Sermon Tone Analysis

A FINANCIAL PROPHECY--ECONOMIC CHAOS

BY DR.

DAVID JEREMIAH

CHAPTER 4

“NO ONE MAY BUY OR SELL EXCEPT ONE WHO HAS THE MARK OR THE NAME OF THE BEAST.”

REV.

13:17

JOWAN OSTERLUND IS A PHYSICIAN IN SWEDEN WHO IMPLANTS MICROCHIPS INTO A PERSON’S SKIN THROUGH BIOHAX INTERNATIONAL.

HE ESTIMATES THAT HE HAS CHIPPED MORE THAN 6,000 SWEDES DURING THE 6 YEARS HIS COMPANY HAS BEEN IN BUSINESS.

SIMILAR CHIPS ARE INJECTED INTO PETS TO TRACK THEM.

HUMAN MICROCHIPPING HAS A BROADER RANGE OF APPLICATIONS.

WITH THE WAVE OF THE HAND USERS CAN TRANSFER FUNDS, OPEN DOORS OR LOG INTO COMPUTERS.

IT OFFERS A WORLD WITHOUT KEYS, WALLETS,ETC.

WHERE EVERYTHING IS ACCESSIBLE WITH JUST A TOUCH.

OF COURSE, IN THE WRONG HANDS IT COULD BE USED TO TRACK YOUR MOVEMENTS, REVEAL YOUR SECRETS AND INFORM A GOVERNMENT WHAT YOU ARE FEELING AND SAYING.

ALL THIS STILL FRIGHTENS MOST OF THE WORLD BUT IT IS RAPIDLY SPREADING.

DOESN’T THIS REMIND YOU OF THE SCRIPTURE ABOVE?

THIS EVOLVING BIOMETRIC CHIP TECHNOLOGY WILL SURELY HAPPEN DURING THE TRIBULATION BUT IS ALREADY IN PROGRESS.

IT HAS APPEAL AND IS CONVENIENT TO A VERY BUSY WORLD.

INSTEAD OF BEING CAUTIOUS IT SEEMS OUR WORLD IS MOVING RAPIDLY TOWARD THIS INNOVATION DESPITE THE DANGERS IT HOLDS.

THE MOVE TOWARD ELECTRONIC FINANCES BEGAN IN THE EARLY 1900’S WHEN DEPARTMENT STORES AND A FEW GAS COMPANIES BEGAN ISSUING THEIR OWN PROPRIETARY CARDS.

IN 1946 CHARGE-IT CARDS WERE INTRODUCED AND THE DINERS CLUB CARD SHOWED UP IN 1950.

AMERICAN EXPRESS CAME ALONG IN 1958 AND FROM THERE IT EXPLODED.

TODAY MOST WORKERS RECEIVE THEIR SALARIES AS DIRECT DEPOSITS INTO THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS WHICH ARE ACCESSED THROUGH WEBSITES AND SMARTPHONE APPS.

CASH AND CHECKS ARE BECOMING OBSOLETE.

A GROWING NUMBER OF CHURCHES COLLECT TITHES THROUGH DIGITAL PLATFORMS.

IN FACT THIS WAS CRUCIAL DURING THE SHUTDOWNS OF THE PANDEMIC.

NOW THERE IS THE RISE OF ALL-DIGITAL CURRENCIES KNOWN AS CRYPTOCURRENCIES.

THEY ARE DECENTRALIZED AND DON’T HAVE A PHYSICAL FOUNDATION IN GOLD OR OTHER TANGIBLE ASSETS.

THEY EXIST ENTIRELY IN THE WORLD OF CYBERSPACE.

THEY ARE PRODUCED ONLINE, STORED ONLINE AND SPENT ONLINE.

THERE ARE NOW MORE THAN 6500 CYPTOCURRENCIES CIRCULATING IN THE WORLD TODAY.

THE MOST FAMOUS IS BITCOIN.

MANY ARE EVEN DECLARING THE NEED FOR A CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY WHICH WOULD BE GOVERNMENT BACKED AND DESIGNED TO BE THE LEGAL TENDER OF A NATION.

ALL THIS SEEMS MORE SINISTER THAN SPECTACULAR.

