Here is a recent text and audio observation by Charles Eisenstein, an advocate of the “sacred economy” who has been profiled before in Déjà Vu Times II.4
2023: The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible5If more of us freely adopted the gift economy as witnessed in God's modelling (not necessarily congruent with all of Eisenstein's ideas), would it help break the back of the Babylonian beast system and help dehorn its “kings”? Or are we going to cling to the horns of corrupted power and gain to the bitter end because that is what we know best? Except power and gain are not shared universally in the beast system; not even for sycophants and enforcers of its technocratic slave economy. The beast system, despite its equality claims, has no interest in the equality expressed in scripture. As it stands, many in our midst are also not comfortable with our equality scriptures,6 but if the predicted, programmed, contrived, global scarcity continues, we may be presented against our will with opportunities to practice the gift economy in the spirit of:
13 And now, because ye are compelled to be humble blessed are ye; for a man sometimes, if he is compelled to be humble, seeketh repentance; and now surely, whosoever repenteth shall find mercy; and he that findeth mercy and endureth to the end the same shall be saved.Let us seek to do whatever is within our power and influence to learn, live, and sustain the principles of a gift economy.
14 And now, as I said unto you, that because ye were compelled to be humble ye were blessed, do ye not suppose that they are more blessed who truly humble themselves because of the word?
15 Yea, he that truly humbleth himself, and repenteth of his sins, and endureth to the end, the same shall be blessed—yea, much more blessed than they who are compelled to be humble because of their exceeding poverty.
16 Therefore, blessed are they who humble themselves without being compelled to be humble; or rather, in other words, blessed is he that believeth in the word of God, and is baptized without stubbornness of heart, yea, without being brought to know the word, or even compelled to know, before they will believe. ...
25 For I do not mean that ye all of you have been compelled to humble yourselves; for I verily believe that there are some among you who would humble themselves, let them be in whatsoever circumstances they might. (Book of Mormon | Alma 32:13-16, 25)
-----------------------------------------/
* New Testament | Revelation 13:1, 11
1 AND I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. ...
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
New Testament | Revelation 17:3, 7, 12-16
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. ...
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. ...
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
New Testament | Revelation 12:3
3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
1. For Example:
• If you thought 2022 was bad, wait until you see what 2023 has in store for the economy | by Peter Armstrong · CBC News · Posted: Jan 02, 2023 at https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/2023-economic-forecast-1.6695497?cmp=newsletter_Morning%20Headlines%20from%20CBC%20News_1613_827098
• Expert forecasts 2023 as a year of ‘economic pain’ | Advice by Michelle Singletary Columnist December 30, 2022 at https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/12/30/us-economy-forecast-2023/
• World Economic Outlook for 2023 Increasingly Gloomy | by Rob Garver, November 26, 2022 https://www.voanews.com/a/world-economic-outlook-for-2023-increasingly-gloomy-/6850942.html
• Will the U.S. and Europe slide into recession in 2023? Here’s how to look out when economic outlooks don’t | BYPHILIPP CARLSSON-SZLEZAK AND PAUL SWARTZ | December 12, 2022 at https://fortune.com/2022/12/12/will-us-europe-recession-2023-economic-outlook-inflation-bcg-carlsson-szlezak-swartz/
2. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2010/05/natural-man.html
New Testament | 1 Corinthians 2:14
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Book of Mormon | Mosiah 3:19
19 For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.
3. • https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2013/12/gods-economy-christmas-perspective.html
• https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2014/06/gods-economy-is-it-possible.html
• https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2009/12/economics-of-jesus.html
Consider also:
• https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2010/02/economics-of-babylon.html
• https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-love-of-money.html
• https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2014/12/deception-inc.html
• https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2014/05/truth-be-told.html
• https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2012/05/fork-in-road.html
• https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2012/01/occupy-wall-street.html
• https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-long.html
• https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2010/04/priests-levitesmodern-day-parallels-1.html
• https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2016/06/imprisoned-by-profit.html
• https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2019/03/classic-capitalism-for-romantics.html
• https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2016/08/inevitable.html
• https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2019/03/natural-or-unnatural_16.html
• https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2017/08/conflation.html
• https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2015/08/course-correction.html
4.• https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-choice-meconomy-or-weconomy.html
• https://www.youtube.com/@charleseisenstein
5. https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/2023-the-more-beautiful-world-our?r=qlbu6
(Thank you to my sister BYS for bringing this to my attention yesterday.)
6. (All bold emphasis added.)
