David's Kingdom Bank

In Matthew 13:24-30, Jesus told a Kingdom parable about a wheat field and how an enemy came and sowed tares in the wheat. The tares were allowed to grow up with the wheat until the end of the age. When harvest time came, the angels were sent to remove the tares and burn them, and then the wheat was harvested and stored in the barn.

The time that the wheat field was planted is not specified. If we relate it to the vineyard in Isaiah 5:1-3 and Matthew 21:33, it is clear that the vineyard was the Kingdom of Israel that was planted by Joshua. We can say the same about the greater Joshua, Yeshua, or Jesus Christ. Regardless of where we place its origin, the main focus of the parable seems to be upon the harvest time.

We are living in that time of harvest. The tares and wheat are reaching maturity at the same time. The wheat is bowing low because of the weight of the grain. The tares are clearly visible because its poisonous fruit is very light and the plants stand up above the wheat. This is the situation today. Tares resemble wheat until the time of harvest, but the differences are exposed at the end of the age.

So today we are seeing a clear difference between the wheat (believers) and the tares, who poison the field with their immoral doctrines and antichrist philosophies. Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear can easily tell the difference. The two kingdoms have very different foundations. The world order’s kingdom has exposed itself, thinking its time has come to take total control of the world. God has other plans.

The secretive Trilateral Commission, founded in 1953 by David Rockefeller, stated in their recent meeting: “This year, 2023, is Year One of this new global order.”

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Indo-Pacific/Trilateral-Commission-calls-2023-Year-One-of-new-world-order

These people grumble that our western calendar, established in 526 A.D., is based on the birth of Christ. They want nothing to do with Christ, and they actively work to promote a post-Christian world. These are some of the tares in the world which are soon to be uprooted and burned.

A New Banking System

The tares of the earth are preparing a new banking system. I cannot say for sure how it is being structured, but rumors have it that it will be based on blockchain technology that will make payments quicker and less expensive. That part is good, but we know that they also want to exert tighter control over all payments and bank accounts themselves. They want to be able to track all monetary transactions, however small, and they want to have the ability to shut down the accounts of anyone that does not bow down to their “values.”

No doubt they want to attach bank accounts to one’s “social credit score. In other words, if you express any disagreement with their immoral practices (which they have declared to be “moral”), if you use the wrong pronouns, if you mention the Constitution in any favorable light, if you mention Jesus Christ in public, etc., they will pronounce you to be a domestic terrorist and thereby justify freezing and even stealing your bank account. The collapse of the banking system that we are witnessing today was inevitable from the start, since a debt-based monetary system could never survive indefinitely. The collapse of Debit Suisse, I believed, marked a critical point in the overall banking system.

There is some scary stuff being planned as a replacement for the current system. The good news is that God also has plans, and His will win in the end. The point is that the angels are now about to begin harvesting tares before gathering the wheat.

At the same time, God is establishing His new banking system as well. It appears that, for a time, the two will run concurrently. It will be interesting to monitor this.

Solomon’s Temple

If you read 1 Chronicles 29, you will learn how King David accumulated gold, silver, iron, and other resources so that his son, Solomon, could build the temple. Solomon was “young and inexperienced” (1 Chronicles 29:1), and yet God entrusted him with this building project.

David said in 1 Chronicles 29:3, 4,

³ Moreover, in my delight in the house of my God, the treasure I have of gold and silver, I give to the house of my God, over and above all that I have already provided for the holy temple, ⁴ namely, 3,000 talents of gold of the gold of Ophir, and 7,000 talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the buildings.

David had already accumulated a huge amount of gold and silver, much of which was from Ophir, which was somewhere outside of the land of Israel. Later, when building the temple, Solomon’s ally, Hiram of Tyre, provided sailors for Solomon’s ships that brought 450 talents of gold from Ophir (1 Kings 9:26-28). One year the ships brought back 666 talents of gold (1 Kings 10:14), a number that is mentioned again in Revelation 13:18 to describe the modern banking system. Again, we read in 1 Kings 10:11,

¹¹ Also the ships of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir a very great number of almug [sandlewood] trees and precious stones.

The importation of sandlewood gives us a clue to the location of Ophir.

