From: Bruce Porteous A WORLD FALLING APART - WHERE TO FROM HERE?
What is happening to this world we live in? Why is the future looking so uncertain? Will the planet survive? After years of continual increasing economic growth around the world, the planet is struggling to provide the natural resources to meet the demands of a growing global population with increasing expectations by the undeveloped nations to have the same privileges and standard of living as the west. Yet the planet is running out of the natural resources to maintain the economic growth that has occurred over the last 20 years. The ever increasing demands for fossil fuels, minerals, water, arable land and energy to maintain growth can not be sustained. The cost of obtaining natural resources and producing food continues to increase, as the supply diminishes. While it widely accepted that the consummation of oil is outstripping supply, no thought appears to be given by our leaders on how society will function without petroleum to provide cheap energy. What of future generations - what type of world will they inherit? Along with the demand for increased material resources the rush to urbanization is placing unsustainable demands on the planet for the supply of water and food to maintain the essentials of life. This is causing increasing instability to the global weather patterns, global warming, polluted air, destruction of arable soils and water. Yet few seem willing to accept the reality that the planet can not continue consuming these non-renewable resources at the rate it has been doing. Demand can not continue to grow for these resources indefinitely. Unless the world develops an alternative economic model which is not depended on consuming non-renewable natural resources then the planet is headed for destruction. To meet the demand to finance continued growth in consumption governments have created money to provide the liquidity to enable their populations purchase goods and services; and in turn provide more taxation revenue for governments to regulate our lives. As the demand for natural resources grows faster than the supply, the increase money in circulation to finance consumption is now creating global inflation or the erosion in the value of paper money. Inflation is caused by the supply of money exceeding the growth of the productive capacity of a country to supply goods and services. The worst offender in consuming non-renewable resources has been the USA, which consumes much more of the planets natural resources than any other nation. This has largely been financed by printing US dollars or borrowing dollars from our creditors. This in turn has flooded the world with liquidity; provide the capital for many developing economies to increase their consumption, putting an unsustainable demand on the planets resources. The recent global credit crisis has been bought about because of the lack of confidence in the Anglo-Saxon nations by their creditors to be able to continual borrow money from external sources to finance domestic consumption, while saving almost nothing themselves. No nation can continually borrow money indefinitely to finance domestic consumption. Now the Anglo-Saxon nations are faced with the dilemma of declining real incomes, and high debt servicing costs. There has been some stability recently on the currency markets but this will only be short lived. Once overseas investors lose confidence in funding the debt of the Anglo-Saxon nations their economies will go into free-fall, resulting in total economic collapse. This drive for economic growth at all costs is about to explode. If continued it will lead to the destruction of the ability of the planet to sustain life and global political instability. Yet our political leaders seem to lack the ability to make the changes or even talk about the topic seriously to prevent mankind from destroying the planet's ability to maintain life. This pursuit of greed to satisfy the material lusts of its people the world is now facing an imminent crisis that will result in the precursor of great economic and political upheaval of the planet. While one can not be exactly sure on when these events will unfold, the sequence will as follows: 1. Conflict in the Middle East - the growing tensions between Iran, USA and Israel is heading unavoidably towards military conflict, with no indication of any resolution being achieved. Such a conflict, which will unavoidably involve the USA in support of Israel, would unleash a castrophatic disaster on the global financial and energy markets. 2. The lack of confidence in the US dollar, resulting in its collapse and a switch to the Euro as the world's reserve currency. 3. The collapse of currencies tied to the US dollar, causing great economic and political hardship for these people. 4. A total economic collapse of the debt-ridden Anglo-Saxon nations leading to their people sliding into absolute poverty, starvation, break-down in law and order and wide spread disease. 5. The emergence of the Euro-zone as being the dominant economic power, imposing its will upon the world on how they will administer their governments, trade, and regulate the conduct their people in conducting their lives. 