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CHAPTER 1
The Journey Begins ...
God's greatest need
The whole theme of God's relationship with man borders on "belief". The Bible is replete with various episodes of the Godman relationship, and how faith or unbelief in God resulted in reward or loss. In cases where men believed God and sought His ability to save the day, God pulled through and gave them victory. But where men doubted Him and His potency, God stood aloof and seemed unconcerned and watched Satan carry out his ploy of stealing, killing and destroying.
God has a need. His deep desire is for humans to trust Him. This becomes a pivot around which every blissful thing turns. This was the faith the Israelites had to depend on when they entered the Promised Land. When Israel was in Egypt, they had to rely on the River Nile and the benevolence of successive Pharaohs in order to survive.
As long as Israel stayed in this pagan nation, they stood the risk of identifying this river as a deity and giving it their due. God, however, would not accept this and so decided to pull out His own to a chosen place. God needed dedication and commitment from them in the new place He sent them. God needed to be worshiped in a context He had set for them. Importantly, this new territory God had prepared called the Promised Land did not depend on a river like the Nile, but on rain from heaven.
For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven ...
Deuteronomy 11:10 -11
Rain from heaven it was. Israel in the Promised Land had to shift their faith in a river and gods that run their daily lives in Egypt to a God who provided rain from heaven. Rivers are made from collections of creeks and streams fed from reservoirs embedded in the belly of the earth. These reservoirs are ultimately dependent on the rain of heaven. Where rain is late in coming, reservoirs run out, creeks are denied water, streams remain dry and the river, and all those creatures that depend on it are parched. By admonishing Israel to look to heaven for watering the Promised Land, God was telling Israel to look up to the Source. The Sovereign God will be the Source of livelihood for all the living in that land: and in reality, by proclaiming heaven as the source, God was asserting Himself as the Great Provider. So the Nile was a river that served Egypt well and brought life to Egypt, but the source of the Nile itself was rain from heaven.
How revealing that all the people we rely on, all the persons we pride in as providers and sustainers are themselves reliant on the Great Provider.
Unknown to this older generation of Israelites, God was teaching them to have faith in Him to have their needs met. In essence, God needs our faith in order to create favourable conditions for our dominion on earth.
Faith in God was the greatest challenge to the generation that came from Egypt. They consistently failed to hold faith in God.
Eventually, this lack of faith would cost them their Promised Land because God wiped that entire generation from the surface of the earth. The people who entered the Promised Land were entirely a new generation of Israelites. Even more, when they entered and began to allot the land according to the twelve tribes, the Levite tribe of Israel was not given any property due to God's command that they not be given. Instead God guaranteed that He was their inheritance.
And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.
Numbers 18:20
As the Levites followed through the mandate to administer their priestly schedule in the temple, they trusted God to fulfill His promise. They relied on this arrangement to be the richest among all their brethren. By reason of becoming members of God's household, we attain the identity of priests in the Levi tribe. Like the tribe of Levi, we are to trust God to be to us an inheritance; an inheritance in which there is neither lack nor need.
Essentially, the ideal relationship between God and man was intended to be typical of a covenant between two parties. The parties have to meet their obligations: man being obligated to obey every detail of the covenant in exchange for reward from an ever faithful God, who swore by Himself to meet that obligation with great and everlasting reward, including wealth. Generations who met the conditions spelt out in the covenant became a showcase of what God could do with them in the world.
Our journey towards wealth acquisition hinges on the presence of this virtue in our hearts. As we set out to study how to be part of God's plan for our prosperity, we must remember that God expects us to have faith in Him and His word to enjoy that relationship. Our faith must be in His plan for salvation and then in the fact that he will prosper us as he has indicated in His word.
This is the starting point for the journey towards wealth transfer. A man with faith is a man ready to enjoy the unimaginable wealth God has prepared for him. The foundation of faith must be well- laid for us to embark on this journey.
