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                       “God &Money”
     You Cannot Serve God & Riches
     The Two Masters

Creation of
Money
Ken Kline has a new interpretation relating to the Beast…
and the False Prophet. The Beast is the World System of
Government,
and the False Prophet is…the Media of Television and Modern
Technology.
The Beast is not a man! The Ram, in Daniel seven, its two horns
represent England and the United States, having created the
Economic System of Banking, worldwide!
Does this agree with the Biblical prophecies of Israel, the Beast, and
False Prophet?
TODAY EVERY PERSON STANDS ON THE BRINK OF
PERSONAL, DISASTER! HIS HOME, HIS INCOME,
HIS FAMILY, EVEN HIS VERY LIFE
ARE SERIOUSLY THREATENED.

Children, I am urged in my spirit to write this material out for you,
even though, I
have sent other information regarding the “New World Order;” but,
because, it ties in with
the Scriptures of “buying and selling” and the “mark of the Beast,”
this too, is a must read.

I received this from “Prophecy In The News’ yesterday:
•        Believe it or not, Barack Obama is related to President George
Bush.
•        10th cousin, connected by Samuel Hinckley around 1662!
•        That makes him kin to the Hapsburg dynasty, emperors of
         the holy Roman Empire!
•        Things are really heating up in world politics and you need to
stay
   informed. The dollar is being devalued, and if the rumors are true,
   may soon be dumped in favor of the Amero!

This work is by Robert Preston
Money
   But let us begin at the beginning. First, let us examine a subject
we are all interested in. Money! Why are we interested in money?
We cannot wear it, nor eat it. It is because of what it can get for us,
as of the things we need and want, things that will make us happier
than if we have to do without them.
The Beginning of Money
   In the beginning of man’s relationship with other men, he simply
traded items he
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   had which other men wanted for things he wanted. But as more
people and more items became involved, trade and barter became
more difficult and inconvenient. Gradually men settled on items, as a
medium of exchange that were universally needed. In the early days
of society in Europe, cows, good for meat and milk and leather,
were used as a medium of exchange. They were accepted because
they had some value to nearly everyone. Though he himself might
have plenty of cows at the moment, he knew someone would come
along soon and exchange for something he wanted. Thus cows came
to be used as money. In fact, our word “fee” comes from the
German word for cattle, and our word “pecuniary” come from the
Latin word for cow.

Real Money
   However, cows were subject to the deteriorating value of all living
matter, they were difficult to store, they were difficult to transport;
in short though valuable, they were inconvenient. As time passed,
men were impressed with what they could do with metals. It was
found they could be used for all sorts of needed and desirable items.
One of the most useful was a yellow metal called gold. It could be
hammered into the thinnest and finest sheets without breaking into
pieces, finest wire and melted easily. It could be polished and made
to shine, but best of all, it did not tarnish, but it was hard to fine, not
plentiful in the earth. Another metal was much like it, but not quite
so rare and not quite so fine, this, of course, was silver.
        Because of their great usefulness, and their very limited
supply, gold and silver soon because used as money, it was more
convenient and far more stable. These metals were eventually cast
into forms having a specific weight and value. It could be converted
into something of value … With the knowledge of this usefulness,
thus the value of gold and silver made them the standard of
exchange of the world.

The Beginning of Banks
   Of Course, to get it you had to give something of equal value …
the back breaking labor of digging it out of the ground or panning it
out of a stream, or food, or clothes, or tools … something of value
to those who had it. Those who were in the position of rule, of
government, sought to extract taxes from their subjects in order to
acquire vast fortunes of this precious commodity of gold and silver.
        Once wealth began to be accumulated in large amounts and
large purchases were made, it became difficult to move all of the
required gold and silver to complete the transaction. Soon merchants
began to deal in the storage of and sale
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   of gold and silver. They would issue a receipt for the amount of
metal in storage. The owner could then trade his receipt for
whatever he wanted, and the new owner of the receipt was thus the
owner of the precious metal. More and more frequently the new
owner would leave his valuable metal with the merchant and likewise
trade his receipt.

