Kingdom Come Series - An Excursus
Further Evidence of the End of US Economic Hegemony Over the Nations
EXCURSUS: “a detailed discussion of a particular point in a book, usually a digression in a written text.”1
Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money (mammon).
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
In 1972 Richard Nixon unhitched the US dollar from the gold standard. This was a necessary move, there is a limited amount of gold in the world. If the dollar is attached to gold, then there is a limited amount of wealth to be created for an ever expanding population, meaning, there won’t be enough to go around.
But unhitching the dollar created another problem, how will the value of the new dollars that need to be created and wealth expanded be secured? Enter the so called petrodollar, brokered by non other than the evil depopulation genius Henry Kissinger. An agreement was made with the oil rich nations of the middle east to exclusively sell oil to the nations only denominated in US dollars. This created unlimited demand of US dollars worldwide, because oil makes the world go round - literally. If every nation is required to obtain US dollars in order to buy oil, then every nation must keep a significant store of US dollars in reserve. Oil is that important. This agreement has allowed the US to print as much money as we want without experiencing inflation. Genius indeed.
For more on the background of the “petrodollar”
Orders from Riyadh – Part 1 – The Birth of the Petrodollar System
Orders from Riyadh – Part 2 – The Birth of the Petrodollar System
Technically, it is the US military that backed the US dollar, not oil. The arrangement was particularly guaranteed by the US providing military security to Saudi Arabia, the largest oil producer of the OPEC nations. Thus the economic boom of the 1980’s, freely printed debt money issued in helicopter cash was making the ultra privileged class very rich.
But then someone went rogue. In October of 2000 the notorious Saddam Hussein decided to begin selling Iraq’s oil in Euros rather than dollars. I think we all know how that turned out.
In spite of that outcome in 2009 Muammar Gaddafi, then leader of Libya, also suggested his country stop selling oil in US dollars. Bruh, seriously? He met the same fate as Saddam, as Hillary Clinton famously crowed, “We came, we saw, he died!".
Sanctions
Wars are expensive not only monetarily, but in human lives and in political capital with other nations, who might feel threatened by being excessively hawkish. Outside of the US, our government is already considered to be the most feared in the world. So it is necessary to find other ways to keep rogue national actors in check.
Enter economic sanctions and the SWIFT banking system:
“Need to transfer money overseas? Today, it is easy to walk into a bank and transfer money anywhere around the globe, but how does this happen? Behind most international money and security transfers is the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) system. SWIFT is a vast messaging network banks and other financial institutions use to quickly, accurately, and securely send and receive information, such as money transfer instructions.
More than 11,000 global SWIFT member institutions sent an average of 42 million messages per day through the network in 2021, marking an increase of 11.4% over 2020."2
It is hard for other nations to conduct business if they can’t exchange large transactions securely with other nations, and that is very difficult to do without access to the SWIFT banking system. Although it isn’t located within the US, it is controlled by the US. So if a nation is getting out of line, this is how they are brought to heel. Like we muzzled Iran and like we have currently been trying to muzzle Russia.
Because our financial institutions can so easily create debt without experiencing inflations, we can lend obscene amounts of money to other countries that play along with our interests. And we are more than happy to create debt slaves out of them. Combine that with the punitive power of controlling the SWIFT system and you have what is know as US economic hegemony. We don’t directly rule other nations like old empires used to, we control them through economic intimidation. There is emerging evidence, however, that this system of control is in its twilight hours:
Russia Coal and Oil Paid for in Yuan Starts Heading to China
April 6, 2022
Coal cargoes to arrive this month, followed by crude in May
China has long bristled at dollar’s dominance in global trade
“Russian coal and oil paid for in yuan is about to start flowing into China as the two countries try to maintain their energy trade in the face of growing international outrage over the invasion of Ukraine.”
The Big Stiff: Russia-Iran Dump the Dollar and Bust US Sanctions
Now if you can’t connect the dots, and figure out what this means, then I have some amazing ocean front property in Odessa, Texas to sell you.
I haven’t even mentioned that almost half of Russia’s federal budget is comprised of fossil fuel sales.3 How do you think this jives with the globalist agenda of eliminating the use of fossil fuels by 2030? Do you honestly think Russia plans on destroying their economy by playing along nicely with that agenda?
This is why war with Russian and China seems an unavoidable conclusion to many who speculate that exactly that is on the menu of the globalonyists. And that just may be a death blow to the United States economic empire, opening the door for a dramatically new Harlot Babylon system to emerge out of its ashes.
The Good News?
Economic dissidence. Some states, lead by Texas, see the handwriting on the wall and are beginning to take action by setting in place alternative economic systems that will not become captured by this coming satanic mammon tyranny:
THE BULLION REVOLT: WYOMING AND OKLAHOMA
Body of Christ, Take Note:
Revelation 13:16 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, 17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
Just like the US has exercised coercive power over the nations through financial intimidation, the scriptures predict satan will use the same tactics to force compliance with his evil agenda to crush God’s saints. We must think about and cooperate with alternative schemes of finance to make sure we don’t get sucked into and deceived with the easy life and wealth that accompany this great harlot’s agenda.
And no, cryptocurrencies are not an option:
Digital Dollars – the Real Agenda
“The monopoly of the government to create money goes back to ancient times. They will not surrender that power. They have allowed cryptocurrencies to exist ONLY to get the people to embrace them letting the private sector sell the idea and then they will confiscate them all.” ~ Martin Armstrong
Please pray for God to raise up economic and political dissidents in our region!
Revelation 18:3
For all nations have drunk
the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality,
and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her,
and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.”4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,
“Come out of her, my people,
lest you take part in her sins,
lest you share in her plagues;
5 for her sins are heaped high as heaven,
and God has remembered her iniquities. . .15 The merchants of these wares, who gained wealth from her, will stand far off, in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning aloud,
16 “Alas, alas, for the great city
that was clothed in fine linen,
in purple and scarlet,
adorned with gold,
with jewels, and with pearls!
17 For in a single hour all this wealth has been laid waste.”