04 the divine economic system
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The Divine Economic System
for Lasting Prosperity and Peace
In setting out to make an intelligent study of the Divine Economic System
it is essential to take into consideration some definitions and explanations
which must be clearly understood, especially so in view of the widespread
ignorance of the subject displayed in practically all sections of organized
religion.
A popular fallacy is that an Economic System deals only with the financial
affairs of the nation. This is most decidedly erroneous. A dictionary
definition of ‘Economics’ gives it as: ‘The science of household and
political management.’ In other words, ‘Economics’ or an ‘Economic
System’ is ‘Our way of life.’
The fact is that Economics, truly understood, takes within its scope all the
rules and regulations necessary to govern every phase of human life and
activity. Money as such should be a means of exchange and not a
commodity used as a power over people, especially when there is no cycle
of debt release.
The Economic Order of the Kingdom
There are four indispensable requisites for the Divine Economic System
under the Kingdom of God upon earth. These are:
1. A Monarch anointed to rule under God.
2. A land or territory administered by the Crown in the name of the
Monarch.
3. A People who are citizens of the Kingdom and who are loyal to the
Monarch.
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4. A Constitution of Statute Law by which the affairs of the People of the
Kingdom are administered.
A careful study of the history of the establishment of the Kingdom of God
as recorded in the Bible will show quite clearly that all these various
requisites were provided for. God was the King. The Land was Canaan.
The People were Israel (Is-ra-el = ruled by God), and the Constitution
consisted of the Commandments, Statutes and Judgments of Almighty
God, or Jehovah, the personal name to be used by the nation ruled by the
LORD God. Constitutionally the Monarchy and the system of Divine Law
is applicable to the Kingdom and its Dominions, but it applies also to
those covenant nations that are republics having constitutions which have
emanated from the same Kingdom origins.
Over and over again God declared that the well-being of the people of the
Kingdom depended upon absolute and complete obedience to the
Commandments, Statutes and Judgments as laid down by Jehovah. It is, of
course, a well-known axiom that no Kingdom can function efficiently
unless there is law and order. If the properly constituted system of law of
the Kingdom is not administered by the Government and obeyed by the
people, lawlessness, discord, dissension, disunity and strife inevitably
result. If more than one system of law is operating, or if the people do that
which is right in their own eyes, this will lead to rupture and disintegration
with all the evils attendant; confusion, panic and chaos.
The Enduring Nature of the Kingdom
The Bible is not a church book as such, but an historical and prophetic
record of God’s dealings with His called-out and separated People.
Church dogma doubts the ‘everlasting’ nature of God’s Kingdom on
Earth. This is a legacy from Roman Catholic Replacement Theology, the
seeds of which came through the Reformation to grow and persist again
from the mid-nineteenth century with the Oxford Movement, just as the
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Kingdom teaching began to develop and expand with the British Empire.
It has been the ‘strong delusion’ to deceive many, which together with the
false money system of debt finance has engulfed the spiritual and politico-
financial world.
The fact is that the Kingdom once set up did not and could not come to an
end which is stated over and over again in the Bible. It is sworn to on the
Oath of Almighty God that the Kingdom which He established on the
earth, made up of the Israel people whom He had specially created and
selected to be an instrument and servant people for the full restoration of a
world that had been ruined by the Devil’s lies in the Garden of Eden,
would endure forever, as long as the sun, moon and stars (Jeremiah 31:35-
37).
In the Book of the Prophet Micah we hear the prophetic words: “They
shall sit every man under his vine, and under his fig tree; and none shall
make them afraid; for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it” – a
perfect picture of individual economic security. Divinely decreed, Micah
prophesies this for the future, but the strange thing about it is that he uses
precisely the same words which 235 years before had described an actual
history. That blessed condition had once existed in Israel, but had been
lost; he prophesies in the Name of the Lord of Hosts that it shall be
blessed. The covenant nations have existed in a state of failing economics
over the past century and something very powerful is taking place as we
move through 2012.
