New budget deal increases debt–What did Ezekiel write?

There is a tentative budget deal once again that will not resolve the problem with the debt of the USA. Instead, it basically wipes out some of the so-called savings and spending cuts from other budget deals:

January 14, 2014

Negotiators in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate have reached an agreement on a $1.1 trillion budget that would fund the federal government though September. The deal potentially prevents another government shutdown.

The deal was announced late Monday in a joint statement by Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski, the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Republican Representative Harold Rogers, her counterpart in the Republican-controlled House.

The detailed spending plan is the result of an agreement reached in December between the House and Senate that would fund the federal government for the next two years. That agreement was crafted in the aftermath of a 16-day government shutdown back in October.

The new spending bill eliminates the deep automatic spending cuts, known as sequestration, that affected both domestic and military programs last year. The measure includes an extra $92 billion to fund overseas military operations, much of it for the ongoing war in Afghanistan. It also reverses a cut in pension payments to disabled military veterans and survivors…

Republicans failed to cut funding for the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s signature domestic legislation, although they managed to cut $1 billion from a public health fund established under the law.

The federal government is currently operating under a temporary spending bill that expires Wednesday. Lawmakers are expected to pass another short-term bill that would finance the government until the new comprehensive bill is approved by Congress and signed into law by Obama. http://www.voanews.com/content/us-congress-agrees-on-2014-government-spending-bill/1829496.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — The sales job is on for a bipartisan $1.1 trillion spending bill that would pay for the operations of government through October and finally put to rest the bitter budget battles of last year.

The massive measure contains a dozens of trade-offs between Democrats and Republicans as it fleshes out the details of the budget deal that Congress passed last month. That pact gave relatively modest but much-sought relief to the Pentagon and domestic agencies after deep budget cuts last year.

The GOP-led House is slated to pass the 1,582-page bill Wednesday, though many tea party conservatives are sure to oppose it.

Democrats pleased with new money to educate preschoolers and build high-priority highway projects are likely to make up the difference even as Republican social conservatives fret about losing familiar battles over abortion policy…A conservative-backed initiative to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions was dumped overboard and social conservatives failed to win new restrictions on abortion. http://www.boston.com/business/news/2014/01/14/dozens-trade-offs-trillion-budget-bill/m8AyTLh3VtmMoytxXktpMJ/story.html

The purpose of this deal seems to be to have less budget ‘crises’ in 2014 than happened in 2013. Of course, this agreement does not solve the problems that the USA has. It simply kicks ‘the can’ (the debt ‘can’) further down the road, to use an American expression. In other words, this potential deal is delaying the inevitable, and in this case, it is helping to set the USA up for a major fall.

I found it of interest that abortion was mentioned as part of this. I have been writing for some time that the USA has been increasing debt ever since it decided to become more accepting of the form of infant murder called abortion (there is also a YouTube video Abortion, the Bible, and US Debt.). The proposed deal failed to get new restrictions on abortion and instead will end up increasing USA debt–much of which is getting financed by foreigners.

Regarding what is happening to sequestration with this deal, last February I reported that, “Sequestering is not the real solution to the US debt situation.” This predictive assessment of mine has been proven correct.

The reality is that something needs to be done, but the current proposed deal is not the real answer. The politicians are making it clear to me, at least, that it will take massive devastation and the return of Jesus for the needed solutions to be implemented here.

Biblically, these debt increases and budget issues are more dangerous than most in the USA realize. Notice what the Bible warns about those who increase debt in the end times:

3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry…5 Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, He is a proud man… 6 “Will not all these take up a proverb against him, And a taunting riddle against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases What is not his–how long? And to him who loads himself with many pledges’? 7 Will not your creditors rise up suddenly? Will they not awaken who oppress you? And you will become their booty. 8 Because you have plundered many nations, All the remnant of the people shall plunder you. Because of men’s blood And the violence of the land and the city, And of all who dwell in it. (Habakkuk 2:3,5,6-8).

The USA is in more debt than any country in the history of humanity. This morning I looked at a debt list, and the USA not only was listed first, it was listed as holding about 33% of the entire government debt of all countries in the world. Since the USA has less than 5% of the world’s population, proportionally, its debt is catastrophically high. Furthermore, this does not include the trillions of debt that the USA created through a program known as quantitative easing (a form of ‘legal counterfeiting’ which results in ‘dishonest profits’), that other nations can not pull off to the degree that the USA has. If that debt is also included, then the USA has between 35-40% of the world’s debt.

