Defense Agreements of God And Men

 DEFENSE AGREEMENTS OF GOD AND MEN

By: Dr. Stephen Jones Posted On: 08/28/2021

Blog Post Date:  9-1-2021

For many months—even years—we knew that August 15, 2021 was a date to watch, because it was the 50^th anniversary (Jubilee) of America going off the gold standard “temporarily” in 1971. The event in 1971 itself had gutted the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1944, which had created a new financial order after the devastation from World War 2.

America had come through World War 2 without any devastation of its cities and infrastructure, and it had a large gold reserve, as well as silver. So the US dollar was made the world reserve currency and was given the main responsibility to stabilize the dollar with gold.

However, the Vietnam War caused America to spend huge sums of money, and by 1965 its huge silver holdings had been depleted. So the silver in the US coins was replaced by other metals and the Silver Certificates (paper currency) were replaced by Federal Reserve Notes.

The final blow to the integrity of the dollar came when President Nixon, in 1971, declared that the dollar would no longer be convertible to gold. The gold-backed dollar was then replaced by the petro-dollar through an agreement with Saudi Arabia. The Saudis would sell their oil only in US dollars, and the US military would protect the Saudis.

The US dollar, then, was backed by oil, rather than by gold and silver. Hence, we saw the rise of the so-called “petro-dollar.” That system lasted 50 years, and it has now come to an end. Perhaps the 1971 agreement had secretly drawn up a 50-year contract.

Saudi Arabia Signs Defense Agreement with Russia

On August 24, 2021 the Saudis signed a military agreement with Russia. Perhaps this was a last-minute arrangement in the wake of the US retreat from Afghanistan on August 15. But I doubt it.

https://www.rferl.org/a/saudi-russia-arms-weapons-/31425164.html

Saudi Arabia and Russia have signed a military cooperation agreement at an arms expo outside Moscow.

Saudi Deputy Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman announced on Twitter on August 24 that he signed the agreement with Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin “aimed at developing joint military cooperation between the two countries.”

Salman also met with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during his visit outside Moscow to the arms expo International Military-Technical Forum Army-2021.

The deputy defense minister said the meeting explored ways to "strengthen military and defense cooperation between our two countries."

I have no inside information, but it seems to me that military cooperation agreements are never drawn up in just nine days. These things take months and even years of negotiations. So I suspect that the 1971 agreement was a 50-year contract, and as we draw near, the Saudis decided to negotiate a defense agreement with Russia.

The transition will take some time, of course, but the biggest impact upon America is that the US dollar will lose its world reserve currency status. Its status has been eroding already for many years, but this will soon be formalized.

What will replace it? It seems most likely that a basket of currencies will replace it, rather than a single currency. The world learned its lesson. The US government had weaponized the dollar through economic sanctions and by cutting off access to the SWIFT payments system through the Federal Reserve. The nations will no longer trust a single nation with such power, unless some nation gains the power and influence to force its will upon the world.

The real question is this: What will the Russians be given in exchange for their military protection? The US government was given a new (oil) backing of the dollar. Will the Saudis begin selling oil in rubles? This does not seem likely. More likely, the World Bank will set up a basket of currencies and issue Special Drawing Rights (SDR’s), which the Saudis will then accept as payment for its oil.

Nigeria Signs Defense Agreement with Russia

On August 25, 2021 Nigeria too signed a military cooperation agreement with Russia.

https://www.reuters.com/world/nigeria-signs-military-cooperation-agreement-with-russia-2021-08-25/

ABUJA, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Nigeria and Russia have signed a military cooperation deal providing a legal framework for the supply of equipment and the training of troops, the Nigerian embassy in Moscow said on Wednesday.

President Muhammadu Buhari had expressed interest in such a pact with Russia as far back as 2019, when he met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at a Russia-Africa summit.

The Nigerian ambassador to Russia at the time said Buhari felt Russia could help defeat the Boko Haram Islamic insurgency in the northeast of the country, which remains a major problem.

