The righteous churches listed on this site do firmly believe that the Year of Jubilee law still needs to be obeyed, but since most records of who originally owned the rural lands have been lost, the churches admit that returning the land to the original owners has now become impossible. These churches also believe that major economic downturns may be punishment for society’s refusal to even try to obey that law. The churches may or may not agree with me on some of the other statements on this page. Concerning COVID-19, the Kondratieff long wave economic cycle shows that for hundreds of years recessions and depressions most of the time occur roughly every 40 or 60 years, averaging 50 years. The Apostles SPECIFICALLY NAMED the sacrifice, circumcision, Levitical priesthood, and the eternal death penalty (only for righteous Christians, though) laws as now abolished. However, the Apostles never specifically named the Year of Jubilee law as abolished, which has a promise of intense punishment every 50 years for ignoring it, so that forgotten law explains the uncanny regularity of these 40 and 60 year Kondratieff economic cycles, or curses. Add 40 years to the last major recession in 1982, which was worse than the 2008 panic according to some economists, and you get the early 2020’s. COVID-19 may very well be another divinely engineered, prolonged economic curse for failing to obey the Year of Jubilee law, kicking in right on schedule, right before our eyes, a once in a lifetime opportunity for some to witness. Remember, also, that each year a whopping 291,000 to 646,000 people die from the regular, seasonal influenza globally, yet governments worldwide HAVE NOT annually shut down a major part of their economies to enforce social distancing. Yet, mysteriously, for the first time ever a major worldwide economic shutdown has suddenly struck mankind after only about 68,000 people had succumbed to the corona virus. The possibility also exists that the virus was simply supernaturally deposited on the lungs of many people worldwide, bypassing normal transmission methods, to speed the rapid spread of the growing pestilence and making mankind totally defenseless. This could explain why many people have mysteriously contracted the virus even after quarantining themselves for months at home despite no contact with others. To keep the pestilence going for years to prevent a rapid economic recovery, an angry God could also continue to divinely deposit the virus within people at a slower pace.
LEVITICUS 25:10,18,23: “And you shall consecrate the FIFTIETH year, …….. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family. 18 …….. and you will dwell in the land in safety. 23 THE LAND SHALL NOT BE SOLD PERMANENTLY, for the land is Mine; ……..” 27:24: “IN THE YEAR OF JUBILEE THE FIELD SHALL RETURN TO HIM FROM WHOM IT WAS BOUGHT, to the one who owned the land as a possession.” Leviticus 26:27-29: “…….. if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me, 28 then I also will walk contrary to you in FURY: and I, even I, will chastise you SEVEN TIMES for your sins. 29 YOU SHALL EAT THE FLESH OF YOUR SONS, AND YOU SHALL EAT THE FLESH OF YOUR DAUGHTERS.”
The original Hebrew word for “eat” in verse 29’s “You shall eat the flesh of your sons ……” is akal, Strong’s number 398. Since this word is often used figuratively elsewhere in the Bible, it may not necessarily always mean to literally eat children or commit actual cannibalism. In Ecclesiastes 4:5 the same akal word appears in which it refers to a wasting away of the body through apparently a lack of food intake, one of the potential results of refusing to work. Akal here could refer to the parents causing the death or destruction of their young children, a potential consequence of ignoring the Year of Jubilee. MANY, MANY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, and quite possibly even MILLIONS of Ukrainian children in the 1930’s, though, really were eaten by their parents. Those poor children are evidence that akal can mean or ultimately lead to the literal cannibalism of eating children, thanks to Stalin’s Holodomor, which Russian politicians still don’t like to talk about. The man made famine, targeting farmers and their families that refused to participate in the state collective farming program, became so bad that Soviet authorities, in a last-ditch attempt to stop the widespread child cannibalism, set out a very large number of posters criticizing people as “barbaric” for eating their own children. If Soviet police discovered hidden or buried food on the property of a farmer, he and his entire family were immediately shot to death. Grocers were also shot to death if they were caught selling food to the farmers. Desperate, starving Ukrainians sometimes even ate the boiled remains of dead people dug up out of their graves in the cemeteries, sinking cannibalism to its worst possible low. Stalin’s Holodomor is mentioned here not to point out that it happened, but to point out WHEN it happened, which is very significant. It happened during the economic depression of the 1930’s, a decade of terrible worldwide