Prophecy Updates and Commentary

A few days ago, I did a blog that Greece was moving into the position of a strategic ally with the Israelis, filling the void created by Turkey’s abandoning its recent ties to the Israelis. The first link below confirms these ties are becoming steadily stronger as Greece’s Prime Minister visited Israel personally as these two nations pursue a “major upgrade of [their] relations.” There is more good news for the Israelis!

The second link documents that the Finnish people are very pro-Israeli. My book, Israel’s Tribes Today, identify the Finns as the modern Israelite tribes of Issachar. The third link also has some very encouraging news for the Israelis and their future military security. In spite of the well-publicized strains between the Israelis and the Obama administration, the Israelis are expected to become the first nation to be approved for ordering the new F-35 fighter warplane to be built by the USA in concert with several NATO allies. The Israelis were approved to buy this new American warplane in 2008 so that approval occurred during the previous Bush administration. However, it is good news that the Obama administration appears to be honoring that agreement to share this new strategic warplane with the Israelis. The fourth link also confirms that the USA and the Israelis are maintaining many strategic and military cooperation efforts. Many may be surprised to know that  under the Obama administration, the US just authorized the “largest security assistance request for Israel in US history.” So readers should comfort themselves that there is still a lot of strength in the American-Israeli alliance.

The fifth link (albeit from late in 2009) reports that military/strategic ties between India and the Israelis is also growing much stronger. It notes that the Israelis have now become the primary supplier of military weaponry to India, displacing Russia, which had previously been the prime supplier of weaponry to India. There are a number of previous blogs at my website documenting a variety of military cooperation efforts between India and the Israelis, and this growing alliance unites the power of two strong regional nuclear powers. A number of recent blogs have cited various media sources which reported increasing cooperation behind the scenes between the Israelis on one hand and the Sunni Arab nations on the other due to their jointly being threatened by the rising militarism of Iran.

Amidst the media reports about the Israelis being “isolated” in international politics due to the ongoing tensions over the Gaza/Hamas maritime blockade and the longstanding Palestinian-Israeli stresses, I thought it would be useful to remind readers that the Israelis have strong allies as well. While Zechariah 12:2-3 does prophecy that God will defend the Israelis (consistently called “Judah” in biblical narratives and prophecies) even if “all the people of the earth be gathered against it,” we are nowhere near a situation where all nations are opposed to the Israeli nation. If Turkey continues to forsake the West (and NATO and the EU) by its bizarre embrace of Iran and Syria, Greece may not be the only European nation to develop stronger ties with the Israelis. Many nations in Europe could eventually follow Greece’s example as well. Previous blogs have also noted that Germany is a prime supplier of very strategic weaponry to the Israelis: the Dolphin-class submarines widely believed to be equipped with nuclear-armed cruise missiles. So take heart all you supporters of the Israelis! The Israelis are not as isolated in the world as the mass media sometimes indicate.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138749

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/3670

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/ss_israel0689_07_21.asp

http://www.internationalnewsandviews.com/2010/07/deepening-us-israel-security-ties-advances-prospects-for-comprehensive-peace/

http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?669127

This blog bears the title of an article which was posted at the guardian.co.uk website (a British media source). This report is in the first link below, and it details the reluctance (or unwillingness) of European governments to do business with Goldman Sachs due to its unscrupulous business practices. Goldman Sachs is arguably the premier Wall Street banking firm, and if European nations are declining to do business with Goldman Sachs, they may also shy away from doing business with any Wall Street banking firms. This signals an obvious lack of trust in Wall Street banks by European nations, and we can be sure that other nations outside of Europe are likely to be just as leery of trusting Wall Street banks right now.

The article states that “European governments are turning their backs on Goldman Sachs,” and that “Greece, Spain, France and Italy have all denied [Goldman Sachs] a lead role in their recent sovereign bond sales.” It adds that “governments have also been shocked at the emergence of past transactions between Goldman and Greece and Italy, where products the bank helped to sell aided both in hiding government debts.” While Germany is not named in the first link, Germany’s pique at Goldman Sachs is documented in the second link below.

The third link below documents the close ties between Goldman Sachs and the Obama White House. It includes the statement that “Goldman’s connections to the White House and the Obama administration are raising eyebrows.” This raises an interesting political consequence for the Obama White House. Given that a number of European nations have reportedly lost their trust for Goldman Sachs, does it not follow that they will also lose their trust of President Obama and his administration if the White House remains close to Goldman Sachs?

