Please note that I no longer hold to many of the positions that I have discussed in this blog post. Rather than deleting, I have kept it live as reading it retrospectively might help to see how I have evolved my thinking. I discussed this change here.
If eschatology is the most complex topic on earth, then the financial system might come in a close second - so to combine both into one piece that explains how they fit together to someone who has little understanding of either might be a challenge, but I am going to do my best! Though given that my objective in everything I write is to get people to pick up a Bible for themselves, then all I am really trying to show here are some current and predicted trends that will make you go hmmm.
As I spoke about in the story of my journey to faith, my pre-faith life was pretty heavily focused on understanding global economics and it was in this process that I became aware of the illusions regarding the money that runs our entire material world. Before I had begun to look at all of this as a spiritual battle, I realised that we were headed for some kind of calamitous financial event that was going to destroy the world as we knew it and bring in a new system. In preparation, I was doing everything that a material atheist would do - shifting wealth into gold, storing food supplies, learning to hunt, having a bug out plan, getting off the grid, trying to get out of the cities. Funnily enough, I now agree with my wife’s assessment at the time that I’d lost my mind and yet fully agree with these measures as a strategy if you don’t believe in the spiritual element of what is happening. Fortunately now, thanks to God, I have put my faith in Christ and no longer worry about material provisions and yet today more than ever I am convinced that this end game is imminent. My initial realisation early on in my journey to faith that we fight not against flesh and blood but rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness in high places (Eph. 6:12) led me to the realisation that we can see what and how everything happens next by following the Bible. Just recently, the finance world has gone into a spin regarding the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and though I pay far less attention to these events than I once did, its another significant sign post that we’re fast approaching the end times spoken of in the Book of Revelation. Therefore in this piece, I endeavour to marry up my existing understanding of the financial and geopolitical world to show how current events align with what is prophesied in the Bible.
Given the complexity of this topic, I think it’s important that I start with a few caveats. Just as the most sophisticated of investors are unable to predict the future market direction, eschatology (study of Biblical end times) is a topic that not only divides the most learned Biblical scholars but ultimately is a subject that no one will accurately understand until after the events have passed. I think about predictions on the Book of Revelation in the same way that scholars would have thought about the coming of the Messiah in 100 BC - though they could discern key details which would be confirmed when he arrived, it was only after the fact that they’d have realised all of the nuances of Jesus Christ as prophesied in the Tenach. As such, I want to be clear that I’m not a scholar or even teacher of eschatology - I am simply a believer in our Lord Jesus Christ who is trying to discern real world events and connect them with scripture. Additionally, given that many of my readers are non-believers I intend for this to be a broad stroke explanation on end times scripture rather than a detailed deep dive that studies the thousands of individual cross references that are required to justify a position. As with other pieces, I intend not to exalt myself and my own opinions but rather to point readers to the teachers who have influenced me the most for those who wish to dig deeper. And as this graphic shows, the Bible has at least 340,000 cross references where the end points to the beginning and the beginning to the end - so no mans prediction of Revelation is ever going to understand the events to the same degree that God has predestined them. Given that the piece dives into predicted outcomes of financial markets, I will give just one recommendation pertaining to financial advice - Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (Mat. 6:19-21)
As a starting point, let’s consider the very broad view of what the end times entails. Apart from some very obviously deceptive ministries, it is unanimously accepted the there is a physical and literal second coming of Jesus Christ which will mark the end of the Church age and beginning of the Millennial Kingdom. Matthew 24 gives us a chapter of Jesus’ teaching to His disciples on what signs will mark this period - there are to be wars, rumours of wars, pestilences, famines, earthquakes and believers will be hated of all nations for His namesake. Christ also references The Book of Daniel and the abomination of desolation (Dan. 9:27), meaning that this end time period will be over a literal 7 year period. These aforementioned sorrows will lead the world to its final empire, which though short lived, will have global control and nearly all people will worship its leader who is the Antichrist. It’s at this point that Jesus Christ will return, coming in the clouds with great power and glory (Mar. 13:26), to defeat the Antichrist and deliver God’s judgement and wrath on an unrepentant and wicked world. A new heaven and a new earth (Rev. 21:1) will be established where those who have repented and accepted Christ as Lord and Saviour will dwell with Him forever.
Don’t get me wrong - I understand that if a non-believer is reading this, it all sounds incredibly far-fetched and unrealistic but its not for me to sanitise or water down what the scriptures make explicit. I also believe that the reason God is calling people like me to not only come to faith now, but also write about these things is that real world events and Biblical prophesies are converging at an ever increasing rate. Therefore people who today might think the Bible is fiction will see and experience things tomorrow that get them asking questions that they never imagined they’d consider.
