Grace and peace believers and greetings to those who do not believe.

This question was asked by one of our readers:

“Is investing wrong? I would like to learn about investing and do it one day. But is it the same as gambling?”

No, investing is not gambling, so it is not against God’s will for you to invest.  But I would caution you to seek God’s mind before you do something like that, and I will tell you why. The end of life as we’ve known it here in America is fast approaching.  The Bible says in Revelation Chapter 13 that the False Prophet will cause every person in the world (save Christians) to receive a mark on their foreheads and on their right hands, without which, “no man might buy or sell” (Revelation 13:16-17).

So we know that at some point very soon, money will become obsolete.  Now the European Union has already gotten rid of the individual currencies of most of its member nations, the so-called Euro Zone, and substituted the Euro.  The United States, from what I understand, is also planning to bring in a new currency called the Amero.  Now, I was living in Germany when the Euro came in and I can tell you what happened before it was instituted and after, so brace yourself.

About a year or so before the Euro came in, all product price tags had the price of a product in both euros and deutsche marks.  For example, if a loaf of bread cost one mark, below it would be the price in euros, which was roughly half the price in marks or 50 cents (true example).  Most people thought that this was being done to accustom the public to the price difference between deutsche marks and euros.  If this were true, then the exchange rate from marks to euros would be roughly 2 to 1, or two marks for one euro.  So when the euro came in, it is logical to assume that the price of the product in euros would remain the same.  Right?  Wrong!

When the euro came in we expected to see the price in deutsche marks gone, and only the euro price remaining, at the same price we were accustomed to seeing.  But do you know what happened?  True, the deutsche mark price was gone, replaced by the euro price, but instead of the product remaining at the same euro price as before, it was the same price in euros as it was in deutsche marks.  So, for example, that loaf of bread that used to cost one deutsche mark, but 50 cents (or one half euro) now cost one euro instead of 50 cents. In other words, overnight the price of food increased 100 percent!  

And the bad part is that salaries remained the same.  So, literally overnight, your salary could only buy half as much as it could before the euro came in.  This actually happened, and I was there to see it.  People immediately went into debt.  One man passed me on the street distraught, because he was retired and living on a government pension.  He said that now that the euro had come in, after he payed his rent and utilities, he barely had enough to eat.  This man didn’t know me from Adam, but he was so distraught, that he had to talk to someone.

Moreover, what money people had in bank accounts, CD’s, money market funds, and other investments was now worth only half as much as before.  The same was true of any money folks had squirreled away at home.  The media advertised when would be the last day for folks to take their deutsche marks to the bank to exchange them for euros, because the next day they would be worthless.  And, of course, they were.

Now, I have no doubt whatsoever that this will happen in America.  I believe that the excuse to get people to accept the mark of the Beast will be that the problem with the world economy is money.  They will tell us that in order to fix the problem, it would be better to just eliminate money altogether and bring everybody on line with a cashless economy.  That is why the debit card, online purchases, and PayPal have been pushed: to get people used to making financial transactions without handling money.   It’s all designed to get them primed and ready to accept the Mark of the Beast.  And most will.

Now, I’m giving you my opinion based on Biblical testimony and my own personal experience.  I don’t know anything about economics and I am horrible at math.  But I’ve got common sense and I believe my Bible; and I’ve got the personal experience that I’ve just related to you.  So, I’d be very careful with my investments if I were you, because believe me, we are getting prepared for something.  I can feel it.  If we are going to a cashless society—and we are—then in a very short while, a million dollars won’t be able to buy you a pack of gum.

I pray this helps.

The Still Man

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