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An Analysis of the Financial Crisis in the United States - 11The Death of Ideology: Paving the Way for a Kings/Merchants Alliance;

Part 1: The Fall of Communism

Rev 18:3,9,113 The kings of the earth committedadultery with her, and the merchants ofthe earth grew rich from her excessiveluxuries." 9 When the kings of the earthwho committed adultery with her andshared her luxury see the smoke of herburning, they will weep and mourn overher. 11 "The merchants of the earth willweep and mourn over her because noone buys their cargoes any more- (NIV).

One of the features of Babylon is the alliancethat exists between two powerful systems:political leadership and economic leaders.Both kings and merchants are mentionedmultiple times and both groups are deeplyinvested in Babylon and therefore they are in astate of shock and deep lamentation that thesystem they built is destroyed in one hour.They are both complicit in building a systemthat is competitive and which will eventually be

judged and catastrophically fail.

Descriptions of both the kings (politicalsystems) and the merchants (economicsystems) indicate they exist on a global scale

they are the kings of the earth and themerchants of the earth. These are not small

regional blocs or isolated economic zoneswhich exist independently of the widerinternational environment, both systems areglobal in nature and scope. As the earthmarches relentlessly towards the fulfillment of

divine purpose, we can see a global system oftrade forming before our eyes which involvesboth kings and merchants in deep alliance.The G-20 is made up of the twenty largest

nations in the world as measured by economicstrength, and together these nations constitute90% of global GDP. They have met repeatedly

since the economic meltdown to seeksolutions to the crisis. From the attachedpicture you can see that the agenda for themost recent G-20 Summit in London in March2009 was Stability / Growth / Jobs. Certainlythe kings of the earth are very concernedabout global economic issues.

For this global system to be built and thisalliance to become a reality, big movementshad to occur to shape and alter theinternational landscape. The failure ofsocialism/communism as an economic modelwas the first big change that occurred. In 1966Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pulled off

his shoe and, banging it on a table, yelled toWestern ambassadors at a diplomaticreception we will bury you! Instead the Sovietsystem buried itself through inefficientcentralized planning that led to an economic

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Revelation 18:3 For all the nations have drunkthe maddening wine of her

adulteries.The king s of the eart h

committed adultery with her, andthe merchants of the earth grewrich from her excessive luxuries.

implosion in 1989, when the Berlin Wall wastorn down.

What Khrushchev didnt understand is that thesocialist system designed by Marx, Engelsand Lenin could never have produced the

purposes of God, which require the earth to beshaped in ways defined by a globalizedeconomic reality described in Revelation 18.John saw into this reality back in the days ofRomes Empire, pre-empting Marx and hisarguments against capitalism in Das Kapitalpublished 1700 years later. John saw captainsof ships and merchants selling every kind ofcargo to a global consumer, clearly adescription of the results of a capitalistoriented system.

Why Communism Failed

a) Socialisms inability to

produce wealth due to alack of incentive couldnever create the kind ofp r o s p e r i t y a n d t r a d edescribed in Revelation 18.

When governments seized the property ofindividual citizens and required them to workfor the state, they undercut the profit

motivation inherent in human beings. TheSoviet Unions flag was a hammer and asickle, symbols meant to stand for productivityin both agricultural and industrial labor butwhich instead mocked the low levels ofeconomic life produced by Soviet farms andfactories. Before the Soviet takeover of theBaltic region, the Ukraine had served as thebreadbasket of the region, similar to the fertilefarming states of Kansas and Nebraska in theU.S. However, by 1980 when the Americanfarm worker produced enough food to supplysixty-five people, his Russian equivalentturned out enough to feed only eight. Pricecontrols, fixed wages and an aversion to

innovation were features of the commandeconomy, and over time the nationaleconomies of the Eastern bloc disintegratedunder low productivity which eventually led tonational bankruptcy. The socialist systemdidnt create wealth, it produced sharedpoverty.

b) Centralized planning could not provide acommon point of economic interfacebetween nations and therefore could neverbe adopted on a global basis. By definition asocialist nation planned all aspects ofeconomic life through top down centralizedcontrol. Since nations would never allowanother (competing) national entity access to

their planning and development of nationaleconomy, socialism was not a system thatcould be extended globally because it wouldrequire too much cooperation betweengovernments. The capitalist system produced

As we will also see with

capitalism, Babylon is

very much like the

Pharisees in that they

say one thing but do

another. We have to

look beh ind the i r

s t a t e m e n t s a n d

declared philosophies

to see what is really

driving the system.

