The pillar of Gold, The Crash of Wall Street, And "Easier for a Camel to walk through the eye of a needle."
The Collapse of the Babylon economic and monetary system.
In Daniel Chapter 3 Daniel informs us that Nebuchadnezzar made an image( standing Pillar or Monolith) of gold sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, in modern terms this would be 120 feet high and 12 feet square at the base in solid gold, and"set up" on the plain of Dyra in the province Babylon. At the dedication ceremony, Nebuchadnezzar called all ranks of government officials from every province of his empire to the ceremony and commanded that, when summoned by the sound of musical instruments, they were to fall down and worship the "gold standard". The penalty for failing to do this was to be "cast into a burning fiery furnace". As we know Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego refused to fall down and worship this image.
The Furnace was heated"Seven Times"more than normal, and he commanded that Daniel and his companions be throw into the furnace. The furnace had no effect upon the three Hebrew youths The King was surprised to see them walking about unharmed in the mist of the fire, as well as a fourth person whom he described as "like the son of God".
He called them to "come out", which they did, quite unharmed and in consequence of this miraculous deliverance, Nebuchadnezzar made a decree that anyone who said a word against the God of Daniel, Meshach, Shadrach and Abed-nego was to be put to death: " Because there is no God that can deliver in this way". (Daniel 3:29).
What is interesting about this experience of Daniel and his companions seems to represent Israel's "Seven Times" of being tempered in the fiery furnace of trail and testing in a hostile world, being subject to men's laws-political, economical, monetary and religious systems and yet in the moment of need those who refuse to bow down to these systems, the God of Israel is able to deliver them!
The Gold Standard
Here we see that Nebuchadnezzar set up the beginnings of our modern banking system, he made all transactions subject to the value of gold, therefore everyone who traded in goods or commerce of any kind had to barrow from him on the strength of gold and pay interest on the loan to boot! Just like the banking system today! Except that today banks,as you well know loan money which they don't have- called bank credit. Modern banks can and could lean up to 90 times their capital, 90 times more than they hold in "real" cash, and it's very survival is based upon the continued creation of debt, and of course this is is way we are in such a mess .
Nebuchadnezzar dreams continue in Daniel chapter 4 Where he dreams of a Great Tree which is hewn down to the stump with a band of iron and brass. This represents the eventual collapse of the Babylonian Empire but its influence would continue in the two empires represented by the bands of brass and iron- that is the Greek and Roman Empires, which were to follow it.
The Seven Times of Madness
(Nebuchadnezzar turns into a werewolf)
The "Seven Times of madness" which was to pass upon Nebuchadnezzar represents 2,520 years of economic madness which would stem from Babylon's monetary system based upon the gold standard and which has influenced the worlds economy since that time. but after seven times or 2,520 years the world would return to the sanity of the Lords divine economic and monetary system, which was revealed to Moses and which will be re-introduced under the rule of Jesus Christ in the seventh Millennium.
The Writing on the Wall
The bands of brass and iron which were around the stump of the tree represent the gentile powers
which would adopt the Babylonian monetary system, and which continues in our modern banking and monetary systems today.
We all Know how maddening that is. and we have all suffered because of this madness. However we all all witnessing the collapse of this man made system today. starting from the Great Crash in the 1930's. We are now witnessing the its final destruction.
The night Babylon fell 534BC, King Belshazzar, grandson to Nebuchadnezzar, made a great feast for a thousand of his Lords, and while he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of Gold and silver which had been taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that he and his lords, his wives and concubines might drink from them. They drank the wine and praised the gods of Gold and Silver, of brass, iron, wood and stone".
Of course as we know these blasphemous revelries were suddenly cut short when, "In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote". (Daniel 5:5).
God always speaks to men in a language they understand and the Babylonians understood money. the Inscription was in Chaldean, their own language, so the Lord was making sure they would understand the message.
[b"And this is the Writing that was written,]MENE, MENE, TEKEL UPHARSIN.[/b] (Daniel5:25-28).
The inscription contains a string of weight names; from the JST Bible Dictionary under Mene Mene Takel Upharsin we are informed: "It can be literally translated" numbered, weighted and divisions. Possibly the words are names off weights,"a Mina,a Mina a shekel and a half" (Mina).
The last word in the inscription is given as Upharsin which is made up of the Aramaic conjunction U- and Pharsin, the plural of Paras, and since only consonants were written in ancient Hebrew and Aramaic, the Word Paras could also be written Peres which means divided.
" The gerah was the smallest weight used among the Hebrews and amounted to the twentieth part of a Shekel". This statement is taken from the authorised King James translation of the Holy Bible under Weights, Measures, Coinage and references to its value can be found in Exodus 30:31, Leviticus 27:25, Num 3:47, and18:16.
The Shekel was valued at twenty gerah's. The Mene (sometimes called Maneh) was an Aramaic word and the equivalent in Hebrew is Mina and according to the JST Bible Dictionary page 789 this is valued at a fixed fifty Shekels,and sometimes refereed too as a Pound, in the New Testament." From the Phoenicians the word Mina passed on to the Greeks who pronounced it MNA, and to the Italians who pronounced it MINA" (AV concordance).
