The Rich and the Powerful Reality

Recently there was a piece written about the exploitation of people's financial sentiments in Quillette called "From Panic to Prudence." It got a bit into the history of it all, and pointed out that the 1906 San Francisco earthquake was a contributing factor to the Panic of 1907 since the desire to rebuild the city led to an overwhelming demand for capital. The strain was simply too great and the economy couldn't handle it.

Of course there were several more complexities involved, yes, but as I thought about it I thought about the idea of risk. Building things on a fault line carries with it risk. The thing risk has been mentioned a lot in what people have said or written about the most recent financial disaster. What to do, what to do with that thing risk. And I thought, huh, we could go far to identify all the things that comprise that thing. 

I know of something that is the absolute worst kind of risk -- much worse than an earthquake.

Man's sin.

Like Jesus, banker's know the heart of man, It is run-through and caked with the filthiest evil, and if it is true that there should be a 100% reserve requirement for lenders and the most comprehensive disclosure of all of the borrowers' personal liabilities and grabbing these execs by the throat and making them pay first and all kinds of other things that many are screeching about implementing, then who could really qualify for any loan, credit line, gift, subsidy, privilege -- anything that requires someone else give up something of value so another could have some measure of capital?

No one.

The point is that in posting often about the stupidity and idiocy of World System activity causing great pain to many people somewhere somehow when the lies become unraveled, I am never urging my readers to resist or rebel or remonstrate -- something I've qualified in every instance of my exposing the activities of the duly authorized mandarins.

In other words, being rich and powerful is actually a very good thing, and as agents of Cain those with the duly sanctioned authority of sworn technoplutocrats are indeed divinely imbued with seven times the wealth and strength to do the things they must do to govern those who refuse to humble themselves before a perfectly just God, one who offers them mercy and forgiveness in Jesus Christ.

It is true that millions have been seduced by the Frankfurt School curriculum of getting out there and raging and roiling and railing against what they call the power structure, that oppressive hegemony that has done evil things to keep them down. Of course it has! It is supposed to do that! It does it because those people ask it do at the behest of the World Ops whose job it is to provoke them.

A classic modern example of this related to the finance is the exasperated bleating about the imminent Central Bank Digital Currency. Please, it is coming because World devotees want it. Yes it is another tool for the quite firmly entrenched autocracy, better the Roman Catholic Ecclesiocracy, to control your lives in all those ways everyone seems to be whining about. It is precisely because so many people lie and cheat and steal at every strata of society -- from to lowest of the low sleeping on the street curb to the highest of the high pacing the penthouse office flailing about trying to make that extra billion all guilty as sin -- that a CBDC is an inevitability.

I have to confess it is in my heart to expose that activity for what it is but I do so for only one reason. I've written it a million times before -- so that anyone who comes across these words turn to Christ's words and heed them. It is my firm consideration that those words clearly instruct us to see Rome for what it is, and let it do its thing as horrific as that thing is even as it gets more and more imaginative -- yet again what I believe God was telling Isaiah in the sixth chapter of his book.

In that sense it is the only way one can turn to Christ, and His Kingdom and the mercy, forgiveness, restoration, peace, joy, and life that comes with it.

One more thing comes with it.

Power.

But it is not the power of the World, which the Frankfurt School acolytes think they are valiantly fighting to eliminate when really they are only pathologically seeking to replace it with a more gruesomely ruthless temporal power. Kingdom power is an entirely different ballgame, but those caught up in the maelstrom of Rome's necessary machinations can never get it until they repent and turn 180 degrees in the other direction and become Christ's on His terms.

At the end of that piece in Quillette the writer speaks of banks using prudence in its service. Really? Ya think? It isn't that this is some spiffy new idea -- it is that this is the way they should have been behaving for eons. There've been laws and regulations and restrictions and all sorts of constraints in place to try to get financial institutions to behave, and for several millennia now we think we can keep people from committing the gravest sins in the highest levels of System activity by shaking our fists at them?

I happen to have this eccentric belief that if enough people just became ungrafted from all of that, forming vibrant communities of truly liberated believers on Christ, there would be enough industry and charity and sowing and yes, riches and power that all in that community would find the beauty and glory and meaning God intends for them to enjoy. You can see the primitive yet quite bountiful form of that described in the second chapter of the Book of Acts.

Let's just face it, let's be honest with ourselves, everyone wants power in some measure. Even if you don't like being on any kind of political trip or in any kind of political grip and want to be away from any of that you still want the power to be non-powerful. The question is, who's power are you appropriating? Who are you following and why? There are a lot of people out there who wield some large amount of excruciating power, each one with some seductive take on things and a smiley face to go with it.

But really, there are only two people who you are following, and you are following one of them.

Do you know which one has the ultimate power?

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"Buy the truth and do not sell it -- wisdom, instruction, and insight as well." 

(The 23rd Proverb, 23rd Chapter)

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The posted image is from The Beacon, accompanying a story about something of a panic in 2018. Huh, how about that. And the added screenshot image of the promo for CNBC's "Power Lunch" was just too rich not to include, something I saw the instant I turned on the television this morning to see what absurdities the presently ordained finance mandarins were spewing today.

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