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.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/04/the-fed-is-expected-to-make-a-major-commitment-to-ramping-up-inflation-soon.html

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.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/China-and-Russia-ditch-dollar-in-move-toward-financial-alliance

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.

The Battle for the Kingdom

THE BATTLE FOR THE KINGDOM

By Dr. Stephen Jones:  1-21-2020

Blog Post Date: 1-28-2020

When the printing press technology was discovered and put to use in the 1440’s, the first major project was to print an edition of the German Bible in 1452. This changed the world. Up to that time, the Bible had been a closed book, for the church had forbidden that common people should read it apart from a priest interpreting it.

But the printing press changed this forever, and the church found it impossible to contain the Bible’s influence. Men then began to search the Scriptures to find the kind of government that He intended for us to have. They had seen the oppression of the papal system of government, and they rejected that and all other totalitarian forms of government.

Government that Secures the People’s Rights

After two centuries of thought and debate, these ideas formed the basis of a new kind of government in America. Its constitution gave us a Republican form of government where the people themselves were the highest authority under God electing their representatives to serve them. No longer were government officials empowered to rule the people.

John Adams, our second president, said,

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

The founders were historians who fully mistrusted the carnal mind of man and who saw from history how ambitious men gravitated to the top in order to gain power. The founders therefore mistrusted human nature and incorporated this mistrust into the American form of government. They divided power into three parts: executive, legislative, and judicial. Over all of these, they put the people themselves, giving them the right to overthrow their own government and replace it if and when it should attempt to seize power from the people.

They also knew that power on paper was an illusion without the power of enforcement. It was one thing to give power to the people; it was another thing to empower the people to maintain that power structure and defend it from the ambitious men they knew would arise in the future.

Shortly after the Constitution itself was adopted (1789), the founders were still unsure that the people had been empowered sufficiently, especially in the area of rights and privileges. For this reason they adopted the “Bill of Rights” (1791), which were ten amendments to the Constitution which set forth the unalienable rights of the people.

Rights, they said, were given by God Himself; whatever government grants is only a privilege and could just as easily be taken away as it saw fit. But in this unique form of government in America, the government was charged with defending and securing the rights of the people. No government had authority to grant rights.

This unique form of government empowered the people over their own government, and the second amendment of the Bill of Rights recognized that power, stating,

"A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."

In other words, the “security of a free State” was not dependent upon a federal military but upon the arms of the people themselves. This amendment had nothing to do with the right to hunt deer but to keep their own government from usurping power from the people. The founders knew from history that governments had been able to oppress the people on account of their military forces being superior to an unarmed and helpless populace. Once a government achieves such military power, it is free to consolidate more and more power to itself, and soon the people lose their rights and their freedoms.

The founders had already seen how Britain had sent troops to disarm the American people in 1775. That had resulted in the Battle of Lexington and Concord, which were precursors to the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and to the American Revolution itself.

Why People are the Weak Link

The problem, of course, is that when the people are empowered, there is no guarantee that they themselves will exercise their power with morality, humility, and responsibility. Human nature is, after all, still human nature. That was the weakest link in the chain. Furthermore, the Declaration of Independence gave these fallible people the right to abolish and change their government. So if the people became immoral and demanded sexual freedom, or if they demanded Socialism which inevitably leads to totalitarianism, they had that power as well.

For this reason, one of the first bills that Congress passed was to supply every home with a Bible. They stated firmly that this type of people power would only work if the people as a whole had the type of character advocated in the Scriptures. This was not considered unusual at all, for even the first Supreme Court Justice of the United States was John Jay, who was also the president of the American Bible Society.

In fact, the founders stated that this new form of government was suited only to those of the Christian religion. The Bible had given birth to the American form of government. No other religion had found such government in the pages of their own holy books. Not since the Israelites in their early days in the land of Canaan had a nation been so governed. So President John Quincy Adams said on July 4, 1837:

“The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.”

I showed in my book on The Judges that the Israelites ultimately did what was right in their own eyes (Judges 21:25). Over a period of three centuries, they descended into lawlessness by forsaking their divinely-given Constitution, the Torah. America did the same thing. Hence, just as God put Israel into captivity during the days of the Judges, so also did God finally put America into captivity to an entity known as Mystery Babylon.

The Captivity of Mystery Babylon

Once Babylon took financial control of America through the Federal Reserve Act (1913), they drove the country into bankruptcy in 1933 in order to foreclose on the nation judicially. The next big project was to begin to turn America from a Republic to a Socialist Democracy. In order to do this, they knew that they had to remove all Christian influence from government and to debauch the morals of the people themselves. This they did quite successfully. This was the purpose of the so-called 60’s sexual revolution.

The Federal Government took control of the educational system in order to turn it into a propaganda center. They took the Bible out of school system and outlawed prayer in public schools. Then they stopped teaching Civics, so that the children would no longer have a foundation of knowledge about the original intent of the Constitution and its biblical form of government. The study of history became irrelevant and boring to most students, cutting them off from the lessons of the past.

These changes were not the result of any normal or natural evolution of education. These were deliberate policy changes imposed by our new Babylonian rulers. The overall purpose was to secularize America, not only its government but also its people.

I believe that these Babylonian rulers understood the Bible better than most Christian leaders. They knew from the book of Judges that if they could keep the people lawless, each doing what was right in his own eyes, they might be able to rule the nation (and the whole earth) indefinitely. Why? Because God would not raise up judges to set the people free as long as they failed to repent. Hence, those who hated God had a vested interest in degrading the morals of the people.

As wicked and immoral people flourished, crime increased. With the increase in crime, the people gave the government more and more power to control crime. Gradually, the power of government grew, and the power of the people lessened. Ultimately, we reached the point where in 2007 President Obama officially declared that America “is no longer a Christian nation.”

By saying “no longer,” he admitted that America had been founded as a Christian nation, not that everyone was a Christian, but that its principles of government and laws were based on the Christian understanding of the Bible.

God is still sovereign

The Babylonians were raised up by God Himself, who gave them power only to an appointed time. The same God who brought judgment upon ancient Israel has also brought judgment upon America. The same God who blinded the Israelites for a season has also blinded America for a season. None of this took place outside of His will and control.

That is why the Babylonians will never win in the end. Socialists will not win. Communists will not win. Secularist government will not win. Satanists will not win. Witchcraft will not win. There is an appointed time when God will open the eyes of the people and pour out His Spirit upon the nation and the world. That alone will break the power of Babylon.

In spite of all the Babylonian immorality and Socialist principles inserted into the American form of government under God, they failed in their attempts to disarm the people. The American people have more weapons than all of the world’s armies put together. So in spite of the political changes that transferred power from the people to the State, the people still retained the practical power over their own government.

The Demonstration in Virginia

Today the House, Senate, and Governor’s office in the state of Virginia are all controlled by the Democratic Party, which is now the main party trying to transfer power from the people and give it to the Babylonian government. They are poised to pass a bill to confiscate all weapons in the state of Virginia. However, there has been a backlash from the people themselves who do not want to cede their people power to the State.

On January 20 there was a large demonstration of about 25,000 people at the State Capitol in Richmond, VA. It was a peaceful demonstration, but they let it be known that they would not comply with Virginia’s abolition of their second amendment rights. Most of the counties in Virginia have declared themselves to be gun-sanctuary counties, and the county sheriffs are telling the governor that they will not comply with his unconstitutional usurpation of power.

There is no doubt in my mind that the Babylonian side was planning a false flag incident which they hoped to use as “proof” that all guns should be confiscated. But it appears that the president sent special forces to the scene to enforce the peace and to protect the gun owners. I received this letter from a retired military officer who wrote about this demonstration:

I was glad that the Father did not allow violence to take place in Richmond today. I watched a live stream from home.

I noticed several of the armed men outside the Lobby grounds had the Special Ops look that very few people can discern without having served along side them. They were not normal Militia types. I wonder if the President had them there to keep the Foes from trying anything this time. I was surprised at the number of people armed on the street surrounding the site….

Just a couple of observations from experience with crowd control and military training.

I believe his observation was correct that the president quietly sent them there for their protection and to stop any infiltrators from causing trouble. (I heard that Antifa, our American terrorist organization, had sent 7 busloads of people to the scene to provoke violence, some wearing MAGA hats, pretending they were “pro-Trump extremists.”)

Whatever happened, the demonstration was peaceful, even though thousands carried their weapons to the State Capitol. It was just a reminder to the governor that he lacks the power to force his will upon the people and that they will not submit to his unconstitutional decrees. This is essentially a constitutional crisis.

In the end, however, the only way to regain our freedom is to turn to God. If the people do not repent of their lawlessness, God Himself will become their enemy and will extend their bondage to Mystery Babylon. But I believe that Babylon’s time has ended and that God will indeed pour out His Spirit upon us, so that He may end our captivity.

Further down the road will be the adoption of the Bible as the authoritative document above both the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. The Bible will not only be enforced politically but also judicially, and some of the earlier mistakes in our judicial system will also be corrected (such as the prison system). The law of God will not create righteous people but will be the result of the people demanding the righteousness of God in the nation.

We are totally dependent upon the outpouring of the Holy Spirit for this to happen. In the end, God will rule the earth by His own laws in righteousness. Nothing can stop this. Nothing.