Wednesday February 8th from 9-11am EST we have Part 6 of the Romans911 / NBB joint study on Zoom. We will be discussing true repentance and reformation – What does it mean to renew our minds?
Tomorrow we will discuss three possible future financial/economic scenarios and how God’s people can start to prepare now. We will do this as a way of thinking differently – as a New Breed of Business people – and how we can react well during times of uncertainty and shaking. This will help prepare us today for how to plan and live out our faith now and for the future. By the Spirit and in the natural. A hybrid of heaven and earth.
The discussion format will be this: we’ll lay out three scenarios and you – the NBB “management team” – will brainstorm about what could be done to address certain situations that may emerge. We will also evaluate and test the Storehouse models for how they would work under such scenarios.
Should be fun!
Pierre Wack – Royal Dutch Shell
Back in my strategic planning days in banking, we used a tool/method developed in the 1960s and 1970s known as “Scenario Planning“. This was made famous by Royal Dutch Shell, who through the leadership of Jimmy Davidson, head of Shell’s economics and planning, brought Ted Newland and Pierre Wack together as in-house “futurists”. The duo had a knack for shaping plausible, yet unlikely, future scenarios. And Wack, through his flair of his storytelling developed as a former magazine editor, was highly effective presenting such scenarios to executive management. They were able to imagine future scenarios and “think outside the box” of regular management and planning to solve potential problems. Wack was able to get management to react to his “what would you do if?” type of questions. What emerged were common solutions that came out of the divergent future scenarios. This allowed for Shell to prepare ahead of time for what might eventually come. And it did.
Shell famously prepared well for not one, but several crises. The oil embargo of the 1973 middle east crisis was the first. Their management team was prepared for this. All of their competitors were caught out, unprepared. And in turn, Shell thrived during those times of crisis and increased their market share and profitability.
OK, so how does this translate for us?
Three Scenarios for Discussion
1. China invades Taiwan. The US and its allies in the region hesitate militarily, and decide once again to extend its Russia-type sanctions against dollar trade with China and its allies. But it backfires as supply chains are even more disrupted than during COVID19. Further, it backfires as an Eastern block of nations coalesce with many OPEC nations, distancing themselves from the dollar and trading petro-yuan and petro-rubles instead. Israel finds itself having to develop relationships beyond the US for its financial, energy and economic security.
Chuck Pierce’s Passover Prophecies and War of the Future Church (see Trade Wars writeup and podcast)
2. A new global financial crisis emerges and US banks close for a period of six months, when the banks reopen the government bails-in the banking system by renegotiating loans and haircutting deposits.
3. Inflation takes off again and the economy goes into recession. Many staples become scarce (famine). US Government receipts decline, so it has to borrow much more – well beyond its capacities to repay. The Fed tries to keep raising interest rates to tamp inflation, but now all sorts of unintended consequences arise. The government can no longer afford to pay its interest, and there is no political will to keep raising rates. So the Fed reverses course and prints money in a desperate attempt to revive the economy. All global credibility and trust in the dollar goes away. People panic and a run on the banks ensues. The existing USD effectively starts to fail. As a result, FDIC deposits are frozen. Debts can no longer be paid with old dollars. After a brief time, a new CBDC (digital dollar) is introduced that the banks have been testing behind the scenes. Old dollars are no longer accepted for many things. If you want to use old dollars, you have to bring them in for destruction, and only then are you issued new digital currency at 100:1. But that dollar is now controlled by a central authority. You can only use your money to purchase approved items. Rations are also introduced. Paper money is gone instantly because in the crisis, Americans become desperate to try something, anything. Democrats and Republicans alike.
We will be entering into a teaching time followed by prayer time of Coming out of Babylon and Divorcing Baal / Mammon (deliverance and healing prayer).
Roundtable Discussion: Shakings – first Japan, then US/World
A headline caught my attention Dec 20th: Bank of Japan shocks global markets with bond yield shift. What was the shift? The BOJ is winding down the yield curve management that was ushered in by Haruhiko Kuroda as BOJ President starting 2013. He has stated that he will not seek reappointment at the end of his term April, 2023.
Why does this matter? Because it could be a signal that the BOJ reserves the right to raise short-term interest rates at some point in the future. It could happen quickly and by surprise. This could portend/trigger other global financial events, as it did in 2007.
When was the last time this happened? 16 years ago at the end 2006 and the beginning of 2007. The BOJ raised rates. It was unexpected. It was premature for their economy, which was still greatly depressed and had just turned positive for the first time in a long-time.
