Bernard Pyron

Matthew 6:24 says: " No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the
one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise
the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."

Mammon is Strong's Exhaustive Concordance number 3126, which Strong's
says means confidence, i. e, wealth personified...avarice deified.
Mammon means having confidence or reliance upon money, and greed for
more money personified or deified,

At http://houlton.net/monk Strong's number 3126, or mammonas,
of Aramaic origin, is said to mean what is trusted in, riches, where
it is personified and opposed to God.

Exodus 22: 25 begins the Bible texts opposed to the practice of usury,
and Leviticus 25: 36-37, Deuteronomy 23: 19, Nehemiah 5: 1- 10, Psalm
15: 5, Isaiah 24: 2, and Ezekiel 18: 8 say usury is wrong. Then,
Ezekiel 22: 12-22 says
that usury was one of the sins of the nation of Judah for which God
punished the people. In addition, Matthew 21: 13 where Christ threw
out the tables of the money changers is a text that broadens the sin
of usury to some other forms of extortion of the money of the common
people.

In Daniel 9: 27 Christ "Shall make it desolate" because of "the
overspreading of abominations." Usury is one of these abominations
that the Lord hates.

Practicing usury especially on people of low incomes - who are below
or near the "poverty line" - is a violation of God's moral law.
Therefore those who practice loaning money for interest and the
governments that protect this practice are anti-God, or even have the
spirit of antichrist (I John 4: 3).

Ancient Babylon which includes the nearby cities is the model for the
Babylon of prophecy, the city of mammon.

"Behold the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not, till the
Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set
up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof, and he
brought it to ruin (Isaiah 23: 13)."

Isaiah 30: 25 says "And there shall be upon every high mountain, and
upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the
great slaughter, when the towers fall."

Going to Zephaniah 1: 16 it says "A day of the trumpet and alarm
against the fenced cities , and against the high towers." Zephaniah
3: 6 adds that "I have cut off the nations; their towers are
desolate. I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their
cities are destroyed, that there is no man, that there is non
inhabitant."

In describing the fall of Babylon Revelation 18: 9-10 says
"And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived
deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament her, when they
shall see the smoke of her burning. Standing afar off for the fear of
her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty
city! for in one hour is thy judgment come."

New York City is the capital of word trade, the United Nations and
usury banking - along with the City of London. Many credit card banks are
in Wilmington, Delaware, Citibank is in South Dakota and I think Bank of America
is in Charlotte, North Carolina. Three of New York
City's towers fell on September 11, 2001, and ships off some miles to
the east could have seen the smoke of their burning, as Revelation 18:
10 predicts. But the fall of the towers on September 11, 2001 was
not the complete fulfillment of these prophecies on the fall of the
towers and the destruction of cities. It was only a preliminary,
small fulfillment of that prophecy. The third tower that fell then
was Building Number Seven, which was not hit at all by an airplane
like the twin towers or something from the air. It was "pulled."

Usury banking and the love of money as the root of evil (I Timothy 6:
10) will be one of the abominations that will evoke the wrath of God
in the Indignation (Isaiah 26: 20). The capitals of mammon are likely
to be ruined in that day, including New York City.

Usury banking, especially the widespread use of credit cards and
credit card debt, is getting worse. Fifty years ago many or
most couples were able to pay off debt on their homes in ten years or
less - or they saved money and paid cash for their houses and lands.
And then only the husband and father worked at a job or had his own
business as my father did then. Usury banking is one reason it
now takes so long to pay off a home mortgage and why both spouses have
to work to make ends sort of meet. In the debt money system of the
Federal Reserve, the money supply needs to be increased continually to
provide that money which is taken out of the economy by usury (and
taxes). Otherwise, an economic recession or even a depression could
result. This constant increase in the money supply drives inflation
which reduces the buying power of the couple's dollars. And if they
are not able to increase their income to take care of the inflation,
then
they may find themselves short of funds, unless both work full time.

Lower income people need money to buy food, pay the rent or mortgage,
and electric and heating bills. But often their income is not
sufficient to pay all this with inflation lowering the buying power of
the dollar. So they resort to the use of credit cards which credit
card banks offer to low income people, often by the use of deceptive
means. But in paying back what they borrowed plus interest and often
penalties and unreasonable raises in the interest rates, they become
poorer than before.

Loaning money by credit card - unlike some local bank loans to
beginning businesses - does not usually increase the productivity of
the economy, or the Gross National Product. However, the massive use
of credit cards does fuel the consumer economy of America by enabling
people to buy more stuff - and perhaps pay later. Thus, credit cards
are an important part of the change in the last 20 to 30 years from a
productive economy to a consumer economy.

If Congress suddenly decided
the put a curb on interest rates extracted by the credit card banks
and clamped down on the crooked practices of these banks, and if the
limit on interest rates matched the current average level for home
mortgages, this might have some negative effect on the consumer
economy. Credit card banks in that situation would probably stop
giving cards to low income people and to others who do not have a
perfect credit record, in order to minimize their losses. If they did
that, people who use credit cards merely for convenience at the
checking counter or for sending off for stuff. would be more likely to
pay lower amounts in interest by paying off their balances much sooner
than poor people or high risk people.

As long as almost all American consumers continue to use credit cards
and have debts on them of $8,000 or so per household, then Congress
will probably not act to curb credit card interest rates and the banks
will not change their practices. In addition, the higher level elites
(called the Power Elite by Texas sociologist C. Wright Mills)
may not want consumers to begin going back to more use of cash since
the elite may want a cashless society at some point in time. So there
is not likely to be any relief from credit card debt and crooked
practices by the banks - except for those few who drop out of this
system.

And the Remnant of Israel should be among those who no longer
use credit cards. Christians who do not understand what the Remnant of Israel is
and who it is in Christ, will probably not see the point in obeying
the Old Testament moral law on usury. And they will miss the point of
Christ's throwing out the tables of the money changers from the
Temple in Matthew 21: 12.

The Remnant is distinguished from the Multitude of professing
Christians by having more understanding of the truths in the Bible, by
a greater love of that truth, and by a greater desire to obey the
Lord, including obedience to his
moral teachings.

It is true that the Bible focuses more on the moral transgression of
the lender in taking usury than on that of the borrower, especially if
the borrower must borrow to eat and have a place to live. But still,
using credit cards - if they are not necessary for basic needs - is
not in complete obedience to the Lord. Use of credit cards helps to
perpetuate that debt system, and use of them is a bad example to
others.

The local banker does not go out and invite people to borrow
money from him. Instead, people come to him asking if he will lend
them money to buy a car, home or something else. But in recent years
the credit card banks have been sending out millions of invitations
and offers, often deceptive, to induce people, in many cases those on
low incomes, to sign on to a credit card with interest rates that are
usually higher than that of the local banker, and for which there is
no contract preventing an increase in interest rates or minimum
monthly payment.

The debt-usury system is anti-God and should be seen as such. In
massive debt, most Americans are the servants of the bankers and of
mammon. "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servant to
obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey: whether of sin unto death,
or of obedience unto righteousness (Romans 6: 16)."

If you already have credit card debt you cannot pay off at once, you
can still drop out of the usury-debt system in a spiritual way.
Renounce all use of credit cards and never use them again, though you
should eventually pay them off.

USURY BEGAN IN ANCIENT BABYLON

The Babylon of Prophecy in Revelation 18 deals in merchandise
(Verses 11-14) -
and the souls of men. Babylon has her own merchants
and others come to trade with them.
Verse 23 says "...for thy merchants were the great men of the
earth..."

The Greek word translated as merchants is emporoi, and probably the
English word emporium comes from it. On page 508 of A Linguistic Key
to the Greek New Testament, Vol 2, by Fritz Rienecker, emporoi in
Revelation 18: 23 is defined as "merchants who deal in foreign
exports." They are world traders.

Verse 23 also says of Babylon that "...by thy sorceries were all
nations deceived." Sorceries is from the Greek word pharmakeia, from
which we get our pharmacies. Sorceries refer then to drugs, both
legal pharmaceutical drugs, and illegal ones. The large
pharmaceutical corporations in the U.S. and Europe play a large
role in the world of huge international corporations at the present
time, and some of them, like Bayer, go back to Nazi Germany. Herman
Schmitz, a big Swiss banker, owned a large empire in Nazi Germany
called I. G. Farben that included Bayer and some other large
pharmaceutical corporations. In addition, sorceries means
witchcraft, and the kind of witchcraft and mind-dulling effect
performed on people by Hollywood and other mass media. Deception is
part of that media witchcraft or mind-control.

