Roundtable Discussion – Financial Faith 101 with Jonathan Friz
We discuss in 2 parts the Proverbial wisdom surrounding work, wealth, productivity, frugality, generosity, and righteousness (we are calling this “101”). Much of which is focused on having good character. Not taking shortcuts. Working diligently. Helping the poor and the disadvantaged. Also how wisdom is superior to material wealth. And heavenly riches are superior to early wealth.
Then in part 2, we will see how Jesus builds on these truths, taking them further in the department of trusting God with all by Faith, even if it is to our seeming detriment (to make a way for ourselves, to defend ourselves or bring justice). This also includes operating in miracles and wonders in the area of provision. (We are calling this “201” or “301”).
Quick Example:
Foundational 101 Proverbial Wisdom: “A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich” (Proverbs 10:4)
Supernatural 201 Faith in God: “Seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given unto you as well” (Matthew 6:33)
We discuss wealth. The difference between material wealth and spiritual riches. How material wealth is desirable and can be a good thing. If it is brought by the hand of the Lord and by diligent work, that is a wholesome thing. However, if it comes from worldly, even evil character traits (selfish ambition, profit at the expense of others, idolization, unhealthy material desire, etc.) it can be a corrosive and corrupting thing. Think of Zacchaeus before and after.
The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, and he adds no sorrow to it
Contentment – link to NBB Devotional: Secret of God’s Economy (download)
LaRed Workbook – deeper dive educational material based on many scriptures in Proverbs regarding business practices. 40 studies. (courtesy of Gary Crawford)
On today’s discussion we look at the rise of Anti-Semitism globally, and why it is important for the Church to always support the Jewish people and stand by Israel.
How the Hamas attack against Israel is part of a broader strategy to turn people and popular opinion against Israel and against the Jewish people. To use the Palestinian people as not only human shields, but an anti-Semitic foil through the UN and the mainstream media. Ultimately, the terrorist groups of Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthi, and Iran have publicly declared their strategic intent of the elimination of Israel and the extermination of the Jewish people.
We not only need be aware of this, but we can not grow complacent in our support for Israel and the Jewish people. We love both the Palestinian people and the Jewish people and pray that “all would come to the saving knowledge of Christ”. But, we cannot just throw up our hands and say oh well is a 50% / 50% war that’s been going on forever, so let’s just stay out of it. No.
I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curse you. And in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed
God’s promises to Abraham – Genesis 12:3
A really good read is Bibi, the auto biography of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It really reveals the terrorist tactics used against Israel and the Jewish people, starting with the death of his own brother Yoni in Uganda on the hijacked El Al aircraft in the 70s.
I would not have you be ignorant of this mystery…Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come… in this way all Israel will be saved
Romans 11:25-26
Mike Bickle teaching on the error of Replacement Theology being baked into most seminaries and seminarians. That Calvin and Luther both embraced this subtle form of replacement theology – that Israel should be treated as a spiritual matter only, no longer a political, physical matter of the Jewish people and the promised land of Israel.
The Fishers and the Hunters
Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says the Lord, “and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks
We hear from Dan Coakley, friend and fellow ex-Wall Streeter. Dan and I met here in Westport, CT in 2008 at the Firehouse (our old offices) and he has an amazing testimony you won’t want to miss.
Dan’s Story
My personal journey and being pursued by the Lord starts after I was on Wall Street in the late 1990s and 2000s. And the sort of lifestyle that entails and all the darkness it brought me into.
(Dan started his Wall Street career at Lehman Brothers in investment banking, then moved into private real estate investment, but prior to that he was a speechwriter in Congress for an elected official after graduating Dartmouth as their #1 tennis player.)
God never gave up on me. He used Gregg and the New Breed of Business Bible study as a lifeline and way back to Him – which kept me connected, even if by a thread, with St. Paul Westport. St. Paul ultimately, years later, played a huge role in both myself and my daughter being saved by Jesus. I really feel God’s main purpose in keeping Gregg and I close and St. Paul in the picture was so I would be able to later bring my daughter to Church as a highschooler, at a time when we both needed Jesus desperately. And through that, and in the years that followed, I was brought so much closer to the Lord in my own relationship with Him (including through a St. Paul mission trip I went on with my daughter this past summer).
