Sound The Midnight Cry

“What A Difference A Week Can Make”

It was only last week that I wrote about the ideas beginning to surface concerning the need for a one-world currency. What a difference a week can make! Since then the outcry for demoting the US dollar and coming up with a new single currency is coming from every corner of the globe.

It all started with Russia announcing that it would propose a new global currency to replace the US dollar as the international currency of choice. The fact that Iran has been calling for a single currency among the oil traders of the Middle East notwithstanding, call have now erupted from major powerhouse nations.

China’s premier Wen Jiabow demanded U.S. action to safeguard the value of China's holdings of U.S. bonds - $740 billion of U.S. Treasuries and a further $600 billion or so of other debt. “We have lent huge amounts of money to the US. Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets” he said. This fear has caused China to join with Russia in calling for a single world currency to be put on the agenda of the upcoming G20 meeting next week. The proposal is now backed by India and Brazil among a host of smaller countries.

China's proposal is to activate the International Monetary Fund's power to issue Special Drawing Rights (SDRs). The IMF would be groomed as de facto central bank for the planet. The SDRs would gradually become an “accepted means of payment”. In theory, this world reserve bank would be above politics. The plan suggests a resource currency along the lines of the “Bancor” floated by Keynes at Bretton Woods in 1944. This was anchored on 30 commodities, giving it a broader base than the Gold Standard. Such a currency would prevent the “credit-based” debauchery of today's fiat system, says Mr Zhou.

When President Obama was asked about the proposal, he quickly dismissed it and “reassured” reporters that the dollar was sound and that this was not even being considered by the U.S. However, less than 24 hours later in testimony before the U.S. Congress this past week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner confessed on Wednesday that he had not read the plans by China's central bank governor for a “super-sovereign reserve currency” run by the International Monetary Fund, but nevertheless let slip that Washington was “open to the idea”.

So what has caused this acceleration of the discussion of a single global currency? All of this comes on the heels of the U.S. Federal Reserve efforts to begin monetizing the national debt by printing money to buy U.S. Treasury notes. Many experts fear that this process could inflate the amount of money in circulation and cause serious devaluation of the currency on world markets. To the average American, this move is comparable to a retail consumer in debt using a Master Card to pay a Visa credit card bill.

It is becoming painfully clear to other countries that have been supporting our national debt via U.S. Treasury bonds that some other currency needs to be created quickly to replace the dollar before it collapses and leaves their reserves worthless.

What happens exactly and what proposal or plan is chosen in the days ahead, no one knows for sure. However, those that study bible prophecy know that this is the prelude to the coming power of the Antichrist and the mark of the beast spoken of in Revelation 13.

With that in mind, Jesus gave advice that is sound today: “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…” Matthew 6:19-20

Sounds like good advice to me…how about you?

“Easy Come, Easy Go?”

The phrase, “Easy come, easy go” is said in describing someone who thinks that everything is easy to achieve, especially earning money, and who therefore does not worry about anything.

In a prosperous time when it seems money grows on trees that tends to be the mindset of people. But in today’s global financial crises in which upwards of 45% of the world's wealth has been lost in the last 18 months, people are fearful of the times not understanding “why” any of these things are transpiring.

Now in the midst of the global economic crisis, talk of radically restructuring the global economic system is growing. In recent weeks, leaders in Europe, Africa and the Middle East have proposed scrapping the current economic order and going to a single common currency.

A story appeared this week in the Moscow Times is creating quite a stir in particular. At the April 2nd meeting of world leaders in London (the G20), the Kremlin is set to propose a new global common currency system to replace the U.S. dollar as the international currency of choice. Russian is also calling for national banks and international financial institutions to diversify their foreign currency reserves.

Iranian President Ahmadinejad last week called for a single regional currency for 400 million Muslims in the Middle East. "The process of obtaining one single currency in the trade and exchanges among members, and in the next stages with other countries and neighbors, should be designed," the Iranian leader said March 11th.

Libyan leader Muammar Ghadafi, recently elected leader of the African Union of states, is calling for a single continental currency for all of Africa and has persuaded 200 tribal leaders to call him the "King of kings." The BBC reported in February that Ghadafi foresees “a single African military force, a single currency and a single passport for Africans to move freely around the continent."

And now comes a new story by Reuters news: "U.N. Panel Says World Should Ditch Dollar.” The panel recommends that the world dump the dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of currencies.

What most Americans fail to understand is that the money that our government runs on is financed (borrowed) by other nations buying U.S. Treasury bonds (dollars). By dumping the dollar as the international currency of choice, sets up the scenario of nations dumping Treasury bonds, causing the dollar to spiral down in value…a market meltdown like nothing the world has seen.