Verse 23 tells us that in Babylon the light of a candle shall shine
no more, and the voice of the bridegroom and the bride shall be heard
no more. Who is the bridegroom in the New Testament? It is Jesus
Christ, and his bride is made up of saved people, and might be
specifically the 144,000 of Revelation 7, though many, many more than
the 144,000 are saved Christians.

In Revelation 18: 4 God calls his people out of Babylon, so they will
not have to go through the plagues or partake of her sins.

Why are the voices of the bridegroom and his bride no longer heard in
Babylon? It is because they have left Babylon, in obedience to the
call of the Lord. Largely, they have departed out of the world
system that is Babylon. As much as possible they have left the
economic system of Babylon. Debt with usury is a part of that world
system which
Christians should depart out of. Remnant Christians have come out from
the apostate churches
which are Mystery Babylon. And Remnant Christians who were members of
secret societies like the Masons have left that part of Mystery
Babylon. They have left the culture of Babylon
which has the spirit of antichrist. It is antichristian, as
Revelation 18: 24 says, for in her was found the blood of the
prophets and the saints. Finally, if they were involved in political
or military Babylon, they have removed themselves spiritually from
that influence, that is, the
Lord has freed them of the influence of Babylon..

In a literal way, the call to leave Babylon can mean to leave the
urban areas like New York City, San Francisco, Dallas or Chicago. But
I don't think leaving Babylon means to leave the U.S. Where can we
go?

Bankers, usury, the power of money, and the rule of big money are
not mentioned in Revelation 18. But because so much emphasis is
placed on merchandising and on merchants or world traders, we know
that money drives Babylon. Money was necessary for the Roman Empire
and necessary for modern world empires like that the the U.S. now.
The power of the U.S. depends on its money power.

Banking and usury may have started in earnest in ancient historical
Babylon, in the city of Babylon or in nearby cities.

The quote below is from:

http://viking.som.yale.edu/will/finciv/chapter1.htm

"In the 1920's, Sir Leonard Woolley, excavating the Mesopotamian city
of Ur, the fabled birthplace of Abraham, found himself standing in the
remains of what must have been an upper middle class neighborhood near
the center of the ancient city. His Iraqi excavators uncovered the
narrow walls and small rooms that signified domestic architecture --
rather than the majestic palace architecture that typically attracted
the attention of Near Eastern excavators...

Professor Marc Van De Mieroop of Columbia University has used
Woolley's careful excavation notes to match the dozens of excavated
clay tablets to the homes where they were found. From these, he has
been able to identify what must have been a very early "Wall Street" -- a
financial district in the ancient city that was the home of Ur's
second millennium lenders and entrepreneurs. From their records, he
has been able to reconstruct a fascinating story about one of the
world's first financial centers.

Most of the cuneiform texts found in the financial district date from
the early years of the reign of the King Rim-Sin (1822-1763 B.C.), who
ruled from the capital city of Larsa, a few miles north of Ur shortly
before Hammurabi's time."

Many of the clay tablets found were records of loans for which the
lenders collected interest, or usury. The article on usury in ancient
historical Babylon goes on to say that:

"It is difficult to escape the conclusion that, while the first loan
contracts and the legal system that enforced them may have been good
for the Mesopotamian economy, they made life miserable for the working
man and woman."

Since historical Babylon is the model for the Babylon of
prophecy, we can ask if the economic system of the Roman Empire -
which Church Fathers said was a fulfillment of the prophecy on
Babylon - was based upon usury. Some historians think that usury
helped to corrupt the Roman Empire.

USURY IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE

The information below is from this link:

http://www.1911ency.org/U/US/USURY.htm

At one point Rome had laws against the charging of excessive interest rates.
But regulation of usury failed and over two or three centuries the
small free farmers were put out of business by taxation and usury.
Taxation by the government and usury drove Romans below the upper
classes into debt and into debt slavery if not actual slavery. In the
Roman provinces the exploitation of common people by usury was even greater.

Julius Caesar in his reign as dictator (about 44 to 42 or so BC) tried
to lessen the
effects of usury on the people, but according to the web site given
above "...it was too late then to save the middle class."

This same site also says that "About this time the rate of interest on
first-class security in
the city of Rome was only about 4%, whilst in the provinces from 25 to
50% were rates often exacted."

