Corroding Wealth in the Last Days - Marines
and Corrupt FBI Clash – Israeli Drone Attack on Iranian Weapons Factory -
Extreme & Unprecedented Severe Flooding - X22 Report Kash Patel - Mel K – WhiteHat
Navy Commander Murdered and more.
Researched & Comments by Pastor
Gary Boyd
Jan. 29th 2023
MAIL ONLINE: Tyre Nichols protester
hurls firework at LAPD cruiser - while squad car is smashed up in NYC:
Thousands of Antifa activists march on Memphis, Portland and Seattle amid call
for violence - Antifa has issued a terrifying call to arms as America braces
for a night of violence - A shocking poster obtained by DailyMail.com shows the
group calling upon demonstrators to gather across New York City and 'Burn It
All Down' - Riots are expected to ignite across the nation following the
release of bodycam footage from the killing of Tyre Nichols, 29, by five
Memphis police officers - By STEPHEN M. LEPORE and WILL POTTER and HARRIET
ALEXANDER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM - PUBLISHED: 16:49 EST, 27 January 2023 - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11685421/Antifa-tells-protesters-BURN-braces-riots.html
Greta Thunberg Wannabe ‘Little Miss Flint’
is Reportedly Charged with 20-Year Felony for Threatening a School Shooting -
Shane Trejo - Jan 28, 2023 - 15-year-old Greta Thunberg wannabe Mari Copeny,
who goes by the moniker of “Little Miss Flint” and was interviewed by President
Joe Biden last year, has allegedly been charged with a 20-year felony for
threatening a school shooting in Grand Blanc, Mich. Sources close to the school
have confirmed to Big League Politics that the minor, whose identity is being
hidden by authorities and the press, is in fact Copeny. She allegedly made the
threat in a Snapchat post on Nov. 7 of last year. https://bigleaguepolitics.com/greta-thunberg-wannabe-little-miss-flint-is-reportedly-charged-with-20-year-felony-for-threatening-a-school-shooting/
The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on
Saturday, January 28, 2023 23:09 - On 28 January, at about 07.30, the Ukrainian
Armed Forces launched an intentional attack, using rocket-propelled projectiles
of U.S.-manufactured HIMARS multiple-launch rocket system, on the building of
district hospital in Novoaydar (Lugansk People’s Republic). The healthcare
facility of Novoaydar was the venue where civilian and military professionals
had been providing medical aid to local population and servicemen for many
months. (Comment: The Nazis in the Ukraine intentionally do this so they can
blame it on the Russians. However, the US Himars rockets are a dead giveaway.) https://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2023/01/the-situation-in-the-ukrainian-smo-on-january-28-2023-3282742.html
Drone attack on Iranian weapons
factory was phenomenal success - Sunday, January 29, 2023 10:01 - Despite
Iranian claims, the drone attack on Iran at Isfahan was a tremendous success,
according to a mix of Western intelligence sources and foreign sources, The
Jerusalem Post has learned. There were four explosions at the site, which can
even be witnessed on social media, against a facility developing advanced
weapons, and the damage goes far beyond the “minor roof damage” that the Islamic
Republic is claiming and which it has falsely claimed before also in other
incidents in recent years. https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2023/01/drone-attack-on-iranian-weapons-factory-was-phenomenal-success-3653483.html
ISRAEL TODAY: Palestinians Celebrate
Murderous Attack on Jerusalem Synagogue - Seven people were killed and several
others were injured in a terrorist attack during the Friday evening Shabbat
prayers at a synagogue in Jerusalem. - By Israel Today Staff | January 29, 2023
- According to reports, at least one terrorist opened fire “for several
minutes” inside the synagogue during the Shabbat prayers killing seven and
wounding several others, including a 15-year-old boy. The other victims were
aged 20, 25, 30, 50 and 60, and two women, aged 60 and 70. The terrorist was
chased down, shot and killed by a police officer on the scene. https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/palestinians-celebrate-murderous-attack-on-jerusalem-synagogue/
WATCHERS - Extreme and unprecedented:
Severe flooding hits Auckland after entire summer’s worth of rain in a single
day, New Zealand - Saturday, January 28, 2023 - The presence of a low level jet
(LLJ), or strong wind in the lower atmosphere, combined with tropical moisture
to create persistent heavy rain in the Auckland area on Friday, January 27,
2023, resulting in widespread severe flooding, destruction and casualties. - https://watchers.news/2023/01/28/extreme-and-unprecedented-severe-flooding-hits-auckland-after-entire-summers-worth-of-rain-in-a-single-day-new-zealand/
