However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.  1 Corinthians 15:46 New American Standard Bible

          Long, long ago, Father led our people out of the bondage and slavery of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm.  We were young–we didn’t even know how to walk.  But Father lovingly bent down and fed us and also taught us how to walk.  Oh, how He loved us–a people with no name and with no homeland to call our own.  He  called us out, and we were set free…our young and our old, our sons and our daughters, our flocks and our herds, our cattle and our sheep, our camels and our donkeys…all set free to experience something we had not known all of our lives:  freedom. 

          We had no use for gold, silver and precious stones, for we were in the mud pits, making bricks one-at-a-time.  But Father had in mind the building of His temple, so He arranged for us to come out with the wealth of Egypt.  It had been given to our people by the people of Egypt, and when Pharoah realized what they had done, he hardened his heart; that is, Father caused  Pharoah to harden his heart, so that Father’s Name might be proclaimed in all the earth.  You see, dear reader, for Pharoah it was about the money.  It’s always about the money.  

          As a testimony to the mercy and compassion of Father, all who were of the Egyptians (or elsewhere) were welcome to come, and still today, whosoever will may come.  So as to prove His power, Father cornered our people at Pi-hahiroth.  There was no way out, from a human perspective and from Pharoah’s perspective.  But then, as He always does, He made a way where there is no way–He parted the sea and the people crossed over on dry land.  Pharoah, all his horses and all his riders, Father cast into the sea!  The people were saved.

          Unfortunately, the people had no heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.  Some thought the gold, the silver, the precious stones and all the wealth of Egypt was for them to possess and enjoy, and so it quickly became an idol in their eyes in the shape of a golden calf.  But before then, it had become an idol in their hearts!  Finally, when the disciplining was for the moment completed, the people were ready to use it to construct the temple. 

          That temple was always intended by Father to be a place for all men of every tongue, every tribe, every nation, and every people to worship the living God.  That is why YHWH spoke at Mount Sinai so that each man could hear Him in their own language.  It is also why He provoked Moses to intercede for the rebellious ones; that is, so He could announce that all the earth (not just Israel) would be filled with His glory. 

          That is the story of the natural temple.  First the natural, then the spiritual.

          The judgment has been rendered, and the jubilee declared.  (The fact that you, dear reader, did not know of it and have not heard of it, does not mean that it happened in a corner.  It has been divinely supervised and directed, and witnessed among men.  All that remains is its out-working in the world.)  Father is again setting our people, and ultimately the whole world, free from the bondage and slavery of Mystery Babylon.  He is calling Israel out–our young and our old, our sons and our daughters, our flocks and our herds, our cattle and our sheep, our camels and our donkeys.  And once again, He has arranged for us to come out with the wealth of Babylon, that is, the Iraqi dinar.

          Just as in old days, we have really not had any use for gold, silver and precious stones, because once again, we have been in the pits making bricks, one-at-a-time.  But this time, Father has it in His mind to build a spiritual temple.  He intends for this wealth to be used to build a spiritual house, this time using living stones, instead of dead bricks.  And no more of this one-at-a-time stuff.  And like before, it will be for all men, everywhere, of every corner of the earth!

          In other words, the wealth thus gained is to be used to free others from Mystery Babylon, which controls the current financial system and which has subjugated and enslaved nearly everyone (and perhaps everyone without exception).   It must not be used to create idols of the heart and idols for the eyes.  All who belong to Him will ultimately use the wealth to purchase the freedom of living stones.  It is time for the grape harvest–pray that the Lord of the harvest will send workers into the harvest.

          We have remembered and spoken of the first exodus for just about 4,000 years.  This coming deliverance will be remembered and sung about for tens of thousands of years! This is the real significance of the revaluation of the Iraqi dinar:  our people will never be in bondage again!  Not our young nor our old, not our sons nor our daughters,  not our “flocks” nor our “herds”.  When Mystery Babylon falls, the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ will arise.  It will be the stone kingdom that smashes all the other kingdoms to dust, and then grows into a “mountain” that will fill the entire earth!  When He comes to take up His throne, we will experience something we have never known before–freedom, not just spiritual freedom, but bodily freedom, as well.   And if Messiah sets you free, you will be free indeed.  We will walk in His footsteps and He will teach us His ways.

          Here is something else we have not known or understood: the economy of the Kingdom of God.   Others have made this suggestion:  Pray and ask Father what the Kingdom economy looks like.  We agree with this suggestion.   

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          Postscript:  We wish to point out that we believe that “Pharoah” will again pursue the slaves when the realization hits that the wealth of Babylon is now in the hands of those slaves for whom it was not intended.  Father will again arrange no way out from a human perspective.  We respectfully advise:  pay the taxes and bless your government, resist the urge to “shelter” the money by any of a variety of tax avoidance devices such as corporations sole, offshore trusts and bank accounts, and other such ideas.  There is only safety in Him.  Consider this prayerfully.

Blessed are You, O Lord our deliverer!  The horse and its rider You have cast into the sea.  Praise you, Lord!  Father, show us what the Kingdom economy is supposed to look like and show us how use the wealth of Babylon to build Your temple, in Jesus name.    

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