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Sunday, August 9, 2020

The Stone (5th) Kingdom Approaches


AS THE STONE CRUSHES

The Fifth Kingdom (Stone) Is Rising To Crush the Old

By Dr. Stephen Jones

Blog Post Date:  8-9-2020

Yesterday I reported the Bank of America’s forecast that silver would soon rise to $50/oz. I have been stating since at least as far back as 2011 that when silver passed $50/oz, it would indicate that the “arms of silver” would eclipse the “head of gold.” That, of course, is a reference to Nebuchadnezzar’s dream that Daniel interpreted (Daniel 2:32). Gold represented Babylon, and silver represented Medo-Persia, which later overthrew Babylon.

While silver is the metal of redemption, the number 50 is a Jubilee number, indicating liberty. The big banks, Goldman Sachs in particular, are the core of Mystery Babylon’s economy. So I find it interesting that Goldman Sachs is trying desperately to prop up the Fed notes by heavily shorting silver to suppress its price. A group of 6 large banks, dealing in bullion, have been suppressing the price of gold and silver for many years in order to make the Fed note look strong, relatively speaking.

In the current market, there is a severe shortage of silver and gold that is available for sale. The shortage of silver is now so acute that the premium on purchases of physical silver is now $8-10 per oz. You can “buy” a silver promise (on paper) for about $28/oz, but the price of real silver at a coin shop is closer to $35-38/oz. That’s if you can get it at all.

Inflation and Deflation: How to View It
The price of silver and gold is not going up; the value of the Fed note is going down, so it takes more Fed notes to buy the same amount of gold and silver. “Inflation” is coming, on account of the trillions of new currency being created and pumped into the economy to save it from the effects of the shutdown. When the amount of currency in circulation exceeds the value of the country, the value of money deflates, while the value of property inflates.


In 2008-2009 the Fed policy under the Obama administration was called Quantitative Easing (QE), because it sounded better than “money printing.” Trillions in new currency was created at the time in order to bail out the big banks. But since it was given primarily to the banks, all it did was to save the banks. The currency was quarantined in the banks and not much of it trickled down to the streets to the average person. Because of this, it created very little inflation.

But in 2020 a large portion of the newly-created trillions is being given to the people on main street. That is why this is an inflationary event, and it is why the price of gold and silver is now rising dramatically. Rather, that is why it now takes many more Fed notes to buy the same amount of gold and silver.

Babylon’s Control is Collapsing
The day silver passes $50/oz will be a prophetic time marker, I believe, in the downfall of Mystery Babylon—financially speaking. Babylon’s main product since the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank in 1913 is currency. They create it out of nothing and lend it to the government at interest. By usurping control of the medium of exchange, they control all trade and the economy of the nation. When the Fed note became the world reserve currency in 1944, these same Babylonian bankers took control of the entire world economy after World War 2.

That is what is now coming to an end, now that Babylon’s mandate has expired (2017). It takes years for such a colossal world-wide empire to be dismantled, but it is happening quickly. The US “dollar” (Fed note) is losing its status as a world currency as the SWIFT payment system is replaced by other systems not controlled by the Federal Reserve Bank.

In the first quarter of 2020, the dollar's share of trade between Russia and China fell below 50% for the first time on record, according to recent data from Russia's Central Bank and Federal Customs Service.

The greenback was used for only 46% of settlements between the two countries

Russia and China have drastically cut their use of the dollar in bilateral trade over the past several years. As late as 2015, approximately 90% of bilateral transactions were conducted in dollars. Following the outbreak of the U.S.-China trade war and a concerted push by both Moscow and Beijing to move away from the dollar, however, the figure had dropped to 51% by 2019.


In other words, as late as 2015, ninety percent of the trade between China and Russia had been settled in US currency through the SWIFT system. Those payments were wired through the Fed, which charged a 4 percent fee—a tax on world trade. Such is the privilege of being the world reserve currency. But as of 2020 that figure has dropped to 46 percent, and the Fed has lost billions of dollars in revenue for its “services.”

To the average person, this means very little. But everyone is affected by it. The US government, which has been essentially a hireling of the Federal Reserve bankers, has been using the SWIFT system as a means of control and oppression of countries that refuse to bow to their wishes. The “sanctions” imposed on other countries mean that those countries can no longer send or receive payments in their exports and imports. Hence, it strangles those nations economically.

