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Europe’s despairing leaders bring back border controls with free-movement zone on brink of collapse
- Berlin has sought to criticise EU countries for not taking enough migrants
- It has now asked Italy to tighten controls on Austrian border to ease flow
- Figures show record 104,460 asylum seekers came to Germany last month
- Slovakia’s foreign minister Miroslav Lajcak said Schengen Agreement had fallen apart
Setting up camp: Hundreds gather in a transit zone below Keleti station in Budapest city centre
As tensions between European leaders unable to agree on how to handle the crisis simmered, Slovakia’s foreign minister Miroslav Lajcak said the Schengen Agreement removing border checks between 26 European countries has fallen apart.
Last night, as the numbers crossing into Germany reached nearly 150 per hour, it asked Italy to impose identification checks at Brennero, on the border with Austria, to ease the flow. An unprecedented surge of migrants has been trying to get to the country after Berlin last week began accepting asylum claims from Syrian refugees regardless of where they entered the EU.
It has caused chaos across eastern Europe as authorities have struggled to cope with the vast numbers who, as undocumented migrants, are theoretically barred from travelling across the EU. Figures released yesterday showed a record 104,460 asylum seekers arrived in Germany last month.
German officials last night insisted that its request to tighten border controls was a ‘temporary measure’. But Mr Lajcak said the Schengen Agreement had ‘de facto fallen apart’. ‘There are tens of thousands of people walking around here without anyone checking them,’ he said. ‘So, do we have Schengen, or don’t we?’
While this is not directly a fulfilment of Bible Prophecy, this unprecedented issue is and will continue to have profound effects on Europe and Britain. Immigration is one of the key issues driving Britain away from its membership of the EU project. Such scenes as these will continue to do this and when Britain leaves the EU this will be a fulfilment of Bible Prophecy.
In addition to this, the effect of such open migration will have profound effects on Europe as a whole. The European continent is already one of the most populated and it’s ability to feed it’s people is becoming more and more a challenge. This will be further exacerbated by the effects of Climate Change to the point that this could well in years to come reach a crisis point.
See this article to learn more about the alignment of nations in the last days.
BRITAIN MUST LEAVE THE EUROPEAN UNION DESPITE WHAT ANY MAY THINK OR DO!
WHY? Well the short answer is because God has said it will be so, it is a matter of Bible Prophecy spoken some 3000 years ago!
Geopolitical alignments among the nations at the time of the end ie. before Christ Returns has been clearly revealed in the Bible.
Now for the long answer which comes from a study of Bible Prophecy.
To understand geopolitical alignments among the nations at the time of the end, we need first to understand who the King of the North and South is in Daniels Prophecy.
More than 2,500 years ago both the prophet Daniel and Ezekiel described worldwide events that would lead man to his final conflict in what is referred to in the Bible as the “battle of Armageddon”. In describing the events that would lead to this last global conflict they foretold how the geopolitics of the nations will be divided in a north and south alliance around the nation of Israel.
This alliance means that Bible students have long expected Britain to leave the European Union, and current events are fulfilling this Bible Prophecy before our very eyes.
So let us look at what the Bible describes as the “King of the South” and a “King of the North”alliance in the last days.
This is what we read in Daniel 11:40-45
“And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over. He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon. He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape. But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps. But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy and utterly to make away many. And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”
When the Bible describes geography like this ie. North and South it does so upon the land of Israel being at its centre. The people of Israel “are His chosen people” who are a witness to His existence before all nations.
Deuteronomy 7:6 “6 For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.”
Isaiah 41:10 “10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, And my servant whom I have chosen: That ye may know and believe me, And understand that I am he: Before me there was no God formed, Neither shall there be after me.”
So who is this “King of the South and King of the North”?
Well in short the Bible reveals this to be Russia and the EU while the King of the South who challenges the King of the North’s invasion of Israel and Egypt is revealed to be “Tarshish with all the young lions…” thereof.
Below is a headline article that appeared in 2001 highlighting what was seen then as a dramatic change to global political alignments. Whereas the World used to be divided on a West versus East alignment highlighted by the so called Berlin Wall symbolising the Iron Curtain that communism had surrounded Eastern European countries with, the World is now moving more towards what the Bible described as a North versus South alliance centred on Israel and Egypt and including the countries of the Arabian Peninsula.
The King of the North:
The King of the North is revealed in Ezekiel 38 as follows:
“Son of man, set thy face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him…Persia, Ethiopia and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: Gomer and Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes: even many people’s with thee… And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army: And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days.” Ezekiel 38:1-16
It is said that the name Gog signifies a “roof” and therefore relates to “one at the top” or ‘powerful one’ or ‘one lifted up’.
This can have both a geographical and a political leadership connotation.
Here in Ezekiel 38 both aspects are applicable. It is used as a title for a great leader, a man of great political and military stature, and one who comes from “the top”.
Ezekiel says that Gog is of the “uttermost parts of the north” or from the top, and if we were to draw a line on a map from Jerusalem it would point directly to Russia in the north.
However we are left in no doubt to the identity of this leader termed “Gog” by the description “the prince of Rosh” as the Revised Version renders the phrase “the chief prince”.
The historian Josephus states: “Magog founded those that from him were named Magogites, but who are by the Greeks called Scythians,” and another Historian comments that the Scythians “spread from the River Tanais or Don, westward along the banks of the Ister or Danube” ‑ the area of central Europe incorporating Germany, Austria, Hungary etc…
An even earlier historian, Herodotus (approx. 450BC), placed the Scythians north of the Black Sea in an area between the River Don in Russia and the River Danube in Europe.
Another ancient writer, Diodorus Siculus (approx. 100BC) traced Scythians as far as the Baltic Sea”
See map below
“Rosh”
According to Hebrew Scholars the word rendered “chief” in the Authorised Version should be rendered “Rosh” as it is a proper Noun.
Rosh can be identified as Russia.
The Historian Bochart writes:
“Rosh is the most ancient form under which history makes mention of the name of Russia”
And Gesenius in The Hebrew ‑ Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament writes:
“Rosh is the proper noun of a northern nation, mentioned with Tubal and Meshech, undoubtedly the Russians, who are mentioned by Byzantine writers of the 10th Century under the name of Oi Ros ‑ the Russian dwelling to the north of Taurus.”
“Tubal” – From Wikipedia
Not to be confused with Tabal.
This article is about the Biblical character. “Tubal” is also a minor character in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
Tubal, according to Book of Genesis chap. 10 (the Table of Nations), was the name of a son of Japheth, son of Noah.
