the expense of The Enemy (PSRRC, etc.).

President Trump speaks the plain, unvarnished language of the people and not the phony polished words of the Enemy (the “upper crust” and “woke” crowd).

The Election of 2024 will be a contest between the informed working -class, former middle-class (MAGA voters) and the wealthy, self-proclaimed elite Democrat/Communists (The Enemy), government, media, corporations and their brainwashed free-loaders in the inner-city plantations. The Democrat Party is not the party of your grandfather! It is the party of the wealthy, The Enemy.

Anyone who thinks that a government that produces nothing can support people who do nothing is as dumb as a box of rocks.

Let’s look at the numbers (I have little confidence in the absolute accuracy of these numbers, however.). National debt is $31 Trillion, GDP is $24 trillion, Revenue is $3.6 trillion, Federal Budget is estimated to be $5.8 Trillion, Every citizen owes $92,772 of the debt. Interest on the debt will soon exceed total revenue. It is economically impossible for federal government to continue funding most of its “unconstitutional “ expenditures that produce a $2 trillion or more deficit a year.

(Say Goodbye to Social Security, Medicare, Pensions and all government benefits!) It has been reported that 40 million able-bodied people refuse to work because they are paid not to work by government, resulting in inflation and shortages. If we don’t return to a government of “constitutional size”, we will continue as bankrupt, and everything we cherish will be gone. Period.

4. Assume we managed to take back control of all three branches of government in 2024, while replacing the old guard of the Republican Party with “America First” Republicans. Now we can make our federal government comply with the Constitution 100%, and our prosperity will soar. But if we fail, I can see nothing but destruction and bloodshed for years to come as Lenin’s “Useful Idiots” learn the truth by starvation and experience (the only way they will learn in the short run).

5. I want to make clear that, win or lose the 2024 election, drastic changes will take place over which no one has control. All creditable experts say that we will soon be in a massive, long and enduring economic depression with the dollar in free-fall. If we terminate all “unconstitutional” parts of the federal government, return usurped powers back to the states, put the able- bodied back to work, etc., we can return the Republic to the People with all its benefits. If we can’t do this, we will suffer a civil war and sink into economic oblivion until we again fund government with tariffs, rather than the income tax.

CRITICAL WARNING: If The Enemy, through the government, again violates the Constitution and instigates instant and comprehensive slavery known as DIGITAL MONEY, it is an immediate DECLARATION OF CIVIL WAR. You would be like a Chinese serf with no God-given Rights, no property, no nothing. You would be a convict in a “country-wide prison”.

Anyone who questions this truth is an idiot.

I am a Patriot and an 88 year old, legally-blind disabled veteran with a modicum of education and experience. My writing is based upon this, and my knowledge of History, Economics and The Constitution. At my age, I don’t have time for BS, so I call a spade a spade. I am not advocating any course of action because I can’t participate. I report circumstances as I see them.

God Bless the Constitutional Republic.

© 2022 NWV Andrew Wallace – All Rights Reserved

No kidding. Sweden announced Nord Stream 2 was attacked. Obviously, there was an explosion, and obviously, that explosion was sabotage.

What is most remarkable is the unified reaction of the United States of America civilian, military and intelligence services leadership. For six years now everything bad that happens in the world is blamed on Russia. This incident is no different.

The preponderance of this propaganda leads one to believe the Democratic Party is living in the midst of the Cold War, and official Washington wants war with Russia. In fact, official Washington is openly talking about direct U.S. conflict with Russia.

A new months ago, President Joe Biden said he “would end” Nord Stream 2 if Putin invaded Ukraine. He said we would “make it happen.” So when the big bang happened beneath the sea, it was all “Russia, Russia, Russia.”

Former CIA Director John Brennan said so. Former Gen. David Petraeus said so. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said so. Petraeus went so far as to game out how the United States could sink the Russian Black Sea fleet in retaliation for the use of tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. A pipeline in the Baltic Sea became the catalyst for tactical nuclear strikes and war in the Black Sea. Please explain.

For his part, virtually every word Joe Biden has spoken since Russia started moving military assets toward Ukraine has been provocative, insulting and dangerous. The weak and mentally incompetent president has bluffed his way through decades of his Senate occupation and now retreats to his “behind the gym” approach to deal with Vladimir Putin.

