INTRODUCTION
As We the People begin to awake from the American Dream, we are discovering that it is mortgaged and the note is due. Besieged by social upheaval and facing economic collapse, there are more questions than answers.
By nature, man feels most comfortable when his surroundings are predictable and secure. But those adjectives no longer describe America.
Our foundations are crumbling. Absolute moral law has been displaced by a smorgasbord of personal values and relativism. The balanced life of yesteryear has morphed into a fabricated existence measured by what we own, drive and wear.
Where once Americans were firmly rooted in absolute values, today we hide behind a whole arsenal of counterfeits. Self-esteem, resting on a foundation of no-fault choices, undergirds our retreat from yesterday's truth. Into this void follows a predictable consequence...life without purpose!
What a contrast to the wisdom and values of our founding fathers! They respected the moral absolutes upon which civilization rests. They pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to establish an enduring legacy.
So what did they know that we have forgotten?
First they learned the hard way that an unbacked paper currency is inherently unjust and will wreck a society. In fact, they lost a substantial portion of their personal wealth before they figured that out. The Colonies were on the verge of collapse as the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia. A solution was found and put in place. And it's still in the Constitution to this day. Paper money was banned. A Bible-based monetary system took its place. Showers of blessings from God rained down on the new Republic.
After serving our nation well, it was abandoned to yet another debt-based, paper money scheme – our current system! It is on the brink of collapse. The future of our children and grandchildren is in great peril.
Ronald Reagan underscored this point in a 1980, New Hampshire speech, saying that no nation in history has ever survived fiat money, money that did not have precious metal backing.
So today's financial crisis is not some unforeseeable calamity or accident. It's not caused by good people making mistakes or miscalculations. We are witnessing the death throes of a deliberately imposed, historically typical, unbacked paper money system! This is where the story begins.
President Barack Obama does not want it all to come crashing down on his watch. So he's grasping at straws. Based on a recommendation by the Israeli Government, he flies in the Prophet Hosea to pick his brain. When criticism arises over such an out-of-the-box decision, Obama cites Hosea's success in almost identical circumstances some 2600 years ago.
A media frenzy ensues. The networks report from Israel that Hosea can't actually be a genuine prophet of God. He is married to a prostitute and all his children are fathered by a different man. Hosea is unfazed. He skillfully turns the tables, and his mission to America gains favor. In one venue after another, he speaks truth to power.
When a senator or a minister queries Hosea about America's current plight, he answers word for word from his book in the Bible. It's a match! History does repeat itself.
Embedded within this story is an economic discussion. Is our current debt-based, fractional reserve monetary system actually the Mammon Jesus described? What about the Gold Standard found both in Scripture and in the Constitution? A Bob Dylan song makes the right distinction. “It may be the Devil, or it may be the Lord, but you've got to serve somebody.”
Obama's Prophet puts our President, our political and our religious leaders eyeball to eyeball with a certified prophet of God. And, oh yes – there are plenty of fireworks! Hosea is gritty and truthfully blunt. God or Mammon? It's time to choose.
Will his message bring change or judgment?