I truly have seen miracles happen and many of my prayers answered – including in the recent hiring of a Christian ex-colleague where I work. God’s fingerprints were all over that. It’s still a real challenge for me to fully rely on the Lord. I was always programmed growing up with the value of self-will, self-power and hard work, etc. I really need to have Church and friends and small groups and things like that so I don’t stray too far off the path and become overwhelmed.
(Today, Dan still works in real estate, but he is now focused on affordable housing and trying to make a difference in what he does at work to help people.)
Before going into P12 of our joint study material, we discuss with Grant Berry the worst terrorist attack in the history of modern Israel. Its geo-political consequences. The Abraham Accords. The future of Gaza. Israel and the Church’s prophetic destiny leading up to the Yeshua’s return in the one new man, and prophetic fulfillment of scripture.
Psalm 122
I rejoiced with those who said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.” Our feet are standing in your gates, Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is built like a city that is closely compacted together. That is where the tribes go up— the tribes of the Lord— to praise the name of the Lord according to the statute given to Israel. There stand the thrones for judgment, the thrones of the house of David.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you be secure. May there be peace within your walls and security within your citadels.” For the sake of my family and friends, I will say, “Peace be within you.” For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your prosperity.”
Doug has written a good primer to learn more about a biblical worldview of economy and the history of money: I Came to Give (with this link you can sign up and get access to the eBook and Audiobook). Doug has also made available a PDF version of Part 2 of his book. It is called “The Traditions of Men” and is a dive into monetary history from 600 B.C. to present.
Doug is also part of the Storehouse leadership team.
OWNX is based in Lawrence, KS and is a fractional metals platform. This means you can buy and sell precious metals electronically, but you physically own the inventory in a remote depository. You also have the flexibility of taking delivery of your metal to your own physical location, either in the form of bars or coins.
The company was founded in 2008 as Silver Saver, with the recognition that the precious metals market, specifically the silver market lacked transparency, cost efficiency and ease of use, especially for smaller investors/savers. Read more about the history here.
This is a tool you can utilize to build your own regional Storehouse (see Storehouse vision for more on that), either through a non-profit entity, a church or a business entity. You can also use it personally and soon, they are launching a precious metals IRA that is fully integrated into their online platform.
To give you an idea of their value alignment with the Kingdom, when the Dobbs decision was handed down by the SCOTUS last year, they immediately instituted a Child Adoption Policy to show their support for life.
Related Scriptures
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Genesis 2:12
And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
Genesis 13:2
And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’ “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’ “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”
Preaching the gospel of the Kingdom includes living the Kingdom M-F and discipling in the God’s Economy today
Jesus/Yeshua meets his virgin ONM bride in his second coming, as the Bride longs for the Millennium reality by practicing it earnestly today The Bride having come out of Babylon, as Babylon is judged into the tribulation judgment period
Romans 911 Project and New Breed of Business Joint Study
We will discuss FedNow, what it is exactly, what are the implications of this new payment rail. It’s potential leading toward a future CDBC. Its potential to create a crisis. Its potential to be used during a crisis. We also will discuss FedNow in the context of the Storehouse Vision.
This is Part 2 to last weeks discussion: Pennies on the Dollar. (if you missed last week’s discussion, this would be a good one to join).
(sent to Gary Crawford July 19th, day before FedNow surprise launch day)
Risk: Could be used in a Crisis
SWIFT payment system and ISO 200022
FedNow uses a new (to the Federal Reserve) data format for sending payments through FedNow. In fact, it is the same standard as SWIFT now uses, which is a European based international payment system. They utilize the ISO 200022 message standard and so now, the Fed is going to adopt that standard go forward. That implies it will be very easy to subsume the Federal Reserve dollar system and payments into SWIFT which is closely aligned with Europe, The Euro, and the European Union, being HQed in Belgium and being principally owned as a cooperative corporation by its member banks, which are primarily European (Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Santander, etc.)