The Book of Genesis (chap. 10) gives us the descendants of Noah’s three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. We are told that the sons of Japheth were Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
Many authors, following the Romanized Jewish author Josephus (1st century AD), related the name to Iber. Concerning the question of the ethnic affinity of the population of Tubal, Josephus wrote: “Tobal gave rise to the Thobeles, who are now called Iberes”. This version was repeated by Patriarch Eustathius of Antioch, Bishop Theodoret, and others.
However, the Welsh historian Nennius stated another tradition that Tubal was ancestor to the Iberians, ‘Italians’ [i.e., Italic tribes] and ‘Spanish’ [who were also called Iberians].
In the book Elpis Israel written by John Thomas we read…
“Thus, then, we discern the modern names of Russia and of Moscow, or Moskwa, in the ancient names of Ros and Mosc, or Musc. It is not difficult to recognize in Tobl, Tubl, or Thobel, a name which naturally connects itself with them; and which, in conjunction with them, tends, in a very remarkable manner, to determine and fix the proper object of the prediction. The river Tobol gives name to the City Tobolium, or Tobolski, the metropolis of the extensive region of Siberia, lying immediately eastward of the territories of Moscovy, or Mosc. Tobol and Mosc are mentioned together by Ezekiel who characterizes them as nations trading in copper, a metal for which it is notorious, and which abounds in the soil of Siberia…
And thus the three denominations Ros, Mosc, and Tobl, united in prophecy, point out, with equal capacity and conciseness, those widely extended regions, which, at the present day, we denominate collectively The Russian Empire.”
“…Gog, of the land of Magog (Germany and other parts of the EU)…”
Russia’s Putin calls for “strategic partnership” with EU as early as 2007
Below a news heading dated: 27 March 2007
Putin calls for “strategic partnership” with EU
Russian President Vladimir Putin wants a “strategic partnership” to deepen relations between Moscow and the European Union.
“The logic of the development of relations between Russia and the EU make necessary the elaboration of a strategic partnership agreement,”
He wrote the proposed agreement should become an instrument capable of deepening economic integration and cooperation in the domain of human rights and security on the European continent.
Putin noted Moscow was prepared “to go as far as possible” in its partnership with the EU, adding, “It was self-evident that our partners must be prepared to do the same.”
“…Gog, of the land of Magog…”
Putin Vows To Expand Russian Influence In the European Union – 25 March 2007
► Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to expand his country’s influence with the European Union by developing strategic partnership with the bloc. Putin’s statement came on the 50th anniversary of the EU.
► Putin said, “The development of Russian-EU relations has logically led us to the need for a Treaty on Strategic Partnership to replace the 10 year-old Agreement that will soon expire,” Putin said in an article entitled “50 Years of European Integration and Russia.”
► He said the deal would “ensure a higher level of economic integration and interaction and provide for freedom and security on the European continent.”
► The Russian leader also described the European integration as “an objective process, representing an integral part of the emerging multi-polar world order.”
Beware Russia, energy superpower
► Putin’s control of oil and gas may bring the West to its knees
► Russia has now overtaken Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest producer of oil. It already dominates natural gas
► In a world concerned with terrorism, genocide and nuclear-powered despots, Vladimir Putin’s Russia is assembling an economic machine powerful enough to force Europe, the US and Asia to their knees.
► Around £210m a day in oil and gas tax revenues now pour into the Russian treasury. Russia is now an oil and gas economy
Russia is spending a vast amount of her money on re-equipping her armed forces. As such she is rising to the position of power that the Bible predicts she will hold over Europe even to the extent of being “a guard unto them” Ezekiel 38:7
A world News Headline in 2011 read…
Can Moscow regain superpower status? (October 11, 2011 06:09)
MOSCOW – Russia is desperate for the world to think of it as a superpower again.
Last week, Vladimir Putin — the country’s once and presumed future president — proposed the formation of a “Eurasian Union” among former Soviet states. The move was widely seen as a challenge to the West, and a push to re-establish Moscow’s former empire.
Putin floated his idea in the context of an unprecedented Russian military renaissance. Moscow is so eager to re-establish its military mojo, in fact, that it has pledged $730 billion to equip its long-neglected armed forces with 21st century weaponry by 2020. According to the plan, Russia’s military will receive 1,000 new helicopters, 600 combat aircraft and 100 warships – including aircraft carriers and 8 nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. The build-up also envisions new generations of intercontinental missiles and advanced air defence systems.
So we can see that everything points to Russia as the King of the North and that ‘Gog’ is very likely to be Putin who is also forming a close alliance with Germany who is ‘Magog’.
We can also see that Germany is moving more and more to lead the European Union. With Britain out of the EU this will allow Germany to take the lead in fulfilment of Bible Prophecy.
The King of the South:
Ezekiel 38:13 “And Sheba, Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, and all the young lions will say to you…? ‘Have you come to take plunder, have you gathered your army to take booty, to carry away silver and gold, ….to take a great plunder’ ”
Ezekiel 38:13 “Sheba {ie. ‘Saudi Arabia’} and Dedan {ie. ‘Oman’} and the merchants of Tarshish {ie. ‘Britain’}, and 1 all the young lions thereof…”
These are the Nations who owe their existence to British colonization – ie. Australia, New Zealand, India, Canada, South Africa.
The Opposing Nations – “Merchants of Tarshish”.
In Ezekiel 27:12, we are told that the Phoenicians traded with Tarshish and one of the chief commodities they sought was Tin.
It has been claimed by some that the name Britain comes from the Phoenician ‘Baratanac’, which is said to mean “the Isles or Land of Tin”. While this is not universally agreed to, we can see that there is a high probability of the correctness of this interpretation as there is a metal called, “Britannia” (which is also called “Britannia Metal) which is an alloy of TIN, copper and antimony.
The importance of Britain to the Phoenicians trade and the importance of tin is seen in the following extract from Richards Topical Encyclopedia, where it states…..
“Phoenician traders sailed out through the straits of Gibraltar and discovered the English tin mines, long before the Egyptians or the Babylonians even knew that there was such a place as Britain.
England comes into the light of history much earlier than many of the modern European countries, such as Germany.
This is because the British had valuable tin mines. Phoenician traders, used to visit England to get tin, many centuries before Christ. They tried to keep the location of the tin mines a great secret in order that no other nation should discover the deposits of the useful and costly metal. But other people did find out about the island, and a Greek geographer mentioned it in his writings as early as BC 350“.
“Merchants of”
This is a further indicator of the power that opposes the Russian confederacy. Britain is one of the premier
trading nations of the world. In an article in Time Magazine for May 21st 1990, headed “THE NEW ELIZABETHANS”, the writer saw a parallel between “the reign of Elizabeth 1st .. “when Britain became famous for its merchant adventurers” … and the 1980’s when “BRITAIN’S ENTREPRENEURS AND INVESTORS HAVE RE-WON AN EMPIRE UPON WHICH THE SUN NEVER SETS, and restored the kingdom to its position as a major international creditor and provider of capital.”
