Many Christians today do not like to talk about world events.  They do not like to hear about how the New World Order is taking shape and what it has to do with Biblical prophecy.  Yet Christ himself warned us to be on our guard and not be found sleeping (Matt 24:42).  He even told us to be aware of the signs of His coming (Matt24:28).

Still I am frequently told that we shouldn’t be worried about the end times, that we shouldn’t be worried about the progression of the world toward it’s ultimate inevitable destruction at the hands of the Almighty.  I’m so often told by good-meaning Christians that it’s not important to pay attention to such things or to obsess about them.  I’m told that Christ will come back and rescue the Church, so it’s not important for us to study the progression of events, or to concern ourselves with the fulfillment of John’s Revelation.  After all, it’s written and cannot be stopped.  There is no use in chasing after the wind or kicking against the pricks.  We can no more prevent the dominion of satan over the world as prophecy predicts than we can stop the sun from rising.  So conceded.

Then why should we be concerned with the end times prophecies?  Why does God tell us these things in advance if there is nothing we can do to prevent them?  The answer is simple and lies in the book of the prophet Isaiah.

When people think of the prophet Isaiah, most people don’t think of end times prophecy.  Certainly Daniel is more well know for end times prophecy.  However, consider Isaiah chapter 49.  In the interest of saving space I will excerpt a few passages below and leave it to the reader to look up the rest.

vv4-6, “For I knew how stubborn you were; the sinews of your neck were iron, your forehead was bronze.  Therefore I told you these things long ago; before they happened I announced them to you so that you could no say ‘My idols did them; my wooden image and metal god ordained them.’”

v9 “For my own name’s sake I delay my wrath; for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you, so as not to cut you off.”

Consider how these passages can be related to the end times prophecies.  In verses 4 through 6 God tells us one reason why He has chosen to foretell his plan, that man could not attribute the acts of God to their own hands or the hands of their idols.  In verse 9 God tells us the ultimate reason: “For my own name’s sake…”  But notice the very last part of the verse, “… so as not to cut you off.”

God is telling us that His prophecies and their fulfillment have a very special purpose.  That the purpose is for His glory, and to save men from damnation.  And this makes plenty of sense.  It is one of the powerful weapons in God’s arsenal to prove His existence and His power to all mankind.

Those of us who take an interest in the fulfillment of end times prophecy are not just obsessed conspiracy nuts.  We have a God ordained purpose which is to expose God’s glory and win souls to Christ by putting world events into their proper Biblical context for the eyes of the world to see.

If you have a desire to be informed and informative about God’s end times prophecies coming to fruition, do not be abashed, God has ordained this.  He has told us to go out and proclaim the Gospel, and the end times prophecies are part fo that gospel.  So be encouraged that your role in the Church of God is not meaningless and is not inherently rebellious.  Just keep your focus on Christ and bringing souls to Him.

And if you are one of those with an aversion to end times prophecies, please understand that we are not being rebellious, and we are not necessarily being obesessive.  God has a purpose to work out through the fulfillment of scriptural prophecy.  Rather come by us in love and support as we bring Glory to God together.

Confiscation through inflation is the way by which wealth changes hands from those who hold paper currency to those who print paper currency when the currency is printed and thus inflated. Since 1913 the US Dollar has been regulated by the Federal Reserve Bank, and since 1933 it has been off any commodity standard. Politicians don’t even discuss the gold standard any more, but offer false solutions to the economic problem like ‘inflate your tires’ and ‘use more ethanol’. Why are the American people so gullible to believe that the solution to the gas crisis is to tune up your cars and inflate your tires? Because they’ve been fed this sort of junk food for the political brain by the online casinocorporately controlled big mediarent a car bulgaria for decades. Any psychologist or sociologist will tell you that if a person is told something often enough, regardless of the truth of the claim, they will eventually come to believe it.

Liberty cannot be had or retained by a man or by a people unless private property is protected. In fact, the Constitution guarantees this in the Bill of Rights, Article 5, “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. ” No person shall be deprived of property without due process of law. Did you receive a trial before the government allowed the Federal Reserve to print money and take your property through inflation? For that matter, one might even ask if you received trial before the income tax was required of them.

