Elon Musk; The Dollar Will be Worth Nothing

This is quite a headline to read in Forbes.  We know it’s coming, but no idea when.  The comment of “having some Bitcoin to feed your family”, is silly.  But what do you expect from a Bitcoin billionaire?

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Now, after an executive at Tesla billionaire Elon Musk's social media company X revealed the platforms payments "end goal," Musk has warned the U.S. dollar will soon be worth "nothing" as "stealth money printing" pushes the price of bitcoin, ethereum, XRP and crypto higher.

Musk's U.S. dollar collapse warning follows similar warnings from others. Last month, legendary bitcoin billionaire Tim Draper has issued a "cataclysmic" U.S. dollar prediction—warning the dollar will collapse by 2030.

"I hope anybody who's watching this is trying to at least have some bitcoin so that they can feed their family during the time when the dollar goes to zero," Draper, who has made billions from his $18 million 2014 purchase of almost 30,000 bitcoin from the U.S. government, told Cointelegraph.

 https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/05/04/the-dollar-will-be-worth-nothing-elon-musk-issues-stark-fed-warning-as-stealth-money-printing-grinds-bitcoin-ethereum-and-xrp-price-higher/?sh=39a03c8165d3

Two Minute Warning

 The posting below comes from Jan Markell and I believe most of my readers have heard her name.  She is a Jew who has accepted Christ a long time ago and has hosted a prophecy site for a few decades. 

As Bible readers we know to watch all things Israel.  That also means to watch all things Jewish.  Followers of Christ can start to discern the times we are living in by watching what the world thinks about Israel and Jews.

Have you ever been betrayed? Maybe you have more than once. Maybe many times. I bet you find it hard to trust anyone now.   You see, the Jews didn’t take things seriously in Germany in the 1930s. It wouldn’t get all that bad. They were comfortable and assimilated back then. Whatever was happening would blow over. The Jews had contributed in so many positive ways to European society. The warning signs had to be false alarms!   They were betrayed in Europe, and it is happening again, and now they are reading the handwriting on the wall! The messages of warning are everywhere! This time they are paying attention. They’ve gotten the message that now it is the two-minute warning! Here’s why.   ·    Their 75-year ally, America, is chastising, marginalizing, scolding, and telling them to lose their war. Don’t retaliate when attacked. Their long-time friend favors Iran. ·    Politicians who are “one of them” have turned on them. Can you say, Chuck Schumer? ·    The media has betrayed them—even the conservative media. Can you say “Tucker Carlson?” ·    Parts of the church are hostile due to Replacement Theology. Others don’t want to make waves or wade into controversy. ·    Every global outfit from the U.N. to the W.E.F. to the I.C.C. to the E.U. laments the plight of the so-called Palestinians. In fact, most of the world feels the Jews are the oppressors and the Palestinians are the oppressed. They support Hamas. They have sympathy for barbarians. That’s hard to imagine.   So, someone is waiting in the wings who is the ultimate betrayer and he will fool them, too. Because they are in a state of fear and anxiety, they will be open to his cunning message. This global mover and shaker may be inconsequential right now, but he is rehearsing how he will play into their insecurities. He’s in the shadows now.   The Jews will eagerly listen to him. Wouldn’t you if people were shouting at you to “go back into the ovens!” “There is only one solution—Intifada, revolution!” “Long live Hamas!” “Death to Jews!”    Wouldn’t you be receptive if you saw nearly every prominent college campus writhing with Jew hatred? Then threats are issued, saying, “The 7th of October is going to be every day for you!”   These radicals want to murder your babies and other loved ones, burn your homes, and even take more hostages! Is this the predicted “love growing cold”? How can human hearts be this cruel? What has infected a huge number of those under the age of 25?   In 1938, Germany was not their home, but in 2024 neither is America, or Australia, or Canada, or France, or the UK, or South Africa.   They only have one home and that is Israel. Israel will do their best to protect the Jews. At Columbia, and Yale, and MIT, and dozens more, Jews are on their own. No one has their back.   But this smooth-talking man called the Antichrist will be on their side—for a short season.   This is the classic set-up right now! A charismatic man is waiting in the wings. He will seduce the “left behind” world, but he will mesmerize many Jews because they are being primed to be told that a benevolent dictator is their best friend and will never betray them--ever. Those days are behind.   They will relax for three and one-half years, secure in his promises that include no betrayal, and then he will stab them in the back even worse than all previous betrayers. That peace treaty he signed will be shredded. That third temple he allowed will be defiled. How can this be? He promised. He was convincing. He told them what they wanted to hear.   It was all a lie. They will have to flee to the hills called Petra. This will be the classic betrayal.   Then Jesus Christ enters the picture. He will never betray. You can count on it! Their anxiety will actually turn to tears. But the betrayal will finally be over!   “And on that day, I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will pour out on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of pleading, so that they will look at Me whom they pierced; and they will mourn for Him, like one mourning for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.” (Zechariah 12:9-10)   Come to think of it, maybe it’s the two-minute warning for the whole world!

