- During the two years since I retired as a federal government
analyst, I have published two books and over 60 articles on public policy
issues. In January 2007 I published "Challenger Revealed: An Insider's
Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of
the Space Age." I then began to write about the economic crisis, including
recommendations for radical change to our debt-based bank-centered monetary
system. I wrote through the experience gained in the field of public finance
during 22 years of service with the U.S. Treasury Department.
This culminated in publication of "We Hold These Truths: The Hope
of Monetary Reform." I now feel I have gone far enough in commenting
on current events, as I turn increasingly to my commitment to spirituality
that has been central in my life since childhood. I plan to continue writing,
now only as topics are revealed to me through my spiritual practice. My
first such offering is to relate a dream I had recently.
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- Jesus Christ is sitting on a white horse. He looks like
the popular Biblical Jesus: long hair, a beard, a white robe. I see Him
and his horse in profile from a moderate distance. He and the horse are
absolutely still. He radiates strength, stillness, and confidence.
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- In every direction, spreading to the horizon, is rubble,
the remnants of human civilization, piled a couple of feet high on the
ground. The wreckage is vast, of a reddish hue, so annihilated that no
specific object is recognizable. Smoke or mist wafts from the rubble. In
the distance, on the horizon, is a pale reddish light as nightfall approaches.
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- I feel no fear. I feel that all is as it must be. The
sight of the Lord brings awe and peace.
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- I make no attempt in this article to interpret what I
have seen in my dream though the wreckage obviously pertains to the existing
condition of the world. Whether the desolation is prophetic of the onrushing
disaster to civilization many are predicting I cannot say. The other alternative
is that the rubble symbolizes the spiritual condition of present-day humanity.
Many of the people on earth today, especially those in charge of society,
are materialists and atheists, consumed by fear, selfishness, violence,
egotism, militarism, and greed, spiritually either deeply asleep or dead,
destroying through negligence whole nations and even perhaps the planet
we live on.
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- Then there are the many who passively acquiesce in the
ongoing horror or those who try to cover it up through entertainment, denial,
and triviality. Yet Jesus Christ is here, watching and waiting, perhaps
allowing events to take their course, but available to inspire those who
yet have eyes to see. The white horse is reminiscent of the Book of Revelations:
"And I looked, and beheld a pale horse: and his name that sat
on him was Death, and Hell followed with him." I also think of the
song Johnny Cash sang in his old age: "The Man Comes Around,"
where, at the end, Cash speaks those same words. The fact that
in my dream Jesus sat astride the horse makes me realize that He was the
one who through His resurrection conquered death. But who will
now turn to Him? Who will "seek first the Kingdom of Heaven and
its righteousness"? Now is the time to "come out and be separate."
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- A world where war is viewed as normal, where human beings
knowingly and willingly torture other human beings to death then lie about
it, where governments terrorize their own populations, where millions are
deliberately subjected to addictive legal and illegal drugs,
where the food supply is degraded for profit, where radiation is purposely
introduced into the environment through devices like depleted uranium,
where space is viewed as the ultimate high ground for weapons deployment,
where assassination is official policy, where pandemics are declared to
market dangerous vaccines, where trillions are lavished on financial institutions
while families are denied adequate income, where initiative is smothered
by taxes and regulations, where justice is bought and sold, where the laws
favor mainly the rich, where the media put people to sleep with
pablum and nonsense, and where the intellectuals justify the status quo
is a world whose time is up.
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- Richard C. Cook's books may be purchased through his
website at www.richardccook.com.
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