Paper Money Is Not Wealth
   Eventually the merchant of the metals devised a plan of giving
receipts that were only part of the wealth, but he would give enough
of these receipts so that they totaled up to the amount that the
customer had stored there. This allowed the customer to spend some
of his wealth with a receipt worth so much and keep the rest of his
receipts to use later for some other purchase. Thus the merchant of
the precious metals became banks, and the receipts for metals on
deposit became the paper representative of the valuable gold and
silver he had on deposit.
        It is important to realize that it was the gold and silver that was
wealth. The paper issued was only a receipt, only a representative of
the wealth. The paper had no real value. It could not be used to
convert it back into form of coins, etc. Paper dollars have no
intrinsic value; it is only what they represent that has any value.

Bank Loans
   Finally the time came when the banker began to realize that there
was never a call for more than about twenty percent of the real
money he had on hand. If the banker had, say, deposits of $ 1,000
on hand, his clients would only withdraw, and others would put back
in, less than twenty percent. In other words, only $200 was actually
being worked. “Why,” thought the banker, “should I just let that
other $800 lie there collecting dust? I’ll loan it out to some
merchants at a nice interest. They can give me the right to take some
of their property and sell it if they can’t pay up.” Now, of course,
this wasn’t the banker’s money; it was the depositor’s money. But
since they didn’t know what the banker was doing, it didn’t bother
the depositors.

Creating Money Out Of Nothing
   After the banker had loaned out his depositors’ $800, he found
that the man that he loaned it to, and many of the people this man
spent it with, put a large amount of it right back into the bank. “How
wonderful,” he thought. “I’ll just set 20 percent of this aside and
loan out the rest of it again.” In this manner, the bank had created
money out of nothing. The money he was loaning was, on the largest
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   part, merely bookkeeping entries. Since most of the money stayed
in his bank, he was able to loan out the same money several times.
Thus on the initial deposits of say $1,000 the banker eventually
loaned and was paid back $4,000 or $5,000. Plus interest!

A Run On The Bank
   Now if no one became worried or suspicious, everything went
along just fine. But suppose … a depositor needed ready cash when
a big withdrawal had to be made, and the banker had to stall for time
until he could rake up the money. Then the depositor becomes
frightened thinking that the bank is in trouble … he tells his friends
and so forth, he too cashes in, as do others the same. This is called a
run on the bank … the bank can’t come up with the money; so is
forced to close.

Deposit Insurance
   During the twenties and thirties (Depression) many banks were
forced to close in just this manner. There are still banks being closed
in the United States every day in just this manner. To prevent this
from happening, the banks joined together to form an insurance
pool, each placing a certain percentage of its deposits in reserve in
this master pool held in reserve to solve the temporary crisis. This is
one of the purposes of the Federal Reserve System and Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation. They rely on the law of averages;
and as long as everything even goes halfway right they will be able to
cover the emergency. But there is no way they can guarantee all of
the accounts in every bank at once. The F.D.I.C. has only $1.40 to
insure each $100 of deposits. If everyone withdrew all his money on
the same day, or even the same week, it would break every bank in
the nation(s).

The Beginning Of Central
Or Government Banks
   However, the most important development with the management
of money came in the discovery that even governments and kings
run short and have to borrow money to meet the needs of state once
in awhile. This had been discovered by several bankers throughout
Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. We shall just consider one of
these. He was Mayer Amschel Bauer, an itinerant merchant in
Germany in the late 1700’s. Eventually he settled down and opened
up a little shop in Frankfurt. Over the door he hung a sign on a red
shield; as the result of the sign, he eventually came to be known as
“Rotschild,” or “Rothschild,” meaning “red shield,” in German. The
House of Rothschild sold and dealt in coins, rare and
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   otherwise. A frequent visitor to the shop was the prince and many
of his court. Because sometimes the prince was in power and
sometimes he was not, he needed a place to keep his money when
he had it and a place to borrow it when he didn’t. Gradually Mr.
Rothschild found himself in the national finance business.

The Power Of Government Bankers
   But Mr. Rothschild realized that if the king, who was all-powerful
when he was in, should decide not to pay back the loan … or even if
he were killed…well, that wouldn’t be too good. Therefore, he hit
upon a two-fold plan. The first thing was always to have money to
be loaned to an opposing king that he could bring into play against
anyone who might give him too much trouble. The second thing was
to force the king, as part of the terms of the loan, to give him control
over the money, the banking of the nation. Mr. Rothschild saw that
it was the man that held the purse strings of the nation that really
ruled. He once said, “Give me control over a nation’s currency and I
care not who makes its laws.”

