Facts of Joshua

Some interesting facts from the book of Joshua 


1. The fall of Jericho, which was the first major city to fall in the Promised Land, sent waves of terror through the rest of the peoples living in Canaan. The city which was one of the largest and most prosperous, as it was located not far from the Jordan River took seven days to fall.  This is spectacular! and even more so in how its walls came crumbling down! The account can be found in Joshua 6.


2. The Cave at Makkedah- The place where five kings were handed over to the Israelites by the LORD. Whats more these five kings, which included the pagan Amorite king of Jerusalem, allied themselves together to crush the Israelites, but instead were annihilated almost to the man with the help of the LORD. Joshua in one and the same day had these 5 kings executed and hung till evening at this cave. The account can be found in Joshua 10. 


3. Caleb, who along with Joshua, was the only other Israelite to have lived in Egypt, wander through the desert for 40 years and still enter the Promised Land. Whats amazing! at 85 years old, he was still vigorous, still able to wage war, still had his faith in the LORD, and still led campaigns against the pagans. The LORD gave him Hebron as his family's inheritance. His account can be found in Joshua 14. 

Uncle Gorilla

Uncle Gorilla has met his match. His spend thrift ways have hit a monstrous wall and that wall is called Mr. Market. Check out this graph below friends. The 10 year Treasury Bond sets the price of money for the entire planet! and its about to sell off and interest rates are about to climb higher while Uncle Gorilla sinks deeper into oblivion. 
For the short term- Look for a possible rise in the 10 year to 126.00 on the chart below with the announcement of a debt ceiling "grand compromise"....blah blah so forth and so forth. Thats a BIG maybe. After that look for it to begin selling off to 118.00 and even lower as the months roll off the calendar. And please remember that these anticipations are not guaranteed as tomorrow is promised to no one. For if it is the LORD's will tomorrow's sun shall rise and commerce shall happen and life will continue. The anticipations above are merely an actionable plan of prudence if events in Washington and Manhattan continue to progress with their already manifest inertia.  Click on the graph to enlarge and view

RAISE THE ROOF!

A near self-explanatory illustration with perhaps one need of elaboration.  As it is clear that gold prices have followed our glorious debt rise in almost "shadowy" fashion, forgive us for pointing out that when our representatives of the people summarily raise our debt ceiling sometime in the next two weeks ending the political charade that has transpired across our newspapers and airwaves we will have the next up leg in bullion prices fueled by nothing more than trillions (1,000,000,000,000's) of freshly printed dollar bills that will chase any and every hard asset higher across the planet. The inflationary games have already begun and the roof (debt ceiling) is about to be raised!

A must click graph

How Blessed We Are

How blessed we are! And how thankful we should be!! If you stop to look, you will find the favor of the LORD!
If you have eaten today,    how blessed you are!
If you live in a peaceful country,   how blessed you are!
If you have a home,    how blessed you are!
If you have health,    how blessed you are!
If you have life,    how blessed you are!
If you follow Christ,    how blessed you are!
If you serve the LORD,    how blessed you are!
Friends, praise the LORD for what he has given you!  For how many people would stand up and testify against us if we ever thought that our meals came from our own efforts and not from the favor of the LORD.
How many people would stand up and testify against us if we ever thought that our peace and homes were secured by our own sacrifices and not because our Father has blessed our land and our country and the work of our hands.
Give praise and thankfulness as David, king of the Hebrews gave thanks. 

 ¹ I will praise you, LORD, with all my heart; 

   before the “gods” I will sing your praise. 

² I will bow down toward your holy temple 

   and will praise your name 

   for your unfailing love and your faithfulness, 

for you have so exalted your solemn decree 

   that it surpasses your fame. 

³ When I called, you answered me; 

   you greatly emboldened me.

 ⁴ May all the kings of the earth praise you, LORD, 

   when they hear what you have decreed. 

⁵ May they sing of the ways of the LORD, 

   for the glory of the LORD is great.

 ⁶ Though the LORD is exalted, he looks kindly on the lowly; 

   though lofty, he sees them from afar. 

⁷ Though I walk in the midst of trouble, 

   you preserve my life. 

You stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes; 

   with your right hand you save me. 

⁸ The LORD will vindicate me; 

   your love, LORD, endures forever— 

   do not abandon the works of your hands.

Psalm 138

The British Are Coming!!! (Haha not really, but two Brits lend a word of warning)

Here is the illustrious Robin Griffiths, rumored banker to Her Majesty the Queen,  and the always sharp Ben Davies lending words of warning and caution has we head into the second half of 2011.  
And what do they have to say? In short Robin states,
1. American and European stock markets shall continue to decline in real terms. Making holders of stocks poorer, even though their quoted prices might go up.
2. Gold is in a multiyear secular UP trend that shows no symptoms of deceleration. 
3. All fiat currencies are going to be debased, no exceptions. 
Here is the link to Mr. Griffiths newest thoughts on the economy.
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2011/7/19_Griffiths_-_We_Live_in_an_Era_Where_all_Fiat_Moneys_are_Suspect.html


As for the super sharp Ben Davies, some real stunners...
1. The physical silver market is as tight as a drum.
2. Physical demand for gold and silver coming from Asia, particularly China, is relentless and growing. 
3. The Ben Bernank is lier, lier, pants on fire!
4. Gold will be at $2000.00 an ounce in 4 months!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(Not a typo and Mr. Davies is no blind optimistic cheerleader of gold and silver. He called for silver to selloff 13-15 dollars in early May and that is just what it did.)
Here is the thought provoking interview of Davies by Eric King. 
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2011/7/15_Ben_Davies.html

Deceit At Its Finest (A Must Read)

Three cheers to Dr. Ron Paul for posing this question to the Ben Bernank! He asked what everyone already knows by common sense.  Please watch this one minute video from today July 13, 2011 before you read my commentary below. 

