http://www.worldviewtimes.com/ Worldview Times Your Source For Understanding The Times Through A Christian Worldview http://www.worldviewtimes.com//article.php/articleid-8274/Brannon-Howse Money is being pulled out of Greek banks at an alarming rate, and if something dramatic is not done quickly Greek banks are going to start dropping like flies. As I detailed yesterday, people do not want to be stuck with euros in Greek banks when Greece leaves the euro and converts back to the drachma. The fear is that all existing euros in Greek banks would be converted over to drachmas which would then rapidly lose value after the transition. So right now euros are being pulled out of Greek banks at a staggering pace. According to MSNBC, Greeks withdrew $894 million from Greek banks on Monday alone and a similar amount was withdrawn on Tuesday. But this is just an acceleration of a trend that has been going on for a couple of years. It has been reported that approximately a third of all Greek bank deposits were withdrawn between January 2010 and March 2012. So where has all of the cash for these withdrawals been coming from? Well, the European Central Bank has been providing liquidity for Greek banks, but on Tuesday it was reported that the ECB is going to stop providing liquidity to some Greek banks. It was not announced which Greek banks are being cut off. For now, the Greek Central Bank will continue to provide euros to those banks, but the Greek Central Bank will not be able to funnel euros into insolvent banks indefinitely. http://www.worldviewtimes.com//article.php/articleid-8273/Brannon-Howse The bank runs that we are watching right now in Greece are shocking, but they are only just the beginning. Since May 6th, nearly one billion dollars has been withdrawn from Greek banks. For a small nation like Greece, that is an absolutely catastrophic number. At this point, the entire Greek banking system is in danger of collapsing. If you had money in a Greek bank, why wouldn't you pull it out? If Greece leaves the euro, all euros in Greek banks will likely be converted to drachmas, and the value of those drachmas will almost certainly decline dramatically. In fact, it has been estimated that Greek citizens could see the value of their bank accounts decline by up to 50 percent if Greece leaves the euro. So if you had money in a Greek bank, it would only make sense to withdraw it and move it to another country as quickly as possible. And as the eurozone begins to unravel, this is a scenario that we are going to see play out in country after country. As member nations leave the eurozone, you would be a fool to have your euros in Italian banks or Spanish banks when you could have them in German banks instead. So the bank runs that are happening in Greece right now are only a preview of things to come. Before this crisis is over we are going to see bank runs happening all over Europe. http://www.worldviewtimes.com//article.php/articleid-8272/Brannon-Howse/William-Gray Recent reported events in the news have given further evidence of erosion of Biblical values and the foundations on which God raised up this nation. These events include uncontrolled, lavish spending on a GSA "party" in Las Vegas, where subsequent videos have disclosed government employees apparently out of control, and Secret Service employees, assigned to guard the president, reportedly engaged in debauchery, prostitution, and more wild and lavish spending, using taxpayer dollars. In addition, outrageous sums of money are being devoted to promote the homosexual agenda, abortion on demand, contraception for apparently unrestrained fornication, and just sheer waste in spending to support all sorts of socialistic government programs, policies, and regulation. We hear unrestrained praise for those who have continued to "occupy" some particular city, and the so-called leaders of the "Occupy" Movement now actually are advocating destruction of government buildings and other violent acts in order to "rid the world of Capitalism." http://www.worldviewtimes.com//article.php/articleid-8271/Brannon-Howse/Vince-and-Lori-Williams- We obviously know that as our culture gets further and further away from the truth of God's word and what the Bible says, our world will look less like Christians and more like pagans every day. Well this has become apparent in one area in particular at rapid speed it as appeared. Some are calling it coincidence, random encounters or just being in the wrong place at the wrong time as we see this. We disagree….it is obvious that good Godly Christian respectable men are vanishing. So are the submissive, meek, gentle, kind hearted women as well. No, they aren't being wiped off the face of the earth, rather they are transforming into what the world accepts…selfishness, lack of chivalry, and pride to rise to the top. http://www.worldviewtimes.com//article.php/articleid-8270/Brannon-Howse/Tom-DeWeese The battle over Agenda 21 is raging across the nation. City and County Councils have become war zones as citizens question the origins of development plans and planners deny any international connections to the UN's Agenda 21. What is the truth? Since I helped start this war, I believe it is up to me to help with the answers. http://www.worldviewtimes.com//article.php/articleid-8269/Brannon-Howse/Dr-Thomas-Ice An important interpretative issue in the Book of Revelation revolves around the identity of the 24 elders. Who the 24 elders represent can be very important in regards to the pre-trib rapture. The 24 elders are mentioned five times in the Book of Revelation as follows: 4:4, 10; 5:8; 11:16; and 19:4. If they represent the church, then it reflects what one would expect if the rapture has occurred before the tribulation has begun. If it represents someone else, then it would not necessarily argue against pretribulationism, especially if they were angels. I think it is clearly the church that these 24 elders represent and therefore it supports the fact that Christ's Bride has been taken to heaven before the start of the tribulation. http://www.worldviewtimes.com//article.php/articleid-8268/Brannon-Howse/Peter-Jones Fox News journalist, Shep Smith, welcomed President Obama into the 21st century and declared those who still oppose same-sex marriage to be on the wrong side of history. http://www.worldviewtimes.com//article.php/articleid-8267/Brannon-Howse/John-Whitehead For those hoping to better understand how and why we arrived at this dismal point in our nation's history, where individual freedoms, privacy and human dignity have been sacrificed to the gods of security, expediency and corpocracy, look no farther than America's public