The general U.S. response has been madness. The America public is told by the Washington leadership and the media that Russia blew up its own pipeline for some nefarious reason. No one in a leadership position that matters has suggested Russia could have simply refused to sell oil to northwestern Europe and keep its pipeline investment intact. An obvious alternative would be to simply close the valves, also keeping its pipeline intact. Why damage what you just paid to create?

Since Russia is not an economic power, and since Russia depends upon the revenue from the sale of hydrocarbon fuels, how could it possibly be in its own interest to destroy its economic cash cow?

Before Biden, the U.S. was an energy exporter capable of providing lifesaving hydrocarbon fuels to Germany in such a crisis. Biden took care of that strength on day one.

Clearly, Russia does not gain from the attack upon its pipeline. Equally clear, then, is the reality that the Biden administration leadership is lying to the American people.

Why? What is the motive?

The Germans and their neighbors in Europe face a winter without adequate electrical power.

As noted, the Russians lose vital economic income from the sale of natural gas.

Consider the fact Joe Biden, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and the entire Democratic Party have made clear their goal is to eliminate all carbon emission sources as soon as possible. Mandates are being issued almost daily, from the elimination of gasoline engines to the rebuilding of entire cities with the singular purpose of achieving energy efficiency.

Driven by fear of carbon, which is the most common element on Earth, the climate change cultists are willing to restrict the growing of food to feed 8 billion people. The climate cult changes to agricultural practices would leave half that population of 8 billion without food. Only a cult would advocate starving 4 billion people to save humanity.

Climate change is characterized by these people as an “existential threat” to humanity and that, in their tiny, malfunctioning minds, means everything must be done yesterday to save the world.

Obviously, the destruction of much of Europe’s hydrocarbon supply is a major benefit to the carbon alarmists and the climate cultists. The loss of Nord Stream 2 is as big as Joe Biden’s abandonment of the Keystone pipeline and the multitude of federal regulations to block oil and natural gas production in the United States.

Worldwide, socialist leaders are promoting climate control “solutions” with one thing in common: Each would require massive political consolidation.

For starters, we can no longer have nations. Independent nations might opt for expensive hydrocarbon fuels. So there must be a world government and that world government must be able to impose uniform solutions. We would not take a vote on “existential threat” solutions.

Occasionally, major international events have more than one purpose. In this case, the orchestrated U.S. response to Nord Stream has been to blame Russia and talk up nuclear war.

What would a nuclear war mean to humanity? Chaos. Chaos on a scale that required a worldwide response, done on a crisis schedule, without the niceties of discussion, public consideration, voting, or nations. The solutions would be akin to the restrictions during the international test case imposed upon society during COVID. Do what you are told by government authority to do, or else. You must surrender all your personal freedoms guaranteed by God or you will be driven out into the desert and left to die.

Socialists throughout the world have been writing about and talking about the necessity of eliminating nations since the end of World War II. After eight decades of advocacy, planning, rewriting of history, and the destruction of social order based upon morality and individual achievement, we may have reached the climax. Joe Biden uses the one-world euphemism “transition.” He means a transition from national government to world control.

The destruction of Nord Stream 2 and Joe Biden’s prediction it would be destroyed by the United States are not accidents.

Whenever someone attempts to examine the actions of leaders, those leaders and their companies do not debate, or reason together. They instead dismiss the entire subject as a “conspiracy theory” or its contemporary equivalent, “misinformation” or “Russian disinformation.”

That dismissal is both insulting, and “disinformation.”

Fact: The people of Russia and the people of northwestern Europe do not benefit from the destruction of Nord Stream 2. The resulting chaos only benefits those people pursuing a “transition” agenda.

© 2022 WND Mike Pottage-All rights reserved.

Preface: I’ve been monitoring the Russia/Ukraine war very closely since the beginning and comparing the non-stop shamefully dishonest propaganda of the OBiden-controlled media with news from independent, mostly pro-Russian sources.

What matters to me is truth, and that is coming almost exclusively from the pro-Russian side: It’s almost exactly the reverse of the U.S./USSR contest of the Cold War, with America now taking the old Soviet role and the Russian Federation taking the ethical higher ground formerly held by the U.S.

