All the talk of late has been about the crisis on Wall Street, and indeed, throughout the entire global financial system. The most recent scandal du jour and causality of the stock market slide is the gigantic media firm AOL Time/ Warner. http://www.nypost.com/business/45742.htm
But since the system has been in place for many years and has endured a few hard knocks and cyclical ups and downs, few people can imagine that the seeming indomitable financial and political system could simply collapse. Yet, the Hebrew prophets foretell that the entire global economic/political system will eventually be judged and abandoned to destruction. Even the Christian writers speak to that judgment. For example, James the 5 th chapter starts off by saying:
"Come, now, you rich men, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted, and your outer garments have become moth-eaten.
Your gold and silver are rusted away, and their rust will be as a witness against you and will eat your fleshy parts.
Something like fire is what you have stored up for the last days.
Look! The wages due the workers who harvested your fields but which are held up by you, keep crying out,
And the calls for help on the part of the reapers have entered into the ears of Jehovah of armies.
You have lived in shameless luxury upon the earth and have gone in for sensual pleasure.
You have fattened your hearts on the day of slaughter."
Empires have always enslaved and exploited large segments of the population. The Anglo-American system has taken exploitation to a new dimension, whereby entire nations are induced into indebtedness and then mercilessly crushed. Argentina is a tragic example of how it works. Once one of the most promising and prosperous nations in the Western Hemisphere it has been reduced to rubble in recent months. http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?touch=1&btitle=Top%20News&T=sa_content.ht&s=APUBzhhTLQXJnZW50
One poster on another thread voiced the opinion that YK was an idiot for making the connection that any goings on in the financial system could possibly have anything to do with the judgment of Jehovah God. The span of verse in James though speaks to the very heart of the most important issue facing mankind today, and in fact the verses in James constitute a prophecy because it refers to a future time of judgment that takes place during the last days of this system. Certainly, it doesnt take a rocket scientist to conclude that rapacious bankers, brokers, hedge fund drug money launderymen, and energy traders, in the wake of deregulation, have been given free reign by the government to rob the wager earner and pensioner of their means of livelihood, with ramifications for every person on the planet. But, as is the case in the parasite and host relationship in nature, there comes a time when the host is sucked dry and the parasite itself is faced with its own extinction. http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2002-28a/this_wk.html
While it is apparent that the judgment has not commenced yet, it is oh, so, obvious whom Jehovah is referring to who "have fattened their hearts on the day of slaughter." From all indications the slaughter is about to begin.
/ You Know