Why the Global Financial System is Failing
Today it is almost four centuries from when the Pilgrim Fathers landed in
North America and where a debt-free economic life developed. It was a
new country and prosperity was guaranteed except that financial powers in
London felt threatened and sought to maintain their financial control. The
birth of the great Republic in 1776 resulted, securing the future
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development of what was to be the greatest superpower the world has
seen, except that on 23 December, 1913 – 98 years ago – the Federal
Reserve Act was waved through by proxy votes known as the ‘Christmas
massacre.’ The Constitution ceased to be the governing covenant of the
American people, being lost to international banking. Thus, the Federal
Reserve has never been called a Central Bank. It is privately owned, US
shareholders being subservient to banking powers in London. It has also
never been fully audited in 98 years – significantly 14 x 7 years as will be
expanded on below.
The developed world is now witnessing a meltdown of the global financial
system on both sides of the Atlantic and more and more the banking world
operates on the principle of what in effect is theft by the few from the
many. Nationalization and socialization of banks that fail is being
discussed and the economic ‘Armageddon’ looms nearer day by day.
In prophetic terms, the blind 13th
Judge in Israel, Samson, is now leaning
against the twin pillars of the House of Dagon in Gaza. The Twin Towers
of the World Trade Centre in New York were brought down in a single
hour on 11 September, 2001. This was a symbolic warning of what was to
come, for exactly 7 years later in September 2008 the financial meltdown
began.
The proud Philistine lords had come to witness the death of their enemy
and the blind Samson was led by a young lad to the main pillars of the
temple. What his enemies had failed to notice was that Samson’s seven
locks of hair had grown again and that his great strength had returned. In
the midst of the chaotic scene that followed Samson utters a prayer to the
God of Israel to be remembered and strengthened so to avenge himself
upon his enemies. He knows full well that this last stand will cost him his
life, but he dislodges the pillars on which the whole House stands, thereby
collapsing the temple upon all that were in it (Judges 16:23-30).
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In the outworking of this prophetic scene today, we see the 13th
Judge as
the United States. It is the only superpower in the world and it is
economically powerful – except for its outstanding $15 trillion of public
debt! The U.S. National Debt has continued to increase by an average of
$3.96 billion per day since 28 September, 2007! It is the failing system of
debt finance that dictates this and it cannot go on. An almighty crunch
point is approaching. Who is going to win? Will it be the proud lords of
the banking world and International Finance, or ‘Samson’ in the form of
the Sovereign Republic of the United States and its People?
What is clear from the prophetic story of Samson’s final end is that his
death points to the end of the present order of debt finance. The young lad,
who holds him by the hand, guiding him to the two middle pillars upon
which the house stood, is a symbol of the new order that is to arise after
the passing away of the present system. It is therefore the People of the
United States who are to emerge successful from the coming economic
upheaval. The seven locks of hair that grow again represent the ‘Seven
Times’ chastisement for Israel of 2,520 years (7 x 360 years) which have
now expired. Thus the strength of ‘Samson’ has returned prophetically in
superpower expression.
The Practical Outworking of Divine Economics
In outlining this Law, we are speaking of an economic system that was
once in practical operation amongst ordinary men. Its laws are found in
the Bible and a history of its success and also its judgment when these
laws are abandoned is plainly recorded. More than that, we are speaking
of a Law that is still a workable Law for us today, in spite of our
ignorance or rejection of its principles. We are speaking of the restored
economic system of our people, alongside which we must measure every
other system that politico-economic globalism is seeking to construct and
urge upon us in these extremely troublous times.
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Firstly, this Economic Law of the Lord, before it did anything else, gave a
family its own piece of private property. Every man in the nation had his
private freehold, which could not be bought or sold away or taken from
him. The national landlord was Jehovah, Who stated that “the land is
mine” (Leviticus 25:23) and He forbad it being sold. He ordained that it
should continue the property of its original holders and their descendants,
enlarged as the family increased for posterity in the remote future.
When a child was born into the nation of Israel, that child was already
provided for by the birth certificate which was a title-deed to his estate.
Under the present system, estates are inherited by reason of someone’s
death; under God’s law an estate was inherited by reason of birth – and
that is very significant, for the difference between the two systems is just
that – the difference between life and death. Thus every child born
increased the wealth of the land. It was not as with us today in the money-
orientated civilization where children are more and more received with
regret, because, in that terrible phrase, each child means “one more mouth
to feed.” In Israel, children were an addition to the wealth of the land, not
a drain adding to poverty.