Everything done by Putin in this conflict is reasoned, rational and either clearly legal under international law or clearly defensible by comparison to U.S. interventions in foreign nations, which our government insist are legal.

If you don’t share that view, it’s likely the fault of your “news” sources. Tag-teaming propaganda by the leftist and neocon (RINO) media (which includes huge swaths of Christian media controlled by neocons like Pence, Romney and Ryan) is the only reason so many Americans are backing OBiden on this war.

If the average American knew what I know from my independent research, there would never even have been a Russian incursion into Ukraine because we would all recognize that our government has nefariously orchestrated every single step of this conflict since at least 2014.

That orchestration includes especially the Russian invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, which the lying media has the audacity to call “unprovoked” after deliberately covering up the very serious provocations. The psyops campaign against our own people regarding Ukraine has been done at a John 8:44, Father-of-Lies level of deception, particularly regarding the media-created “war crimes” to stir public outrage and keep the cash flowing into the war machine. (Never forget what these exact same propagandists did and are still doing to Donald Trump! They. can. not. be. trusted. about. anything.)

Here is my analysis of where we are in the OBiden rush to World War III.

The starter gun has sounded, the four horsemen are out of the gate, and the culling of humanity through war, disease, famine and natural disasters is about to begin in earnest. It’s a prophesied spiritual season, but a worldly geopolitical one as well.

On the worldly stage, OBiden pulled the trigger on Sept. 1 in a performance dripping with Nazi symbolism – both to evoke the previous world war for context and to subtly mock Vladimir Putin’s anti-Nazism rhetoric about the Ukraine war. American pundits were mystified by the unprecedented “Dark Brandon” drama of the speech and saw it only through the lens of poll numbers and the coming election, but the globalist conspirators planning the

“Great Reset” undoubtedly recognized it as the launch of the main phase of the prerequisite “great collapse” in the form of a new world war.

Within a week, the Obergruppenfuhrer of the CIA, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, made a surprise appearance in Kyiv, and two days later the (apparently) successful Ukrainian counter-offensive backed by billions in top-shelf U.S. weaponry began. That the Americans had taken hands-on control of the Ukrainian war machine on behalf of NATO was the obvious message. (I say “apparently” successful because I suspect Russia has been playing rope-a-dope with the West by a series of tactical withdrawals to lure the Ukrainians out of their fortified bunkers where they have been decimated by airstrikes and artillery.)

In response to direct U.S. intervention, Russia moved up the referenda elections in the Donbass to make the four pro-Russian oblasts it had liberated in the war an official part of the Russian Federation. Contrary to our media’s absurd but predictable claim of election fraud (Oh, the irony!), the election result was as foregone a conclusion as Texas voting for Trump – but was also endorsed as legitimate by international observers.

So now any attack on the four new bear cubs will be an attack on Momma Bear Russia, and there will be hell to pay by those who do. And they (“we”) will press the attack because WWIII seems to be our October Surprise for 2022.

Added to hell’s invoice is the rather obvious but perhaps legally unprovable U.S. sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 natural gas pipelines to ensure vassal-state Germany cannot break with her U.S. master and mend fences with Russia to avoid becoming a post-industrial frozen wasteland this winter. That likely won’t be the last false flag of the season. And the chances of one here at home – blamed on Russia, of course – seem fairly high.

Frankly, every death in Ukraine since as least April (when OBiden sent Boris Johnson to kill the peace deal that Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France had brought within inches of adoption) has been the fault of our government. And realistically, the death toll going back all the way to the 2014 Obama/Soros Maidan coup, including the 14,000 people killed in the Donbass by Ukrainian shelling through February 2022, is “our” fault, too.

Looking at it all from the highest level of geopolitical pragmatism, there would be a reasonably strong argument to be made for preserving U.S. global hegemony and discouraging Russia from building a multi-polar alternative IF American values and vision reflected the altruistic Christian heritage of our past. But American “values” today are the most corrupt and perverse of any nation on earth, and the future our leaders envision is a dystopian transhumanist freak show of woke tyrants and sexual deviants.

And even if that were not true, and we were still an ethical and virtue-aspiring people like the good old days, the question about what our nation’s role in the world should be is a matter for WE the PEOPLE to decide, not a thin upper strata of globalist elites and greedy predatory corporatists. I think the American people, if given the choice, would be inclined to share the world’s resources with other nations for mutual benefit rather than violently subjugating all competitors on behalf of U.S. oligarchs.

