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JPMorgan Chase, which acquired Bear Stearns only six months ago in another shotgun deal brokered by the government, is to take control Friday of all of WaMu’s deposits and bank branches, creating a nationwide retail franchise that rivals only Bank of America.
While the 'Bailout' circus is in town, out in the back country the largest bank failure in history creates the circumstances for another 'giant' deal going down...and this one is really a 'beast'...three morphed into one...JPMorgan ChaseBearStearnsWaMu...the wealth of the world gathered into the hands of a few. This is not a drill. updates of: Giants' Rising From Global Financial Wreckage and: 'Expert':Global Financial System Needed To Save World
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Tony Blair Faith Foundation Launches Search for Thirty Young Ambassadors for the Millennium Development Goals
LOS ANGELES, CA, Sep 25, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Tony Blair today (Thursday) launches an international search for thirty outstanding young people to serve as inter-religious ambassadors for the Millennium Development Goals.The Faiths Act Fellowship brings together thirty young leaders drawn from the different faiths from the US, UK and Canada to embark on a 10 month journey of interfaith service.
Tony Blair said: "As changemakers for current and future generations, young people have the opportunity to establish a new vision of inter-religious interaction that places protecting the welfare of the world's poorest at its centre."
Tony Blair said: "The Faiths Act Fellows will become ambassadors for inter-religious cooperation in the fight against deaths from malaria and the accomplishment of the Millennium Development Goals. I urge interested young people aged 18 - 25 in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada to apply to join our campaign.
'Interfaith' or 'interreligious', and 'service' are the keywords to note. These two things are very important because the entire world must be made ready to 'worship' and 'serve' the same 'god', the coming 'king of the world' who will turn out to be the devil himself..the Antichrist..Satan personified. (Rev. 13:8). It's being sold as a 'new vision'. The Blair organization is to begin mobilizing immediately, starting with the recruitment of 'leaders'. This is a follow up on: Blair, Yale, Antichrist World Religion
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EU To Restrict Online Free Speech - Blog Ban (It's only a practice vote they say...this time)
Euro MPs are preparing to vote on proposals for European Union regulation of blogs with the aim of countering a “dangerous” and unregulated blogosphere.
“We need some credentials, a quality mark, a certain disclosure of who is writing and why.” she said.
Thursday’s vote in the European Parliament is not legally binding but is an indicator of growing -EU concern over the influence of blogs on the internet.
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Do you know about the Second Coming?
Zech 5:6
ReplyDelete"And I said, What is it? And he said, This is an e'-phah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the earth......"
.........vs 10,11 Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the e'-phah? And he said unto me, To build it an house in the loand of Shi-nar:and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base"
What is your take on this portion of Zechariah.....chapter 5?
Thanks,
AB Leever
oops...sorry some typos there
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Alison,
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The passage seems to give insight as to what will need to happen as a prerequiste to and just prior to the national restoration of the remnant of the Jews in the Millenial Kingdom. It is parallel to Rev. 17-18 and the final judgement upon the false religious 'Mystery Babylon' of Rev. 17 and the Commercial Babylon of Rev. 18.
In general, the way the world system works is entirely corrupt. The rich get richer through endlessly corrupt dealings. The 'fiat' paper money system that this world runs on is a sham. The rich bankers print it out of nothing and then loan it for a profit..enriching themselves and taking positions of power and control with those manufactured out-of-thin-air riches. With that power and control every sort of evil imaginable is perpetrated. That's a very basic idea of it. That is how this world works. James refers to it in the 5th chapter of his epistle:
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and *he doth not resist you.
(*not yet in James day that is, but that day is coming)
In Zechariah's vision the 'ephah' symbolizes this world's system of commerce, and the 'woman' inside the ephah is the intertwined
'spirit of the age'...the hidden occultic power behind it all. While most Christians may be familiar with the scripture, few have any conception of the pratical implications of the fact that Satan truly is presently the 'god' of this world (2 Cor. 4:4)....and that he influences through that 'spirit of the age'(the woman in the ephah) and exercises his will to control this wholly corrupt world system i.e.commerce. It is his system.
The name given to that spirit in Revelation is the 'great whore': "With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication." (Rev. 17:2)
Zechariah's vision shows us the fate of this system....the ephah and the woman inside. The pronouncement upon it is: "It is wickedness". With that, the talent of lead goes back down, the woman is locked up, and the whole thing is deported back to "Shinar"..from whence it came (symbolically, the scene of the crime, the original Tower of Babel). As to being "established" (v. 5:11), it seems to be a sarcastic comment and Isaiah 34: 8-15 is interesting in that respect, describing a post apocalyptic land which will be a habitation for dragons and a number of other wretched creatures.
Vs. 11 reads: "But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness."
Might be the same place where "wickedness is to be sent".
It is interesting to consider that after this event the financial/commercial system of this Babylon world will never be seen again. No information is given, but when the Lord Jesus reigns on earth with a rod of iron, somehow or another all provision will come from Him. It is unknown though. Anyway, after this 'wickedness' is purged from the earth (and from the remnant of Jews), the millenial Kingdom will begin and in the next chapter, six, we read:
12 And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:
13 Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
The Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is the only one who is both a priest and a King. He being also the Prince of Peace, he shall then establish peace on the earth.
Yup......and we see it all unfolding before our eyes as we speak.
ReplyDelete...and may more eyes open to Truth!
Thanks!
AB Leever