 

Israeli Warplanes Strike Damascus…Again

 We do our best to bring you the headlines when they include the words Israel and Damascus.  It should remind us that Isaiah 17 hasn’t happened yet but most likely is in the near future.  We also are hopeful that it is an event that will happen after Jesus calls His bride into the clouds.

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Israeli aircraft have reportedly attacked a location on the outskirts of the Syrian capital of Damascus late Thursday (local), a security source told Reuters.

Widely circulating images have emerged on social media showing plumes of smoke rising high over buildings which were struck. Syrian state media subsequently said that eight army soldiers were injured in the attack. 

The fresh Israeli aggression could be another targeted assassination operation against Iranian generals or IRGC officers, and certainly would also be intended to signal Israel remains undeterred by Iran's April 13th attack, which was in retaliation for the prior Israeli attack on Iran's embassy in Damascus.

According to unverified social media reports: 

The Israeli attack against Syria targeted the building of the Syrian State Security branch in the “Najha” area in the Damascus countryside.

There has been some speculation that this is an Israeli response to the launch of rockets from the Syrian side towards the Golan Heights earlier in the day and week.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israeli-warplanes-strike-damascus-iran-tensions-still-edge

How Great Nations Die

 I believe most of my readers know that there is something very wrong happening in America.  We know what it stems from;  Godlessness.  All these college kids shouting, "death to America!" and "Free, Free Palestine" are most likely NOT starting their mornings with Bible study and prayer.  In fact the vast, vast majority of Americans have no interest in the Word of God.  Most Americans now believe that all life on earth is the result of a huge cosmic coincidence that started the forces of evolution and in their futile brains they have convinced themselves that EVERYTHING they see came from NOTHING.

We also know that history repeats itself.  The common direction of great nations spiral down to the Left.  What was unthinkable just a few decades ago is now common and even celebrated.  Think about gay marriage, abortion.  Think about the belief of many that we can simply print money to create all the wealth we need.  Think about our military going WOKE and promoting transgenders, gays and other reprobates into the highest positions of power.  Think about our police being defunded exactly when lawlessness has exploded.  Think about the millions of illegal aliens who have entered our society and the breakdown that causes on our social services.  The list is long and goes on and on.

Now let's remember one lesson from history; the Ottoman Empire.  If American doesn't fix what ails us soon...we will not be around much longer.  And of course this likely explains why the Bible doesn't mention America anywhere in Last Days prophecy.

Plagued with inept leadership, a fractured society, and an unstable economy, the once powerful, centuries-old Ottoman Empire was described by early 20th century contemporaries as the sick man of Europe. And then it collapsed into the dustbin of history.

America, take note. Consider what medicine needs to be administered in Washington to prevent a fatal malaise from taking down a great nation, for no country is immune to the Ottoman infection.