For example it is a little known fact that historically Britain has been the largest single investor in the US. (now taken over by China)
“Young Lions thereof”
This is a further pointer to Tarshish as it states the ‘young lions’had their origins in her. If the countries that can trace their ancestry to Tarshish and are the young lions, then Tarshish must be the ‘old lion’. The lion is a well know symbol of Britain as the following old posters and cartoon indicate.
1. The poster at right proclaims, “Helped by the YOUNG LIONS the OLD LION defies his foe”. Their emphasis
2. Top right. The poster at the door states, “10 Downing St, ALL YOUNG LIONS 
are WELCOME”.
3. Bottom Left. Those lions said to be ‘responding to the call’ are named. They include Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India.
The young lions not only include those countries listed, but countries such as the USA, which also had its origins in Britain.
Sheba and Dedan
These are the nations that settled in the Saudi Arabian Peninsula, and can be identified with modern Saudi Arabia, and the gulf states of United Arab Emirates etc. Oman, and the 2 Yemenis’.
The Response
Britain/Tarshish is indicated as the country that is taking the lead in opposing Russian/European designs in the Middle East. their response is, “Art thou come to take a spoil?” v. 13. This what we would say today as a diplomatic response, as this and other prophecies indicate that The Russian confederacy will not be stopped by the nations that oppose them and will only be defeated by Divine intervention v.18-23.
The map below shows how Britain and America are already entrenched with military bases in the South of Israel.
For this reason it is not a surprise to see Britain on the outer of the European Union, in fact she must leave this as the EU moves closer to a United States of Europe with one central government. At this time the EU will also forge even closer ties with Russia.
So before our very eyes Bible Prophecy is being fulfilled!
The response to this challenge by the King of the South will bring the war to end all wars known in the Bible as “Armageddon”.
But just as this war commences we also read these words in Zechariah 14
1Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. 4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee. 6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: 7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.”
And in Revelations 16 where the word “Armageddon” is used we read:
16And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. 17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. 18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightning’s; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. 19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. 20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. 21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.”
And so in both places this final battle of man ends with God overthrowing the armies of man.
This is the time when the Lord Jesus Christ shall have returned to the earth to establish God’s divine rule over all nations. This is when God’s Kingdom shall be established on the EARTH.
Of this time we read this in Isaiah 2:1-4
“1The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.”
“And when these things begin to come to pass…
know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.”
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Largest Mediterranean gas field found off Egypt coast
Italian energy corporation says ‘supergiant’ discovery can fill Egyptian natural gas demand ‘for decades’
By AP and Times of Israel staff August 30, 2015, 6:18 pm 1
The Italian energy company Eni said Sunday that it has discovered a “supergiant” natural gas field off Egypt, describing it as the “largest-ever” found in the Mediterranean Sea.
The news came a day after Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi met in Cairo with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the Egyptian leader’s office said.
Eni said the discovery — made in its Zohr prospect “in the deep waters of Egypt” — could hold a potential 30 trillion cubic feet of gas over an area of 100 square kilometers (38.6 square miles).
“Zohr is the largest gas discovery ever made in Egypt and in the Mediterranean Sea and could become one of the world’s largest natural gas finds,” Eni said in a statement. “The discovery, after its full development, will be able to ensure satisfying Egypt’s natural gas demand for decades.”
Descalzi was quoted by Eni as saying that the discovery reconfirms that “Egypt still has great potential” in terms of energy. He said “important synergies with the existing infrastructures can be exploited, allowing us a fast production startup.”
Eni has been in Egypt since 1954 through its subsidiary IEOC. It’s the main hydrocarbon producer in Egypt, with a
daily equity production of 200,000 barrels of oil equivalent, the company said The field, Zohr, was positioned at a depth of 1,450 meters (4,757 feet) and “could become one of the world’s largest natural-gas finds,” Reuters quoted Eni as saying.
Israel’s Leviathan gas field, which is estimated at 16 trillion cubic feet, has so far been thought to be the largest in the Mediterranean. American company Noble Energy and the locally based Delek group have been producing gas from the Tamar field off the Israeli coast since 2013, and have also teamed up to develop Leviathan by 2019.
Tamar’s stakeholders signed a contract earlier this year with a private Egyptian concern to sell as much as five billion cubic meters of gas to Egyptian companies over the next three years. This gas will be flowing through an old pipeline that once transported gas in the opposite direction, from Egypt to Israel.
In March it was reported that the Egypt government may import natural gas from Israel if its price were low enough and if one of the drilling companies dropped a legal action against the Egyptian government, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Jordan has also signed a $15 billion 15-year letter of intent to import Israeli natural gas.
The Israeli cabinet approved a disputed natural gas deal earlier in August between the government and a US-Israeli energy consortium to develop the offshore gas fields.
The negotiations have been controversial in Israel, with critics fearing regulations would overly favor the companies involved. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the deal would pump billions of shekels into the economy.
From Ezekiel we learn that when Russia and the EU invade the Middle East they do so to take a “spoil”, could Oil / Gas be the “spoil” they will be after? Ezekiel 38:8-12
This is a very significant development as until just a few years ago Israel had no Gas nor does Egypt who were looking to import Gas from Israel. Well now between Israel and Egypt they will have a very substantial Gas reserves and the “spoil” of Ezekial 38 is specifically to include Egypt as a primary target.
So yet again we see Bible Prophecy being fulfilled in today’s World Events!
Jesus the Christ will very soon be returning to this Earth to Set up God’s Kingdom where the those who have been raised from the dead (Resurrection) and have been found worthy will confront the Gogian host who decend upon Israel in the last days.
This is not fairy tale stuff, this is all Bible based fact.
What God has declared through the Holy Scriptures will happen .
The question for YOU is….
ARE YOU READY?
THE SHEMITAH
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdWrTVqxYz0&feature=youtu.be[/embed]The following is extracted from an email sent by Bro. Matt Jamieson recently. He wrote:
We are set for a riveting month in September with so many financial, religious and geopolitical events. Below I’ve listed some of these important dates, along with some brief comments on the significance of what is scheduled to occur.
This September will mark, according to the Jewish calendar, the end of the 7th Shemitah (“release”, or Sabbath Year), and the start of the Jubilee year.
Understanding this makes September 2015 a very important month from a Biblical perspective. If you would rather watch a couple of interesting videos than read what is a lengthy email on this occasion, then please scroll down to near the end.
“Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come” (Psa 102:13)
“Blessed are all they that put their Trust in Him” (Psalm 2:12)
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS IN SEPTEMBER 2015
September 13th – End of the 7th Shemitah (Sabbath Rest) Year (see further comments below)
From a financial perspective it is significant to note that the end of the Shemitah years (or the seventh sabbatical year) were accompanied by significant stock market falls in 1987, 1994, 2001 and 2008. For example many of you will recall that the end of the Shemitah years on 17 September 2001 and 29 September 2008 witnessed the two of the greatest stock-market crashes in America’s history, both taking place on the exact Biblical day appointed for the wiping out of credit and debt!
September 13th/14th – Start of the 70th Jubilee Year since the time when Israel first inherited the promised land under Joshua. Also, being the start of the Jewish New Year, it is “Rosh Hashanah” (Feast of Trumpets).
September 15th – The Jade Helm military exercises are scheduled to end. On July 15th the US military began a major training exercise involving a massive rollout of military equipment and personnel all throughout the southern US called Jade Helm. There has been a complete media blackout on the details of these exercises.
Related to this the Pentagon has been war-gaming for civil disorder (i.e. on the domestic front) for the last few years. Such events have given rise to speculation that the US government is preparing for some major future event that could bring chaos to America.
September 15th – The 70th session of the UN General Assembly begins on this date. (Hence we have the 70th Jubilee and the 70th session of the UN occurring within one day of each other). France plans to introduce a resolution, which will give formal UN Security Council recognition “ in New Yo rk City. The Pope is scheduled to deliver the keynote address to kick off this conference. Unlike the previous “Agenda 21”, which primarily focused on the environment, the 2030 Agenda is actually a template for governing the entire planet. In addition to addressing climate change, it also sets ambitious goals for areas such as economics, health, energy, education, agriculture, gender equality and a whole host of other issues. This global initiative is being billed as a “new universal Agenda” for humanity. This should make alarm bells go off in our heads re the standing up of Daniel 2’s image on its feet before the final destruction by Christ.
Perhaps related to this “2030 Agenda”, back on 13 May 2014, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius issued a cryptic statement while standing beside U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington. He said, “We have 500 days to avoid climate chaos.” Going 500 days out from 13 May 2014, brings you to 25 Sept. 2015. that fall on Biblical festival dates during 2014 and 2015. The final blood moon will fall on the very first day of the Feast of Tabernacles, it will be a “supermoon”, and it will be clearly visible from the city of Jerusalem. Apparently a similar pattern of eclipses happened just before and just after the destruction of the Jewish temple by the Romans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmita
According to the Jewish calendar, the current Shemitah began on 24th September 2014 and concludes on 13th September 2015. Also the current Shemitah year is actually the 7th Shemitah, meaning that 49 years (7 x 7) have expired in this cycle, and accordingly 14th September 2015 will be the start of the Jubilee Year (when all debt and credit is erased under God’s laws).
Moreover apparently this will be the 70th Jubilee year dated from when Israel first inherited the land in the time of Joshua – a period of 3,430 (70 x 49 = 70 x 7 x 7) years dating from 1416 BC to the current AD 2015. Such a starting point makes sense, as Israel need to own the land before the Shemitah years of rest and Jubilees can apply – cp. Lev 25:1.
This total period of 3,430 years works on the basis that the Jubilee year is actually the first year of the next 49 year (7 x 7) period, and not an additional year of the current period. In this way the consistency of numbering by sevens is maintained and the continual cycle of shemitah and 49 years (7 x 7) is not interrupted. So it’s a continual 49 year cycle, not a 50 year cycle. Every 7 years there is a Shemiath, and every 49 years there is a Jubilee (which is the first year of the next 49 year period).
In the table below I have attempted to illustrate the validity of a 49 year cycle based on recent events from the 1917/1918 and 1966/77 Jubilee years. For the two historical periods, the amount of the time between both the end of the 7th Shemitah/ Start of Jubilee and the end of the Jubilee was exactly 49 years. Hence, the next Jubilee year is not in the 2016/2017 period (based on a 50 year period), but starts on 13th September 2015 and ends on 2 October 2016.
| Period | Shemitah/Jubilee
& Events within Jubilee |
Exact Dates | Yrs From Previous | |
| 1917/18 | End of 7th Shemitah Year | 16-Sep-17 | ||
| Jubilee Year | 16-Sep-17 6-Sep-18 | ||
| Balfour Declaration | 2-Nov-17 | ||
| British Capture Jerusalem | 11-Dec-17 | ||
| 1966/67 | End of 7th Shemitah Year | 14-Sep-66 | 49.0 |
| Jubilee Year | 14-Sep-66 4-Oct-67 | 49.1 | |
| Six Day War. Jews Capture Jerusalem 7-Jun-67 | |||
| 2015/16 | End of 7th Shemitah Year | 13-Sep-15 | 49.0 |
| Jubilee Year | 13-Sep-15 2-Oct-16 | 49.0 | |
The burning question is could the next Jubilee year starting in September 2015 be the year of our Lord’s return? We do not know the day nor the hour, but certainly many indicators are telling us that the time is ripe for his return. If our Lord does not return during this time, we would at least expect a major event in relation to Israel comparable to the events of 1917 and 1967. As well all know, 1917 saw British take control of Jerusalem from the Turks, and 1967 witnessed the Jews back in control after the six-day war. Hence something very significant relating to Israel/Jerusalem looks bound to happen in this Jubilee year. The question is what exactly could that event be?
VIDEO REALTING TO THE END OF THIS SHEMITAH
The first one – is an investment promotion video by the founder of Bitcoin, shows how financial collapses in modern history have typically occurred at the end of the Shemitah year. You just need to swap the message of the last 7 minutes over to the necessity of us being rich in faith and good works.