So what comes next? As of Oct. 5, the Russian Special Military Operation, which was limited to liberating the Donbass and diminishing the Ukrainian military threat will end, and real war will begin against the U.S. and NATO forces that took direct (but still not admitted) control of the Ukrainian forces in September. That will serve as justification for the OBiden military also to “take the gloves off,” triggering various mutual-defense treaties on both sides and the explosion of war across the world. I would dearly love to be wrong, and to celebrate a peace treaty in the coming weeks instead of a cascade of disasters, but things look grim as of today.

Copyright 2022 Dr Scott Lively-All rights reserved.

On the First of May in the year 1716, a swashbuckling Scottish entrepreneur was making this pitch of his lifetime to the head of the French government in Paris.

The entrepreneur’s name was John Law. By all accounts he was incredibly charismatic and had a flamboyant, larger than life personality. He was something like Adam Neumann, formerly of WeWork… the kind of person who could talk anyone into anything.

And John Law’s pitch that day was to launch an entirely new financial system.

King Louis XIV had just died eight months before, leaving France in terrible financial ruin. Decades of endless wars, palaces, and profligate spending had bankrupted the French government.

The situation was so dire, in fact, that there was hardly any gold left in the French treasury. So the new head regent of the government, Duke Philippe II of Orleans, was desperate for a solution.

Law made him a bold proposal: the Duke would provide Law with a special banking license. And in exchange, Law would create a new system of paper money that would bring more gold into France and help pay off the crippling national debt.

Philippe agreed. And, only a few weeks later, John Law’s new Banque Generale Privee was in business.

It turned out that people loved the idea of paper money. And within a year, his paper bank notes were circulating widely throughout the French economy, and the government even accepted them for tax payments.

Law made his paper money even more valuable in late 1717, after he had taken control of the Mississippi Company.

The French Mississippi Company was something like the Dutch East India Company; it was a private enterprise that had received a royal monopoly over all the land and resources in France’s American colonies.

Almost immediately after securing rights to the monopoly, Law offered shares of the Mississippi Company to the public; it was like a giant IPO.

But Law sweetened the deal by allowing people to pay up to 75% of the share price using his bank’s paper money.

The Mississippi Company IPO was a smashing success. It was so popular that Law was offered bribes, sex, and political favors from French nobles in exchange for the opportunity to buy a few extra shares.

The famous philosopher Voltaire was eye witness to this, and wrote, “I myself saw him pass through the galleries of the Palais-Royal followed by dukes and peers, Marshalls of France, bishops of the Church.”

And at first, the share price soared. Bear in mind the Mississippi Company had zero activity. Hardly anyone was living in France’s southern colonies in America, and there was virtually no trade or commerce going on.

The government even tried deporting criminals to America, trying to increase the population of the colonies. They offered hundreds of acres of land for free to anyone who would go. Yet economic activity still failed to transpire.

Eventually, the French public realized the truth; there would be no gold, no gems, and no riches coming from the Mississippi Company. And the stock price began to quickly collapse.

Law tried to prop up the stock price by creating more paper money (backed by absolutely nothing), and using that new money to buy shares of the Mississippi Company.

But all he ended up doing was creating inflation; with so much new paper money circulating in the economy, prices everywhere rose.

By May 1720, retail prices in France had doubled. It was full-blown hyperinflation, and people panicked. They feverishly began selling off their Mississippi Company shares and trading their paper money, for any real asset they could get their hands on.

One nobleman, Duke Henri-Jacques de Caumont, dumped all of his paper in exchange for a warehouse full of candles. A Parisian merchant sold his in exchange for crates of chocolate and coffee.

(This is one of many examples of history showing that real assets tend to do well in times of inflation.)

Shortly after, Law officially suspended the conversion of his bank notes into gold and silver, and the paper money instantly became worthless.

At the peak of all this insanity, if you can even believe it, the French government made John Law its Comptroller-General.

In other words, the guy who created the biggest financial bubble in French history was put in charge of government finances.

I couldn’t help but think of this story when I watched a group of central bankers talking about cryptocurrency at a conference in Paris last week.

Among others, the heads of the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank participated in a panel discussion that, for anyone who actually understands crypto, can only be described as hilarious.

