We’ve been turning to the government to “fix” our economy in recent years. As you’ve probably noticed, their solutions just cause more problems. People will continue to turn to the government for solutions until they discover that Man’s solutions are lacking. The ways of the wisdom of Man are the “Babylonian” system. It is only [...]
It is part of the fallen nature of Man to seek out a leader to take care of him. This is a corrupted version of what God made each of us with, an innate desire to be lead by God. We all still have this desire, but if we have not been trained up in [...]
The US Constitution established the right of the Federal Government “to coin Money, regulate the value thereof,” and so in 1792, they did so by establishing the value of a dollar at roughly 1/20th of an ounce of Gold. So $20.67 bought one ounce of gold. Today it takes over $1000 to buy an ounce [...]
Yesterday, we spoke of the possibilities for improvement in our economy- as well as barriers which could make the normal ebb and flow of recession and growth difficult. For many decades, the government has been using the mechanism of interest rates to influence the economy.
In each cycle that has occurred in the past, the bottom [...]
We’ve covered the spiritual side of what’s about to happen (over the next decade) in this country, and now we’ll begin a series looking at the financial basis for this. Spiritual realities and truths are always controlling physical events, but you can see signs in the physical events themselves. Actually, God very often teaches us [...]
by Wes Bridel on October 7, 2009
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Accused of being the very opposite of who He is, Jesus refuted the Pharisees by pointing to the way that spiritual reality exists and works. It does not exist and work as chaos does as seen in our visible realm. But rather, it moves and functions in a strict and regulated order.
In the last series [...]
by Wes Bridel on September 28, 2009
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Recently, the concepts of the Government and Economy of God have become buzz words in certain Christian circles. Let’s try to dig past their trendy usages into a more thorough explanation of their meanings.
1. Please read the following:
Mt 2:2 [NIV]
2and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw [...]
by Wes Bridel on September 24, 2009
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Recently, the concepts of the Government and Economy of God have become buzz words in certain Christian circles. Let’s try to dig past their trendy usages into a more thorough explanation of their meanings.
Deut 17:14-20 [NIV]
14When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled [...]
by Wes Bridel on September 23, 2009
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Gen. 1:26-28 [NIV]
26Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
27So God created man in his own image,
in [...]
by Wes Bridel on September 22, 2009
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The originals meanings of the words economy and government are scarcely much different than in their theological and spiritual connotations. However, the differences and relationship between the two are evident today:
For example:
The economy is only part of the care and policy-making of a government. It is mainly part and parcel of the the material well-being [...]