"Last-Day Change of Seasons"

Wilfred Hahn of Midnight Call Ministries writes in his book; Last-Day Change of Seasons:
The entire prophecy found in James 5:1-6 lists at least six financial or economic signs of the last days. I have counted almost 50 such general signs following years of Bible study. This passage in James is the most concentrated assembly of such indicators. They include hoarding, accumulation of wealth, wage inequities, different classes of workers, luxuries and indulgence (consumerism at its peak!), conditions of economic brutality, and perhaps even widespread obesity. Most significantly, the edifice of wealth is then turned into a curse as it is corroded and proven illusory.



James 5:1-4 NIV
Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming upon you.
Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.
Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.
Look! The wages you failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.


James’ pronouncement indeed is a prophecy. He clearly refers the “to the last days” (verse 3). Though it is true that the last days already were in force during his time in the first century, it remains that the last days — the very last days — are surely in force today. The “day of slaughter” that he mentions (verse 5) has yet to occur and is future, referring to the Great Tribulation and has the same meaning as the “Day of the Lord.”  (Wilfred Hahn)


In December of 2008 the report; The Worldwide Distribution of Household Wealth was released;

Returning to the recent wealth report, according to its authors’ research, the top 10 percent of adults in the world own 85 percent of global household wealth (2005). The average member of this wealthy group therefore has 8.5 times the holdings of the global average. Furthermore, the top 2 percent and 1 percent of the world’s population is estimated to own 51 percent and 40 percent of world household wealth, respectively. This is a more extreme distribution than had been estimated by surveying global incomes in previous studies.


Very likely, the world today has a much more imbalanced wealth skew — the rich are richer, and the non-rich relatively poorer — than ever before in history. How extreme might this condition yet become in the future? It is hard to say. However, there comes a point where a further skewing becomes highly toxic for the world’s economic healthfulness. That point may indeed be nearer than we think. In fact, if trends continue at the pace of recent years, severe economic problems are sure to emerge in America as well as around the world. As it is, America itself is experiencing a rapid skewing of wealth. Again, if trends continue as they have over the past 10 years, it would not be surprising to see the US have wealth imbalances more extreme than Mexico and much of Latin America.  (excerpts from Wilfred Hahn)

All this that is written is setting a stage for someone to enter on the scene seemingly with all the answers to fix our problems - he is referred to as the antichrist (does not deserve capitalization).

No you say my former PBSO brothers and sisters?  Look at the proposed changes trying to be made as we speak into the Florida Retirement System!?

Little by little, fewer and fewer, make more and more of the decisions.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel