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If the author (John Darby — Early Dispensationalist Leader) would write in plain English his readers would probably discover that there is nothing very valuable in his remarks.

— Charles Spurgeon, Commenting and Commentaries, 84

Thankfully, at least according to the Mayan Calendar, this will all be over by December 21, 2012. The end of the world, or the end of the world as we know and have known it? There could be a big difference.

The end of the world as we have known it, really just takes both European leaders and Washington Federal politicians to continue kicking the financial debt can down the road. The major problem, as we continue to point out, is that the twenty-first century solutions to globalism’s reliance on itsy-bitsy no risk pieces of the action, on all the world’s financial transactions, has failed to sustain anything but more debt.

Today we will look at what we have defined as the Profane Covenant as the reason behind this failure. We would like to say that a few twists and turns and a few corrageous acts by political or financial leadership and the debt Titanic will miss the end of the world iceberg, but that just kicks the can back to the Mayan prophesy.

I don’t think I have ever quoted Pat Buchanan in all my years of doing these writings, but this week his pusillanimous comments about American Christians pretty much illustrates the timidity that is behind the current dominance of the Profane Covenant in not only this country, but also the whole of western culture.

The Bible describes three covenants; the oldest being the Profane, even though you probably have never heard it described in that way. The other two are the Abrahamic Covenant, also known as the Covenant of Grace and the Mosaic Covenant or the Covenant of God’s Law.

One way to describe the Profane Covenant, for it traces its roots back to the Garden of Eden, is the devil made me do it. All of historic orthodox Christianity, especially Protestant Christianity, traces our profane source back to St. Augustine and total depravity, which literally we perform quite well all by ourselves.

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Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them. And fire came out from before the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD. Then Moses said to Aaron, “ This is what the LORD has said, ‘Among those who are near me I will be sanctified, and before all people I will be glorified,’” And Aaron held his peace.
— Leviticus: 10:1-3 English Standard Version

Today is the first day of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. According to the Jewish calendar on the twenty-fifth of Kislev, the first of eight candles were lit, just after sundown Tuesday evening. The celebration marks the rededication of the Second Temple during the Maccabean Revolt in the second century BCE, as well as the miracle of a small jar of consecrated oil, which burned for eight days in the Temple’s menorah, when the quantity was only sufficient for one day. The New Testament says in John 10: 22 that Jesus celebrated the Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah).

On December 9, 2011 President Obama had a “Hanukkah Party” in the White House. As a Christian I find the President’s party pretty much in line with the “strange-profane-unauthorized fire in the Leviticus quotation above. I also realize that many historic White House Hanukkah celebrations would not be considered kosher in the Jewish sense, but for some reason I find this date and the whole lack of any sort of sanctification or glory given to God, to fit the party occasion properly. I also read a number of writers who thought that the President would not treat a Muslim religious observance with such inaptitude.

The great thing that separates we humans from all of the lower animals is that we are inventors, or creators if you will, and with our mental and physical inventive creations we are able to innovatively construct cultures. This week we will look at our totally unique human attribute, which drives our whole world’s economic engine this time of year. That creation is religion.

Tags: Hanukkah, Christmas, Barack Obama, religion, Christianity, God, grace, Jesus

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Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
— Polonius, Hamlet Act 1, scene 3, 75-77

Well shucky darn and slop the chickens!

It seems Friday’s long sought solution to the European debt crisis is just another in the series of now over used “kicking the can down the road, (until it is kicked off the cliff) metaphor is back. The whole shebang lasted over the weekend. Thankfully we have the French to praise for the five-day workweek, for God only knows what would have happened without that break.

But at least the Eurocrat elites are hard at work at their misadventure, the American federal government’s political class, both the President and the Congress, seem to like their adventure into the lazy-fairy world of the historic continental work ethic.

At Wonder Springs we have no hesitation to say that on both sides of the Atlantic, the elitists across the political and economic spectrums, seem immersed in trying to create a new and better Babylon, ignoring that Biblical story, as not even a myth, but a children’s boogie-man piece of fiction.

We are beginning another winter, like in the C. S. Lewis’ Narnia Wardrobe tale, “where it is always winter, but never Christmas” which is playing out in reality for far too many subjects, or serfs, or peasants, or lowly evolved talking animals. This is occurring within the grand scheme to make a world of prosperity, based upon a faux world of finance, completely divorced from nature and natural law.

So to cut this string of allegory and metaphor, we shall exit, stage right, with a Palin: How’s that hopey changey, thing workin’ out for ya!

Tags: finance, Babylon, jobs, C. S. Lewis, risk, Collectivist Elitists, Laissez Faire Scoundrels, Entrepreneurial Pioneer Area, Business Ecology

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Highly indebted governments, banks, or corporations can seem to be merrily rolling along for an extended period, when bang! — confidence collapses, lenders disappear, and a crisis hits.
— Reinhart and Rogoff quoted in This Time is Different

I know the above quotation has to do with money and dollars, but money is really just a functional necessity of a somewhat artificial world of enterprise and finance. I suppose in reality we could eat dollars, but all they would really do is increase our daily fiber content, not much nutritional value there. We could also eat dirt, with much the same result. Furthermore both money and dirt are in some circles considered filthy, which is undoubtedly true in a biological context.

The point is both money and dirt are in theory used to grow something. Sadly in our economic world the over use of debt, through highly leveraged fractional reserve banking is in the process of bankrupting the world. In the case of real dirt, that same monetary leverage is leading to perhaps the final chapter in the Debt Supercycle and we may go truly hungry as that deleveraging occurs.

In the United States there are currently over three hundred million people, of that total less than one percent, perhaps two million are directly involved in providing the food we eat. (Since as of this writing we still do not have an permanent Internet connection, that estimate will have to do.) Yet if something goes wrong with what that small minority does; either through natural climate changes, or world economic changes — well over three hundred million people in this country are going to go hungry — and much of the rest of the world will face a severe famine.

We don’t like to think about dirt, after all it is dirty and we like to be clean. Yet the Bible says that were created out of the dust of the ground, and formed into a likeness of the living God. Even evolutionists believe that somehow, through great mega-faith, those dirty elements rearranged into some form of life.

Essentially we like to be dirt-free because we don’t want to accept our humble roots, hence we can seem to be merrily rolling along for an extended period, when bang! — confidence collapses . . . and a crisis hits.

Tags: dirt, agriculture, debt, cheap energy, water, Farm Bill, PREFER Ltd, SAFER Process

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