Both Saudi Arabia and Nigeria are very important oil-producing countries—as is Russia itself. Again, what does Russia gain from the deal? We will have to watch this closely, because Russia is gaining world influence as world confidence in the US declines. The Afghanistan debacle served to mark the specific point in time where world confidence in the US government’s power to protect its allies ended. The world will never be the same again.

490 Days: April 21, 2020 to August 24, 2021

Last year on April 21, 2020, oil futures dropped as low as MINUS $37/barrel. That means a person could theoretically be paid $37 to purchase a barrel of oil!

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/about-150-years-of-oil-price-history-in-one-chart-illustrates-crudes-spectacular-plunge-below-0-a-barrel-2020-04-22?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo

The formerly unthinkable drop in oil prices below $0 a barrel on Monday is still reverberating through financial markets, as supply overwhelms demand destroyed by the coronavirus pandemic, forcing some energy companies into possible bankruptcy as storage reaches maximum capacity.

Indeed, the now-defunct May West Texas Intermediate crude US:CLK20, which expired on Tuesday, plunged into negative territory to start the week in a history-making event that saw, the front-month contract, at the time, settle at negative $37.63 a barrel before recovering some of that in the following session.

The main problem was that no one had any spare storage space, so no one wanted to buy the oil. This caused an unprecedented price collapse to “negative $37.63 a barrel.” We recognized at the time that the petro-dollar had just died in front of our eyes for all to see. We knew that this was a major prophetic event in the collapse of the US dollar—as well as a major sign of the collapse of Mystery Babylon as a whole.

What we did not know at the time was that this oil-price collapse was the start of a 490-day cycle ending with the Saudi-Russian defense agreement on August 24, 2021. When Nigeria signed a similar agreement the next day, the importance of this time was confirmed by the double witness.

Our Defense Agreement with God

Of course, God is always ahead of the game. He knows the end from the beginning, and He always takes steps to defend His people in the midst of tribulation in the world. In this case, we were led to hold a 3-day Prayer for Deliverance from April 8-10, 2020, nearly two weeks before the collapse of oil prices. You can read those prayers here as a reminder of His protection:

https://godskingdom.org/blog/2020/04/day-1-deliverance-prayer-campaign

https://godskingdom.org/blog/2020/04/day-2-of-deliverance-prayer-campaign

https://godskingdom.org/blog/2020/04/deliverance-prayer-for-day-3

The first day we prayed Psalm 46, which began: “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore, we will not fear, though the earth should change and though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea.”

The second day we prayed Psalm 91, which says, “I will say to the Lord, ‘My refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust!... No evil will befall you, nor will any plague come near your tent. For He will give His angels charge concerning you, to guard you in all your ways.”

The third day was a combination of Scriptures, and we prayed: “We receive Your Divine protection now through the high praise of Your Word through Isaiah” (Isaiah 26:9 KJV).

My Fast: August 2-14, 2021

As most of you know, I was led to go on an extended fast beginning August 2 and ending on the evening of August 14. The breakthrough occurred on August 11, when the “famine of hearing the word” was broken. This “famine” was mentioned in Amos 8:11, and for me it ended on 8-11 (August 11). I did not make that connection until others pointed it out to me after the fact.

At any rate, from April 8, 2020, when we started our prayer of deliverance, until August 11, 2021, when the famine of hearing the word was broken, was precisely 490 days. When dates align like this, it shows a direct correlation between them. The cycle itself is a grace period before the event is applicable.

In this case, our deliverance prayers were made just prior to the oil price collapse in 2020, and 490 days later, we received the breakthrough just before the oil agreements were signed with Russia. This is not a coincidence. Though we see big changes coming in the geopolitical world, we know that God will protect His people and lead them by His word  through these troubling times. While the nations plan their next moves, God is preparing us for His big move.