CHRISTIAN POST: Fla. megachurch
requiring members agree to statement affirming biblical definition of marriage
- By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor - A Florida megachurch is
requiring members to sign in agreement with a statement defining marriage as a
union between one man and one woman and stating there are only two biological
genders. First Baptist Church of Jacksonville has garnered controversy in
recent days for its new statement of "biblical sexuality," which
reads as follows…. https://www.christianpost.com/news/fla-megachurch-requiring-members-to-support-traditional-marriage.html
Over 5,621 Christians Were Murdered
for Following Jesus Last Year, Report - The shocking statistics in the report
revealed 5,621 Christians were murdered for their faith, the profanation of
2,110 Christian churches, and the 360 million Christians around the world who
face untold persecution and discrimination - https://www.dailyfetched.com/over-5621-christians-were-murdered-for-following-jesus-last-year-report/
Dangerous arctic blast ushering
coldest air of 2023 across northern US – Jan. 29th 2023 - The FOX
Forecast Center said an Alberta Clipper will cause temperatures to plummet to
more than 20 degrees below average for the northern Plains and Upper Midwest,
and with wind chills well below zero, frostbite can start in minutes. - https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/tracking-january-2023-final-winter-blast
OUR NEW EARTH NEWS - Derek Johnson:
Whitehat Military Martial Law/Emergency Broadcast System Optics!! Why Was Trump
Talking About Mars From Military Standpoint??!! - January 29, 2023 - https://www.ournewearthnews.com/derek-johnson-whitehat-military-martial-law-emergency-broadcast-system-optics-why-was-trump-talking-about-mars-from-military-standpoint/
X22 Report: Kash Patel - Dem’s Are in
the Process of Removing Biden! The Patriots Have the Leverage to Get it All! -
Must See Video - Saturday, January 28, 2023 12:58 - Kash Patel served as the
former Chief of Staff to Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller and is
responsible for leading the Secretary’s mission at the Department, including
his executive staff and providing counsel to the Secretary on all matters
concerning the Department’s operations. Kash oversaw the execution of several
of President Donald J. Trump’s top priorities. Kash begins the conversation the
FBI who was arrested for colluding with Russia. The discussion then moves to
the Biden classified docs, these docs have to do with Hunter’s business
dealings. Biden is a liability and they are in the process of removing him. The
patriots have the leverage and the ability to get it all by using a tactic
called fencing. - https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2023/01/x22-report-kash-patel-dems-are-in-the-process-of-removing-biden-the-patriots-have-the-leverage-to-get-it-all-must-video-3653422.html
Mel K With Brent Hamachek &
Felisa Blazek | Finding Common Ground to Save Our Nation | 1-25-23 - https://themelkshow.com/?_hsmi=243566819&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--K3K6BrxXdnOX9zKbR700msf3y3BhJkqJdGY-xvBrlD2YT6_VCBS4YTQrYosfznnGuHM70bU-dJGsUadoMo-YrM8PLdw
Corroding Wealth in the Last Days
By Wilfred Hahn
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd
Jan. 29th 2023
Tempting, Tantalizing Wealth
Wealth Which statement is true:
Wealth is booming worldwide today, or wealth is corroding?
Gauging by popular indicators, wealth
is surging. Stock market indices have been rising, hitting new all-time highs
in some countries. And, spectacularly, real estate values have been soaring to
previously unimaginable levels around the world, from Sweden to Canada to
Australia. Surely, wealth must be booming.
Indeed, some people are becoming very
rich; the already-wealthy growing incredibly wealthy. The share of wealth of
the “one percent” (the wealthiest 1% of people) is definitely rising. But, seen
from the vantage point of historical wealth theory as well as Biblical values,
we take a completely opposite perspective. We conclude that worldwide wealth is
corroding.
Moreover, we identify many prophetic
parallels. The wealth trends that we are witnessing today fit hand-in-glove
with the prophecies of the Bible.
People like rising wealth. In fact,
they like the “appearance” that wealth is rising. No distinction is made
between these two developments. More is better, whether false or real. As such,
in our modern financial world, few understand the true essence of wealth. It
can mean anything from jewels and natural resources, to over-valued baseball
card collections or high-flying financial investments.