"About this time" must refer to the reign of Julius Caesar, which was
in about 44 to 42 BC.

The next site on usury in Rome is:.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1908/christ/ch05.htm

In addition to the robbery of the Roman provinces by officials, a
special class of
usury capitalists grew up in Rome and in the provinces. The site
above says that
"The moneyed men of Rome founded societies, corresponding to our
banking corporations, with directors, cashiers, agents, etc. At the
time of Sulla there was the company of the Asiani [the Asia Company]
with a large enough capital to lend the state 20,000 talents
[$25,000,000]. Twelve years later they had run this debt up to 120,000
talents."

Again the site says "It was primarily in order to gain money that
Caesar undertook the war
against Gaul, which hitherto had been free of Roman rule and so
unplundered

The army became more and more the master of the republic."

Next, the information on usury in Rome is from:
http://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Marx/mrxCpC36.html

Often upper class Romans made money from the work of slaves and then
invested that money in loans with usury.

"...usury thus exerts an undermining and destructive
influence on ancient and feudal wealth and ancient and feudal
property. On the other hand it undermines and ruins small peasants'
and small burghers' production..."

Then, the site says "...the Roman patricians ruined the plebeians, by
compelling them to serve
as soldiers and thus preventing them from reproducing the requirements
of their productive activity and making paupers of them (and
pauperization, depletion or loss of the prerequisites of reproduction
is here the predominent form), filled the sheds and cellars of the
patricians with looted copper, the money of that time. Instead of
giving to the plebeians directly the necessary commodities, grain,
horses, cattle, they loaned to them this copper, for which they had no
use themselves, and availed themselves of this condition for the
purpose of enforcing enormous interest by usury, thereby turning the
plebeians into their debtor slaves."

Apparently the Roman patricians corresponded to our present day ruling class of
doctors, lawyers, some professors, government bureaucrats, heads of
corporations, and members of Congress.

Under usury enforced by the power of government, the producer's means
of producing, his shop, farm, retail business, and house can become
the property of the lender, so that the producer who borrowed on usury
becomes the creditor's slave.

Usury centralized money wealth in ancient Rome and the masses of the
people lost ownership of their lands, homes and places of businesses
to the creditors.

OLIGARCHICAL FAMILIES PRACTICE USURY

This is from: http://www.abjpress.com/tarpv5.html

Down through history there were oligarchical families with great
wealth that passed
that wealth down from generation to generation. There probably were oligarchical
families in ancient Babylon. There were such families in the Persian
Empire, in Phoenicia, Greece and Rome.

Oligarchical families increased their great wealth through usury.

In the once city-state of Venice there were from about 1200 to 1600
A.D. influential oligarchical families. Many of these families of Venice
moved to Holland in the 17th century where they were involved with the
Bank of Amsterdam, the forerunner of the Bank of England.
Oligarchical families from Venice also moved to England at about that
time.

Webster Tarpley in Against Oligarchy claims that between 1509 and 1715
the "Venetian Party" gained great influence in England. Tarpley says
the Venetian families brought into England the traditions of the
Babylonians, Romans, and Byzantines. The Venetians were always
involved in banking.

If Tarpley is right, the tradition of rule by oligarchical families
came into England (and Holland) from Venice. The practice of usury
came into Northern Europe and England with the Venetians.

In addition, the Rothschilds in Germany were and are a very important Jewish
oligarchical family who pretty much took over international banking.
See:
http://www.the7thfire.com/new_world_order/final_warning/illuminati_origin.htm

Lord Jacob Rothschild of England is now considered a top ranking member of the
ruling elite.

In Bloodlines of the Illuminati, Fritz Springmeir discusses many of
these international oligarchical families. From:
http://www.whale.to/b/sp/blood.html#

Springmeir covers the Rockefeller, Rothschild, Merovinian, Astor,
Russell, Cabot, Collins, Reynolds, Onassis, Kennedy, Freeman and
DuPont families.

On http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/bb980306.htm it says the most
powerful families of the ruling elite, there called "The Black
Nobility" are in Germany, Holland, England, Switzerland and Greece.
This site claims the Black Nobility families are descended from the
Venetian oligarchs who were of the Khazar blood line. According to
this site, Prince Bernhard of Holland and Queen Elizabeth of England
head the Black Nobility.