Chuck Baldwin usually has some good points as he does in this article but some of what he says is simply way off the mark.
Chuck makes a huge leap by saying the moneychangers in the temple were the equivalent of the international bankers of our day. First of all, they are not. They would be more the equivalent of a local exchange service changing dollars for peso’s or dollars for Canadian loonies. Jesus did not throw them out of the temple because they were international bankers and international power brokers. He threw them out of the temple because they were making money on money that was meant to be be given to God in tithes and offerings. In other words they were were robbing God in His own temple.
I do not see where anyone can make an analogy between those moneychangers in the temple and the international bankers of the world unless one somehow thinks that the US is the temple of God. I know Chuck does not believe that, but he gets very close to that view in some of his positions. I have news Chuck, even in America’s best days (whenever that was) it has never been anything like God’s temple on earth.
Obviously Baldwin thinks that bankers are running the world but why would he think that it is the Christian’s duty to run the bankers out of the world? Is Chuck Baldwin a dominionist? He ought to know where this world is heading and that Christians are not of the world. Just read a little of the history of true Christians in the history of the world Chuck, it might open your eyes. You can start with reading about all the martyrs who were not worthy of this world.
Chuck asks why Christians are so blind? Actually most Christians are not blind. Many that call themselves Christians are blind because they are not Christians. Chuck Baldwin really knows this because he preaches it in his articles. So now he expects all the blind pseudo Christians in America to see? That is not logical or consistent. Also Chuck, true Christians might not get up in arms about worldly affairs because they are worldly affairs. Does Chuck Baldwin want the great commission to be changed from preaching the gospel to every creature, to taking America from the Devil? Who by the way, was given power over all nations from the fall?
So according to Chuck, every Christian, pastor and American should drive the bankers out of power? How do the minority that are real Christians in this country do that Chuck? By voting for Ron Paul? That is really funny. If the international bankers have all the satanic power that Chuck Baldwin claims, then they got that power from Satan and Ron Paul cannot get in power. So the point is mute. Of course these bankers would also control the congressional temple and without Ron Paul bowing his knee there, he can do nothing.
No. Our fellow pastors and Christians are not going to see things your way Chuck, because your not logical and often not preaching a consistent Christian message. You are often correct when warning and telling American’s that the nation is on a disastrous course but you are often wrong when instruction the Church of God what they should do about it.
Chuck Baldwin — Moneychangers Destroying America–And Christians Don’t See It
The moneychangers of Jesus’ day were the equivalent of the international
bankers of our day.
It is too bad that today’s pastors and Christians do not share Jesus’ disdain for the current generation of moneychangers, because it is the moneychangers who are in the process of destroying these United States of America–and our pastors and Christians either do not see it, or, if they do see it, do not seem to care.
When Jesus saw the moneychangers in the Temple, He drove them off with violence.
Yet, today’s pastors and Christians cannot even seem to see what these
same moneychangers are doing to America. They support candidates simply
because they have an “R” behind their names, vainly imagining that these
candidates are somehow better than the ones with a “D” behind their
names. The truth is, however, John McCain and Mike Huckabee are as beholden
to the moneychangers as are Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Why can’t
Christians see this? Why are they so blind?What Jesus did is exactly what every pastor, Christian, conservative, and
every other real American should do: rise up against these moneychangers
and drive them out of power! But we cannot accomplish this until we
see them for what they really are: power-mad extortionists who seek
to enrich themselves at the expense of America’s freedom and independence.
Do you think our fellow pastors and Christians will ever see it?
Chuck was being a sensationalist ( a litle bit over the board) But it is true that some of the international bankers formed a group back in 1913 and called it the Federal Reserve and decided to get off the gold standard which would have prevented them to print out as much money as “needed” in return for a percentage interest. No wonder we are in so much debt as a country in the United States of America. Abraham Lincoln did not want to borrow money from those bankers for the Civil War. He printed the green back as the form of exchange among people and U.S. debt. James Garfield who was a church pastor also was shot after less than one week about speaking of the central bankers and their schemes.
The Federal Reserve system may have been created in 1913 but what people do not remember is that all gold was confiscated by the government in 1933 by FD Roosevelt and it then become illegal to own gold until Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon in the 1960’s took our money off of all gold backing and I believe silver was done away with a few years before that. Actually gold bugs are better off now than they have been for many decades. At least now people can choose to own gold if they want. Of course that might not be true tomorrow.
Part of my ongoing argument againt Chuch Baldwin is the US was never as good or as Christian as Chuck Baldwin implies. Remember the Indian wars, the Spanish American war, the Civil war, slavery, the First World War, the labor wars, the organized crime wars, the Second World War, the abuse of blacks in the South, the Korean war, The Vietnam war, the first Iraq war, the second Iraq war, the drug wars and I am sure I missed a whole bunch of tragic historical events along the way.
Don, We Christian libertarians DO INDEED know that FDR confiscated the gold in one of the most blatant grand theft robberies in history up to that time. They ALSO know as you might not that the actual event that propelled Ron Paul into the running for Congress and getting the surprise of winning office, was Nixon’s cutting of every link of the dollar to actual value.
The Federal Reserve system ROBS US BLIND, blind because most Americans don’t realize that the debt and debt service, together with money supply manipulation, is a pure and simple THEFT of purchasing value right out of the pockets of every American poor and rich, and now even of every nation or individual that holds dollars.
Jesus was FURIOUS with that very kind of robbery of the poor by the money changers in the temple. Not so much they were in the temple, though of course that, but that they were robbing their victims.
Chuck Baldwin is right about this.
America does not have a pure history, but the Christian culture gifted the country with people like Patrick Henry and Gouverneur Morris, Christians who forced the Founders to include the Bill of Rights, the Christians who were relentless and civilly disobedient in their attacks on slavery. Gone from history books are the Christians who protested WW One, gone from the history books are the violent tactics used by unions to force their will. And the Vietnam War, the Iraq Wars (both), and the drug wars were not perpetrated by Christians but by skilled manipulators whose goal eventually is to rid themselves of Christians crying foul against their violence.
Alan,
I mostly agree. Big government with fascist like globalist cronyism favoring the banking and corporate elite are destroying this country. Many major US cities are heading in the direction of Detroit and the rust belt. People should read this article.
http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/03/17/this-city-is-the-canary-in-the-coal-mine-for-americas-future/