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Doomsday clock for global market crash strikes one minute to midnight as central banks lose control
China currency devaluation signals endgame leaving equity markets free to collapse under the weight of impossible expectations
It is only a matter of time before stock markets collapse under the weight of their lofty expectations and record valuations. Photo: Reuters
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The Chinese economy has now hit a brick wall. Economic growth has dipped below 7pc for the first time in a quarter of a century, according to official data. That probably means the real economy is far weaker. The People’s Bank of China has pursued several measures to boost the flagging economy. The rate of borrowing has been slashed during the past 12 months from 6pc to 4.85pc. Opting to devalue the currency was a last resort and signalled the great era of Chinese growth is rapidly approaching its endgame. Data for exports showed an 8.9pc slump in July from the same period a year before. Analysts expected exports to fall only 0.3pc, so this was a huge miss. The Chinese housing market is also in a perilous state. House prices have fallen sharply after decades of steady growth. For the millions who stored their wealth in property, it makes for unsettling times. The China slowdown has sent shock waves through commodity markets. The Bloomberg Global Commodity index, which tracks the prices of 22 commodity prices, fell to levels last seen at the beginning of this century. The oil price is the purest barometer of world growth as it is the fuel that drives nearly all industry and production around the globe. Billions of dollars in loans were raised on global capital markets to fund new mines and oil exploration that was only ever profitable at previous elevated prices. With oil and metals prices having collapsed, many of these projects are now loss-making. The loans raised to back the projects are now under water and investors may never see any returns. Nowhere has this been felt more acutely than shale oil and gas drilling in the US. Tumbling oil prices have squeezed the finances of US drillers. Two of the biggest issuers of junk bonds in the past five years, Chesapeake and California Resources, have seen the value of their bonds tumble as panic grips capital markets. As more debt needs refinancing in future years, there is a risk the contagion will spread rapidly. The great props to the world economy are now beginning to fall. China is going into reverse. And the emerging markets that consumed so many of our products are crippled by currency devaluation. The famed Brics of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, to whom the West was supposed to pass on the torch of economic growth, are in varying states of disarray. The central banks are rapidly losing control. The Chinese stock market has already crashed and disaster was only averted by the government buying billions of shares. Stock markets in Greece are in turmoil as the economy grinds to a halt and the country flirts with ejection from the eurozone. Earlier this year, investors flocked to the safe-haven currency of the Swiss franc but as a €1.1 trillion quantitative easing programme devalued the euro, the Swiss central bank was forced to abandon its four-year peg to the euro. As central banks run out of silver bullets then, credit markets are desperately seeking to reprice risk. The London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), a guide to how worried UK banks are about lending to each other, has been steadily rising during the past 12 months. Part of this process is a healthy return to normal pricing of risk after six years of extraordinary monetary stimulus. However, as the essential transmission systems of lending between banks begin to take the strain, it is quite possible that six years of reliance on central banks for funds has left the credit system unable to cope. Credit investors are often far better at pricing risk than optimistic equity investors. In the US while the S&P 500 (orange line) continues to soar, the high yield debt market has already begun to fall sharply (white line). Interest rates have been held at emergency lows in the UK and US for around six years. The US is expected to move first, with rates starting to rise from today’s 0pc-0.25pc around the end of the year. Investors have already starting buying dollars in anticipation of a strengthening US currency. UK rate rises are 7 – Bull market third longest on record The UK stock market is in its 77th month of a bull market, which began in March 2009. On only two other occasions in history has the market risen for longer. One is in the lead-up to the Great Crash in 1929 and the other before the bursting of the dotcom bubble in the early 2000s. UK markets have been a beneficiary of the huge balance-sheet expansion in the US. US monetary base, a measure of notes and coins in circulation plus reserves held at the central bank, has more than quadrupled from around $800m to more than $4 trillion since 2008. The stock market has been a direct beneficiary of this money and will struggle now that QE3 has ended. In the US, Professor Robert Shiller’s cyclically adjusted price earnings ratio – or Shiller CAPE – for the S&P 500 stands at 27.2, some 64pc above its historic average of 16.6. On only three occasions since 1882 has it been higher – in 1929, 2000 and 2007. End of Telegraph article The Great China Ponzi—An Economic And Financial Trainwreck Which Will Rattle The World – by David Stockman 16 August 2015 There is an economic and financial trainwreck rumbling through the world economy. Namely, the Great China Ponzi. In all of economic history there has never been anything like it. It is only a matter of time before it ends in a spectacular collapse, leaving the global financial bubble of the last two decades in shambles. But here’s the Wall Street meme that is stupendously wrong and that engenders blind complacency with respect to the impending upheaval. To wit, the same folks who brought you the myth of the BRICs miracle would now have you believe that China is undergoing a difficult but doable transition——-from an economy driven by booming exports and monumental fixed asset investment to one based on steady as she goes US-style consumption and services. There may well be some bumps and grinds along the way, we are cautioned, such as the recent stock market and currency turmoil. But do not be troubled—–the great locomotive of the world economy will come out the other side better and stronger. That’s because the wise, pragmatic and powerful leaders and economic managers who deftly guide China’s version of capitalism have the capacity to make it all happen. No they don’t! China is not a clone-in-the-making of America’s $18 trillion consume till you drop economy—-even if that model were stable and sustainable, which it is not. China is actually sui generis—–a historical freak accident that has no destination other than a crash landing. It’s leaders are neither wise nor deft economic managers. In fact, they are a bunch of communist party political hacks who have an iron grip on state power because China is a crude dictatorship. But their grasp of the fundamentals of economic law and sound finance can not even be described as negligible; it’s non-existent. Indeed, their reputation for savvy and successful economic management is an unadulterated Wall Street myth. The truth is, the 25 year growth boom in China is just a giant, credit-driven Ponzi. Any fool can run a central bank printing press until it glows white hot. At the end of the day, that’s all the Beijing suzerains of red capitalism have actually done. They have not created any of the rudiments of viable capitalism. There are no honest financial markets, no genuinely solvent banks, no market driven allocation of capital and no financial discipline which comes from the right to fail as well as succeed. There are, for instance, 287 million equity trading accounts in China, most of them opened within the last year and overwhelmingly held by retail punters with sub-high school educations. In less than 12 months they took down upwards of $1 trillion of margin debt through official brokerage channels and a massive network of shadow banking sources including dodgy peer-to-peer lending arrangements. So fortified, they clambered after a stock market bubble that expanded by $3 trillion in just 60 trading days ending on June 14, and then broke into a panicked selling stampede that liquidated that very same $3 trillion of bottled air in hardly 20 trading days thereafter. Then the state sent out the paddy wagons to arrest and intimidate the panicked sellers and threw-open the central bank’s credit lines to fund hundreds of billions of unwanted stocks. That is not capitalism, red or otherwise; it’s desperate, mindless madness. Likewise, there are no credible institutions of contract law and bankruptcy. There is not even minimally honest corporate financial reporting and no restraints at all on the propensity of China’s newly affluent masses to gamble in real estate, stocks, commodity financing schemes, dodgy private lending clubs, chain letters and endless similar get rich quick schemes. Most importantly, there are no lines of demarcation between the property of the state and the license of officialdom and their cronies to expropriate it. In a word, China wallows in the greatest cesspool of corruption known to history because that’s what happens when you erect a $10 trillion command economy virtually over night. And the swaying edifice of red capitalism has indeed been stood up overnight. At the time that Mr. Deng radically changed the party line——proclaiming that it is glorious to be rich and the PBOC slashed the RMB exchange rate by 60% in 1994 in order to jump start an export boom——there was less than one half trillion dollars of credit market debt outstanding. Alas, that figure today is $28 trillion according the cautious reckoning of McKinsey, and most likely far more. Here’s the thing. You can