chastisement for apparently not returning valuable, potentially food producing rural land to the original owners during the commanded Year of Jubilee. Widespread cannibalism also occurred during the Great Famine of 1315-1322, which Kondratieff cycle wise, is not far from the 1930’s depression. Don’t think cannibalism on this or on an even greater scale can ever happen again? It would only take one more naturally occurring Carrington class coronal mass ejection (a massive Electro Magnetic Pulse from the sun) like the one that occurred in 1859 to wipe out life supporting electrical power for many years in America (use of electricity did not become common until the early 1900’s). Electric power lines could magnify the EMP so intensely that major transformers, which could take years to replace, could short out creating statewide blackouts for years. Computerized cars and trucks, including food delivery 18 wheelers, and electrically powered fuel pumps, could instantly become worthless. The world just barely missed another massive CME on July 22, 2012. Without electricity, the vast majority of Americans, for the first time in history, would become totally helpless in acquiring and storing enough daily food to stay alive. Congressional testimony has already revealed that such a catastrophe would cause 90% or more of the American population to starve to death in just one year, sometimes called the “great die off.” Roaming bands of young, starving, armed, cannibalistic thugs might become very common, turning modern day America almost overnight into the world of “Mad Max.” Former CIA agent and author Dr. Peter Vincent Pry was the 2019 Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and Director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum. He has also served on the staff of the House Armed Services Committee and is one of the world’s leading experts on EMP weapons. In a February, 2019 interview with late night radio talk show host George Norry on his Coast to Coast program, Dr. Pry said that the 1859 EMP MELTED keys on telegraph machines around the world, and that those metal keys are a BILLION times more resistant to damage than the electronic circuitry used in most modern day items using electricity. He has warned that everyone should have at least a year’s worth of food stockpiled in case an EMP ever occurs. Remember, the United States of America, currently the most powerful military nation in the world, is conspicuously ABSENT in major Biblical end time battle prophecies. Russia (king of the north), the Middle East (king of the south), and the military hordes of China are mentioned or strongly implied in the book of Revelation. Russia, China, Germany, and Israel have already or are in the process of hardening their electrical grids, but complacent, profits first America has failed, as of the year 2020, to completely harden its major transformers and other vital components of the power grid. President Trump started to initiate efforts to harden the grid, but the corona virus problem has diverted attention to stopping the spread of the virus and to rebuild the economy. So something terrible, it seems, WILL HAPPEN to America that may even coincide with a future Year of Jubilee when cannibalism could again become widespread. “The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh,” as some people have said in the past. The Lord gave the fabulous north American continent to Americans, originally probably mostly descendants of the Old Testament patriarch Abraham who was promised great future blessings for obeying God, and He can take it away from them, too, and give it to another nation. America’s sins, especially the national legalization of highly forbidden homosexuality through now legal same sex marriages engineered by half black, pro-LGBT, Barack Hussein Obama’s liberally rigged Supreme Court, crossed a major Biblical red line, making America a prime candidate to suffer from the wrath of an angry God.
Revelation 16:8,9: “The fourth Angel poured his bowl on the sun: Fire blazed from the sun and scorched men and women. 9 Burned and blistered, they cursed God’s Name, the God behind these disasters. They refused to repent, refused to honor God.” (The Message)
The failure of the nations to obey the Biblical command to observe the Year of Jubilee every fifty years has resulted in cycles of economic disasters worldwide such as depressions and major famines, the result of divine curses for disobedience. To my knowledge, no nation, not even ancient Israel, has ever observed this law. Failure to obey Leviticus 25:10 has caused tremendous, incalculable suffering in the form of homelessness, hunger, and actual starvation for thousands of years even excluding supernatural curses for disobedience. The Apostles singled out and specifically mentioned that sacrifices, circumcision, the Levitical priesthood, and the automatic death penalty for the sins of now repentant, law abiding, righteous Christians have been done away with, but they NEVER SPECIFICALLY said that this Biblical command to observe the Year of Jubilee was abolished, so it is still very much in force.
