The Righteousness of God Expressed In the Moral Law Against Usury
In the Lord's Prayer of Matthew 6: 7-13, there is verse 12, which is not
heeded too much by contemporary Christians. Matthew 6: 12 says "And
forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." The Prayer does not
ask the Lord to erase the monetary debts we owe to others, but to
forgive us of the sin of having debts in the first place.
In Romans 13: 8 Paul says "Owe no man any thing, but to love one
another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law." Paul
supports Matthew 6: 12, telling us
not to go into monetary debt. Matthew 6: 12 and Romans 13: 8 are verses which
should be taken literally, not in a figurative way, though many other
texts have to be viewed in a metaphoric sense.
But the righteousness of God is also expressed in Exodus 22: 15, "If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an userer, neither shalt not lay upon him usury." There are other Old Testament texts that forbid usury, which is charging interest on loans.
Ezekiel 18: 4-8 explains "Behold all souls are mine:...the soul that
sinneth, it shall die. But if a man be just, and do that which is
lawful and right...He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither
hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity,
hath executed true judgment between man and man."
In Nehemiah 5 the setting for this clear Scripture against usury is
Jerusalem after the Jews returned from 70 years of captivity in
Babylon - because they had not obeyed God's laws and had turned to
pagan religion. Ezekiel 22: 12-22 says one of the laws they did not
obey was that on usury.
On coming back to Jerusalem, the wealthy Jews began lending money to
poor Jews. Usury as we know it began in
ancient Babylon, and maybe the Babylonian system of usury reinforced
the practice of usury among the wealthy Jews who had practiced it before
the captivity.
In Nehemiah 5 the poor people realized they were in economic slavery
to the usurers and complained to Nehemiah. He ended up telling the
wealthy people to stop their usury.
Nehemiah 5:1-10 says "And there was a great cry of the people and
of their wives against their brethren the Jews. For there were that said, We,
our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may
eat, and live. Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our
lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the
dearth."
It is the extortion of money or possessions from people by the more
wealthy that God's moral law forbids. Unjust gain by usury or by any
other scheme is condemned as sin by the Bible. Although the word usury is not
specifically used in the New Testament, in Matthew 21:
12, Mark 11: 15 and John 2: 14-15 Christ reacts strongly to the
practices of the money changers in the Temple. The money changers who,
he said, made the temple into a den of thieves were extorting money
from people in some way. And so it is not only taking interest on
loans that is said to be wrong in the Bible, but any form of extortion
and unjust gain.
Taking interest from others who are poorer that we and going into debt to those who are
richer than we are both sin.
Americans - and the northern part of the world as in the conflict between the King of the North and the King of the South in Daniel 11 - have gotten into big trouble by allowing bankers to charge usury on such a huge scale and in accepting personal debt to the usury bankers.
We have allowed the financial elite - the big usury bankers and small usury bankers - to get us into a prolonged financial recession, which is a part of judgment upon the United States for a number of transgressions. And the recession may get worse.
Historically, Islam, which now holds out against the system of the northern
industrial nations run by usury bankers, has opposed usury. But this does not mean
that the King of the South, representing the Islamic nations, is the white hat guy, because
the Islamics are operating in the spirit of Anti-Christ. The King of the North of Daniel 11 in the modern timeline and the King of the South are both evil, though in somewhat different ways.
In Revelation 6: 2-8. the white horse can be seen as the British
empire. Daniel 7: 4 says it has a man's heart, suggesting it is not
quite as evil as the other beasts. But the white horse beast carries
with it the ideology of usury.
The Bank of England played an important
role in introducing usury banking as a ruling principle in the modern
world. Daniel's King of the North in Daniel 11 in modern times is
empowered by usury, creating money out of nothing, loaning it to
people and collecting interest and taking much of the people's money
in the process to make the big bankers rich and powerful.
The red horse is the Soviet Union and its ideology is Marxism, which arose
in part out of the dialectic interaction with usury capitalism.