not safely, sanely or efficiently grow by 56X in hardly two decades something as combustible as cheap, come-and-get it state supplied credit in an environment where the rudiments of market capitalism do not even exist. If you pursue that kind of financial Frankenstein, that’s exactly what you will get, and that’s what the comrades in Beijing actually got. Now, however, the iron law of financial bubbles has caught up with them. That is, when you stop supplying increasingly massive amounts of new credit to what eventually becomes an elephantine bubble, it begins to fall inward. This happens slowly at first, then with accelerating momentum, and finally culminates in a panic-riven meltdown. That sequence encapsulates the entirety of the 2006-2008 securitized mortgage meltdown on Wall Street, the late 1980s and early 1990s Tokyo real estate boom and bust, the 1979-1980 silver and gold bubbles and countless others stretching back centuries in time. So the passive-aggressive posture of China’s officialdom about what even they recognize as the out-of-control credit bubbles in their realm has no rhyme or reason. Beijing’s recent hopping from one foot to the other, first stimulating and then braking, is rooted in pure desperation and seat of the pants adhockery. Wall Street sees none of this, however, and for a reason dripping with irony. Namely, since the ascension of Alan Greenspan to the Fed in 1987, the epicenter of world capitalism—— that is, the money and capital markets of Wall Street—-has fallen prey to a regime of monetary central planning. Price discovery in the financial auction markets has been supplanted by price administration decreed by the twelve mortals who comprise the FOMC. A monetary politburo, if you will. Not only has this increasingly heavy-handed central bank intrusion falsified financial asset prices, subsidized rampant carry trade speculation, eliminated an honest risk-reward calculus and destroyed short sellers and other natural instrumentalities of financial discipline, but it has also drastically changed the culture of the financial markets. The overwhelming share of players in what has become a central bank enabled casino are now de facto statists. They believe that the agencies of the state can and should peg money market interest rates, prop up the bond market via massive monetization of the public debt, and eliminate “contagion” outbreaks in the equity and other risk asset markets. Except “contagion” is a red herring. Its just another name for old-fashioned market breaks and bear raids on speculative excesses and reckless leveraged gambling. This kind of bear market liquidation is essential for healthy capital and money markets, but its been extinguished by the Greenspan/Bernanke/Yellen “put” and the casino’s overwhelming conviction that the central bank will flood the market with liquidity should another Lehman- style meltdown ever manage to incept. All of this adds up to the conviction that governments drive the process of economic growth and wealth creation and that capitalism thrives best when it is nourished and guided by the helping hand of the state, most especially its central banking branch. Needless to say, that self-serving but misbegotten ideology would never have taking root in Wall Street 50 years ago. In the days when the great William McChesney Martin took away the “punch bowl” just six months after the 1957-1958 recession ended by a series of stiff interest rate increases and by raising stock margin requirements to 90% of market value, the captains of finance would never have dreamed of 80 straight months of zero money market rates, as has now occurred. They would have been screaming to high heaven that such radically unsound finance was a mortal danger to the nation’s wealth. By contrast, today they think they are entitled to central bank “accommodation” for as long as might be necessary to keep the stock averages rising. So while 80 months of ZIRP is nothing less than a recipe for massive speculation that will inexorably lead to a resounding bust they don’t even notice the danger. Worse, the Wall Street casino inhabitants have no clue that while bubble finance is dangerous enough in a relatively mature capitalist economy like that of the US, it is pure monetary nitroglycerin in a setting like the China credit Ponzi. Nor do they have the slightest inkling that PBOC head, Zhou Xiaochuan, is not just an Asian version of Janet Yellen who wears trousers and dyes his hair black. Stated differently, Wall Street cannot see straight when it comes to China because its crypto- Keynesian lenses lead it to suppose Mr. Zhou will stump up whatever liquidity and bailouts may be necessary and that his colleagues in Beijing will open the fiscal stimulus spigots if growth continues to falter. Well, Mr. Zhou may talk the idiom of central banking, but he’s just a servant of the communist party overlords whose overwhelming purpose is to stay in power and whose colossal economic and financial ignorance will lead them to destructive expedients. What lies ahead will make the paddy wagon brigades now combing the brokerage houses look mild by comparison. Its too late for a soft landing and managed deflation of the Great China Ponzi. That’s because in their heedless resort to the printing press and credit driven expansion over and over during the past two decades they have generated “freakish impossibilities” throughout the length and breadth of the Chinese economy. For instance, the Chinese steel industry grew by 11X during the last 20 years, expanding from 125 million tons, which was already larger than the US and Japanese steel industries in the mid-1990s, to 1.1 billion tons today. But neither China nor the world can use that much steel, even as China’s aggressive “dumping” on the world market gathers force. China’s steel output. In fact, China’s steel production is already swooning—–with output in the most recent month down nearly 5% Y/Y and prices off 26% since January and 55% since the three-year ago peak. During the first half of 2015, China’s large and medium steel mills spewed $3.5 billion of red ink, and that just a warm up for the carnage yet to come. In a word, China has upwards of 400- 500 million tons of steel capacity that will be idle once its construction boom stops and the rest of the world throws barriers up against its exports. That amounts to economically destructive malinvestment on an unprecedented scale. The idling of China’s giant steel mills, in turn, will create an economic void which will cause a massive collapse of business, employment and incomes up and down the iron and steel food chain. Likewise, China’s construction infrastructure is grotesquely overbuilt from cement kilns, to construction equipment manufacturers and distributors, to sand and gravel movers, to construction site vendors of every stripe. For crying out loud, in three recent year China used more cement than did the United States during the entire 20th century! That is not indicative of a just a giddy boom; its evidence of a system that has gone mad digging, hauling, staging and building because there was unlimited credit available to finance the outpouring of China’s runaway construction machine. To get a feel for this outbreak of collective insanity, look at Or take a gander at China’s ghost cities, fully equipped with everything, except people. This is merely an example of the stunning economic waste which covers the Chinese landscape: In short, China’s freakish economy is just one great collection of impossibilities that cannot be stabilized or propped-up much longer. But in their desperation to forestall the inevitable crash, the suzerains of red capitalism will increasingly turn to the mailed fist of state repression. Indeed, they can’t any longer rely on the proposition that party power comes from the end of Mr. Deng’s printing press. To pile on even more mountains of credit will only exacerbate the massive capital flight that is already underway and which threatens a devastating further plunge of the RMB exchange rate. The latter is the Achilles Heel of the whole Ponzi. To arrest capital flight Beijing will have to do the opposite of what it has done for the last 20 years. That is, it will have to shrink the domestic money supply and banking system in order to sell dollars and euros rather expand domestic credit in order to sequester dollar liabilities (i.e. treasury bonds) at the PBOC. In due course, China will be aflame with campaigns against corruption and “enemies of the state” as it seeks to cope with its collapsing financial bubbles and endless herds of economic white elephants. Chairman Mao’s axiom as to where state power really comes from——that is, the barrel of a gun—-will become the increasingly evident modus operandi of the communist party rulers. The resulting deflationary spiral will suck the global economy into its vortex. And Wall Street will go down for the count because this time the Fed will be utterly powerless to reverse the tide.2 – Commodity collapse
• 3 – Resource sector credit crisis
4 – Dominoes begin to fall
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5 – Credit markets roll over
6 – Interest rate shock
8 – Overvalued US market
Another article by David Stockman on 15 August 2015
If you read the first two attachments and the article pasted at the end of this email you will probably conclude we must be on the edge of big events, perhaps (it is to be sincerely hoped) the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. What I found fascinating in the article by Michael Snyder (below) is such sentences as this – “I consider myself just to be another watchman on the wall. From our spots on the wall, watchmen such as myself all over the nation are sounding the alarm about what we clearly see coming.” You will find similarly ‘religious’ comments from the clearly irreligious Jeff Berwick in one of the attachments. That in itself is a warning to us. If financial and political commentators in the world can see extraordinary things coming and attribute to it a ‘religious’ flavor, what should we see?
