Memorandum :: By Terry James

Published on: by RR10 Category:General Articles, Terry James

Author’s note: This is a Christmas gift of forewarning. It is the order of terrible events prophetically scheduled to take place during the Tribulation. The memorandum is given in love and in advance for those who will choose to be left behind after the removal of believers to Heaven rather than accept God’s grace gift of salvation through His Son Jesus Christ, whose birthday we celebrate today.

Please consider the following grace gift from the Lord who created you and who desires that you be part of His family for all eternity. Follow God’s prescription in this promise. Then, the memorandum that follows will not be for you but for others who have rejected the grace gift offer prior to the Rapture of all believers in Christ for salvation.

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).

MEMORANDUM

Date: (Unknown)

To: Everyone left on planet Earth

From: Those who have vanished

Re: The truth about what happened

This is to tell you exactly what is involved in the sudden disappearance of people around the world. It’s as simple as this: We who belong to Christ were called into the air above the planet in the Rapture. Yes, that kooky, ridiculous, pie-in-the-sky, fly-away event that Tim LaHaye and other preachers of what you’ve thought of as fantasy have been proclaiming could happen at any moment did, in fact, happen.

You are hearing, or will soon hear, every conceivable explanation of what caused this astonishing disappearance. Here are our guesses as to what some of those explanations will be:

  • It was some sort of quantum evolutionary leap, which will ultimately be great for mankind.
  • It was a mass abduction by extraterrestrials—an outgrowth of the singular abductions that have been reported over the years.
  • It was a natural, scientifically explainable cosmic interaction that some human physiologies could resist and others couldn’t.
  • It was a supernatural movement into a higher form for those who disappeared–an ascension to godhood.
  • It was punishment from the great cosmogonical mind, removing the evil from the world.

Don’t believe any of these or other explanations. To find out the absolute truth about what the mass vanishing actually involves, read in the Bible 1 Corinthians 15:51-55 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. Also read John 14:1-3 to find out where we who vanished are presently located.

Now that we are gone, and our leaving has everything to do with your immediate future—the following will happen in order very similar to that listed here.

These and other events will occur over the next seven years:

  • Total chaos will rule for a time. (Lk. 21: 25)
  • Governments will get control through sometimes harsh methods. (Rev. 17: 12-13)
  • One world government will come together. (Ps. 2: 1-3)
  • A one-world church will form. (Rev. Ch. 17)
  • A world leader from Europe will step to the forefront and take charge of the peace process. (Dan. 9: 26-27)
  • Israeli government and Israel’s enemies will sign an agreement of peace that ensures peace and safety. (Dan. 9: 27; Isa. 28: 18; 1 Thes. 5: 3)
  • Peace will not last, as a coalition of nations—led by Russia—will invade the Middle East. (Ezek. 38:1-12)
  • God, himself, will destroy all but one-sixth of the invader forces. (Ezek. 39: 1-5)
  • Much of the world will be hit by the deadly effects of the invasion. This will possibly include chemical, biological, and nuclear aftereffects. (Ezek. 39:6-7; 11-16)
  • The world leader will solidify his power following the Russian-led coalition’s destruction. (Dan. 8: 23-25; 11: 36-39)
  • Two Old-Testament-type prophets will come on the world scene and preach about Christ while condemning the world’s evil. (Rev. 11: 3-6)
  • Meanwhile, God will put His protection upon 144,000 Jews who have converted to Christianity so that they can begin to preach God’s saving message to the people of the Tribulation. (Rev. 7: 3-8)
  • At the same time, God will allow strong delusion to come over all who heard the Gospel before the Rapture, but, fully understanding the offer of salvation, refused to accept Christ. These will believe the lies of Antichrist and Satan. (2 Thes. 2: 11-12)
  • Antichrist, after months of trying, will finally murder the two Old-Testament-type prophets. But they will come back to life and be taken into Heaven while the world watches. (Rev. 11: 11-12)
  • Antichrist will receive a supposedly deadly head wound (Rev. 13: 3).
  • Satan and his fallen angels will fight God’s forces, be kicked out of Heaven by Michael and his angels, and will be exiled to planet Earth, where Satan will bring great anger against those who live there (Revelation chapter 12).
  • The False Prophet will perform supposed miracles and will call fire down from Heaven –which likely will involve light-like orbs that are those of Satan’s force thrown down to Earth (Revelation chapter 13).
  • Antichrist will appear to resurrect from the dead, being then possessed by Satan. (13: 3-4)
  • Antichrist will sit in the Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. He will claim to be God and demand worship. (2 Thes. 2: 3-4)
  • The False Prophet will direct all worship to Antichrist, and will erect an image of him. (Rev. 13:11-17)
  • Antichrist’s regime will institute a computer mark-and-numbers system. It will be both to control the world’s populations and to cause all to worship Antichrist, whose number in all of this is 666. (Rev. 13: 16-18)
  • Those who refuse to accept Antichrist’s mark will be murdered. Beheading will apparently be the regime’s chosen method of offing these “traitors.” (Rev. 13: 15; 20: 4)
  • Antichrist will begin a systematic genocide against the Jewish race that will make Hitler’s Holocaust look mild by comparison. (Rev. Ch. 12)
  • He and the False Prophet will also have all the new believers they can find rounded up, tortured, then murdered. (John. 16: 2; Rev. 13: 8)
  • While Antichrist hunts down and murders people by the millions, God’s judgments will begin to fall directly on the rebellious people of the planet. (Rev. 6: 17)
  • Millions upon millions will die while God’s wrath pours out in a series of three types of judgments, each consisting of seven specific judgments, for a total of 21 judgments. (Rev. chapters 6 through 18)
  • When all is said and done, more than half, possibly as much as two-thirds, of all human life will die of the plagues. (Rev. 6:8; 8:8; 9:18)
  • God will prepare, and the Jewish remnant will flee to, a hiding place, probably Petra, the ancient city carved in the rose-red-colored rocks of the Jordanian wilderness. (Rev. 12: 6, 14)
  • Antichrist and his forces, led by Satan, will pursue the Jewish people and try to murder them, but the pursuing forces will be swallowed up by the earth. (Rev. 12: 15-16)
  • While the Jewish and many of the Gentile people still alive remain safely protected, God’s wrath will fall in greater force. (Rev. 16: 1)
  • The sun will go partly dark while at the same time heating up to seven times hotter than normal. (Rev. 16: 8-11)
  • A great object will fall into the ocean from space. Its impact will kill life in the sea and most likely will destroy coastal areas with tidal waves. (Rev. 8: 8-9)
  • Another asteroid or other mass from space will strike Earth and will poison much of the planet’s fresh water sources. (Rev. 8: 10-11)
  • Great, unprecedented earthquakes will happen simultaneously all over the earth. (Matt. 24: 7; Rev. 16: 18)
  • People will be so frightened they will have heart attacks just from the things they see are yet to come. (Lk. 21: 26)
  • A supernatural plague of huge insect-like creatures will be released from the abyss, and they will sting all who have the mark of the Beast. Men and women will try to commit suicide because of their great pain from the stings and bites of these demonic creatures. (Rev. 9: 3-6)
  • God will then move in the minds of all military forces on Earth to gather in the valley of Jezreel, the plains of Esdraelon, near the ancient city of Megiddo. This is Armageddon. (Joel 3: 14; Rev. 16: 16)
  • The “Kings of the East,” a huge army out of the Orient numbering more than 200 million troops, will invade to make war with Antichrist’s and the other world’s forces. (Rev. 9: 15-16; 16: 12)
  • Jesus said of this time that if He didn’t come back, everyone and everything would die because of the fighting about to take place. (Matt. 24: 22; Mark 13: 20)
  • Jesus will return with the armies of Heaven. His armies consist of the mighty angels and Jesus’ Church, which will have been raptured at least seven years earlier. (Rev. 19: 11-14)
  • Antichrist’s armies and all others will try to prevent Christ’s return. (Rev. 19: 19)
  • Jesus will simply speak, and all armies on Earth will be rendered helpless, most killed. (19: 15-18)

You have only one chance to survive:

Accept Jesus Christ as Savior (read John, chapter 3).
This will involve refusing to take Antichrist’s mark when it is instituted. If you accept the mark, you are eternally doomed.

To those not appointed to God’s wrath (1 Thes. 5:9-11): perhaps you should pass this memorandum to your lost family and friends before you vanish.