Marxism, in part,
was critical of capitalism because it exploited the common people and one
means of this exploitation was usury. But Marxism was anti-Christian and
created a more evil system than did capitalism.
Usury is making money by loaning it out to people -and the present day usury bankers
create a large portion of the money given in loans out of nothing at the time the loan is made. This is fractional reserve banking, a part of the scam.
And the money that usury bankers loan out is always fiat money, or paper money, which is no longer backed by gold or silver. Paper money can easily lose much of its value, and sometimes in a very short time.
Article I, section 10, clause 1. states:
“No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts;"
It is interesting that in March of 2011 the state of Utah made it legal to use federally minted gold and silver coins as money, and some other states are interested in this.
see http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1317392425.php
There is another important part of the scam, something which is partly hidden, but can be uncovered.
On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amortization
they say that amortization (or amortisation) "...comes from Middle
English amortisen to kill,...from Vulgar Latin admortire to kill, from
Latin ad- + mort-, mors death."
In other words, the use of compound interest in the "amortization" of
loans to be paid back with interest is a way of killing you
financially, and sometimes literally also. It is a way of killing
nations financially by the big bankers of England, Europe and the U.S.
Then on http://www.mortgage101.com/amortizat...0/8/14000/15/0
the site provides a way of determining amortization of a loan.
Amortization by Compound Interest:
For example, suppose you got a loan of $14,000 at 8 percent interest,
to be paid off in 15 years.
You do not pay 8 percent of $14,000 as interest, which would be only
$1,120. Using an amortization schedule and the site above to
calculate your monthly payments, the total amount of interest you will
pay, and the total amount of money you will pay, it comes up with:
180 Monthly Payments: $133.79
Total Amount of Interest Paid Over 15 Years: $10,082.43
Total Amount Paid in 15 Years: $24,082.43
Original Amount Of the Loan: $14,000
And - if you get this loan of $14,000 from a bank in the U.S. the
bank does not take $14,000 out of its fiat money holdings and give it
to you. In effect, under fractional reserve banking, the bank creates
the $14,000 out of nothing at the time it gives you the loan.
The bank is only required to keep a fractional reserve for its loans,
which means it can loan out more money than it has in deposits.
On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
they say "Fractional-reserve banking is the most common form of
banking and is practiced in almost all countries. Although Islamic
banking prohibits the making of profit from interest on debt, a form
of fractional-reserve banking is still evident in most Islamic
countries."
http://www.dailypaul.com/119914/frac...n-paul-on-cnbc
"Fractional reserve banking is a Ponzi scheme whereby banks create
money out of thin air through fraudulent book keeping, loaning
non-existent money out at interest. It is no different than
counterfeiting. In collusion, factional reserve banks counterfeit up
to 10 times the amount of money that they actually have deposited, and
charge interest on it all. Since money represents labor, fractional
reserve bankers are effectively robbing the value of everyone's labor
through this fraudulent scam."
The site above is in support of the Ron Paul positions. And the U.S.
Christian establishment headed by the dispensationalists
are coming against the Old Man, Ron Paul, saying he won't help Israel fight the
Islamics? The "Christians" want Rick Perry, the phony conservative
and phony "Christian" who was invited to a Bilderberger meeting a
couple of years ago, indicating he is one of their guys. Alex Jones said
that Rick Perry claims he rode with Tonto, suggesting that Perry sees
himself as the Lone Ranger, who in the famous Western fiction story
did ride with Tonto.
Ron Paul, the 75 year old, is an MD, the Old Man who some would like to run for
President but if he shows signs of being a real contender the Big
Bankers will stop him one way or another. Ron Paul is not a Baby Boomer, unlike the
last three presidents.
Maybe Ron Paul has been boosting his testosterone level by natural means - change
in diet and some food supplements.. I came
across a site a few days ago saying some doctors and nurses are now
using alternative health care providers and natural stuff for their own
health care needs.
I saw an Internet report saying that Rick Perry has been allowing the
Red Chinese into Texas to invest their money. Texas has also been given over to Big
Money, which Perry supports. My great grandfather,
who was in Texas during the Republic, would not recognize his country now...