THE IDEA OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS BEING ABLE TO ACCESS YOUR PERSONAL FINANCIAL RECORDS AND POSSIBLY BEING ABLE TO HACK, WITHDRAW OR FREEZE YOUR FUNDS IS TERRIFYING.

FOR MOST OF US THIS TECHNOLOGY IS STILL OUTSIDE OF OUR HAND, IN OUR SMARTPHONE.

BUT IT’S ONLY 2 MILLIMETERS FROM WHERE OSTERLUND WOULD LIKE IT TO BE--UNDER OUR SKIN.

WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN FOR OUR FUTURE?

AND IS A SIGN OF THE END TIMES?

HOW DOES THIS AFFECT THE FOLLOWERS OF THE LAMB RIGHT NOW.

LET’S TURN TO SOME SCRIPTURES FOR SOME ANSWERS.

I. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

MONEY WILL PLAY AN ESSENTIAL ROLE IN FUTURE EVENTS, INCLUDING THE END TIMES.

BUT WE MUST BE CAREFUL ABOUT PREDICTING SPECIFIC THINGS ABOUT PEOPLE, PLACES AND EVENTS.

MONEY HAS ALWAYS BEEN IMPORTANT AS IT DRIVES OUR WORLD.

SO WE CAN ASSUME MONEY WILL REMAIN IMPORTANT TO THE FUTURE.

IT WILL DOMINATE OUR WORLD EVEN MORE IN DAYS TO COME.

THE BIBLE IS RICH WITH INFORMATION ON THIS TOPIC.

THERE ARE AT LEAST THREE IMPORTANT FINANCIAL SIGNS OF THE END TIMES.

A. THE ADDICTION TO MONEY

MOST OF US WOULD BE ELATED IF SOMEONE OFFERED TO GIVE YOU $3.6 MILLION.

BUT SAM POLK, A WALL STREET TRADER, WAS OFFERED THIS AMOUNT AS HIS YEARLY BONUS.

HE WASN’T ELATED--HE WANTED $8 MILLION AND WAS ANGRY AT THE SMALLER OFFER.

THE REASON HE WANTED MORE WAS THAT HE WAS ADDICTED TO MONEY.

HE WAS 30 YEARS OLD, NO CHILDREN TO RAISE, NO DEBTS AND NO GOAL IN MIND FOR HIS LIFE.

SO HE LEFT WALL STREET, STARTED A FAMILY AND LAUNCHED A BETTER LIFE FOR HIMSELF.

ONLY GOD KNOWS HOW MANY SAM POLKS THERE ARE IN THE WORLD--PEOPLE WHO ARE ADDICTED TO MONEY, WEALTH,POSSESSIONS AND POWER.

THERE IS SOME SAM POLK IN ALL OF US BUT AN OVERRIDING LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST WILL KEEP US BALANCED.

HERE IS WHERE BIBLICAL PROPHECY COMES IN.

ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE, PEOPLE WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY GREEDY IN THE LAST DAYS.

THE BIBLE SAYS: “BUT KNOW THIS, THAT IN THE LAST DAYS PERILOUS TIMES WILL COME: FOR MEN WILL BE...LOVERS OF MONEY.” 2 TIM.

3:1-2

WE MUST GRAPPLE WITH THIS PERSONALLY.

PAUL SAID THE END TIMES WILL BE A PERIOD DEFINED BY REJECTING WHAT IS GOOD AND RUNNING TO EMBRACE WHAT IS EVIL, MUCH OF WHICH WILL BE CENTERED ON AN EVER-INCREASING APPETITE FOR MONEY.

THAT MATCHES WHAT PAUL HAD PREVIOUSLY WRITTEN TO TIMOTHY: “FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY IS A ROOT OF ALL KINDS OF EVIL, FOR WHICH SOME HAVE STRAYED FROM THE FAITH IN THEIR GREEDINESS, AND PIERCED THEMSELVES THROUGH WITH MANY SORROWS.”

I TIM.

6:10

JOHN PIPER WROTE: GOD DEALS IN THE CURRENCY OF GRACE, NOT MONEY.

MONEY IS THE CURRENCY OF HUMAN RESOURCE.

SO THE HEART THAT LOVES MONEY IS A HEART THAT PINS ITS HOPES AND PURSUES ITS PLEASURES, AND PUTS ITS TRUST IN WHAT HUMAN RESOURCES CAN OFFER.