Naturally, they started with the old anti-crypto tropes, talking about “the lack of transparency” and how criminals use crypto.

These are completely laughable points. Criminals use iPhones, American Express, and JP Morgan Chase as well. Should we cancel those too?

And as for crypto’s lack of transparency, the opposite is true. Every Bitcoin transaction is traceable on the blockchain for the entire world to see.

Yet with every passing sentence, these bankers demonstrated that they know absolutely nothing about crypto… and quite possibly banking too.

At one point they slammed stablecoins that didn’t have a 1:1 backing; stablecoins are specialized tokens that represent, for example, 1 US dollar per token. So there is supposed to be at least one US dollar in reserve for every token in circulation.

Lately there have been a handful of high profile stable coins that didn’t have sufficient reserves. So their criticism is fair.

But this leads to an obvious question: if a 1 to 1 reserve standard for stable coins is so critical, why don’t we demand the same of our banking system?

Central Banks are among the most prominent regulators in banking. And they have completely condoned a fractional reserve system whereby commercial banks are only required to keep 10% (or less) in reserve.

In other words, these people are perfectly fine that commercial banks gamble most of their customers’ money on the latest investment fad of the day.

It’s fine to be outraged when a few stablecoins aren’t 100% reserved. But they should be equally outraged that commercial banks aren’t even 10% reserved.

The biggest laughs, though, took place when these central bankers started talking about rolling out their own digital currencies.

The Fed wants to create a DollarCoin. And the European Central Bank wants a EuroToken.

This is truly rolling on the floor, laugh out loud funny given that these people have no clue about technology.

The Federal Reserve’s most important payment system, FedACH, which processes over 50 million transactions per day, still takes 2-3 days for payments to clear. It’s so outdated, it’s as if they’re still sending satchels full of cash via Pony Express.

It’s also ridiculous that the people who have failed in every possible aspect of their responsibility think that they’re qualified to administer a brand new financial system.

These Central Banks failed to anticipate inflation. They failed to recognize it. They failed to do anything about it for more than a year. And now they’re hellbent on causing a recession.

They’ve pretty much been a complete disaster. Yet now they want to be in charge of crypto too. Are these people serious??

To me this is really one of the great benefits of crypto, and of real assets. Holding paper money is ultimately a vote in favor of central bankers, an expression of confidence that they know what they’re doing.

Personally I have little confidence in these people. And that’s why I think it makes sense to hold other types of assets that they don’t control, including real assets (real estate, commodities, productive businesses, etc.) and decentralized crypto assets.

Copyright © 2022 Simon Black All rights reserved

Three simple words. We. Need. God. But those words say it all. America has sunk too deep to recover on its own.

We have sunk too deep into a moral morass, too deep into cultural confusion, too deep into a spiritual stupor. Only God can turn the tide. Only God can save us from implosion. We need God!

Political involvement has its place.

Social engagement is important.

There are many practical things we can and should do.

But all the while, we must recognize that without divine intervention, it is over for America as we know it. There is no turning back the clock.

Without a fresh wave of revival in the church that will lead to a great awakening in our society, America is in terminal condition. No strategy can heal us. No method can save us. Only God!

Let’s be realistic for a moment. We need to understand just how far we have fallen.

There was a time when truth was considered absolute. Today we have “my truth” vs. “your truth. “There was a time when moral standards were considered fixed. Today, morality is relative.

Even reality has become relative. After all, you are whoever (or whatever) you perceive yourself to be, including males who are females and females who are males and others who are neither or both. A whole generation has been raised on this madness. Let’s not fool ourselves.

Consequently, while we’re trying to restore respect for the Scriptures others are debating which preferred gender pronouns to use. We need to wake up!

Think about it for a moment.

It was not that long ago that the idea of same-sex “marriage” was universally rejected by conservative leaders, especially in the church. It was contrary to nature. It was in violation of God’s plan. It was not in the best interest of children who would be raised by same-sex parents.

Today, many conservative outlets avoid the subject of homosexuality as too controversial, while many pastors affirm it from their pulpits. This is high-level deception. This is a generational turn in the very wrong direction.