The Take-Over Of Europe And England
   These national banks that Mr. Rothschild set up came to be
known as “Central Banks.” Mr. Rothschild had five sons. One he
kept in Germany with him, to take over when he passed on; the
others he sent to the major cities of Italy, Austria, France and
England. They had learned well from their father and soon were in
charge of important banking and investing firms in each of their
respective nations. Gradually, other great banking dynasties arose;
but as each one came along, they took great care to co-operate with
each other and keep the secrets of the business to themselves.

The Rise Of American Financiers
   Eventually it became obvious that the United States was going to
become one of the richest and most powerful nations on earth, and
these English and European bankers wanted to get in on the deal. In
the United States there had developed several important and very
successful banking and investment firms. Soon they began to have
partners buy into their firms from Europe and England. Two of the
most important of these firms were the Rockefeller and Morgan
firms; another of the firms was called Kuhn, Loeb and Co. They
were located on Wall Street in New York, of course.

The Financial Conspiracy
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   In “Europe and England” these international bankers had become
part of a conspiratorial plan to unite the world into a central
government and gain control of the wealth of the nations. They
believed that by gaining control they could more evenly distribute the
wealth among the people. They planned to use their power and
influence to help those who could teach in schools, those who would
“preach in the churches,” and those who would write in the presses
the things that would help them unite the world under their
government!

“Financing Communism”
   When Karl Marx, and later, Lenin, came along, these wealthy
bankers and businessmen put up money to help them. Clinton
Roosevelt and Horace Greely put up most of the money to publish
the communist “Manifesto!” (I have sent you the “Rothschild
Manifesto,” the “One World Government” with its map of 10
division nations, which is the best of the Communist Manifesto’s of
the five). Later John Fels, an American soap manufacturer, gave a
large sum to help Lenin when he was in London trying to get his
revolutionary movement started. Still later, many other wealthy
capitalists on Wall Street put up hundreds of millions of dollars to
finance Lenin. It is well known that Lenin paid back to the Kuhn-
Loeb firm at least 600 million gold rubies. One of these men, Jacob-
Schiff, according to his grandson, bragged that he had personally put
up $20 million. The man who had headed the project of getting
money for the communist cause was a member of the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve, Paul Warburg.

The Conspiratorial Tie
    It was this same Paul Warburg that had sent to the United States
from the International Banking Fraternity in Europe and England to
help the American bankers set up a system similar to the one which
the Fraternity had in Europe allowing the bankers to gain control of
the finances of the American government!

Secret Origin Of The Federal Reserve
   Beginning in the year 1907 with the leave of absence from the
Kuhn-Loeb firm at a salary of one-half million dollars per year, Paul
Warburg went up and down the width and breadth of the nation
teaching influential bankers of the country the advantages that would
be theirs if they would just co-operate and set up a “Central Bank”
for this country as bankers had done so well in Europe and England.
         By 1910, Warburg had convinced enough of the key bankers
that, traveling
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   incognito under assumed names, these bankers, representing all
the important firms in Wall Street including Rockefeller and the
Morgan’s, met in a secret meeting on Jekyll Island off the coast of
Georgia. It was later admitted by those who attended that meeting
that is was there the groundwork was laid for the Federal Reserve
Banking System. So secretive was the meeting that 18 years later
Paul Warburg felt it was still best not to reveal what went on there;
and to this day no outsider knows, except that it was then and there
that the plan was agreed upon to set up the Federal Reserve.

Passing The Federal Reserve Act
   When they first tried to put the Federal Reserve Act through
Congress, Senator Nelson Aldrich, under the control of the
Rockefellers, was used as a sponsor; but that was easily seen
through and the bill was quickly defeated. But because of Mr. John
D. Rockefeller’s financial contributions of up to $40 million at that
time, the University of Chicago (Illinois) owed him a few favors.
Thus a couple of the associates of the University of Chicago were
used to write up a new banking bill, and it was submitted by
someone not so easily identifiable with Big Banking. In 1913, the
Federal Reserve Act was passed!

Some Saw Problems
   But not everyone in Congress was blind to what this was going to
mean to the nation. Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr., said, “The bill as it
stands seems to me to open the way to a vast inflation of currency
… I do not like to think that any law can be passed which will make
it possible to submerge the “gold standard” in a flood or
irredeemable paper currency.” The father of the famous aviator,
Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., told Congress, “This act establishes the
most gigantic trust on earth… When the President signs this act the
“Invisible government by money power” proven to exist by Money
Trust investigation, will be legalized. The new law will create
inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on
depressions will be scientifically created!” (And so it is …
worldwide)!