What a disingenuous sophist Ben Bernanke is! He says that people, average citizens and large money men, hold gold because of "tail risk" and the fear of "really bad outcomes". ...Really Ya Theenk!? The really bad outcomes that the ben bernank is alluding to are of his own making! Try one quadrillion dollars of financial derivatives (no this is not a crazy exaggeration but is a very plausible estimate) that are nothing, nothing but paper mortgage backed securities, subprime toilet paper, Greek toilet paper, Italian toilet paper, chinese real estate toilet paper, American Treasury bond instruments,  etf "securities", high yield debt, currency swaps, credit default swaps, and yes I am not kidding United States dollar toilet paper. These are the "tail risk" bogey men that investors fear around the world.
2. Why don't banks hold diamonds, instead of gold? The Bernank replies......."tradition".............O yeaaaaaah, I remember now tradition....that old ancient tradition of all cultures and all peoples regarding gold as money, Solomon, Caesar, Alexander, King Henry, King Nebuchadnezzar, our Founding Fathers and the US Constitution.  Friends, OUR FATHER'S HOUSE IN HEAVEN IS PAVED WITH GOLD PATHWAYS!!! And here is the Bernank saying that it is not money, but merely an "asset" among many. Absolutely brazen!
3. Our central bank, headed by the ben bernank holds 8000 TONNES of gold. Do you think you might need to also??
4. Gold today hit new all time highs in US dollars, British pounds, and Euros. And is going higher still....
5. Dr. Paul's statement about the dollar falling by almost 50% in the last three years is very close to the truth. Don't know? Just look at flour and gasoline prices lately. 
6. Bernanke states in a rather whimsical way," yeah I pay attention to the price of gold"...  You bet he does! Gold is his biggest headache each and every day! Gold stands judgment on his "monetary policies". 
7. Mark this video friends, it will become historic and will be replayed again and again in the media.
8.More to come later friends. 

Phenomenal

Did you know the above verse was written down by Moses in 1407 B.C., which is over 3,400 years ago!?And that ever since it was first transcribed it has been read, recited, and extolled by the children of God every week ever since! That's 34 centuries of LIVING WORD.  Or put another way 176,800 weeks! Or yet another way 1,237,600 days of morning and evening. That's simply phenomenal. 
To put this in perspective...
Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus in 753 B.C. along the hills beside the Tiber River in central Italy. 
Agamemnon, King of the Achaeans, along with Menelaus, Achilles, and Odysseus sailed with a 1000 ships to Troy to win back Helen of Sparta who absconded with Paris, son of Priam in 1193 B.C.. Troy would fall 10 years later. 
Confucius, the old Chinese scholar, was born in 551 B.C.. 
The above verse first proclaimed by Moses and later retold by Christ and stated as the most important law that mankind should gladly follow is what you would call immortal, deathless, and eternal. 
Know it.  

Abysmal

The jobs report this morning was an unexpected disaster. Only 18,000 jobs were added last month. This paves the way for a QE3 announcement within 90 days. Things are getting dicey. Euro gold is 5 euros away from an alltime high. Pound gold only three pounds away. Either euro or dollar gold hit new highs next week or everything gets crushed, including the stock market.  Friends protect yourselves. 

The 11th Round, The 11th Hour

It's the 11th round and Ben Bernanke is swirling around the dollar. The dollar is down, flat on the mat and almost out. The umpire is beginning to count, while Benny the Destroyer is eagerly waiting to give one last destroying blow to the dollar that will send it into oblivion. Never to return to the world's stage, EVER AGAIN.  
The script is set, been that way for a long while my friend. The dollar is going down never to return, and the last blow that Benny shall give will put it in the grave. It's called QE 3 and Benny is on the cusp of delivering it with a climatic bang. ARE YOU READY FOR IT? It's coming this fall, it might even come this summer. And it will be disastrous for the lifestyle and hegemony of all Americans. 

NOAA Warns Of Widespread Upcoming Flooding, Cautions 2011 Could Rival Great Flood Of 1993

If this transpires, it will add to already rising food costs.
From NOAA  http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20110706_floodthreat.html

Cool Clean Econo 101 Video

They call this situation a catch 22....

The Midyear Update

With half of 2011 already gone its time to check in on the prices of the items we buy and sell everyday. Whats gone up and whats gone down. Thus far, for the most part, its been the same old broken record that looks to continue playing at a gas station and grocery store aisle near you- i-n-f-l-a-t-i-o-n. And here's the numbers....

Talk About Courage! --Being Cast Out And Left For Dead And Went Back For Round Two!!

 In Lystra there sat a man who was lame. He had been that way from birth and had never walked. 9 He listened to Paul as he was speaking. Paul looked directly at him, saw that he had faith to be healed 10 and called out, “Stand up on your feet!” At that, the man jumped up and began to walk.

 11 When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the Lycaonian language, “The gods have come down to us in human form!” 12 Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes because he was the chief speaker. 13 The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city, brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates because he and the crowd wanted to offer sacrifices to them.

 14 But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of this, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting: 15 “Friends, why are you doing this? We too are only human, like you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in them. 16 In the past, he let all nations go their own way. 17 Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy.” 18 Even with these words, they had difficulty keeping the crowd from sacrificing to them.

 19 Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium and won the crowd over. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, thinking he was dead. 20 But after the disciples had gathered around him, he got up and went back into the city. The next day he and Barnabas left for Derbe. Acts 14:8-20

A Greek sculpture image of pagans about to sacrifice a bull. Just as easily could have been the blind and hapless pagans that Paul and Barnabas had to deal with.