Centuries ago, wealth was perceived
much differently. Then, wealth tended to be considered as the direct ownership
of material things (gold, land, flocks, stores of food, slaves … etc.). Wealth
represented in the ownership of a flock of sheep (for example) did not have a
primary expression in the form of money. Today, wealth is more likely to be
defined in financial terms. Yet, whatever the changes in perception and forms
of riches down through the ages, actual wealth really hasn’t changed at all.
At its core, wealth is nothing more
than the totality of the physical creation and the collective productive
capacity of mankind’s labor—both present and future. We can define these types
of wealth as either created or of human origin. Both forms of wealth are finite
at any given point of time. The earth already exists with its minerals, oceans
and landmasses. As well, the labor supply is static at any one time. After all,
there are only so many people of potential working age on earth at any given
moment. And, all of us are bound by the same 24 hours each day.
We see that the world’s wealth has a
maximal physical or productive potential. It is fixed at any one moment. Yet,
the volume of real wealth can change over longer periods of time.
The most important and sustainable
means of increase is through growth in the earth’s population. The more people
there are, the more hours of human labor that are available in the world. The
greater the potential amount of labor, the greater the opportunity to create
wealth. (Another wealth-creating factor is productivity. For the sake of
simplicity, we will not examine its influence.) The main point is that without
labor, there can be no prospect of human income; and without savings, there can
be no true human-derived wealth. This is an important concept and is
foundational to understanding the deceptions behind modern day financial and
wealth trends.
Three Important Truths about Wealth
There are three important truths
about human wealth. First, it is inextricably tied to human labor. Ultimately,
the value of all wealth rests on the foundation of income—someone’s labors
somewhere on earth. Second, wealth can only be accumulated when we consume less
than our labor produces. Third, if we exchange our savings for a promise of
payment in the future, the underlying support for that liability ultimately
depends on the labors of another human sometime in the future. The inviolable
fact of God’s creation is this: There can be no human wealth without human
labor, whether present, past or future—either accumulated as savings in the
past, or an exchange for the promise of savings in the future.
With that conclusion, we can
emphatically state that human wealth in the world is corroding today. Why?
Because the pool of human labor is on the verge of declining. There are number
of causes. We will focus on just two.
Anti-Familialism
Increasingly, people are choosing not
to have children … to not form families. It is prevalent not to marry today.
The result (due to this and other reasons)? Fewer children. This has now become
a worldwide trend … from the Third World to Europe.
Again, the result? The world’s
population is aging. The most significant impact of this development is that
future retirees will be relying on the support and economic output of a
following generation that is much smaller. The impact of this aging phenomenon
cannot be escaped. The retiree to work ratio, as a result, is expanding
rapidly. One way or another, all wealth and income will need to be supported by
this following generation. However, the total pool of labor per capita will be
lower!
Unavoidably, what that means is that
the foundation of world wealth is on the path to corrosion. Policymakers also
realize this. Their response? Pump up (inflate) the value of assets (house,
stocks and bonds) in price, so as to make it look like wealth is increasing. It
is an attempt to cover up the problem … to kick the can down the road for
someone else to worry about.
The reality is that the accumulation
of real wealth is a slow-moving process. Viewed very simply, human wealth in
the world expands as the working population grows, and our incomes and labor
exceed our consumption.
Many financial institutions—mutual
fund management companies, for example—like to convince their clients that
financial markets create limitless wealth. They would have us believe that
stock and bond markets supposedly build wealth all on their own, independent of
incomes, savings and human labors. And, of course, each mutual fund company
likes to claim that it can extract more of this wealth out of the markets for
its clients and its own profit than any other mutual fund company.
While these may be attractive
concepts that sell billions in mutual funds and other investments, it is a
total fallacy that financial markets create wealth. Neither do the financial
industries. The truth is that they do not. By and large, their business is more
concerned with the transfer of wealth. That’s not to say that financial
services do not have value or are unimportant. But, to the extent that these
industries promote the perception of “value” as wealth, or their ability to
create wealth apart from human labor, they are mostly bamboozling us.