Now that we have established the broad Biblical backdrop of end time events, let’s start to focus on real world events of the past few years and then predict what might be coming next. Clearly covid and the vaccine are the significant items of the past three years and though I have absolutely no intention of arguing my position or convincing readers of the conspiracy at play, I’m not sure there’s many people left who haven’t worked out that its a conspiracy. Three years ago you would have to share articles from shady websites to convince someone of a conspiracy and the vaccines weren’t safe and effective, now you just have to turn on the 6 o’clock news or Saturday Night Live to learn about it! Two sentences is all I’m going to devote to the covid debate - but what I want to show is that there is a very real awakening (or so-called) happening regarding the ‘global elite’ that control our world. As recently as 2019, topics like Freemasonry and the Illuminati New World Order were really just the domain of very fringe groups in places like 4Chan, but fast forward to 2023 and I’d argue that the ‘anti-NWO’ movement is quite possibly the largest political group in the world. If you’re still relying on mainstream media then you might not realise this, but one only needs to look to the US and Trump or Elon Musk and Twitter to see the scale of it. I’m going to talk more about this ‘revealing of the new world order’ theme that we’ve seen happening and I expect to see more of, but before we go there I’m going to zero in on the global financial system.
I could easily get bogged down in the complexities and history of our global financial system, but I want to speed up the history lesson and ensure that readers have a broad understanding of what our system is today and how it operates. There’s some key events of the past century that have shaped what we have now - the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913, the Great Depression in 1929, the Bretton Woods system in 1944 that tied all global currencies to the US dollar and the Nixon shock in 1971 that unpegged the USD from a gold standard. There’s some key events since, but essentially everything up to 1971 laid the foundation for the financial system of today - one where all of the worlds ‘money’ is tied to and determined by what the Federal Reserve declares that it is. We currently live in what's called a fiat money system - fiat coming from the Latin term that means ‘let it be done’. In essence, whether it’s one USD or one million Argentine pesos, the value of each of these is the value we know because the Central Bank has said ‘let it be done’. It is all imaginary monopoly money which is not to say that it has no value, it’s just to say that it only has value so long as the central banker says that it does (and the people believe them).
The first key element of our monetary system is that it is all fiat, or by decree, but the second key element is that it is all based on credit. To understand this, we can consider an island with its own monetary system. In the first system, the island banker finds 100 specially marked shells which will be used as money, then the whole island trades these shells among themselves to buy and sell goods and services. Whether there has been a lot of economic activity or very little makes no difference to the amount of money in circulation - there’s never any more than 100 shells and each shell is always worth 1% (1/100) of the total monetary wealth on the island. Many people might think that our world operates with a similar system, except that the island banker can mark new shells as money that come into circulation periodically, but that’s not the case. How our system really works is that there are no shells at all, money is made when a citizen asks the banker for money and the banker issues them a piece of paper to say that what they own is money (but they now owe the bank that amount plus interest). The paper that says the bank will receive the amount plus interest (a bond) also becomes a very important financial asset that banks trade amongst themselves and create various derivatives from. Theoretically, this can be the most effective monetary system as it allows monetary expansion to create increased economic activity - for example the banker can issue multiple loans to citizens which they use to build new businesses, which creates more jobs and prosperity for everyone (sounds like the rhetoric you hear in the news, right?). In reality, bankers end up only issuing loans (and therefore creating new money) for things that they can take collateral on to cover their risk - so the island ends up with a monopoly board style economic system, where all the wealth is concentrated into hard assets like housing and they’re all owned by a few wealthy landlords whilst everyone else is stuck in a debt trap. This is a great 10 minute video from one of the few economists whose opinion I highly respect that explains how money is created.
Now that we have a basic understanding of a fiat monetary system, I want to shift our focus back to the post-1971 global monetary system that we currently live within. As I noted previously, there isn’t a single nation whose currency and economic system is not tied to the overall system - so for the first time in history we’re living in a truly global monetary regime and we should keep that in mind as we talk through what we’re witnessing. There’s a quote from the famous banker JP Morgan where he says ‘gold is money, everything else is credit’ and its important to understand this in the context of the shift from gold in 1971. What the de-pegging meant was that we could enter a period where the only money in circulation was credit. What that has done has created a 50 year era that’s been marked by cyclical periods of credit bubbles and credit busts with each one getting more violent than the one before. Additionally, what I suggested would happen on the money island is what has happened in the real world - all of the credit has become concentrated in fixed assets rather than operating businesses. This is why all the bubbles and busts of the past half century have all been driven by asset bubbles - the ‘87 stock market crash, the 2000 tech stock crash, the ‘08 global financial crisis , not to mention the more regional events like the Japanese asset bubble of the early ‘90’s.