The Lord visited me with a word on Jan 2, 2007 when our family was in St. Thomas that surprised me. Here is a summary:
This word changed my life. The net result of its coming to pass, for me personally, was that it marked a shift in my way of thinking from simply running a specialized US long-short, public-private hedge fund using Wall Street models, into thinking globally, and paying attention to the macro financial markets (such as currencies), with the opportunity to shift generations of wealth for good. This also coincided with a shift in my business practices away from pure capitalism and into biblical economy (the New Breed of Business reform) and with that, the Storehouse vision. God making ready Storehouses of finance and resources throughout the earth for his Kingdom’s purposes, not adhering to the ways of “Babylon“. Like a type of global endowment for the Church at large, if you will.
Back to Japan…
Japanese stock market never fully recovered – even 35 years later…
So what emerged from all this is there seems to be a financial pattern: first Japan, then the US/rest of the world. Fittingly, Japan is known as the land of the rising sun. Where does the sun rise first? In the east. In Japan. What happens to the Japanese experiment in monetary policy has then flowed into the rest of the world’s thinking, starting in the US.
Let’s look at some important – not so great – firsts and facts:
FIRST – JAPAN
FOLLOW – USA / EURO
STOCK MARKET CRASH
1989
2008
0% SHORT RATES
1995
2009
0% 10Y TREASURY
2016
2019
DEFLATION
1998
2009
DEBT TO 100% GDP
1999
2013
DEBT TO 200% GDP
2010
CENTRAL BANK QE – GOV DEBT
2001
2009
CENTRAL BANK QE – ETFS
2010
2020
CENTRAL BANK QE – 50% OWN GOV DEBT
2022
Now, I’m not sure exactly why Japan might be a leading indicator for the Western world’s central banks and economies.
Some believe that the USA missed the opportunity to introduce the gospel and Christianity to Japan in the post WWII reconstruction period. Unlike Europe, Japan’s nation was never rooted in Christianity. Instead, the US helped reconstruct and “Westernize” Japan’s economy post-WWII through introducing democracy and capitalistic economy, banking and financial markets. But, the absence of any Judeo-Christian moral grounding and guardrails, its implementation led to the decade of Japanese decadence and triumphalism of the 1980s. Japan’s economy grew twice as fast as the US from 1960-1989. By some measures, Japan was briefly the #1 economy in the world in the late 1980s. Its financial markets were on a tear. Its real-estate was the most expensive in the world. Its manufacturing efficiency and quality was the envy of the world (remember Kaizen and Just-In-Time manufacturing?)
But not anymore.
Bob Jones Earthquake Prophecies
There is a key prophetic pattern to understand that relates the geo-physical to the geo-political/financial: The Bob Jones earthquake prophecies. Both natural and economic earthquakes. First, the big one will hit Japan physically (fulfilled March 11,2011), then the big one hits West Coast USA physically as well as an “economic shaking” to the US/World:
First Japanese Quake -> then West Coast USA quake
First Japanese Quake -> then US/global economic shaking/meltdown
Bob Jones Earthquakes Dream/Vision 1989 (incidentally the year the Nikkei also tanked):
First, N. California Coast quake will be witnessed all around the world (fulfilled Oct 17, 1989 during world series televised game)
Second, a Japanese major quake (fulfilled March 11, 2011)
Third, a major California quake (beyond what has been seen – not yet fulfilled)
Part of the prophecy relates to an “economic unraveling”, a “financial collapse”, “economic meltdown”, that will hit the US and the world. All of this is God lifting his hand which currently is “holding it all together”. It is a remedial judgment of God which we pray for his mercy, and the grace in its aftermath to repent and reform.
Rick Joyner’s advice for Preparation:
Build our houses on the Rock of Jesus Christ
These coming financial shakings are one of the reasons why we work toward the Storehouse Vision.
Wednesday December 21st from 9-11am EST we have Part 4 of the Romans 911 / NBB joint study on Zoom. We will be entering into a teaching time followed by prayer time of breaking-off of replacement theology and anti-Semitism that has come through our family bloodlines or otherwise (deliverance and healing prayer). There is homework for this, which is in the study guide and the videos (see below). As always, if you need financial help purchasing the study Guide, we have scholarships so please let Grant or I know. Also, let us know if you have trouble playing the videos.