Foundations of Modern Financial
Wealth Are False
Today, wealth is viewed as the
“market value” of financial paper, securities and assets. Wealth, therefore, is
entirely independent of the fruits of labor. Poof … voila … and more fictitious
financial wealth can be created with the blink of an eye. That is a perspective
that is supported by supposed experts. We quote an article that famously laid
bare this shift to disregard underlying income and savings as the real
underpinnings to wealth.
“Securitization—the issuance of
high-quality bonds and stocks—has become the most powerful engine of wealth
creation in today’s world economy. […] Overall, securitization is fundamentally
altering the international economic system. Historically, manufacturing,
exporting, and direct investment produced prosperity through income creation.
Wealth was created when a portion of income was diverted from consumption into
investment in buildings, machinery, and technological change. Societies
accumulated wealth slowly over generations. Now many societies, and indeed the
entire world, have learned how to create wealth directly. The new approach
requires that a state find ways to increase the market value of its stock of
productive assets.”1
That quote may prove to be a little
too technical for some, but everyone will have understood what is meant by
“learning to create wealth directly” and “increase the value of its stock.”
What is intended here is that by simply “pumping” (inflating) both the price
and the pool of financial assets (independent of labor output and savings),
wealth can be created. This is totally wrong and the most heinous of
deceptions.
Shocking Decline in Creation of Life
The second “labor” (wealth) corroding
development we will mention is a shocking one. Men’s sperm counts are
collapsing … around the world!
Researchers, led by Dr. Hagai Levine
of Hebrew University of Jerusalem, examined thousands of studies and conducted
reviews of 185 other studies. These included 42,935 male participants who
provided semen samples between 1973 and 2011. The chosen studies were well
distributed over the nearly 40 years of the study period and among 50 different
countries.
What did the researchers determine?
They discovered that men’s sperm counts in the Western world have fallen by 59%
over the past 40 years. Ponder on this incredible statistic. If the count
decline were to continue at the same pace in the future, men’s sperm counts
would be at zero in only 4 decades! It is not just a Western problem. There are
indications that declines in sperm counts are occurring globally.
The impact of this development is
shattering in many ways. The rate of child conception will be lower … if not
already. And, should counts continue to deteriorate, world populations would
begin to decline and age at a much more rapid rate. As we have pointed out:
World wealth is tied to labor. Declining population growth will therefore
further undermine the foundations of world wealth.
Points to Ponder
Financial wealth is booming during
our generation. How can this be, when real wealth is creeping along at a
fraction of that rate? Here again, we see that the main driver behind this
apparently huge rise in wealth has been nothing more than a boom in the
perception of value.2
If apparent wealth (perceived
financial wealth and otherwise) is rising much faster than underlying income
growth and savings, then something potentially very dangerous is occurring. It
gives rise to a very deceitful environment, one in which claims on true
wealth—the ownership of human labor, past, present and future—are being
misrepresented. It allows the world to fall for an enormous bondage to
fictitious financial wealth, even as true wealth is being hoarded by a select
few as never before.
James (the half-brother of Jesus)
uttered a prophecy about the last days: “Now listen, you rich people, weep and
wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and
moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their
corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have
hoarded wealth in the last days” (James 5:1-3).
Here, James reveals that wealth will
in fact erode (rot and corrode) in the last days, meaning that wealth will
decline and disappoint. Moreover, James also indicates that wealth (false and
corroding as it may be) will be hoarded and concentrated in the hands of a few.
We cannot know with any certainty
whether he foresaw our day today … in other words, this exact time. The “last
days” can be said to have started with the appearance of the Church. But, the
trends we are witnessing today align with the prophecies of James. In fact,
given that we are living in the age where Jews are in the early stages of
returning to Israel (this a fulfillment of last-day prophecy), and how these
corrosive wealth trends are truly global, we would do well to discern current
developments as having prophetic pedigree.
As such, these are the necessary
preceding developments that lead to the final fulfilled prophecies such as we
find in Revelation. “They will throw dust on their heads, and with weeping and
mourning cry out: ‘Woe! Woe to you, great city, where all who had ships on the
sea became rich through her wealth! In one hour she has been brought to ruin!’”
(Revelation 18:19).
While the world celebrates the
“appearance” of booming wealth, even while at the same time its fundamental
foundations are crumbling, what attitude should Christians take?
We are to continue to live our lives
free of the love of money.
We are to keep our minds on heavenly
things. “Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on
things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds
on things above, not on earthly things” (Colossians 3:1-2).
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