AUGUST 24TH 2009
Prophetic Brief
Insight and Analysis for the 21st Century
The Afghanistan Briefs
Afghanistan continues to be in the news
with new troops, a renewed push against
the Taliban and increased deaths. The
month of July has seen the highest death
toll of American soldiers since the
beginning of the war in 2001, and the
total may increase still more before the
month is out.
 
In a series of short video briefings, Scott
Webster addresses Afghanistan from the
perspective of the Word of God. Included
in the video sessions are:
 
1.       Why Be Aware
2.       The Formative Process
3.       U.S. Involvement
4.       Key Players
5.       What Does the Future Hold
6.       Kingdom Insights
 
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these videos will be available for viewing
soon.
implosion in 1989, when the Berlin Wall was
torn down.
What Khrushchev didn’t understand is that the
socialist system designed by Marx, Engels
and Lenin could never have produced the
purposes of God, which require the earth to be
shaped in ways defined by a globalized
economic reality described in Revelation 18.
John saw into this reality back in the days of
Rome’s Empire, pre-empting Marx and his
arguments against capitalism in Das Kapital
published 1700 years later. John saw captains
of ships and merchants selling every kind of
cargo to a global consumer, clearly a
description of the results of a capitalist
oriented system.
Why Communism Failed
a) Socialism’s inability to
produce wealth due to a
lack of incentive could
never create the kind of
prosperity and trade
described in Revelation 18.
massive cooperation between multi-national
corporations and supply chains, manufacturing
and consumer buying that governments
generally foster and cooperate with, but it was
an economic and not a political one-ness. A
primary characteristic of a command economy
is it is a closed system (the term ‘command
economy’ means one controlled by the state
rather than by the market). In fact those
nations which espoused socialism went
through a season of readjustment in which
their economies were freed up and made
more dockable with the capitalistic nature of
the rest of the world. Even China, which still
has a one party state, has had to adjust their
policies and allow the global financial system
to bring definition to the internal system which
their mechanisms of state used to control
completely.
In looking at Table 1 below, you can see that
the real ethic of socialism was not communal
ownership because clearly there was not
broad economic empowerment of the society.
Instead the true ethic was coercion or force by
which the state confiscated private property.
As we will also see with capitalism, Babylon is
very much like the Pharisees in that they say
one thing but do another. We have to look
behind their statements and declared
philosophies to see what is really driving the
system. In the case of socialism it was just the
opposite of their view of utopian community:
shared poverty.
The system of economic organization was
built by the state, which became the central
figure in the Soviet Union to the point of their
abolishing of God. Scientific socialism
replaced God and the state demanded
worship and loyalty. The state became an
oppressive oligarchy (the term ‘oligarchy‘
Table 1: A Comparative Analysis of Socialism, Capitalism and the Kingdom of God
Stated
Ethic
Communal
Socialism
Ownership
Private
Capitalism
Ownership
Private
Ownership Ownership
Kingdom
Stewarded in a Stewarded in a
Economics
Community Community
Context
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The Death of Ideology: Paving the Way for a Kings/Merchants Alliance; 
Part 1: The Fall of Communism
Rev 18:3,9,11 divine purpose, we can see a global system of
3 The kings of the earth committed trade forming before our eyes which involves
adultery with her, and the merchants of both kings and merchants in deep alliance.
the earth grew rich from her excessive The G-20 is made up of the twenty largest
luxuries." 9 When the kings of the earth
who committed adultery with her and
shared her luxury see the smoke of her
burning, they will weep and mourn over
her. 11 "The merchants of the earth will
weep and mourn over her because no
one buys their cargoes any more- (NIV).
One of the features of Babylon is the alliance
that exists between two powerful systems:
political leadership and economic leaders.
Both “kings” and “merchants” are mentioned
multiple times and both groups are deeply
invested in Babylon and therefore they are in a
state of shock and deep lamentation that the
system they built is destroyed in one hour.
They are both complicit in building a system
that is competitive and which will eventually be
judged and catastrophically fail.
nations in the world as measured by economic
strength, and together these nations constitute
90% of global GDP. They have met repeatedly
since the economic meltdown to seek
solutions to the crisis. From the attached
picture you can see that the agenda for the
