Ownership And Creation Of Christian Payment And Banking Systems (Chap 10)

How then do Christian banks not lend a dollar for every six cents that they have like the other banks? Simple, all depositors are bank owners. Bank shareholders will not be allowed to leverage their financial risks and returns at the expense of depositors and their monies.

The Christian banking and payment systems in respective of various Christian communities i.e., cities or cluster of cities, should be owned proportionately by depositors with net cash deposits in the system, rather than shareholders with only a small stake in the assets of the whole system. This is necessary for equity of ownership and risk-taking. We should also try to encourage widespread ownership and accountability within the communities for the banking and payment systems.

It is necessary to constitute the organizations so that it is accountable to the depositors as business owners. It is also necessary at its on-set to make sure that actual physical assets and resources invested or injected into the organizations are fairly valued rather than inflated in valuation. Paper or financial assets cannot be invested, as these have no value apart from the world’s secular financial systems.

Net cash deposits means that depositors will not borrow money to gain or buy ownership in the systems. Shares of ownership will be based on values of actual assets / cash invested in the business, minus what that individual or entity owed the banking and payment system in terms of loans or other forms of financing. Every effort must be made to avoid double accounting as individuals or families may seek to have more than their fair share of voting rights, profits and dividends through the vehicle of a structure of companies.

Businesses, which owe the banking and payment system money, will not be its owners though the reverse has to be true. The banking and payment system will be owners or business partners of these kingdom businesses that needed financing. This is in keeping with the Christian principle that lenders and not borrowers, should rule.

The ownership of the Christian banking and payment systems must totally be in Christian hands. Ownership must be jealousy guarded as we cannot afford to risk loosing this organization to the world economic system, so that it comes under the world banking and monetary system and forces its account holders to receive the ‘666’ mark of the Beast.

While Christian Economies remain as sub-economies in the world economic system, it is actually better for these institutions to start off as payment machineries rather than banks, though both are possible.

Transfer Of Wealth From Hostile Secular Nations To Christian Nations (Chap 11)

In the end days, the Church of GOD will have turned many of their nations to Jesus. GOD will have transformed nations and some will have declared themselves to be Christian states or nations. Christian nations should prepare themselves for this end-time transfer of wealth by preparing to open their doors to migrating Christians who cannot successfully create or operate Christian Economies within their own cities or nation states.

It may be possible that by that time Anti-Christ comes on stage to assume leadership for the whole world, that we have enough Christian nations on the earth, to provide limited airways and seaways. It is also possible to envisage that a few or even several neighbouring nations or states, to be largely Christian in their populations and co-operate to provide a larger platform for end time economic survival. However, be prepared that in many cases, the Christian economies may be very localized to communities within a nation, or to states within a larger country or a city or a cluster of cities. It fact, it may a good idea to head-quarter or incorporate companies that are doing highly sensitive and strategic work like payment and banking systems in Christian nations. It is possible for operations to be in many places all over the world even when headquartered in a particular city, say for example Jerusalem, the City of the Great King.

Nations have sovereignty. Supra-national organizations like the United Nations do not have sovereignty but operate more like a confederation of nations. Nations are therefore needed as a cover or boundary of protection, a shield for Christian Economies against a hostile secular world. One Christian nation has the sovereign right to trade with another Christian nation. This right is not subjected to any to any international body like the United Nations except by agreement. There will however surely be pressures from the international community.

It is noteworthy in Matt 25:31-46, that when Jesus comes back in glory and power that He will judge by separating nations into two categories. Nations will feature importantly in last day events. And the nations will be judged based on whether they are sheep nations or goat nations. Sheep nations are those who will feed, clothe and take in the Christians who are in want and distress and under persecution. And I must add that Christian nations should not only try their best to care for and provide refuge to Christians in want and distress due to last day persecutions, they must also do so for Jews who may have to flee their land. When Anti-Christ set up his throne in Jerusalem, the Jews must flee their country in haste (Matt 24:15-22).

Christian homes and even local churches in hostile countries alone will not be sufficient to get the job done. The Lord Jesus had indicated to us that it takes nations to do this task adequately. And praise GOD that Jesus prophesized that there will be sheep nations in the last days. And I pray that there will be many sheep nations rather than few. These will be nation states with mainly Christian governments and politicians who will be able to execute this necessary help in the last days despite minority descents in various quarters. Ultimately individuals have sovereignty and accountability to GOD for their own decisions and lives, eventhough there will always be social structures and authorities.

And so Christians must rise to political leadership and power in the last days. The last day Church will not only need Josephs but also the Daniels. May GOD help us! If we do not arise to political power and leadership, then we will not be able to have these sheep nations who will stand on the side of the kingdom of GOD and in opposition to the rest of the world who are set against the Lord Jesus.

