1. Dale Moreau (a disciple of Heiser) recently made it clear he was Arminian in theology. That’s okay; Heiser was too, but never admitted it. It’s as if Paul never said anything about Election, not to mention women leading men. Both me are/were thoroughly blue-pilled. Heiser and his ilk are vitally necessary for exposing what the Hebrews actually believed, but are rather questionable on New Testament biblical theology.
Churches that remain entangled with the social and political trends of the secular world will eventually suffer.
2. European leadership is now talking about seizing private savings accounts. They don’t use the terminology of confiscation, but of forcibly using the money to fund their brilliant ideas for growing a stronger economy. The EU is hurting badly, mostly because they cut off their nose to spite their face — refusing to buy cheap Russian natural gas in favor of extremely expensive energy alternatives.
This crazy plan would be an assault on the banking system, too, since it uses those savings already. Any change there will affect our banking system here.
3. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is a series of subterranean salt domes that contain a massive quantity of raw petroleum. That is, they used to; they have become largely depleted. Experts who work in petroleum are pretty sure that some of those domes have been damaged by the depletion and that they cannot be refilled.
The US recently seized control of Venezuela’s petroleum output. The Venezuelan crude is low quality, the kind of high-sulfur caustic stuff that cannot be stored in salt domes. It requires highly specialized refineries that can handle it. I believe we have three on the Gulf coast. Nobody is saying what the real plan is.
What we do know is that petroleum products will continue to be relatively cheap here in the US for a while, at least. The biggest problem is that the official barrel price of petroleum is not the price other countries pay, if they can even get any. Confusing matters further is that the US price of diesel is only slightly lower than what it is for the rest of the world. Just about every sector of the US economy will be affected by any price rise on diesel. A similar story affects jet fuel and related distillates.
Sooner or later, the SPR will no longer act as a cushion to keep the prices low here in the US. At that point, petroleum inflation alone will make life hard for the people who live at the bottom of the economy. Poverty will float a good bit higher than it is now, including a much bigger slice of the population of the US.
4. The whole point in sharing bad news is not to induce a panic or dread, but to ensure my readers hold no vestige of trust in the system. Forget dystopian movies; it’s not like that. There will be precious little drama. Instead, the worse things get, the less we will know about it. The collapse will not be all at once, and it will not affect everything.
You don’t need months or years worth of food. Just a few weeks at most will pass before basic life support recovers. That sort of thing is quite resilient. However, banking is wholly unpredictable, so it’s a good idea to hold silver (it’s easier to exchange than gold) and barter goods that keep. The prepper sites are full of lists of what kinds of food can be stored long term, so look into it.
Meanwhile, our God takes care of His own. Trust your convictions. Live by the Covenant.