The guarantee of individual independence was at the very basis of God’s
economic law as the family allotment of land remained with that family
forever. It could not be sold. It could not be lost on a mortgage. It could
not be seized. It was a perpetual possession. No generation could waste
the patrimony of its descendants or weigh them down with debt. Men
were not compelled to spend most of their lives and half lose their souls to
obtain a foothold on the earth. They were able to live as sons and
daughters of God should live and this is why Israel, under God’s
economic law, was able to bless the world with spiritual light unrivalled
by any nation or by any other period of history.
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Of course, the Divine system meant that mass immigration of other races
and their cultures could not take place, this in order to preserve the
inheritance of land for posterity. This outworking of God’s plan and
purpose for His People comes into sharp focus in our day, with multiplied
millions with their alien religions having transported themselves half way
round the world, to distort the basic integrity of the covenant nations.
Christians all over the world repeat with enthusiasm the promise of God in
II Chronicles 7:14. This was when the LORD appeared to King Solomon
and promised to heal the land of His people if they would but humble
themselves and pray. The land here can only apply to the nation, or the
Kingdom of God upon Earth with its territory and borders. It cannot apply
to the church which is without borders and without a national constitution
and laws.
Secondly, we begin with the individual family unit on their land – secured
for a lifetime and to their children after them. What do they give in return
for it? As a price for the land, there is no tax. How is it taxed, then? Are
there to be no taxes? Yes, but neither the individual nor the land pays
them – God pays them and this is how the Divine system of taxation
works, the only scientific basis of taxation known to this debt and tax-
burdened world.
God’s taxes are called tithes and offerings. They were not based on
property but on the produce of property – the natural produce of the land.
Even then that hardly describes it, for there was no tax at all for the
family’s living. A property tax is a form of piecemeal confiscation. What
does a working-man’s cottage produce that it should be taxed? Yet put it
on the tax roll for a sufficient number of years, and you have eaten it up!
God’s taxes were not like that; they were not laid on property nor on the
means of living; they were laid on the annual increase, and rose or fell
accordingly. Every individual paid their own tax, not the taxes of
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everyone along the line of trade which are combined and accumulated
until they fall in one lump upon the shoulders of the “ultimate consumer.”
There was no way to avoid one’s own tax except by committing a sin
before God, and there was no way of being compelled to pay anyone
else’s tax.
This tithe, or tax, supported all public activities – much more than our
taxes do today. Government, religious worship and all public services
including the Law, Medicine and Education were supported by the tithe.
In addition, a fund was formed in the tax-payers own hands for travel,
recreation and culture for the individual and the family. God’s system of
taxation actually left part of the taxes in the tax-payer’s hands for holiday
trips and seasonal festivals and for the aid of those temporarily distressed.
Truly it may be said in this matter that His “yoke is easy and His burden is
light” (Matthew 11:30).
Thirdly, as to money, we do not hear much of it under God’s law – only
certain prohibitions concerning it. This is the difference between a
civilization where the profit of living is cash and a civilization where
profit of living is life. Where there can be no economic collapse, where
you cannot cheat a man out of his property, where there is no profit in
debt, where money is not regarded as wealth, money naturally drops to its
own place – a means of exchange. It is only where the Law of God is
unknown that money is regarded as wealth.
The principle money law in Divine Economics is the law against Interest.
Simply stated, finance operated by a system of accumulated debt without
regular debt release is a dishonest and corrupting power, now exposed in
the way banks and the world of international finance have operated as
predatory institutions, only to crash with the taxpayer having to foot the
bill through bailouts. In Israel, because of the law against Interest, there
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was no incentive to invent means to get everyone into debt, because there
was no profit in debt.
There really is no profit in debt and we pay dearly for every departure
from God’s economic law as we are now finding out. Yet this Law, which
prohibits the creation and expansion of long-term debts is also the strong
source of Credit – not as a burdensome debt, not as an advantage taken of
our pressing need, but Credit, a lift, a help, a true favour, an assistant of
our advantage rather than a tax on it.
The creation of Credit without the multiplication of debt is a masterpiece
of Divine legislation. Another point is that this law which absolutely
prohibits interest or the increase which is called usury comes from the
same Divine power which practises increase all the time!
Fourthly, while we have set out God’s land laws, tax and money laws,
there is another section of the Divine economics. It has to do with the
cycle of hard times, only under God’s law it became the cycle of good
times. The regularity with which economic panic and depression appear
has long puzzled economists. They have studied it from many angles and
have pronounced that they observe the ‘supposed cycle’ but reveal that
they do not know why it happens.
