HOW TO GET OUT OF BABYLON THE GREAT

 HOW TO GET OUT OF BABYLON THE GREAT

God promised "the meek will inherit the earth." It may seem impossible now, and historically that never was possible. However, in this Globalized world and the "Information Age " we live-in now, democracy has a greater role to play than in just politics. People can democratically control the money they make, and not let corporations, landlords and politicians keep using money to control our lives. I can see what the “new earth” Kingdom God has promised, but to get there He wants us to actively be part of the transformation. We have to democratic take control of our lives with our money, our work and homes. He wants us to Get Out of Babylon. To me that means decentralized, democratic banking, employee-owned businesses and cooperative housing all integrated, working together to separate ourselves from this unjust world of greed.

Babylon controls the economy of the whole world. It is not possible to physically leave Babylon and go somewhere to be free of it. All commerce and world trade is made, based of the US Dollar, no matter what nation one lives or currency is used. Leaving Babylon the Great in this case means to divest oneself from the world politics, commerce and even taxes.

Revelation 16:12 - The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

Revelation 17:15 - And the angel said to me, "The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.

WATER, SEA = SPIRIT, POWER, WEALTH

In Bible prophecy the Human sea or waters = the abyss of darkness of spirit, power and wealth. Thus, unrighteous and unholy.

God’s Heavenly, glassy sea = God’s Spirit, power and wealth as pure, holy and righteous.

The ancient city of Babylon was built around the river Euphrates. It served as a defensive moat and the main avenue of commerce. Trade from all the nations it controlled were conducted through the river Euphrates. The waters actually represent the support of people usually by means of their financial wealth.

Daniel 4:29, 30 - “…as the king was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon, he said, “Is not this the great Babylon I have built as the royal residence, by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?””

Daniel 2:31-45 - “You looked, O king, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were broken to pieces at the same time and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth. “This was the dream, and now we will interpret it to the king. You, O king, are the king of kings. The God of heaven has given you dominion and power and might and glory; in your hands he has placed mankind and the beasts of the field and the birds of the air. Wherever they live, he has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold. “After you, another kingdom will rise, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth. Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron—for iron breaks and smashes everything—and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others. Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay. “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands—a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces. “The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future. The dream is true and the interpretation is trustworthy.” (compare verse 37, 38 to Jer. 27:5-8 also Isaiah 45:1)

                                      

Jeremiah 27:5-8 - ‘This is what [Jehovah of hosts], the God of Israel, says: “Tell this to your masters: With my great power and outstretched arm I made the earth and its people and the animals that are on it, and I give it to anyone I please. Now I will hand all your countries over to my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; I will make even the wild animals subject to him. All nations will serve him and his son and his grandson until the time for his land comes; then many nations and great kings will subjugate him. “‘ “If, however, any nation or kingdom will not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon or bow its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation with the sword, famine and plague, declares [Jehovah], until I destroy it by his hand….”

Isaiah 45:1 – “This is what Jehovah has said to his anointed one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have taken hold of, to subdue before him nations, so that I may ungird even the hips of kings; to open before him the two-leaved doors, so that even the gates will not be shut: … And I will give you the treasures in the darkness and the hidden treasures in the concealment places, in order that you may know that I am Jehovah, the One calling you by your name, the God of Israel.”

Revelation 13:17 – “and that nobody might be able to buy or sell except a person having the mark, the name of the wild beast or the number of its name…for it is a man’s number; and its number is six hundred and sixty-six.” The Name of the beast is Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon or number of its name is the dimension of the Image - “Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, the height of which was sixty cubits and the breadth of which was six cubits.” - Daniel 3:1 – 60 cubits high x 6² cubits wide (60x6x6).

Revelation 18:4 - "And I heard another voice out of heaven say: “Get out of her, my people, if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues."

Revelation 18:8 – “That is why in one day her plagues will come, death and mourning and famine, and she will be completely burned with fire, because Jehovah God, who judged her, is strong.”

China and Russia so far are the only credible kings (or rulers) from the East that will dry up the waters that support Babylon the Great namely the USA by means of the United Nations as stated in Revelation16:12 - “And the sixth one poured out his bowl upon the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun.”

Same event as Revelation 17:15-18 – “And he says to me: “The waters that you saw, where the harlot is sitting, mean peoples and crowds and nations and tongues. And the ten horns that you saw, and the wild beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her devastated and naked, and will eat up her fleshy parts and will completely

burn her with fire. For God put it into their hearts to carry out his thought, even to carry out their one thought by giving their kingdom to the wild beast, until the words of God will have been accomplished. And the woman whom you saw means the great city that has a kingdom over the kings of the earth.”