In the Lord's Prayer of Matthew 6: 7-13, there is verse 12, which is not
heeded too much by contemporary Christians. Matthew 6: 12 says "And
forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." The Prayer does not
ask the Lord to erase the monetary debts we owe to others, but to
forgive us of the sin of having debts in the first place.
In Romans 13: 8 Paul says "Owe no man any thing, but to love one
another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law." Paul
supports Matthew 6: 12, telling us
not to go into monetary debt. Matthew 6: 12 and Romans 13: 8 are verses which
should be taken literally, not in a figurative way, though many other
texts have to be viewed in a metaphoric sense.
But the righteousness of God is also expressed in Exodus 22: 15, "If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an userer, neither shalt not lay upon him usury." There are other Old Testament texts that forbid usury, which is charging interest on loans.
Ezekiel 18: 4-8 explains "Behold all souls are mine:...the soul that
sinneth, it shall die. But if a man be just, and do that which is
lawful and right...He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither
hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity,
hath executed true judgment between man and man."
In Nehemiah 5 the setting for this clear Scripture against usury is
Jerusalem after the Jews returned from 70 years of captivity in
Babylon - because they had not obeyed God's laws and had turned to
pagan religion. Ezekiel 22: 12-22 says one of the laws they did not
obey was that on usury.
On coming back to Jerusalem, the wealthy Jews began lending money to
poor Jews. Usury as we know it began in
ancient Babylon, and maybe the Babylonian system of usury reinforced
the practice of usury among the wealthy Jews who had practiced it before
the captivity.
In Nehemiah 5 the poor people realized they were in economic slavery
to the usurers and complained to Nehemiah. He ended up telling the
wealthy people to stop their usury.
Nehemiah 5:1-10 says "And there was a great cry of the people and
of their wives against their brethren the Jews. For there were that said, We,
our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may
eat, and live. Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our
lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the
dearth."
It is the extortion of money or possessions from people by the more
wealthy that God's moral law forbids. Unjust gain by usury or by any
other scheme is condemned as sin by the Bible. Although the word usury is not
specifically used in the New Testament, in Matthew 21:
12, Mark 11: 15 and John 2: 14-15 Christ reacts strongly to the
practices of the money changers in the Temple. The money changers who,
he said, made the temple into a den of thieves were extorting money
from people in some way. And so it is not only taking interest on
loans that is said to be wrong in the Bible, but any form of extortion
and unjust gain.
Taking interest from others who are poorer that we and going into debt to those who are
richer than we are both sin.
Americans - and the northern part of the world as in the conflict between the King of the North and the King of the South in Daniel 11 - have gotten into big trouble by allowing bankers to charge usury on such a huge scale and in accepting personal debt to the usury bankers.
We have allowed the financial elite - the big usury bankers and small usury bankers - to get us into a prolonged financial recession, which is a part of judgment upon the United States for a number of transgressions. And the recession may get worse.
Historically, Islam, which now holds out against the system of the northern
industrial nations run by usury bankers, has opposed usury. But this does not mean
that the King of the South, representing the Islamic nations, is the white hat guy, because
the Islamics are operating in the spirit of Anti-Christ. The King of the North of Daniel 11 in the modern timeline and the King of the South are both evil, though in somewhat different ways.
In Revelation 6: 2-8. the white horse can be seen as the British
empire. Daniel 7: 4 says it has a man's heart, suggesting it is not
quite as evil as the other beasts. But the white horse beast carries
with it the ideology of usury.
The Bank of England played an important
role in introducing usury banking as a ruling principle in the modern
world. Daniel's King of the North in Daniel 11 in modern times is
empowered by usury, creating money out of nothing, loaning it to
people and collecting interest and taking much of the people's money
in the process to make the big bankers rich and powerful.
The red horse is the Soviet Union and its ideology is Marxism, which arose
in part out of the dialectic interaction with usury capitalism.
Marxism, in part,
was critical of capitalism because it exploited the common people and one
means of this exploitation was usury. But Marxism was anti-Christian and
created a more evil system than did capitalism.
