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The saints prepare to rule, part 15

The Year of the Wind (2016) was connected prophetically to the four winds which were to blow upon the dry bones of the lost House of Israel, the ten northern tribes led by Ephraim.

Having been the “lost sheep of the house of Israel” for a very long time, they were considered to be dead. It is not that those individual Israelites were actually dead, of course, but rather that their national identity as Israel was lost. The Assyrians called them by other names, such as Gamira, Ghomri, Khumri, Scythians (Skuths, or Scots), etc.

All of this was patterned after Joseph himself, as he was the father of Ephraim and Manasseh who had been “lost” in Egypt for many years. Though they would continue to multiply to fulfill the prophetic name of Ephraim (Genesis 41:52), they would also forget their father’s house and forget who they were (Genesis 41:51). In other words, they were to lose their identity. Many of Joseph’s descendants identified as Egyptians, rather than as Israelites, and they did not leave Egypt with Moses.

But the year 2016 was a critical year for Joseph and his children. Joseph had been given the birthright, which was the authority to become the sons of God. Genesis 49:22 says (literally), “Joseph is a fruitful son.” Just as Judah brought forth the Messiah in His first appearance, so also Joseph brings forth the Messiah in His second appearance—in our time, I believe.

For this reason, it is significant that 2016 would be the Year of the Wind, in which the dry bones of lost tribes of Israel, led by Joseph, would cease to be forgotten and lost and that they would be fruitful as the sons of God. We live in the time of Joseph’s emergence into the prophetic scene. This is the time of the overcomers—the saints of the Most High—as they come forth to take their place on the throne with Jesus Christ.

To me, the Year of the Wind was designed to open the door (dalet, Duluth) to reveal “Joseph,” who was called to rule the world. Recall that Joseph’s dreams showed that his brothers—and even his parents—were to bow to him (Genesis 37:5-10). Hence, 2016 was a very important year for the saints to prepare to rule, as we approached the election of Donald Trump in November 2016 and, more broadly, the time of the saints’ full authority in October of 2017.

Signs of Babylon’s Collapse

Babylon’s foundations had been weakening for a long time already by the year 2016. The mortgage crisis in 2007, followed by the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September of 2008, were undermining Babylon’s financial power. (Actually, the real problem in 2008 was the bankruptcy of AIG, the big insurance company insuring the failed mortgages and derivatives of Goldman Sachs.) Goldman Sachs, one of the most powerful banks in the world, was bailed out indirectly when the US government bailed out AIG.

On January 15, 2016, Goldman Sachs agreed to pay a $5 billion fine for its role in the fraudulent practices that led to the 2007 mortgage crisis.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/goldman-sachs-pay-2-4-212625291.html

Goldman Sachs' fourth-quarter earnings essentially just got wiped out. The bank said on Thursday that it will pay a $5 billion settlement related to residential mortgage-backed securities it sold between 2005 and 2007.

Goldman Sachs represents the “head of gold” in Daniel 2:38. Hence, we saw this as an early sign of divine judgment upon Babylon. The saints, of course, would not have the spiritual authority to bring judgment upon the head of gold until October of 2017—and even then this would only be the start of a long war to enforce the decrees of the Divine Court.

Puerto Rico Default

Puerto Rico was another interesting case in 2016. This federal territory (not a state) is the home of the IRS headquarters, because the IRS was never authorized by Congress to operate as a governmental agency. It is a private collection company for Washington D.C., which is also a federal territory (not a state). Washington and all of the federal territories form a separate national corporation, formed in 1871, that has taken control of the 50 states in a secret coup many years ago. Washington is a corporation registered under the authority of the UK., which, in turn, is registered in the Vatican.

Puerto Rico is an important territory of modern Babylon, as it is its main source of tribute from the enslaved states of America. The people pay taxes to pay for their own enslavement, brought about a century ago as a result of divine judgment for America’s earlier sins.

According to Jack Lew, the Secretary of the US Treasury at that time, in a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan, wrote: “Puerto Rico is in the midst of an economic collapse,” and “is already in default.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2016/01/jack-lew-puerto-rico-is-in-economic.html

“Puerto Rico is already in default. It is shifting funds from one creditor to pay another and has
stopped payment altogether on several of its debts. As predicted, creditors are filing lawsuits….