As long-time readers of this blog realize, this has prophetic implications. Revelation 18:3 prophesied that a great globalist economic/commercial/monetary system known as “Babylon the Great” would dominate global politics and business in the latter days, and that it would feature an alliance of the globalist “merchants of the earth” and the “kings of the earth.”  That aptly describes the current globalist world system where global multinational corporations and the leaderships of national governments are “in bed” with each other in order to enrich themselves at the expense of the governed (exactly as Revelation 18:3 prophesied would be the case). Revelation 17-18 prophesy that this globalist system will collapse in the latter days and eventually be replaced by a new global power called the “beast” system in biblical prophecies. The current global system of Babylon the Great almost collapsed in the Autumn of 2008, and there are growing signs that its global power is being weakened. The fact that European national governments are openly distancing themselves from the lead Wall Street banking firm confirms that there are major cracks developing in the foundations of the current global political/economic system. The fall of Babylon the Great draws closer with each new sign that the nations are growing disgusted with Babylon the Great’s self-dealing and that they increasingly want to throw off its dominance. If this much disgust is being revealed openly in the media, one can only wonder how deep the anger really has become behind the scenes.

For a more in-depth examination of the process via which Babylon the Great’s current system could collapse in the future, I invite you to read my article, Is Babylon the Great about to Fall…Ushering in a New Beast System? For an in-depth look at why the Bible refers to today’s global economic system as “Babylon the Great,” I invite you to read my article, What Kind of Captivity? Both of these titles can be accessed at the Articles link of my website, and the latter one will detail that the origins of today’s global economic system originated in ancient Babylon.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jul/18/goldman-sachs-europe-sovereign-bond-sales/print

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-04-21/merkel-said-to-avoid-working-with-goldman-sachs-pending-sec-suit-outcome.html

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/04/21/92637/goldmans-connections-to-white.html

In a huge development, a Chinese bond-rating agency has formally downgraded the bond rating of the debt of the United States of America (see first link below). The Chinese rating agency, Daegong Credit Rating Agency, has issued new ratings which stripped US government debt of its prized AAA rating. The Chinese agency gave United States debt a rating of AA, but it also posted a “negative” watch on US debt—a signal that further ratings downgrades may be coming in the future. The Chinese agency also downgraded the bond ratings of the United Kingdom and France. The best debt ratings went to the nations of Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Singapore, Luxembourg, Australia, and New Zealand.

This is an extremely important story. It is so important that the US establishment media has either refused to report on it or has attempted to “poo-poo” the report. An “establishment” attempt to minimize this very bad development for the US Government is found in the second link below (from Forbes). The second link doesn’t grasp the importance of this Chinese action, but it has a very useful chart of the nations’ bond ratings as seen by the Chinese rating agency. Let’s look at this from a biblical perspective.

Previous blogs have focused on developments which indicate that the collapse of the current global monetary/economic system, called “Babylon the Great” in Revelation 17-18, is drawing nearer. The formal downgrading of US Treasury debt by a Chinese rating agency is a very important benchmark in this process. It is especially important that this downgrade of US debt came from China, the world’s largest creditor nation. Proverbs 22:7 states an immutable financial law: “the borrower is servant to the lender.” You know the truth of this law whenever you get a mortgage, apply for a car loan, etc. Does the lender write up the contract or do you, the borrower, write it up? Obviously, the lender makes all the rules about the loans, and you, as a borrower, have no recourse but to sign and do what you are told if you want the loan. This immutable law is about to cause gargantuan changes in global markets and geopolitics. The USA, the world’s biggest borrower, has wanted to make all the rules about global monetary transactions and the US government and Wall Street have been dictating terms to China and all the world’s lenders. The downgrading of US debt by China’s ratings agency indicates that this upside-down dynamic is starting to change. We are heading for a future world where the global creditors will dictate terms to the globe’s borrowers, especially the USA—which cannot control its economic profligacy. When this change reaches its full implementation, life can be expected to change considerably for the worse for the USA.

The Chinese rating agency would not have taken this action unless it had the backing of the Chinese government. The first link cites China’s President, Hu Jintao, as stating just a few months ago that the world needs “an objective, fair and reasonable standard” for rating sovereign debt. The head of the IMF, Dominque Strauss-Kahn sees that the economic power is leaving the USA and the West and is moving to China and East. He is sited in the first link as stating; “Asia’s time has come.” The Chinese rating agency dutifully fulfilled Hu Jintao’s prediction and its chairman noted that “the current credit rating system does not correctly reveal the debtor’s repayment ability.” That is a gentle way of saying that the western ratings agencies are co-opted by the US government, the Fed and Wall Street into issuing ratings based on politics rather than economic realities. The second link cites a Forbes writer as saying the Chinese debt downgrade doesn’t matter because the Chinese rating agency is not recognized by the western world’s financial system as a “sanctioned” ratings agency. Let me translate that for you. What I think he really meant was that the “sanctioned” ratings agencies can be relied upon to issue whatever deceitful and unjustified ratings that “Babylon the Great” wants to have issued regarding the out-of-control debts being run up by the USA, the UK, etc.  The writer of the second link is “whistling past the graveyard” in saying this doesn’t matter. Because China is now the world’s powerhouse creditor nation, its ratings agency carries great weight in shaping global economic realities. The more China becomes a creditor nation and the more the USA becomes a borrower nation, the greater will be the global gravitas of the Chinese ratings agency and the less credible will be the western ratings agencies. Even if Wall Street, the Fed and the US Government (“Babylon the Great”) doesn’t want to admit the importance of the Chinese action, every nation and every global investor just noticed what China has done and realizes that China is moving to overthrow the dominance of the western world’s deceitful “in house” ratings agencies.