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massive cooperation between multi-nationalcorporations and supply chains, manufacturingand consumer buying that governmentsgenerally foster and cooperate with, but it wasan economic and not a political one-ness. Aprimary characteristic of a command economyis it is a closed system (the term commandeconomy means one controlled by the staterather than by the market). In fact thosenations which espoused socialism wentthrough a season of readjustment in which

their economies were freed up and mademore dockable with the capitalistic nature ofthe rest of the world. Even China, which stillhas a one party state, has had to adjust theirpolicies and allow the global financial systemto bring definition to the internal system whichtheir mechanisms of state used to controlcompletely.

In looking at Table 1 below, you can see thatthe real ethic of socialism was not communalownership because clearly there was notbroad economic empowerment of the society.Instead the true ethic was coercion or force bywhich the state confiscated private property.

As we will also see with capitalism, Babylon isvery much like the Pharisees in that they sayone thing but do another. We have to lookbehind their statements and declaredphilosophies to see what is really driving thesystem. In the case of socialism it was just theopposite of their view of utopian community:shared poverty.

The system of economic organization wasbuilt by the state, which became the centralfigure in the Soviet Union to the point of theirabolishing of God. Scientific socialismreplaced God and the state demandedworship and loyalty. The state became anoppressive oligarchy (the term oligarchy

means all the power is concentrated in thehands of a few) and fellow citizens wereorganized as comrades. The fall of the BerlinWall signaled the end of communism; it is anideology which has been thoroughly debunkedand it will not re-emerge as a viable form ofeconomic organization.

That failure paved the way for Eastern Blocnations to liberalize their economic policiesand after recovering from the collapse they

applied to join the World Trade Organization,an organization that the Soviet Union shunnedwhen it was the GATT in 1945. China is thelast significant nation which espousescommunism and they still do engage instrategic and centralized planning, but only ofthe very large components of their economy.Their red hot economic growth of the last 15years is directly attributable to their opening oftheir domestic economy to unprecedentedlevels of freedom to engage in internationaltrade. One of the last challenges is Chinasinsistence on fixing the value of their currencyto ensure their industries a competitive edge,but that will undoubtedly change in the near

future especially if the yuan becomes part ofan international basket of currencies thatreplaces the U.S. dollar as the worlds reservecurrency.

The failure of communism and the fall of theBerlin Wall paved the way for new levels ofeconomic cooperation, and the economiccrisis proved how much the diverse nations ofthe earth are willing to cooperate on economicissues. In fact they must, since their economica n d b a n k i n g s y s t e m s a r e h i g h l yinterconnected in a fulfillment of Gods endgame scenario that describes Babylon as aglobal entity led by kings and merchants.

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StatedEthic

ActualEthic

ResultEmpowered or

OppressedWhat is

WorshippedHuman

Relationships

Socialism

Capitalism

KingdomEconomics

Communal

OwnershipCoercion Shared Poverty

Oppressive State

OligarchyThe State Comrade

Private

OwnershipGreed

Unequal

Distribution

Oppressive

Private Oligarchy

Money, or the

MarketCompetitor

Private

Ownership

Stewarded in a

Community

Context

Private

Ownership

Stewarded in a

Community

Context

Everyone Has

Enough

Everyone is

EmpoweredGod Brother

Table 1: A Comparative Analysis of Socialism, Capitalism and the Kingdom of God

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