We can't print more paper currency and 'juice and seduce' people to buy stuff they can't afford and don't really need. We are now facing the music of reality. The world is broke and broken. Mammon is an unrelenting but ultimately unsatisfying false god. The last book of the New Testament.... the Revelation, has much to say about economic turmoil and it's root causes. In Revelation 18 we are brought into a future reality that appears to be nearly upon us. " After this I saw another angel with great authority coming down from heaven, and the earth is illuminated by his splendor. He cried in a mighty voice: It has fallen, Babylon the Great has fallen! She has become a dwelling for demons, a haunt for every every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean and despicable beast. For all the nations have drunk the wine of her sexual immorality, which brings wrath. The kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from her excessive luxury. (Rev. 18: 1-3)
There are no more seductive forces on the earth than the lust for power, money and sex. They are intimately related. When our life is given over to any form of idolatry, there is a high cost to ourselves and to the world in which we live. God gives us a warning to come out of the deception of idolatry here in chapter 18, "Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins, or receive any of her plagues. For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes. Pay her back the way she also paid, and double it according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix a double portion for her. As much as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, give her that much torment and grief." Evil will not always reign supreme in our world. There comes a time when what we have sown will come back to haunt us. If we are not living lives based upon truth and righteousness the wall of idolatry and falsehood will collapse suddenly back down upon us.
Worldwide we are seeing the beginnings of a massive financial collapse. Those who worshiped at the false idol of the money god are weeping during the day and sleepless at night. Revelation 18: 15, "The merchants of these things who became rich from her, will stand off in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning and saying,: Woe, woe, the great city, clothes in fine linen, purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls; because in a single hour such fabulous wealth was destroyed!
The global economy is seamlessly connected like never before. The illusion of economic and political unions are melting like wax under the heat of unrelenting truth. Greed has a massive payday and its backlash is fiscal collapse. What to do when all around us walls are falling? The answer is simple and yet profound. Jesus said it best in the context of dealing with worry and anxiety in the gospel of Matthew chapter 6, "This is why I tell you: Don't worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what your will wear. Isn't life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the sky; they don't sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you worth more than they? (vs 25-26) In verse 33 Jesus makes an astounding and vital promise to those who would follow him as Lord and Savior, "Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things (necessities of life) will be provided for you."
We'll have what we need when we really know who we are..... who God is .... and how we should live in the light of that knowledge: full surrender to his will and ways. When the walls of this world collapse there is one still standing who will never leave us....never forsake us.....never stop loving us. Why don't you join me in following him to the place of real and lasting joy....It's all about relationship.
Jim
www.allnationsmobile.org
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