My eyes and ears were open
Prior to writing this book, I had been privy to some vital information that brought great excitement to me. First of all, I was introduced to the works of one Andrew Finlay Walls, a British Christian theologian and missiologist. Walls is a former missionary to Sierra Leone and professor emeritus of the study of Christianity in the non-western world at the University of Edinburgh. His ground-breaking works had bordered on the history of the African church and issues related to trends in Christianity in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Walls is known to have voiced a universal concern that the world was experiencing a dramatic shift in the "centre of gravity of global Christianity," to the southern continents and Africa would become "a major influence in the world Christian movement." Apparently, this phenomenon had been developing for the last fifty years. Hitherto, most Americans and Europeans thought of Christianity as a Western religion and a religion of the West where all the significant events in Christendom happened. And historically, that was the case: before the 20th Century, 80% of Christians lived in North America and Europe. At the close of the 20th Century, however, 60% of the world's Christians have been found in predominantly non-western geographical areas. Suddenly, within one hundred years, research is revealing growing populations of Christians in mostly Africa, the Asia pacific regions and Latin America. Africa, specifically, has seen an astronomical growth of 10 million in 1900 to 300 million in 2000 in Christianity.
Professor Walls revealed from his research that the most important development in Christendom in the 20th and 21st Centuries had not happened in the West, but had taken place in the aforementioned areas. This trend, however, has been a culmination of the many years of Christian heritage from its originating nations to the so-called "heathen world".
From the initial centre of Jerusalem, the Christian movement shifted into Hellenistic lands. The Apostle Paul spearheaded this first move. After venturing into the Gentile world, the Christian movement shifted to the Barbarians of Northern and Western Europe. The British were at the forefront of this wave. Christianity brought light and life, and the gospel permeated the daily lives of the Britons and spread out into other nations in the neighbourhood. With the advancement of the gospel came the prosperity of the nation and its people. Minds became great and spawned the strangest of ideas. These ideas progressed to invent, create and manufacture the known world's economic goods. Suddenly, the nations' landscapes changed and advancement became visible. With the passage of time, Britain and the entire Europe transformed and sought to conquer other lands with the intention of sending across the gospel. At the height of Western Civilisation when God was all they craved and desired; much wealth, resulting from the promises of righteousness, funded the preaching of the word, opened schools and supported missionary expeditions into Africa, South America and Asia. For close to three millennia, the seed of the gospel was sown and watered. The fruits resulting from these efforts will be harvested in our time: at the back of a waning desire for God in that domain. These southern continents will begin to unleash missionaries, educationists and preachers to the West. In addition to the new frontiers that must be taken for God's kingdom, the people of the West must be preserved for the coming King, and Africa has been identified as a continent and a people that will play a major role in these events.
Concerning the role Africa and the so-called Third World would play in these final moments of life on the earth, many prophesies and convictions have been projected from prominent individuals who at certain moments in their career were carried by the Spirit into that unknown destination. These include Bishop David Oyedepo who has proven that faith in God and a passion for the well being of humanity can make world changers out of people. He remains one icon whose ministry will preserve the harvest of Africa. His mission to Africa begun when God called him to rush back to the continent and "make my people rich". Bishop Oyedepo would go on to build the largest church auditorium in the world and many institutions as prototype of God's intention for people of the continent. Dr. Myles Monroe, also, during the initial days of his ministry, revealed the purpose of the people of African origin in our days. He intimated to the congregation, at the 1990 Azusa conference dubbed "The Power of Purpose" that people of African origin will be instruments of God in bringing glory to the world. Dr. Monroe went on to reveal that Africans and people of African descent had been purposed to be "The eyes of the Church". Admittedly, there have been other confirmations about God's intention for Africa in these last days, but the constraint of space will not allow for such detailed disclosure.
Having established the reality of the moment, it must be stated further that the fulfillment of these prophesies implies an associated trend of superpower status for Africa and the black race in unfolding world events. But the rising of Africa is not automatic, as it must come at the back of the eternal admonishing that "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people"(Proverbs 14:24). Therefore, as Africa lifts its hand towards the eternal God for rescue, God lifts its destiny onto the top of the world to command wealth and power. This must prevail in order to complete the reach of the gospel across the whole world, and thereby, complete the perfect formation of the body of Christ here on earth.
By this information of a shifting centre of gravity of the Christian movement to the southern continents, I realized that humanity was bracing itself for significant events leading to the coming of the Messiah.