“A large debt payment of $400 million is due on May 1, and a broader set of payments are due at the end of June.

“Puerto Rico has been shut out of the municipal bond market for more than two years and ran out of the funding sources traditionally used to finance government operations more than six months ago….

“The unemployment rate, at over 12 percent, is more than double the U.S. average.

“Nearly 10 percent of the population has left since 2006. In the first six months of 2015, each
week nearly 3,000 Puerto Ricans left the Island in search of better opportunities on the mainland.”

Italy’s Banking Crisis

http://endoftheamericandream.com/tag/banking/

The Italian financial meltdown that we have been waiting for has finally arrived. For quite a long time I have been warning my readers to watch Italy, and now people are starting to understand why. Italian banking stocks continued their collapse for a fifth consecutive day on Wednesday, and nervous Italians are beginning to quietly pull large amounts of money out of the banks. In particular, Monte dei Paschi is a complete and utter basket case at this point. A staggering one-third of their loans are “non-performing”, and the stock price has fallen a staggering 57 percent since 2016 began. Monte dei Paschi is going to need a major bailout, and the same thing could be said about almost all of the largest Italian banks. 

This article was published on January 20, so the banking collapse began on Wednesday, January 13, 2016. Monte dei Paschi is the oldest bank in the world. Being one of Italy’s banks, it can be seen as representing Rome, the iron kingdom prophesied in Daniel 2 and 7. When virtually all of Italy’s banks needed a bailout, we can see that modern Babylon was being shaken to its core. The problems were papered over, but the underlying systemic rot remains.

Babylon Representative Suggests a Jubilee

On January 19, 2016 an article was published in the UK in The Telegraph, quoting William White, a former chief economist of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS). He said that “The situation is worse than it was in 2007.” He also stated that it was obvious that “many of these debts will never be serviced or repaid,” and suggested that “Debt jubilees have been going on for 5,000 years, as far back as the Sumerians.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/davos/12108569/World-faces-wave-of-epic-debt-defaults-fears-central-bank-veteran.html

I don’t know what form of Jubilee the Sumerians practiced 5,000 years ago, but we do know what the law of God says about Jubilees (Leviticus 25:10-13).

In fact, Babylon carried the Dominion Mandate since the days of Nebuchadnezzar (Jeremiah 27:5, 6). The authority of the Mandate came with an equal level of responsibility to set the world free through the law of Jubilee. When William White suggested a Jubilee in January 2016, he was revealing this responsibility to the BIS. A Jubilee was indeed the answer, and if Babylon had been able to implement this, they might have been able to avoid divine judgment in 2017.

However, the banking system is run by bankers who are following the precedent of King Nebuchadnezzar, who was given the heart of a beast (Daniel 4:16 KJV). This condition was pictured as the king’s time of insanity, where he acted like a beast eating grass (Daniel 4:23) until he was finally forced to “recognize that the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind and bestows it on whomever He wishes” (Daniel 4:25).

This time of insanity prophesied of our own time today, where the US government has gone completely insane. Its insanity is evident for all to see, but it is important to understand that this will not last forever. The end of the story shows King Nebuchadnezzar coming to his senses and recognizing the God of heaven as the highest Power in the earth. He then decreed that Babylon must also recognize and worship Him alone.

The Babylonian king then wrote a document telling the whole story, which became a chapter in the Bible. Daniel 4:34, 35, 36 says,

³⁴ But at the end of that period, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever; For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation. ³⁵ All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing [in comparison], but He does according to His will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can ward off His hand or say to him, “What have you done?” ³⁶ At that time my reason returned to me…

King Nebuchadnezzar’s insanity ended when He recognized the sovereignty of God. The purpose of today’s time of governmental insanity is to expose the condition of those who have a heart of a beast and ultimately to change their hearts by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Hence, we must endure the embarrassment of the current administration as God humbles the Babylonians in public. The day will soon come when reason will return to our government. Then, in the timing of God alone, men will proclaim the sovereignty of God in the same way that Nebuchadnezzar did in his testimony in Daniel 4.

I don’t want to be impatient, but may God hasten the day.