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 76:92-96
92 And thus we saw the glory of the celestial, which excels in all things—where God, even the Father, reigns upon his throne forever and ever;
93 Before whose throne all things bow in humble reverence, and give him glory forever and ever.
94 They who dwell in his presence are the church of the Firstborn; and they see as they are seen, and know as they are known, having received of his fulness and of his grace;
95 And he makes them equal in power, and in might, and in dominion.
96 And the glory of the celestial is one, even as the glory of the sun is one.
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 78:5-7
5 That you may be equal in the bonds of heavenly things, yea, and earthly things also, for the obtaining of heavenly things.
6 For if ye are not equal in earthly things ye cannot be equal in obtaining heavenly things;
7 For if you will that I give unto you a place in the celestial world, you must prepare yourselves by doing the things which I have commanded you and required of you.
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 88:107
107 And then shall the angels be crowned with the glory of his might, and the saints shall be filled with his glory, and receive their inheritance and be made equal with him.
New Testament | Matthew 20:9-13
9 And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
10 But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.
11 And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
12 Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
13 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
New Testament | Colossians 4:1
1 MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Book of Mormon | Jacob 5:73-74
73 And there began to be the natural fruit again in the vineyard; and the natural branches began to grow and thrive exceedingly; and the wild branches began to be plucked off and to be cast away; and they did keep the root and the top thereof equal, according to the strength thereof.
74 And thus they labored, with all diligence, according to the commandments of the Lord of the vineyard, even until the bad had been cast away out of the vineyard, and the Lord had preserved unto himself that the trees had become again the natural fruit; and they became like unto one body; and the fruits were equal; and the Lord of the vineyard had preserved unto himself the natural fruit, which was most precious unto him from the beginning.
Book of Mormon | Alma 1:26
26 And when the priests left their labor to impart the word of God unto the people, the people also left their labors to hear the word of God. And when the priest had imparted unto them the word of God they all returned again diligently unto their labors; and the priest, not esteeming himself above his hearers, for the preacher was no better than the hearer, neither was the teacher any better than the learner; and thus they were all equal, and they did all labor, every man according to his strength.
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 51:3
3 Wherefore, let my servant Edward Partridge, and those whom he has chosen, in whom I am well pleased, appoint unto this people their portions, every man equal according to his family, according to his circumstances and his wants and needs.
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 70:12-14
12 He who is appointed to administer spiritual things, the same is worthy of his hire, even as those who are appointed to a stewardship to administer in temporal things;
13 Yea, even more abundantly, which abundance is multiplied unto them through the manifestations of the Spirit.
14 Nevertheless, in your temporal things you shall be equal, and this not grudgingly, otherwise the abundance of the manifestations of the Spirit shall be withheld.
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 82:16-19
16 Behold, here is wisdom also in me for your good.
17 And you are to be equal, or in other words, you are to have equal claims on the properties, for the benefit of managing the concerns of your stewardships, every man according to his wants and his needs, inasmuch as his wants are just—
18 And all this for the benefit of the church of the living God, that every man may improve upon his talent, that every man may gain other talents, yea, even an hundred fold, to be cast into the Lord's storehouse, to become the common property of the whole church—
19 Every man seeking the interest of his neighbor, and doing all things with an eye single to the glory of God.
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 88:107
107 And then shall the angels be crowned with the glory of his might, and the saints shall be filled with his glory, and receive their inheritance and be made equal with him.
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 88:122
122 Appoint among yourselves a teacher, and let not all be spokesmen at once; but let one speak at a time and let all listen unto his sayings, that when all have spoken that all may be edified of all, and that every man may have an equal privilege.
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 90:6
6 And again, verily I say unto thy brethren, Sidney Rigdon and Frederick G. Williams, their sins are forgiven them also, and they are accounted as equal with thee in holding the keys of this last kingdom;
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 107:24-26
24 And they form a quorum, equal in authority and power to the three presidents previously mentioned.
25 The Seventy are also called to preach the gospel, and to be especial witnesses unto the Gentiles and in all the world—thus differing from other officers in the church in the duties of their calling.
26 And they form a quorum, equal in authority to that of the Twelve special witnesses or Apostles just named.
Doctrine and Covenants | Section 107:36-37
36 The standing high councils, at the stakes of Zion, form a quorum equal in authority in the affairs of the church, in all their decisions, to the quorum of the presidency, or to the traveling high council.
37 The high council in Zion form a quorum equal in authority in the affairs of the church, in all their decisions, to the councils of the Twelve at the stakes of Zion.