In fact, when gay atheist David Rubin announced that he and his partner were adopting children, quite a few conservative leaders offered him their warmest wishes. (This is not to bash Rubin and his partner. It is to point out the degree to which our eyes have been blinded and our standards have been compromised.)

And it was Fox News, the largest “conservative” news network, that recently hired Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner as part of its team. In the words of Fox CEO Suzanne Scott, “Caitlyn’s story is an inspiration to us all. She is a trailblazer in the LGBTQ+ community, and her illustrious career spans a variety of fields that will be a tremendous asset for our audience.” Enough said.

Or consider the depths to which we have sunk in musical entertainment, with unrepeatable songs like W.A.P. captivating the nation. How many young children know the words by heart?

As for our churches, how many are really preaching the Gospel without compromise? How many are gaining new converts and making lasting disciples rather than losing members?

Recent research indicates that more churches are closing than opening in America, while the number of professing Christians continues to decline dramatically.

As for our reputation before the world, how many more scandals must we experience before we recognize that something is fundamentally wrong? We need God!

When it comes to the church and politics, we are just as divided as the world and often as vulgar and ugly and carnal. Is this the church for which Jesus died? Is this His spotless bride?

Yet again and again, we think a new church strategy will transform us or we look to the latest political hero to deliver us. When will we learn? How much more shaking do we need in our nation, from political upheaval to riots in our streets and from pandemics to financial crises, before we fall to our knees by the millions and cry out for mercy?

In the Old Testament, Israel constantly looked to the arm of flesh, hoping that other nations and leaders could bail them out of their trouble. But they were in trouble because they were not in right relationship with God. Instead, they continued in their sin and looked to man for help. But it never worked.

As the prophet Isaiah warned, “Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him” (Isaiah 36:6). The same can be said about all earthly supports in which we put our spiritual trust.

We need God!

More of the same will only produce more of the same, and we deceive ourselves by thinking that somehow, simply with the passing of time, the tide will turn on its own.

Not so.

Only God can turn the tide. Only God can change the narrative. Only God can save the nation. It really is revival or we die.

We. Need. God.

Copyright 2022 Dr. Michael Brown-All rights reserved.

“Indisposed to admit or accept that which is related as true”

“Incredulous”, of course, means disbelieving. Incredulity is a state of mind in which we find ourselves more and more. Our country is completely off its rocker, it seems, and we have a hard time believing it all.

We are confused and adrift because our moral guideposts have gone missing, ripped out from under us by the Marxists calling themselves the “Great Reset”. Every parameter of our morals and values, things we have learned in our churches, schools and at our parents’ knees – literally, everything we have held dear – is being destroyed. History is being rewritten. Our bedrock is crumbling into shifting sands, and we are responding with either anger or denial.

It’s no wonder we feel like we’re going nuts.

Evil has invaded our country. We see incredible hostility on a daily basis. There is so much hate-filled rhetoric on the news and among acquaintances and family, that we tend to turn it off and back away.

People you know are uttering things you never thought you’d hear them say, and they can’t/won’t explain themselves in a rational way. If you asked them to defend their argument, they can’t. They just spew a mantra of learned derangement, if they answer at all.

The media hypes stories of theft and robbery, killings and maimings 24/7. This seems to get worse, more frequent, not better every day. Have another dose of horror with your coffee.

We are the bad guys for denying the existence of 58 genders; it makes US the haters, we are told. What happened to “follow the science”?? That little mantra also goes out the window when we are demanded to believe that men can give birth and provide all that is physically necessary therein. Whatever.

It is un-American for the Census to count how many American citizens live here, but the 2020 count made sure to catch as many illegals as possible. Russian interference in elections is bad, but voting by illegals is good. Border security ($5 billion) is too expensive, but free health care and housing for illegals ($1.5 trillion+) is just fine.

Our illegitimate government showers the Fascist dictator of Ukraine with trillions, but denies our own military what they need, to fight AND to live through their life-altering injuries sustained in our service.

Bidens (and Clintons AND Obamas) went to bed with the crooked Ukraine government, financed bio-weapon labs there, blackmailed its leader and that is somehow ignored (or accepted??), all day every day. Let Trump place a phone call to the Ukraine president and ASK about those offences, and it is worthy of impeachment. Daily, it seems, the current ‘resident and his Congress perform impeachable offences but, since Trump left office, the word has not been whispered in those hallowed halls.