Clustering Of Economies And BARTER TRADE (Chap 12)

Eventhough Christian Economies can try to acquire productive capacities in various kinds of industries, it is still possible that there are resources that Christian businesses fail to acquire but are nevertheless needed by Christian communities. While it is not possible for us to pay non-Christian business who are part of the ‘666’ world central banking system, it may still be possible to barter trade with them. Somehow the help of secular companies may be needed and must be sourced, in hopefully only a few and limited circumstances.

While it may be possible for Christian communities within the same nation, across neighbouring states and cities, using the same currency to trade, trading across nations can face difficulties. Firstly, I would think that it is particularly difficult for shipping and freight forwarding to operate outside of the surveillance of civil authorities and the payment of port taxes for harbours and port facilities. Even land transportation across boundaries of countries can be restricted not to mention sea and airways. Due to restrictions to the physical mobility of goods, only clusters of Christian communities that are physically proximate may be able to trade with each other.

There are many small nations in the world that are by no means self-sufficient economically but are dependent on the world trading system for survival. While it may be possible for Christian communities within large nations with sufficient natural resources to survive, smaller nations may have to align themselves with neighbouring Christian communities. We cannot fail to see that the clustering and re-clustering of city-states becomes necessary for survival, for some.

The churches in Singapore, for example, may have to align itself with neighbouring Christian communities in Indonesia, Malaysia or the South Pacific Islands for economic survival. Christians in the Korean Peninsula and in Japan may need to cluster or co-operate with Christians in China. Christians in Indo-China may align itself either with neighbours to its south or with China, and so forth. North and South America as continents should be large enough by with themselves, although I am not aware of the specifics of their economic resources. Christian communities in Africa and India too should be able to survive economically by themselves. Churches in Europe may consider aligning themselves with those in Russia for oil and agricultural produce.

Even with clustering and trading among neighbouring Christian communities, it may still be necessary to barter trade with companies and resource owners under the world economic and banking system, when already out of the world economic system. Those Christian companies who are able to do so, i.e. establish the barter trade contacts, can become a conduit of supply for other Christian economies for a particular scare or otherwise unavailable resource. This is another important avenue for wealth creation while you help whole communities survive economically.

Trading Among Christian Economies In Different Currencies (Chap 13)

One way in which trading and payment across Christian Economies may be facilitated is to have large trading companies or conglomerates that operate and trade across countries, regions or continents. These can either be pure trading companies dealing in a wide range of products, or large companies or manufacturers that supply the needs of Christian communities across countries or continents in a particular good or service. For example, these could be manufacturers of chemicals, medicine, electricals, petrol or paper or say, lumbering or packaging companies, etc.

The large cross-continent conglomerates or trading companies can then come together to agree on a system of currency or foreign exchanges among themselves. In this way there is a natural market for exchange of currencies. I will not delve into how rates of exchanges may be determined except to say that they can be determined in a way that is natural and equitable for these companies that are plugged into the real economic situations of various communities.

In fact, each one can double up and operate like a bank dealing in foreign exchanges as they receive payments across countries and continents. They can therefore also provide banking services to various local communities as well. If they do, it must then be decided whether the various Christian Economies in which they operate should then impose banking regulations and supervisions.

These large inter-continent companies should exist hand in hand with the many Christian businesses worldwide, as it can be envisaged that there are many trades and businesses that will by nature be smaller and localized. These inter-continental trading companies should therefore not replace localized Christian payment / banking systems, as it is envisaged that the localized payment / banking facilities will still be needed by the various Christian communities. The usefulness of these trading companies or cross-continent conglomerates lies in their ability to provide facilities for currency exchanges among Christian economies that may otherwise be impeded in their ability to trade with each other. On the other hand it is also highly possible that the whole world may be able to operate on one world currency by then. This may certainly not be ruled out. But we do not know when this be effected.

However, having large cross-continent industrial players or companies are needed, they can spell greater political risks for Christian communities worldwide. For example, what if one or two major companies or manufacturers break away? How would the Christian Economies worldwide be affected? Will they be strongly impeded? Much depends on whether there are alternative Christian suppliers. One way to safeguard this could be to impose or require autonomous regional business units within the larger whole. Each regional business unit should be an independent part of the whole that can be separated from the parent company and still continue to supply the goods or services previously supplied by the larger conglomerate.