China’s rating agency is totally correct in downgrading the US debt rating, in my humble opinion. The USA, the UK and many western nations cannot defy economic gravity indefinitely as they create money out of thin air and hope the world all agrees to pretend the magically-created “money” is real money. China sees what is coming. The third link (sent to me by a reader) reports that China is rapidly selling off its holdings of US T-bills and now has the lowest amount of US T-bills in its possession ever. China wants out of US T-bills before a future crisis hits in that market. China still has an immense amount of T-Bonds in its holdings.

The immutable law of Proverbs 22:7 now works strongly in China’s favor and against the interests of the barons of “Babylon the Great.” It will continue to do so until Babylon the Great’s global monetary/economic system is overthrown completely, as Revelation 17-18 prophesy is certain to happen.  Judgment Day is coming for Babylon the Great’s financial system. Revelation 17:16′s language indicates that this fall will involve a very hard landing for the reckless high-flyers of Babylon the Great. However long the period of chaos is that follows the collapse of the current global monetary/economic system, Revelation 17-18 also prophesy that the “beast” system will emerge from the chaos after the fall of Babylon the Great. Revelation 13:5 reveals that the beast system will last a mere 42 months, after which it will be permanently destroyed by the return of Jesus Christ who will come at the head of a heavenly army of glistening angelic beings (Revelation 19:11-21). You can do the math when you see the beast system emerges from the prophesied wreckage of the current economic system. When the beast system emerges, the return of Jesus Christ will not be far off!

I hope that every reader of this blog has been acting on the warnings contained in my article, Should Christians Prepare for Future Hard Times?  The Chinese downgrade of US debt is a big warning light about what is coming in the future. You do not know how much time you have left to prepare, and my article includes the advice of the US government itself re: how to prepare for future emergencies. It is better to start preparing a couple of years early than start preparing an hour too late when the prophesied collapse comes. It will come. God has guaranteed it in his prophecies. I hope you are taking God’s warnings seriously.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/7886077/Chinese-rating-agency-strips-Western-nations-of-AAA-status.html

http://blogs.forbes.com/greatspeculations/2010/07/14/u-s-debt-rating-downgraded-sort-of/

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/chinese-treasury-dump-brings-its-total-holdings-one-year-low-uk-continues-exponential-accumu

Some time ago, I did a blog on the risk posed by Ug99, a wheat rust disease, to the globe’s wheat supplies. It is time to pass on to readers of this blog that this very dangerous wheat rust has leaped from Northeast Africa and the Mideast to the nation of South Africa, meaning that this virulent wheat disease is now present in both the northern and southern hemispheres and it is spreading. That this wheat rust leaped from northern to southern Africa means that it can spread very quickly over a large distance in a short time. My thanks to a reader for letting me know about the spread of Ug99 to South Africa.

The nations that have been affected so far are Uganda (where it was first found), Syria, Turkey, Iraq , Iran, Lebanon and now South Africa. The first link below offers an in-depth examination of this plant disease which was actually present in ancient times but was thought to have been eradicated in modern times. The second link adds more information and warns that its presence in South Africa means it could leap to Australia via the wind patterns across the Indian Ocean. The third link includes photos of what the wheat rust disease looks like on plants and what infected fields in Syria look like from the air. The nations affected most so far by this virulent wheat rust are Syria and Turkey.

As I noted in my previous blog on this topic, the fact that Ug99 is located in Iran makes it possible that agro-terrorists from Iran could deliberately spread the Ug99 spores to the USA and other western nations via agents tasked to do the job. Is it so hard to foresee the danger that Iran, pressed tighter by western sanctions, might decide to retaliate by smuggling Ug99 spores into the wheat-producing regions of the western nations? How hard would it be for anti-American and anti-western Iran (or any terrorist group) to carry Ug99 wheat spores across the largely-unguarded US border with Mexico and unleash the spores in America’s wheat belt? Would any US Border Patrol personnel notice or intercept the spores if they were hidden in the cuffs of someone’s pants or other nondescript hiding places? These infectious wheat spores could likely be carried easily into the USA even at legal border crossings (or through airports) because no one would be looking for these infectious spores. The risk of Ug99 is a vital argument for tightening US border controls and inspections. I hope someone in the US Government is taking this threat seriously.

