Introduction

You may recognize something useful in this morsel (from Young’s Literal Translation):

“And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: When already its branch may have become tender, and the leaves it may put forth, ye know that summer [is] nigh, so also ye, when ye may see all these, ye know that it is nigh -- at the doors.”     Matthew 24:32-33

Well folks, what do you see in the world these days? Is the branch tender or strong? Is the summer harvest near or far?

Before I launch into my research findings on economic/political/military/industrial complexes in the world right now, I’d like to start with my conclusion for this blog entry: I think we have been experiencing a slow process often called ‘the end times’ for a while now.  So, yeah, the fig tree branch is tender.  But there are still more events, as far as I can understand in reading the gospel, that will precede the fall of this age and physical return of the messiah. Click here for a study of the various transcribed names of the messiah.

Tender Branch - The Falling Financial System

The main financial system in the world today, the fractional-reserve banking system, has been exposed for its uneven measurements and unfairness.  But unfortunately it is based on enough sophisticated-sounding jargon and bureaucratic rules that the expose is beyond the comprehension of most.  In a nutshell, banks loan more money than they own, and collect interest on fictitious amounts, and governments print more money than they have resources in reserve (fiat money), diluting the people’s wealth just so the banks can keep collecting interest on the fictitious amounts.  What happens when the blind follow the blind?

As our creator probably does not approve of iniquity (financial matters included), this system will be thrown down, as it may already be already doomed.  Perhaps the process will even be hastened by natural disasters and war that lead to resource deficiency.  Perhaps then the world's people will cry for peace and unity, and the United Nations et al will offer a ‘solution,’ which requires the branding of people with computer chips for various purported reasons of efficiency and order, not to mention forced vaccinations (to prevent disease from entering marketplaces and other public places and resources).

Are the famine and drought in the world right now signs to repent?  Panic?  I think our creator is teaching us yet another tough lesson about true value.

I want to warn you, reader, not to place faith in the world’s financial system, for starters because as attractive and useful as your money may seem, it can never be anything more than a proxy for real value.  Also, in the larger sense, there is a particular danger of placing ultimate trust in the material world. 

Have you noticed that the modern world is often so concentrated on money that it forgets, neglects, and devalues the greater wealth all around - freedom, healthy bodies, fertile soils, great forests, the rivers and oceans, minerals, quantum mechanics?

Because both we and the generations behind us failed to effectively question the fractional reserve banking systems in America, Europe, and elsewhere, we have allowed a dangerous consolidation of power and over-exploitation of resources.  You see, exploitation is the predictable response to inflation, because when a community’s debt exceeds the ability to repay, which it always does in our modern fractional-reserve systems, bankruptcy is inevitable.  This is not capitalism, despite what you may have been taught.

Here is my more detailed explanation of this fractional reserve banking system in modern practice:

      Banks loan approximately nine times more money than they own, and by doing so collect interest on the surplus fictitious amounts, which then forces governments to print more money than they have physical resources in  reserve.  The money is created by mere fiat.  The majority of scholars teach that this is a good thing, arguing that it ‘creates an elastic money supply to meet the diverse needs of an economy.’  This majority is wrong.  History and logic prove that our fractional-reserve system results is a perpetual dilution of the currency (inflation) allowing banks to keep collecting interest on the fictitious money or else take the property securing the debt. This means the banks (and their owners) gain exponential sums of wealth over centuries, profiting in all economic cycles, while the majority of people who actually create value for society tend to lose their wealth exponentially over this time.  Nor are wage increases catching up to price increases.  This system has led to a massive transfer of wealth and power in the world, via the consolidation of power in the hands of an elite few who remain intimate with the system.  And to make matters worse, because of the imbalance on the books due to all the surplus fictional money, debt always exceeds the ability to repay the banks, so it is physically impossible for a community at large to create enough wealth to pay back the banks that issue the fiat money through central banking mechanisms.   This leads to over-exploitation of resources (environmental destruction) as the community tries to dig itself out of a hole that gets deeper with every stroke of the shovel.  Bankruptcy is inevitable (it is built into the system), which helps the elite take more land (security for debts) every year.  In short, this fractional-reserve banking system with fiat money is not a form of capitalism.  It is a form of economic slavery. 

    * For additional information, read the works of G. Edward Griffin.

The mass media is being manipulated to manipulate others.  It is skilled at focusing people on the effects of problems rather than the actual cause, so people never revolt against this fractional-reserve system, but rather people simply point the finger at one another, and our best activists only tweak or shift small parts of the economic machine without actually changing the way it creates money from nothing, to feed the elite massive sums ‘on paper.’  As this well-written short story concludes - http://www.relfe.com/plus_5_.html - “After a man has far more money than he can possibly spend for pleasure, what is left to drive him? For many with a ruling class mentality, the answer is power - raw power over other human beings.”  

The financial consolidation of power, characteristic of the new world order, derives from this fractional-reserve monetary system and has contributed to several military-political-industrial complexes.   These power centers stand dangerously in the way of capitalistic reform.  And if the aforementioned elites want to crash world economies, I suspect they can, simply by moving wealth electronically.  Indeed, my research shows that the vast majority of all recognized money in the world’s modern banking systems is merely an electronic bookkeeping entry. 

A better system would be founded upon reserve notes backed by actual resources.  Simple.

My research also shows that the current stock market volatility is a physical sign/symptom of a deeper and systemic problem relating to the value of currencies.  In America, for example, the U.S. Treasury struggles to pay the interest on large foreign loans.   Together with high spending (military, infrastructure, and social programs) and low tax revenues, it creates a recipe for investor withdrawal. 

If the U.S. currency should dovetail, would the actual value behind the U.S. dollar (e.g., natural resources, intellectual property, human capital) be transferred to a new currency with the approval of a panicked country seeking to recapture mere cents on the dollar?  Is this your fate?

The Solution: rather than be a leaf dependent on the tender branch of the world’s economic system, place your faith and trust in love, and seek out the example set by the messiah, so you may lay up your treasures in heaven, as we read in the gospel of Matthew at 6:19-34.