Tribunals of Love (Chap 14)

It has long been recorded for us in the Bible that brothers should not bring a case against brothers and that before the heathen for judgment. For why should the heathen judge us when we should one day, judge even angels? (1Cor 6:1-6) It is believed that in the end times, days will come when Christians can no longer go to secular courts for the settlement of disputes, especially commercial disputes as our payment and banking systems are different and may not be recognized. Nevertheless there must necessarily be a way for the equitable settlement of commercial disputes among Christians by a qualified and competent judiciary system, within each State / City-wide Church.

The Christian judiciary is deliberately named the Tribunal of Love, as the Law of Love is the law that binds us in Christ. It should be made compulsory for anyone in the Christian Economy to be subjected to the judiciary system within the State / City-wide Church. There will be a need for different State / City-wide Churches to be in liaison for judiciary as well as other commercial reasons.

It should be call to mind that restitution is thought as a Old Testament principle for reconciliation in Exodus 22:1-17 as well as in the New Testament example in the story of Zacchaeus in Luke 19:1-19. And while there is to be forgiveness and reconciliation it does not mean that the need for restitutions is done away with or forfeited. On the contrary, restitutions are all the more necessary because we rather forgiveness and reconciliation than separation. Principles of restitutions had been laid down for various situations and offences in ancient Israel. Having said so, human courts can only attempt what the judge or jury may deem equitable. Only Jesus is able to fully address all injustices when He finally comes back to rule. God alone is able to grant grace to the offender and yet so compensate the victim for the wrong suffered that the entire wrong no matter how grave can be very happily settled.

A series of disciplinary actions of different gravities for different offences need to be put in place. The purpose of the disciplinary action is to deter offences, to reform the offender as well as to provide just restitution for plaintiffs. The Tribunal should have strong facilities and processes in place for arbitration of disputes before cases necessarily appears before judges. As counseled in Matt 5:25, out of court settlements should be encouraged.

It is possible that an individual or a syndicate or network of spies within the church may try to betray the State / City-Wide Churches and/or destroy the Christian economies by sabotaging the Christian banking or payment computer system. Such attempts should be seriously dealt with whether successful or not. There may be limited situations where it is necessary for the body to expel false believers and throw them out of the body of Christ. Such would still be able to find refuge through believing friends and relatives within the Christian Economies unless they choose to move in the world economic system.

While this tribunal presides over commercial matters there is no reason why it should not also preside over other legal matters, e.g. family matters, etc. Christians may not be able to resort to secular judiciary systems even in non-commercial matters if settlements have go through the world banking systems. While the Tribunal Of Love is in place and administering justice competently, there should be no reason for Christians to bring even non-commercial disputes to secular courts, if all parties involved are Christians.

Nevertheless certain matters are best left to secular judiciary such as administering capital sentences for murders, etc. We should consider whether the Christian community would be interested to administer prison cells, given that the time until the coming of Christ is short. In coming out of Babylon, we have a chance to simplify and cut of all unnecessary procedures built up over the decades.

Human judgments are often imperfect. Ultimately judgment and vengeance belongs to the Lord (Heb 10:30). Forgive and reconcile. Heaven will not be short of justice, just as it will not be short of gold, even pure gold. GOD has countless ingenious ways to achieve justice in the new order to come. In fact, it is my personal belief that in the millennia rule of Christ all the wrongs done on earth down the centuries will be righted. Is 9:7 for of the increase of the righteousness and the peace of His Kingdom, there will be no end. In the meanwhile, judge nothing before its time (1Cor 4:5). Do not go to courts too readily. Christians must as a general rule leave justice to GOD. However, there are human courts which will be necessary as GOD also institutes social hierarchies and expects us to correct injustices.

It is a pity that due to the lack of justice on this plane, many people’s love has grown cold. Continue to love fervently because love is the premise upon which there is a requirement for justice. Without love the premise for justice is lost. And love forgives all things. All things can be forgiven, yet it does not mean at all that justice is forgone. In heaven, everyone will have the place and the things that each deserve. Those who think that they can do wrong and get away with it are in for a bad surprise.

And we may ask, “Are we not forgiven in Christ?” Yes, you all is forgiven but people will still be rightly related according to who they are in the eternal kingdom. It is because we are forgiven that we are still in relationship. There will be mercy but there will also be justice. Yes, Jesus has paid the price for mercy and therefore the Father has given all judgments to Him (Jn 5:22) And as GOD, Jesus is capable of being totally right in all His judgments. He is coming and His recompense is with Him. He will reward all according to their works or deeds (Rev 22:12).

Noah's Ark (Chap 15)

What is being proposed is that the body of Christ is a sort of an ark, like the Ark that Noah was instructed by GOD to build to keep his household and the animals of the earth alive during the 40-day flood. Noah’s Ark was a type and prophecy of what might be needed to save lives, during the ultimate end-time troubles that are coming (Matt 24:37).