These are curious developments given that scholars of Bible prophecy have long noted that according to the Scriptures, in the "last days" the world will see the emergence of an entirely new international financial system, complete with a single common global currency created and mandated by the leaders of Europe. The Bible indicates that eventually no one on earth will be able to engage in commerce without "buying in" to the new cashless system. (Revelation 13:16-17) (more on this next week)

Scoffers have laughed and dismissed such talk as the realm of "religious fools." But now events have changed the landscape of the world as we know it. And with these proposals being given serious attention by major world leaders, one would be the fool for not taking notice. And when it happens, there will be nothing “easy” then!

“The For-Profit Non-Prophet Church”

I know that someone is thinking right now, “Don’t you mean ‘non-profit’ Church?” To which I would answer “No, we have become for the most part a non-prophet Church.”

What brought me to this thought was the recent bashings of those self-proclaimed prophets that have mocked and put down the God-called watchmen that are sounding warnings to the Church and to the world. The ridicule the words of those who sound an alarm and in response to those warnings spout their “prophecies” of wonderful days ahead and how God wants to pour out blessings that they cannot contain.

On March 7th 2009, David Wilkerson sent out a message that he felt was from God warning people to prepare for imminent trouble. Link The next day, the self-proclaimed “prophets of blessing” began bashing him and others with a message like him. Instead they told people how God doesn’t do or say anything that would cause them to fear or be anxious. Their word: rest in the love and goodness of a God that never disciplines but longs to bless you with every good thing.

These 21st century “prophets” are not unlike the prophets in the days of Jeremiah. God said to the people of that day, “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They make you worthless; they speak a vision of their own heart, not from the mouth of the LORD. They continually say to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD has said, “You shall have peace”’; And to everyone who walks according to the dictates of his own heart, they say, ‘No evil shall come upon you.’” Jeremiah 23:16-17

These modern day “prophets” spend most of their time twisting and turning Scripture into a ‘word’ that is intended for one thing—their profit! Turn on a little “Christian TV” and you will watch a televised circus meant for one thing—your money. Oh, to be sure that it all sounds legitimate, you will probably hear a two-minute (if that long) plea to mumble some little prayer to get right with God. Usually, that will be followed by another plea to call a number and make a pledge as an act of faith for the prayer you just prayed.

Personally, I’m waiting for one of these scoffers to jump on the “troubled times ahead” theme and figure a way to get people to send their money to them as a seed offering that will grow a hundred-fold in God’s ‘blessing box’. Then when difficult times come, all you have to do is remind God that you sent your money in and now you would like it back—with interest.

It’s that kind of nonsense that has turned many Christians into superficial followers and turned non-Christians away from the Church. It has turned the “for-profit” prophets into greedy money-changers—changing God’s Word into a quick buck. It has caused many to shun the “sure Word” for the hour into a “spurned word.”

I pray that God cleanse the Church of the “profits” and bring back the “prophets”. The Church desperately needs the word of true watchmen—prophets that hear and speak without compromise. The world desperately needs the Church to wakeup and repent for its foolishness and get back to its commission. Why? Because the signs of the times are pointing to the return of Jesus Christ. And when that day comes, I wonder what the ‘profits’ of the day will say when they stand before Him?

40 Days of Destruction

**Note: Thought this might be of interest to many people. Great insight by Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst  Link

In the 50 days following the stock market peak of 381.17 on Sept. 4, 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 151.10 points or 39.6 percent by Oct. 29, 1929, commonly known as the "Great Crash."

When terrorists attacked New York and Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11, 2001, the Dow lost 7.1 percent of its value and trading was suspended at 8920.70. The Dow reopened on Sept. 17, 2001, to precipitous losses and by Sept. 21 had lost 14.3 percent and some $1.2 trillion in value — the largest one-week drop in history. Some 40 days later, the market recovered most of its losses, down only 6.9 percent from Sept. 11 at 8297.87.

On Jan. 20, 2009, the Dow closed at 8729.63. Forty days later, the Dow closed at 6763.29, and the market has lost ground steadily since. In other words, the new administration and Congress have enacted policies that will cost taxpayers over $1.2 trillion — more than the cost of the stock market decline after the 9/11 terrorist attacks — and the market has responded with losses greater than that of the terrorist attacks and nearing the levels of the "Great Crash."

Since the current band of politicians took control, the stock market has lost more than 23 percent of its value. The current administration and Congress in just 40 days of promoting socialist tax-and-spend policies has nearly destroyed the American economy.

They have accomplished in 40 days what not even Islamic terrorists could do in eight years. Homes are being repossessed; cars are being repossessed; jobs are being lost; and lives are being destroyed because the immediate force of destructive policies is being realized. Yes, the previous administration played a terrible role in setting up the destruction, but America's worst enemies could not have done a better job than Congress and the White House in destroying the nation in 40 days.

Congress and the White House have declared war on you. And until you fight back, your pursuit of life, liberty and happiness will be pillaged by a tyrannical, out-of-control government.

This nation is suffering because it has turned away from the Lord and has lost its moral bearing and discernment. Our first step in this fight is to restore our national identity and relationship with the Lord. It is not the Lord's will that you be held captive to the evils of this world. Jesus told his disciples that they would do even greater things than He did.