most recent G-20 Summit in London in March
2009 was Stability / Growth / Jobs. Certainly
the “kings of the earth” are very concerned
about global economic issues.
For this global system to be built and this
alliance to become a reality, big movements
Descriptions of both the kings (political had to occur to shape and alter the
systems) and the merchants (economic international landscape. The failure of
systems) indicate they exist on a global scale socialism/communism as an economic model
– they are the “kings of the earth” and the was the first big change that occurred. In 1966
“merchants of the earth”. These are not small Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pulled off
regional blocs or isolated economic zones his shoe and, banging it on a table, yelled to
which exist independently of the wider Western ambassadors at a diplomatic
international environment, both systems are reception we will bury you! Instead the Soviet
global in nature and scope. As the earth system buried itself through inefficient
marches relentlessly towards the fulfillment of centralized planning that led to an economic
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Revelation 18:3
For all the nations have drunk
the maddening wine of her
adulteries.
T he kings of the earth
committed adultery with her, and
the merchants of the earth grew
rich from her excessive luxuries.
When governments seized the property of
individual citizens and required them to work
for the state, they undercut the profit
motivation inherent in human beings. The
Soviet Union’s flag was a hammer and a
sickle, symbols meant to stand for productivity
in both agricultural and industrial labor but
which instead mocked the low levels of
economic life produced by Soviet farms and As we will also see with
factories. Before the Soviet takeover of the
Baltic region, the Ukraine had served as the
breadbasket of the region, similar to the fertile
capitalism, Babylon is
farming states of Kansas and Nebraska in the
U.S. However, by 1980 when the American very much like the
farm worker produced enough food to supply
sixty-five people, his Russian equivalent Pharisees in that they
turned out enough to feed only eight. Price
controls, fixed wages and an aversion to
innovation were features of the command
say one thing but do
economy, and over time the national
economies of the Eastern bloc disintegrated another. We have to
under low productivity which eventually led to
national bankruptcy. The socialist system look behind their
didn’t create wealth, it produced shared
poverty. statements and
b) Centralized planning could not provide a
common point of economic interface declared philosophies
between nations and therefore could never
be adopted on a global basis. By definition a to see what is really
socialist nation planned all aspects of
economic life through top down centralized
control. Since nations would never allow
driving the system.
another (competing) national entity access to
their planning and development of national
economy, socialism was not a system that
could be extended globally because it would
require too much cooperation between
governments. The capitalist system produced
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means all the power is concentrated in the
hands of a few) and fellow citizens were The Architecture of the
organized as “comrades”. The fall of the Berlin
Wall signaled the end of communism; it is an New Prophetic Dimension
ideology which has been thoroughly debunked
and it will not re-emerge as a viable form of A revolutionary
economic organization. new look at
That failure paved the way for Eastern Bloc prophetic
nations to liberalize their economic policies reality as it
and after recovering from the collapse they exists in the
applied to join the World Trade Organization,
an organization that the Soviet Union shunned 21st century
when it was the GATT in 1945. China is the church.
last significant nation which espouses
communism and they still do engage in get this book>
strategic and centralized planning, but only of
the very large components of their economy.
Their red hot economic growth of the last 15
years is directly attributable to their opening of
their domestic economy to unprecedented
levels of freedom to engage in international
trade. One of the last challenges is China’s
insistence on fixing the value of their currency
to ensure their industries a competitive edge,
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issues. In fact they must, since their economic
and banking systems are highly
interconnected in a fulfillment of God’s end
game scenario that describes Babylon as a
global entity led by kings and merchants.
Actual Empowered or What is Human
Result
Ethic Oppressed Worshipped Relationships
Oppressive State
Coercion Shared Poverty The State Comrade
Oligarchy
Unequal Oppressive Money, or the
Greed Competitor
Distribution Private Oligarchy Market
Private
Everyone Has Everyone is
God Brother
Enough Empowered
Context