Then, post it on your refrigerator.

Levitical Economics: Multi-billionaires vs. Debt Slaves :: By Wilfred Hahn

Published on: by RR10 Category:General Articles, Wilfred Hahn

Cancellation of debts became a common royal practice in the old Babylonian period. Hammurabi, who was the Babylonian king early in the second millennium BC (around 1800 BC … dating varies), is believed to have founded the basic principle of ruler-mandated debt cancellation in the renowned Code of Hammurabi.

Debt cancellation was one of Hammurabi’s first acts when he came to power. He is recorded to have ordered debt cancellations on at least two occasions (likely more) in his reign. However, significantly, there has been new research on this practice in recent years. Prominent Assyriologists (archaeologists who focus on the Middle East) now take the position that “clean slate” policies were the norm in early times … very much counter to our modern practices, these being of Roman origin.

Announcing a “clean slate” was a wise practice. As in our time today, over-indebtedness was a major problem in Babylonian society. Citizens could easily become enslaved to the creditor class. Anyone falling upon hard times or who was unable to pay taxes would be forced to borrow. Interest rates were onerous … commonly as high as 33% over the duration of the loan period (this sometimes being as short as a few weeks).

Once indebted, people were almost certainly doomed to even deeper debt or slavery. With such usurious interest rates, it would not take long for wealth imbalance and concentration of land ownership to become extreme, this potentially also threatening the power of the king.

It made sense to periodically decree an amnesty from all personal debts (this would not include commercial liabilities in the case of the Babylonian system). This wiping out of debts rejuvenated society and served to maintain a sustainable wealth and power balance.

Biblical Foundations for Debt Cancellation

Down through history, philosophers and religious thinkers came to similar conclusions on the issue of repressive debts and wealth distribution. For example, more than two and a half millennia after Hammurabi, Islamic scholars began to develop principles that sought to achieve relief for the poor and a sustainable wealth balance.

Their teaching of “al riba” served this end. It is the doctrine that money is not allowed to earn income through interest. According to Islam, gain and profit were only to be achieved through labor and trading. If money is allowed to earn income, though producing or risking nothing, eventually it would lead to an imbalance of wealth distribution (a large class of poor people).

Originally, Mohammed’s forbidding of debt interest was more likely rooted in the idea that a fixed rate of interest was an affront to Allah, as only he could determine and underwrite the certainty of future income, not mankind. Later, Islam further intellectualized its view on “al riba.”

But, much earlier than Islam (only some 500 years after the era of Abraham and Hammurabi), during the time of the 40-year wilderness journey of the Hebrews, God gave Moses the commands of the Sabbath.

Later, after entering Canaan, the Hebrews were commanded to observe the Sabbath Year and the Jubilee Year. (We will explain these policies.) Moses codified the rules of debt forgiveness and the restoration of wealth distribution … these being much more advanced than the general haphazard concepts of debt forgiveness of the Akkadians some 500 years earlier.

These Hebrew ordinances proved to be most wonderful for a number of reasons. Both the Sabbath Year and the Jubilee were effective means of ensuring that a permanent poverty class would not emerge, where a society of a few ultra-rich could enslave everyone for perpetuity.

Creation and Multiplying Money

Today, this tendency of “wealth begetting wealth” is viewed by economists as a “flaw” of capitalism. They observe that over time, the competitive economic arena leads to winners who become very large or wealthy and, in turn, have the ability to suppress new competitors. This is sometimes referred to as the “winner takes all” syndrome.

This could be problematic. As such, for example, the US government would intervene. It chose to break up companies that were thought to have become too large …i.e., AT&T and General Motors).

The point we wish to emphasize here is that the natural laws of money, compound interest, and relative advantage (everything else being equal) contribute to the tendency that the wealthy get wealthier, and the poor relatively poorer. Over time, these very trends lead to instability and eventual wealth destruction.

Just such a “late stage” situation exists in America and many other nations today. An extreme state of imbalance between the rich and poor is a worldwide phenomenon. An ever-smaller minority is becoming wealthier. Recent actions in the US political sphere have signaled just how advanced and repressive this condition has become. Everywhere one looks in the world, a cry is heard for “debt cancellation.”