I have attached a PDF file containing two very recent articles on China and its desperate efforts to stave off collapse. The articles tell the full story. Apologies if you have previously seen these as I know some of you have.
An additional PDF contains much of the content of an email recently received from Bro. Matt Jamieson in Sydney. He noted the recent predictions of Jeff Berwick a noted financial advisor who has discovered some very curious patterns surrounding the Shemitah (year of release) and the seven year cycle that has characterised events over the last 100 years. He sees these as converging on September/October 2015 and outlines numerous things slated to occur in that period that reinforce his expectations. See what you think.
However, the significance of these events to us must not be underestimated. Christ was very clear about the state of the world at the time when he sends his angels to raise the dead and collect the responsible living.
Luke 17:26-33 – And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. Remember Lot’s wife. Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
Luke 21:34-35 – And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
The above passages which are clear enough, especially when you add the companion account of Matt. 24:38-39, are augmented by the Lord’s warning to the ecclesia at Laodicea. The letters to the seven ecclesias of Asia are among other things, prophecies of the history of the ecclesias since the time of John (see John Thomas in Eureka and HP Mansfield in The Apocalypse Epitomised). That the letter to Laodicea relates to the period prior to the return of Christ is evident from words that only appear in this letter – Rev. 3:20 – “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” This clearly refers to the era of the Second Advent of Christ. What then did the Lord specify would be the character of the times in which the brotherhood would find itself just before he came a second time?
The answer is found in what he said the problem of the Laodiceans was – Rev. 3:17 – “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.” Again it is obvious that prosperity would provide the final test for his servants right up till the last day.
World leaders are being warned by responsible internal agencies that the world faces a Depression so deep that it will last 25 years! However, it will not be 25 years long – rather it will last for 10 years (the period between the resurrection of the dead and Armageddon, described in Dan. 12:1-2 – “And at that time shall Michael (namely, Christ) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.”
Careful reading of the above passage will reveal that the resurrection (and gathering of the responsible living) and the time of trouble such as never was are concomitant events. The resurrection is the signal for that time of trouble. This is perfectly consistent with the message of Christ noted above. Removal of the saints (Noah’s family and Lot’s family) is immediately followed by the loss of all that men put their trust in.
The last ‘Great Depression’ lasted 10 years (and then only because of a world war), and so will the next. History will repeat itself as it often does. The following slide illustrates.
No man knows “the day or the hour” of the Lord’s return, but Paul insists we should know “the times and seasons” (1 Thess. 5:1-2). The word for “seasons” here is kairos and can have the idea of the state and character of the times. Modern Evangelicals have been blinded by incorrect interpretations of the Olivet Prophecy and are warning their folk to expect a Great Tribulation before Christ comes. This is based on Matt. 24:21. However, from Matt. 24:4-29a the prophecy concerns the times leading to and during the cataclysmic events of AD 70. Once the message switches to the latter days of the Second Advent in Matt. 24:29b the tenor of the times shifts from privation, difficulty of travel and painful tribulation to the rampant prosperity likened to the times of Noah and Lot.
I have also attached a set of notes on the Olivet Prophecy which you may find helpful in filling out the above comments. Additional material on why the Olivet Prophecy must have application to AD 70 and to the Second Advent is available on request.
If you find this email helpful you might consider passing it on to others of your acquaintance. I will leave that to you.
I ask only one thing of you – please do not attribute to me that I am nominating a year for the return of Christ. I am not doing so, but I am sounding the Lord’s own warning that he will come before the world is flung into the worst and most extended economic collapse in history. That collapse will come when God is ready. Many nations are virtually bankrupt (if not fully like Greece); the nations are angry (Rev. 11:18); many prophecies of the latter days are converging on a point not far away; the pressure to maintain a level of prosperity in our lives is rapidly increasing on all. There is no doubt for a range of reasons that this is the last cycle of prosperity before the return of Christ. We have choices to make – lose our ‘life’ now and gain eternity, or seek to gain it like Lot’s wife with eternal consequences. Let us be prepared, and help prepare others.
Your brother in Christ, Jim
The Economic Collapse
23 Nations Around The World Where Stock Market Crashes Are Already Happening
By Michael Snyder, on August 17th, 2015
You can stop waiting for a global financial crisis to happen. The truth is that one is happening right now. All over the world, stock markets are already crashing. Most of these stock market crashes are occurring in nations that are known as “emerging markets”. In recent years, developing countries in Asia, South America and Africa loaded up on lots of cheap loans that were denominated in U.S. dollars. But now that the U.S. dollar has been surging, those borrowers are finding that it takes much more of their own local currencies to service those loans. At the same time, prices are crashing for many of the commodities that those countries export. The exact same kind of double whammy caused the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s and the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s.
As you read this article, almost every single stock market in the world is down significantly from a record high that was set either earlier this year or late in 2014. But even though stocks have been sliding in the western world, they haven’t completely collapsed just yet.
In much of the developing world, it is a very different story. Emerging market currencies are crashing hard, recessions are starting, and equity prices are getting absolutely hammered.
Posted below is a list that I put together of 23 nations around the world where stock market crashes are already happening. To see the stock market chart for each country, just click the link…
1. Malaysia; 2. Brazil; 3. Egypt; 4. China; 5. Indonesia; 6. South Korea; 7. Turkey; 8. Chile; 9. Colombia; 10. Peru; 11. Bulgaria; 12. Greece; 13. Poland; 14. Serbia; 15. Slovenia; 16. Ukraine; 17. Ghana; 18. Kenya; 19. Morocco; 20. Nigeria; 21. Singapore; 22. Taiwan; 23. Thailand.