“Sandalwood is indigenous to the tropical belt of the peninsular India, Malay Archipelago and northern Australia. The main distribution is in the drier tropical regions of India and the Indonesian islands of Timor and Sumba.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandalwood

According to historical sources, Solomon had many gold mines in Indonesia, Borneo, and the Philippines. The Solomon Islands are named for him, and there we find an ancient open pit mine, whose origin is uncertain.

https://blogs.worldbank.org/eastasiapacific/world-bank-supports-national-awareness-about-the-mining-industry-in-solomon-islands

The Indonesian island of Java is pronounced as Yahvah and was considered to be Yahvah’s Island, and its main city, Solo, is also named for Solomon. In the Philippines, the Sulu Sea between Borneo and Mindanao in the Philippines is probably also a derivative of Solomon. (I grew up near the shore of the Sulu Sea.) It is said that Solomon sent one of his sons to Indonesia to oversee these mining operations. It appears that he was the founder of the Majapahit tribe of Indonesia. Even today, politicians must be able to claim descent from that tribe to have legitimate authority.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Majapahit-empire

An alternate interpretation of Ophir is that Africa (Ophir-rica) was named for it. Because ric is the old word for “kingdom,” Africa may mean Kingdom of Ophir. If that is the case, then Solomon would have gotten his gold from mines in Zimbabwe and/or South Africa.

Regardless of this, the temple in Jerusalem served not only as a place of worship but also as the national bank of Israel. The chief stewards holding the key of David held the position that we would now call Treasury Secretary. We see clues of this in Isaiah 22;19-22, when Shebna was deposed and replaced by Eliakim. Verse 22 says,

²² Then I will set the key of the house of David on his shoulder. When he opens, no one will shut, when he shuts, no one will open.

This was prophetic of the church of Philadelphia, where the verse above was quoted in Revelation 3:7,

⁷ And to the angel of the church of Philadelphia, write: He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says this…

The message is from Christ, but it is framed as if it were coming from Eliakim (a type of Christ). The message itself speaks against “those of the synagogue of Satan, who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie” (Revelation 3:9). In this case, the “synagogue” is the equivalent of the temple. Those of that synagogue are equated to Shebna (Isaiah 22:15), who presumably was deposed for counseling King Hezekiah to capitulate to the Assyrian army’s demands.

Whatever happened, we know that the story was to be repeated on a greater scale in the latter days. It prophesied of our own time, where again we see Shebna being replaced by Eliakim. Whatever conflict occurred in the days of Hezekiah and Isaiah is in some way being repeated today, only on a greater world-wide scale. When we understand that this is about stewardship and authority over the public Treasury, it is not hard to see that the arena is in the banking sector.

David set up a special fund of 3,000 talents of gold. A talent of gold was a round disc of gold weighing 131 pounds Troy, or about 144 (regular) pounds. Hence, 3,000 talents constitute about 432,000 pounds of gold, or about 216 tons of gold. This was accumulated even before Solomon sent out his ships to Indonesia.

This special fund of 3,000 talents of gold was said to be “over and above all that I have already provided for the holy temple.” The stated purpose for this fund was “to overlay the walls of the buildings” (1 Chronicles 29:4), yet would not this “overlay” be part of the building project itself? I suspect that this word “overlay” (Heb. tuach) was used as a euphemism for lining the walls with gold from floor to ceiling. It does not seem likely that it would take 3,000 talents of gold to overlay the walls with gold leaf.

In fact, 1 Chronicles 29:7 tells us that the workers were paid 7,000 talents of gold and 10,000 darics of gold (Persian coins), along with 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of brass, and 100,000 talents of iron. These were among the resources that David accumulated over and beyond the 3,000 talents of gold that he put in the special fund for the temple.

The way I read it, the 3,000 talents of gold were essentially put into the Treasury. They did not have paper currency in those days, but whatever payment system they had would have been backed by gold in the temple. The bulk of these metallic assets came from David himself and were supplemented later by Solomon. However, the Israelites themselves were able to participate in this as well. Details are sketchy, but 1 Chronicles 29:8, 9 says,

⁸ Whoever possessed precious stones gave them to [deposited them in] the treasury of the house of the Lord, in care of Jehiel the Gershonite.

It seems that Jehiel was the original Treasury Secretary that held the key of David. He was the tutor of David’s sons (1 Chronicles 27:32), and so he was presumably Solomon’s tutor.

⁹ Then the people rejoiced because they had offered so willingly, for they made their offering to the Lord with a whole heart, and King David also rejoiced greatly.

It would seem that many people contributed to the temple fund. David then prayed a blessing upon them in verses 10-20. Beyond that, we know very little.

The Fed is a Temple

Today, the Federal Reserve is referred to as a “temple.”

https://www.marketplace.org/2009/07/17/fed-temple/

In 1913 it was created as a private bank, owned by ultra-wealthy bankers, who were given the authority to create currency out of nothing. It was sold to the public as a way to prevent the government from abusing its power to create money over and beyond its gold resources that were to back the US dollar.

That obviously did not work well, because the Fed has done the same thing in recent decades. This is the foundation of the current banking system, but it is now being challenged by the BRICS nations, who are developing an asset-backed currency of their own. This is causing a conflict between East and West. Yet there is no question that the BRICS system is more biblical than that of the Federal Reserve.

But in the midst of this conflict, the Kingdom of God is arising, and its monetary system will ultimately replace all rivals and, I believe, will perfect what the BRICS nations are now attempting to do.