² Owe no man anything but to love one another. Stay out of debt. Those who borrow money, make a show of other people's money for a time; but when they fail, they do great hurt to those they owe and shame the name of Christ. The man of God is to lend to the poor, not borrow. It is one's covetousness that tempts one to borrow. Be content with what you have. For if we have food, clothing, and shelter, we have everything we need; and if you are a sincere seeker of God, he will see to it that you always have the necessities of life. After you have crucified your lusts and affections for the world, the Lord will see to it that you have the good things of this life — but not before your desires are dead because you would only consume his blessings on your lusts.

Despite this and other warnings of the Lord about debt, our entire society is built on debt. Even the banking system is relied on to loan a multiple of their reserves to keep the economy going. The US government is currently (2011) borrowing a new 40 cents for every dollar spent. In 2011, Italy, maligned for uncontrolled deficits, has a deficit to GDP ratio of 3.2%; the USA's deficit to GDP ratio was 10%, (as of 8/11),* which is three times worse than Italy. Sovereign (national) debt's poster child, Greece, had a deficit to GDP ratio of 8.5%, which is less than the USA's 10%. Both Greece and Italy have instituted large scale spending reduction programs, while the USA is planning increased spending. The world has given the USA a blank check, but it cannot last forever. From the Word of the Lord within: "the United States is spending itself into oblivion." The total debt of our federal, state, and local governments is conservatively calculated to be $59 trillion; that works out to each household on the hook for $516,348 of government debt. Credit cards are routinely sent by banks to the unsuspecting. The media is full of financial advisers who preach how to be successful with debt. Governments have borrowed massive sums of money without a thought of ever paying off their debts, only borrowing new money to pay off old debts when due as they borrow even more; our current world has become so addicted to debt that we think debt is good.

*As of 2014, the USA annual deficit, (net additional debt), is down to $500,000,000, (500 Billion), which is a big improvement from $1.4 Trillion due to higher taxes being enacted; but it is still unsustainable growth in the total debt.

All the money contributed by wage-earners and their employers to the Social Security Trust Fund has been spent by both Democratic and Republican federal governments, while they have assured us they are backed by the "full faith and credit of the US Government;" which credit only exists as long as they can borrow more money to pay the social security monthly checks. The Trust Funds were looted by Presidents and Congress to spend for pet programs without being counted in the deficit; they deliberately used this sleight of hand to hide their spending from the public. The only thing in the Trust Fund is a binder full of US Intra government bonds: $2.6 trillion worth of IOUs, which are not even negotiable in the market like normal Treasury bonds. The so called Trust Fund is dead broke; that is why in the July debt ceiling negotiations President Obama said on July 12, 2011, "if the debt ceiling were not raised, Social Security checks could not be paid." The elected Congresses as guardians of the Trust Fund failed in their duties; the temptation to buy votes with easily raided money from the Trust Fund was too great. All the public projections about when Social Security will be broke are projections about when the IOUs will be exhausted in value, providing the US could continue to borrow more money from the bond market to pay off the IOUs.

Be prepared; if the world loses confidence in US government-backed bonds, or in the dollar, the world will race to dump all their US dollar-based assets, and the world's economies will crash into a widespread, acute depression; it will be world-wide because the US$ is the de facto reserve currency of the world, and much of the world's wealth is held in US reserves.

We are so deep in continuous additional borrowing to support government spending that our economy risks recession or even depression with a true cut-off of more debt; so no majority of politicians has the courage to put us in a recession to avoid a catastrophic depression. There is no solution possible; it is only a question of when: 2 months, 2 years, 5 years, or ??. From the Word of the Lord within: "The world is like a man running to jump into a snake pit; the formula is here, it is ripe for destruction, and we await the results."

The USA has been partying on borrowed money for 50 years; from the Word of the Lord within: "the party is over, and the debt ceiling debaters have a problem — they can't portray poor people as poor." (In case you are wondering who are the poor the Lord references, it is every citizen in the USA; all of us are living in a society built on borrowed money; we owe, we owe — $516,348 of government debt per household, not including what we personally owe.) Further from the Word of the Lord within: "you are witnessing the swallowing of an empire." The empire is the USA, which has wielded mighty military, economic, and political power for 100 years; that empire and power is at the beginning of being swallowed by the debt it has created.