Why would GOD need an ark to save lives? GOD is able to keep anyone He choose alive with or without a physical ark. But He chose to use an ark during the days of flood in Noah's time. Similarly in the end times, GOD is able to keep anyone alive with or without the Christian Economies suggested. But as the typology goes, GOD will use ‘an ark’ of some sort.

In our case, the proposed ark is a kind of a social and economic ark in the physical body of Christ, which should provide spiritual and economic refuge for peoples from every nation worldwide who want to escape the receiving the ‘666’ mark of the Beast on their hands or their foreheads. As many as would believe and receive the message of Christ, must be provided with an escape route from the oppression of the devil, to worship him. The escape must be provided even to the last minute possible, whether or not the inhabitants of the world will in fact choose to escape the impending destruction. Provisions of shelter and refuge will be available, and choosing Christ will not be choosing suicide for the people of the world. Provisions will not necessarily be the best but adequate for short-term survival, if one would rather suffer poverty with GOD’s people than enjoy the fleeting fancies and the pleasures of the world.

If the Church cannot provide an alternative then the inhabitants of this world will have to receive the ‘666’ mark of the Beast, even if they see that it is the devil’s scheme because there is no refuge or escape route provided by the people who proclaim salvation in Jesus name. We have heard sermons that Christ Himself is that ark of safety, yet the body of Christ collectively and physically represents Him, here on earth (Eph 1:22-23). We are His body and He is the head of the church. Each part of the body is important and must play its vital role in co-operation with the whole. Only then can the whole body that is being held together, be able to perform its full functions.

This ark has to be HUGE in order to be able to contain two of every kind of animal and birds in the whole world and their provisions of food supplies (Gen 6:21) for the whole duration of the flood and for the time it takes for the flood waters to subside. I believe Noah must have taken a considerable amount of time to build the ark even if his sons help and even if he had hired men to help him. He was about 500 years old (Gen 5:32) when GOD decided to do something about the wickedness in the earth (Gen 6:1-9); and about 600 years old when the flood waters came upon the earth (Gen 6:6). In the same way, we should not be easily discouraged should the building of the economic ark take us considerable amount of time and resources.

The details of the structure and the composition of this ark will also be very important to GOD. According to Gen 6:14-22, GOD gave instructions for this ark, concerning its material, its dimensions, its architecture and food supplies, for those He named to go into the ark. Noah’s Ark was patterned in heaven just as the Tabernacle of Moses was patterned in heaven. Noah built the ark according to the command of GOD. I believe GOD have specific instructions for His end-time Ark. Let the church of GOD worldwide seek the mind of the Lord on this matter. I do not claim that I had received direct specific instructions from the Lord concerning this ark. Frameworks and ideas suggested are first attempts to stimulate further thinking and seeking of the Lord on the subject. The churches worldwide and business leaders of GOD’s kingdom should take counsel first with the Lord and then with each other. How each business, industry and economy will in fact take shape and evolve will also have to be worked out practically, on a case-by-case basis, with the Lord building and connecting us and giving us the Land.Even though the Bible says in Rev 13:16-18, that everyone will be forced to receive the ‘666’ mark of the Beast, yet the Bible did not say that everyone should succumb. In fact, Rev 14:9-11 tells believers that we are not to succumb. We must not receive the Mark of the Beast! And since we are prepared to pay all price rather than succumb to the enemy’s coercion, why then do we not TRADE? In Dan 6:4-10, we see that King Darius of the Babylonian Empire was then instigated to issue a strict order that no one be permitted to pray or request anything from any god or other person than the king himself and that anyone who violate this order will be thrown into the den of lions. This was a trap designed for the children of GOD and we saw what Daniel’s response was. He did what he had always done before. Openly he knelt down at an upstairs window room that open towards Jerusalem and there he prayed three times a day as he had always done before.

In my opinion, this economic ark will not lessen the sufferings that will come as a result of end time persecution. In fact, it will make the world’s hatred of Christians even more certain than ever. Christian Economies will not reduce the number of Christians who may be betrayed, robbed, imprisoned, tortured or martyred during the rule of the Anti-Christ. It will only help us to stand together as a collective body and fight together as one people. Even if we are not entirely successful in forming very self-sufficient economies, any effort made in this direction will help so very much in the time of civil and social crisis that we expect to be in.
We do not have a testimony as a people when there is almost no organization or self-support among us. We are just a dispersed lot among the nations, not knowing how to be different. While the enemy has marked us for destruction, how can it be that we do not feel the urgent need to prepare ourselves for defense or support? Some prophecies were given to us as warnings, so that we can make preparations for coming events. Our attitude should be that we will do all we can to preserve the christian communities, and if we personally perish in doing so, we perish. Just like how Queen Esther and Mordecai reacted, when the enemy had already made the king issued an edict for the destruction of the Jews; they did not say, "Well, it is alright. If the king issued such an edict, then let them come and take our lives. We can take this lying down because the king knows what he is doing." Like Queen Esther, let us petition with our very own lives.