Both Matthew 24:7 and Revelation  6:5-6 prophesy that famines will be among the plagues unleashed on mankind in the latter days before the return of Jesus Christ/Yahshua. Revelation 6:6 specifically mentions wheat as one of the foodstuffs which will apparently be rationed by price in the latter days. There is a footnote in my King James Version of the Bible (the Open Bible Edition) which states that the prices cited in Revelation 6:6 would translate into a modern price for wheat of $41.80 a bushel and barley would cost $32.50 a bushel. I cannot vouch for the accuracy of that calculation, but I pass it on to readers for your information. The links below include a discussion of efforts to halt the spread of Ug99 from the globe’s primary wheat-producing regions, but if these efforts fail, Ug99 will spread relentlessly from nation to nation and will eventually endanger a large percentage of the globe’s wheat crops.

Map, text: http://www.economist.com/node/16481593?story_id=16481593&fsrc=rss

http://www.agrimoney.com/news/new-and-virulent-fungus-wrecks-middle-east-wheat–1829.html

http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/highlights/2010/06/Middle%

I’ve blogged on this topic before, but it is time to do so again. For any new readers who are new to this issue, the “birther” issue refers to the inability (or unwillingness) of President Obama to produce a legal birth certifiate to prove that he is Consitutionally-eligible to serve as the US President. This is a huge issue in American internal affairs which the establishment media won’t investigate or publicize even as it is spreading like wildfire among the American voters. The first link below indicates that approximately a half-year ago, one-third of Americans did not believe Obama was Consitutionally-eligible to serve as President and another one-sixth of Americans didn’t know if he was eligible. Barely 51% believed Obama was a Consitutionally-legitimate president.  That was six months ago. The issue has been spreading even wider so more Americans, as they find out about this issue, are likely to doubt his legitimacy as the US President.

The second link below gives examples of ads that are appearing in the media around the nation that assert Obama is not eligible to be our president. If you look in the upper-right-hand corner of the second link, you will see the full-page ad that appeared in the Washington Times National Weekly Edition (a respected media source) which challenged Obama’s right to serve as president. This link also has a wide variety of links to other aspects of this simmering national issue. The third link cites a “former senior elections clerk for Honolulu” as stating concerning Obama’s birth certificate that “There isn’t one.” The fourth link, from WorldTribune.com (another respected media source) examines critical “background check” information that the lap-dog establishment media should have been investigating and exposing before Obama was elected. I think you will find these links to be well-worth your reading.

I’m not citing the fifth link as a source for hard information because it is a tabloid seen by millions of Americans at their grocery-store or drug-store check-out counters. While it does contain hard information documented by more “serious” media outlets, I’m citing it as an example of how Obama’s eligibility issue has “gone mainstream.” Millions of Americans see the tabloid headlines each week or they read the tabloid stories if they buy the issues. The tabloid media now knows this is a hot issue, and, through their stories, millions more Americans will become aware of the doubts about Obama’s eligibility to serve as president.

This “birther” issue may be one of the most important ones considered by American voters this November when they vote in the next Congressional election. I think it is safe to say that the 1/3rd of Americans who believed in January that Obama was not eligible to serve as president will be voting against the Democrats this November. As many more Americans learn about this issue and develop doubts about Obama’s eligibility to serve as president, this sentiment will grow more important in the November elections, even if establishment pollsters refuse to ask about it.

Personally, I am becoming convinved that Obama is a usurper in the office of the US presidency. His refusal to produce a legal birth certificate in spite of a pressing need to do so infers strongly that the former Hawaii elections clerk cited in the third link below is right when he says “there isn’t one.” If that is truly the case, then Obama isn’t eligible to serve as the US President and all his appointments, acts and executive orders are called into question as having any force of law. Millions of Americans already know this, and millions more Americans will find out as this issue spreads in the media and internet outlets. The more Obama’s eligibility to serve as president is doubted by the US public, the more he loses the ability to govern the nation. The military also knows about this issue as there have been media stories about uniformed military personnel refusing to accept his orders unless he can prove his natural-born citizenship. You can also be sure that leaders in other nations around the world are well-aware of this issue too.

It appears that we are heading for a big crisis, folks. If a firm majority of the nation comes to doubt that he is eligible to serve as president, we may be approaching the time when Obama gives orders and many people (both in and out of government) refuse to implement them.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=122525

http://www.kerchner.com/protectourliberty/protectourliberty.htm

http://www.impeachobamacampaign.com/hawaii-elections-clerk-obama-not-born-here/

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2010/ss_politics0566_06_23.asp

http://www.globemagazine.com/story/520