Usury is making money by loaning it out to people -and the present day usury bankers
create a large portion of the money given in loans out of nothing at the time the loan is made. This is fractional reserve banking, a part of the scam.
And the money that usury bankers loan out is always fiat money, or paper money, which is no longer backed by gold or silver. Paper money can easily lose much of its value, and sometimes in a very short time.
Article I, section 10, clause 1. states:
“No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts;"
It is interesting that in March of 2011 the state of Utah made it legal to use federally minted gold and silver coins as money, and some other states are interested in this.
see http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1317392425.php
There is another important part of the scam, something which is partly hidden, but can be uncovered.
On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amortization
they say that amortization (or amortisation) "...comes from Middle
English amortisen to kill,...from Vulgar Latin admortire to kill, from
Latin ad- + mort-, mors death."
In other words, the use of compound interest in the "amortization" of
loans to be paid back with interest is a way of killing you
financially, and sometimes literally also. It is a way of killing
nations financially by the big bankers of England, Europe and the U.S.
Then on http://www.mortgage101.com/amortizat...0/8/14000/15/0
the site provides a way of determining amortization of a loan.
Amortization by Compound Interest:
For example, suppose you got a loan of $14,000 at 8 percent interest,
to be paid off in 15 years.
You do not pay 8 percent of $14,000 as interest, which would be only
$1,120. Using an amortization schedule and the site above to
calculate your monthly payments, the total amount of interest you will
pay, and the total amount of money you will pay, it comes up with:
180 Monthly Payments: $133.79
Total Amount of Interest Paid Over 15 Years: $10,082.43
Total Amount Paid in 15 Years: $24,082.43
Original Amount Of the Loan: $14,000
And - if you get this loan of $14,000 from a bank in the U.S. the
bank does not take $14,000 out of its fiat money holdings and give it
to you. In effect, under fractional reserve banking, the bank creates
the $14,000 out of nothing at the time it gives you the loan.
The bank is only required to keep a fractional reserve for its loans,
which means it can loan out more money than it has in deposits.
On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking
they say "Fractional-reserve banking is the most common form of
banking and is practiced in almost all countries. Although Islamic
banking prohibits the making of profit from interest on debt, a form
of fractional-reserve banking is still evident in most Islamic
countries."
http://www.dailypaul.com/119914/frac...n-paul-on-cnbc
"Fractional reserve banking is a Ponzi scheme whereby banks create
money out of thin air through fraudulent book keeping, loaning
non-existent money out at interest. It is no different than
counterfeiting. In collusion, factional reserve banks counterfeit up
to 10 times the amount of money that they actually have deposited, and
charge interest on it all. Since money represents labor, fractional
reserve bankers are effectively robbing the value of everyone's labor
through this fraudulent scam."
The site above is in support of the Ron Paul positions. And the U.S.
Christian establishment headed by the dispensationalists
are coming against the Old Man, Ron Paul, saying he won't help Israel fight the
Islamics? The "Christians" want Rick Perry, the phony conservative
and phony "Christian" who was invited to a Bilderberger meeting a
couple of years ago, indicating he is one of their guys. Alex Jones said
that Rick Perry claims he rode with Tonto, suggesting that Perry sees
himself as the Lone Ranger, who in the famous Western fiction story
did ride with Tonto.
Ron Paul, the 75 year old, is an MD, the Old Man who some would like to run for
President but if he shows signs of being a real contender the Big
Bankers will stop him one way or another. Ron Paul is not a Baby Boomer, unlike the
last three presidents.
Maybe Ron Paul has been boosting his testosterone level by natural means - change
in diet and some food supplements.. I came
across a site a few days ago saying some doctors and nurses are now
using alternative health care providers and natural stuff for their own
health care needs.
I saw an Internet report saying that Rick Perry has been allowing the
Red Chinese into Texas to invest their money. Texas has also been given over to Big
Money, which Perry supports. My great grandfather,
who was in Texas during the Republic, would not recognize his country now...