While we do not know the exact hour or time when Babylon will fall during the last days chart of events, there is no reason to further delay walking out of Babylon. And while out of the Babylonian system, we should still need to provide for our own households, if not the larger household of faith (Rev 12:14). The Church should not be dependent on the charity of those who will wear the mark of the Beast but must continue to dissuade and provide a route of escape and refuge for all from the schemes and the oppression of the enemy.

GOD will not spare us if we are replicating the world system but I am confident of better things because GOD is able to deal with His own servants. It might very well be that these end-times Christian companies and industries with spirit-led and spirit-filled leadership, will take the world by surprise and even by storm. Speaking of transformation of societies, these Christian businesses and industries will be key instruments in GOD’s hand to transform economies and societies. It will also be these Christian businesses and industries that will put Christian political leaders in power and see the nations transferred to the Kingdom. In the last days, the Lord GOD will cause righteous men in Israel and in the church worldwide to arise or spring up to repair ruins and devastations (Is 61).

What is suggested seems altogether practical but short of the will, favour and miracles of GOD, all these are mere words that cannot amount to anything. Having said that, the human factor and response is definitely critical as well, just as the Ark project required much faith and obedience Noah's part. Building the ark seems like a very practical thing and a lot of down to earth wisdom and hard work but it is actually men of faith working out their destiny in GOD Almighty, walking in inheritances and establishing GOD's kingdom in the world in the last days as the knowledge of the glory of the Lord fill the earth as the waters the sea (Hab 2:14).

ONE NEW MAN Possessing The Land (Chap 16)

A few pastors had taught on the One New Man, spoken of in Eph 2:14-18. When Israel finally comes to recognize Jesus as their Promised Messiah, the dividing wall of hostility between the nation of Israel and the gentile Church will be broken down and the two will become One New Man. This One New Man will be a powerful end-time testimony and weapon of warfare. The anointing of GOD will be unhindered as brothers dwell together in unity (Ps 133) and together we shall be able to tap every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies spoken of in the book of Ephesians (Eph 1:3).

Eph 2:14-15 “For He is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and ordinances, that He might create in Himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,” [RSV]

In what way, or ‘how’ can the two function closely even as One Man? And how could their functioning together be used as a witness and an instrument of war. Could the end times Christian Economies be that vehicle by which the two shall operate mightily as the One New Man. Together we will possess the land.

Heb 11:39 “And all these, though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was promised, since GOD had foreseen something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect” [RSV]

Possessing the Promised Land is the prosperity and good success that the Lord wants to give His people (Deut 8:7-10). And GOD gave us the formulae for it in Jos 1:8. It should be interesting to note that it is Joshua who had to make his own way prosperous and have good success by meditating on the law of the Lord day and night and be careful to do according to all that is written in it. And GOD’s Word says to ‘Walk out of Babylon’ (Is 48:20; Is 52:11-12) and ‘Enter and possess the Land’. But waiting for the transfer of wealth to come is what the Church had been doing for decades. Doing just what we know how to do, like raising a family, holding a job, climbing the corporate ladder or running a small or a medium size business and being very much a part of the world, looks like not going to make the transfer of wealth happen.

Firstly, it is believed that prophesized transfer of wealth will not come if we will not walk out of Babylon. Many Christians want to see the transfer of wealth happen while in Babylon. If we gather wealth by the world’s ways, these will be subject to the wrath of GOD’s end time judgment. Yes, it was a fearsome thing to do for the Israelites then to walk out of their Egyptian masters in defiance. And the wilderness, the very idea of it is daunting although it turned out to be a time of supernatural providence and romance. But it is in entering and possessing the Promised Land that we will begin to enjoy the prosperity and success that is ours in the Lord Jesus. Taking Jer 29:11 in its context, GOD was talking to His people about their returning from places of exile (Jer 29:10-14). This coming back to your land, is a very fearsome, dangerous and difficult journey. Practically, this is so for many Jews returning to the land of their fathers, in obedience to the end time call of GOD. And so, GOD promised in Is 43:2 - "When you pass through the waters I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you." For those of us making this spiritual journey, we will also literally be passing through waters (uncertainties) and going through flames (troubles). There is every risk of perishing yet the Lord GOD says, 'Fear Not'. If you will make the journey, He will undertake it.

