Proverbs 20 verse 10 says, diverse
weights and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination
to the Lord. The basic truth here is clear. When we use weights or scales
or measures, we shouldn't cheat or use false standards. God hates
such dishonesty. Crooks and cheats have learned
that if you just use a weight that is off even the tiniest
of a fraction, over time it will add up. If your grocer gives
you a pound of meat, but it's actually one ounce less than
a pound, then every 16 pounds he sells, he actually has held
back a whole pound to sell to someone else. So if you give
that a little thought, you can see the profitability of this
crooked scheme if you don't get caught. That's why we have a
federal Office of Weights and Measures, and each state has
its own equivalent, because man just can't be trusted, so the
government has to inspect the weights and measures used for
business purposes in order to ensure that our economy isn't
hurt by such criminal activity. Back when coins were made of
pure silver, crooks would shave a little tiny bit off of each
coin. This was called coin clipping,
and after thousands of coins were clipped, those shavings
would be melted down and cashed in. Free money! This got so bad
that Kings had to enact the death penalty. William III of England
had Thomas and Anne Rogers executed for doing that. They were sort
of like Ananias and Sapphira back in Acts chapter 5. There
are some interesting stories about such crooked schemes in
a book titled The History of Money by Jack Weatherford. When
weights and measures of coinage and other scales and measures
break down into such criminal schemes, the result is the breakdown
of the system. Economies are wrecked and society
could collapse. Sadly, our own Federal Reserve
System is a Ponzi scheme, making a secret cabal of crooked banksters
rich. Money is supposed to be based
on something of tangible value and worth. Money has always been
backed by precious metals. But now our money, since the
Federal Reserve came into play and even more so since even that
was taken off any kind of backing, our money is now just printed
on paper and it's backed by nothing more than the guarantee made
by our government to honor that paper. It's correctly called
fiat currency and it's literally a house of cards. We refer you
to the 1996 documentary produced by William T. Still titled The
Money Masters and the 2010 5th edition of the book by G. Edward
Griffin titled The Creature from Jekyll Island if you want a full
understanding of the Federal Reserve scam. And I'll tell you
that in my opinion, I believe one of the reasons America is
not mentioned in Bible prophecy is because our nation has come
under the control of an unelected, unaccountable deep state with
a Ponzi scheme money system and our days as a so-called superpower
are numbered. If you want to take a glimpse
at the weight of our debt to our nation that we're all being
buried under, just go to debtclock.org. That's D-E-B-T-C-L-O-C-K dot
org. You'll see that if you spread
our national debt over every man, woman, and child in America,
it comes to about $105,000 per American. But the real burden
is on the taxpayers. And that stands at more than
$270,000 per taxpayer. But if you look down in the lower
right corner at debtclock.org, and you'll see way down in the
right corner, you'll find that if you add up the full burden
that each citizen is on the hook for, That includes our commitments
to social security and other things such as that. That comes
to more than $650,000. We don't have time to go into
this any deeper at this point. We're gonna come back to this
proverb and make spiritual application next time. But we leave you with
this truth. Psalm 118 says, it is better
to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. That is our takeaway. God's measure, unlike man's false
measures and standards, God's measure is true and His Word
is sure.
616 Diverse Weights and Measures (Proverbs 20:10) Our Daily Greg
God hates false weights and measures. But we discuss the tendency for man to use such means to cheat and steal, including our own government and "the Fed"!