I rarely have a watch date but August 12th happened to have come up on the “radar”. It could be economically oriented. Be vigilant! I have no other details. If nothing happens on that day other than the usual, no worries. It may be personal or corporate. At this juncture, I have no idea.
Archive for August, 2013
August 12th: Watch Date
Sunday, August 4th, 2013Today’s Online Bible Study
Sunday, August 4th, 2013At 3 PM Central Daylight Time we will have our next Bible Study live on the Internet. Servias Ministries offers this to allow our brothers and sisters around the world to pursue the most important characteristic of Our Heavenly Father with us. HIS Love is the primary motivation in which all of creation is framed. All aspects of understanding the depth of Scripture require us to view revelation from a standpoint of Love.
Notify your friends of our Bible Study and give them an opportunity to join us. As the Revelation of Love expands our the globe, people’s lives will be transformed.
This week we will continue our study that follows Dr. Speckhart’s new book: "Quantum and Non-Quantum States of the Lord Jesus Christ" and he is scheduled to be with us for the broadcast.
To participate live or watch this Bible study as a recording afterwards, go to http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-baptism-of-love
We look forward to your participation and viewing.
Dr. Speckhart’s new book: "Quantum and Non-Quantum States of the Lord Jesus Christ" may be ordered online atwww.unity153.net (click on "Purchase Books")
What “fear” do you submit to?
Sunday, August 4th, 2013Psalm 111:10 The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do [his commandments]: his praise endureth for ever.
Everyone submits to one fear or another. You either fear man or GOD depending on your level of revelation. Men with no revelation fear men and the systems they put in place. The central planners use fear to sway people toward their way of thinking. Your ego uses fear to keep you under submission. The mind is where the battle is fought and determines the path you take. If you submit to the ego, then you take the path toward death and destruction. If you submit to the Fear of the LORD thus making your mind a willing servant to your spirit, then your path leads you to life and reconciliation.
The ego will create a problem for it to solve then try to prove its need to dominate your life. It creates complexity to keep you a slave to maintaining all those needless processes which ultimately deteriorate into nothingness. You must ask yourself if you are creating things, issues, processes, that require more time and resources simply to maintain. Is there any future in what you are creating or is it simply a “time burner”?
The current system majors on this very task. It creates an enemy for the country to go war with for a decade or so. The country spends trillions of dollars fighting an enemy who is hard to identify. Then after several years, the campaign is deemed completed and the soldiers come home. Many die or are wounded. Families are gutted. Resources are spent. For what?
The attack of 911 created fear in the hearts of the American people. The enemy had to pay. However the wrong question was asked. How come the Divine covering was lifted from America?
In Judges chapter 6, Gideon was afraid of the current system controlled by the Midianites. He was hiding in the winepress while threshing wheat. His fear of the Midianites controlled his actions. Isn’t that similar to today’s society? Are you afraid of losing your Social Security, your pension, your job, etc? At any rate, he was minding his own business, surviving in fear of those currently in control. Why were the Midianites in control? The children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD. So the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years, The problem was each man did what was right in his own eyes. Sounds like the ego was in control.
“Because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made for themselves the dens, the caves, and the strongholds which are in the mountains.”
Fear caused the children of Israel to retreat to dens, caves, and mountains. Why not reside in the valleys?
“So it was, whenever Israel had sown, Midianites would come up; also Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them. Then they would encamp against them and destroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep nor ox nor donkey.”
The Amalekites (from Eliphaz) represent the money changers, the banking system itself and all those who are overcome by the love of money. The Amalekites extracted the wealth from Israel. Much of the fear today is based on the loss of perceived wealth and entitlements. The money changers know this and use this fear to maintain control of the masses. In Gideon’s time as it is today, the fear of man was much greater than the Fear of the LORD. After seven years of captivity, the LORD intervened:
“And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him, and said to him, “The LORD is with you, you mighty man of valor!””
Gideon was reminded of his gifts and calling which had clearly been inactive. Why? Gideon had been living in fear. It was time to activate Gideon’s calling but first Gideon needed a Divine revelation about his fear:
Judges 6:23 And the LORD said unto him, Peace [be] unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.
The WORD of The LORD produced faith in Gideon’s life. He immediately responded and knew that he know longer needed to fear his current circumstances. Now is the time for change to come. Once you replace the fear of man with the Fear of The LORD, you shall live and not die for now you are on the path to wisdom, understanding, knowledge, and skill to operate in your calling.