Payment System = Buying and Selling
It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.
It can be as simple as 10 people coming together and putting $100 each into a coffee can.
The Storehouse Visions intends to have Storehouse Communities and Funds to be separate/independent from the Fed Reserve banking system and the financial markets. This is part of the “Break-Away Bridges” strategy.
Regional Storehouses are already putting into practice the following break-away bridges:
Putting money to work by investing in people and Kingdom projects (eg, loan refinancing, housing, auto financing, 10 Days of Prayer Film, etc.) Ecclesiastes 11. Cast you bread on many waters and it will come back to you.
Holding physical currency instead of keeping everything in the bank.
Not investing money in the financial markets / credit products (stocks, bonds, swaps, money markets)
Storing resources in precious metals through a fractional metals physical ownership platform, such as OWNX.com
Storing resources in grain, food stuffs, tools, other reusable supplies
Investing in community gardens and farms. Growing food locally.
Investing in Community water supply, electrical generation, etc.
Finally, the biggest “hedge” or strength of the Storehouse Vision is the value of the Storehouse Community – i.e., people working together in unity under God for His purposes to help others.
Recently there have been some prophetic warnings about a potential USD / banking crisis and financial markets downturn. We first sent some of these words out a couple of weeks ago via email. Today we discuss them.
Below find two timely prophetic words that are worth listening to and praying into. Something might be up in the near term (into this fall) that could impact US monetary/ financial markets/ banking. Not claiming these voices are accurate, you be the judge. As always, ask the Holy Spirit for 2 or 3 confirming witnesses.
We know in part and we prophesy in part
1 Corinthians 13:9
One of our NB team members Liz Lalama found the Tim Sheets word and said it sounded similar to what we have been preaching and teaching about on the New Breed of Business about God’s people being set free from financial slavery with Egyptian Pharaoh / task master analogies (read Ezekiel 29-32). The Troy Black word just recently came out. I’ve been keeping my eye/ear on him as a young prophetic voice not from the usual streams. He was the one with the “Pennies on the Dollar” vision and word. As I was praying about this, an intercessor friend sent me an email of a video discussing FedNow and I sensed a link.
Do not despise prophecies, but test everything. Hold on to what is good.
1 Thessalonians 5:20
Key Warnings and Takeaways
Here on the New Breed of Business we have been speaking about for over 12 years various waves of difficulty coming. These words point to similar issues coming.
– Be prepared for bank runs / closures where you may not be able to withdraw some/all your money from the bank (eg, David Wilkerson – Bank Holiday; John Paul Jackson – Funds About to Dry Up prophecies). Meaning, don’t blindly keep all of your money in the bank assuming it will always be available. As recent as 1930s, banks were closed in the US. It happened in Cyprus in 2013. When banks were reopened, they paid “pennies on the dollar”. 50 cents on the dollar to be precise. See Forbes article here.
– Be prepared for further USD inflation / devaluation (eg, Chris Reed $50 bill dream; JPJ – Stagflation, Hyperinflation; Shane Warren – $1 hurricane prophecies)
– Be prepared for a large Stock Market “hit”. Meaning, don’t blindly keep all of your money/investments in the markets.
– Be prepared for Bond Market / other credit products meltdown (eg, derivatives)
– Be prepared for a banking crisis (Federal Reserve system) which could trigger not only bank closures and inflation, but revaluation in conjunction with potential issuance of a replacement currency or some type of Federal Reserve Digital Currency (CBDC – Glenn Beck has spoken about this scenario as well as other commentators)
Troy Black key prophetic phrases
“The Pennies on the Dollar”
“Warn My People of It’s Coming”
$20 bills individually rolled up in jars/can
“It would be better to put money in a jar on the counter…”
“It would be better in a safe”
Storehouse Vision
We are asked all the time: What should I do with my money? What should I invest in?
