- “If I have put my confidence in gold and called fine gold my trust; if I have gloated because my wealth was great and because my hand had obtained so much . . . That too would have been a guilty deed calling for judgment, for I would have denied God above” (Job 31:24-28)
- And Yeshua, looking around, said to His disciples, “How hard it will be for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!” And the disciples were amazed at His words (Mark 10:23-24)
Two kingdoms – two destinies
The Bible describes two kingdoms – the kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan:
- Hezekiah prayed before YHVH and said, “YHVH, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, You are the God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth” (2 Kings 19:15)
- Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the House of YHVH in front of the new courtyard; and he said, “YHVH, God of our fathers, are You not God in the heavens? And are You not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand so that no one can stand against You” (2 Chronicles 20:5-6)
- And knowing their thoughts, Yeshua said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste; and no city or house divided against itself will stand. And if Satan is casting out Satan, he has become divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?” (Matthew 12:25-26)
Messiah tells us that the kingdom of God is especially accessible – not to the rich – but to the poor: “And Yeshua raised His eyes toward His disciples and said: ‘Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God’” (Luke 6:20)
Yeshua stresses that the kingdom of God belongs especially to children and those of child-like faith: “But Yeshua called for the little ones, saying, ‘Allow the children to come to Me, and do not forbid them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all’” (Luke 18:16-18)
The kingdom of Babylon – the marketing of gold and men’s souls
The God of Israel passes on to John the Revelator insider information about Satan’s strategies on earth – those which affect politics, demonic religions, sexual impurity and how these all tie in to world economic systems, wealth and luxury:
- After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated from his glory. And he cried out with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place of demons and a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird. For all the nations have fallen because of the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich from the excessive wealth of her luxury” (Revelation 18:1-3)
The operative principles of this satanic kingdom (allegorically referred to as ‘Babylon’ in the Book of Revelation) connect with the ‘deal-makers of the earth’; this scenario is strikingly relevant to present-day politics – especially regarding superpower involvement in the Middle East. John prophesies in Revelation, describing how the God of Israel will ultimately destroy the powerbrokers of this world, shaking the economic foundations of ‘Babylon’ through economic collapse and physical quaking.
- And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargo any more – cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; every kind of citron wood, every article of ivory, and every article made from very valuable wood, bronze, iron, and marble; cinnamon, spice, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, and cargo of horses, carriages, slaves, and human lives. The fruit you long for has left you, and all things that were luxurious and splendid have passed away from you and people will no longer find them. The merchants of these things, who became rich from her, will stand at a distance because of the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning, saying, “Woe, woe, the great city, she who was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls” (Revelation 18:11-16)
Babylon’s obliteration – divine payback for harming Zion
The world’s diplomats, prime ministers, presidents and dictators are described in the Book of Revelation as those who directly benefit from their economic trade with ‘Babylon’. The citizens of their countries delight in the fruit of ‘Babylon’ – booming economies and luxury goods. The nations vote time and again for the success and prosperity of Babylon, in a twisted and demonic parallel of Jeremiah’s godly advice to Judah’s exiles in Babylon: “Seek the prosperity of the city . . . for in its prosperity will be your prosperity” (Jeremiah 29:7).
Jeremiah receives revelation from the God of Jacob that ancient Babylon, as well as future Last Days Babylon, receives divine vengeance because of her anti-Semitism, her destruction of Jerusalem and her gutting of Israel’s Temple. As Jeremiah 50:28 says it: “There is a sound of fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of YHVH our God, vengeance for His Temple”:
- I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive any of her plagues; for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her offenses. Pay her back even as she has paid, and give back to her double according to her deeds; in the cup which she has mixed, mix twice as much for her. To the extent that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, to the same extent give her torment and mourning; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as a queen and I am not a widow, and will never see mourning.’ For this reason in one day her plagues will come, plague and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for the Lord God who judges her is strong. And the kings of the earth, who committed acts of sexual immorality and lived luxuriously with her, will weep and mourn over her when they see the smoke of her burning, standing at a distance because of the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For in one hour your judgment has come’” (Revelation 18:4-10; see also Isaiah 63:4-6; Isaiah 34:8; Psalm 149:6-9)
When Babylon did business with Hitler
- “When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you, and put a knife to your throat if you are a person of great appetite. Do not desire his delicacies, for it is deceptive food . . . He says to you, ‘Eat and drink!’ but his heart is not with you. You will vomit up the morsel you have eaten and waste your compliments” (Proverbs 23:1-9)
The world-system described allegorically in the Bible as ‘Babylon’ is headed up by leading industrialists and bankers who see the world and its markets as an exciting playing field, with ever-changing opportunities to increase power, profit and control. A fleeting glance at some American and British magnates’ operations in WWII shows their effusive support of Hitler, even as the Allies were at war with the Nazi juggernaut. For more detailed information, see https://davidstent.org/gold-greed-and-genocide-global-industrialists-and-the-murder-of-the-jews/.
J.D. Rockefeller – Standard Oil of New Jersey [Exxon] and Standard Oil of California [Chevron]) regularly shipped fuel through Spain to Switzerland for the use of Nazi troops in France. Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect and wartime armament minister, stated after the war that without certain kinds of synthetic fuel made available by American firms, Hitler “would never have considered invading Poland.” Chase Bank worked closely with the Nazis during WWII.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau presented a memorandum to President Roosevelt, dated May 29, 1945. A concluding quote states: “Top American industrialists and financiers . . . are covered by the categories listed above. Henry Ford and Edsel Ford respectively contributed money to Hitler and profited from German wartime production. Standard Oil of New Jersey, General Electric, General Motors, and I.T.T. certainly made financial or technical contributions which comprise prima facie evidence of ‘participating in planning or carrying out Nazi enterprises.’”