When we go into the land we are not to follow their abominable ways for which the Lord is driving them out. There are altars and pillars to tear down; and images, cravings and high places to destroy (Deut 12:1-4). In more current terms, these would mean that certain structures and systems must be torn down and revamped. And the church should be careful of agreements, pacts or alliances that we make with the people of this world.

Deut 12:2-4 “You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, upon the high mountains and upon the hills and under every green tree; you shall tear down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; you shall hewn down graven images of their gods, and destroy their name out of that place.” [RSV]

When Israel shall accept Jesus as her promised Messiah as a nation, GOD will begin to bring to fulfillment the many prophecies concerning Israel’s end time glory and prosperity (Jer 33:6-9). And I believe that it is only when Jews and Christians begin to possess the nations as One New Man that the abundance of the sea and the wealth of the nations will begin to flow into the GOD's kingdom (Is 60:5-6), for the fulfillment of GOD's end time purposes.

Rom 11:15 “For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the whole world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?” [RSV]

State / City-Wide Churches (Chap 17)

How and who should organize and manage this huge link-up? Should it be left entirely to the Christian business communities worldwide? There is no doubt that by then Christian businessmen should be fully recognized Christian leaders in every sense of the word, establishing the kingdom of GOD within the perimeters of their own jurisdictions like their own companies and industries.

But should not the local church be critically involved in all these? What should be its role? Should the local churches be central or peripheral to the Christian Economies? While Christian businesses may do their own business link-ups they needed the local churches to be linked up with their markets i.e. the Christian communities. Local churches should also not deliver up the markets represented by their congregations to Christian businessmen without requiring reciprocity in terms of job creation for the congregations and the practice of covenant principles in their businesses.

How do we link-up? Get organized! Start State / City-Wide Churches! To link-up for businesses and markets, identify and register your business as a Covenant Business with a local church that should be an integral part of a much larger set-up. The whole Christian community even if just within the locale of one city would be too large for any particular local church to handle single-handedly. The local churches should come together to set up and run registration systems to register land and company ownerships, persons and businesses.

While large churches and large businesses are the ones who may kick start this process, we should ensure that smaller local churches or smaller business owners and individuals are not left out of the Economies. It is important to include everyone in the system for his or her own economic survival. And everyone that is a Christian must be plugged in and be part of this system for the preservation of lives in the end-times. While major industrial players lined up their business partners, State / City-Wide Churches as a conglomeration of local churches need to help smaller boys get connected.

State / City-Wide Churches can also help ensure fair competition in certain industries to prevent exploitation of Christian communities through effectual monopolies. The State / City-Wide Churches will help pull and organize resources and plug urgent gaps in the business community quickly. Planning may be needed in the location of shops like clinics, and so forth. Certain resources may need to be pooled and controlled centrally for e.g. doctors or medicine, if these resources are temporarily in short supply. The businesses that the Christian communities cannot develop adequately may be those services and goods that needed to be managed somewhat differently or the Christian communities may have to totally do without them.

There will be issues for State / City-Wide Churches to decide, together with the business leaders, like whether non-Christian businesses should be allowed in the Christian Economies? Should we allow these or some to straddle both the economies and banking systems? And we know that the Babylonian City is coming down in one hour (Rev 18:10-19). If we allow these, how should the fall of Babylon then affect the Christian Economies involved?

We need State / City-Wide Churches to come together to provide the policing, the government and also the judicial system otherwise provided by the secular government. There will be irregularities and disputes to settle and disciplinary actions to be taken even within the Christian communities. The church should no longer depend on the world’s judicial system by then. It should appoint judges, lawyers and other office bearers to run a competent judicial system for the Christian communities. All these need to be City Church based and need not busy itself with the settling of secular issues for the larger population.

The church of Christ within any locale will need unity and solidarity in a time of persecution and tribulation like never before. The more people we can include and share will mean a larger platform for our co-operation and higher possibilities of survival. It is not the time to sub-divide and exclude but to include and share.

While a part of the local church will still have to dedicate itself to pastoral and spiritual work, it is clear the State / City-Wide Churches will have a calling and task beyond that of local churches to one more akin to providing governmental surveillances. Running a State / City-Wide Church is not like running a local congregation whose main task is just to shepherd and edify the body of believers. And there should be no ground for elected Christian leaders to plea financial illiteracy or administrative incompetence. The body of elders had always featured importantly in the governance of local churches and I believe the role they used to play must soon come back into greater prominence.

Local churches must rise up to organize their respective communities and protect the systems they help set up and put in place, against infiltration and sabotages and exploiters. Social vehicles to undertake various processes must be invented and sufficient checks and balances must be put in place to avoid likely betrayals and sabotages. Every effort should be made to prevent unscrupulous exploitation of the system and masses for personal gain of wealth and power even by Christian leaders and businessmen.