“I will now deal with the oppressors of my people”
“I will move swiftly and with jealous aggression with my First Responders for I’ve heard their cries and I will break the hold of the taskmaster’s rule”
“the disheartening crack of the taskmaster’s whip will no longer be heard by my sons and daughters they will not carry the burden of their oppressors they will not toil for their enemies gain”
“they will not glean empty Fields because they worship me. No, they will own the fields where they have gleaned”
Part 7 of how to create a storehouse series (biblical alternative to babylonian banking), tomorrow we will discuss the concept of “breakaway bridges” and how you can effectively implement them. Part of the discussion will be about precious metals, inflation and Chris Reed’s $50 Bill dream.
Many people want to know how to create a Storehouse (community pooled resource fund), and often the most convenient way of doing so is through a non-profit and use of regular checking accounts for ease of use and compatibility with the various accounting, payment systems and digital platforms. However, then your communities’ resources are being stored in a system that can fail in the future. So how do you make sure your assets aren’t subject to bank failures and inflation?
You deploy the idea of “break away” bridges. That is to say, you don’t store all of your resources in the FDIC / USD / Wall Street basket. So, if those things go away (hyperinflate, become worthless), you continue on.
Quite simply, a break away bridge is like a drawbridge. If a storm washes the bridge out, you’re still fine. You’re not dependent on the bridge but interact with others in peace time and sunny days. This is a bit like the gates concept in Jerusalem, where the gates were open S-F, but closed for sabbath, closed if an enemy was approaching, or if there’s an external threat. You have the capacity to endure through a flood, and even if the bridge gets washed out, you can make it and build the bridge back when the storm passes.
Moral hazard is a phrase used to describe allowing bad behavior in the financial markets. For example: in capitalism the free market is thought to self-correct greed and fear by the “invisible hand“. But if government or regulators bail-out bad actors, they can be perceived to allow bad behavior, such as greedy investing. A classic example of this was back in the financial crisis when Lehman Brothers was allowed to fail after the regulators bailed out Bear Stearns earlier that year through a forced sale to JPM.
The idea has merit on the surface – set an example by allowing bad actors to “fail”, that way others will think twice before thinking being so greedy. The problem is, it is hypocrisy if the “pot calls the kettle black” which is to say, if market participants punish the greediest, but applaud their slightly less greedy investment structures, that is nothing but hypocrisy
All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away
Isaiah 64:6
Hank Paulson during the financial crisis of 2008 was faced with these and many other dilemmas. The day after they allowed Lehman to fail, they had to bail out AIG, which was a far worse problem. WAMU failed. Other banks and financial institutions failed. The cost of attempting to let Lehman fail in the name of moral hazard was TARP and massive, broad based bailing out of the financial system to rebuild confidence.
Other examples of moral hazard arguments are made about Student Loan forgiveness. This is a strange one, because the bible says to forgive all debts every seven years. But many Christians are decrying the government forgiving student loans by saying “what about all the responsible people who didn’t go into debt?”. However, we have to be careful not to embrace envy: “hey, how come they got free money and I didn’t?” At the same time, the only way we can forgive federal student debt is to pay it off with general federal debt. So, its not forgiving debt so much as it is shifting debt. An argument can be made this is better, but… This is our reality right now. We are faced with just a series of bad choices.
Speaker McCarthy’s Dilemma
The Republicans hold a narrow margin in the house right now. Speaker McCarthy’s election is on even thinner ice. Because a block of ultra-conservatives (House Freedom Caucus) put him over the top earlier this year, they also now have a gun held to his political head saying in essence: “if you don’t get the Democrats to agree to spending cuts, we will vote you out”. Back to Moral Hazard, the argument made by such financial hawks are: “if we don’t starting cutting our spending, we are going to go bankrupt as a country”. However, if the US government runs out of money through these negotiations, it may imperil our ability to continue to borrow money as a country. If that happens, the USD could partially fail and be relegated to just another currency. In other words, we risk losing being the world’s reserve and settlement currency. Many dominos could fall.