We can think of the financial system in the same way we might think of a house construction - when its built on fragile foundations, every band-aid fix to a problem that arises not only kicks the can down the road on its ultimate destruction, but ultimately makes that final destruction far more significant than if it had been allowed to collapse when the issues first became apparent. As such, all these ‘solutions’ that we’ve seen to the aforementioned crises have only contributed to creating an even bigger collapse that is still to come. This is perfectly explained by the famous Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises - “There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.”
When you have a monetary system that’s entirely based on credit, two things become extremely important - the cost of credit (interest rates) and the availability of credit (liquidity). A financial crisis is always in one of two opposing categories - it is a tightening of credit/liquidity that leads to a bust, or it is an expansion of credit/liquidity that leads to a bubble. Tighten too much and you get the 1929 Great Depression, expand too much and you get the hyperinflation of Weimar Germany a few years earlier. The policy response is always a balancing act and the more band-aids that have been applied to the system, the higher the margin for error and the more volatile the reaction will be. Both of these tools are ultimately controlled and dictated by the Federal Reserve. That level of centralised control is scary enough on its own, but it’s even more significant when you consider the trend of the last few decades that has been referred to as the financialisation of everything. An increase or decrease in interest rates, or an expansion or contraction in liquidity impacts everything. Looking at the world through the lens of interest rates and liquidity, there’s been an overwhelming trend that’s been going since the start of the 1980’s - interest rates have gone lower and credit has expanded at a rapid rate, creating the single biggest bubble in the history of the world in every single asset class simultaneously. It explains why an average family home sells for millions of dollars, why companies that have never made a profit and never will raise money at billion dollar valuations and why cryptocurrencies that are designed to be a joke like dogecoin can be worth $90 billion.
With this in mind, let’s consider the events of the past few years. At the commencement of 2020, the powers that be in this world decided to shut down the entire global economy almost overnight. This had the very obvious ramifications of not just collapsing financial markets, but also causing chaos in the ‘real economy’ with businesses shutting down and laying off staff at a rate never seen before. In response, the central bankers moved interest rates to not only 0% but even into negative rates in some places and simultaneously flooded the financial system with liquidity. Just as the knee jerk shutdowns had an obvious reaction, so too did the central bank response - it expanded the asset bubble at the greatest pace ever and caused an extraordinary level of inflation.
Inflation, despite what the media tells us, is largely a supply issue and not necessarily created or solved with interest rates and in many instances rates have an inverse reaction on what we’re told it does. Let me explain this with an example - perhaps the single biggest driver of overall inflation is the cost of oil, as oil is a major input into just about every single thing that we consume from energy to food and everything in between. If the world not only shuts itself down overnight, but also heavily underinvests in new oil production for various ‘ESG’ reasons then the supply of oil is going to fall significantly short of the demand level and anyone that's done basic economics knows that this means higher prices. Now if you increase interest rates (in theory to bring down inflation), the cost of producing more oil actually increases due to the higher interest costs of producers and therefore lower supply creates even higher prices. What we’ve seen over the past three years has been government imposed supply issues in the main cost of living inputs that matter (food and energy) coupled with excessive fuelling of demand through increased liquidity.
This backdrop brings us to today - we have the whole world up to their eyeballs in debt, interest rates having gone from 0% to 5% in a matter of 24 months, inflation out of control and asset prices the highest in recorded history. Every one of these things could have been easily predicted in advance by those who control the cost of money and the level of liquidity (the central bankers). The financial system we have simply has to blow up, it is one big house of cards that's built purely on illusion and the important element to note from a Biblical end times perspective is that a handful of the most powerful people in the world control the material destiny of nearly all living beings. I believe that the time has come where these rulers of the earth have decided to blow it all up, so now I’m going to put forward some predictions about what happens next.
Many market commentators have been calling the end of the financial system for at least 20 years and though they’ve been correct on their assessment, they’ve been very wrong on timing. What’s different now is the fact that the two policy responses (to ease or to tighten liquidity) are both going to cause an unimaginable crisis - if they tighten to reign in inflation they will collapse the banking system bringing down the whole global economy with it in an event that would make 1929 look mild, if they ease credit to save the banking system and keep the party going then they’ll be making the same policy errors of Weimar Germany, Argentina or Zimbabwe. I believe that this Silicon Valley Bank crisis is going to be the first of several significant events that happen in fairly quick succession.