The economic process of confiscation through inflation is simple, and it is this: You have x dollars in savings, there are y dollars in circulation, then the Federal Reserve prints z dollars to bail out Fannie Mae or some other banking institute. Now, the dollars in circulation is y+z but your dollars in savings are still x. The law of supply and demand stipulates that when a supply of a commodity increases faster than the demand for that commodity, the value of the commodity decreases. Thus, your savings, x is worth proportionately less depending on the ratio of your x to the new y+z as compared to the old y. In other words, by whatever percentage z effects y, your x has an equal an opposite reaction. If y+z is greater than y then your x loses it’s buying power, but if y+z is less than y deflation occurs and your dollar actually gains buying power.

Now you might say that this should happen uniformly and effect all money holders equally. Well, that would be correct except that firstly, those who receive the new dollars spend them before the free market can adjust it’s prices to compensate for the inflation of the dollar that has already occured. To further shroud inflation, the Federal Reserve does not disclose to anyone the number of dollars it is printing. If it did, inflation could be easily determined and compensated for immediately. Of course, to do such a thing would be to steep the American economy in still more fiat communism (meaning more government regulation and control over the economy and less free market) in which the prices of all goods would be mandated by the government for purposes of adjusting for inflation. The other option to reconcile such a move might be to disallow government control and allow the free market to adjust on it’s own. Either way you still wouldn’t eliminate the confiscation through inflation.

Instead of uniformly, the value of the inflation is always passed to the first ones to receive the new dollars: big banks. So, when a big corporation like Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac goes under, the free market result would be the closing of the company and the liquidation of it’s assets, and the leaders of the that company would be out of the job and penniless. Instead those leaders, whether they are retained or not, remain millionaires and billionaires, and the corporations are bailed out by the federal reserve and allowed to continue on. Often these bailouts and bubble-bursts are used to justify more government control of the banking system, which sounds like a good idea except that you forgot one thing: a system in which the government controlls the economy is called Communism, not mach-zehnderCapitalism.

Because the federal reserve fiat currency system leads to confiscation of private wealth through inflation, it is therefore in direct conflict with the highest law in the land, the Constitution of the United States of America. Therefore it is illegal, and it is a form of theft illegal theft. Realizing that, all Americans should be doing everything in their power to restore the rule of law and the Consititution of the United States. What does that mean? Well, there are myriad choices for action, but I would most recommend that anyone begin with first educating themselves in the history of the United States of America and by getting involved in politics at the local level (where you can have the most direct impact.)

While I was researching Ron Paul issues on the web I came across www.libertydollar.org The Liberty Dollar is a barter currency which is backed by silver. The idea behind it, presumably, is that if the federal government won’t offer a sound currency, it’s up to private firms to stand in the gap.

We are currently under a Fiat Currency in the United States of America. That means that our currency has no inherent, natural, or otherwise intrinsic value; it has value only because the federal government has passed a law requiring the dollar as the only legal tender for public and private debts, or goods and services in the United States.

What I’m referring to here is the Federal Reserve system. You may or may not know this, but the Federal Reserve is the entity in charge of printing dollars. Now, ever since 1913 (Federal Reserve Act) America’s money has not been backed by gold or any other commodity since 1933 or 1935, depending on how you measure, when a series of laws were passed, and supported by the Supreme Court of the United States.

Since that time, the US Dollar has experienced extreme imflation due not to the laws of supply and demand but to the printing of the dollar at a higher rate than actual market growth. For a wonderful documentary on the particulars of the fiat dollar system and the federal reserve system and how it effects both the economy and the American people, check out www.fiatempire.com or search for the movie on Google Video.

Anyway, The Liberty Dollar is meant to fly in the face of the fiat dollar by creating a certificate of silver that is not legal tender but a barter currency. In this way, the organization bypasses the laws preventing the issuing of silver-standard dollars, (or any other kind of dollars that the Federal Reserve does not produce.) Also, it bypasses the laws forbidding the stockpiling of silver or gold by holding those stockpiles overseas where it is legal. The silver on deposit is backed 100%, meaning that there is no inflation or speculation on the silver, each note actually represents real silver actually held by the company. The company also has a system of regular audits of it’s silver reserves to ensure to the consumer that the note they hold really represents silver and is not over-extended.

The Liberty Dollar, in concept, provides the American consumer with a real currency and an alternative to the fiat system of the federal reserve. Furthermore, in my own opinion, to invest in the Liberty Dollar is to make a political statement to the government that we do not support the federal reserve and fiat dollar system. It is an act of legal, civil, disobedience and protest.

That being said, I haven’t actually bought a Liberty Dollar yet. Neither have I invested in gold or silver as a commodity. Perhaps when I do come across the means to invest in gold or silver, I will take the opportunity. Until then, invest at your own risk.