Federal Reserve Government Owned
   Theoretically, the government owns the Federal Reserve Banks.
The various banks which join the “Federal Reserve System” are
required to put up a deposit with the system. This amounts to 16
percent for the city banks and even less on savings accounts.
…This money does not provide these banks with any stock in the
Federal Reserve. …The Federal Reserve is never Audited, it
controls all currency,
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   just look at the face of your dollar bills… it is Federal Reserve
Notes (a note is an I.O.U.) and controls virtually all of the credit
rates of the nation’s banks they have never been audited by the
Government Accounting Office (GAO). For a great many years the
House banking Committee has tried numerous time to get congress
to force a government audit… but each time Congress has refused…
because a special group has been created which is so powerful that
Congress is afraid to force it into audit. (Perhaps too many important
people would be embarrassed).

Federal Reserve Privately Controlled

   Although the President is allowed to appoint one member to the
seven-man Board of Governors every two years, and these men
must be ratified by the Senate, their appointments for fourteen year
terms are never questioned; all have been favorable to the banking
industry…almost all bankers themselves. The first man ever selected
was Paul Warburg, the chief architect and instigator! who had
migrated from Germany for that very purpose and held that position
during the greater period we were engaged in World War 1 with
Germany, where his brother Max was the head of the (Central) bank
of Germany!
        In addition, they have the control of the “Open Market
Committee” …the main policy-and-decision-making body of the
Federal Reserve.
        In August 1962, in a Joint Economic Committee of U.S.
Congress, the Congressman Wright Patman asked, “Is it not a fact
that the Federal Reserve System has more power than either the
Congress or the President?” Eccles under oath, Chairman of the FR
Board responded, “In the field of money and credit, yes.” This
privately operated banking system is not only independent of the
President and Congress, but is actually superior to them in the
control of the nation’s money supply. It is a privately operated
banking system rather than a government agency… they themselves
pay the postage on the envelope… not with a government frank…
because they are NOT government agency!
        From behind the scenes, the Federal Reserve System is
manipulated by private, unseen owners. When profits are
made…and they are enormous…they are divided up among the
owners of a select group of banks that participate in the system.
(This is a worldwide system of banking…and why the nations are in
the economic mess that we are in today)!

Manufacturers Of Inflation
   When the Government spends more than it takes in, it borrows
the funds it lacks
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   in income…the Federal Reserves buys the government securities,
it simply creates funds out of nothing by writing a check on its own
bank to make payment; or, it has the Department of Printing and
Engraving print up sufficient currency to cover the cost…its only
cost actually in the end is the cost of the paper, ink and labor.
        On the average, the Federal Reserves (in 1975) pays only
$1.50 for each $1,000 in face value which it receives, and when the
Treasury Department and Federal Reserve swap pieces of paper,
this becomes part of the National Debt and you and I pay interest in
the transaction. We must keep in mind that this money is literally
created out of nothing by the Federal Reserve and has no backing by
anything; it is worthless as if it had been printed in a gangster’s
basement! THIS IS INFLATION!
        However, the greatest amount of profit is created for the
private bankers by the operation of the Open Market of the Federal
Reserve. Here Government Securities, which the FR decides not to
buy, are sold on the so-called “open market.” Everything is created
out of nothing… allowing the banking industry to borrow in order to
loan, to buy and to sell.
        The U.S. Government is in debt to the banking industry more
than all the rest of the nations of the world put together. Today the
United States has a completely fiat money system! (It is getting ever
so clearer why one cannot buy or sell without the mark and worship
of the Beast (System)… yet, Children, he sits in the temple of
God… making himself out to be God)! But, which temple is God
referring to?

   Preston explains it this way: “When you have a rubber balloon, it
has just so much material in it, just so much rubber. Now that
rubber has a certain amount of give, of stretch. When you begin to
inflate it, it gives, but the walls get thinner and thinner. If you keep
inflating it, eventually it will become so over-inflated it will break.
The same thing is true of the economy…and just at the point where
it is the biggest and most beautiful thing you ever saw (with a
chicken in every pot and everything we covet is ours), it breaks!
And, Children, this is exactly what has and is happening right now!
The balloon has busted…and how! Eventhough, the White House
states otherwise!