Of course this is just the beginning. The western world is going to feel this kind of pain as well very soon. I want to share with you an excerpt from an article that just appeared in the Telegraph entitled “Doomsday clock for global market crash strikes one minute to midnight as central banks lose control“. You see, the Telegraph is not just one of the most important newspapers in the UK – it is truly one of the most important newspapers in the entire world. When it speaks on financial matters, millions of people listen very carefully. So for the Telegraph to declare that the countdown to a “global market crash” is “one minute to midnight” is a very, very big deal…
When the banking crisis crippled global markets seven years ago, central bankers stepped in as lenders of last resort. Profligate private-sector loans were moved on to the public-sector balance sheet and vast money-printing gave the global economy room to heal.
Time is now rapidly running out. From China to Brazil, the central banks have lost control and at the same time the global economy is grinding to a halt. It is only a matter of time before stock markets collapse under the weight of their lofty expectations and record valuations.
I encourage you to read the rest of that excellent article right here. It contains lots of charts and graphs, and it discusses many of the exact same things that I have been hammering on for months.
When one of the newspapers of record for the entire planet starts sounding exactly like The Economic Collapse Blog, then you know that it is late in the game.
Others are sounding the alarm about an imminent global financial crash as well. For example, just consider what Egon von Greyerz recently told King World News…
Eric, I fear that this coming September – October all hell will break loose in the world economy and markets. A lot of factors point to that, both fundamental and technical indicators and this indicates that we could have a number of shocks this autumn.
Sadly, most investors will hold stocks, bonds and property and will see any decline in value as an opportunity. It will be a long time and a very big fall before they realize that the system will not help them this time because the central bankers have run out of ammunition to save the global financial system one more time. Yes, we will see more massive money printing, but it will just make things worse. And at some stage, which could be quite soon, real fear will set in, a fear of a magnitude the world has not experienced before.
Hmm – there is another example of someone talking about September. It is funny how often that month keeps coming up.
And of course most of the major stock market crashes in U.S. history have been in the fall. Just go back and take a look at what happened in 1929, 1987, 2001 and 2008.
The “smart money” has been pulling their money out of stocks for quite a while now, and at this point a lot of others have hopped on the bandwagon. The following comes from CNBC…
The flight of investor money from U.S. stocks has turned into a stampede.
In fact, the $78.7 billion leaving domestic equity-focused funds has been worse in 2015 than it was even during the financial crisis years, when the S&P 500 tumbled some 60 percent, according to data released Friday by Morningstar. The total is the highest since 1993.
Domestic equity funds surrendered $20.4 billion in July alone and have seen $158.6 billion in redemptions over the past 12 months. Even a strong flow of money into passively managed exchange-traded funds has been unable to offset the stream to the exit among retail investors, who generally focus more on mutual funds than ETFs.
A global financial crisis has already begun. So those that were claiming that one would not happen in 2015 are already wrong. Over the coming months we will find out how bad it will ultimately be.
Sometimes I get criticized for talking about these things. There are a few people out there that don’t like all of the “doom and gloom” that I discuss on my website. Apparently it is a bad thing to talk about the things that really matter and we should all just be “keeping up with the Kardashians” instead.
I consider myself just to be another watchman on the wall. From our spots on the wall, watchmen such as myself all over the nation are sounding the alarm about what we clearly see coming.
If we saw what was coming and we did not warn the people, their blood would be on our hands. But if we do warn the people, then we have done our duty.
Every day I just do the best that I can with what I have been given. And there are many others just like me that are doing exactly the same thing.
Those that do not like the warning message are going to feel really stupid when things start falling apart all around them and they finally realize how wrong they truly were.
Genesis 2:4 “the generations…” This now introduces us to the record of human activity. The creation of man and woman are given in more detail than that supplied in Chapter 1.
Genesis 2:7 “… and man became a living soul” Adam is made from the dust of the ground, and God breathed into him to give him life. This breath sustains life (Job 33:4; 34:14,15).
The Hebrew words for “living soul” are nephesh chaiyah
- soul (nephesh) signifying “creature” or “breathing frame”, from the verb “to breathe”
- living (chayiah) signifying “of life”
These two words are used not only of humans, but also of the animals. The word “soul” really means body, and is translated the following way in Genesis chapters 1 and 2:
- Genesis 1:20 “moving creature” – sea life
- verse 21 “living creature” – mammals
- verse 24 “living creature” – cattle, creeping thing, beast
- verse 30 “life” – beast of earth, fowl, creeping thing
- Genesis 2:7 “living soul” – man
- verse 19 “every living creature” – animal kingdom named by Adam.
This means that animals, fish, man and woman are all souls.
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The Gospel: “The Good News or Glad Tidings”.
THE GOSPEL IN BRIEF …
There are two aspects to the Gospel Message, or the Good Tidings”. These are mentioned in Acts: ” … when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.” Acts 8:12.
Under differing circumstances, one or the other aspect may however be emphasised.
The Gospel preached by Christ and the Apostles, had reference to the Kingdom of God. It is a Divine political dominion to be established on earth, on the ruins of all existing governments, for the purpose of bringing the world into subjection to God that it might be the recipients of the blessing of Almighty God. It will be the ancient Kingdom of Israel restored, with Christ as King in fulfilment of the promises made to King David, and in accord with the covenant made with Abraham. JESUS CHRIST WILL RETURN FROM HEAVEN and VISIBLY APPEAR to TAKE UP RESIDENCE ON EARTH A SECOND TIME, for the purpose of bringing about the accomplishment of all these things.
There is but one God, whose Holy Spirit came upon Mary, when the Power of the Highest overshadowed her, she conceived and brought forth a son, Jesus, who was therefore the Son of God, (Luke 1: 35). In turn, being born of Mary, he was also the Son of Man. He preached the Gospel of the Kingdom. His eventual death at the hands of men, was to express the love of the Father in a necessary sacrifice for sin that the law of sin and death which came into force by the first Adam might be nullified in him. In harmony with his obedience Almighty God raised Jesus from the dead and exalted him to a glorified, incorruptible, immortal (because spiritual) state of existence. He now acts as a priestly mediator between the father and those who come unto God by him, awaiting his return as King of the Jews.
Those who are “in Christ” by baptism are thus able to have their sins forgiven through the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ. When he returns to the earth, he will grant immortality, to those who have been faithful to him and his requirements. As immortal saints they will then be free from sin and death, and will reign with Christ upon earth as Kings and Priest, to assist with the work of bringing the whole world into subjection to God.