Truth in the Transaction: Part 1
Saturday, August 3rd, 2013All of us take part in transactions everyday of our lives. A transaction is any activity that involves an exchange of value. When you breathe, you exchange carbon dioxide for oxygen. The plants win, you win. What a great and fair system of exchange. Transactions occur inside your body as well as all across the universe. In economics, we mainly focus on business transactions and their impact on our finances and our wellbeing. In this sense, a transaction is any activity in business that involves money. It occurs when something of value is exchanged with something else of value. In this arena, man has the ability to directly influence the outcome whether it is good or bad. Our Heavenly Father placed the Law of Equal Weights and Measures to establish a standard by which men and women should conduct business:
Leviticus 19:35 ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume. 36 You shall have honest scales, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
37 ‘Therefore you shall observe all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform them: I am the LORD.’ ”
There should be no question where Our Heavenly Father stands concerning business conduct. The buyer should never pay too much nor pay too little. It does work both ways. It should be a fair exchange of value. It should be a win-win situation. This standard should permeate throughout business and economics but it doesn’t. Lies, deception, misleading statements, exploitation… have all become commonplace in our society. All of these are acts of lawlessness will one day be reconciled. It seems we have to be vigilant nearly everywhere we transact business these days. How refreshing it is when we do business with an honorable person. There are many laws on the books concerning truthfulness but for the most part, they are not enforced. Man, I wished I received a hamburger that looked like the one advertised in the commercial!
Government reporting has become substandard. Why? Men have interjected their bias for political gain into the equations to improve the perception rather than simply report the facts. They understood the power of managing perception of the populace by reporting an illusion so often people actually believe it to be real. Remember the Titanic?
John Williams at www.shadowstats.com created a business of reporting the facts about the economy using the government’s own data. He simply uses the formulas the government used prior to their manipulative adjustments so that his subscribers could look at “apples to apples” comparisons, a fair look at the economic trends. He provides us “truth in the transaction”. The latest employment numbers in the following graph provide the stark comparison of the truth versus man’s manipulation”
John’s Blue line shows the reality of the U.S. unemployment. The red line shows the managed perception. Yes there are pockets of prosperity around the country but they are offset by the severity of unemployment in other areas. Remember, he uses the raw numbers generated by the government’s data collection process.
Each of us makes decisions based on the information available at the time. If the information is based on unequal weights and measures, our decision will be flawed and could prove to be disastrous. If an auto manufacturer has a design flaw in their braking system, wouldn’t you like to know before you purchased their vehicle? If a business has a history of deception, would you want to buy a product or service from them? In the end, we all want truth to prevail in our transactions.
The Obvious Exploitation of Retirees
Friday, August 2nd, 2013In 2008 when the Fed lowered the savings rate to virtually zero, the retirees were severely hurt. To add insult to injury:
Swaps Probe Finds Banks Manipulated Rate at Expense of Retirees
I will soon be writing about “Truth in the Transaction”. It’s time.
Mistrust in the Current System
Friday, August 2nd, 2013Gold went into to backwardation recently. Backwardation is the name for the condition that the market quotes a lower price for a more distant delivery date, and a higher price for a nearby delivery date. This means that people want the delivery of gold now rather than later in the futures market. Why? There is developing an expectation that delivery might not occur later and the settlement could take place in cash instead. Trust is leaving the system. People are now getting concerned there might be a shortage of physical gold available for sale and delivery.
Consider this, the global economy is worse off today than it was in 2008 and the stock markets are at record highs. Why? The central banks keep pumping money into the system but the underlying system is not improving. Can the U.S., Britain, Japan, and other large European countries ever pay off their accumulated debt? Not in today’s currency value. Only by further depreciating the currencies can they attempt to pay off debt. Yes, you can print enough dollars to pay off outstanding debt but the currency would severely devalue as you complete the process. Your creditors would be the losers. Do you think bondholders will tolerate a severe depreciation of value of their holdings? No, they will demand higher interest rates to offset devaluation. If this happens then the United States will have a severe increase in interest expense and consume much of its tax revenue. The Federal Reserve manipulated the interest rate down to cap the nation’s interest obligations. The Fed is between a rock and a hard place.