For the United States, it begins with returning to strategic energy independence. Through state-of-the art technology, we now have the means of not only meeting our domestic needs, but the ability to export oil to our allies. Doing so would replace the Russians and Iranians, whose energy stockpiles continue to be wielded as weapons against the West.

It has been estimated that, were U.S. oil production allowed an open spigot, prices would go back down to $40 or $50 a barrel, nearly half its current $83. That price would create an economic cardiac arrest for Russia and Iran, leaving them unable to afford their global aggression against the West.

Next, the U.S. should return to a policy of strong economic growth. No country has ever taxed itself into prosperity. Let us unleash once again America's best weapon: a creative, robust, open economic marketplace.

Washington needs to lower everyone's taxes and tear up those mountains of regulations that are now throttling growth.

With a strong pro-growth agenda, it is equally important also to provide low-cost loans for business expansion,

We need to recognize that we are being challenged for global leadership by China and that they are engaged in espionage that transits every facet of our nation – from defense to AI to Wall Street. The Communist Chinese will continue to do their best to cripple and displace the U.S. technologically, militarily and economically.

While a strong American military is key, another means to confront that threat is to see the U.S. bring manufacturing back home. Where that is not feasible, one can partner with countries such as India, which are not dedicated to confronting the United States. Otherwise, keep the creation of basic necessities, such as medicine or computer chips as home-grown domestic products.

If America is to remain recognizable as a sovereign nation, we need to secure our borders. It remains inconceivable that it is estimated we currently have more than 20 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., half of which entered since 2021. The current condition of our city streets speaks to the chaos that has been created by White House border policies that are out of control and a national security risk.

Nations get sick. Those that refuse to recognize the lethal risk from these maladies, and refuse to "take their medicine" run the risk of dying.

Just ask the Ottomans.

Here;  The Ottoman Infection: How Great Nations Die :: Gatestone Institute

I've said it 100 times in the last few years to consider 2 politicians running for the same office.  One stands up and says, "Our nation is sick and needs immediate medicine if we are to survive.  Elect me and I will start administering this medicine.  It will taste bad and won't feel good but if we take it now we will survive for decades more.  Thanks for your vote"

The next person gets up and says, "My opponent is a DebbieDowner!  This nation is great and always will be.  Elect me and I will make sure you have free college, free health care, free college and a universal basic income because we all deserve to have a minimum income.  Elect me and I will provide all that you need for a healthy and happy life!"

And which one do you think would get elected?  Votes will vote themselves to death.

Global Banks Telling Us the End of the Dollar is Near

We know this WILL happen because the Bible tells us so.  But we don’t know when.  It could happen before the rapture or it could be one more sign that the rapture is close.  If it hasn’t happened before the rapture then it will happen at the rapture…when faith and confidence in the USA will vanish upon the disappearance of millions of American believers.

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 World reserve status allows for amazing latitude in terms of monetary policy. The Federal Reserve understands that there is constant demand for dollars overseas as a means to more easily import and export goods. The dollar’s petro-status also makes it essential for trading oil globally. This means that the central bank of the US has been able to create fiat currency from thin air to a far higher degree than any other central bank on the planet while avoiding the immediate effects of hyperinflation.

Much of that cash as well as dollar denominated debt (physical and digital) ends up in the coffers of foreign central banks, international banks and investment firms where it is held as a hedge or used to adjust the exchange rates of other currencies for trade advantage. As much as one-half of the value of all U.S. currency is estimated to be circulating abroad.

World reserve status along with various debt instruments allowed the US government and the Fed to create tens of trillions of dollars in new currency after the 2008 credit crash, all while keeping inflation under control (sort of). The problem is that this system of stowing dollars overseas only lasts so long and eventually the consequences of overprinting come home to roost.

The Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944 established the framework for the rise of the US dollar and while the benefits are obvious, especially for the banks, there are numerous costs involved. Think of world reserve status as a “deal with the devil” – You get the fame, you get the fortune, you get the hot girlfriend and the sweet car, but one day the devil is coming to collect and when he does he’s going to take EVERYTHING, including your soul.

Unfortunately, I suspect the time is coming soon for the US and it may be in the form of a brand new Bretton Woods-like system that removes the dollar as world reserve and replaces it with a new digital basket structure. Global banks are essentially admitting to the plan for a complete overhaul of the dollar-based financial world and the creation of a CBDC-centric system built on “unified ledgers.”

There have been three recent developments all announced in succession that suggest the dollar’s replacement is imminent (before this decade is over).

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/unification-cbdcs-global-banks-are-telling-us-end-dollar-system-near

Israelis Brace for All-Out War With Hezbollah

The genie of Jew hatred seems to have popped out of its bottle on October 7 and we aren’t sure it’s going to go back in.  Hezbollah Muslims hate Jews too and they are seeing their chance to try and destroy Israel once and for all.  Will Israel ever NOT BE front and center in the daily headlines?  Again, why does the world care so much about 7 million people sitting on a tiny strip of land?  Because Satan hates them and the world is mostly made up of “children of the devil.”  

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"Israelis cannot be in exile in their own country. This cannot happen. It is the responsibility of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) to defend civilians. It is what we failed to do on Oct. 7," he said, referring to the Hamas attack on southern Israel that prompted the current war in Gaza

Hezbollah did not respond to a request for comment. The group's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in February that residents of northern Israel "will not return" to their homes.

The Israeli military said this month it had completed another step in preparing for possible war with Hezbollah that centred on logistics, including preparations for a "broad mobilisation" of reservists.

A conflict between Israel and Hezbollah would probably result in massive destruction in both countries. In the 2006 war, 1,200 people in Lebanon were killed and 158 in Israel.

Since October, more than 300 people have died in fighting in the border area, mainly Hezbollah fighters.

If war did break out, Israel would probably bomb targets in southern Lebanon before soldiers tried to push at least 10 kilometres across the border. Hezbollah would likely use its estimated arsenal of over 150,000 rockets to target Israeli cities. In 2006 the group fired about 4,000 missiles at Israel.

'IMMENSE' DAMAGE LIKELY

Assaf Orion, a retired Israeli brigadier general, told Reuters there was a growing likelihood of war erupting between Israel and Hezbollah, caused either by an unplanned escalation in clashes or by Israel losing patience with people being unable to return home.

Orion said the intensity of bombing in any war could be 10 times greater than in Gaza.

"The damage will be immense," he said. "Gaza will look like a walk in the park compared to that level of fighting."

Haifa, a port city built on the slope of a mountain from where it is possible to see the Lebanon border on a clear day, was targeted in 2006. Eight people were killed in the worst attack.

Nasrallah said in 2016 Hezbollah could hit ammonia storage tanks in Haifa, saying the result would be "like a nuclear bomb".

The mood in Haifa is a mixture of anxiety and fatalism.

Hundreds of evacuated Israelis have moved to the city and many said another war may be the only way to return home.

Assaf Hessed, 35, who lived in a kibbutz two kilometres from the border, said the military has until September to force Hezbollah back or residents will move elsewhere.

"We have to make a decision soon about where we live, we cannot go on like this much longer," he said.

 https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/residents-northern-israel-brace-possible-all-out-war-with-hezbollah-2024-04-30/?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAqDQgAKgYICjC3oAwwsCYwhIiBAw&utm_content=rundown&gaa_at=g&gaa_n=ARTJ-U_OuQRcPW1QjRyXQrkIzzszVzOECPBFVO-2nwyaBD05EQmoe8Xoa3JaVKHvVCFyAntS5rhDJGlOZExc2cInhTfP5dmC8w%3D%3D&gaa_ts=66310e23&gaa_sig=fMUt0iBFDHH6V2XqkbVG2v2Vk74HPvw6ft0oo8TSvCXDz0ueVQ9NZ7EhP5DIlztZRvbown4JPk4UXR7yNg3RKQ%3D%3D

