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SATAN’S ECONOMY!
BABYLON THE GREAT!
At this end time we are seeing the fulfillment of prophecy! Both Revelation and the book of
Daniel speak of the end time prophecies in signs and symbols!
Daniel enquired the God of heaven to find the truth of the matter when King Nebuchadnezzar dreamed
a dream. Daniel said, “But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king
Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and He
that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass. But as for me, this secret is not revealed
to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the
interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart. Thou, O king, sawest, and
behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof
was terrible. This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of
brass, His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay” (Dan 2:28-33).
In Revelation we find the Apostle John being shown the beast rising out of the sea. This fourth beast was
diverse from the rest. But is this the same beast of Daniel 7? “After this I saw in the night visions, and behold
a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake
in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before
it; and it had ten horns. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before
whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes
of man, and a mouth speaking great things (Dan 7:7-8).
From the beginning of time, gold has been the power of civilizations. As the saying goes: “Those who
have the gold makes the rules.” This has been true since Genesis 2! “The name of the first is Pison: that is it
which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is
bdellium and the onyx stone” (Gen 2:11-12).
The power of any economy is how strong the value of their money! Today the power of the U.S. dollar
is so weak that most other countries want to pull out of having the dollar be the major exchange currency. China
and India have been buying up most of the world’s gold and is working to have the dollar de-valued and replaced.
Satan’s economic system of debt and interest is a system that enslaves mankind. This system compels
people to conform so they can acquire wealth and power.
As God’s people, we are to follow God’s law of economics. The system of the Lord’s government is
diametrically opposite to the competitive system of Satan’s Babylonian system! The world has chosen to follow
Satan’s Babylonian system of debt and interest. This has enslaved most of mankind!
At this end of the age, the world is following the entrenchment of the evils of the Babylonia financial and
economic elites, who control the markets of the world, consider themselves impregnable to all assault. This is
a picture of the beast that has “power over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations” (Rev. 15:7).
The Babylonian system of economics has taken over the entire commercial activities of the world and
dominates the economic life of all nations. Men strive to conform with the requirements of the system if by
chance they may gain possessions of some of its wealth, the reward received for serving Mammon!
Those who serve God, whom He allows to become the possessors of wealth, not through serving
Mammon, but in spite of Mammon. Such men use that wealth for the good of mankind and in the service to God.
When looking at the beasts of Revelation, we see the symbol of a beast, which John shows as our modern
banking and financial system, the controller which tells those who dwell on the earth “that they should make an
image to the beast.” Now an image represents or is a likeness of the thing portrayed. “And he had power to give
life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would
not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free
and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save
he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath
understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred
threescore and six” (Rev 13:15-18). We have all heard the saying, “Money talks!” Because we have all been
a part of the system, we pay dearly for every thing we put on credit! This causes the interest to accrue over time
and it hard to pay off.
When the entire desire and energy of a man, with in his mental or physical labors, is to acquire money
and that as the goal of his life, such a one has received the mark of the beast. There are many kinds of marks.
The branding and marking of cattle show ownership and in the sense of mark here is used. The right hand
represents all manual labor (Job 40:14), while the forehead is emblematical of mental and intellectual work (Eze.
3:8-9). Both paper and metal money has the images of a man on them.
Gold is the foundation on which rests the image of the beast, which image is the financial or monetary
system. Revelation 18 is a picture of the coming collapse of the Babylonian system!
Bob Livingston in his commentary of May 12, 2014 said, “Whether we realize it or not, we are living in
very critical times– the worst in 150 years, if not in United States history. We face the possible and probable
loss of our savings and assets. We are in the midst of the breakdown of the rule of law which leads to the
breakdown of law and order. We are assaulted from all sides of a decline and coarsening of American culture.
We, as a Christian nation are overlorded by Satanists who rule by lies and deception. Do Congress, the
President, the Supreme Court and the thousands of appointed bureaucrats have a loyalty or reverence for a
deity? Yes, call it Skull and Bones, or other secret orders of ancient handshakes and symbols of the all seeing
eye of “providence” and “The New Order of the Ages.” Call it the illuminate. Call it the culture of greed and
debasement. Call it the almighty dollar and unlimited power. Call it what you will, but recognize it for what
it is.” Our U.S. dollar currency is in the process of destruction. We should know that the U.S. monetary system
(actually a non-system) was created to enslave the workers and creators of wealth with paper money.
Depreciated paper money called U.S. dollar is sapping your wealth and savings while you sleep. Millions of
Americans have already been impoverished, and millions more will be impoverished because they still live with
false faith in a fantasy world of lies. The U.S. dollar is a worldwide Ponzi scheme designed to defraud.” We
should dismiss the lies of politicians and bureaucrats, realizing that they’d sooner tell a lie even when the truth
better suits their purpose.” [end of quote.]
Christ had said in the book of John, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will
do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When
he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth,
ye believe Me not” (John 8:44-45).
