Showing posts with label American economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American economy. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Rick Wiles Issues An Extremely Ominous Warning: “The Alarms Are Ringing Again” - Michael Snyder THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG


Posted: 15 Aug 2017  Michael Snyder  THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG

What you are about to read is going to absolutely shock you.  Rick Wiles has done outstanding work over at TruNews for well over a decade, and now just days before the August 21st solar eclipse he has issued his most ominous warning ever.  His warning is not directly related to the eclipse, but I find it extremely interesting that it is coming at approximately the same time, because many consider the eclipse itself to be some sort of warning

I was a TruNews listener way before I ever started The Economic Collapse Blog, and I know Rick’s track record.  So I would take what follows very, very seriously.

In 1998, a very unusual series of events resulted in Rick meeting a wonderful Christian lady named Leah Mandell at a conference.  Three years later, Leah made a very strange phone call to Rick on August 11th, 2001, which was precisely one month before the 9/11 attacks.  When Rick answered his phone, Leah began telling him that “the alarms are ringing”
She said, “Rick, something very odd is happening today. Alarm bells, everywhere I go today there are alarms ringing, car alarms, burglar alarms, fire alarms, even oven alarms, every place I go, I hear alarms ringing. What’s really strange is people are having trouble turning the alarms off. I go into stores, the alarm is ringing. I go into an office, the alarm is ringing. And they can’t get the things to turn off. The Lord told me, ‘Call Rick Wiles and tell him, “The alarms are ringing, and this time, they will not be turned off.”’”
The moment she said that, Rick’s seatbelt alarm started ringing even though his seatbelt was fastened.
One month later was September 11, 2001.
Exactly 16 years later, on August 11th, 2017, Leah called Rick again.  She called to tell him that “the alarms are ringing” again and that she was seeing dead birds fall out of the sky everywhere
Three days ago on August 11 2017, Rick was driving to his church when suddenly a dead bird fell from the sky and smashed into his windshield. The bird did not fly into his path, but fell out of the sky like it was already dead. Then he received a phone call from Leah Mandell saying, “Rick, the alarms are ringing. Everywhere I go today, alarms are ringing. And there’s something else, dead birds. I’m seeing dead birds. It seems like everywhere I go, there’s a dead bird.”
Then he realized the date was August 11, the same date when Leah had called him sixteen years earlier with a similar warning.
You can dismiss this if you want, but how are you going to explain away what happened 16 years ago?

I don’t know what all of this could mean, but I am definitely concerned about all of the pivotal events that are going to happen over a 40 day period beginning with the solar eclipse on August 21st.  Many believe that a turning point for America is right around the corner, and without a doubt the mood of the nation is turning quite sour. 

Anger and frustration are growing everywhere you look, and it isn’t going to take much to cause a major explosion.

Earlier today, I came across a New Yorker article entitled “Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War?”  In that article, it was revealed that many top national security experts believe that there is a significant chance that civil war will erupt in the United States within the next 10 to 15 years…
America’s stability is increasingly an undercurrent in political discourse. Earlier this year, I began a conversation with Keith Mines about America’s turmoil. Mines has spent his career—in the U.S. Army Special Forces, the United Nations, and now the State Department—navigating civil wars in other countries, including Afghanistan, Colombia, El Salvador, Iraq, Somalia, and Sudan. He returned to Washington after sixteen years to find conditions that he had seen nurture conflict abroad now visible at home. It haunts him. In March, Mines was one of several national-security experts whom Foreign Policy asked to evaluate the risks of a second civil war—with percentages. Mines concluded that the United States faces a sixty-percent chance of civil war over the next ten to fifteen years. Other experts’ predictions ranged from five per cent to ninety-five per cent. The sobering consensus was thirty-five percent. And that was five months before Charlottesville.
I found this to be absolutely fascinating, because I have been repeatedly warning about the exact same thing.

Just look at what is happening today even though the economy is still relatively stable.  Once we get to the point where unemployment is rampant and millions of people don’t know where their next meal is coming from, chaos and violence are going to spiral completely out of control.

On Saturday and Sunday, Pastor Benjamin Faircloth and I are going to be jointly ministering at the “What’s Next Prophecy Conference” at his church in Lavonia.  One of the phrases that has been coming up in my heart over and over again in recent weeks is this – “If America Does Not Turn Back To God, There Isn’t Going To Be An America”.  This is one of the reasons why the ominous warning that Rick Wiles just issued immediately got my attention.  I believe that we are entering very troubled times, and yet most Americans appear to be completely oblivious to what is about to happen.

You can hear Rick Wiles talk about his recent phone call with Leah Mandell right here.  I am so thankful for Rick and my other friends over at TruNews.  They are good people, and they often report things that nobody else will.

Yes, I understand that some of you may think that this article has been a bit unusual.  But the truth is that we are living in very strange times and they are getting stranger by the day.
As I always say, let us hope for the best, but let us also get prepared for the worst.

Michael Snyder is a Republican candidate for Congress in Idaho’s First Congressional District, and you can learn how you can get involved in the campaign on his official website. His new book entitled “Living A Life That Really Matters” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.