72 Minutes Until Earth Ends

 I think most folks who can read know that mankind has been capable of destroying the earth since about 1945.  The fact that these articles about a best selling book are front-line articles on Google News maybe tells us that we are getting closer to the Time of Jacob’s Trouble?  Since God doesn’t mention that the earth will be destroyed like the author lays out, I don’t worry for one second that the earth will end like this.  But it does fit into the WARS And RUMORS of War file.

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Nuclear war would be bad. Everyone knows this. Most people would probably rather not think through the specifics. But Annie Jacobsen, an author of seven books on sensitive national security topics, wants you to know exactly how bad it would be. Her new book Nuclear War: A Scenario, sketches out a global nuclear war with by-the-minute precision for all of the 72 minutes between the first missile launch and the end of the world. It’s already a bestseller. 

It goes without saying that the scenario is fictional, but it is a journalistic work in that the scenario is constructed from dozens of interviews and documentation, some of it newly declassified, as a factual grounding to describe what could happen. probably rather not think through the specifics. But Annie Jacobsen, an author of seven books on sensitive national security topics, wants you to know exactly how bad it would be. Her new book Nuclear War: A Scenario, sketches out a global nuclear war with by-the-minute precision for all of the 72 minutes between the first missile launch and the end of the world. It’s already a bestseller. 

It goes without saying that the scenario is fictional, but it is a journalistic work in that the scenario is constructed from dozens of interviews and documentation, some of it newly declassified, as a factual grounding to describe what could happen.

That’s this, in Jacobsen’s telling: A North Korean leader launches an intercontinental ballistic missile at the Pentagon, and then a submarine-launched ballistic missile at a nuclear reactor in California, for reasons beyond the scope of the book except to illustrate what one “mad king” with nuclear weapons could do. A harried president has a mere six minutes to decide on a response, while also being evacuated from the White House and pressured by the military to launch America’s own ICBMs at all 82 North Korean targets relevant to the nation’s nuclear and military forces and leadership. These missiles must fly over Russia, whose leaders spot them, assume their country is under attack (the respective presidents can’t get one another on the phone), and send a salvo back in the other direction, and so on until 72 minutes later three nuclear-armed states have managed to kill billions of people, with the remainder left starving on a poisoned Earth where the sun no longer shines and food no longer grows.

Some scholars, particularly among those who favor large nuclear arsenals as the best deterrent to being attacked with such weapons ourselves, have criticized some of Jacobsen’s assumptions. The U.S. wouldn’t have to court Russian miscalculation by overflying Russia with ICBMs when it has submarine-launched ballistic missiles in the Pacific. Public sources indicate that the president’s six-minute response window is still about in line with what Ronald Reagan noted with dismay in his memoirs. But that assumes he’s boxed into a “launch on warning” policy, something Jacobsen’s sources characterize as a constraint to move before enemy missiles actually strike, but which government policy documents insist is merely an option and not a mandate. (The president could also just decide, contra the deterrence touchstone of “mutual assured destruction,” not to nuke anybody at all in response.)

The book arrives at a time when the countries with the world’s largest nuclear arsenals, the U.S. and Russia, are violently at odds in Ukraine, a Russian state TV host is calling a Russia/NATO conflict “inevitable,” and the Council on Foreign Relations is gaming out scenarios in case the Russians use tactical nukes in Ukraine. Oh, and Iran is closer to a nuclear weapon than ever before. It’s a fair time to ask Jacobsen’s central question — what if deterrence fails? Even if we’d rather not think about it.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/29/the-frighteningly-fast-path-to-nuclear-armageddon-00154591

Solomon's Temple Explained

 My daily Bible reading today was all about Solomon's Temple.  Most of you probably know that the location chosen by God to build this Temple was also the location of where God told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac.  It was also the location where King David bought the threshing floor 1000 years later.  Today the Muslims have the Dome of the Rock built right on top of that location.  So you can see that Satan is playing a game of chess but of course we know that God is the chess Master.