See also:
- IBM developed computers and punch cards to track and process concentration camp victims.
- Henry Ford manufactured Volkswagen trucks used to transport the Nazi army. In 1924, Nazi Heinrich Himmler described Ford as “one of our most valuable, important, and witty fighters.” Ford was a major publisher of anti-Jewish propaganda, both in his newspaper The Dearborn Independent as well as in his mass distribution of the anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
- I.T.T. supplied ingredients for the German rocket bombs dropped on London, as well as building the Focke-Wulf fighter-bombers that carried those bombs.
- The Bank of England was involved in secret financial dealings beneficial to the Nazi regime as were USA banks like Chase. J.P. Morgan and American Express Banks.
John Foster Dulles (later US Secretary of State) and Allen Dulles (later of the Office of Strategic Services/CIA) both worked for the Sullivan and Cromwell law firm, which did legal work for Schroder, Rockefeller and Company Investment Bank, a joint Nazi/Gestapo-American venture. They both represented I.G. Farben (Auschwitz factories) and Fritz Thyssen (Hitler’s biggest German financier). Toward the end of WWII they were involved in laundering Nazi money and personnel in order to develop post-war profit and intelligence connections.
- One analyst has stated about these twisted connections: “For bankers, the most important thing is to keep the channels of international finance open, no matter what the human cost – a world, in other words, not entirely different to today.”
When Babylon does business with the enemies of YHVH’s people
During the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) the US aided Saddam Hussein in developing chemical warfare production facilities (chlorine and mustard gas) to be used against Iran and Israel. Russia, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands also sold chemical weapons materials to Iraq at that time. A total of 80 German companies were listed as supplying Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs, including Daimler-Benz, MAN and Siemens. Siemens, with German government permission, sold dual-purpose lithotripters (electronic switches which can detonate nuclear bombs). At least 24 US companies were also involved in Iraq, including Hewlett Packard, Honeywell, Rockwell, Bechtel, ICS and Unisys.
Russian oil giants Zarubezhneft and Lukoil, France’s Total, and Royal Dutch/Shell all jumped at the chance to invest in Saddam Hussein’s oil industry.
The government of France sold state-of the art missiles to Iraq, later used against US and Coalition forces in the First Gulf War. According to NSA archives, on November 17, 1975 France signed an agreement to supply two Osirak highly enriched uranium nuclear reactors clearly meant to produce atomic bombs
From documents subsequently unearthed, we know that at the time of the First Gulf War Saddam Hussein was prepared to use his chemical weapons arsenal against Israel. By the end of that war, 39 Scud missiles were fired by Iraq into Israeli civilian population centers. These attacks on the Jewish state were enabled and facilitated by the combined greed of global industrialists who had no qualms about empowering an enemy of Israel.
A $90 million bunker was built for Saddam Hussein in 1980-82 by Dusseldorf-based construction company Boswau and Knauer, which once built air-raid shelters for Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, and became part of German construction giant Walter Bau AG after a series of mergers in the 1980’s.
In January 2015, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government was given a list by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) concerning German companies involved in developing Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal. The list was immediately squelched by Merkel based on the rationale that a release of the companies’ names “would significantly impair foreign policy interests and thus the welfare of the Federal Republic of Germany.”
In February 2018, fragments of Iranian rockets used in two chlorine gas attacks in Syria were recovered, with the company logo Krempel and the imprint “Made in Germany” engraved on the metal. It turns out that the German government had authorized dual-use technology sales to Tehran in years past.
Syria’s attempts to manufacture nuclear weapons have been stymied by Israel on various occasions. Israel operates based on a stated policy known as the ‘Begin Doctrine’ to never allow a nuclear or chemical weapons threat against the Jewish state to come into existence.
The octopus-like colonialist moves on the part of the Islamic Republic of Iran are slithering out in every direction from Tehran – missiles and rockets fired against Riyadh in Saudi Arabia; Iranian Revolutionary Guards guiding Lebanese Hezbollah, Iraqi Kata’eb Hezbollah and Houthi Yemenis in war against Israel.
- At the same time, global industrialists increase their sales of all kinds of weaponry) to Iran. As it was in the days of Adolf or Saddam, so the nations of Europe are flocking – this time to Iran – flirting and cajoling and proffering their genocidal wares to Shi’ite mass murderers. The demonic power known as the prince of Persia (Daniel 10:13,20) is again plotting another Haman-like annihilation of Jacob’s seed.
Babylon – profit versus prophet
- It still seems that the ‘Babylon’ style of doing business – making money and doing deals with Israel’s enemies (whether Turkey, Qatar, the new Syria, Iraq, etc.) – is of a higher value than protecting and blessing Israel. As Western voices rise with harsh and accusatory tones aimed at the Jewish state, it is time for wise men and women to intercede and actively stand for the defense of Jacob’s children. No one should be surprised when deals are struck between America and Islamist dictatorships. Such deals are not new – they have a seventy year track record, at the very least.
How shall we then pray?
- Pray that the nations’ plans in aiding Islamist jihadi preparations will be nullified
- There are approximately 20 living Israeli hostages remaining, kidnapped by Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Mujahideen Brigades. Hamas is also holding on to approximately 50 Israeli corpses as cold storage bargaining chips. Pray for the speedy release of all the hostages, and for YHVH’s justice to be brought on the heads of the Islamist kidnappers
- Pray for the raising up of Ezekiel’s prophetic Jewish army throughout the earth
Your prayers and support hold up our arms and are the very practical enablement of God to us in the work He has called us to do.
In Messiah Yeshua,
Avner Boskey
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