New World Currency?

After last Friday’s downgrade on the nation's credit rating and the stock markets kept tumbling over, concerns about the weakening U.S. economy, and the debt crisis in Europe, China calls for One World Currency to avoid international financial crisis over U.S. debt. 

A few days before, more precisely on August 1^st, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told a Kremlin youth group while touring its summer camp north of Moscow, that the United States is living beyond its means "like a parasite" on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets. Then he added that "Countries like Russia and China hold a significant part of their reserves in American securities ... There should be other reserve currencies."

Notice that both countries, China and Russia, are basically saying the same. Without going into deep eschatology, the Bible mentions that Russia and China will be the ones that will ignite the last world war on the face of the earth, Armageddon.

The Bible also mentions that in the days of the Antichrist the world will be under One World Currency, a currency probably stipulated by him. Analyzing the end times prophecies we can see that the platform which will bring the Antichrist into power, with full acceptance by the world and its leaders, will be a financial crisis that no world leader, no high qualified economist, no one will be able to control it. But the Antichrist will.

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What’s going on in the world economy is a wake up call, that we are closer than ever to these end times days. How close are we? We are at the edge, the turnaround of the end times.

Here, many people are saying that the world “always had its ups and downs. Things were much harder in the time of the great depression then they are now, and no antichrist showed up, no rapture happened.”

One thing that these “analysts” don’t know is that many signs prophesied for the last days, were not visible, were not active, in those days when the world economy was in jeopardy. One of those signs was that the state of Israel hadn’t been established yet.

The state of Israel was established in 1948 (May 14^th). After this, after 1948, the world was never the same anymore. This prophecy having been fulfilled was the gate to the end times. After this, anything is possible concerning events prophesied for the last days.

Bottom line is that, now… the rapture can happen at any time and the antichrist can show up at anytime.   

The Apostle Peter in his second epistle, verses three and four, gave us a warning by saying… “Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, ‘where is the promise of His coming?’”

On charisma Magazine, August 2011, there was an article by Perry Stone where he said that “many apocalyptic Muslims who hold traditions concerning the last days believe there will be a worldwide economic crisis in which all paper money will be useless. The only money of value will be money consisting of gold and silver.”

“History confirms that when a major economic crisis blankets the world, precious metals such as gold and silver are sought after by investors, businessmen and private individuals.”

Have you noticed that lately there are more and more ads of financial companies offering their services to people who wish to invest in gold?

If for some reason the Antichrist decides to govern the world based on silver and gold he’s a fool. He will be charged by fraud and behind bars for a thousand years. In Haggai 2:8 we read that: “The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, said the LORD of hosts.”

Will this be the new world currency during the millennium (thousand year reign of Christ)? Jesus told John the Apostle in Revelation 3:18 “I advise you to buy from me gold purified in fire so you may be rich”.

At this point when Russia and China are calling for a new world currency, it’s the turning point.

You might be asking, “are you saying that I should invest in gold?!”

(…maybe later…).

 Right now, just take Jesus’ advice: “And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws near”. Luke 21:28

The Positive New Year

Today is the first day of this New Year of 2011. The year just started but many “experts” have already presented their predictions. I really don’t want to get into this subject otherwise I’ll be here all day. I just want to say that we need to be very careful of whom we’re listing to and how we create images of this New Year based on someone’s negative predictions that will have some impact in the days ahead if we give it some attention.

If you listen to the media and the weather forecasters you will want to bury your head in the sand and wait till the year is over. No question that the media and the weather reports for this New Year are very negative, very scary. I say a lot of times that if I didn’t know what I know and if I didn’t have what I have (the Word of God), inside of me, I would be very scared to live in this world today.

If you are at this stage of relying in the media and the forecast reports, or any other negative report concerning this New Year, let me tell you this: God can turn around negative situations and bring to your life positive results. Yes; if you let God work in your negative situation, then you can expect Him to bring you, bring to your life, from the midst of that situation, positive results.

Right now you’re probably not giving me a lot of credit on this unless you have (like I have) experienced it before and more than once.

To help you understand this and look to your New Year beyond any human reports, first of all I want to let you know what God says in His Word concerning this New Year, for which I believe you have some plans, projects and dreams to come true.

In Jeremiah 29:11 we can see God’s expression concerning our life and His will, for the best, concerning the days ahead: For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

To me, God’s positive thoughts for my life, for my New Year are so positive that there’s no room for any negative to remain. Believe it or not, to me this is more than enough. Based on God’s prediction, my New Year is already tailored for the best.

To reinforce this, I want to give you an example that will help you believe that God can really work the negative and pull out the positive.

You probably never heard this before, but I have to let you know that the negative always works in favor of the positive, so that the positive may reach… the objective.

Imagine that you’re on vacation, you’re on a cruise and you’re visiting beautiful places. You get hold of your camera and you just capture that beauty that your eyes see. You do your best to capture all you possibly can to get a great photo. After a few shots, you say to yourself… I got it! At this point you know that you have a great picture. Now pay good attention to this: You captured a great picture but you don’t have it yet, right? Why? (And this example that I’m about to give you, is based on the conventional way of photography).

When you finish taking pictures, you pull out from your camera the film and you take it to a photo shop to… to do what? To develop it, right? Now, very carefully get hold of this revelation that you’re about to receive: When you bring the film to the photo shop, you ask them to develop what? The “negative”!

That’s the official name of the film where you captured your beautiful photos. So we can say that in that negative you captured beautiful (positive) photos. Your beautiful pictures are in the negative. So now, from that negative they will get out and give you, the beautiful photos that you and others can see.

Did you get it?!

By this, how hard is it to believe that God can get out of the negative in your life, beautiful results that were around you (inside the negative) but you couldn’t do anything about it, till the moment that God shows up and starts to develop your… negative.

My point here is that, God will move in your difficulties, in your storms, in your problems, in your illness, in all your negative circumstances, if you’re willing to hand Him the negative, confident that He will develop it, bringing to you, to your hands, to your life… positive results.

Remember this, God is the creator of ALL things, and He can do anything, if you just give Him… something. So, on this New Year (starting today) don’t try to develop your negative. Remember, you’re not an expert. God is. So give God a chance.

Have a Happy, Prosperous and Blessed New Year.