So is the debit limit brinksmanship liken to letting Lehman fail? Time will tell…
Chicken or Egg?
The last time the nation faced the debit ceiling crisis and not being able to service its debt was back in 2011 and 2013. We have a window into the discussions that were held then. Ben Bernanke explained that the first cuts would come to other government services, not principal and interest payments on the debt. Is that still the case? We will find out. What then will get cut? Social Security would be a political smartbomb. What else could get cut. Would that then create a partial government shutdown? Will the June 15th tax receipts be enough to limp through?
Banking Math
M2 money supply roughly $21Tn
Paper currency and coin in circulation $2Tn.
Bank Leverage is at least 10:1 – meaning $9 is lent out and $1 is held in reserve out of $10 of deposits
Bank reserves roughly $3.2Tn currently
Question: If we had a run on the banks and the financial markets (people pulling out hard cash from banks and money market (read short term bonds), would there be enough currency on hand to satisfy a run? If there is not enough, what then will the regulators do?
We can look to Cyrus and Greece as to how this was handled there in recent times…
Peter and Family on the road in various RV Communities
Peter is a friend and Kingdom unity catalyst hailing from New Hampshire. We met through a New England Alliance young leaders retreat several years ago. Peter is also an entrepreneur, having created a school textbook business from the ground up listening to the Lord.
Here Peter’s background :
In 2008, Lord gave me a textbook business that as I listened to him and did what he showed me. It rapidly increased as the market decreased. Did this until 2013 when the Lord invited me to “follow Him” and I left the business and followed Him. First destination was NH where I served a youth focused traveling discipleship ministry. After that the Lord sent me to Iris Leaders school in California for 9 months. After school I returned to NH and served in the house of prayer in Manchester while also connecting believers in the region.
Soon after got married to Greta and started a family as well as a residential remodeling business. This business allowed us to buy a rundown house, renovate it and sell it after enjoying it for 2 years.
He then led us as a family to “follow him” and we moved into an RV and followed where He led us! We started with one child and have added two more children since being “on the road”.
We’re being led towards starting more businesses that will fund the Kingdom and the things on His heart for the coming years!
Our family’s favorite song is “into the unknown” because the Father has proven Himself faithful over and over again as we orient our lives to carry out His plans here.
Family retreat center idea NH
Areas of Refuge Vision
God has him and his family on a unique RV journey throughout the country. Here is a vision he had recently which will be the basis of our discussion :
One night, after the kids were asleep, we joined together to praise the Lord and pray. I entered into a vision and appeared before me were communities of refuge all along I-81. This interstate highway runs all the way from Eastern, TN all the way to Canada! I saw them as necessary hubs, holistic communities that provided housing, food, training and care for a later to be known future need. I sensed there would be need for medical care and spiritual care. I sensed there would be need for these communities to be self-sustaining with income/business options, farms and food, an abundance of housing options and meeting spaces. I sensed that there was some type of upcoming event (even nuclear) on the east coast and this was the place where much of the eastern seaboard would run to for refuge.
Laying the Right Foundations
Peter and I have been having great conversations about humility and selflessness. Business opportunities given by God are more open-architecture green houses than “keep-it-secret and corner the market” kind of thing. The former is Kingdom and the latter is the way of worldly business thinking. This is the New Breed of Business.
Likewise, Peter says:
We’ve learned that community for the sake of doing community is also inherently selfish. It has to be laid-down love that looks like surrender and sacrifice. Aka Jesus. Do we want eternal foundations? Or Hype? (social media etc.)