Thursday, September 24, 2015

Shemitah Brings No Financial Collapse, but Bigger Picture Looms - Strang Report

Strang Report, by Steven Strang, Founder of Charisma magazine

 
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Just because the stock market didn't crash on the Shemitah doesn't mean it's not unstable.
Just because the stock market didn't crash on the Shemitah doesn't mean it's not unstable. (iStock photo )
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What a week this is on the Jewish calendar. Rosh Hashana on Sept. 13-14, the Shemitah on Sept. 13 and today ends Yom Kippur, the day of Atonement (which started last evening.)
Most of the world goes on as if nothing is happening when these Jewish holidays come around. The Christian community, however, has become increasingly aware of what these significant holidays mean and what God is saying during this time.
My good friend and author Rabbi Jonathan Cahn has done more than anyone else to raise awareness of these holidays in his book The Harbinger, in which he drew parallels between God's dealing with ancient Israel and His message to America. If nothing else, the parallels are striking.
One of the harbingers discussed in the book is the Shemitah, the Jewish year of rest that happens every seven years. It includes a day called Shemitah, the last day of the year—Elul 29 on the Jewish calendar—in which all debts were forgiven.
The previous two Shemitahs—in 2001 and 2008—marked the biggest drops in stock market history. Thankfully, the drop this year wasn't as much, but as I explain below, the Shemitah of 2015 still wiped out an estimated total of $7 trillion from the global markets.
As the Shemitah approached last Sunday, plenty of speculation swirled on what would happen. Of course, the markets were closed for the weekend and this week, there has been no comparable drop. Social media has been abuzz with messages like, "if doomsday has not arrived within the next 24 hours, do you think we will be hearing any apologies from the prophets?" I feel that sort of remark is irresponsible because no one I know of predicted doomsday. It's not comparable to the book "88 Reasons why Jesus will come back in 1988," which was totally discredited when Jesus did not come back as predicted.
The Mystery of the Shemitah is just that—explaining this phenomenon to those who didn't understand it. And looking at the patterns that have occurred are interesting. I was involved in the editing of The Harbinger, and I know the author was meticulous not to predict anything. As the publisher, I didn't want to be put in a box.
In fact, Rabbi Cahn told me this week: "You know of my initial concerns and reluctance concerning the likelihood of a focus on date-setting. To counter that, I've continually issued continuous cautions that nothing had to happen on any date (namely Elul 29)."
Of course, many of us prayed that no financial calamity would happen this time. There have been many Shemitahs over the centuries when no collapse occurred. Thankfully, it wasn't as bad this time as in 2008.
But wait. While on the surface it may seem as if "nothing happened," journalist Bill Koenig provided us with these statistics that I believe everyone needs to see.
I believe it is important for you to be aware of these numbers Bill sent me. Please take the time to contemplate them:
  • During the course of the most recent Shemitah, the Dow Jones industrial peaked on May 19, then reversed momentum, and began a long-term descent.  
  • The Dow Jones reached its all-time high of 18,351.36 on May 19.
  • The Dow Jones closed at 16,443 on September 11, the last day of trading for the Shemitah year. It was the same on Sunday, September 13 (Elul 29), a non-trading day and the end of the Shemitah year. The value that was erased approached 2 trillion dollars!
  • The collapse included Black Monday—August 24—the largest intraday crash in Wall Street history—over 1,000 points.
  • The Shemitah of 2015 wiped out an estimated $5 trillion from international markets.
  • A total of $2.1 trillion erased from U.S. stocks in six days—Aug. 26, 2015 according to CNN Money. (The Dow Jones: August 18, 2015: 17,511. On August 25, 2015, it was 15,666). Drop: 1,845 points.
  • The Dow Jones high during Shemittah and the Elul 29 level, an estimated loss of just under $2 trillion of market capitalization: May 19, 2015: 18,351.36. September 13 (Elul 29) 16,443. Drop: 1,908 points.
  • August 24, 2015—The Dow Jones' most dramatic intraday trading day ever ($5.7 Trillion in Equity Market Values Erased Worldwide.)
  • The Shemitah struck the new engine of the world's economy—China—even more dramatically. The collapse of the Chinese stock market was one of the greatest in history—wiping out over 40 percent of its value in just a few months.
  • The Shemitah of 2015 wiped out an estimated total of 7 TRILLION dollars from global markets!
What does all of this mean? Cahn shared a few insights in a personal email that he gave permission for me to quote: He went on to explain: "But very important: People's focus on the Elul 29 day crash template obscured the fact that it is a minority pattern and exception (happened only in 2 of the last 7 crashes of the last 7 Shemitahs)—and obscured the larger and very major things that actually did happen.
"The overwhelmingly predominant template of the Shemitah—and shown continuously in The Harbinger—is that of a rising stock market coming to an end in the midst of the Shemitah, reversing momentum and descending in a long-term (not day) descent—which may involve increasing volatility and dramatic-day crashes," Cahn wrote.
There are many who have a "Pollyannaish" approach that "everything will always be OK." Instead, we must be like the sons of Issachar, "discerning the times" and understanding what God is saying to us.
And remember that God's dealings are more than simply financial and more than simply with the American economy. Let's not be naive and assume that if the economy is humming along that means God is blessing us because we deserve His blessings due to our goodness!
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