The world groans for a Jubilee Year when all debt would be settled. As Apostle Paul says, “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time” (Romans 8:22). Something else is needed to liberate the world, to free the economic captives.

Debt Forgiveness and the Prophetic Plan

Jesus Christ quoted Isaiah’s prophecy about Himself (Isaiah 61:1-2a) when He said: “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor” (Luke 4:18-19). Christ deliberately did not read the rest of Isaiah’s prophecy, which further states: “[…] and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion—to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair” (Isaiah 61:2b-3a).

Why? Because these were things that would be completed at His Second Coming, signifying the arrival of the “year of the Lord’s favor.” While our Lord proclaimed “the year of the Lord’s favor” during His first coming, it was not to occur until His second. The Lord did not rescue the poor at His first coming, rather the “poor in spirit” (Matthew 5:3 from the Beatitudes). The rescuing of all poor (Luke 6:20, Sermon on the Plain) will be fulfilled in the Millennium.

Prophetic Parallels to the Jubilee Year

Just what is meant by the Hebrew word for “jubilee”? It refers to the continuous blast of the silver trumpets as the Year of Jubilee was ushered in by the priests. “[…] Have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land” (Leviticus 25:9).

Ezekiel informs us that the “year of liberty” (year of freedom) will again be observed in the Millennium. He describes a procedure that will apply to a prince during that time: “But if he gives a gift out of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his until the year of liberty [the Year of Jubilee]; after that it shall be returned to the prince; only his sons may keep a gift from his inheritance [permanently]” (Ezekiel 46:17, AMP).

While it is indeed prophetic that the Jubilee Year will again be reinstated, it is the prophetic parallels and symmetry of the 50th year of Jubilee to salvation and the Millennium that are the most inspiring.

To begin, the number 50 is the year that follows 7 weeks of 7. Therefore, the Jubilee year was the 8th Sabbath in a 50-year period. The number 8 in the Bible signifies a new beginning. The blasts of the Jubilee trumpets parallel or foreshadow the final trumpet of the Lord (both for the Church, this being the final calling in the “Sabbath Rest”) and the last judgments in the Tribulation period, these being followed by the Millennium reign of Christ.

The precious year of the Jubilee can also be seen as the prophetic parallel of the Millennial “Year of our Lord.” That year is the Jubilee Year of the Lord. All sins and debts will be forgiven, i.e., canceled.

We see that financial debt in the physical dimension is the parallel of spiritual indebtedness to our Creator. Both must be paid back; both can be forgiven. There is only one difference: While mankind may be able to pay back debts on earth, he cannot pay back his sin debt. Only Jesus Christ can make this payment.

Thoughts to Ponder

God has created the world for His purposes and glory. He made it so the world could not function righteously without the concept of “cancellation.” It is not a coincidence that we commonly refer to the cancellation of debts as a “forgiveness” of debt.

God has designed a plan for both heaven and earth. He sent His Son Jesus Christ to pay the debt mankind owed to God that he could not pay… a transaction that would be extended to all those who would believe upon Him. Just as in the Jubilee Year of ancient times, this opportunity to cancel all debt (sin) is open to all.

How wonderful then is “cancellation”! How many households today would dance for joy at the cancellation of their mortgage? Consider that the word origin of “mortgage” literally means “death pledge” … a state of affairs that those in foreclosure proceedings will readily understand. However, it is the cancellation of our sin and reconciliation with Jesus Christ that brings the greatest joy for eternity.

We have been given this great promise: “There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience” (Hebrew 4:9-11).

The trumpets of Jubilee are ever nearer for the world!

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Wilfred J. Hahn is a global economist/strategist. Formerly a top-ranked global analyst, research director for a major Wall Street investment bank, and head of Canada’s largest global investment operation, his writings focus on the endtime roles of money, economics and globalization. He has been quoted around the world and his writings reproduced in numerous other publications and languages. His 2002 book The Endtime Money Snare: How to live free accurately anticipated and prepared its readers for the Global Financial Crisis. A following book, Global Financial Apocalypse Prophesied: Preserving true riches in an age of deception and trouble, looks further into the prophetic future.

If you have questions or other perspectives, you can contact Wilfred at staff@eternalvalue.com. Please note that for reasons of volume and investment securities regulation, he cannot give financial advice.