The party that says there is no such thing as gender, and whose SCOTUS nominee cannot define a “woman”, demands female candidates for public office and special healthcare “rights” (murder of the unborn) for women. Our children are being physically and chemically castrated in our own public schools, and parents are not even in the loop! This is a pure Luciferian construct. Incredible!

Unbelievable! We are utterly incredulous. Again.

Illegal aliens are welcomed into our country by the millions, carrying every kind of disease known to man. (Of course, we don’t know what they are. Yet.) But Americans lose jobs and freedoms if they do not submit to an untested treatment, which has proven to be killing millions. “My body, my choice”, anyone?” Let’s not even mention the incredible amounts of lethal drugs like Fentanyl gushing into every state, while American citizens are prohibited from buying tested and effective remedies such as Ivermectin.

People are being held responsible for things they never did, stuff that happened before they were born – like slavery – but those committing crimes every day are being held responsible for nothing, notwithstanding video and/or eyewitness evidence of their crimes.

On this note, while it is NOT OK to execute murderers, it’s just fine when they kill innocent Americans. Attempted murder doesn’t even rate temporary incarceration or a trial. The entire act of a deranged Leftist trying to kill Congressman Lee Zeldin was caught on camera, but the perp was out of custody in two hours. Don’t forget, too, that under this New World Order, killing babies is somehow a human right, a necessary part of a woman’s (pardon me, “baby-maker person’s”) health care freedom.

And, oh, yes. Those evil law enforcement professionals are labelled fascists for trying to stop the anarchy, because, somehow, being arrested and held accountable violates the rights of the criminal.

Insanity.

Our Constitution and its body of law, on which we have depended to enjoy the finest form of government in history, have been thrown out. We are staring totalitarianism in its Luciferian face. Those forms of governance (socialism, Marxism, Communism, whatever) have killed millions around the world, but the Globalists want to try again.

After decades of undercover efforts to bring us to this point, we are facing the demise of our country. Now it is visible, the rot is all around us, and many of us still can’t bring ourselves to believe, OR to work against it.

I am somehow “racist” for pointing all this out. Heck…I’m in good company: Calling Covid the Chinese flu after its country of origin is racist, too. (“French” fries? “Italian” seasoning? “Greek” pastry? How far is this going? If I like all of the above, am I a hater??)

This insanity is invading every aspect of our lives. It is making us incredulous. We want to hide or run, or just deny. We just want it to go away, but it won’t, unless we acknowledge it, and realize what this turmoil is doing to us and our country.

Acceptance must precede knowledge which precedes the power to stand and fight. If we are going to be able to deal effectively to get our republic back, I repeat, we must act.

Many don’t want to get involved in activism because what is out there is just too crazy to believe, and too frightening to consider.

However, if you value your freedoms, IF YOU WANT TO ENJOY THE BLESSINGS OF LIVING IN A FREE COUNTRY, you will open your mind to reality, take a deep breath, and jump in. The water’s NOT fine, but it is navigable, and the only danger comes from NOT swimming with your pack. We do not have a choice.

Take heart. WE are far more numerous than THEY, because WE are the Constitutionalists, who want to save our freedoms. “Our pack” is no longer defined by a party label, “R”, “D”, “I” or any other. If you approach members of your community with the simple choice of which they support – the Constitution or Communism – you will raise the flaps of the tent, and expand your group to include a great many who have been frustrated, trying to find their old party allegiances. WE, who believe in our Constitution and the blessed life it has given us, ARE a vastly larger group than those who crave totalitarian control.

There are local action groups in counties and towns across the country, doing great work. They consist of members of all former political parties. More groups are forming every day, in every state. Join arms with your friends and neighbours and get involved. Form a Freedom Pod and learn what is happening in your own town. You might be surprised, but you will be armed for action, with understanding. Knowledge is power.

First priority, secure the November 2022 elections. Without that, we will be at a serious, perhaps fatal, disadvantage.

The venom of Evil – which is everywhere today – paralyzes the moral mind. Lucifer and his gang know this and hope you will become so tangled in the web of utter disbelief, and terrified of the dark shadows you see everywhere, that you will become powerless to act. Don’t let yourself become their victim. Stand strong for what you know is right.

Get off the couch and out the door. We have a country to save.

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