Scripture is not revelation; it is a manifestation of revelation. Revelation is God telling you about Himself, in terms of what you can know about Him while in your fallen state. The whole point is to get to know Him via seeing how He operates. You must absorb what is normal for God. You don’t get that by intellect; intellectual grasp is the wrong tool for knowing God. You know God in your heart. It’s personal, or it’s nothing.
Part of that revelation is backing off far enough from specific events to see the moral pattern of Creation. God made all things based on His moral character, so reality is naturally going to reflect that. As I noted in my previous post, it requires that you adopt a view that embraces the full scope of human existence, not just the sort of stuff you can grasp from the shorter time span of your own life. You have to see things across the ages. Every pursuit of man is best understood from that perspective.
If you stuck with just the shorter time span, and tried to isolate moral questions into compartments, you would never grasp the incalculable wisdom of hearing from God. Until you actually study economics as part of this kind of bigger picture, instead of trying to narrow it down to economics alone, you cannot hope to understand human behavior at large. More to the point, you will never understand the dynamics of what causes unnecessary suffering in our world, because you will have no clue what sort of suffering is necessary.
Scripture condemns the very notion of real estate ownership. The whole question of who gets to claim what turf in the Bible is a matter of trusting the Lord. You trust Him to grant some portion of His creation for your use in serving Him. You further trust Him to enable control of that grant via occupation. The term “occupation” is the closest we can come in English to the image of using and defending geographical boundaries.
It opens up a question of shared use, for example. It places the question in a proper context, so that it is less likely that participants will not spoil it for each other. Context is everything in biblical thinking. When you look at the Western system with its materialism, you should not be surprised that attempts to establish a common (shared) use facility never works very well. It requires building on a moral foundation that attacks materialism.
With a proper moral foundation, and the naturally attendant philosophical assumptions, you’ll know something is wrong instinctively before you can articulate what’s wrong with it. That’s how heart-led wisdom works. But it’s also quite refreshing when someone comes along to criticize eloquently what you already knew from your heart was evil.
In economics chatter these days, the role of Michael Hudson is to ask better questions and shoot holes in the lying system of economics under which we live in the West. In the linked interview, he notes that the bulk of what the elite use to enslave folks in the West is real estate lending. It requires pulling everything in under a centralized government that will enforce debt obligations. Thus, owning the debt becomes the key to owning the people, without having any accountability to anyone.
Unproductive debt is when the debt doesn’t enable you to earn more money to pay the creditor. In an unproductive debt, you have to earn the money elsewhere and take money that you may earn as wages or profits and pay the bank. And it’s your loss. It’s a zero sum game, not a positive sum game.
Now this distinction between productive and unproductive debt was built into Sumerian and Babylonian laws. Only unproductive debts were canceled under the Jubilee year the rulers announced. Their word was, andurarum and, the Hebrew, cognate was deror and that was the word used for the Jubilee year….
And if you didn’t cancel the debt, then the poor cultivator would be forced into a debt bondage to the creditor. And if he did that, then his labor would belong to the creditor and he couldn’t serve in the army. He couldn’t go to work on building public infrastructure. The business debts were all left in place. Debt denominated in silver were left in place and not canceled. The debts denominated in grain were canceled.
This is the primary difference between covenant and contract. In a covenant — ANE feudalism — you own the people, not as mere property, but as treasure. They are your covenant family. Further, that treasure is a feudal grant from God. In western feudalism (“contract”), the moral obligation is dissolved and the only thing left is the cold, hard hand of force. The duty of the contract parties is highly restricted to mere material. Thus, western feudalism is all about owning land, and the people are simply an artifact of the land. There is no family relationship with the people.
Satan has lied to the globalist elite. They honestly believe that their system can work. It cannot. In every generation, and in every locale, God continually raises up people with a sense of moral character that rejects the western globalist system, even if they cannot verbalize what’s wrong with it. They will not bow the knee to false principles of land ownership and a proxy of force.
Sure, it’s easy to get bogged down in how Michael Hudson doesn’t talk enough about how the western globalist system is a Jewish conspiracy; he typically refers simply to “billionaires” or “the 1%”. But if you are going to criticize the way the Jewish ethnic agenda has been secretly inserted into everything, you really must ensure you understand how it works. It’s not enough to blame Jewish elite for this situation; you have to understand why and how they are wrong. Otherwise, you are no better than the Jews you condemn.
Those who call out the Jewish conspiracy are typically ignorant of the difference between Jewish and Hebrew. The Jews are not Hebrew, neither in DNA nor in ideology. What Jews do today has only the most superficial connection with Old Testament religion. Jesus was a Jew only in the sense of political and legal jurisdiction. He was not at all Jewish in His orientation. As long as you cannot tell the difference between what Jesus taught and what Judaism (Talmudic ideology) does, then you will be just as much a slave of Satan as the Jews.
I’m not saying Michael Hudson is a prophet of God. Rather, he is a good antidote to the lies of the Jewish elite globalists. It’s a good first step in the right direction. Also, keep in mind that there is no significant moral distinction between left and right; they are both on the same false scale of materialism. Neither has a moral advantage.
