Eurobankers and Ancient Rome

I’ve decided to call our political non-party the Revelation Party. That’s in keeping with my final comment about the only reason I bother discussing politics is as a means to a prophetic platform. That is, I bring the Justice of God to the current reality so everyone knows why God is pouring out His wrath. Just as a reminder, I’ve already warned that, for Americans at least, protest and demonstration is fine, but actual resistance is a sin. Not a sin on general principles — quite the contrary; God’s Laws encourage resisting evil. Rather, it’s a sin for us now to resist because this is what we’ve asked for.
Does anybody have to explain why our prosperity has been evil? God promised prosperity on certain terms. Western Civilization as a whole fundamentally rejects God’s terms. It’s not as if God won’t allow you a few centuries to play games trying to dodge His moral laws. Go ahead and play that game, He says. So we have tried, and mightily. The credit system we use in modern economics is inherently evil, a vast global attempt to get around the moral laws by which the universe itself operates.
Instead of recounting here all my previous assertions about God’s economics, I’ll focus on something pretty obvious: If you don’t have it, do without. Sure, we say things like that in Western Civ, but we have yet to spend more than a day or so living it. As a civilization, we deny it completely. Have you ever read Aldous Huxley? We are there. We demand instant gratification of all our creaturely desires and it has been the means to our slavery. Look, there were times as a child my family lived in a broken down car for weeks at a time. We always climbed out of the pit, but not by mortgaging our future to the hilt. There was a time we reached the economic prosperity of the middle class, but we never could adopt the cultural habits. As an adult myself, after bouncing off it a few times and getting totally raked over the coals, it’s not hard for me to rise to this latter day call to Christian Mysticism and a rather anti-materialist view.
So it’s easy for me to say — “if you don’t have it, do without” — because I live it, but most of the Western world can’t even imagine it. That’s where the prophetic business comes into play. I’ve done it; you can, too. But I realize precious few are ready for it. Sorry about that. Austerity is the new luxury and I’m luxuriating.
Meanwhile, our entire civilization is built on the presumption we can buy now and pay later. We have no material foundation. We’re floating on a wing and a promissory note that means nothing. Several quadrillion dollars worth of paper and nothing behind it. We have allowed the bankers to talk us into borrowing for a luxurious “minimum standard” dream of the merchant class. They have all the property in legal ownership, and we have the debts. They want to own our souls, but there isn’t yet a standard by which they can claim them. So they simply reclaim the full gamut of what we rely on to live — the means of food production, the soil upon which we stand, and the entire system by which we all exchange goods and services. They own it all. You can’t even breathe without their permit.
The Pharisees approached Jesus with a false dichotomy. In their twisted mythological view of God’s Laws, it was wrong to pay taxes to Gentile rulers. But to declare such thoughts publicly was treason. If they could get Him to embrace either of the two horns of dilemma, they could either destroy His popular credibility or get Him arrested. He undercut their entire premise. Demanding one of these Pharisees reach into their pockets for whatever coins they carried, one of them produced a Roman denarius. Oops. Did this Son of the Law Pharisee carry around a gold graven image on his person? Was that not tantamount to worshiping Caesar?
If not, it was most certainly accepting the prosperity of the Roman economic system. How hard would it be to prove the Roman system was not what God had in mind? The Pharisee who benefited from the luxuries of Roman occupation (“Pax Romana”), whose very place and power in society depended on Roman soldiers, imposed on a population that barely tolerated their own rapacious Jewish leadership at this point — that Pharisee dared to split logical hairs with the Son of God. Speaking through His Son, God said, “If you insist on living in Roman luxury, don’t complain about Roman taxes.”
There you have it, Cypriots. If you were willing to live under the benefits of the Eurobank system, don’t complain when they come to collect. Thus saith the Lord. America, you may not be next, but you are on the list.