6. An economic recovery to take place with the Euro being the only international reserve currency. Without the Anglo-Saxon nations competing for the limited global natural resources there will be sufficient non-renewable resources to support a new time of prosperity for much of the world. 7. Meanwhile the Anglo-Saxon nations (USA, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) will be taken over, their people placed into slavery, their resources plundered, and they placed under the administration of foreign powers. Unless there is an alternative economic model adopted by the world, eventually the planet will be destroyed by mankind. It will only be with the established of one worldwide government ruled under the jurisdiction of Jesus Christ, implementing the Laws of God does the planet have any hope of preventing its destruction and unable to support life. These Laws will provide equity for everyone, prosperity, social justice, and an economic model which will allow the planet to survive within the natural resources available. Bruce Porteous ==================================================== From: Bayo Afolaranmi Dearly Beloved, THEY ARE IMPORTANT "God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them" (Genesis 1:27, NIV). "...and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace" (Psalm 144:12, NIV). Most societies in the world are male-dominant ones. The male child is more preferred than the female child is. However, both male and female children have their roles in the society. The Lord that created them male and female in the beginning did not make any mistake. At times, female children are more useful than the male children are especially when it comes to caring of the parents and taking care of the home. This was evident in my family recently when I came back from a shopping with a colleague that took near a whole day. As I arrived, my six-year-old daughter intuitively came to the master bedroom to give me drinking water with some pieces local baked cake as refreshment before my wife could present a befitting meal for me. My wife and I appreciated the effort of the girl, and wondered if her elder brother could think of such care. Many families that have only daughters do not appreciate what God has done for them. Many men in this part of the world can even go to the extent of marrying another wife in order to have sons that they consider heirs and more important than the daughters they have. Many men would not give their girl child the same opportunity of education and exposure as the male child because they consider the girl child as less important. Nothing can be far from the truth. Girl child is very important, and she should be treated so. There were many important women in the Bible and in history. Such women in the Old Testament were: (a) Miriam (Exodus 15:20-21; Micah 6:4); (b) Deborah (Judges 4:1-5); (c) Huldah (2 Chronicles 34:22-28); (d) Esther (see the Book of Esther); etc. In the New Testament, Mary, the mother of Jesus was outstanding among women (Luke 1:28, 42, 48). Apart from her, there were also many women who had public ministries for God. This included Philip's daughters, Phoebe, Priscilla, Junia, Tryphena, Tryphosa, Persis, Euodia, and Syntyche (see Romans 16, Philippians 4:2). All these women, and many more today, mark the beginning of the fulfilment of Joel's prophecy of a day that women as well as men would be the instruments of the Holy Spirit's work (Joel 2:28-29). Nowadays, in spite of the fact that women are mainly homemakers, they have their own active roles, though not as prominent as men do, in the society. There were, and still are, women leaders that have taken brave steps to better the lots of the people. Women are created in the image of God as helpers suitable for men. They have their roles to play in the world and the propagation of the gospel of Christ. Regardless of attempts by men to relegate them to the background, the women are equal spiritually with men, and they can perform any role in the church and in any other place. They are important! In His service, Bayo Afolaranmi (Pastor). =================================================== From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SFGTD To: YOU Date: TODAY From: GOD Subject: YOURSELF Reference: LIFE This is God. Today I will be handling all of your problems for you. I do not need your help. So, have a nice day. I love you. P.S. And, remember... If life happens to deliver a situation to you that you cannot handle, do not attempt to resolve it yourself! Kindly put it in the SFGTD (something for God to do) box. I will get to it in MY TIME. All situations will be resolved, but in My time, not yours. Once the matter is placed into the box, do not hold onto it by worrying about it. Instead, focus on all the wonderful things that are present in your life now. Should you decide to send this to a friend; Thank you. You may have touched their life in ways you will never know! Now, you have a nice day. God God has seen you struggling, God says it's over. A blessing is coming your way. If you believe in God, please send to ten people, please don't ignore this. You are being tested. YOU HAVE 20 MINUTES TO TELL 10 FRIENDS THAT YOU LOVE THEM SO I LOVE YOU! GO!