And this does not include other financial debts/risks such as derivatives (a financial scheme that could unravel the economy of the USA and plunge the world into economic disaster). If derivatives are included, the USA may hold more debt than the rest of the world combined. The Economist magazine reported that as of June 2011, the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market amounted to approximately $700 trillion, and the size of the market traded on exchanges totaled an additional $83 trillion (“Clear and Present Danger; Centrally cleared derivatives.(clearing houses)”. The Economist. 2012-04-12.)–this is a major risk that most do not even realize exists, and the USA and UK are major players in those markets.

Notice that the Prophet Ezekiel warned about days being numbered for those who make dishonest profits:

1 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Now, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Yes, show her all her abominations! 3 Then say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “The city sheds blood in her own midst, that her time may come; and she makes idols within herself to defile herself. 4 You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and have defiled yourself with the idols which you have made. You have caused your days to draw near, and have come to the end of your years; therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all countries. 5 Those near and those far from you will mock you as infamous and full of tumult. (Ezekiel 22:1-5)

13 “Behold, therefore, I beat My fists at the dishonest profit which you have made, and at the bloodshed which has been in your midst. 14 Can your heart endure, or can your hands remain strong, in the days when I shall deal with you? I, the Lord, have spoken, and will do it. 15 I will scatter you among the nations, disperse you throughout the countries, and remove your filthiness completely from you. 16 You shall defile yourself in the sight of the nations; then you shall know that I am the Lord.”‘”

17 The word of the Lord came to me, saying, 18 “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to Me; they are all bronze, tin, iron, and lead, in the midst of a furnace; they have become dross from silver. (Ezekiel 22:13-19)

The USA is turning its currency into dross (dross is a cheapening of the money supply). The USA’s uses of financial schemes such as quantitative easing and derivatives have resulted in ‘dishonest profits.’ Its ability to pass on some of the debt that the proposed new budget deal will create is another form of dishonest profits.

Despite biblical warnings, the USA continues to increase its debt. At some point in time, the USA will likely start to experience massive inflation and currency devaluation. And afterwards, its creditors will rise up (Habakkuk 2:7; cf. Ezekiel 22:13-16).

The realities of USA debt as well as policies of the Federal Reserve like “quantitative easing” are setting the stage for the absolute end of economic dominance by the U.S.A.–have no doubt about it (although there could be some major positive economic events before that happens).

While the Republicans and Democrats have often used this as a major partisan fight and sometimes treat this like a political game, the reality is that the rest of the world is also watching and is very disturbed by all of this.

The Europeans and others are realizing that the USA is losing its position of world leadership–and when it does, this will be the final “time of the Gentiles” that the Bible warns of (Ezekiel 30:2-3; Luke 21:23-24; Revelation 11:2). The leaders in the USA are causing the nation to err (cf. Isaiah 3:12; 9:16).

The policies and decisions in Washington, D.C. are helping to create the conditions for the upcoming European Beast power to fill the void in economic (and even military) leadership that the USA is in the process of making. The Europeans, and others, will watch what the politicians in the USA continue to do and realize that the USA simply does not have a political system that will allow it to lead the world economically for too much longer.

Change is coming, and in several years, those in the USA (as well as their Anglo-allies) will not like the change that is coming.

Some items of possibly related interest may include:

Anglo – America in Prophecy & the Lost Tribes of Israel Are the Americans, Canadians, British, Scottish, Welsh, Australians, Anglo-Southern Africans, and New Zealanders descendants of Joseph? Where are the lost ten-tribes of Israel? Who are the lost tribes of Israel? Will God punish the U.S.A., Canada, United Kingdom, and other Anglo nations? Why might God allow them to be punished first?
The Gospel of the Kingdom of God was the Emphasis of Jesus and the Early Church Did you know that? Do you even know what the gospel of the kingdom is all about? You can also see a YouTube video sermon The Gospel of the Kingdom.
Abortion, the Bible, and a Woman’s Right to Choose Do you know what the Bible teaches on this? Has the Roman Catholic Church allowed abortions? What about the real Church of God? Some may also, or instead, wish to view the YouTube video Abortion, the Bible, and US Debt.
Europa, the Beast, and Revelation Where did Europe get its name? What might Europe have to do with the Book of Revelation? What about “the Beast”? Is an emerging European power “the daughter of Babylon”? What is ahead for Europe? Here is a link to a video titled: Can You Prove that the Beast to Come is European?
Who is the King of the North? Is there one? Do biblical and Roman Catholic prophecies for the Great Monarch point to the same leader? Should he be followed? Who will be the King of the North discussed in Daniel 11? Is a nuclear attack prophesied to happen to the English-speaking peoples of the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand? When do the 1335 days, 1290 days, and 1260 days (the time, times, and half a time) of Daniel 12 begin? When does the Bible show that economic collapse will affect the United States? Here is a link to a video titled: The Future King of the North.
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