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Other So-called Gods and the True Supreme God

 

How do we get there from here? by eternalissues@cox.net  Ask the Spirit to give you a fresh revelation of God.

This is not to imply that you do not know God and do not have your own revelation(s) of God.  But for this purpose of wanting to see where we are as a nation under attack, ask God for a fresh revelation of “He who sits above the circle of the earth.”  [Is. 40:22]  Ask Him for a fresh revelation of “He who sits in the Heavens and laughs” at the kings and rulers of the earth who have aligned against Him.  [Ps. 2]

The Spirit of the Lord really impressed upon me that the great Exodus from Egypt was a showdown between the God of Israel and the gods of the current world power:  Egypt. 

The great magicians of Egypt were expert diviners.  Balaam and his sons, Jannes and Jambres, (Jasher 79 and 2 Tim. 3:8) led the rebuttal of the shows of power between what the God of Israel and the gods of Egypt could do.  They were able to replicate the first acts of power.  Why?  Because a man can turn water into blood or a rod into a snake?  No.  Because they were given power from their own gods, the gods of Egypt, just as Moses was given power from his God.

It’s really no different today; religion has just sophisticated the battle.  We don’t look at it as gods against God.  We’ve somehow lost the perspective of supernatural deities and relegated them strictly to an institutionalized church with neat little side comments, but no real solid teaching.  We make sidebar mention of cults, but never address the spiritual reality of the truth of the matter.  (Which is part of the reason the institutional church will rise up as an adversary to those who walk this out.)

It’s still a little disconcerting to me that we can look at the symbolism of modern entertainment, whether it be movies or music or even the sports arena, and not see the homage to their gods.  How can we not look at things like the Olympics opening ceremonies and the ceremony for Cern and not realize they are engaged in rituals that draw on the powers of darkness and their gods?  Truly the god of this world has worked overtime to blind the eyes of God’s people.

Our patriarchs were no better.  When Levi and Simeon killed the city of Shechem, in order to protect the family of Israel, Jacob instructed his family to put away their foreign gods.  Why in the world would Jacob’s family, the heirs of Abraham’s covenant with Yahweh, have foreign gods?  And yet they did.  (Genesis 35)

When God instituted the Passover, He plainly said it was to execute judgment against the gods (elohiym, deities) of Egypt.  (Ex. 12:12)  He didn’t say they were false gods.  He didn’t say they were idols.  He said they were deities.  And the Supreme God posited Himself against these lesser deities as an epic showdown.  Remember that in Exodus 8, Egypt’s magicians could no longer replicate the signs (plagues) of Moses and said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.”  (They used the term for a deity instead of the Name of the Supreme God because they did not know the name of the Supreme God.) 

[Look at Jasher 79:43-47

“And when the king saw this thing [Aaron’s rod swallowed up the magicians’ rods], he ordered the book of records that related to the kings of Egypt, to be brought, and they brought the book of records, the chronicles of the kings of Egypt, in which all the idols of Egypt were inscribed, for they thought of finding therein the name of Jehovah, but they found it not. 44. And Pharaoh said to Moses and Aaron, Behold I have not found the name of your God written in this book, and his name I know not. 45. And the counsellors and wise men answered the king, We have heard that the God of the Hebrews is a son of the wise, the son of ancient kings. 46. And Pharaoh turned to Moses and Aaron and said to them, I know not the Lord whom you have declared, neither will I send his people. 47. And they answered and said to the king, The Lord God of Gods is his name, and he proclaimed his name over us from the days of our ancestors…”]

No, they do not know the Name of our God.  They didn’t then, and most of them don’t now.

For understanding, use a concordance and look up “gods”, then look at the passages that accompany it.  Look at the song of Moses in Deuteronomy 32 and his historical account of the Israelites sacrificing “to demons who were not God, to gods whom they have not known, new gods who came lately whom your fathers did not dread.” [vs. 17] 

Deborah reiterates it in Judges 5:8, “new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates.” 

