Very well done, Mark. It is too easy in America today, to begin to let our hands close to those around us. There are many caring people, but unfortunately, those who run the financial systems not only have closed hands, but seemingly, no hearts to even begin to work on. Read this interview with Dr. Parks. Very eye-opening about how these crooks operate and how the system is set up.
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"At its core, the monetary system that we have now is really a cheat. It helps transfer the wealth that ordinary people produce to the financial sector. You can think of it as a big vacuum cleaner, vacuuming up wealth from all over the world and transferring it to the financial sector. This is not a happy message and I understand that. The implications for investors are very dire."
"Mr. Greenspan is very explicit about this. He says we are subsidizing the banks. Part of the subsidy, and he repeats this five times — I take it as a warning — is that the Federal Reserve stands ready to create money “without limit” to bail the banks if the need arises. He repeats that five times in different places in the lecture, creating money — flat out of nothing — “without limit.”
What that means to ordinary people is that your careful savings of a lifetime and your pensions could be wiped out in an eyeblink. Why should you have that kind of risk exposure?"
"There are winners and there are losers. The losers are the ordinary people who lose their pensions, lose their savings and lose their jobs. The winners are the financial guys. Today the financial guys are getting so much money it’s an embarrassment. It’s obscene. They don’t even know what to do with the money. I don’t know if you noticed, The New York Times reported a few months ago that four bankers went out to lunch and spent $62,000 for lunch! Did you see that?
Part of that was four bottles of wine that went for $15,000 each. What business do restaurants have stocking $15,000 bottles of wine? That wine represents the life savings of some ordinary people. Here in the New York region, you have guys buying 300-foot boats and 30,000-foot houses! What’s going on here? These are young kids. These aren’t people who have produced products or services that improved the quality of life for other people. They haven’t discovered the cure for some dread disease. They haven’t invented something. Why is all this money coming to them? And very telling, also, there is this cute anecdote.
There is a financier in the New York region —I have nothing against him personally — his name is Ron Perelman. A few years ago, he married a woman whose name is Patricia Duffy. They had a kid and then they got divorced. In the divorce proceedings, for the three-year-old, Patricia Duffy said she had to have $35,000 a month for the child. Now, Jim, I cannot make up a list of how to spend $35,000 a month on a three-year-old. I don’t know how to do that. This is how these people live. What is it that they produce that all this wealth should come to them? The answer is they have special privilege. That just has to stop."
I remain,
SOROS
p.s. You may want to add that there is one little catch to receiving all that flows from God's open hands --- at least to the part about forgiveness of sins and an eventual heaven with God -- each person has to believe, repent, and ask for this forgiveness. So many -- especially in America -- listen to messages like yours, and assume that "everyone is going to the same place". That is, God is good, and if you are a pretty decent person, you automatically go to heaven. Or, that Jesus came and died so everyone gets in no matter what they believe -- you can be a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Mormon, an agnostic, or even an atheist. Jesus was very clear on the only path to heaven -- "no one come to the Father but by me." If it were that easy, there would not have been so many warnings about how narrow the path to heaven is and how wide the path to hell is. It IS easy to get into Heaven, but man must first bow his pride and accept something he does not clearly and completely understand from a creator he has not physically seen. Unfortunately, this requires at least an attempt to change man's natural sin behaviors, and most are not willing to do that. In America today, most think the word, "Christian" refers to everyone who is not Jewish or Muslim. Even those who grew up in many churches have simply a "head knowledge" of Jesus and not a "heart knowledge". The words I am saying are usually countered with a flippant, "don't judge others", or "I don't worry about that, God will take care of everyone", or "My God is a loving God." My words are important because not only is God a loving God, but He is a just God, and he will not share His worship with anyone or anything. I've been in dozens of churches around the country, and for the most part, people are being spoon fed "God is love" messages and "Care for others" messages, but they are not being told that they HAVE to believe in their hearts and ACCEPT with their heads that Jesus is the ONLY son of God, and His sacrifice on the cross is the ONLY reason any man will ever have the CHANCE to enter an eternal Heaven, but they MUST ask for His forgiveness, repent of their sins, and ask Him to be their one and only savior. There are many verses in the Bible that speak of the day of judgment when many will say, "Lord, Lord, did we not do this and this in your name. Did we not go to church? Wasn't my daddy a Christian? Didn't we volunteer for community things? Wasn't I a pretty good person? Wasn't I sprinkled? Wasn't I baptized? Didn't I believe that Bible story about Jesus being a good man and helping others?" And He will say, "Depart from Me, I never knew you."
I'm sure I will be tuned out and criticized as a pessimist, a trouble-maker, etc. People will say, "This is Thanksgiving. Can't you just be thankful and love everyone?"
I try to stay focused on what is important. Is it more important, in the final analysis, that people love each other and don't offend anyone but miss how they really get into heaven for an eternity or let others miss it? Everyone can love others and do good works (in fact we are supposed to), but in order to get as many people into heaven, we have to be divisive. True Christianity IS divisive. It is quick and powerful, but it DOES divide people. True Christianity will make those who refuse to bend their will uncomfortable. The world today is fast heading toward a one-world, all-inclusive religion where no one offends any other person. No one tries to get others to believe what they do. That is a sure-fire way for millions to miss getting into heaven. If the goal of most churches in America today is to make everyone "feel good" and be politically correct, then fine. But when final judgment comes, there will be a lot of very disappointed and angry people.
I, personally, believe the time is very short. The world has been for a long time now, slowly indoctrinating everyone with this washed-down, feel good, politically correct "religion". The other signs have been developing also, and we are only a few rogue events from having a setup where a true, one-world government and currency and religion are truly possible. Sure it COULD go on for a long time yet, but the possibility has never been so obvious. We are very close to having a new, complete generation coming up who will not believe that Jesus is the only way into heaven no matter what. And when God sees that the last person has accepted Jesus as their savior, the end-time wrapup will begin.
I plead that others do not miss an eternity because everyone has become "too nice". |