Likewise, the wild beast means a powerful government as noted in Daniel 7:17 – “As for these huge beasts, because they are four, there are four kings that will stand up from the earth.” Also, a mountain represent the physical area controlled by that government.

The Woman (Babylon) is figurative representing God's covenant people as a nation or church, also there is no such thing as the “separation of Church and State, especially in regards to Bible prophecy:

- Jeremiah 31:32 – “…although I myself had husbandly ownership of them,’ is the utterance of Jehovah.”

- Galatians 4:25, 26 – “Now this Hagar means Sinai, a mountain in Arabia, and she corresponds with the Jerusalem today, for she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.”

- Ezekiel 23:1-4 – “And the word of Jehovah proceeded to come to me, saying: “Son of man, two women, the daughters of one mother, there happened to be. And they began to prostitute themselves in Egypt. In their youth they committed prostitution. There their breasts were squeezed, and there they pressed the bosoms of their virginity. And their names were Oholah the older one and Oholibah her sister, and they came to be mine and began to give birth to sons and daughters. And as for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.”

Matthew 13:39-43 “…The harvest is a conclusion of a system of things, and the reapers are angels. Therefore, just as the weeds are collected and burned with fire, so it will be in the conclusion of the system of things. The Son of man will send forth his angels, and they will collect out from his kingdom all things that cause stumbling and persons who are doing lawlessness, and they will pitch them into the fiery furnace. There is where their weeping and the gnashing of their teeth will be. At that time the righteous ones will shine as brightly as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let him that has ears listen.”

Matthew corresponds to Daniel 12:1-3 ““And during that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who is standing in behalf of the sons of your people. And there will certainly occur a time of distress such as has not been made to occur since there came to be a nation until that time. And during that time your people will escape, everyone who is found written down in the book. And there will be many of those asleep in the ground of dust who will wake up, these to indefinitely lasting life and those to reproaches and to indefinitely lasting abhorrence. And the ones having insight will shine like the brightness of the expanse; and those who are bringing the many to righteousness, like the stars to time indefinite, even forever.

So, again, Babylon controls the economy of the whole world. It is not possible to physically leave Babylon and go somewhere to be free of it. Leaving Babylon the Great in this case means to divest oneself from the world politics, commerce and even taxes. This is why the Bible says something very strange as a clue. It says “the sons of this system of things are wiser in a practical way toward their own generation than the sons of the light are.”

Luke 16:8, 9 – “And his master commended the steward, though unrighteous, because he acted with practical wisdom; for the sons of this system of things are wiser in a practical way toward their own generation than the sons of the light are. “Also, I say to you, make friends for yourselves by means of the unrighteous riches, so that, when such fail, they may receive you into the everlasting dwelling places.”

It is not a rule or a law for Christians to help the poor like widows, orphans, those sick and disenfranchised, but it is an obligation. Emmanuel Christ made that very clear in his life as an example for us to follow. It is an act of faith, of service and worship. To help the poor is to do service to God (Matthew 25:35-40; 41-45; Luke 7:28). If all Christians who are blessed with material wealth in this life would share some of their wealth with the poor, the world would be a better place, in theory. The hard, cold reality is that much of the wealth we share is wasted on thieves and liars who rob the poor as a normal business practice.

- There seems to be corruption in most charity organizations. Charitable organizations seem to have become capitalist institutions with enormous wasteful overhead expenses. Even if they were truly non-profit organizations, they provide middle class livelihood for many of its staff members. Therefore, much of the money given to charity organizations does not go to the needy as it was intended for by the donor.

"For all their publicity stunts and feel-good lines, many of today’s powerhouse nonprofits are extremely inefficient. They commit the majority of their resources to pulling in potential donors through razzle-dazzle, so that there is little left in the way of resources for their actual causes. Inevitably, every organization has overhead costs, but a staggering number of charities today are falling out of control in this respect."
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/5/15/corrupt-charities-pstrongcorrection-appended-see-belowstrongp/

"So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men.....
But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." - Matthew 6:2-4 (NIV)

"In any case we clearly see, and on this there is general agreement, that some opportune remedy must be found quickly for the misery and wretchedness pressing so unjustly on the majority of the working class: for the ancient workingmen's guilds were abolished in the last century, and no other protective organization took their place. Public institutions and the laws set aside the ancient religion. Hence, by degrees it has come to pass that working men have been surrendered, isolated and helpless, to the hardheartedness of employers and the greed of unchecked competition. The mischief has been increased by rapacious usury, which, although more than once condemned by the Church, is nevertheless, under a different guise, but with like injustice, still practiced by covetous and grasping men. To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself.
Nature accordingly must have given to man a source that is stable and remaining always with him, from which he might look to draw continual supplies. And this stable condition of things he finds solely in the earth and its fruits. There is no need to bring in the State. Man precedes the State, and possesses, prior to the formation of any State, the right of providing for the substance of his body. "
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum_en.html/

Now, to store your treasures in Heaven, there must be a solution to this misappropriation. One way is to just look for poor people and give them your money directly. But that can be very wasteful also if not directed to something constructive and useful. Another way is to give poor people a bank account and enable those people to have democratic control of their money in their jobs, businesses, homes and their banks. This utilizes a "third way" economic system contrary to capitalism and socialism.

