The Debtors List
8/26/24 9:13 PM
Anno.Domini.144K
August 26, 2024
In a dream vision, the Holy Spirit showed me a large folded newspaper, a big one full of extra inserts like the weekend edition. As I looked at the newspaper, it opened to a reveal a thick insert. In the background, I heard what sounded like an old-fashioned male announcer’s voice, saying, “Ladies and gentleman, step right up! Get your news right here!”
I began to look over the first page of the insert and quickly realized it was a list of debtors. At the top, it listed corporations, and the only names I was allowed to recognize were large restaurant chains.
Then the announcer continued boldly, “Get your Debtors List right here! You don’t want to be on this list. Check and see if you are on the Debtors List!” I reached to open up the insert, which was many pages long, hoping I wouldn’t see my name on the list.
When I awoke from the dream vision, I heard the words, “SOVEREIGN DEBT.”
The Holy Spirit is warning us, and the nation, to get out of debt and put our affairs in order. The restaurant chains I saw on the near future Debtors List indicate the effects of imminent food shortages, food price hikes, and lockdowns.
The United States currently ranks number one in the world in the amount of its sovereign debt—$31.4 trillion, with a debt-to-GDP ratio of 121.31%. Japan and China have been the largest foreign holders of US debt for the last two decades. The US has not had a budget surplus since 2001. Our nation’s situation is untenable. We owe too much to too many. Even worse, we are “passing the buck” and stealing from our children and grandchildren.
Thank the Lord our God, who generously forgives us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Worldly nations and institutions are not so generous.
Scripture:
Job 24:9 NIV
9The fatherless child is snatched from the breast;
the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.
Deuteronomy 15:1-11 NIV
15 At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts. 2 This is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel any loan they have made to a fellow Israelite. They shall not require payment from anyone among their own people, because the Lord’s time for canceling debts has been proclaimed. 3 You may require payment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt your fellow Israelite owes you. 4 However, there need be no poor people among you, for in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless you, 5 if only you fully obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow all these commands I am giving you today. 6 For the Lord your God will bless you as he has promised, and you will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. You will rule over many nations but none will rule over you.
7 If anyone is poor among your fellow Israelites in any of the towns of the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward them. 8 Rather, be openhanded and freely lend them whatever they need. 9 Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: “The seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near,” so that you do not show ill will toward the needy among your fellow Israelites and give them nothing. They may then appeal to the Lord against you, and you will be found guilty of sin. 10 Give generously to them and do so without a grudging heart; then because of this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to. 11 There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore, I command you to be openhanded toward your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land.
Proverbs 22:7 NIV
7 The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is slave to the lender.
Proverbs 22:26-27 NIV
26 Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge
or puts up security for debts;
27 if you lack the means to pay,
your very bed will be snatched from under you.
Nehemiah 5:1-5 NIV
5 Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their fellow Jews. 2 Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous; in order for us to eat and stay alive, we must get grain.”
3 Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our homes to get grain during the famine.”
4 Still others were saying, “We have had to borrow money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards. 5 Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our fellow Jews and though our children are as good as theirs, yet we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we are powerless, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others.”
Luke 7:41-43 NIV
41 “Two people owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. 42 Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he forgave the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?”
43 Simon replied, “I suppose the one who had the bigger debt forgiven.”
“You have judged correctly,” Jesus said.
Romans 13:8 NIV
8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.