Too Late To Turn Back
   The lessons of history show that no nation has ever succeeded in
making a money system work that has no intrinsic value…all have
gone into national bankruptcy. Our politicians are making empty
political promises; it is robbing the poor (in taxes) to pay the rich
who control the banking system…the Elite few.
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   Inflated paper money robs the needy and pays the money baron
who created the monstrosity. When they try to slow it down, the day
of reckoning starts to catch up, business starts to slide, businesses
starts to fail, people get put out of jobs, unemployment climbs, the
government(s) get frightened so it pumps more money into the
economy! (Exactly like Worldwide Governments are doing today).

   The Federal Reserve controls the amount of money it is putting
into the economy by the amount of its discount rate. When the rate
is raised, that means the banks cannot afford to borrow as much as
before, and the amount of the “new” money going into the market is
reduced…if they really want to reduce the amount of ‘phony paper
money’ in circulation, they raise their interest rate quite high. The
government must try to control the inflation…they can’t eliminate it;
all they can do is try to control it.

Printing Presses Are Going 24/7
    The government printing presses are printing 24/7 trying to keep
up; prices are changing hourly, it’s hopeless, the money is
completely worthless; no one wants to take. All factories and stores
are shutting down…what happens? Rioting, looting and all types of
crime begin to stalk the streets. The cities turn into concrete
canyons, with savages hunting down their prey of other human
beings who might have food and drink. Blood flows like rain water
in the gutters. It has happened before, in France and Germany and
Africa. Only this time, it will be worse than ever before. (Of which,
as never before, brings to my mind, the predicted Scripture):
“Babylon has fallen, has fallen,
And the cities of the world collapse,
Come out of her My people.”
Prosperity
“And my God shall supply all your need
According to His riches in glory by Messiah Yeshua,”
Philippians 4:19
   Just exactly what does Paul mean by this statement we hear
quoted by so many
in the “Prosperity” movement? What are God’s “riches” in Glory
that our Lord Jesus has access to and can command? The Phiilippian
Christians had sent ‘things’ by Epaphroditus in caring for Paul’s
need. Paul states “no church shared with me concerning giving and
receiving but you only.” He says, “Even in
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Thessalonica you sent ‘aid’ once and again for my necessities. Not
that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your
account.” The ‘things’ sent by the brethren to Paul were “a sweet-
smelling aroma, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God!!!” (No
501c giving, Saints) and for this reason, “My God shall supply all
your wants…O, excuse me, all your need according to His riches in
glory by Christ Jesus.”

   Paul stated “he had learned in whatever state I am (in), to be
content!” Paul had learned… and we too must learn and not
complain and covet! Paul knew (learned) how to be abased, and
how to have plenty. He had learned both to be full and to be hungry,
both to abound and suffer need. Paul had learned “that he could do
all things through Christ who gave him the strength to do it.” Yet,
everyone quotes this verse…eventhough they themselves have not
learned it!

   It was in the sacrifice of the Philippians’ giving that caused Paul
to say… that God keeps an account record in Glory of your
giving…whither of ‘things,’ ‘time,’ ‘money,’ or ‘whatever’ that
God, through Jesus, would supply their (our) need from His glorious
riches!
Word Wealth SFB Note:
If our economy should dissolve tomorrow, God’s people would not
be rendered inoperative, because God is our source. He can keep us
through times of scarcity as well as times of plenty. He fed Elijah by
sending ravens to bring him food in the morning and evening 1 Kings
17:2-6. You need a doctor, Jesus is the Healer!
God can do that now; He is the same today as He was then.
1 Timothy 6:17; Deut 8:18
(“It is we who have changed, we who have not learned!
We who have not the glory on our faces!”)
   God’s riches include all of CREATION, so there is nothing that
you and I need that the Lord Jesus cannot supply. The word is
singular, “need,” not “needs.” That means everything we need, all is
covered. This verse can’t be lifted out of the Bible. It relates to
everything the Scriptures tell us to do. Luke 12:15; Gen 12:1-3.

Paul writing to his fellow Christians:
“Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so
walk,
As you have us for a pattern;”
“For many walk, of whom I have told you often,
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and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies
of the cross of Christ; whose end is destruction, whose God is their
belly,
and whose glory is their shame… who set their minds on earthly
things.
For our citizenship is in heaven (not of the earth), from which
We also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
Who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed
To His glorious body, according to the working by which
He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.
Therefore, my beloved and long-for brethren, my joy and crown,
Stand fast in the Lord!”
Praise His Holy Name!
Philippians 3:17-4:1

Shalom
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