O LORD, who shall sojourn in thy tent? Who shall dwell on thy holy hill? ...he who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved. Psalm 15:1-5
Preface to the 3rd Edition (2008)
...And many peoples shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths." For out of Zion shall go forth the Torah and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem. O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of Yahweh. The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the pride of men shall be humbled; and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day...from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth." Isaiah 2:3-19
The stubbornness of men seems to know no bounds or limits in resistance to the wisdom of God as contained in the Torah. As I write this preface to the 3rd edition, worldwide financial markets are in panic, U.S. retirees have lost better than 3 Trillion dollars (yes, you read it correctly!) in the value of their portfolios just over the last few recent days. All in the time it takes to stroke the keys of a computer keyboard. Stay tuned as the wizards mount rescue missions on behalf of their Titanic. Foolish is the man who attempts to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Beyond foolishness and stupidity are those who continue to insist they can do what God says will never have His blessing. And gratuitous comments such as Alan Greenspan's (former head of the Federal Reserve): "there may have been a flaw in the plan..." Really? According to God's wisdom, "the plan" is fatally flawed, has absolutely no virtue and nothing whatsoever to commend it! The "lender of last resort" (read as the U.S. taxpayer via the U.S. Government) is finally going to be pressed, like some prison chain-gang, into forced bail-out loans of a wild assortment of banks, insurance companies, automobile manufacturers... The basic reason being they are all "banks" in disguise. The bottom line reason why auto-makers need a bail-out is not to preserve manufacturing jobs per se, but rather to enable them to continue "lending", which after all is the most profitable part of making and selling cars. The bail-out is, in reality, a bail-out of GMAC, Ford Finance, Chrysler Finance, all of them profitable banks. And they are certainly right in asserting no one will buy (finance) a car from a Chapter 11 or Chapter 7 bankrupt corporation! And then of course we have the latest: the 50 billion dollar Ponzi scheme of Bernard Madoff. Don't you wonder how many other Ponzi schemes---Moles---are out there hidden behind "relationship" banking, fatuously wrapped in the words "Trust me..."? So fasten your seatbelts, it is going to be quite a ride! Read a bit further into the coming "shake, rattle, and roll," then get out while you can, because these temples of Mammon iniquity are going down! And, you really don't want to be a flea caught between mating elephants! November 2008
Chapter 9: Thus Says Yahweh the God of Israel
Yahweh said to me: Baruch what do you see?
I see a paper tower, like an inverted pyramid, ascending to heaven, tottering and bulging, dripping glue, held up by one old man. A tower of paper so heavy its fall will crush the world. And Jacob is so small..
Thus says Yahweh, God of Israel---
Unless I build the house, they labor in vain. And for vanity they do labor mightily!
What have you built O mighty man? A house of paper, making millions of souls your slaves to money and debt... And you would claim I built this house? Watch my breath consume it. Watch the wind carry the ash to the far corners of the earth!
You mock my instructions... I mock your creations.
Smoke, mirrors, sleight of hand, magic, and illusion can disguise iniquity for a season, from the eye already blinded by greed, and from the eye blinded by fear, and from the heart bound in a lust for power. Watch me dry up your wells of "credit" until you are utterly bankrupt. Who will loan to you even a crust of bread in the Day that I have appointed?
Your covenant with Mammon cannot save you. A prince who cannot deliver. Go on and covenant with all the world's bankers---see if that league will save you! What pride you have, a full-blown confidence in the covenants you make: covenants of politics, covenants of money, covenants with false messiahs, covenants of stubbornness and hardness of heart.
So you have anointed a new President! You elected George Bush---and what did his Presidency amount to? Religious jubilation became a cup of bitter tears! And how will you manage to drink the next cup? What will your political jubilation become? The leadership of "success" is no leadership from Me. The leadership of "alliances" is no leadership from Me!
Consider what my dealings with Israel have been---consider long and hard, then repent. I use kingdoms for My purposes. Your mighty men...I oversee and I employ for my purposes... Think not? Watch! I even use the lowly mole to bring down kingdoms.
You who call yourself Christian: do you walk as your Jesus walked?
You who call yourself a Jew: do you walk in the ways of Torah, my teaching and instructions?
You all walk in the ways of your father the devil himself: Satan is the god of your principality, and his ways are your ways. You covenant with death and destruction.
So come let us see if your riches will profit in the day I have appointed---a day of burning, a day of thirst, a day of fainting, a day of dark stumbling! Show me your derivatives; show me your best financial stuff! When I plow, it is well not to be standing in the middle of the field!
Your fatness is no fatness from me: I appoint it for the day of slaughter. Your pride is no glory from me: I appoint it for the day of sucking-up dust.
Heap it all up with all the cleverest bankers---I will have it all in the end. Who among you has the cattle on a thousand hills?
Leave off this iniquity of gathering interest on money, interest on houses, interest on lands, interest on all things...
Where is the man of my Wisdom and my Vision? Where is my son of Israel? Arise beloved Joseph from your sleep---show these puny pharaohs! Show forth my economy and my ways.
And return to me, the God of Israel. And see if I will open my storehouses...
In returning to me, in resting in me, and in silence, you will be saved. A remnant.
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