SO THE LOVE OF MONEY IS VIRTUALLY THE SAME AS FAITH IN MONEY THAT IT WILL MEET YOUR NEEDS AND MAKE YOU HAPPY.

MANY PEOPLE TRY TO INSULATE THEMSELVES BEHIND A FORTRESS OF MATERIALISM.

THEY WEAR MONEY ON THEIR SLEEVES SO OTHERS WILL THINK MORE HIGHLY OF THEM.

THEY INVEST EVERYTHING IN WHAT IS TEMPORARY AND COMPLETELY IGNORE WHAT IS ETERNAL.

DON’T LET IT HAPPEN TO YOU.

THIS IS OUR CULTURE, IT CANNOT BE OUR CHARACTER.

B. THE ACCELERATION OF INEQUALITY

NEAR THE BEGINNING OF THE TRIBULATION WE READ IN REV. 6, “WHEN HE OPENED THE THIRD SEAL, I HEARD THE THIRD LIVING CREATURE SAY, COME AND SEE.

SO I LOOKED AND BEHOLD A BLACK HORSE AND HE WHO SAT ON IT HAD A PAIR OF SCALES IN HIS HAND.

AND I HEARD A VOICE IN THE MIDST OF THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES SAYING, A QUART OF WHEAT FOR A DENARIUS AND THREE QUARTS OF BARLEY FOR A DENARIUS, AND DO NOT HARM THE OIL AND THE WINE.”

REV.

6:5-6

THIS DESCRIBES THE THIRD SEAL OF JUDGMENT DURING THE TRIBULATION.

IT PAINTS A PICTURE OF WORLD-WIDE FAMINE.

RESOURCES WILL BE SPARCE FORCING MANY INTO POVERTY, HUNGER AND DESPAIR.

IN THOSE DAYS A DENARIUS EQUALED A DAY’S WAGES.

AND A QUART OF WHEAT WASN’T MUCH.

NEITHER WAS THREE QUARTS OF BARLEY.

THE NLT SAYS, “A LOAF OF WHEAT BREAD OR THREE LOAVES OF BARLEY WILL COST A DAY’S PAY.

AND DON’T WASTE THE OLIVE OIL AND WINE.”

BASIC STAPLES WILL BE OUTRAGEOUSLY EXPENSIVE BUT NOT EVERYONE WILL BE AFFECTED EQUALLY.

WHEAT AND BARLEY WERE FOOD FOR THE COMMON PEOPLE BUT OIL AND WINE WERE PRIMARILY RESERVED FOR THOSE WITH MORE RESOURCES.

IN SHORT, THE TRIBULATION WILL BE A PERIOD OF EXTREME ECONOMIC INEQUALITY.

THE POOR WILL STRUGGLE WHILE THOSE WHO HOARDED GREAT AMOUNTS OF WEALTH FOR THEMSELVES WILL PROSPER.

AND CONTINUE TO LIVE IN A LUXURIOUS LIFESTYLE.

WE SEE THESE TENDENCIES TODAY BOTH IN THE U.S AND AROUND THE WORLD.

ONE PERCENT OF THE WORLD’S CURRENT POPULATION OWNS ABOUT 44 PERCENT OF THE WORLD’S WEALTH.

IN THE PAST 40 YEARS WAGES FOR AVERAGE WORKERS HAVE RISEN ABOUT 11 PERCENT WHILE WAGES FOR CEO’S HAVE RISEN 1,000 PERCENT.

CEO’S EARN 278 TIMES WHAT THEIR EMPLOYEES EARN IN A GIVEN YEAR.

DURING COVID-19 WHILE MILLIONS OF AMERICANS LOST THEIR JOBS THE NET WORTH OF AMERICAN BILLIONAIRES ROSE 35 PERCENT.

THE WEALTHIEST SAW THE BIGGEST PROFITS DURING THE CRISIS.

JEFF BEZOS SAW HIS PERSONAL FORTUNE RISE $86 BILLION IN JUST OVER A YEAR TO BECOME THE FIRST PERSON IN THE WORLD TO BE WORTH MORE THAN $200 BILLION.

THERE IS AN OLD SAYING, “THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET POORER.”