As I have written in the past, the price of gold is the canary in the mine. If the price shoots up, it is an indication that currencies are depreciating at a higher rate. This is why the central banks have committed to manipulating the price of gold, especially in the last two years. This can only happen to a point before the global investors as a whole see through the scam. Once that happens, the paper price of gold (futures market) will decouple from the physical price of gold. Backwardation is the first sign of this occurring. Premiums for physical gold are beginning to increase. At some point you will not be able to reconcile the paper market with the physical market. When this day arrives, the paper market will crash and the physical market will take over in pricing. I would expect us to see dramatic increases in the price of gold on a daily basis.
In the last seven years, the U.S. official debt has gone from $8 Trillion to $17 Trillion. Employment numbers do not reflect any true improvement thus the tax base cannot pay off the increased debt. It took the country 200 years to get to $8 Trillion.
Government bonds will collapse and pension funds will suffer dramatically. Expect to see additional cities and municipalities file bankruptcy when this occurs. Wealthy investors’ bond portfolios will dramatically contract which will cause them to quit spending. This will have a cascading affect further affecting the Gross Domestic Product and reducing tax receipts. In turn, the government will have to borrow more money. There is not a positive outcome to this situation for the current system.
Currently in most countries, governments are the only buyers of their own debt. What’s wrong with this picture? This means that debt is increased simply by printing more money with no backing. A decline in purchasing power is assured for those holding that currency. Isn’t this fraud at the highest level? This satisfies the Ponzi scheme definition.
A hyperinflationary depression is a likely outcome. This is where prices increase even though demand from lower output decreases. It’s a double whammy. Higher prices with less people employed. This would ultimately cause a reset to the system. A system of equal weights and measures is the only plausible alternative once you have lost trust in the current system. If people no longer trust the current money being issued, they will flock to an alternative store of value. Gold backwardation is the first sign that this could be happening on a large scale.
John Williams of www.shadowstats.com stated in his July 17th newsletter:
Nothing is normal: not the economy, not the financial system, not the financial markets and not the political system. The financial system still remains in the throes and aftershocks of the 2008 panic and near-systemic collapse, and from the ongoing responses to same by the Federal Reserve and federal government. Further panic is possible and hyperinflation remains inevitable.
Our Heavenly Father is the only One with the path of deliverance from this mess we are in.
The Unsustainable Path
Thursday, August 1st, 2013If there is anything you should plan for, it is the unexpected. The last seventy years since WWII has been a relatively stable growth period with manageable ups and downs. The problem is that the assumptions used by the central planners did nothing to insure sustainability of the current system. There is much debate by intelligent people about how all of this will shake out. Each has his own view of the elephant in the room. The problem is that nobody is able to see the BIG picture because nobody has the capacity to comprehend all of the facets of complexity that now exist in the current system. Everyone is searching for that one person who has all the answers so that the coming pain will not be felt by them or their families. You can find an opinion about anything no matter which side of the argument you are on. What everyone is really seeking is revelation. That, my friend, is the real issue.
I have made hundreds and hundreds of investment decisions over the years. In looking back, I only needed to act on about five or six. The others simply wasted time and resources. How simple would life have been if I only acted on revelation rather than allowing my ego to participate in those investment “opportunities”. That brings me to the point, how do you get revelation from Above. Our Heavenly Father is the only One who can see the BIG picture. Wouldn’t your time be better spent seeking HIM and HIS Character than expending time and resources on those “opportunities” that just won’t pan out? It is counterintuitive to the mind to do this. Our Heavenly Father put gifts and a calling in each one of us. Each of us should focus on what will produce fruit in our lives. Our fruit will supply nourishment to the whole Body of Christ.
We are in an epic transition period. Each of us should be preparing for what is coming. Those who make a commitment to hear Our Heavenly Father’s voice and respond with action will be the ones HE entrusts with bringing forth HIS Kingdom. Those who focus on becoming one with HIM and taking on HIS Character of Love will lead all men to restoration. Those who have the Law written in their minds and on their hearts will be the ones who receive the needed revelation to navigate mankind through the change from the current, unsustainable path.
Unity will be the key to the solution. A willingness to sacrifice “self” for the benefit of others will enable the transition to take place with minimum pain. Holding on to old systems will simply slow the process. Just as there were those that held on to the Passover period when Pentecost had fully come, there will be those who hold on to Pentecost when the Age of Tabernacles has fully arrived. Don’t look back but look forward. The past is history. Don’t cling to the sisters: “Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda”. Now is the time to focus on the revelation of Love. Now is the time to understand the Character of the Lawgiver. Now is the time for revelation, not just more information. With all the information available to us on the Internet, we still lack one thing, revelation! That will be the key to the future.