According to Leviticus 25 land owners during the 50 years interval between each Year of Jubilee, could rent or temporarily sell their land to others who could in turn sublease or temporarily resell it to others, but the original owners would receive their land back at no financial cost on the fiftieth year. However, houses separated by “walls” or fences within cities could be permanently sold with no right to reclaim it later. Homes not separated by walls or fences in rural towns or villages, though, could not be permanently sold and would need to return to the original owners every fifty years. This excellent law was designed to enable everyone, including you and your family, to permanently own free land to live on and grow food on, giving each generation the opportunity to have a fresh start at least once in a lifetime.
Obeying this fiftieth year land law would finally put an end to the following 5 evil factors contributing to homelessness, poverty, and starvation:
1) the permanent loss of valuable land by the accumulation of vast tracts of land by rich individuals, families, corporations, and governments,
2) the permanent loss of valuable land confiscated by the government for unpaid federal estate (death) taxes, which has been as high as 50%,
3) the permanent loss of valuable land confiscated by local or state governments for unpaid property taxes or other taxes,
4) the permanent loss of valuable land due to foreclosure because of unpaid land or home equity mortgage loans, and
5) the permanent loss of valuable land due to bad advice, gambling, extortion, foolishness, or other reasons.
The Mosaic laws of ancient Israel were meant not only for Israel but as an example for all nations to follow. Otherwise the curse of economic depressions would not be worldwide.
Can the minds of many governmental rulers and business leaders be temporarily influenced so subtly by our Creator to make economic conditions bad, that these leaders thought they made the decisions, and that the decisions were good ones? Can their minds be repeatedly manipulated to later make a bad economy eventually even worse? According to certain Biblical verses, the answer is definitely yes. The following verses show that our Lord can easily control and manipulate human minds: Isaiah 45:13, Proverbs 3:6, Exodus 14:4,16,17, 23, and 28.
A Russian economist, Dr. Nikolai Dmytriyevich Kondratieff, was appointed by Lenin to analyze economic cycles in capitalistic countries in an attempt to determine when their economies would fail. Kondratieff published the results of his extensive research in 1922 (even before the 1930’s depression), and he came to the conclusion that the capitalistic system is inherently self regenerating. Joseph Stalin was not pleased with such a conclusion, so he later sentenced Kondratieff to a labor camp in Suzdal, Russia, where he was eventually executed by firing squad at the age of 46 in 1938. Kondratieff’s work eventually became famous for showing that economic downturns seemed to come in cycles of 40 years followed by 60 years, which average about 50 years in America and in other western countries. Do the math with the dates below, and you will see a rough type of 40/60 year cycle appear. America, the most righteous large nation in the world, seems to have suffered less than the other nations during these cyclic booms and busts. Most of the worst famines seem to be clustered around the 30’s, 40’s, 70’s, 80’s, and to a lesser extent the 90’s of each century at about the same or close to the same time economic depressions occur.