These are indictments for God’s chosen people aligning with the gods of the other nations, uncircumcised nations without a covenant with the Supreme God.

Consider Judges 10 when God admonishes His people to cry out to the gods they have aligned with. God does not lie.  He wasn’t speaking anecdotally.   Judges 10:6 is explicit in the gods they were serving. 

When Samuel cried out to God for the Israelites, God expressly told Samuel (8:8) that they had rejected Him for the other gods.  Study this out!  Recognize that the gods of other nations didn’t cease to exist.  They didn’t then and they haven’t now.

Both the problem and the solution are clearly presented in the Word of God.  The problem is humanity struggles to adhere to the Creator God and is continually tempted to entertain other gods, lesser gods, but gods nonetheless.  The solution is adherence to the Supreme God and it is found over and over and over again in the Scriptures.

I don’t have time to get into it, but reread the account of David and Goliath.  Look at 1Sam. 17:43 where Goliath cursed David by his gods.  David’s response was plainly to call upon the Name of the true God.  Look at 1Sam. 26:19 where David laments that people have tried to drive him from his inheritance of the true God and cajoled him to “serve other gods”.  These are not mere stories.  These are practical realities both then and now.

Now look at David’s prayer in 2Sam. 7, specifically verse 23 when he acknowledges that God has redeemed His people from Egypt and their gods.  As you walk through the rest of Scripture you will see a people group who struggled to walk with loyalty to the God who created and redeemed them.  Various deliverers were raised at various times to once again establish the unmatched sovereignty of the true God. 

From Gideon to Samson, from Deborah to Josiah, there is no shortage of people raised at different times who put aside the influence of other gods and adhered to the true God, bringing deliverance to God’s people.

Enter Christ.

Enter a better covenant, the new covenant (new testament).  Now the people of Yahweh, Jehovah, the Creator God are not relegated to a boundary in the Middle East.  Now the people of the Supreme God are not relegated to a bloodline or the religious tenets of Judah.  Now the people who want to follow the true God have access through the sacrifice of His Son. 

But you say, America is Babylon.  No, America is not.  (I used to think that.)  America is the seed of Abraham, the people of Manasseh and Ephraim.  The bloodlines have been traced; the migratory patterns of the people are documented.  I can point you to resources to help your understanding, just write me. 

Babylon is not a place, it’s a system.  It roots back to Nimrod’s rule and the tower of Babel where the nations of the earth aligned to overthrow God, and God responded by scattering the nations and removing the Noahite Covenant with them.  He abandoned the nations to the lesser gods (Deut. 32:8).  [See Dr. Heiser’s expose on this here and here.]

God established His covenant with Abraham and Abraham’s seed.  The people of the covenant became the benchmark for finding the true God.  God has never abandoned His covenant with Abraham.  Abraham’s seed were to become nations that blessed the other nations (“and in him all nations on the earth will be blessed.”)  [Gen. 18:18] 

Babylon, the system of the lesser gods was deeply embedded in the world, whether it be socially, economically, religiously or politically, this system has steadily grown through empire after empire, people group after people group.  They have never altered from their course to corrupt mankind, to turn mankind from the Creator.  This system has systematically enslaved humanity to corruption of every kind.  From serving other gods, to polluting humanity’s DNA, from transgressing the commands of God, to establishing wickedness in the upper echelons of society, Mystery Babylon is the religion and system of Nimrod and the nations who serve the lesser gods.  They have polluted even the Church of God with its false teachings and idol worship, its Nicolaitan hierarchy of a pyramid structure of man worship, and yes, even the sexual sins of Balaam.  [Rev. 2:14-16]

America is not Babylon, but it has been compromised by it.

But you say God does not protect the wicked, and America is replete with wickedness from its murderous abortion mills, to its insidious sexual perversions, from its injustice to the weak and poor and righteous, to its underground and undercover satanic perversions and child abductions, rapes and sacrifices.  America has bowed the knee to mammon and its economic structure serves the wicked while treading down the righteous.