The past centuries saw the Europeans and Northern Americans embracing Christianity and become centres of the greatest civilisations known to man. Europe achieved a steady graduation from a religious Reformation of the church in the early 15th Century through an intellectual Enlightenment of minds that invented, discovered and questioned the status quo, to an Industrial Revolution that manufactured products and implemented the results of the enlightenment. Within a space of four millennia, the countries of Europe attained superpower status. Citizens of this continent went on to discover new territories in order to consolidate their dominance. Places such as Africa became their footstool, and they harvested all the treasures for themselves.
Essentially, the kingdom of God, which had once domiciled in this geographical space of the European continent, is shifting to the south in search of a new home. Yes! When the builders resolve in their hearts to reject the stone, the source of progress and nourishment, God began to make that stone the head of another's corner. The kingdom of God is coming down to the South and Africa will play a major host.
Therefore I say unto you, the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
Matthew 21:43
CHAPTER 2
Are You Ready For The Takeover?
When the financial crisis struck the globe at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many people were caught unawares. Stock markets dropped worldwide, large financial institutions were hit and huge investments were lost. Many people saw the crisis leading to foreclosures, evictions and prolonged unemployment. The crisis played a significant role in the failure of key businesses, and consumer wealth estimated in trillions of US dollars was lost.
Eventually, the world began to experience a downturn in economic activity, leading to a global recession. Countries all over the world began to experience the ripple effects.
When the recession struck the USA, Warren Buffet's 2008 networth of 62 Billion Dollars networth plummeted to 37 Billion Dollars, whilst Bill Gate's networth dropped to 40 Billion Dollars from 58 Billion Dollars.
The economic downturn crushed the dreams of thousands of entrepreneurs.
A Jul 26, 2012 issue of the Huffington Post reported that more than 170,000 small businesses in the U.S. closed between 2008 and 2010. Across the U.S., Canada and Europe. Such great loss came with great depression in health and mental wellbeing: increasing suicide rates and other psychiatric health anomalies. Forbes reports more than 10000 suicide cases during the time.
Europe, registered a sovereign-debt crisis which it is yet to recover from whilst other continents suffered to various degrees. It is important to note that this downturn was related to one industry alone: the financial industry. You can just imagine multiple downturns occurring in several industries — politics, education, entertainment, etc. — at the same time. Such a catastrophe is about to hit the world in a very short time. Interestingly, what will be the greatest misfortunes of others will set others for their rising.
When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
Job 22:29
One should expect a dramatic change in the continent's spiritual landscape having established the reality of Africa's role in these last days. This would happen as poverty and retrogression, resulting from bad leadership and corruption, begin to stir up an already desperate people to seek God more. Essentially, the nature of such supplications will be an appearance of hordes of oppressed people looking onto God for rescue and intervention. The result will be rain; the latter rains that must wash away Africa's reproach and liberate them into their glorious heritage.
The nations of Europe enjoyed great conquests culminating into wealth from the vanquished. Europe had this ability by virtue of their political and military might. For centuries, nations of this bloc had the predominant ability to project power by land, sea and, later, air. By the 17th century, the Dutch, the Portuguese, the British, the French and the Spaniards all possessed the necessary experience and resources for oceanic conquest. Such strength normally trumped huge populations and control of large swathes of land and resources. In the study of world history, the British in India, the Belgians in the Congo, and the occupation of several western powers in China are a point of reference. Great Britain for example was once the biggest empire in the history of the world — absolutely dwarfing that of ancient Babylon, Alexander the Great, and even the Roman Empire, of which much of Britain was once a province. During one point in its history, one quarter of the world's inhabitants paid homage to the queen. Such allegiance from the world's inhabitants also meant that the British controlled one quarter of the world's resources.
For many millennia, the countries of Europe, subjected the territories they held to their own power and systems under the phenomenon of colonies and protectorates. For a continent like Africa, This came at the back of an even earlier phenomenon of brutal slavery; whereby people of indigenous Africa Africans were shipped to the West to suffer forced labour and other forms of oppression.
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Excerpted from "Dynamics of the Coming Wealth Transfer"
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