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Christ's Debt Reset & Biblical Debt Jubilee
CREATIONIST FRONT
JUN 29, 2023
“forgive us our sins as we forgive our debtors”
As I have written in my previous posts on Jesus and the Temple-Bank and The Prophets against BAAL, much of the The Bible is about economics and civic society. This includes debt, creditor rule, and the social corruption that follows in a debt-economy. The Bible is the blueprint foundation for a holistic civic society, both on an individual and larger macro-level. The foundation of this worldview is found in Christ and The Prophets.
I received a bachelor’s degree in business, where I learned what economics was not. They never had us read something like Aristotle’s politics, where economics is simply defined as the order of the home, expanding first from the family then to the community, town, and outwards to the state. We are not meant to work for the the “GDP”, faceless corporations and the federal government, we are meant to work first for the health of the home.
Today’s fake economy, which has become a borderline superstitious entity, is operated through debt. Debt is stored in “fetishized commodities” like real-estate and stocks, while wages are kept low so workers have to spend all their money on rents, mortgages and subscription services. Through this system, social degeneration is encouraged and incentivized, while it requires more and more unethical labor to pay bills. This is where the topic of debt reset in the The Bible begins.
Picture: 17th Century Debtors Prison
In the ancient world, debt resets were seen as a “clean slate”, which restored things to their natural order. Debt resets were primarily done to guarantee citizens would not have their land taken by creditors (bankers). Land tenure was maintained to keep citizens self-sufficient on generational land, guaranteeing they would have more time to build the economy, work on infrastructure projects, or fight in wars. If debt was allowed to keep building with compound interest, creditors would begin to privatize the economy and foreclose on people’s land. This would eventually lead to an overthrow of the royal class by the creditors.
The royalist class would force creditors to reset the debt in order to protect themselves from being overtaken by the creditors, and guarantee taxes continued coming into the palace. Land was the main target of creditors, changing laws toward privatization (stealing the land). Creditors would amass a private mercenary army of dispossessed people from their lands and eventually take over the state-religion (not different from Rockefeller taking over the theology seminaries). This would eventually lead to debtors (borrowers) being sold into slavery, fleeing the province, or eventually collapsing the state. Populist uprisings in Rome and Greece were often centered around debt resets, the populists labeled as “tyrants” by the aristocracy.
The Old Testament & Mosaic Debt Jubilee
This is the backdrop of The Bible starting from Solomon’s monarchy (Kings I&II) leading into the major/minor prophets, and then to Jesus. Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Amos, Micah, and others were populist prophets on behalf of the debtor class who were a pastoral or agricultural economy in southern Judea. This is seen all through their texts, Jeremiah especially campaigning for debt reform against the state’s “false prophets” who protected the elite’s interests with propaganda.
Prior to the monarchy in Israel, Moses’ debt resets (debt jubilees) were written into the laws of Deuteronomy and Leviticus, requiring ancient Israelites to reset their debts. Israel’s anti-royalist suspicion against having a king as described in the book of Samuel (1 Samuel 8) meant the debt reset was written into the religion instead, in order to maintain a theocratic-community free of monarchist corruption.
Once monarchy was implemented and Solomon allied with the merchants of Tyre, Israel was transformed into a global trading center and an oligarchic debt economy. The debt resets ceased, and Israel became corrupted like the nations around it. Solomon divided the nation into 12 provinces (inversion of the 12 tribes) with an annual tax of 666 talents of gold. The Baal cult was introduced to normalize debt bondage when Solomon intermarried with the daughters of foreign royalty.
Sabbaths and debt jubilees are described in Leviticus 25 and Deuteronomy 15 as occurring on every seventh year and every forty-ninth year. The fields are commanded to not be farmed in the seventh year to let the soil recover, and also to give food away to the poor, both local and foreign. This was done to prevent the poorest from going into debt slavery. If anyone had to sell their land out of necessity, the land would be restored to them.
Continued in COMMENTS.
