American Dream of Easy Living - Chapter 27

 

The American Dream of Easy Living!

From all that I have presented in the previous chapters, I think it is not illogical to conclude that New York City could be the present day manifestation of Babylon the Great. Revelation says,

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of her wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.[1]

America has been the choice market place for the world for the last half of the 20th century. It is the epitome of opulence. The Apostle John warned,

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides forever.[2]

The world has been lusting after the American Dream of being rich and having an easy life full of material things, sex and money. But it’s a false illusion promoted by her media magicians, so that the kings and the inhabitants of the earth fornicate with her both spiritually and materially. The American Dream is an imagination or Image-Nation, a false imaginary image fed to the nations of the world by the American media: the television, film and the music industries.

The nations of the world have bought her merchandise. But more importantly they have bought into the false idea that money, material things, wealth, sex, and the “good life” bring happiness. The nations follow the American Dream and live a life in mad pursuit of material things which never satisfy and only leave us empty and frustrated thinking, “Is this all there is to life?”

After many years of riotous living or living high on the hog or consuming more of her share of the world’s pie of natural resources than everyone else, America has accumulated a trade deficit with many countries. She’s like an old whore who no longer satisfies her customers. Her money pimps are losing their confidence in her value and may one day soon dump her completely to try to save their own investments. The American government has a deficit of some 18 trillion dollars to its Central Bankers. Those bankers in turn “sell” that debt to foreign investors like Saudi Arabia, China, Russia, who invest their reserves dollars back into the American banking system to help keep the world-wide financial system afloat.

As long as they have confidence that America is a good investment everything is okay. But that confidence is waning. Besides that, the American consumers have a similar massive debt to their banks. If a group of international countries, who possess large amounts of US dollars in their reserves, would dump their dollars, the whole financial banking system could tumble down in one day, the great financial crash prophesied by many important investment analyzers.

Read The New York Times bestseller book, The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System, by James Rickards.[3] Rickards gives a pretty good analysis of the current state of the world financial system. He says,

The coming collapse of the dollar and the international monetary system is entirely foreseeable. This is not a provocative conclusion.[4]

Many comment on how China and the Arab countries are buying up America’s charmed real-estate.

Can we deny that America is the only nation today that seems to most perfectly fit the image presented in Revelation of Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots? Could her daughters be the other great cities of the world that copy her and in turn promote her worship of materialism, sex, money and the things that money can buy? Like God said to decadent Judah through Jeremiah,

for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah,[5]

or through Isaiah where the Lord said,

Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.[6]

It seems that God does not hold today's massive cities in a favorable light. Even Thomas Jefferson, not known as a religious man, was no lover of cities and said he viewed them as "festering sores on the body politic."[7]

Is Western capitalism with its worship of material things as the ultimate goal of life, the Whore of Babylon, a false religion that has deceived the whole world and of which Karl Marx predicted would ultimately destroy itself? I am going to include Revelation 18 at this point to make sure you read it in its completeness and have a feeling for its message.

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Notes:

[1] Revelation 18:3

[2] 1John 2:15-17
[3] Rickards, James; The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System; Penguin group; New York; 2014. http://www.amazon.com/The-Death-Money-Collapse-International/dp/1591846706 (accessed 03/2016)
[4] Ibid
[5] Jeremiah 2:28
[6] Isaiah 14:21
[7] Kaplan, Lawrence S.; Thomas Jefferson: Westward the Course of Empire; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.; Maryland; p.207.

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