Here is something he also pasted on FB
I see the Lord, raising up a countless number of home and parent type scenarios around the world that are being made ready to welcome the hurting and broken. So many that no one person or group can take credit for this move of God. These ones are being trained to come out of tradition and religion (which has a focus on form and function). They are being drawn to come back to learning Gods ways of love and family. Taking spiritual elitism, tradition and language out and replacing it with Gods original design of conversational talk leading to a (super)natural enjoyable life of surrender. One that starts in the Spirit and flows to the natural. I see these parents and families being ready to welcome a large number of children home and these children carry inside of them the blueprints and plans on the heart of the Father for his thoughts (glory) to cover the earth in the next season. Habakkuk 2:14. These children and plans will come disguised as broken vessels, often offensive to the religious. The parents job is to help them learn how to obey everything The Father has commanded, showing them who they are in Jesus first, then releasing and encouraging them to follow His commands and walk out the vision He has placed in their hearts! Currently we feel led to “relationally connect” these groups to create a larger “net” so nobody gets missed whom God has called home. These separate groups or “networks”, move and live as if they are one as we are One Body, the body of Christ. Nothing is their own, homes, land, wealth, etc.
Peter shares what they have tried to help create with their community there in the Greenville, South Carolina area…
Kingdom Wealth Transfer
The other dimension of our discussion is Kingdom wealth. Here are some thoughts from Peter on that…
The transfer of wealth from the wicked to righteous. I know we have an ever evolving understanding of the ways of the Lord, but I wanted to share an insight The Lord has given me about one way it can work and is playing out currently in our lives.
From 2008 to about 2013 I had a college textbook business. I would buy college textbooks from college professors that publishers had sent them for free as junk mail type marketing material in hopes that the professor will adopt their book and therefore would have X amount of books sales at usually around $200 a book. It’s no secret that the publishing industry is certainly overpriced and arguably greedy. So because of this giant, standing up, if you will, perhaps, could even be referred to as the prostitute of Babylon. She created a shadow market that allowed us to come in and provide a win-win situation for everyone else, but the wicked. We provided a recycling source for these un-asked for books, which put cash in the hands of professors, then we sold them to another Christian owned company who employed many believers, who then sold them back to students at a reduced price. Our market would not have existed if the book was not originally priced at +/- $200. Therefore, it allowed us to accumulate the wealth that the evil created until that market no longer existed or shifted as it has.
In my own personal story, this is what enabled me to be a missionary to New Hampshire for the years, leaving South Carolina, and before I got married. The Lord in His wisdom allowed me the freedom to just serve him from the fruits of serving Him in the business that He had given me.
Fast forward to today, I see the same thing happening in the solar and lithium industry.
Just a few days ago, the Lord connected me with a source with a consistent supply of larger sized lithium batteries that still have about three years left on their service life. My guess (hunch) is they probably have 2 to 3 times what the manufacturer state is left in them. The industry that they came from would take no chances in a battery failing so, they probably de-rated their life from the manufacturer and then the end user also did the same.
My hunch is that the US probably won’t get to the place where we ever get the production up to the current (inflated) demand, because the industry will likely shift with political powers, etc. so it seems like a window of time (~5 years) for this opportunity. Other battery types are more sustainable and less destructive to the earth, but not widely manufactured yet.
The southeast is becoming the auto manufacturing center of the US and with the shift to EV stuff, battery recycling companies are setting up plants near these auto manufacturers.
The other side of this is used solar panels! Many industries have panels piling up and don’t have a way to discard them, there are already some companies selling used panels. I have access to these also.
Looking into it now to ponder which business model best reflects the fathers heart, so that we can make this a community business that can support his kingdom, I am eyeballing a “benefit corporation” but not set on anything.
We discuss the emerging banking crisis with the very recent failure of Silverlake, Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and now even larger and multi-national Credit Suisse. Who’s next? What’s next? Is this the big one? What to do?
Now, those who have been with the New Breed for a while know God has been warning us about shakings coming to the US financial system and how to repent and prepare by Coming out of Babylon and entering into the Storehouse Vision. In January of this year, God impressed us to hold a “Scenario Planning” discussion. Remarkably, there were several quotes from the various scenarios which turned out to be prophetic:
Select Quotes from NBB January 2023 Scenarios
“The Fed tries to keep raising interest rates to tamp inflation, but now all sorts of unintended consequences arise.”