But using the SWIFT system as a control mechanism has rattled many other countries, who see that this might happen to them as well. For this reason, they have developed alternative payment systems. (China’s is called CIPS.) So the heavy-handed use of the SWIFT system as a way to punish various nations (like Iraq, Iran, etc.) has now come back to bite the Babylonians on their “tender” spots (legal tender, of course!).

Understand, of course, that God is using ungodly nations to destroy Babylon. We see this especially in Revelation 17:16, 17, where the “beast” turns on the “woman” riding it and devours her. This is really a prophetic explanation of the fall of Jezebel, who was eaten by dogs (1 Kings 21:23). We are now seeing the “dogs” eat the great harlot of Revelation 17:1. She rides the beast until the beast turns on her, roasts her and eats her flesh. Revelation 17:17 attributes this turn of events to God Himself, for God is sovereign enough to make Jezebel look like a tasty morsel and to make the beast hungry enough to eat her.

In other words, God freely claims credit for using ungodly people to judge Babylon. God does not need righteous people to accomplish His plans and purposes. He has use for everyone, some as vessels of honor and others as vessels of dishonor. Everyone has his place in the plan, whether they are aware of it or not. Most remain unaware, but we who know the plan by studying the Scriptures and by personal revelation are not blind to what is happening around us.

The Stone Kingdom is Rising
Daniel indicates that the next world empire will be the “stone”. The prophet said that it would arise as the fifth kingdom and crush the previous four, beginning with the feet and toes. We are privileged to live in the days of this crushing and to understand that the chaos we now see around us is the fulfillment of this very thing. The turmoil is not designed to hurt us or crush us but to crush that which has kept us in bondage for thousands of years. It is God’s answer to prayer, and it is for our good. We have no cause to fear God’s answer to prayer.

Unfortunately, many Christians today do not see this as an answer to prayer. They see it as the rise of the Antichrist and the rise of Mystery Babylon. For this reason, they are afraid and place their hope in a “rapture” where they can escape this “tribulation.” Such believers remain at a disadvantage, not knowing the purposes of God. They see Donald Trump as the last man to defend the Israeli state against its enemies, essentially postponing the tribulation for a season.

Such believers can only hope for a postponement, for that is their view of prophecy. They have no expectation of ultimate success. Others, of course, believe that Trump is part of the problem and is a hireling of Mystery Babylon. That view only causes more distress, as they would think of Trump as a possible candidate for the position of Antichrist.

Whichever view one takes, God’s purpose will be fulfilled. The stone will either crush Trump along with the Babylonian leaders, or God is using Trump to crush the beast system. Neither view is going to change the outcome. God’s saints win either way. Meanwhile, I have followed Paul’s admonition to pray for our political leaders (1 Timothy 2:1-3). Just as I prayed for Bill Clinton, Bush, and Obama, so also do I pray for Trump.

Jesus is the “Stone” that the builders rejected. He is the King, and His Kingdom is also the “stone” that replaces the various metals of the Babylonian succession of empires. After the “little horn” phase of the fourth empire, the authority is given to the saints of the Most High (Daniel 7:21, 22). Scripture is silent about any transition from Babylon to the Kingdom. But then, Daniel’s prophecies, though explicit, give only a few details and present an incomplete picture.

In fact, Daniel’s prophecy of the “little horn” needed supplementation in Revelation 13, where we find that the “little horn” was to come in two phases, or beasts. The beast from the sea (the religious phase) was to be joined by a beast from the earth (the banking phase). John’s revelation went beyond Daniel, showing us that when the religious beast of Rome received its fatal wound (1798), the wound was to be healed (1804) with the restoration of the papacy. At the same time, the modern banking system began to arise with the Rothschild banks, who were empowered by the beast from the earth.

It is this banking system that is now ending. More specifically, the economy and its money system is being wrenched from the beast of the earth and, after a brief transition, will be given to the saints of the Most High. Those taking over the system today are acting as custodians for the Kingdom until such time as the saints are ready to take the responsibility of ruling the world.