The beast of Revelation is powered by Satan. “And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold
a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads” Rev. 12:3). We know
the red dragon is Satan, because we are told in Rev 12:9, “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent,
called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were
cast out with him.”
Satan is also pictured here, “And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea,
having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy”
(Rev 13:1). “And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the
woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns” (Rev 17:7).
Once again the Apostle John is being told, “And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads
are seven mountains [symbol of governments], on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings: five are
fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. And the
beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. And the ten horns
which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour
with the beast” (Rev 17:9-12).
Satan is the power of the world right now. He has been given this authority by God. “Wherein in time
past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit
that now worketh in the children of disobedience” (Eph 2:2).
Babylon, symbolically designates the political, religious and economic phases of human misrule. The
name Babylon identifies man’s system which is in opposition to the administration of the system of God. The
Apostle John was shown, under the emblem of “Babylon the Great,” the judgments which are to be poured out
upon the economic phase of the Babylonian system.
There can be no real justice, nor will earth’s inhabitants secure the blessings of lasting peace so long as
men are subject to an economic system that is unjust. The 18th chapter of Revelation shows us the overwhelming
judgment that is about to come upon this entire economic structure of Babylon. Christ tells John to tell us, “And
I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and
that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her
iniquities” (Revelation 18:4).
Man’s desire under our present economic system has been to possess wealth, power and authority and
the acquiring of and the object of worship of gold is the object of the commercial life of man!
Today, as men depart from the ways of the Lord and become more and more materialistic, the godless
system increases its oppression, with the lowering of ethical standards, the spirit of intolerance has turned the
world against God’s righteous Word, Laws and His people!
It behooves each one of us to beware of the love of money and Satan’s Babylonian system! “For the love
of money is the [a] root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced
themselves through with many sorrows” (1 Tim 6:10).
Christ says, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else
he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon” (Matt 6:24). And in Luke
16:10-13, “He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is
unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your
trust the true riches? And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that
which is your own? No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else
he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
We, as God’s chosen want to hear, “His Lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou
hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord”
(Matt 25:23). ☜
James Russell
ASSYRIAN & BABYLONIAN MYTHOLOGY
Ishtar was held to be the great Mother Goddess in ancient Assyrian and
Babylonian mythology. It was believed she was the daughter of the
sky-god, Anu, or the moon god, Sin. Her worship spread throughout the
Middle East, Greece, and Egypt. As the moon goddess, her waxing and
waning governed the cyclical birth and death of the planet. She was the Heavenly Cow, the Green One, and the
Mistress of the Field.
As a war goddess Ishtar was specially honored in Assyria. She was depicted as carrying a bow and quiver,
her warlike aspect receiving emphasis with a beard similar to the god Ashur. Inscriptions state that Ishtar was
party to choosing of the king. Ashur-natsir-pala 11(884-860 BC), so certain of the divine election, was
the monarch renowned for his cruelty toward rebels and enemies. His orders of skinning
captives live or cutting off their hands became accepted policy.
Her son Tammuz, also called the Green One, became her lover when reaching manhood. When Ishtaer
descended into the underworld she appeared as a hostile and threatening figure; death overcame her while there,
which caused fertility and sexual desire to become dormant, and await her seasonal return.
An Akkadian fragment describes the wailing of Ishtar for Tammuz, whose annual death, resurrection, and
marriage strongly indicate a fertility ritual connected to an agricultural cycle. His worship spread into Canaan,
where Ezekiel complained that even at "the door of the gate of the Lord's house... there sat women weeping for
Tammuz."
As Queen of Heaven, she replaced Sin as the moon deity; she rode through the sky at night in a chariot
drawn by goats or lions. The zodiac was known as the "girdle of Ishtar," which also refers to the ancient moon
calendar. In this position she was the giver of omens, and prophecy through dreams, and through her magic,
others could obtain secret knowledge. Ishtar was associated with the planet Venus. Both the lion and dove were
sacred to her. ☜
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THE ZODIAC
The zodiac probably had its
origins among the Assyrians or Chaldaeans, although it may have
originated among the Babylonians as early as 2000 B.C.
Astrologers firmly believe in the zodiac and its relationship to
humans. Psychologists, however, believe that astrologers are merely deceiving people; they mock them for using
psychometric paths and quasi-philosophical speech.
Ancient people believed that a person's behavior, emotions and fate were heavily influenced by the month
of that person's birth - that person's astrological sign. Even today, thousands of years later, some people still
believe in the powers of the zodiac and read their horoscopes for daily guidance.
The fact that astrology deals with readings of the heavenly bodies means that it is not too far from
treading on religious territory. If the zodiac is really an exact science why do we find huge disparities between
what they predict? Can't the astrologers, after thousands of years of star-gazing, make consistent predictions? It
is proof enough 10 journals or magazines contain 10 different predictions for the same horoscope on the same
day. ☜
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