Below is Grant’s email with the homework assignment…
Beloved, Please note the change of date and the HOMEWORK for our December meeting. Wednesday December 21st – 9-11 AM ET.HOMEWORK FOR NEXT SESSION – we are asking everyone in our group to watch the first part of Session two (video #3) in the R911 Study Guide video teachings before our next meeting. Please do your best to plan this time and watch the first teaching, as it will have a significant impact on the next teaching session that we will watch together as a group. When you purchased the R911 Study Guide* you would have received a user and password to access the Video teachings on the Website. To access the videos, please follow the instructions below: Click on thehttp://romans911.org/website and at the top, all the way to the right, click on the MY ACCOUNT tab – Then enter your user and password – Then click the VIDEO TEACHINGS TAB – Then click – Watch Christian Version – Then click the arrow down – Then click: Christian Part 1 – PERSONAL FOCUS – Teaching # 3 – SESS 2A In the STUDY GUIDE – To follow Teaching # 3 – SESS 2A, you can read SESSION 2 – THE RESTORATION Part A – Christian Obstacles – Page 23. Please let us know if you need some help, or if you have any questions. Lots of love in Yeshua,and for His Glory, Grant&Hali
*Please note, to engage in the study, you will need to purchase The Romans 911 Study Guide book. When you do, you will immediately receive free access to review and watch our 14 hr video series that are taught in tandem with the Study Guide teachings. – https://romans911shop.org/
Roundtable Discussion – No Plan B in the Kingdom of God
Lot came out of Sodom. But, his wife looked back (Gen 19)
Israel came out of Egypt. But that generation looked back (Num 14)
Judah came out of Babylon. But Ezra commanded them to leave their foreign wives and children (Ez 10)
Today we share testimonies of coming out of financial Egypt / Babylon and trusting God instead for provision with miracles coming forth. No half in, half out. No one foot in the world, one foot in the Kingdom. No Plan “B”.
We discuss the importance of avoiding fallback plans as FAITH-KILLERS and SELF-SABOTAGE, subconsciously or otherwise. Often this has to do with fear and control. When we fully trust God and eliminate fall-back plans, God honors our faith and often involves miracles.
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him
Hebrews 11:6
The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me.’
Judges 7:2
But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do
James 1:6-8
Part of the discussion will surround the implications of leaving behind institutional debt and mortgages, FICO scores, stock market gains, 401k/IRA retirement plans, bigger barns, etc. We will hear testimony of vows made in obedience to God and their scriptural precedent.
Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.
James 4:13-15
An Israelite’s Failed Retirement Plan:
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.
Luke 12:16-20
In that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold…
Isaiah 31:7
An interesting perspective on these things: Preparing for the End Times with Monte Judah:
We also examine the difference between faith in what God said and desires, versus divining what we want or vainly imagine/desire. And how that often gets confused in our money culture. And the more innocent matter of “I thought what God said would happen looked different than what actually happened”.
This week we hear from Joel Frazier about his recent missions trip to Uganda, explore the intersection between the Storehouse and missions work, and pray into the future of this mission.
Discipling missions trip in the New Breed of BusinessCharcoal Kiln ProjectUgandan Macrame EntrepreneursJoel Clownin’ with the Kids
Joel’s debt miracle and refinancing story in the NECAPJinja, Headwaters of the Nile
Gregg’s ministry trip Jan 2007 to Uganda. Had a dream about the inheritance of the Storehouse and the New Breed of Business. Ministered in Jinja, where Joel went 15+ years later, fulfilling the dream…
We will discuss the basics of starting a Storehouse using two types of funding models at any group level (church community, city, county, state, region, nation) :
1. Create an evergreen “Common Fund” or “Storehouse Fund” to serve a community on an ongoing basis. You can think of this as an “and they laid the proceeds at the Apostles feet” as per Acts 4:35. You also can think of this as an Endowment or Foundation.
2. “Storehouse Project” funding whereby individuals within a community can opt-in or invest side-by-side and project by project. As part, each individual can also “store” resources in a type of account where they have the flexibility and choice to: invest from, transfer funds in and out of, have principal returned to, donate, purchase goods or services with, and receive gifts or dividends. There are 3 basic types of projects, which we generally categorize as: Assist (benevolence), Equip (interest free loans) and Destiny (dividending loans).
And how a hybrid of the two works together…
These models will focus around a simple USD based Storehouse, but can be done with any currency, or you can create a local currency (see Alt Currency podcast).
– What happened? – How did we get here? – Future of Crypto? – Implications for the Storehouse Vision – Failure of Crypto’s “Bridge” and the “Ark” – How greed undergirds and undermines crypto
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