The church had been forewarned; the enemy had planted false Christians in churches (Matt 13:24-30). Betrayals from within the church and among brothers are prophesized. In the last days some who are not true believers will betray and leave us. False and non-believers may eventually straddle both economies whether they are allowed to or not, due to the temptations for gain. Do not be too alarmed by betrayals!

End Time WEALTH TRANSFER (Message)

I believe that this is a message for every Christian living in the End Times. WEALTH TRANSFER like the second coming of the Lord Jesus is an end time event. The time is short and we must get ready for it. Of course, GOD is the One who is to do the transfer but it is also necessary for us to believe Him and to know how to co-operate with Him.

We are going to refer to 3 Wealth Transfer incidences in the Bible and then we are going to draw 7 lessons from these prophetic types. These 7 lessons are important for us if we want to see wealth transfers for ourselves in our times. These 3 bible references are: Genesis 12:10 - 13:2; Genesis 30:29 - 31:21 and Exodus 1 - 15.

The first lesson, is that walking with GOD is not easy at all. Walking with GOD will lead us down to Egypt. Why did GOD bring Israel down to Egypt to be slaves? So that He can be glorified through them. Israel was a slave nation for 430 years. Difficult times may come. Heb 10:38 says, ….the just shall live by faith, and if we shrink or draw back GOD has no pleasure in that. And so, in order for GOD to bring us to mountain-tops, we will also have to pass through the valleys of life. GOD has to prepare us if He wants us to reign with Him (2Tim 2:12).

The second lesson is that, wealth transfer is part of a series of events that GOD will bring us through only if we continue to walk with Him. If we give up walking with GOD because of difficult times, if we quit on GOD then we may miss this event call 'Wealth Transfer'. Is it possible for us to miss, disbelieve or forget the dreams and visions that GOD has given us? Yes, it is perfectly possible. We will miss GOD if we are overcome by difficult circumstances. And we can miss GOD if we have no time for GOD or do not put Him first in our lives.

The third lesson is that, Wealth Transfer is only for those who would leave Egypt. In all the 3 prophetic types of wealth transfer accounts referred to above, we see that Wealth Transfer happened when GOD’s people came out of Egypt to go back to their Promised Land. If the nation of Israel will not follow GOD’s voice in leaving Egypt, they will still continue to be slaves to the Egyptians and there will be no Wealth Transfer for them at all.

Now, what is Egypt? Egypt is a land of slavery and idolatry. Egypt is an ancient type of modern-day Babylon. Through the false values of capitalism and industrialization, many have all become digits of production. The secular world is largely one that rejects GOD. People of this world value worldly success and pleasures above GOD and relationships. And corruption and bribery is practiced everywhere from the least to the most developed countries in the world. In Rev 18, we see that the Word of GOD describes Babylon as the secular world trading system through which all the nations of the world and their kings and merchants grow rich.

Now, we know that many Christians want GOD to prosper them while they are still in Egypt or in Babylon. But we see that GOD’s command for the end times is that we COME OUT of Babylon the Great. Rev 18:4 tells us, not to deceive ourselves that we can remain in Babylon and still be different. If we remain in Babylon and do not want to come out, we will inevitably partake of her sins and share in her plagues. Did not our Bible say that GOD will judge BABYLON and that she will go go up in smoke (Rev 18)? In fact, GOD had already begun to shake the world economic system. As things are, we can already see many cracks, weaknesses and tell-tale signs of her impending fall.

This brings us to our 4th lesson – which is, Is the Church right now, in Babylon? And if we are, how are we to come out of Babylon? I can tell you that up to now the Church of GOD is still in the Babylon and she does not know how to come out of her OTHER than just trying to be different. Right now, most Christians do not know how to come out of Babylon other than to leave a secular job or to leave a secular city or country, just by ourselves, individually as and when the individual is ready to do so. And while we must leave Babylon individually and spiritually, I believe that GOD’s Word tells us that we must come out corporately, as one people or one big family. Indeed Rev 18:4 addresses us as ‘a people’. And in all the 3 prophetic types of wealth transfer accounts that we refer to, the people of GOD all come out as a big family or as one people and with everything that they have. This was the case for Abraham; this was the case for Jacob and also for the nation of Israel.

Although in types and shadows, the lesson is unmistakably there in GOD’s Word. If we will turn to Ex 10:7-12; here, we saw that Pharaoh asked, ‘You may go and worship the Lord your GOD but who exactly will go?’ Moses said, ‘we will all go, young and old, including all our possessions’. Not one hoof was left behind. When we leave Egypt, the whole church must leave together. No one will be left behind unless they themselves choose to be left behind. The Lord lead His people as 'a flock' and not just individually. Since the Israelites left slavery in Egypt several thousand years ago, the world had not witness this testimony of GOD leading His worldwide church as 'one corporate body' (Ps 78:52).