Agreed.  You couldn’t be more correct.  God judges sin.  God will not save a nation because it (rightfully) claims to be the seed of Abraham, anymore than he saved the wicked religious population of Christ’s day.  (John 8:39-47)  As John the Baptist said (Luke 3:8), God is able to raise up sons of Abraham from the stones, and the axe is at the root of the trees to cut off the unfruitful.

But you say the sons of Abraham are the believers of Christ.  Agreed.  Galatians 3:7 is not lost on me and is very relevant today: 

Gal 3:7-9  NASU

Therefore, be sure that it is those who are of faith who are sons of Abraham.  The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE BLESSED IN YOU."  So then those who are of faith are blessed with Abraham, the believer.

And this is where our victory is, this is what I’m trying to convey.  Because we are the sons of Abraham by both the Abrahamic covenant and the Messianic covenant, we can call on the covenant blessings and protections.  We can save our nation by calling upon the Name of the God of our nation.  We only need to “put away the foreign gods.”  We only need to repent of our sin.

Do you see it yet?  Moses, Joshua, Gideon, Samuel, David, Elijah, Elisha, Josiah, Peter and Paul and ALL the seed of the covenant that confronted both the people and the deities they were in the midst of called upon the Name of the true God and were delivered.  Were the people in their nations righteous?  Were the nations themselves righteous?  Nope.  None of them were.  Yet God is concerned with His Name.  

In the epic showdown between Baal and Jehovah, the people in Israel were worshipping Baal, NOT Jehovah.  There was a man willing to stand and confront the wickedness of both the King and Queen, AND the god they were endorsing.  Where are our Elijahs????  When the music and entertainment industry endorse their gods, where are our Elijahs???  Who is confronting them by standing on the truth of the Supreme God?

When the political systems and unrighteous political heads oppress their people and enforce tyrannical laws, who is confronting them with the truth of the Supreme God??? 

When the economic system of mammon adulation and enriching the wicked lives by extorting the working and righteous, who is confronting them with the truth of the Supreme God???

When the school boards and county commissions are parading their perversions into our children’s lives and oppressing our communities with their corrupt and wicked rules, who is confronting them with the truth of the Supreme God???  What about the election boards?  What about the attorney generals and judges who continue to pervert justice and reward the wicked?

We do not wring our hands in despair.  We are not to be like Saul’s army where David’s brothers were quaking at the threat of the uncircumcised Philistine army and its giant(s).  We are to be like David who asks who dares to defy the living God with mockery and threats.  It matters not where the battle is, whether in the political realm, the judicial system, the economic constructs or even the pulpit of the institutional church.  If we know our God and we understand our position in Him, we cannot fail.  He desires to make His Name known that the people of the earth will come to Him and abandon their lesser gods.  How will they know His greatness if we do not demonstrate it?  Why would they forsake their gods of perversion and corruption when they pay so well if they cannot see the reward of serving the living God?

Whether Trump is reinstated or not does not leave Americans helpless.  Yes the election fraud should be contested and rectified.  Yes there’s a plan to move America and the world into a global tyranny through covid.  Yes foreign actors have infiltrated our industries and even our soil. 

No I don’t think political leaders are going to represent Christ and call on the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  We should not expect them to.  They’ve been infiltrated by the gods of the nations.  WE, every Christian who understands Christ’s covenant with us and God’s covenant with Abraham, must take our places on the battlegrounds before us and call upon the Name that is superior, the Name of the Creator and Supreme God to defend His covenant and His people.

When a tornado is headed for your city you don’t pause to take inventory of how righteous the city is before you address the threat.  You rebuke the destruction.  If the tornado is deterred, you’ve saved the city.  If it skips your home and destroys your neighbors, you’ve saved your family.  This is the attitude we must take, and to do so we must recognize that the gods and their followers have arrayed themselves against THE God and His.  Take your places and be the true sons and daughters of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, through Christ.