One of the most wonderful phases of the Economic Law of God is that it
announces the Law of the Cycle. Throughout the history and experience
and teachings of Israel, this fact of the cycle is continuously recognized.
There is no explanation of the cycle – there are just plain regulations
prescribing what Israel must do about it. The cycle remains a puzzle to the
economic scientists, because they approach it with a purpose to abolish it.
God’s method is to tell us that it exists and is as much part of His order as
day and night; to help us recognize it and to teach us how to enter it and
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reap its benefits. This is because there are mighty individual and social
benefits inherent in the cycle which our generations have never enjoyed.
Our economic history reveals that we are keeping in distress the economic
Sabbaths we would not keep in our prosperity. This is the whole reason
and history of hard times. If the charts of the statistical economists are
examined for the past two centuries, we will see the chart lines dip
approximately every seven years, with the deeper dip every fifty years.
The fifty-year cycle, which appears every seven Sabbatical years, is the
Jubilee Year of Israel – the time when all corporate obligations are
finished, when land returns where it was originally held, a time of the
restitution of the social and economic balance.
This restitution was not confiscation; nor levelling up and levelling down,
but restoration. The level of debt was not allowed to accumulate as all
debts not repaid within seven years were cancelled. As the seventh year
was the year of individual release, the 50th
was the year of corporate
release. This was not any form of Socialism or Communism, but God’s
justice set in the freest and most helpful individualism.
The Proclamation of Liberty is Mandatory
The dollar system in the United States of America works because the
different states are one country with the added strength of being a reserve
currency. Any attempt however to engineer a take-over of the US dollar
by the United Nations as a world currency would be fatal.
The terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre in September 2001 when
the Twin Towers collapsed within one hour was certainly a warning of the
international economic crisis that was to come according to the Historicist
interpretation of the Apocalypse in Revelation 18. Significantly, as said
above, it was seven years exactly to September 2008 when the economic
crash began and which is ongoing in 2012.
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The great law of the Jubilee is cast in letters of iron on the Independence
Bell of the United States at Philadelphia – “Proclaim liberty throughout
the land to all the inhabitants thereof.” Referring to the context where this
is found in the Scriptures (Leviticus 25:10) we see that economic liberty is
meant – the general economic liberty of the Jubilee year. The pity is that
our ignorance makes it such a time of distress. We do not avail ourselves
of the cycles; we have to be kicked into them.
Some people say, Christians in particular, “Were not these laws done
away with by the New Testament (Covenant)?” If they were done away
with, why do they still operate? If they were done away, why do we meet
the severe penalty at the very point where we transgress them? The
proclamation of Liberty is not optional, it is mandatory for lasting
prosperity and true peace. The Divine Economic System is given to the
covenant nations in their supreme text-book of economics – it is the Holy
Bible.
Final Economic Judgment is Approaching
After a decade of political eurozone economics it is self-evident that fiscal
union under one economic policy is the only way for a single currency to
work. This kind of union was never going to be workable for separate
nations with very different economies. The attempt to establish a workable
single currency in Europe has been a classic example of forcing upon a
group of nations a manmade politico-economic agenda that ignored the
basic rules of Divine economics for the Kingdom of God upon earth.
This basic truth is only now becoming apparent under the proposals of the
British government to bring in banking reform. National, or ‘high street’
banking, is to be separated by a firewall from investment and international
banking, which has brought about what is termed ‘casino banking’ – the
utter madness of gambling away billions and even trillions of currency so
undermining the financial stability of entire nations.
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In Conclusion
The world economic tectonic plates are moving and the International
Monetary System, which has been in a state of repeating crises for at least
a century, appears to be approaching a gigantic corrective meltdown. It is
vital therefore that positive guidance is given to the covenant nations in
the Western World concerning the Divine Economic System that must
soon be reinstated over the present dishonest system of debt finance based
on usury.
There is only one direction that will bring prosperity and peace, so as
servant people showing God’s way to the world, let us return to him and
obey Moses’ words: “therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed
may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19).
Acknowledgements to The Economic Law of the Lord. An Address by W. J.
Cameron, President of the Anglo-Saxon Federation of America, at Detroit, USA and
pub. 1936 by The Covenant Publishing Company Ltd, UK.
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