A Blessed Resurrection Day to One and All

Tomorrow we celebrate Resurrection Day! Of course, Christians all over the world celebrate Resurrection Day each and every Lord's Day. The fact that we worship on the first day of each week is due to the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ on the first day of the week. However, this particular day is set aside as a day for particular emphasis upon the resurrection of Christ.

Paul in writing to the church at Corinth stressed the importance of this event in 1 Corinthians 15:12-19, as follows: "Now Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead , not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain. Moreover, we are found as false witnesses of God, because we witnessed against God that He raised Christ, who He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised, and if Christ has not been raised, your faith i worthless, you are still in your sins. Then those also who have perished. If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most to be pitied."

Paul does not stop there, but continues in verses 20-22: "But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. For since by a man (Adam) came death, by a man (Christ) also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive."

This is the blessing of the resurrection. So many places in Scripture, the death and resurrection of Jesus are prophesied. In John 2:19, Jesus was speaking of Himself, when He said, " Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

The resurrection is the fulfillment of the promises of our Lord and proves Him to be the great I Am, as He claimed.

A major duty of upon each of us is to join in corporate worship with other members of the Covenant of God. What a joy it is to join in the worship of our Triune God! This we must not neglect.

From Politico:

Pentagon preps for economic warfare

By EAMON JAVERS | 4/9/09

The Pentagon sponsored a first-of-its-kind war game last month focused not on bullets and bombs — but on how hostile nations might seek to cripple the U.S. economy, a scenario made all the more real by the global financial crisis.

The two-day event near Ft. Meade, Maryland, had all the earmarks of a regular war game. Participants sat along a V-shaped set of desks beneath an enormous wall of video monitors displaying economic data, according to the accounts of three participants.

“It felt a little bit like Dr. Strangelove,” one person who was at the previously undisclosed exercise told POLITICO.

But instead of military brass plotting America’s defense, it was hedge-fund managers, professors and executives from at least one investment bank, UBS – all invited by the Pentagon to play out global scenarios that could shift the balance of power between the world’s leading economies. Read it HERE.

From The Times UK via GATA:

Gillian Tett: In uncertain times, all that glisters is a gold standard

Submitted by cpowell on Thu, 2009-04-09 14:53.

By Gillian Tett
Financial Times, London
Thursday, April 9, 2009

A few months ago, Terry Smith, head of Tullett Prebon, the interdealer broker, chaired a panel at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos which was asked to produce one concrete recommendation to fix the global financial crisis.

The top pick? Not anything on toxic assets or fiscal spending. Instead, this gaggle of leading financiers called for a new reserve currency, akin to an old-style gold standard.

"Two-thirds of the world's assets are denominated in a fiat currency issued by a country whose authorities are taking policy actions which seem inevitably to lead to its debasement," explains Mr Smith, noting that "it seems ... the Chinese have now concluded that this is not acceptable."

Just a bit of pie-in-the-sky posturing of the sort that often occurs in high-altitude Davos? Perhaps. But Mr Smith is hardly a do-gooding, state-loving dreamer; on the contrary, Tullett Prebon is about as ruthlessly free-market as they come.

Moreover, these musings about a gold standard are currently cropping up in all manner of unlikely places. One savvy European property developer (who aggressively sold most of his holdings in early 2007) recently told me that he is now moving a growing proportion of his assets from government bonds into gold, even at today's elevated prices. Read it HERE.

From Grove City College:

Economic Stimulus 101: Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics
By Dr. Paul Kengor
April 07, 2009

President Obama says the economy is the worst since the Great Depression. Actually, it is the worst since the Reagan recession of 1982-83. Further, the 2009 market crash is not the worst since 1929 but since 1987—also on Ronald Reagan’s watch.

What did Reagan do—or, more importantly, didn’t do—in response to these “crises.” How was Ronald Reagan’s response different from what Barack Obama is doing?

Read the article HERE.

For each and every problem the man faces, there is a solution in the Bible. The solution is not always explicitly named in Scripture, but the principles upon which the solution must be based are well defined for us. However, that means that we must so make the Bible a central part of our lives, that we will know which principle to apply in each situation. We must pray that our leaders will study and apply the Biblical solutions rather than the man made solutions which are the original cause of the situation we now face in the financial realm.

Best to each, Doug