1 Shekel = 20 Gerahs
1 Mina = 50 Shekels or 10000 Gerahs
Therefore the total value in Gerahs is signified by the writing was ;
Mina = 1000 Gerahs
Mina = 1000 Gerahs
Shekel = 20 Gerahs
Half Mina = 500 Gerahs
Total 2520 Gerahs
It can hardly be coincidental that this figure of 2,520 is the same as the number given in dozens of other illustrations of Biblical prophecy of "Seven Times" and the same number denoted by the "Seven Times" of Nebuchadnezzar's madness in Daniel Chapter 4, The significance is obvious; it suggests that we reckon this same number of years from the fall of Babylon 539BC Ushers Dating - Bible Dictionary.
However, information in the British museum, has been cited by chronologists as confirming the date 536 BC. This is also confirmed by modern revelation (D&C 20:1), which makes the birth of Christ 1 BC as opposed to Usher's reckoning of 5BC. Babylon fell to the Medes and Persians in the Week 10th - 19th October 534 BC.
This is a Fixed terminal date for Biblical time prophecy and is connected to the Babylonian monetary system.
19 October 534BC......................................2520 years.....................................19 October 1987 AD
It is significant that just as ancient Babylon fell 2,520 years ago so would it's influence begin g to collapse in 1987 AD.
BLACK WEDNESDAY
On the 19th of October 1987 there was a great collapse of the Stock markets. The Seven times prophecy fulfilled too the very day!
This event was preceded by a great wind, which caused the destruction of 50 million trees in Britain and Europe besides other damage caused by the floods to property.
These events were seen by Ezekiel 2,500 years ago (Ezekiel 13:1-15)!
Patching up the Wall, "The Wall of untempered Mortar".
The foolish prophets mentioned in Ezekiel 13:1-15 are those of our day - the politicians, bankers world financiers and false religious leaders who have seduced the people into thinking the crisis is over, giving the world a false sense of security. untempered motor has no adhesion - therefore no mater how much they plastered the cracks of the banking monetary system it won't last. The "wall" shall fall and be accompanied with a mighty wind and storm, and overflowing shower and great hailstones (see Jeremiah 25:31-33)!
Wall Street
Well the interpretation is clear. the wall represents Wall Street the "control centre" of the world finance and stock markets.
The events of 19th October 1978 was just the beginning! The Lord has said that not only the wall
will go but that he will seek out and destroy the very foundations of the wall (or system). And when "Wall Street" finally falls all the other world finance and stock markets will fall with it.
The Eye of the Needle
When the markets do finally collapse the merchants, bankers, financiers and all those who love there riches will greatly morn. The Lord said that it would be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven (Matthew 16:24). What makes this statement more poignant is when we learn that the Centre for Finance in Britain is found in Thread-needle street and the archway to the Bank of England is called the needles eye.
In a Germanic version of the story of little Red Riding Hood, little red comes across a fork in the road and named, "the way of the needle" and "the way of the nail". Little Red in her lost state is at a lost to which path she should take, when suddenly the wolf appears and convinces her that the way of the nail is the quickest route too grandma's house.
The wolf of course knows the way of the needle is the quickest route and runs off to get to grandma's house before Little Red Riding hood arrives. The symbolism of the way of the needle & the way of the nail should resonate with Lds temple members in this story.
Red Riding Hood = Lost Israel
The Wolf = Rome/Babylon
The Way of the Needle = Wealth, Riches, Merchants. get rich quick schemes etc.
The Way of the nail = Sacrifice, Suffering, endurance (as it was the longer route Red Ridding hood took to get to grandma’s house) taking up the cross.
When the TOWERS FALL (Isaiah 30:25) Economic Babylon falls Rev Chapter 18
"Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen!"
the kings of the earth shall mourn saying "Alas! Alas! Thou great city, thou mighty city of Babylon! IN ONE HOUR is thy judgement come, and the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys her cargo any more."
God declares that this modern Babylon is full of devils "foul spirits of all kinds, and a cage full of every unclean thing. ALL nations have participated in her fornication. The merchants of the earth have waxed rich through the use of this ungodly system. Only the rich and merchants of this earth will mourn when this Babylonian monetary and finance system collapses. God's people are told "to come out of her"!
"Go ye out from Babylon. Be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord.
Go ye out from among the nations, even from Babylon, from the mist of wickedness, which is spiritual Babylon."
D&C 133:5, 14
"for in one hour is thy judgement come"
Rev 18:10
In particular the prophecy appears to deal with "economic Babylon" which seems to still be flourishing. but as we know,it is now on the brink of total collapse. No matter how much they try to prop it up, or hide the cracks in the WALL with untempered mortar, this system of giving and taking of usury, a system where the cost of goods increases and the value of money decreases a system where international financiers can make millions, even billions of pounds/dollars for the cost of a phone call a system which flourishes on debt, and requires a war every generation to create new debt a system which makes the poor poorer and the rich richer a system totally opposed to the Divine laws of God given to Israel at Sinai.
"One hour", using prophetical time principal represent 15 years. And 15 years from 1987 brings us to 2002 AD! The Babylonian monetary systems death date.
The Lord said that he would discover the very foundations of this system. And of course we have witnessed the terrible events of September 11th 2001 when the twin towers of the world trade centre was destroyed by "terrorist action. Since then the area which occupied the twin towers has become know as "Ground Zero"!
"so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered". (Ezekiel 13: 14.)
Taken from the book Hidden Manna by William walker . permission granted.