The fifth lesson comes to me almost as a discovery and that is, if Christian communities will arise and organize ourselves by connecting Christian businesses within cities, states and nations, we are actually building the so-call Noah’s Ark. Of course, Jesus Himself is the Ark of safety for all of us but the body of Christ is the physical representation of Him on earth. This Ark is to contain 'provisions' (Gen 6:21). This Ark will also operate like a ‘refuge’ and a way of escape for the pre-believers who do not want to receive the Mark of the Beast. When we have the Alternative Christian Economies up, then we can tell the pre-believers, don’t worship the Beast, don’t receive the ‘666’ Mark but come into GOD’s kingdom and GOD’s economy.

Sixthly, forming the End Time CHRISTIAN ECONOMIES, and Coming Out of Egypt or the Babylonian System, will be a very Major Collective Scale Spiritual Warfare for the Church of GOD. In the last days, there will be great CONTENTION between mystery Babylon, the world economic system and the Lord Jesus and His people. We find this in Rev 17:5-6, 14. This is not something that any believer would like to see happen, yet it is not for us to avoid it. Yes, in the last days, it will be the unbelieving world versus JESUS and His church. And I believe that we will be much better off standing together as One rather than apart. As uncertain, and even fearsome as this may seem, those on the other side will ultimately loose (Matt 12:30); although this does not mean that we will not suffer some casualties on our side.

Will Egypt or the World let the Bride of Christ go out of them easily? Even if they will let us go, the dark angels and evil spirits that they serve will not let us go easily. Of course the Pharaoh of this world will say, “NO, No way!” But he has no choice in this matter. GOD will give him ‘no choice’. And just as Moses led Israel out their captivity, with a mighty arm; Jesus will also lead us out with a mighty arm. In Is 2:2-3 or Mic 4:1-2, we see that, ‘In the latter days, GOD is doing something. And the something that GOD is doing is that He will raise mountain [of the house of the Lord and another version says, the mountain] where the temple stands as the highest of all mountains, towering above all the hills. I want us to know that WEALTH has everything to do with the kingdom and the power of the kingdom. Wealth will be transferred to GOD’s faithful stewards in the kingdom because the kingdom of this world and the power of the kingdom will become the kingdom of our Lord Jesus. (Other bible references Ex 11:3; Esther 10).

Es 8:1-2 “On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her; and the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.” [RSV]

Es 10 “King Ahasuerus laid tribute on the land and on the coast lands of the sea. And all the acts of his power and might, and the full account of the high honour of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? For Mordecai the Jew was next in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brethren, for he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people.” [RSV]

In the final analysis, we must address one very important question. And that is, ‘Will these End Time CHRISTIAN ECONOMIES not be just like the world’s existing Babylonian System? There is one brother who after reading my book, 'End Time CHRISTIAN ECONOMIES', called me up and asked whether GOD will still prosper us if we go about our business carnally, while forming these End Time CHRISTIAN ECONOMIES. And my answer is ‘Of Course Not’. And WHY Not? It is simple; …. because Israel did not enter the Promised Land straight away after crossing the Red Sea. And why did GOD not bring them in? Because they are not yet ready for it! GOD brings them through the wilderness to train them, to humble and to test them, so that He knows what is in them. And then after that, in order to enter the Land they have to cross the Jordan River. The Jordan valley is often preached as a very low and humble point in our lives. All true Christians WHO walk with GOD will make these journeys and pass by these ways. They will be call out from Egypt, be tested and humbled through the difficulties of wilderness, cross the Jordan River and receive their inheritance.

If you think you can get wealth for yourself, you are wrong about it. It does not matter who you are or what ideas you have. Wealth and riches belongs to GOD and He can sovereignly grant or take away. In fact, GOD said in Deut 8:18, that even if you enter the Land and you forget GOD and serve idols, GOD solemnly warn that we will perish like the others in the world. In fact, if you have walked with GOD for any length of time at all you will know that our GOD is not an easy GOD. GOD is good and gracious. He gives and forgives and keeps forgiving but He is not lowering His standards for anyone. And so, if you ask me, I believe that Wealth Transfer is very much for Christians who have died and rose again with Christ. They have gone through fire and they know that without GOD, they are nothing and can do nothing. They are out to prove GOD rather than themselves. These are the ones that GOD will prepare to take the kingdom of GOD by faith and by force. Jesus has done everything but you must want it enough and take it. If you will not take it, OTHERS WILL!