Jesus said in Luke 4:18 (NKJV), "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He Has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord."

These are the things we are supposed to be doing.

An Urgent Message From David Wilkerson

I thought that this video by David Wilkerson posted in December 2008 may be of interest in light of his posting(listed below) from Saturday, March 7, 2009

March 7, 2009

I am compelled by the Holy Spirit to send out an urgent message to all on our mailing list, and to friends and to bishops we have met all over the world.

AN EARTH-SHATTERING CALAMITY IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. IT IS GOING TO BE SO FRIGHTENING, WE ARE ALL GOING TO TREMBLE - EVEN THE GODLIEST AMONG US.

For ten years I have been warning about a thousand fires coming to New York City. It will engulf the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major cities all across America will experience riots and blazing fires—such as we saw in Watts, Los Angeles, years ago.

There will be riots and fires in cities worldwide. There will be looting—including Times Square, New York City. What we are experiencing now is not a recession, not even a depression. We are under God's wrath. In Psalm 11 it is written,

"If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?" (v. 3).

God is judging the raging sins of America and the nations. He is destroying the secular foundations.

The prophet Jeremiah pleaded with wicked Israel, "God is fashioning a calamity against you and devising a plan against you. Oh, turn back each of you from your evil way, and reform your ways and deeds. But they will say, It's hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart" (Jeremiah 18:11-12).

In Psalm 11:6, David warns, "Upon the wicked he will rain snares (coals of fire)…fire…burning wind…will be the portion of their cup." Why? David answered, "Because the Lord is righteous" (v. 7). This is a righteous judgment—just as in the judgments of Sodom and in Noah's generation.

WHAT SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS DO? WHAT ABOUT GOD'S PEOPLE?

First, I give you a practical word I received for my own direction. If possible lay in store a thirty-day supply of non-perishable food, toiletries and other essentials. In major cities, grocery stores are emptied in an hour at the sign of an impending disaster.

As for our spiritual reaction, we have but two options. This is outlined in Psalm 11. We "flee like a bird to a mountain." Or, as David says, "He fixed his eyes on the Lord on his throne in heaven—his eyes beholding, his eyelids testing the sons of men" (v. 4). "In the Lord I take refuge" (v. 1).

I will say to my soul: No need to run...no need to hide. This is God's righteous work. I will behold our Lord on his throne, with his eye of tender, loving kindness watching over every step I take—trusting that he will deliver his people even through floods, fires, calamities, tests, trials of all kinds.

Note: I do not know when these things will come to pass, but I know it is not far off. I have unburdened my soul to you. Do with the message as you choose.

God bless and keep you, <

In Christ, <

>DAVID WILKERSON

“The Dawning Of A New Dey”

This past week, Stephen Gallo, head of market analysis for Schneider Foreign Exchange told CNBC that the financial crisis will lead to the creation of a global central bank and a global single currency within 15 years. This reflects the call of those leaders that have exploited the problems they created to push for a new world financial order.

U.K. PM Gordon Brown this week told the U.S. Congress that the financial crisis was the opportunity for a 21st century “global new deal”.

Meanwhile, the global financial markets continue to plunge to lows not seen in decades. Unemployment in the U.S. came in at the highest levels in 25 years. Central banks are printing paper money as fast as possible to try and “stabilize” global monetary systems. Precious metals are soaring in value as people fearful of what’s happening try to find a safe haven for their money. We are seeing the fulfillment of Luke 21:26 that tells us that in the last days, “People will be terrified at what they see coming upon the earth.”

However, the Christian understands all this because the Bible reveals that the system of the Antichrist will rest on his control of three main pillars of society: economic, political and religious [Revelation 13:15-17]. The Antichrist's system is cashless and is governed by a mark to control all buying or selling.

Now the world economic system isn't established for that time—yet. However, we are witnessing events that will be the cause and effect of that transformation. Like the death of a star in space, we are witnessing the death throes of the existing system as it disintegrates and becomes part of a new economic scheme.

As I wrote earlier that talk has surfaced in two arenas concerning a need for a single currency. Last November the Single Global Currency Association asked the G20 to initiate research and planning for a Single Global Currency. It has been pointed out that plans for a replacement global currency called the “dey” [Dollar, Euro, Yen] has been around for some time.

People tell me that they would never take such a mark as they would recognize it for what it is. Somehow I doubt that as panic usually blinds people to reality and hunger usually causes people to sell out quickly.

The one constant of a downward spiral is that it seems to increase in speed and momentum. And the speed in which change is happening in the U.S. and around the world, people are unable to grasp magnitude of change in its entirety. To which I would simply point out that Jesus said, “when all these things begin to happen, stand and look up, for your salvation is near!”

There may be a new “dey” on the horizon, but I’m looking for “the day” when every eye shall see Jesus returning to planet earth!