“People panic and a run on the banks ensues.”
“A new global financial crisis emerges and US banks close… when the banks reopen the government bails-in the banking system.”
Remarkably, the 3 hypothetical scenarios touched on MUCH OF WHAT IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW. Praise God for the preparation of his people. “Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.”
Amos 3:7
Prophetic Word from 2008
Just as it looked like there was light at the end of the tunnel during the 2008 financial crisis (after TARP, bailouts, Lehman’s failure, etc.), I felt the Lord say:
“this is not the end – it is only the beginning of the end”.
With that He gave me Ezekiel 29-32, a section of scripture known as the “Coming judgment of Egypt”.
This is also known as the “seven-fold judgment against Egypt”
There is a timeframe in this passage of 40 years
And I felt like the Lord was saying this is coming in waves of shaking – possibly 7 waves or a ‘complete set’ of waves, which started in 2001:
2001 911 Attacks
2007-9 Financial Crisis
2020 Covid19
2022-23 the emerging banking crisis…
Further, I felt the Lord was saying the US led Global Financial Markets and Banking (ie, Milton Freedman’s clinical capitalism) were likened to the pride of “Pharaoh” and the strength of “Egypt” and was being judged accordingly.
The main sins of Egypt were: pride, self-interest, self-made man, worship of man’s hands (eg, technology), military power, idolatry of money, exploitation of the poor, etc. AND the seduction of the Church (Israel) into all of the same.
This passage has several prophetic keys:
Ezekiel 29: 3-9
“Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, that says, ‘My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.’ I will put hooks in your jaws, and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales; and I will draw you up out of the midst of your streams, with all the fish of your streams that stick to your scales. And I will cast you out into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your streams; you shall fall on the open field, and not be brought together or gathered. To the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens I give you as food. Then all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord.
“Because you have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel, when they grasped you with the hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke and made all their loins to shake. Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you man and beast, and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste
Then they will know that I am the Lord.
Deutsche Bank Next?
Is Deutsche Bank next?
AT1 bonds are a newfangled instrument that changes the capital structure. Dubbed bail out bonds, the bonds aren’t worth anything if the bank fails through central bank bailout or government takeover.
What to Do?
As always, we will discuss how the Storehouse Vision is already directly addressing these financial judgments through repentance/reformation, and by bringing believers together in community to “love one another” which means to invest in one another. The question is not: how do I preserve my wealth? But: What is God saying in the midst of this shaking and how do I respond to come into alignment with heaven?
Listening to the Heartbeat of Israel What is God doing? Saying?
It has been said that Israel is God’s prophetic timepiece and Jerusalem the seat of His Throne. Tomorrow we discuss what is going on in Israel and how that affects everything not only in the Kingdom of God, but in the world. Economically. Politically. Spiritually.
So we watch Israel, as we listen to the heartbeat of God. Praying for these dry bones to live! (Ez 37). Let’s explore the timing and alignment of Israel’s preemptive actions and how they relate to other key global moves.
Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do
1 Chron 12:32
I am very jealous for Zion;I am burning with jealousy for her. I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem.Then Jerusalem will be called the Faithful City, and the mountain of the Lord Almighty will be called the Holy Mountain
Israel has an interesting relationship with Russia and China. They have not gone along with all the Western Sanctions, nor have they declared Russia an enemy. Why? We discuss.
This is Part 6 in the “How To” Create a Storehouse Series…
We will have a time of question and answer about starting or operating a “Storehouse”. All questions are fair game:
How do fees and costs get paid for ?
Who makes the decisions about what projects to work on ?
Can we charge people interest ?
How do we attract interest ?
How are debts forgiven ?
What’s more important: storing up or putting resources to work ?
Your questions ?
We will have those who have participated in storehouse communities field people’s questions…
Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?