THE LEGAL FIGHT AGAINST BABYLON

Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow, is a believer who has been fighting Babylon for a long time. He also works closely with the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which was founded in 1990 by evangelist Pat Robertson. Here is the latest news that he sent me:

The forced silencing of churches is deafening.
The ACLJ just took NEW direct legal action against the ban on singing in church.
California is blocking believers’ ability to worship as the Bible commands in Psalm 96 (“Sing to the LORD, praise his name”). We warned you that the radical Left would weaponize the Coronavirus pandemic to target the Church. Now, we’re fighting back.


The ACLJ just submitted a key filing in our MAJOR lawsuit to overturn this unconstitutional singing ban, but we face a major challenge. We’re going head-to-head against a formidable state government with immense resources….

For years we’ve told you that Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, was a eugenicist who believed in creating a superior race and eradicating people she considered “inferior.”

Now one Planned Parenthood affiliate is finally removing Sanger’s name from its clinic, but that doesn’t erase the organization’s continued targeting of minorities. It’s time to cancel Planned Parenthood.

Years ago Mystery Babylon found Margaret Sanger’s eugenics program (“Planned Parenthood”) to be useful in its own plan to reduce the world population to 500 million. Of course, none of them are volunteering to die in support of this program. Their intention is to kill those who are “inferior” to them. They treat people (with a Darwinian mindset) as mere animals and believe that they are just culling the herd to improve and protect the species. They have no conscience, nor do they really value life as the Bible does. That is how they can kill millions of babies and feel good about it.

In my view, all of this is to be viewed not as the cause of divine judgment but as the divine judgment itself. The judgment traces originally back to Adam’s sin, but later to a more specific cause—the sin of Jerusalem. Judah’s Dominion Mandate was taken from them after years of abusing their authority, and God gave the dominion to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon (Jeremiah 27:6, 7, 8).

This was a “seven times” contract according to the law (Leviticus 26:18), a period of time that the prophets later defined as 7 x 360 years.

A century ago, God poured out His Spirit upon the church, reviving the feast of Pentecost. The Holy Spirit was designed to convict men of sin (John 16:7, 8) and cause them to repent. However, the church did not repent, for they were more interested in the benefits of miracles and healing than in changing their lawless beliefs. Neither did they repent of their narrow application of the principles of liberty. When the various Pentecostal movements formed denominations in 1909-1912, they fell into the pattern of King Saul, as the people wanted men to rule over them.

Hence, God extended our captivity for another century and put us and the world under the dominion of the Federal Reserve Bank in 1913. During this time, Margaret Sanger was raised up to bring judgment upon us through Planned Parenthood and its policy of eugenics and abortions to kill off as many “useless eaters” as possible. While I am horrified by these things, I also recognize that this could have been avoided, if the church had repented of its anomia, and if it had followed the pattern of David rather than Saul.

Fortunately, God blinded the eyes of the people so that they would submit to divine judgment. For this reason, God only imposed upon us a wooden yoke, where we were allowed to remain in our land and houses. (See Jeremiah 28:13, 14.) All we had to do was to pay tribute through the new income tax (1916) that came with the Federal Reserve Bank to buy the chains that Babylon was using to oppress us and to support the Babylonians’ lifestyle.

Under this wooden yoke, abortions were done on a voluntary basis. This was unlike what happened later in China, where the “one-child policy” often forced women to get abortions or pay fines for having more than one child. But that was an iron-yoke judgment. In America, women were allowed to volunteer to fulfill Margaret Sanger’s eugenics program, which allowed genuine Christians to refuse to participate in it. Only the lawless ones volunteered, either because they cared nothing for the laws of God or they were ignorant of them, due to church teaching.

Hence, abortion is part of the judgment of God for church lawlessness in past centuries, along with the church’s refusal to repent when the Spirit of God was poured out in the early 1900’s. Not many believers understand this, because they do not know the law or the prophets and have little understanding of the various ways in which God judges the nations.

But you are among those whose eyes have been enlightened, for you have learned (or are now learning) the ways of God and not merely His acts (Psalm 103:7). The Holy Spirit will come again in a massive way, and this time He will impart TRUTH to the church, which will cause the church to repent of its anomia. This is what will make the difference, allowing the Kingdom to be established through the pattern of David, rather than of Saul.

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