I love the word picture of, "Israel is God's timepiece, Jerusalem is the minute hand and the Temple Mount is the second hand."  We watch what's happening there to know about where we are in God's dispensation.

Below I've posted a video that's very well done that explains all about Solomon's Temple.

Remember, Solomon built the first Temple about 480 years after the Jews left Egypt with Moses, the Babylonians destroyed it about 600 BC.  Then it was rebuilt when the exiles left Babylon after 70 years of captivity.  Nehemiah and Ezra are the books talking about that.  King Herod then added onto it.  So most folks call the 2nd Temple "Herod's Temple."  This 2nd Temple was the one in place when Jesus walked on earth and would have been the Temple he went into.  This was then destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD and has never been rebuilt...but there WILL BE A 3rd Temple that the Antichrist will go into.  Then there will be a 4th Temple that Jesus will use during the 1000 Year Reign of Christ.

How is the Dome of the Rock going to be destroyed so the Temple can be built?  Stay tuned!!  These are exciting times!!

https://youtu.be/Xt6lQAe8ues?feature=shared

“Heading Into a Financial Crisis”

 The National Debt just increased more than 1/4 of a trillion dollars in 60 days.  That’s a stack of $100 bills more than 150 miles into the sky!  Add that to the $34 trillion and we have a problem coming.  The billionaire, Leon Cooperman, warns us that a financial crisis is coming.  No one can say when or what will trigger it but it becomes obvious to a school child at some point. 50 years ago if a person saw a penny or a nickel on the street they would stop and pick it up.  It still had value.  You could buy a huge stick of bubble gum for 5 cents.  It was called a Bub’s Daddy.  If the government doesn’t change course soon and inflation takes off, which is inevitable, one day a person won’t stop to pick up $100 bill because it simply won’t be worth anything.  It’s happened in world history more times than you can count.  I pray Jesus comes for us before this happens and that the rapture of the church is the final straw which tanks the US dollar and sends the global financial market into a tail spin.  This would give rise to a man rising up, with Satan’s help, to come up with a new digital currency that requires a special mark to buy or sell anything.

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That’s an increase of $273.859 billion in about 60 days.

The record-high US debt level comes as billionaire investor Leon Cooperman warns that the country is inching closer to a financial crisis.

According to the hedge fund manager, the country missed the opportunity to achieve financial sustainability when it largely set aside the recommendations of the Simpson-Bowles report.

The report, which was released in December 2010 during the Obama administration, sought to avert a potential financial cliff by cutting back on key government spending and raising revenue to put the “national debt on a stable and then downward path.”

Says Cooperman on CNBC,

“The debt situation, you’re right, I’m concerned. We have a system of leadership in this country that devolved into a leadership in crisis. 

On your program a number of months ago, you had Mitt Romney and [Senator Joe Manchin]. They basically endorsed the Simpson-Bowles [report], which was about eight or nine years ago. The only problem is [there is] nothing we’ve done about the Simpson-Bowles report and the problem is three times larger today.

But when you have no idea when the stuff hits the fan… If deficits don’t matter as some people insist, then I’m being too conservative. But deficits matter. I think they will ultimately. 

I think we’re heading into a financial crisis in this country.”

In March, the Congressional Budget Office stated that the federal deficit amounted to $1.7 trillion for the 2023 fiscal year, up from $1.4 trillion in 2022.

https://dailyhodl.com/2024/04/28/us-national-debt-surges-273859000000-in-two-months-as-billionaire-leon-cooperman-warns-nation-heading-toward-financial-crisis/