Of the two possible outcomes mentioned above, I’m not entirely sure which path we go and I actually suspect it is going to be a combination of both simultaneously. For example, a tightening that causes an enormous deflationary collapse that’s quickly followed by an easing that turns that deflation into out of control hyperinflation. Now is the time to think back to what is predicted in Matthew 24 as the beginning of the end - wars, rumours of wars, famines, earthquakes. Revelation chapter 6 prophecies the extraordinary price of staple items like a loaf of bread - some scholars arguing that the translation suggests a days wages for just one loaf.
Admittedly, many non-believers come to very similar conclusions to myself on the future of the global economy, so these predictions alone aren’t going to convince someone that we’re living in the days of the Biblical end times, but I believe there’s going to be additional things happening that perfectly align with prophecy. The first element is the revelation to the world that we are in this crisis due to the deliberate actions of this new world order who have caused the problems to reduce population and move us into a new era of total social control - the 1984 or V For Vendetta style narrative. Have you noticed just how prevalent discussion has become on the new world order and their front organisations like the World Economic Forum? Or how obvious and public the plans for this control are - like the discussion around the need to move to a new Central Bank Digital Currency system that opponents correctly identify as Orwellian. Also notice how blatantly evil their activities are becoming - the covid vaccine should have been pulled from the market after the first set of reported deaths, instead to this very day they’re doubling down on it and injecting children with multiple doses of something that we now know definitely doesn’t work, definitely isn’t needed and definitely isn’t safe. Add to this more in your face evil like the Balenciaga ad campaign, the Jeffrey Epstein child trafficking island and staged events like the Capitol ‘insurrection’. Five years ago these things were spoken of by the absolute fringe of society, today they’re the focus anti-vaccine group that has grown into a far larger anti-globalist movement and I think within the next short period of time it’s going to become so blatant that the entire world turns against the ‘new world order’ global elite.
There’s another prophetically significant element of this new world order and that’s the link to Israel. One can pretty easily do their own research, or look at the rhetoric in the ‘truther’ community and it isn’t hard to see that just about every significant NWO figure (particularly in banking, media and entertainment) has ties to Israel. The narrative that I see converging very quickly is the whole world being made aware of the ‘Jewish New World Order’ and their plans to enslave all of humanity, thus coming together to turn against and destroy Israel as Zechariah 12:3 prophesied would happen in the end days - And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. This destruction of Israel will pave the way for the persecution of true Christian believers, as we’ll be grouped in together with those who follow the ‘God of the Tenach’ and we’ll be hated by all nations for Christ’s name then afflicted and killed as is prophesied in Matthew 24:9. Belief in Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour will be replaced by the growing new age belief of ‘Christ Consciousness’ where the so called truth of Jesus was that he came to show us that we are all as god within. I believe this destruction is what Revelation 17:16 prophesies with the Beast who will destroy the Harlot - the Beast being the actual Antichrist and the Harlot being the Israel led New World Order control system. This is the exact narrative of The Matrix and V For Vendetta - the world is going to be ‘made aware’ of the evil rulers and we’ll be freed from their bondage to enter a new era of enlightenment and consciousness awakening. Satan has been conditioning the world for this awakening for the past century and when the obvious evil (the Harlot) is revealed to us, all the world will marvel and follow the beast (Rev. 13:3). The perfection of the plan is exemplified by the fact that the end times deception matches the initial deception of Genesis 3 - your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods. Satan’s final manifestation as Antichrist is going to be just like his first manifestation as the serpent - it won’t be as an obviously evil bully, but as an alluring deceiver. As mentioned in the beginning of the piece, I am a novice compared with many of the best Biblical scholars and the person whom I believe has the strongest grasp on this end times prediction is John at E511 Ministries.
In conclusion, I expect the coming years (and quite possibly weeks and months) to be extremely treacherous with a complete destruction of our financial system leading to famine, poverty and wars. It is going to be revealed to us that all of this destruction is a result of a Jewish led New World Order who have deliberately enslaved us so that they can achieve total world domination. The revelation of this evil is going to lead the world into a new era that can be defined as the false light - an era of consciousness awakening where we are all as gods, freed from the bondage of slavery. The Bible is going to be taken out of society and those who follow it will be persecuted. It’s not going to be the likes of conspiracy theorists favourite villains like Bill Gates, George Soros and Klaus Schwab who lead this false light movement, but instead it’s going to be the heroes of the conspiracy theorists like Donald Trump, Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, Russell Brand, David Icke and Alex Jones. If you’ve read this piece and get to this point having still rejected Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, I just want you to keep it in mind because it is when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them (1 Th 5:3). If you’ve lived your life in wickedness rejecting Jesus Christ it is never too late to repent and accept Him into your life, until the last day when you see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory (Luk. 21:27) and at that point you’ll have all of eternity to reflect on your decision.
I'm impressed - you have a great grasp on these complex issues Luke. It seems God has directed your path very efficiently!