schools. http://www.worldviewtimes.com//article.php/articleid-8266/Brannon-Howse http://www.worldviewtimes.com//article.php/articleid-8265/Brannon-Howse If we are trying to become independent of foreign oil, then why is the Obama administration allowing the Chinese government to buy up U.S. oil and gas deposits worth billions of dollars? This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. The United States desperately needs to maintain control over its own domestic energy resources so that we can end our addiction to foreign oil. As I have written about previously, the United States actually has plenty of oil. If we would simply use the resources that we already have, we would never have to import a single drop of foreign oil. But instead, we continue to be the largest importer of oil on the planet and we are allowing China to rapidly buy up oil and gas deposits inside the United States. This is fundamentally wrong and it is a serious threat to our national security. But apparently everything is for sale in the United States today, and that includes our precious energy resources. http://www.worldviewtimes.com//article.php/articleid-8264/Brannon-Howse When news broke of a 2 billion dollar trading loss by JP Morgan, much of the financial world was absolutely stunned. But the truth is that this is just the beginning. This is just a very small preview of what is going to happen when we see the collapse of the worldwide derivatives market. When most Americans think of Wall Street, they think of a bunch of stuffy bankers trading stocks and bonds. But over the past couple of decades it has evolved into much more than that. Today, Wall Street is the biggest casino in the entire world. When the "too big to fail" banks make good bets, they can make a lot of money. When they make bad bets, they can lose a lot of money, and that is exactly what just happened to JP Morgan. Their Chief Investment Office made a series of trades which turned out horribly, and it resulted in a loss of over 2 billion dollars over the past 40 days. But 2 billion dollars is small potatoes compared to the vast size of the global derivatives market. It has been estimated that the the notional value of all the derivatives in the world is somewhere between 600 trillion dollars and 1.5 quadrillion dollars. Nobody really knows the real amount, but when this derivatives bubble finally bursts there is not going to be nearly enough money on the entire planet to fix things. http://www.worldviewtimes.com//article.php/articleid-8263/Brannon-Howse http://www.worldviewtimes.com//article.php/articleid-8262/Brannon-Howse/Phyllis-Schlafly The abortion industry racks up profits by dumping expensive complications of its procedures on hospitals, legitimate physicians, and the public. Many abortionists lack staff privileges at local hospitals, so when women having abortion complications go to an emergency room, the enormous costs are shifted to others. http://www.worldviewtimes.com//article.php/articleid-8261/Brannon-Howse http://www.worldviewtimes.com//article.php/articleid-8260/Brannon-Howse/Jimmy-DeYoung In a documentary produced by my son, Jim Jr., a leading rabbi in Jerusalem says that he believes the next Jewish temple will be rebuilt on the Temple Mount in his lifetime and he says everything is ready to build that temple today. Rabbi Nachman Kahane, the rabbi who has guided many Jewish students of the Scriptures on the subject of the temple has been the main source of serious study and preparations to build the Jewish temple basically because that is what the Bible calls for from the religious Jews. http://www.worldviewtimes.com//article.php/articleid-8259/Brannon-Howse/Vince-and-Lori-Williams- On Resurrection Sunday, April 8, 2012, popular young "pastor" Steven Furtick of the extremely seeker-friendly Elevation "church" in North Carolina, brought a message entitled Seven Mile Miracle, based on the events that transpired on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13). Elevation also has added a new element of emotional manipulation to their "experiences" by playing soft earthy music during the entire experience. The majority of the message was a huge mess, but we won't go into all of it now. Steven has been doing a LOT of traveling this year so far, and one of those excursions was to Israel. So he began his easter sermon with video footage of himself walking on a dusty road just outside Emmaus, in Israel, reading from Luke 24. http://www.worldviewtimes.com//article.php/articleid-8258/Brannon-Howse You are not going to believe how much money is being spent on our former presidents. At a time when U.S. government spending is wildly out of control, a total of 3.6 million dollars is being used to support the lavish lifestyles of former presidents such as George W. Bush and Bill Clinton in 2012. For 2013, the plan is to increase that amount to 3.7 million dollars. But do any of them really need this kind of welfare? The truth is that all of them are very wealthy. So what justification is there for giving them so much money? You can see the GSA budget proposal for former presidents for 2013 right here. The 3.7 million dollars for 2013 does not even include the cost of Secret Service protection. Rather, it only covers expenses such as office rentals, travel, phone bills, postage, printing and pension benefits. Certainly it is not unreasonable to grant former presidents a small pension, but should we be showering them with millions of dollars each year? At a time when the federal government is drowning in so much debt, the fact that these former presidents are willing to take such huge amounts of taxpayer money really does make them look like parasites. http://www.worldviewtimes.com//article.php/articleid-8257/Brannon-Howse/Jesse-Johnson http://www.worldviewtimes.com//article.php/articleid-8256/Brannon-Howse/Carl-Teichrib We live in a day and age where many "new things" are sweeping through the Christian church. Some of these alternative directions are simply a reflection of changes in style and format, particularly in the area of music, worship drama, and corporate church structure. And each of these areas of change can open up a world of debate and inter-church dialogue, which is not wrong in and of itself. After all, "iron sharpens iron." http://www.worldviewtimes.com//article.php/articleid-8255/Brannon-Howse/Tom-DeWeese Let me begin by asking you a few questions. They may seem rather silly – but I have a point. So, please, just indulge me for a moment – just answer with a show of hands: How many of you know of Adolf Hilter – and that he was evil? How many of you know Mao Tse Tung – and that he was evil? How many of you know of Lenin and Stalin – and that they were evil?