I finally could be bothered. @angusmcfangledang Ionshield's post yesterday encouraged me to provide a detailed explanation.
I will quote from the magnificent H. G. Wells “OUTLINE OF HISTORY”: “Judaism is indeed the reconstructed political ideal of many shattered peoples… it is to the Phoenician contingent and to the Aramean accessions IN BABYLON that the financial and commercial tradition is to be ascribed.”
So even their “economic” ideas come from Babylon. It’s much more than coincidental that “BABYLON THE GREAT MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH” (Revelation 17 & 18) is an “economic” system of oppression.
“For thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.” (Revelation 18:23)
The scripture says that these "merchants” of Mystery Babylon are “the great (powerful) men of the earth”. It also says that their power is attained by ‘deception” and “sorceries” (i.e., trickery and mental confusion – as being drugged)
To discover who these “great men of the earth” are, we only need to identify the earth’s most powerful merchants. Who are the greatest merchandisers of our day? And what is their merchandise?
Mayer Amschel Rothschild, the father of European banking, made this statement in 1790:
“Permit me to issue and control money of a nation and I care not who makes its laws”.
Is this true? If the Federal Reserve, a private corporation, controls the money of a nation, then we can surmise it will also work on an international basis.
Whoever issues and controls the monies of the world…controls the world. Then the merchants of Revelation 18 must be MONEY MERCHANTS, or in other words, bankers.
Here is a list, past and present, of international banking companies that hold controlling stock in the Federal Reserve System:
- Rothschild Banks of London and Berlin
- Lazard Bros. Bank of Paris
- Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy
- Warburg Bank of Hamburg & Amsterdam
- Lehman Bros. Bank of New York
- Kuhn, Loeb Bank of New York
- Chase Manhattan Bank of New York
- Goldman Sachs, Bank of New York
These are some of the “great men of the earth.” These are the “Merchants of Babylon.” These are those who have “waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.”(Rev 18:3) They cause wars and kill the saints of the earth to keep the nations under their control. “And in her (Babylon) was found the blood of the prophets, and of the saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth" (war).(Rev 18:24).
What kind of “sorcery” gives them power to deceive and conquer the nations of the world? In order to work their “magic” among Christians and, for that matter, atheists, there must exist within that society 3 conditions: 1. Greed, 2. Ignorance, and 3. Idolatry. Their “sorcery” is deception, and their main weapon is USURY.
Usury is the black art from Babylon. As it has always been with “magic arts,” the appeal is for power over other men. The origin of banking as an institution, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica—ANCIENT ORIGINS – “There are records of loans by the temples of Babylon as early as 2000 B.C; and records show that in 575 B.C. a private firm, the Igibi bank (in Babylon), was making loans and receiving deposits at interest.”
Usury banking sprang from the same society that produced the Babylonian Talmud. It came from Babylon. Usury banking is the world’s greatest con game, the most successful system of plunder and theft that’s ever existed. Banking is called the craft of kings, apparently because people who are good at banking usually become rulers in one way or another.
Very few people outside bankers inner circles understand how they use their ‘craft.” It seems most Christians have inherited a blindness concerning money and banking. Very few actually have the curiosity to look into these atrocities. In most cases Christians have been neutralised by idolatry; they worship the usury system, and they are unable to stand against usury because they themselves are usurers.
Think of every issue in society today that is linked with the heavy burden of usury, almost every issue faced in society today is linked to this wicked craft.