Distributism (also known as distributionism or distributivism) is a third-way economic philosophy that developed in England in the early 20th century based upon the principles of Catholic social teaching, especially the teachings of Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical Rerum Novarum and Pope Pius XI in Quadragesimo Anno.
According to distributists, property ownership is a fundamental right and the means of production should be spread as widely as possible among the general populace, rather than being centralized under the control of the state (state socialism) or by an elite of wealthy property owners (laissez-faire capitalism).
Some have seen it more as an aspiration, which has been successfully realized in the short term by commitment to the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity (these being built into financially independent local cooperatives and small family businesses), though proponents also cite such periods as the Middle Ages as examples of the historical long-term viability of distributism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism

To really help the poor, we must not simply give money and hope for the best to happen. We must enable the poor to help themselves, to actually be self-sufficient. There is a proverb: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish [and I would add: with fishing gear] and you feed him for a lifetime." so simply to give money is not sufficient to help the poor, not even to simply give money to programs that are supposed to teach poor people job skills.  Self-sufficiency in this 21st century involves acquiring the tools and equipment for financial self-sufficiency and access to a world market, not simply job skills. Credit Unions and Cooperative Banks provide exactly that, but to also be shareholders with voting control on the use of their money. As shareholders the poor have the same privilege and advantages that rich people have proportionally, with the dignity of not needing free handouts of traditional charity. But, then again, only in theory. More than that is needed.

However, credit unions and cooperatives use fiat currency which all participants still dependent on the state and big corporations. The new Blockchain technology of Bitcoin as cryptocurrency and NFT real estate tokenism has negated the need for a banking system entirely. This is a Game Changer. There is no need of credit unions, cooperatives or microfinancing institutions and of course commercial banks. Everything, all business transactions can be done securely and personally by barter of tangible goods or by bitcoins and non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

I don’t know how this will pay out without the use banking cooperatives, but there still needs to be a cooperative community of God’s people. I expect that there will be an international Zion of God’s people including physical Israel where the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel will be united with the Two Tribes of Judea. From there I hope they will be able to maintain a fruitful and peaceful society that be ready when the Messiah returns in body to take communion again with the original apostles who come out of the wilderness.

World Financial Crises
If anyone is aware of the recent financial crises in the USA and the European financial crises, then we should take this crisis as a warning seriously.  The credit party is not over. In fact it can never be solved unless there is a total collapse of the world monetary system.

Warning to Rich Oppressors
Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming upon you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered innocent men, who were not opposing you. James 5 (NIV)

A parallel economy of the Distributist "third way" can provide some protect from this world financial disaster that is soon to come hitting much harder that he last one. There will be a financial crisis that will push the USA and the world economies over the edge. Beyond the point for any hope of recovery unless a world government is formed under a state of emergency. The Asian creditor nations will become the winners in that recovery. By that time democracy in any form as we know it will be dead.
The only protection from that crisis is forming a parallel economy now. To have an independent as self-reliant, democratic banking system for an economy not dependent on any government, NGO charity or private corporation.

Bank Ownership and Stability: Evidence from Germany  
Thorsten Beck, Heiko Hesse, Thomas Kick
and Natalja von Westernhagen* 
This draft: June 2009
Abstract: Using a unique bank-level panel dataset over the period 1995 to 2007, this paper assesses the stability of German banks with different ownership structures. Using three different measures of bank stability – the z-score, a standard measure of distance from insolvency, non-performing loans, and distress probabilities derived from hazard models – we find consistent evidence that privately-owned banks are less stable than government-owned savings banks and cooperative banks. Furthermore, cooperative banks are farther away from insolvency than government-owned savings banks, but are more likely to become distressed than savings banks. We also find evidence for the Too-Big-To-Fail phenomenon, as larger privately-owned banks hold less risk-weighted capital than their smaller peers, thus moving closer to insolvency, but face lower distress probability. Cooperative or savings banks, on the other hand, are more stable if larger