The world has forgotten the common sense of yesterday: "save up for a rainy day;" instead the world has been borrowing while the sun is shining, ignoring the possibility of a rainy day to come. The elected officials are not the only ones to blame; the world has forgotten the Lord's forbidding debt, and so we will pay the price for our complacency. Bankrupt governments at all levels will be powerless to spend us out of the depression; governments' bankruptcy is what will start that depression.

From the Word of the Lord within: "No one wants to admit that the world's debt is unsustainable; the world's balances stand in subjection, borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. I want everyone to save something beforehand. In time of need, violence will erupt in the land."

What something should everyone save beforehand?—money is obvious, and cash in hand is safer than sitting in a bank account; plus if the crisis is so deep that banks fail, cash in hand will be king because so little will be in circulation. What else?—depending on what precipitates the crisis, (which we have not been told), a supply of emergency, non-perishable food could be priceless. Canned food is obvious, and pinto beans plus rice makes a complete protein; both rice and pinto beans are very inexpensive in dry, 20-25 lb. bags, (Costco, Sam's, Walmart), and both can be stored in a dry location indefinitely. Dried beans and rice require cooking; if your stove is electric, to be able to cook in power outages, you may want to purchase a small camp stove, (Walmart, Amazon, REI).

Based on recent messages from the Word of the Lord within, (which were: "The whole world believes what is about to happen couldn't happen. My intent is to shake the entire world into a knowledge of my being."), I have changed the focus of troubles. For Him  to shake the world into a knowledge of His being, I emphasize the more likely sequence of events is: first convincing miracles, then warnings to herald the coming events, and later the troubles themselves; convincing miracles would be performed by perfected members of His body, and the miracles would necessarily be on a scale far beyond anything the world thinks is remotely possible. Therefore we should only focus only on expecting personal troubles, trials, and tribulations so that we can enter the kingdom and be prepared for whatever physical events occur afterwards. The Lord has previously said: "I will warn people about the coming troubles, about which there is no comparison. " When you, (along with the rest of the world), hear the warnings clearly stated, you will know to complete any required preparations.

If you commit yourself to God, to seeking his will on a daily basis, with time dedicated to getting quiet to listen, he will guide you and protect you. Your problems will go away. Whatever happens will be to your good, even if it doesn't seem so to you at the time. Nothing will harm you. He will give you rest. You will have the protection of the heavens. So there is nothing to worry about any more. Do what you are capable of doing, and then cast all your cares on him. Let him work them out. From the Word of the Lord within: "You do your best; we do the rest. You will have the protection of the heavens." The troubles will be the means of trying our faith and perfecting us for entry into the kingdom. While we are seeking, the creator of the universe is watching over us, protecting us, planning for us, moving the world to our benefit, and always there for us. With this assurance, we know that everything that comes our way is his will for us; and whatever happens, even if it appears to be a problem at the time, we know as it is written, all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose; and because we keep his commands, he knows we love him. So we know that everything that happens to us has been willed by God,* to help us grow, and we have a peace that is based on the love of God to us. We can cast all of our worries and fears upon him, and depend on him to work everything out to our benefit. We have confidence that he is working for us, even when we can't see how it is happening; we know he controls the whole universe, and to work our life to his union, is effortless for him.

*From the Word of the Lord within: "If people want to make a bad-choice decision, that's their prerogative."

So, do not believe that God has caused someone around you to do something evil that affects you. He protects your life so that you can be completed, but He does not stop those around you from doing wrong.

He can control the little details of men's lives without violating their free will and self-confidence. Those chosen by God are protected by Him while they complete their seeking course; but he only provides protection to those who are seeking him in love and whom he has called; from the Word of the Lord within: "All other people, destined for reconciliation after this life, live without protection." We have free will, but with the little details, he can move us around like chess board pieces and not violate our free will, because the insignificant details that he controls don't violate our heart's principles, (however evil they are), or our self-confidence; choices that follow our heart's principles and affect our self-confidence are made by us independently, and He does not override those decisions in anyone.

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