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.