In the 1590’s a terrible famine occurred in most of Europe. A serious famine was recorded in Italy in the 1640’s and 1670’s. Depressions, primarily agricultural, occurred in the 1680’s and 1740’s (famine across Europe produced a major spike in mortality in the 1740’s). The economic depression of the 1780’s (about 10 million people, nearly one third of the population, also starved to death in a famine caused by drought in India from 1769 to 1770), comparable in severity to the 1930’s depression, was followed by a depression in the 1840’s, described as “great.” Approximately one million, close to one eighth of the population, starved to death in the “Great Irish Famine” in the 1840’s in Ireland. The depression of the 1870’s (another estimated 10 million people also starved to death in the 1877-1878 famine in China, and about 5 million died in the 1876-1878 famine in India) was followed by the Great Depression occurring during the years 1930-39 in which unemployment reached 25% in America and some people actually starved to death even in our country. About 5 million starved to death during the 1936 famine in China. Between 1.5 to 3 million starved to death in India during the 1940’s. The 1982-83 recession in America, right on schedule plus or minus 10 years, was the worst downturn since the 1930’s, and it was characterized by massive deregulation (described by some as the “dismantling of America”) of major industries, perhaps paving the way for another 10 year depression later. Unemployment hit double digits in the 1982-83 recession. Previously regulated industries had minimal, government enforced profit margins for public safety and continued viability of major businesses. Deregulation of the trucking, airline, railroad, financial markets, and other industries has created continuous financial problems and a slowly eroding living standard for the middle class. The financial events of September and October, 2008 are now being called the PANIC of 2008. Deregulation of the financial industries during the 1980’s has led to risky, highly leveraged exotic trading practices. To try to allow everybody to have their own home, which seemed like a nice idea, legislation was passed to force many financial institutions to give mortgage loans even to people that could not afford them which resulted in inevitable foreclosures on a massive scale. These financial institutions were threatened with measures that would almost force them out of business if they did not make these bad loans. Colossal losses to major lending institutions later started “snowballing” from the mounting number of foreclosures, which for a while resulted in nearly frozen interbank lending among the largest banks, a major component of today’s economy. The losses from these “toxic” loans, traded worldwide using deregulated, highly risky trading practices, produced a multitrillion dollar (about 10 trillion according to some people) hole in the world economy.
Third world, nonChristian nations seem to almost always be experiencing famines somewhere to some extent, but it is noteworthy to realize that their severest famines recently have occurred during the 70’s and 80’s, typical times for depressions in more advanced countries. The 50’s and 60’s have seemed to generally be more prosperous. In Bangladesh 1.5 million starved to death in their 1974-75 famine. About 1 million starved to death in Ethiopia during the famine of 1984-85. In the African nation of Sudan at least hundreds of thousands of people starved to death in the mid 1980’s.
The well respected, non profit, international FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF CYCLES, which originated from research initiated by the United States Department of Commerce to determine the causes of the 1930’s depression, has documented a 54 year cycle in international trade, cotton production, oat production, agricultural workers’ incomes, pig iron production, ship construction, lead production, growth and contraction of tree rings due to rainfall levels, and other natural phenomena. This 54 year cycle is a mirror of economic expansions and curse induced, severe contractions which approximately corresponds to the 50 year intervals of the Year of Jubilee. The Lord could cause economic depressions and major famines to occur exactly at the end of every 50 year cycle, but that might result in many, many more people becoming saved Christians after they realized that a connection exists between these catastrophes and the Biblical Year of Jubilee. Apparently, however, saving most people during this pre-Millennial (before the return of Jesus) age, contrary to mainstream Christianity, is not a goal of our Creator. Scriptures indicate that only a relatively few called and chosen Christians will be saved to appear in the first resurrection and to rule with Jesus Christ during the approaching 1,000 year Christian Millennium (Revelation 20). Remember the verses that say basically that none can come to God The Father except those that He draws to Him. If you are determined to love, worship, and obey God and His Son, Jesus Christ, then you could very well (and hopefully) be among those that will be in the first resurrection.
This 54 year cycle would probably be adjusted closer to 50 or even 50 years if more accurate data could be analyzed extending all the way back to the time when the Mosaic laws were given to Israel. Another horrendous 1930’s style depression should occur in the 2020’s to 2030’s, 40 to 50 years from the 1980’s downturn and about a hundred years from the 1930’s depression according to the Kondratieff Cycle, a divine cyclic curse that will again produce incalculable misery and suffering for rejecting the Lord’s Year of Jubilee. The righteous, though, do not need to be overly concerned about going hungry because of many comforting verses in the Bible, such as Proverbs 10:3: “The Lord will not allow the righteous soul to famish ………” Famish means to starve to death.
In preparation for the next 1930’s style economic depression or EMP the author of this website has in years past planted over sixty fruit (mostly persimmon and pear) trees on his 10 acres of land in central Texas. He also has a 135 gallon stainless steel rain water collection system. Twenty years worth of kitchen matches have also been stockpiled as well as 6 months worth of beans, white rice, honey, and canned food. You need to start preparing for these basically inevitable catastrophes, too. Many to most people have or have access to a backyard where a WWII era Victory Garden can be planted if necessary.
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